If you had to choose only ten books that are essential Veeky Forums, what would they be?

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Dunno about the rest, but i know what some aspiring litfag should read, in order.
Notes from the underground > Portrait

>Russian YA followed by a good YA

A crash course in personal development through literature obviously starts with literature for less mature people

I just don't like Tolstoyvesky

Also the metamorphosis

Homer, Odyssey
Plato, Republic
Thucydides, Pel War
Ovid, Meta
KJV
Don Quixote
Shakespeare r2-h5, hamlet, macbeth, lear
Montaigne's Essays
Boswell's Johnson
Either Wordsworth's Prelude or Proust's ISOLT

Let them choose themselves

What's ISOLT

Nvm

in search of lost time, his one and only(if im not wrong)

>doesn't forget Ovid's rightful place next to Homer and Shakes
Thank you

Brothers Karamazov
No Longer Human
Gravity's Rainbow
Apology
Sátántangó
Sorrows of the Young Werther
Ulysses
Die Fünf Weltreligionen
The Trial
Zhuangzi

I put in Die fünf Weltreligionen because I think it's necessary to have some kind of foundation on the subject of religions and their dogmas.
Otherwise, it's a little bit of everything. Taps into Russian, German, Chinese, Japanese and English literature, with some philosophical elements.

10 works in no order:

Homer, The Odyssey
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Milton, Paradise Lost
Dante, Dante's Inferno
Joyce, Ulysses
Joyce, Finnegans Wake
The Bible
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

This is great but Theban Plays instead of Oresteia imho

Joyce, Ulysses
Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Wallace, Infinite Jest
Bloom, The Western Canon
Kaur, Milk and Honey
McDonalds, Culture of Critique
Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
Rowling, The Chamber of Secrets
Plato, Republic

Complete works of Plato, Iliad and Odyssey, Gilgamesh, Bible and I'd personally put in some Freud. These are the books I'd like to have if I were to start civilisation again.

In no particular order

Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun
Homer - Iliad
FS Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night
Kafka - The Trial
Montaigne - Complete Essays
Borges - Labyrinths
Marlowe - Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Milton - Paradise Lost
Shakespeare - any collection that has the most notable plays

Kafka's Diaries
Collected Poems by Eliot
Hesse's Demian
Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain
Hamlet
Brothers Karamazov
Infinite Jest
The Illiad
Collected Poems by Rilke
A biography of Napoleon

The Bible
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Practical Reason
The Philosopher's Stone
The Chamber of Secrets
The Prisoner of Azkaban
The Goblet of Fire
The Order of the Phoenix
The Half-Blood Prince
The Deathly Hallows

Why No Longer Human? I really enjoyed the book, but I don't see a lot of potential for discussion.

>book
Watch the anime

kek'd

>Lobster: A Global History
>Lobster Is the Best Medicine: A Collection of Comics About Friendship
>Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
>Lobster: 150 Lined Journal Pages / Diary / Notebook Featuring an Orange Illustrated Lobster Image on the Cover
>There Might Be Lobsters
>The Blue Lobster
>Lobster Johnson Volume 6: A Chain Forged in Life
>How To Sell A Lobster 2nd Edition: A Psychological Journey Into The Marketplace of the Mind
>No Lobster, Please: A Story of a Child With a Severe Seafood Allergy
>Twilight of the Lobsters: Or How I Learned to Stop Trying to Get Out of the Pot and Stand Up In It

he has essays, stories and poetry as well. his poems are all about boipussi

overkek

>anime version of No Longer Human
Don't, it's trash

It's short, it fits our demographics well, and it can be a foothold into Japanese literature.

why are you trying to shame people into not reading those books by calling them YA?

I'm trying to shame the idea of C&P being a top 10 book by calling it YA