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That’s a tall order and if you want to keep up moment it would be better to start with the main considerations. My recommendations

The 12 must-read humanities works

Plato (complete)
Aristotle (Organon
Aristotle( Metaphysics)
Plutarch (Parallel Lives)
Augustine (City of God)
Aquinas (Shorter Summa)
Descartes (Discourse on Method)
Spinoza (Ethics)
Hobbes (Leviathan)
Hume (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding)
Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)
Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations)

Literature

The Bible (Robert Alter for OT, Lattimore for NT)
The Iliad (translated by Merrill)
The Odyssey (same)
The Aeneid (translated by Ahl)
The Metamorphoses (translated by McCarter)
The Divine Comedy (translated by Hollander)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (translated by Frame)
Don Quixote (translated by Ormsby)
Shakespeare, complete
Paradise Lost
Faust (translated by Atkins)
Eugene Onegin (translated by Nabokov)

Opera

Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Rossini: The Barber of Seville
Verdi: Rigoletto
Verdi: La traviata
Wagner: The Ring Cycle (four operas)
Bizet: Carmen
Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Ballet

Adam: Giselle
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty
Delibes: Coppélia
Minkus: La Bayadère, Don Quixote
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella
Strivinsky: Firebird, The Rite of Spring

Just started Swann’s Way lads. In Search of Lost time definitely ranks as some of the best prose I’ve ever read, right from the get go it’s a feast full of the savory and rich. People who talk a lot about prose, this is what you’re looking for. Pure kino