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Minimal Canon

  • June 25, 2023
  • 55 Books
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Pruning down the Western Canon to the most essential reads for influence on other works.

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

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

The Odyssey Homer
  • Robert Fitzgerald
The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
  • Aeschylus
  • Sophocles
  • Euripides
Aeneid
Aeneid
  • Virgil
  • Frederick Ahl
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
  • Ovid
  • Rolfe Humphries (Translator)
King James Bible
King James Bible
  • Gordon Campbell
Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno
Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno
  • Dante Alighieri
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works
The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works
  • William Shakespeare
Don Quixote
Don Quixote
  • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Works of Moliere
The Works of Moliere
  • Molière
  • Henri Van Laun
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
  • John Milton
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Joshua Hanft
  • Malvina G. Vogel
  • Pablo Marcos
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
  • Jane Austen
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
  • Mary Shelley
  • Michael Burgan
Faust
Faust
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • F.D. Luke
Dead Souls
Dead Souls
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • Bernard Guilbert Guerney (Translator)
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
  • Emily Brontë
  • Alison Booth
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick
  • Herman Melville
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Alan Russell (Translator)
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
  • Victor Hugo
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Lewis Carroll
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Richard Pevear (Translator)
  • Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
War and Peace
War and Peace
  • Leo Tolstoy
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
  • Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Constance Garnett (Translator)
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • David McDuff (Translator)
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time
  • Marcel Proust
Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
  • James Joyce
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
  • Thomas Mann
  • John E. Woods (Translator)
The Trial
The Trial
  • Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
  • Ernest Hemingway
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse
  • Virginia Woolf
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
  • William Faulkner
A Farewell To Arms
A Farewell To Arms
  • Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying
  • William Faulkner
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
  • Samuel Beckett
Molloy
Molloy
  • Samuel Beckett
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow
  • Thomas Pynchon
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian
  • Cormac McCarthy
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
  • George Eliot
The Human Comedy, Vol. I
The Human Comedy, Vol. I
  • Honoré de Balzac
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
  • Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma
  • Stendhal
  • Margaret Mauldon (Translator)
Emma
Emma
  • Jane Austen
  • Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)
Bleak House
Bleak House
  • Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Picture of Dorian Grey
  • Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dracula
Dracula
  • Bram Stoker
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin
  • Alexander Pushkin
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
  • Charlotte Brontë
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Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady
  • Henry James
The Decameron
The Decameron
  • Giovanni Boccaccio
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel
  • François Rabelais
  • M.A. Screech (Translator)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Mark Twain
  • Saddleback Educational Publishing