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So that I have better context of culture and literature before starting the later books.

1. Iliad
2. Odyssey
3. Aeneid
4. Bible
5. Divine Comedy
6. Hamlet
7. Don Quixote

8+ (No order)
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Madame Bovary
The Red and The Black
Moby Dick
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Middlemarch

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>>13043891
1. Your Mothers
2. Your Aunt
3. Your sister
4. Your Female Cousins

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>>13043927
All their Panties must be removed at once

>> No.13043945

>>13043891
I mean, read what you want, honey

>> No.13043946

1. What about the Greek tragedians? At least read Sophocles' Theban plays and the Oresteia
2. MORE SHAKESPEARE
3. You have to read Paradise Lost, not up for debate
4. As for the Russians—Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych and Kreutzer Sonata are essential (and much shorter than everything else on this section of the list). Easy add. Chekhov's plays and short stories are also quite important. And definitely read some Gogol before Dostoevsky.
5. Goethe?
6. I think you can safely ditch Stendhal. Just read more Flaubert (sentimental education, maybe salammbô). Flaubert is much better than Stendhal. Balzac is much better than Stendhal. I would take Zola or Maupassant over Stendhal.

>> No.13044018

>>13043891
You would want to make sure you enjoy the things. If you are simply slogging through a work where you cannot either understand or empathise with what the author is trying to communicate then you are doing yourself no favours by continuing. Im keeping things vague for the only book i have read on that list is don quixote, and yet even the book itself tells me that ive betrayed myself by not reading it in the original language.

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>>13043891
Aren't you forgetting somebody?

>> No.13044048

>>13043891
Canterbury Tales

>> No.13044086

>>13043891
1. Reader of ancient Near Eastern/Egyptian literature
2. Old Testament
3. Homer & Hesiod
4. Herodotus
5. Oxford World Literature's collection of Greek Lyric Poetry
7. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes
8. Thucydides
9. Aristophanes
10. Xenophon
11. Plato
12. Aristotle

This is as far as I am certain. Read Plutarch, Tullius, the New Testament, Virgil, and Ovid.

>> No.13044783

>>13043946
Alright I added the Theban plays 1&2, Oresteia Paradise Lost, Dead Souls, and Faust.

>>13044034
I don't want to read anything after the 1900s. That's when writing became degenerate.

>> No.13044793

>>13044783
>That's when writing became degenerate
you need to be +18 to post on this site

>> No.13044800

>>13044793
Get out then

>> No.13044824

Yeah that reading list is adequate, but I doubt you'll follow through with it. Read them already you little slut. You could be done in 2 weeks if you weren't lazy. Get off 4chan and start reading.

>> No.13044874

>>13044783
You are loss lol