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English PEN: The Bigger Read List

Works of prose and epic poetry not written in English, made as a response to BBC's Big Read list, which included very few non-English books
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Complete Fables (Aesop)
Complete Fables
1
Aesop
Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
Le Grand Meaulnes
2
Alain-Fournier
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits
3
Isabel Allende
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
Fairy Tales
4
Hans Christian Andersen
Dom Casmurro (Machado De Assis)
Dom Casmurro
5
Machado De Assis
Confessions (St. Augustine)
Confessions
6
St. Augustine
Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
Cousin Bette
7
Honoré De Balzac
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex
8
Simone De Beauvoir
Bible (Anonymous)
Bible
9
Anonymous
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths
10
Jorge Luis Borges
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
11
Mikhail Bulgakov
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
12
Italo Calvino
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider
13
Albert Camus
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
14
Albert Camus
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
15
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
16
Miguel De Cervantes
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories (Anton Chekhov)
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories
17
Anton Chekhov
The Half Brother (Lars Saabye Christensen)
The Half Brother
18
Lars Saabye Christensen
Les Enfants Terribles
Les Enfants Terribles
19
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Alchemist
20
Paulo Coelho
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno
21
Dante
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
22
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
23
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
24
Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
25
Alexandre Dumas
The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
The Lover
26
Marguerite Duras
The Maias (Eca De Queiros)
The Maias
27
Eca De Queiros
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
28
Umberto Eco
The Royal Physician's Visit
The Royal Physician's Visit
29
Bouvard and Pécuchet (Gustave Flaubert)
Bouvard and Pécuchet
30
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
31
Gustave Flaubert
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams
32
Sigmund Freud
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
33
Anne Frank
The Years With Laura Diaz (Carlos Fuentes)
The Years With Laura Diaz
34
Carlos Fuentes
Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
Sophie's World
35
Jostein Gaarder
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
36
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
37
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
38
Günter Grass
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
39
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
40
Nikolai Gogol
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