1. Enuma Elish
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
3. The Iliad
4. The Odyssey
5. Greek Plays
6. Herodotus
7. Thucydides
8. Plato
9. Marcus Aurelius
10. Virgil
11. Plutarch
12. Tacitus
13. Augustine
14. Beowulf
15. Dante
16. Chaucer
17. Machiavelli
18. Rabelais
19. Shakespeare
20. Cervantes
21. Milton
22. Swift
23. Goethe
24. Melville
25. Tolstoy
26. Dostoevsky
27. Dickens
28. Stephen Crane
29. Joseph Conrad
30. James Joyce
31. Hemingway
32. Cormac McCarthy
2 comments:
You and my DH would gat along great. That sounds about like his Great Books list...except for Cormac McCarthy, of whom (I'd imagine) he's never heard.
IMHO, you need to add Jane Austen and P.G. Wodehouse (underrated all-time-great stylist), and you'll be about set.
I would add Remembrance of Things Past--which it took me two and a half years to read, as I mostly read it on the bus and subway to and from work--but nahhh.
Hmmm. I never read Jane Austen (though I was supposed to in college!). I am hesitant to even investigate women writers. The only modern, female writer I admire is Louise Gluck.
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