How many of the essentials have you read?

The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE)
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners and Ulysses by James Joyce (1914, 1922)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Zettels Traum by Arno Schmidt (1970/2016)

From that list: Homer, Divine Comedy, some Shakesman, Onegin (entire Pushkin, really), Moby Dick, C&P, Karenina, entire Borges.

I don't care about 30 different Bibles, and why the fuck would I bother reading translated greek and roman poetry (inb4 learn these meme languages), at least put Plato here

>Zettels Traum

All

Good list senpai
Ive read most but tbqh I dont think translations are really a good use of time.

Just know what they're about etc or learn the language. Not worth it to reread translation of a non romance language when you could be rereading Joyce IMO

Also thank you for not including dfw

>How many of the essentials have you read?

>Zettels Traum by Arno Schmidt (1970/2016)

memelord please

I've read all of them. There's a fair number in my list that I'd cut, however. Milton for one, and the ghastly Moby Dick. I could suggest something better if you'd like to fix the list.

14.5/25

Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses.(FFPG)

was it necessary to list the bible and all the books that make up the bible?

>Essentials
>Sophocles
>Aeschylus
>Romans
>Apocrypha
>Onegin
>Gogol
>Ibsen
>Borges
>Schmidt
>Gaddis
>Pynchon

Four, plus some of Gogol's short stories and Shakespeare's plays.

I'd like to read Ibsen, Homer and Aeschylus from your list. Don Quijote too I guess, but that's a huge time investment.

Essential for what?

Fuck you.

good score, too bad about you not reading greek and roman poems.

0/25

>all of them
ZT? liar, 0/25.

>he doesn't know about literature

I would recommend Don Q very heavily desu.

??? I was just offering my opinion.

Yes, even ZT.

That was just my tourette syndrome, sorry.

I hate this board.

>butthurt dfw fanboy

go back to r/books

>most of this board is between 5 - 15 out of 25 on the essentials list

disgusting

There's no such thing as 'essential' literature, cuckboi. If you picks books because some fucking list told you to, you're a brainlet with no will or taste.

>murakami fan is completely illiterate

unsurprised desu

The Bible, Paradise Lost, (Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Othello), Crime & Punishment, The Sound and The Fury, Gravity's Rainbow.
How many other faggots on here can actually say they've read the Bible cover to cover?

literally none, because all that garbage is pseudo intellectual garbage and I read what I like.

>not complete Aeschylus
>not complete Sophocles
>no Euripides
>no Aristophanes
>no Plato
>not complete Bible

trash

>more illiterates coming out of the woodwork

I can.

I wish I hadn't

>when you've read
The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Choerlus
Major Plays of Euripedes
The Kabbalah
Gospels (Thomas, Judas, Pilate, Mary)
Georgics by Virgil
The New Life by Dante
La Galatea by Miguel de Cervantes
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
Paradise Regained by John Milton
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Confidence Man by Herman Melville
Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert
Brothers K by Fyodr Dostoevsky
Major Plays of Pisemsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
JR. by William Gaddis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Nobodaddy's Children by Arno Schmidt

>0

>he starts with the Greeks
>not Sumerians
WOW, stop reading ANYtime

pseud af

I've not read any of them.
I plan on reading maybe 4.

one of the better Veeky Forums lists desu

>Me
>Le nigger
>Reading

>all white males

>thinking just because an author is colored the book must be gold

I have read nothing on this list and it's pretty exciting to know I have so much to look forward to

What is the deal with Pale Fire? It seems dubious. Pretentious, even.

Does anyone have a torrent to one of those massive book collections sorted by topic (like philosophy collection, etc..)?