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Essential Classics Challenge (A Publisher Publishes a List) - Page 2

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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Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)
Suite Française
41
Irène Némirovsky
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits
42
Isabel Allende
The Palace of Dreams (Ismael Kadare)
The Palace of Dreams
43
Ismael Kadare
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
44
Italo Calvino
Spring Torrents (Ivan Turgenev)
Spring Torrents
45
Ivan Turgenev
A Heart So White (Javier Marías)
A Heart So White
46
Javier Marías
Good Morning, Midnight (Jean Rhys)
Good Morning, Midnight
47
Jean Rhys
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
48
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Year of Magical Thinking (Play) (Joan Didion)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Play)
49
Joan Didion
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
50
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Book of Chameleons (José Eduardo Agualusa)
The Book of Chameleons
51
José Eduardo Agualusa
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
52
José Saramago
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
53
Joseph Conrad
All Fires the Fire (Julio Cortázar)
All Fires the Fire
54
Julio Cortázar
The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Unconsoled
55
Kazuo Ishiguro
Resurrection (Leo Tolstoy)
Resurrection
56
Leo Tolstoy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
57
Lisa See
Madame De (Louise De Vilmorin)
Madame De
58
Louise De Vilmorin
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
59
Margaret Atwood
The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
The Lover
60
Marguerite Duras
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
Housekeeping
61
Marilynne Robinson
Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Conversation in the Cathedral
62
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Wall (Marlen Haushofer)
The Wall
63
Marlen Haushofer
The Space of Literature (Maurice Blanchot)
The Space of Literature
64
Maurice Blanchot
Magda (Meike Ziervogel)
Magda
65
Meike Ziervogel
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
The English Patient
66
Michael Ondaatje
Widow: Stories (Michelle Latiolais)
Widow: Stories
67
Michelle Latiolais
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote
68
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
69
Mikhail Bulgakov
They Were Counted (Miklós Bánffy)
They Were Counted
70
Miklós Bánffy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
71
Milan Kundera
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
72
Murasaki Shikibu
The Driver's Seat (Muriel Spark)
The Driver's Seat
73
Muriel Spark
Sanshiro (Natsume Sōseki)
Sanshiro
74
Natsume Sōseki
God Dies by the Nile (Nawal El Saadawi)
God Dies by the Nile
75
Nawal El Saadawi
Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
Snow
76
Orhan Pamuk
No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
No Longer Human
77
Osamu Dazai
The Slaves of Solitude (Patrick Hamilton)
The Slaves of Solitude
78
Patrick Hamilton
Perfume (Patrick Süskind)
Perfume
79
Patrick Süskind
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)
Dangerous Liaisons
80
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
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