b_richardson
Michael

Literary Cannon

#2

Shakespeare

1939 • 2 Readers • 302 pages

#3

Shakespeare's Montaigne

1603 • 2 Readers • 418 pages

#4

Dante

1929 • 4 Readers • 202 pages

#6

#9

Endgame and ACT Without Words

1957 • 18 Readers • 112 pages 3.8

#10

Mason & Dixon

1997 • 113 Readers • 788 pages 4.3

#11

Blood Meridian

1985 • 855 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

#12

Invisible Cities

1972 • 319 Readers • 182 pages 4.1

#13

The theatrical notebooks of Samuel Beckett

1957 • 33 Readers • 276 pages 3.6

#14

Doctor Zhivago

1957 • 215 Readers • 594 pages 3.4

#15

Nine Stories

164 Readers 4

#16

1984

1949 • 4,819 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

#17

Murphy

1938 • 25 Readers • 207 pages 4

#18

Orlando: A Biography

1919 • 297 Readers • 350 pages 3.8

#22

The Cantos

1970 • 26 Readers • 824 pages 4.5

#23

The Wasteland

1922 • 20 Readers • 88 pages 3.5

#24

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

1920 • 597 Readers • 656 pages 3.9

#25

Kim

1901 • 81 Readers • 312 pages 3.4

#26

Lord Jim

1900 • 63 Readers • 239 pages 3.4

#28

The War of the Worlds

1897 • 625 Readers • 199 pages 3.8

#29

Hedda Gabler

1890 • 24 Readers • 112 pages 3.8

#30

Treasure Island

1847 • 654 Readers • 191 pages 3.7

#31

Peer Gynt

1867 • 21 Readers • 169 pages 2.9

#32

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

1897 • 6 Readers • 1,165 pages 4

#33

Middlemarch

18 • 401 Readers • 810 pages 4.2

#34

William Shakespeare

1864 • 2 Readers • 328 pages

#35

Myths of Greece and Rome

1855 • 33 Readers • 320 pages 4

#36

Fathers and Sons

1862 • 160 Readers • 234 pages 3.9

#37

Leaves of Grass

19 • 252 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

#38

Bleak House

1852 • 220 Readers • 682 pages 4

#39

Jane Eyre

1847 • 1,656 Readers • 580 pages 4

#40

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

1808 • 305 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

#41

The Last of the Mohicans

18 • 83 Readers • 434 pages 3.3

#42

Eugene Onegin

1825 • 138 Readers • 408 pages 3.9

#43

Persuasion

1789 • 725 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

#44

Gulliver's Travels

198 • 374 Readers • 462 pages 3.4

#45

The prologue to the Canterbury tales

1372 • 286 Readers • 80 pages 3.4

#46

The Decameron

1349 • 117 Readers • 418 pages 3.5

#47

The Inferno

1320 • 431 Readers • 241 pages 4

#49

Purgatorio

1320 • 20 Readers • 600 pages 4.3

#52

Antigone

-441 • 191 Readers • 128 pages 3.6

#55

Aesop's Fables

-560 • 136 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

#56

Theogony / Works and Days

-700 • 29 Readers • 79 pages 3.8

#57

The Iliad/The Odyssey

-800 • 86 Readers • 1,556 pages 4.1

#58

Canto General

1950 • 6 Readers • 407 pages 4.3

#60

The Epic of Gilgamesh

-1800 • 171 Readers • 120 pages 3.4

#61

The Castle

1922 • 221 Readers • 328 pages 3.9

#62

Lectures on Russian Literature

1981 • 11 Readers • 352 pages 4

#63

Murder in the Cathedral

1936 • 15 Readers • 157 pages 3.4

#64

Cover 8

2004 • 6 Readers • 1,008 pages 5

#65

The Peregrine

1967 • 37 Readers • 191 pages 4

#66

I, Claudius

1934 • 185 Readers • 432 pages 4.1

#67

The Name of the Rose

1980 • 734 Readers • 556 pages 4

#68

Dracula

1897 • 1,809 Readers • 410 pages 3.8

#69

Frankenstein

181 • 2,180 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

#70

#72

The Lion in Winter

1966 • 9 Readers • 103 pages 3.5

#73

#74

The Metamorphoses

8 • 188 Readers • 448 pages 4

#75

Il Maestro e Margherita

1966 • 855 Readers • 305 pages 4.2

#76

The Trial

1925 • 733 Readers 4

#77

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

198 • 397 Readers • 490 pages 3.6

#78

A Study in Scarlet

198 • 664 Readers • 123 pages 4

#79

The Invisible Man

1897 • 472 Readers • 216 pages 3.5

#80

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 365 Readers • 231 pages 3.6

#81

Under the Volcano

1947 • 92 Readers • 363 pages 3.7

#82

Pale Fire

1945 • 315 Readers • 282 pages 4.3

#83

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 378 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#84

The Merchant of Venice

1596 • 211 Readers • 231 pages 3.7

#85

Inferno

1320 • 226 Readers • 560 pages 3.9

#86

The Aeneid

1990 • 177 Readers • 442 pages 3.7

#87

The Brothers Karamazov

19 • 1,070 Readers • 796 pages 4.4

#88

The Time Machine

1894 • 980 Readers • 140 pages 3.7

#90

Othello

1603 • 439 Readers • 226 pages 3.8

#91

Heart of Darkness

1899 • 832 Readers • 132 pages 3.3

#92

Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1875 • 952 Readers • 141 pages 3.7

#93

Moby-Dick or, the Whale

1851 • 831 Readers • 1,484 pages 3.6

#94

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 525 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

#95

Brave New World

1930 • 2,532 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

#96

Anna Karenina

1877 • 1,169 Readers • 1,480 pages 4

#97

Les Misérables

7 • 729 Readers • 1,378 pages 4.2

#98

Macbeth

1606 • 895 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

#99

The Count of Monte Cristo

1830 • 1,489 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

#100

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

2004 • 25 Readers • 692 pages 4.5

#101

As You Like It

1599 • 109 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#102

The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare

2013 • 2 Readers • 128 pages 4

#103

Hadji Murat

1912 • 3 Readers • 130 pages 5

#104

Animal Farm

1945 • 3,386 Readers • 122 pages 4.1