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Essential Classics Challenge (A Publisher Publishes a List)

This is an enhanced and updated version of a useful reference list published in 2014 by Jennifer Cairns, who might have also been using the challenge as advertising for Peirene Press, an English publishing house. As evidence, this was the only list that J.C. ever published. I have omitted the single icon that promoted Peirene Press.
BTW, I realise that, by publishing this challenge, I am breaking the sacred pact that nothing should ever be repeated on this site.
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The Matisse Stories (A.S. Byatt)
The Matisse Stories (A.S. Byatt)
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Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
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The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
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Astragal (Albertine Sarrazin)
Astragal (Albertine Sarrazin)
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Amos Tutuola)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Amos Tutuola)
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A Spy in the House of Love (Anaïs Nin)
A Spy in the House of Love (Anaïs Nin)
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Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
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What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire? (António Lobo Antunes)
What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire? (António Lobo Antunes)
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When Rain Clouds Gather (Bessie Head)
When Rain Clouds Gather (Bessie Head)
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The Garden of Departed Cats (Bilge Karasu)
The Garden of Departed Cats (Bilge Karasu)
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Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal)
Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
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Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector, Trans. Alison Entrekin)
Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector, Trans. Alison Entrekin)
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Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
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The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
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The Concubine (Elechi Amadi)
The Concubine (Elechi Amadi)
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The Days of Abandonment (Elena Ferrante)
The Days of Abandonment (Elena Ferrante)
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The Enchanted April (Elizabeth Von Arnim)
The Enchanted April (Elizabeth Von Arnim)
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Thérèse Raquin (Émile Zola)
Thérèse Raquin (Émile Zola)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
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Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
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The Unmade Bed (Françoise Sagan)
The Unmade Bed (Françoise Sagan)
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The House of the Dead (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The House of the Dead (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
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Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
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The Fly-Truffler (Gustaf Sobin)
The Fly-Truffler (Gustaf Sobin)
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The Temptation of St. Anthony (Gustave Flaubert)
The Temptation of St. Anthony (Gustave Flaubert)
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Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt)
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Every Man Dies Alone (Hans Fallada)
Every Man Dies Alone (Hans Fallada)
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The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)
The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)
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Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
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Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
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Wonder (Hugo Claus)
Wonder (Hugo Claus)
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