Anyone have a preferred giant list of great English-language novels? I would like a big one to work through...

Anyone have a preferred giant list of great English-language novels? I would like a big one to work through. All the ones I find on a cursory Google search include garbage like Harry Potter.

infinite jest
ulysses
gravity's rainbow

>le purposefully unkempt hair
>le grossly outdated spectacle frames
>le playing an elementary-tier instrument on youtube for attention

I put my fist through the wall just looking at this sorry ass picture

>>le playing an elementary-tier instrument on youtube for attention

oh, and here me thinking she fellated a mic

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer
Le Morte D'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Poems - William Dunbar
Poems - John Skelton
Utopia - Sir Thomas More
Poems - Sir Thomas Wyatt
Poems - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella - Sir Philip Sidney
An Apology for Poetry - Sir Philip Sidney
Poems - Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
The Minor Poems - Edmund Spenser
Poems - Sir Walter Ralegh
Poems and Plays - Christopher Marlowe
Poems - Michael Drayton
Poems - Samuel Daniel
A Defence of Ryme - Samuel Drayton
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
Plays and Poems - William Shakespeare
Songs - Thomas Campion
Poems - John Donne
Sermons - John Donne
Poems, Plays, and Masques -Ben Jonson
Essays - Francis Bacon
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
Religio Medici - Sir Thomas Browne
Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall - Sir Thomas Browne
The Garden of Cyrus - Sir Thomas Browne
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Poems - Robert Herrick
Poems - Thomas Car
Poems - Richard Lovelace
Poems - Andrew Marvell
The Temple - George Herbert
Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings - Thomas Traherne
Poetry - Henry Vau
Poems - John Wilmot, Earl of Ro
Poems - Richard Crashaw
Plays - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Comedies, Tragedies, Poems - George Chapman
'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford
The Malcontent - John Marston
The White Devil - John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
The Changeling - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The Revenger's Tragedy - Cyril Tourneur
A New Way to Pay Old Debts -
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton
Paradise Lost - John Milton

Paradise Regained - John Milton
Lycidas, Comus, and the Minor Poems - John Milton
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
Areopagitica - John Milton
Brief Lives - John Aubrey
Holy Dying - Jeremy Taylor
Hudibras - Samuel Butler
Poetry and Plays - John Dryden
Critical Essays - John Dryden
Venice Preserv'd - Thomas Otway
The Way of the World - William Congreve
Love for Love - William Congreve
A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Shorter Prose Works - Jonathan Swift
Poems - Jonathan Swift
The Man of Mode - Sir George Etherege
Poems - Alexander Pope
The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
Life of Johnson - James Boswell
Journals - James Boswell
Works - Samuel Johnson
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
A Philosophical Enquiry into...the Sublime and Beautiful - Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEdmund Burke
An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff - Maurice Morgann
Poems - William Collins
The Beaux' Strategem - George Farquhar
The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
The Country Wife -William Wycherley
The Plain Dealer - William Wycherley
Jubilate Agno - Christopher Smart
A Song to David - Christopher Smart
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith
The Traveller - Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village - Oliver Goldsmith
The School of Scandal - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Poetical Works - William Cowper
Poetical Works - George Crabbe
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Pamela - Samuel Richardson
Sir Charles Grandison - Samuel Richardson
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
Evelina - Fanny Burney
The Spectator - Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

Poems - Robert Burns
Complete Poetry and Prose - William Blake
Poems - William Wordsworth
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
The Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
Redgauntlet - Sir Walter Scott
Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott

>Religio Medici - Sir Thomas Browne
You clearly haven't read this list. Where did you get this list from?

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Poems and Prose - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Grasmere Journal - Dorothy Wordsworth
Essays and Criticism - William Hazlitt
Don Juan - Lord Byron
Poems - Lord Byron
Poems - William Savage Landor
Imaginary Conversations - William Savage Landor
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey
Selected Prose - Thomas De Quincey
Essays - Charles Lamb
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
The Entail - John Galt
Cranford - - Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner -James Hogg
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Defence of Poetry - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Poems - John Clare
Poems and Letters - John Keats
Death's Jest-Book - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Poems - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Nepenthe - George Darley
Poems - George Darley
Poems - Thomas Hood
Poems - Thomas Wade
Poems - Robert Browning
The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
Poems - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poems and Translations - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poems - Matthew Arnold
Essays - Matthew Arnold
Poems - Arthur Hugh Clough
Poems - Christina Rossetti
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
Gryll Grange - Thomas Love Peacock
Poems and Prose - Gerald Manley Hopkins
Selected Prose - Thomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
Modern Painters - John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice - John Ruskin
Unto This Last - John Ruskin
The Queen of the Air - John Ruskin
Studies in the History of the Renaissance - Walter Pater
Appreciations - Walter Pater
Imaginary Portraits - Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edward FitzGerald
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Autobiography - John Stuart Mill

Apologia pro Vita Sua - John Henry Newman
A Grammar of Assent - John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University - John Henry Newman
The Barsetshire Novels - Anthony Trollope
The Palliser Novels - Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
Complete Works - Lewis Carroll
Complete Nonsense - Edward Lear
New Grub Street - George Gissing
Poems and Letters - Algernon Charles Swinburne
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
Poems - Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Henry Esmond - William Makepeace Thackeray
Poems - George Meredith
The Egoist - George Meredith
Poems - Francis Thompson
Poems - Lionel Johnson
Poems - Robert Bridges
Collected Poems - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Erewhon - Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - W. S. Gilbert
Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
No Name - Wilkie Collins
Odes - Coventry Patmore
The City of the Dreadful Night - James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis)
Plays - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Artist as Critic - Oscar Wilde
Letters - Oscar Wilde
Ballads and Songs - John Davidson
Complete Poems - Ernest Dowson
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Essays - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson
Early Romances - William Morris
Poems - William Morris
The Earthly Paradise - William Morris
The Well at the World's End - William Morris
News from Nowhere - William Morris
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Lilith - George Macdonald
At the Back of the North Wind - George Macdonald

Clearly. OP didn't ask us what we've read

It's Bloom's list for English language of course.

>Studies in the History of the Renaissance - Walter Pater
>Appreciations - Walter Pater
>Imaginary Portraits - Walter Pater
>Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
^Good stuff

>novels
Excellent reading comprehension, I am really excited to be taking advice from you w.r.t. what I should read.

Moll Flanders is shit

I think that's the joke. Poetry is better than novels, btw.

>spaghetti strap suspenders intended only for show

REEE

>Poetry is better than novels
And houses are better than buildings, as sonatas are better than arias, I suppose.
What an utterly stupid post.

>le mad virgin

>recorder
>not a god tier baroque instrument

>elementary-tier instrument
Recorder is a good instrument if you actually know/learn how to play it

Cathedrals are the best kind of building, and symphonies are the best genre of music, just as poetry is the best kind of literature. This is pretty much objective fact.

It's impressive how posts like that always, without fail, cause such extreme butthurt.

Not him but tbqh being on a board so infected by /r9k/ values is frustrating for regular people who like literature
I would like to see people contribute to this thread, not angrily rant about how feminists are destroying the world

Going further, the best musical form is sonata form, while in poetry the best form is heroic couplets.

What the fuck are you talking about? Retard

No it isn't you contrarian faggot

Recorders are for children first learning about music

Everyone knows the lyre to be the best weapon. Lutes are pretty good too.

i disagree, a lyre or a lute or guitar etc can be used only as an improvised club (ok, you can probably try to use a lyre as a garrotte as well also lyre is a very clumsy club too)

meantime a flute can be deadly both as a club or as an improvised dagger

She has an extremely punchable face.

I will fight you

Harry Potter is great though.

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What is the reference here, muggle.

I think my music teacher in secondary school said he taught her. She made uke covers for a while. Truly shit.