What are the 5 most essential books in the western canon?

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bible
iliad
odyssey
hamlet
ego and its own

Bible, Iliad, Divine Comedy, Hamlet, Paradise Lost

Nice little joke at the end there

this

im not joking - essentialism is a spook

Essentialism is essential, actually.

The Rose that Grew From Concrete
Dreams From My Father
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews
Autobiography of Malcom x
Uncle Tom's Cabin

This.

>Dante
HAhahaha There's your joke post, OP.

Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
The Canterbury Tales
Macbeth
Waiting For Godot

The Iliad
The Oddyssey
Hamplanet
On Women
My Diary desu

>>Dante
>HAhahaha There's your joke post, OP.

Honestly your taste is so bad here it isn't even worth raging over. An indifferent reply suffices.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare is a single book.

So are the Iliad/Odyssey, The plays of Sophocles and the works of Beckett. Why aren't you complaining about those?

the secret relationship between blacks and jews actually seems like an interesting read. i put it on my buy list. thanks

Because people have the idea that they can't say The Complete Works of Shakespeare and it's pretty much the most important.

Harry Potter
Game of thrones
The Bible
Fifty Shades of Gray

Bible
Homer
Shakespeare
Don quixote
Harry potter

The Bible
Homeric Epics
Don Quixote
The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare

Critique of Pure Reason
The Republic
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Bible

What is so great about Quixote again?

Bible
Iliad
Republic
Confessions
Hamlet

Heres my take (I cheated a little):

Iliad/Odyssey
The Republic
The Bible
Divine Comedy
Hamlet

its been good enough to survive for over four centuries. also this.

theguardian.com/world/2002/may/08/humanities.books

seriously, take the time to read it, even if you read snips here and there.

Don Quixote. A cruel and crude old book.

The book of Job.