1. Plato’s Timaeus 2. Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics 3. Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War 4. Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: Or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil 5. Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason 6. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus 7. Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space 8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria 9. Paul Valéry’s Eupalinos, ou l’architecte 10. Sir Thomas Malory’s Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur 11. Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Burial 12. Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 13. Virginia Woolf’s Selected Diaries 14. Ford Maddox Ford’s Parade's End (the Tietjens tetralogy) 15. William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra 16. Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist 17. James Joyce’s Ulysses 18. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake 19. Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds 20. Beckett’s How It Is 21. Beckett’s Ping 22. José Lezama’s Paradiso 23. Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch 24. Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths 25. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain 26. Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor and Other Stories 27. Herman Broch’s The Sleepwalkers 28. Italo Svevo’s Confessions of Zeno 29. Italo Svevo’s Zeno's Conscience (in William Weaver’s marvelous recent translation) 30. Gustave Flaubert’s Letters 31. Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet 32. Stendhal’s The Red and the Black 33. Colette’s Break of Day 34. John Donne’s Poems and Sermons 35. Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hymns 36. Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés 37. Ezra Pound’s Personae 38. William Butler Yeat’s The Tower 39. Wallace Steven’s Harmonium 40. Henry James’s The Golden Bowl 41. Henry James’s Notebooks 42. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury 43. Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider 44. Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives 45. William Gaddis’s The Recognitions 46. John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig 47. Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 48. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies 49. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus 50. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters
Damn, wouldn't have expected him to rank Bachelard so high
William Long
why?
Xavier Perez
You must be new here
Aiden Carter
you didn't answer my question
Alexander Gray
weird but good taste, not my preferences but i respect him. what a world it would be if most journalists read even half of these
or if we just liquidated them
Alexander Baker
this
Christian Evans
its from his book temple of texts. Its posted fairly regularly though.
Dylan Hill
God, he's a fucking pseud.
Jayden Ward
>Plato’s Timaeus Is it good?
Easton Walker
Why?
Angel Wood
>read bad Veeky Forums = retard >read good Veeky Forums = pseud thats why
Eli Bailey
read it is essential if you have interest in theology, but also that it should be one of the last of his dialogues one should read
Asher Anderson
>no dosto >fucking Flann O’Brien
Robert Thompson
>uninfluential author makes list of the most influential books to him What is next, some Joe Schmoe listing off various brands of instant Ramen that influenced his cooking?
James King
Veeky Forums mistakes "50 books that influenced so-and-so" for "50 books so-and-so read" >is the timaeus good? >shit list bro, last summer i read crime and punishment and i really liked it
fair enough list, but it seems fake. i have to imagine rilke would be higher - he translated rilke's poetry and references him constantly. plus only source google pulls up is this thread.
Eli Mitchell
He looks miserable and angry enough for me to like
Lincoln Gomez
>3. Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War Topmeme
Jackson Murphy
>there are numbers in it There aren't actually, contrarian retard.
Landon Hughes
Gass is not entirely uninfluential. At the very least DFW and Gene Wolfe, which are among the authors discussed the most on here, have read and valued him highly. And it hasn’t even been 30 years since The Tunnel, Gass’ most famous work, was published.
Jose Smith
Cool and not basic list.
>most influential books to him It's not a list of The Greatest Books Ever Written or whatever. I like Flann O'Brien more than Dostoevsky too. Fuck you.
