Minimal Canon 55 books by Tei

The Iliad of Homer. Translated with an Introduction by Richmond Lattimore

ByHomer,Richmond Alexander Lattimore

1951 • 1 Reader • 527 pages

The Odyssey Homer

ByRobert Fitzgerald

1963 • 506 pages

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

ByAeschylus,Sophocles,+1 more

2017 • 3 Readers • 866 pages • 4.5

Aeneid

ByVirgil,Frederick Ahl

2007 • 1 Reader • 532 pages

Metamorphoses

ByOvid,Rolfe Humphries(Translator)

8 • 13 Readers • 500 pages • 4.4

King James Bible

ByGordon Campbell

2010 • 1 Reader • 1,520 pages

Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno

ByDante Alighieri

1889 • 416 pages

The Canterbury Tales

ByGeoffrey Chaucer

1400 • 25 Readers • 692 pages • 3.2

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

ByWilliam Shakespeare

2022 • 3 Readers • 2,532 pages

#10

Don Quixote

ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1605 • 1 Reader • 3

#11

The Works of Moliere

ByMolière,Henri Van Laun

2016 • 380 pages

#12

Paradise Lost

ByJohn Milton

1667 • 315 Readers • 512 pages • 3.7

#13

Gulliver's Travels

ByJonathan Swift,Joshua Hanft,+2 more

198 • 292 Readers • 240 pages • 3.5

#14

Jane Austen's Children's Collection

Pride and Prejudice

ByJane Austen

1811 • 1,760 Readers • 292 pages • 4.2

#15

#16 of 15 in The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection

Frankenstein

ByMary Shelley,Michael Burgan

181 • 1,662 Readers • 63 pages • 3.8

#16

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

Faust

ByJohann Wolfgang von Goethe,F.D. Luke

1808 • 237 Readers • 244 pages • 3.9

#17

Dead Souls

ByNikolai Gogol,Bernard Guilbert Guerney(Translator)

1842 • 170 Readers • 520 pages • 3.8

#18

Wuthering Heights

ByEmily Brontë,Alison Booth

197 • 1,103 Readers • 432 pages • 3.6

#19

Moby-Dick

ByHerman Melville

1851 • 7 Readers • 543 pages • 5

#20

Madame Bovary

ByGustave Flaubert,Alan Russell(Translator)

1856 • 365 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7

#21

Les Miserables

ByVictor Hugo

2013 • 30 Readers • 4.6

#22

#1 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ByLewis Carroll

1864 • 586 Readers • 206 pages • 3.9

#23

Crime and Punishment

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

19 • 1,276 Readers • 602 pages • 4.3

#24

#1 of 1 in War and Peace (

War and Peace

ByLeo Tolstoy

190 • 650 Readers • 1,396 pages • 4

#25

Great Expectations

ByCharles Dickens

1860 • 648 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

#26

Anna Karenina

ByLeo Tolstoy,Constance Garnett(Translator)

1877 • 883 Readers • 978 pages • 3.9

#27

#1 of 4 in The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,David McDuff(Translator)

1879 • 787 Readers • 1,495 pages • 4.4

#28

In Search of Lost Time

ByMarcel Proust

1927 • 9 Readers • 728 pages • 5

#29

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

ByJames Joyce

1920 • 465 Readers • 656 pages • 3.9

#30

The Magic Mountain

ByThomas Mann,John E. Woods(Translator)

1924 • 142 Readers • 854 pages • 4.1

#31

The Trial

ByFranz Kafka

1925 • 56 Readers • 4.1

#32

The Sun Also Rises

ByErnest Hemingway

1926 • 434 Readers • 264 pages • 3.6

#33

To the Lighthouse

ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 394 Readers • 326 pages • 3.7

#34

The Sound and the Fury

ByWilliam Faulkner

1929 • 293 Readers • 326 pages • 3.8

#35

A Farewell To Arms

ByErnest Hemingway

199 • 380 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

#36

As I Lay Dying

ByWilliam Faulkner

1930 • 272 Readers • 231 pages • 3.6

#37

Waiting for Godot

BySamuel Beckett

1952 • 263 Readers • 136 pages • 3.9

#38

#1 of 3 in The Trilogy

Molloy

BySamuel Beckett

1958 • 40 Readers • 512 pages • 4.3

#39

Gravity's Rainbow

ByThomas Pynchon

1973 • 320 Readers • 760 pages • 4.1

#40

Blood Meridian

ByCormac McCarthy

1985 • 648 Readers • 368 pages • 4.1

Middlemarch

ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 306 Readers • 810 pages • 4.2

The Human Comedy, Vol. I

ByHonoré de Balzac

The Red and the Black

ByStendhal

2021 • 2 Readers • 555 pages

The Charterhouse of Parma

ByStendhal,Margaret Mauldon(Translator)

1839 • 30 Readers • 560 pages • 3.6

Emma

ByJane Austen,Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch(Translator)

1815 • 721 Readers • 334 pages • 3.9

Bleak House

ByCharles Dickens

1852 • 171 Readers • 682 pages • 4

The Picture of Dorian Grey

ByOscar Wilde

1890 • 217 Readers • 186 pages • 3.9

The Great Gatsby

ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1920 • 2,082 Readers • 180 pages • 3.7

Bullseye Chillers

Dracula

ByBram Stoker

1897 • 1,375 Readers • 410 pages • 3.9

Eugene Onegin

ByAlexander Pushkin

1825 • 106 Readers • 408 pages • 3.8

Jane Eyre

ByCharlotte Brontë

1847 • 1,205 Readers • 580 pages • 4

1951 • 2 Readers

1349 • 86 Readers • 418 pages • 3.7

#1-5 of 2 in Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel

ByFrançois Rabelais,M.A. Screech(Translator)

1564 • 33 Readers • 1,041 pages • 3.6

#2 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

ByMark Twain,Saddleback Educational Publishing

1876 • 806 Readers • 235 pages • 3.6

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