Western Canon


The Odyssey
The Iliad
Don Quixote
The Aeneid
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Pride and Prejudice
The Canterbury Tales
The Republic
Paradise Lost
Beowulf
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
Lysistrata by AristophanesThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Odyssey by HomerThe Oresteia by AeschylusThe Aeneid by Virgil
Western Canon In 1 Year
49 books — 4 voters
Euripides V by EuripidesThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe English Bible, King James Version by Herbert MarksThe Egyptian Book of the Dead by AnonymousPirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud by R. Travers Herford
Western Canon
45 books — 2 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyNonviolent Communication by Marshall B. RosenbergThe Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Program
48 books — 2 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Books From Before 1950
542 books — 135 voters

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