/lit/ - Literature

Should I read Don Quixote before reading Borges and other authors from Latin America and Spain?
I got Ficciones recently and I saw there is a short story about Don Quixote, but I barelly remember the story since high school because I read it really fast to go back to The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Another question:
The Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and the Bible are important for Western literature. What are the books that are important for Eastern culture (China, Japan, Koreas, etc)? And for the Muslim world besides the Al-Quran?