/lit/ - Literature

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All kinds, but we who belong here read the Western Canon and, though to a lesser extent I should hope, Eastern equivalents.

Start with the Holy Bible, KJV/ESV/NASB1977 or some other RESPECTABLE translation, then move on to the Greeks (Hesiod, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, etc.,.) and Romans (Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Cicero, etc.,.). Afterwards, make sure you hit the big ten—Dante (yes, even in translation; he was too influential not to), Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, then do some research and work through other prominent men.

And don't forget non-fiction—philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, etc.,.), theology, history, history of art, math, and science. And there's something which perhaps others neglect, but you shouldn't—mythology. Read mythology and folktales from various places, but don't prioritize them necessarily. On the bright side, myth and folk legend tend to be light reading, especially the latter.