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What books should be part of any readers collection? So far I've got:
- Lord of the Flies
- Brave New World
- 1984
- Frankenstein

Please recommend more classics for the collection.

>> No.16720183

>>16720161
complete shakespeare
paradise lost
spenser's faerie queene and shepheardes calender
collected poems of john donne

>> No.16720189

DON QUIJOTE

>> No.16720196

the complete works of Carl Linnaeus, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Officiel, Knut Hamsun, Friedrich Spielhagen, Homer, Romain Rolland, Gesta Romanorum, The Upanishads, François de La Rochefoucauld, Veit Harlan, Max Stirner, Cristoforo Landino, Lev Shestov, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, François de Grenaille, Fyodor Sologub, Luo Guanzhong, Frédéric Chopin, Bessarion, Ossian, Philip Vellacott, Henri Frederic Amiel, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Moti, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Éluard, Thomas Carlyle, Carolus Sigonius, Mozart, Lorenzo Valla, Debussy, Sordello, Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Stalinism, Jean-François Marmontel, Bach, Gottfried Keller, Roland Barthes, Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, Sextus Empiricus, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, Herbert Marcuse, Fernand Crommelynck, Brahms, Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve, Baltasar Gracián, Göran Sonnevi, Thomas Chatterton, Khalil Gibran, Francis Robortello, Juan Goytisolo, Gemistus Pletho, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Richard Wagner, Henry James, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Prévert, Unbehagen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Albert Samain, Nikolaus Lenau, Henry Adams, Odysseus Elytis, Bizet, antoine hamilton, Rig Veda, Jean-Luc Godard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Antoine Arnauld, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Marco Girolamo Vida, Jean Racine, Meister Eckhart, pierre larousse, François Villon, Cao Xueqin, Marquise de Lambert, Bernard Mandeville, Janus Lascaris, Kenji Mizoguchi, A. E. Housman, David Foster Wallace, Mussorgsky, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Hermann Theodor Hettner, Sri Aurobindo, Empiricism, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Heraclitus, Lazarillo de Tormes, Plato, Arthur Crew Inman, Yuri Rytkheu, Jacques Roubaud, Ludwig Börne, Miguel de Unamuno, Sextus Propertius, Gorgias, Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges, Joseph Joubert, Alexander Pushkin, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Anatole France, Pietro Bembo, Thoukidides, Yevgeny Baratynsky, Mo-tzu, Jules Michelet, St Francis, Seneca the Younger, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, José Zorrilla y Moral, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Spitzer, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Hermann-Maurice de Saxe, Francis de Sales, Gérard de Nerval, Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Leninism, Richard Porson, Alexis Piron, Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, Constantine Lascaris, Laonicus Chalcondyles, Hafez, Verdi, Antoine de Rivarol, Renatus Cartesius, Edmund Wilson, John of Salisbury, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Mann, William H. Gass, Adam Mickiewicz, Baldassare Castiglione, Stendhal...

>> No.16720201

>>16720196
Read them all

>> No.16720203

Sinclair Lewis, Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly, Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, Marcel Proust, Lao Tzu, Nikolaus von Kues - Nicolás de Cusa - Nicolaus Cusanus - Nicholas of Cusa, Arthur Rimbaud, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Jan Kochanowski, John Milton, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Mencius, Jean-Baptiste Massillon, Kālidāsa, Philip Friedrich Hermann, Arnold Schoenberg, Juan Luis Vives, Robert Burton, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, STANISŁAW AUGUST PONIATOWSKI, dogen, Pierre Beaumarchais, Martin Walser, Matsuo Bashō, Plutarchos, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Andreas Capellanus, Pierre de Marivaux, Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine, Handel, Petrarch, Rudolf Westphal, François Couperin, Nietzsche, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Yves Bonnefoy, Kultur, G. K. Chesterton, Saxo Grammaticus, Rainer Maria Rilke, Novalis, François René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, Erich Kästner, Gospel of St. Matthew, François Rabelais, Conrad Gessner, Karl May, Heinrich Böll, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Otto Weininger, Paul Margueritte, Edward Gordon Craig, Laurence Sterne, Giosuè Carducci, Erik Satie, Wilhelm Busch, Zhuangzi, Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Charles Perrault, Ivan Bunin, Jean-Marie Guyau, Charles Auguste, marquis de La Fare, Émile Verhaeren, Petrus Victorius, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Diogenes Laertius, Charles Péguy, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jakob Böhme, Paul Verlaine, Democritus, Confucius, Bhagavad Gita, Chrétien de Troyes, Henry de Montherlant, Julius Pomponius Laetus, Nikolai Leskov, Ugo Foscolo, Italo Calvino, Henry Poulaille, Nicolas Malebranche, Pyrrho, Thomas Gray, Pierre Desfontaines, Chu Hsi, Marivaux, Gerhard Roth, Claude Lefort, Pietro Aretino, Nikolai Gogol, Stanisław II August Poniatowski, Fulvius Ursinus, Louis Guilloux, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Edgar Allen Poe, Paul Henry Lang, Epikouros, Lope de Vega, Robert Schumann, Poliziano, Leonardo Bruni, Georges Bataille, Paul Valéry, Richard Dehmel, Saint John of The Cross, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Francisco de Quevedo, Theodor Storm, Catullus, JM Coetzee, August von Platen-Hallermünde, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Maffeo Vegio, Alphonse Del Bene, John Ruskin, Goncourt Brothers, Oupnek'hat, Robert Graves, Henri Barbusse, Robert Walser, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Gottfried Benn, Jean Paul, Beethoven, Gabriel Naudé, Gyorgy Ligeti, Herodotos, scipione maffei, Maurice de Guérin, Gabriel García Márquez, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Erwin Rohde, Konstantin Batyushkov, Aristophanes, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marquis de Sade, Antonin Artaud, Nazism, Communism, Anne Claude de Caylus, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Vittorio Alfieri, Roberto Calasso, Auguste Comte, Marsilio Ficino, Friedrich Albert Lange, Alessandro Manzoni, Peter Abélard, Kuno Fischer, richard simon, Lord Byron, August Strindberg, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Horace, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Francesco Algarotti, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Taras Shevchenko, Marc Fumaroli...

>> No.16720207

Roger Bacon, Frederick the Great, Yoshida Kenko, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Louis Thomassin, Pierre de Bérulle, Emil Cioran, Walt Whitman, David Hilbert, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, Andrés Segovia, Paul Bonnetain, Giacomo Leopardi, Tchaikovsky, John Keats, Cesare Beccaria, Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner, Richard Francis Burton, Muretus, Luigi Pirandello, Henri Brémond, Léon Bloy, Alexandra Kollontai, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Sebastian Castellio, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Murger, Manuel Chrysoloras, Todestrieb, Sir Thomas More, Virgil, Tibullus, Abhinavagupta, Madame de Staël, Ivan Goncharov, Lucien Descaves, Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville, John Millington Synge, Giambattista Vico, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Pierre Corneille, Martial, William Tyndale, Joseph de Maistre, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Albert Camus, Death, Giovanni Boccaccio, Jacques Barzun, Erich Auerbach, Baron paul d'holbach, Andrew Lang, Abay Qunanbayuli, Charles Baudelaire, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Lucretius, Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier, Friedrich Thiersch, Mahomet, Maimonides, Marquise de Caylus, Pope Pius II, César Vallejo, Giordano Bruno, Allan Bloom, Benedetto Croce, Antonio Schinella Conti, Henri de Boulainvilliers, Mahler, Gustav, Isaac Casaubon, Maxim Gorky, Leconte de Lisle, Richard Bentley, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Hobbes, Ödön von Horváth, Sergei Eisenstein, Arthur Schnitzler, Alphonse de Lamartine, Antero de Quental, Mahabharata, gioacchino da fiore, Primo Levi, Cavalcanti, Guido, Jean-François de La Harpe, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, Wilhelm Hauff, Adelbert von Chamisso, Witold Gombrowicz, Edward Lear, Charles-Joseph Lamoral, 7th Prince de Ligne, Nagarjuna, Karl Marx, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Philippe Ariès, Alfred de Vigny, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Heinrich von Kleist, André Chénier, Saint Isidore of Seville, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin, Giacomo Florio, Guilio Cesare Scaligero, H. L. Mencken, Sima Qian, Suidas, Jean Jaurès, Adalbert Stifter, Arnaut Daniel, Matthew Arnold, Molière, Teofilo Folengo, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Anton Chekhov, Jules Romains, Wu Cheng'en, Cesare Pavese, Alphonse Daudet, James Fenimore Cooper, Carlo Goldoni, Olha Kobylianska, Vladimir Lenin, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Ivan Turgenev, Protagoras, Alan Watts, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and my diary desu.

>> No.16720212

Stephen King's IT

>> No.16720263
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>>16720161
Fiction
>Homer - Illiad // Odyssey
>Virgil - Aeneid
>Ovid - Metamorphoses
>Troyes - Arthurian Romances
>Dante - Divine Comedy
>Cervantes - Don Quixote

Non Fiction
>The Holy Bible (RSV, Knox or Douay Rhiems)
>Plato - Phaedo // Parmenides // Symposium // Phaedrus // Gorgias // The Republic // Timaeus // Laws + Epinomis
>Aristotle - Organon // Physics // Metaphysics // Nicomachean Ethics // The Politics
>Marcus Tullius Cicero - On the Republic, On Laws // On Duties // On Ends // On Old Age and Friendship
>Plutarch - Moralia
>Livy - History of Rome
>Tacitus - The Annals
>Polybius - Rise of the Roman Empire
>Plotinus - The Enneads
>Iamblichus - Arithmetic Theology
>Proclus - Elements of Theology (read this after Parmenides and before Plotinus)
>Ancius Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy
>Eusebius - Ecclesiastical History
>St. Augustine - Confession // City of God
>Pseudo-Dionysius of Areopagite - Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality Print is good)
>Maxiumus the Confessor - Selected Writings (Same as above)
>St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Contra Gentiles // Summa Theologiae (Concise Transl. is not bad)
>Dante Aligheri - De Monarchia
>Meister Eckhart (Teacher & Preacher
// Sermons by Classics of Western Spirituality are good versions too)
>Catherine of Siena - The Dialogue
>Marsilio Ficino - Platonic Theology
>Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet - Discourse on Universal History
>Giambattista Vico - New Science
>Joseph De Maistre - St. Petersburg Dialogues

>> No.16720272

>>16720263
>Non Fiction
>>The Holy Bible (RSV, Knox or Douay Rhiems)
Kek

>> No.16720275

>>16720196
>>16720203
>>16720207
Have sex.

>> No.16720278

>>16720263
>RSV, Knox or Douay Rhiems
Why read translations that are not as beautiful as the KJV

>> No.16720286

>>16720275
Best honest. How many of these have you read? (at least a book)
If the count is lower than 50% you might wanna slow down on the sex and read a little bit more bucko. Also sex will rot your brain.

>> No.16720290

>>16720286
*be honest
sorry

>> No.16720338

>>16720263
> The republic
> non-fiction
heh

>> No.16720339

>>16720278
accuracy
The KJV doesn't have;
>Tobit
>Judith
>Wisdom (this is crucial)
>Sirach
>Baruch, 1 & 2
>Maccabees
as well as portions of the Books of Esther and Daniel
also Knox isn't dry and Douay Rheims isn't totally without poetic flair

>> No.16720358

>>16720263
>non-fiction
>Timaeus
based and Atlantispilled

>> No.16720406

>>16720358
I was waiting for someone to pick up on this hahaha

>> No.16720434

>>16720339
You know even Catholics doubt their canonical authenticity, right? Also, Oxford has an edition of the KJV with apocrypha (deuterocanonical books to Catholics)

>> No.16720440

>>16720183
>complete shakespeare
go FUCK yourself

>> No.16720444

>>16720263
>non fiction
>the bible
OH NONONONONONO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>> No.16720472

stormlight archive

>> No.16720607

>>16720440
how can there be so much salt on one post?

>> No.16720634

>>16720440
Why

>> No.16720676

>>16720263
Why not the kjv instead?

>> No.16720677

>>16720183
based

>>16720440
cringe, shakespeare is literally the basis of anglo literature

>> No.16720746

>>16720358
kek

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>>16720161
Captain Underpants up to 'The Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman', the series peaks at 'The Attack of the Talking Toilets'.

>> No.16721553

>>16720434
some catholics might sure but does the Apostolic Church itself officially doubt it?
The masses don't decide what is dogma and what isn't, after all

>> No.16721563

>>16720676
see >>16720339

>> No.16721569

>>16720434
Retard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Trent
>A decree, the De Canonicis Scripturis, from the Council's fourth session (of 4 April 1546), issued an anathema on dissenters of the books affirmed in Trent

>> No.16721611

>>16720161
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

>> No.16722665

>>16720161
>- Lord of the Flies
>- Brave New World
>- 1984
>- Frankenstein
This is what a normalfag's idea of "Classics" look like.

>> No.16722681

>>16722665
>>16720161
thank god for your sake that you came to learn OP