Stayed up to 4 am yesterday finishing Flowers for Algernon and I think I’m gonna have to go back to therapy, that book was amazing.
Basically I want to read some of the “Classics” but I am so ignorant I don’t even know what the “Classics” are.
I’m imagining The Oddysey, The Illiad, Shakespeare, Alighieri and Moby Dick but don’t know what else. (Or if those are actually good)
For all intents and purposes, recommend me as if I have never read anything.
TL:DR; What are some MUST READ’s?
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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Watch out, man. That Moby Dick ain’t no joke. Dude goes on and on about whale physiology and shit for like entire chapters.
1984 by George Orwell.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Candide by Voltaire
I’m quite into Gothic classics like Dracula
Beowulf, Tale of Two Cities, Count of Monte Cristo, The Hobbit, Dracula, Dubliners, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, Aurelius’s Meditations, Plato’s The Cave, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Sun Tzu’s Art of War
Wuthering Heights
A Tale of Two Cities
All Quiet on the Western Front
Frankenstein
A Farewell to Arms
Heart of Darkness
The Picture of Dorian Gray
East of Eden, Blood Meridian, The Bluest Eye.
Shakespeare is a decent start as far as being accessible. You might also like some of the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. There’s also Poe, if you’re into spooky business.
That said, don’t feel like you “have” to start with “the classics.”
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To Kill A Mockingbird
A Christmas Carol
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Oliver Twist
The Old Man and the Sea
The Time Machine