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Growing up, I've read nothing at all and had next to no education in English by virtue of having an American public school education. Now that I've finished my university degrees, I've started regretting and lamenting over my severe lack of culture and knowledge of literature which I have made it my goal to fix at all cost. To further this end, I've made the following list of books that I hear referred to all the time to read but I can't help but feel like it's missing a far deal of important books.

In /lit/'s opinion, what else would you recommend not just as great works but as essential reading for everyone in educated society?

>Books I have read so far:
To Kill a Mockingbird
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Hamlet

>Book I have yet to read:
The Catcher in the Rye
The Grapes of Wrath
1984
Catch-22
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby-Dick
Crime and Punishment
Fahrenheit 451
War and Peace

>> No.5237195

Read Animal Farm last night in 2 hours...must read.

>> No.5237203

>>5237195
That sounds about right.

>> No.5237216

>>5237145
Candide, and i will remove the great gatsby that is soporific.

>> No.5237338 [DELETED] 

How to Read a Book
Twilight
The Art of War
Harry Potter
How I did it, IF.
Every book on Oprah's book list
80 Shades of Off White

>> No.5237944

>>5237145
The Bible
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Divine Comedy
Gone with the Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Lolita
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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>> No.5237977

Also read the Aeneid, Bible in KJV and after the Bible, you can read Paradise Lost.

Do read some Faulkner too, especially if you're American. Make sure you don't start with The Sound and the Fury but read that at some point.

>> No.5238161

>>5237145
That physics professor's bookshelf is amazing.

>> No.5238189

this is a part of my "to-read" list

>> No.5238192

oops:
huckleberry finn
last of the mohicans
harrison bergeron
slaughterhouse 5
fahrenheit 451
moby dick
sirens of titan
this way for the gas
karamasov broðurnir
frankenstein
the prestige
bram stokers dracula
captain nemo
planet of the apes
dune
lifting in the 5th dimension
hp lovecraft
american psycho
a clockwork orange
for whom the bell tolls

this is about half if them, rest of the list is on my computer. Reading the two towers right now

>> No.5238200

Add Gravity's Rainbow. Not for right away. But for once you're comfortable.

>> No.5239550

Brave New World

>> No.5241389

bump

>> No.5243011

>>5237145
The Painted Bird
The Road/All The Pretty Horses
Stoner
East of Eden
Dubliners
V.
As I Lay Dying

>> No.5244939

The Trial

The Metamorphosis

The Stranger

The Sun Also Rises