Minimal Canon
- Updated over 1 year ago
- 55 Books
Pruning down the Western Canon to the most essential reads for influence on other works.
| #1 |  The Iliad of Homer. Translated with an Introduction by Richmond Lattimore The Iliad of Homer. Translated with an Introduction by Richmond Lattimore
| 0 | 1 read | |
| #2 |  The Odyssey Homer The Odyssey Homer
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #3 |  The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
| #4 |  Aeneid
| 5 | 1 read | |
| #5 |  Metamorphoses
| 4.33 | 7 reads | |
| #6 |  King James Bible
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #7 |  Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #8 |  The Canterbury Tales
| 3.29 | 18 reads | |
| #9 |  The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works
| 0 | 2 reads | |
| #10 |  Don Quixote
| 3 | 1 read | |
| #11 |  The Works of Moliere
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #12 |  Paradise Lost
| 3.63 | 142 reads | |
| #13 |  Gulliver's Travels
| 3.47 | 237 reads | |
| #14 |  Pride and Prejudice
| 4.18 | 1,619 reads | |
| #15 |  Frankenstein
| 3.84 | 1,503 reads | |
| #16 |  Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil
| 3.86 | 148 reads | |
| #17 |  Dead Souls
| 3.82 | 82 reads | |
| #18 |  Wuthering Heights
| 3.64 | 847 reads | |
| #19 |  Moby-Dick
| 5 | 2 reads | |
| #20 |  Madame Bovary
| 3.61 | 228 reads | |
| #21 |  Les Miserables
| 4.34 | 24 reads | |
| #22 |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 3.9 | 657 reads | |
| #23 |  Crime and Punishment
| 4.26 | 798 reads | |
| #24 |  War and Peace
| 4 | 238 reads | |
| #25 |  Great Expectations
| 3.54 | 507 reads | |
| #26 |  Anna Karenina
| 3.96 | 474 reads | |
| #27 |  The Brothers Karamazov
| 4.36 | 330 reads | |
| #28 |  In Search of Lost Time
| 5 | 4 reads | |
| #29 |  Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 3.87 | 151 reads | |
| #30 |  The Magic Mountain
| 3.92 | 39 reads | |
| #31 |  The Trial
| 3.98 | 352 reads | |
| #32 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 3.6 | 357 reads | |
| #33 |  To the Lighthouse
| 3.72 | 205 reads | |
| #34 |  The Sound and the Fury
| 3.73 | 153 reads | |
| #35 |  A Farewell To Arms
| 3.74 | 296 reads | |
| #36 |  As I Lay Dying
| 3.61 | 165 reads | |
| #37 |  Waiting for Godot
| 3.87 | 221 reads | |
| #38 |  Molloy
| 4.33 | 11 reads | |
| #39 |  Gravity's Rainbow
| 4.21 | 82 reads | |
| #40 |  Blood Meridian
| 4.12 | 324 reads | |
| #1 |  Middlemarch
| 4.18 | 117 reads | |
| #1 |  The Human Comedy, Vol. I
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #1 |  The Red and the Black
| 0 | 1 read | |
| #1 |  The Charterhouse of Parma
| 3.54 | 17 reads | |
| #1 |  Emma
| 3.96 | 503 reads | |
| #1 |  Bleak House
| 4.02 | 74 reads | |
| #1 |  The Picture of Dorian Grey
| 4.11 | 287 reads | |
| #1 |  The Great Gatsby
| 3.74 | 2,306 reads | |
| #1 |  Dracula
| 3.85 | 1,128 reads | |
| #1 |  Eugene Onegin
| 3.95 | 63 reads | |
| #1 |  Jane Eyre
| 3.99 | 993 reads | |
| #1 |  Portrait of a Lady Portrait of a Lady
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #1 |  The Decameron
| 3.55 | 25 reads | |
| #1 |  Gargantua and Pantagruel
| 3.5 | 12 reads | |
| #1 |  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
| 3.6 | 820 reads |