Find a list of the Top 100 Masterpieces of Western Literature. Then read them all.
Here are the ones I have read:
- Aeschylus - Oresteia
- Aristophanes - Comedies
- Aristotle - Politics
- Augustine - Confessions
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
- Benrik - This Book Will Change Your Life (almost finished!) ;)
- William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron
- Albert Camus - The Stranger
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
- Dante - The Divine Comedy
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (one of my favorites)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
- Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams (I was a psychology minor)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
- Homer - The Iliad
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Henry James - The Ambassadors
- Franz Kafka - The Trial
- D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love
- Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick (another favorite)
- John Milton - Paradise Lost
- Ovid - Metamorphoses
- Plato - Republic
- Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past (still working on it)
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea
- Plays of William Shakespeare (Every one of them. Really. Master's degree in literature.)
- William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
- Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
- Henry David Thoreau - Walden
- Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Virgil - Aeneid
- Voltaire - Candide (another favorite)
- Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
- Virginia Woolf - The Waves
You are making me feel like I haven't read anything! Great list.
Posted by: Becky | October 31, 2007 at 12:08 AM