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Minimal Canon

Pruning down the Western Canon to the most essential reads for influence on other works.

#2

#3

The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

2017 • 3 Readers • 866 pages 4.5

#4

Aeneid

-19 • 2 Readers • 532 pages 5

#5

Metamorphoses

8 • 17 Readers • 500 pages 4.3

#6

King James Bible

2010 • 1 Reader • 1,520 pages

#8

The Canterbury Tales

1400 • 32 Readers • 672 pages 3.3

#9

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

2022 • 3 Readers • 2,532 pages

#10

Don Quixote

1605 • 1 Reader 3

#12

Paradise Lost

1667 • 484 Readers • 512 pages 3.6

#13

Gulliver's Travels

198 • 408 Readers • 462 pages 3.5

#14

Pride and Prejudice

1811 • 2,549 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

#15

Frankenstein

181 • 2,378 Readers • 353 pages 3.8

#16

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

1808 • 334 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

#17

Dead Souls

1842 • 237 Readers • 520 pages 3.8

#18

Wuthering Heights

197 • 1,578 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

#19

Moby-Dick

1851 • 7 Readers • 543 pages 5

#20

Madame Bovary

1856 • 543 Readers • 368 pages 3.6

#21

Les Miserables

1862 • 55 Readers • 1,468 pages 4.3

#22

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1864 • 844 Readers • 132 pages 3.9

#23

Crime and Punishment

19 • 1,879 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

#24

War and Peace

190 • 898 Readers • 1,396 pages 4

#25

Great Expectations

1860 • 898 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

#26

Anna Karenina

1877 • 1,281 Readers • 1,480 pages 4

#27

The Brothers Karamazov

19 • 1,162 Readers • 796 pages 4.4

#28

In Search of Lost Time

1927 • 16 Readers • 728 pages 5

#29

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

1920 • 637 Readers • 656 pages 3.9

#30

The Magic Mountain

1924 • 213 Readers • 854 pages 3.9

#31

The Trial

1925 • 808 Readers 4

#32

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 639 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

#33

To the Lighthouse

1925 • 562 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#34

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 411 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#35

A Farewell To Arms

199 • 553 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

#36

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 393 Readers • 231 pages 3.6

#37

Waiting for Godot

1952 • 372 Readers • 136 pages 3.9

#38

Molloy

1958 • 52 Readers • 512 pages 4.3

#39

Gravity's Rainbow

1973 • 428 Readers • 760 pages 4.2

#40

Blood Meridian

1985 • 935 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

#1

Middlemarch

18 • 432 Readers • 810 pages 4.2

#1

The Red and the Black

2021 • 2 Readers • 555 pages

#1

The Charterhouse of Parma

1839 • 48 Readers • 560 pages 3.5

#1

Emma

1815 • 1,010 Readers • 334 pages 4

#1

Bleak House

1852 • 238 Readers • 682 pages 4

#1

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 468 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

#1

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 2,982 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

#1

Dracula

1897 • 1,974 Readers • 410 pages 3.8

#1

Eugene Onegin

1825 • 151 Readers • 408 pages 4

#1

Jane Eyre

1847 • 1,804 Readers • 580 pages 4

#1

Cover 7

1951 • 2 Readers

#1

The Decameron

1349 • 117 Readers • 418 pages 3.5

#1

Gargantua and Pantagruel

1564 • 46 Readers • 1,041 pages 3.5

#1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1876 • 1,182 Readers • 327 pages 3.6