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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius
Novel - Theory
40 books — 3 voters
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
Jorge Luis Borges' Personal Library
82 books — 14 voters

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel ProustSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Proustian Echoes
19 books — 9 voters
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
100 books — 6 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
The Lake District
63 books — 30 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Modernist Canon
79 books — 12 voters
Life by Georges PerecThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 171 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraMemórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de AssisRetrato do artista quando jovem by James JoyceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMorte em Veneza by Thomas Mann
Recommended by Susan Sontag
93 books — 13 voters
The Return of the Native by Thomas HardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas HardyJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Best of Thomas Hardy
71 books — 69 voters

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 10: The United States concluded (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
72 books — 12 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 9: The United States continued (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
100 books — 10 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonMy Ántonia by Willa CatherWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 8: The United States (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
109 books — 15 voters
Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeMidnight's Children by Salman RushdieLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 7: Latin America, Africa, India, Canada, Oceania (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
85 books — 12 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Trial by Franz KafkaOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynHunger by Knut HamsunThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 5: Germany, Russia, etc. (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
99 books — 23 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Appendix C: The Democratic Age, Pt 3 (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
97 books — 16 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyCollected Poems by W.H. AudenThe Passion by Jeanette WintersonThe Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 4: Britain & Ireland continued (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
54 books — 10 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyThe Old Wives' Tale by Arnold BennettThe Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 3: Britain & Ireland (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
96 books — 13 voters

Thaïs by Anatole FranceBlue of Noon by Georges BatailleJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 2: France (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
96 books — 10 voters
Zeno's Conscience by Italo SvevoIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaA Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 1: Italia and Iberia (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
67 books — 10 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Appendix C: The Democratic Age, Pt 2 (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
100 books — 15 voters
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertGerminal by Émile ZolaThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoPère Goriot by Honoré de BalzacThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Appendix C: The Democratic Age, Pt 1 (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
91 books — 15 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSelected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich HölderlinThe Robbers / Wallenstein by Friedrich SchillerLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MaloryThe Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Appendix B (Pt 2): The Aristocratic Age cont. (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
100 books — 11 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioDon Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraMeditations by Marcus AureliusGargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Appendix B: The Aristocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
83 books — 13 voters

The Arabian Nights by AnonymousAl-Qur'an by AnonymousThe Poetic Edda by AnonymousDas Nibelungenlied by UnknownThe Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Appendix A (Pt 2): The Theocratic Age cont. (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
25 books — 8 voters
The Complete Poems by CatullusSatires and Epistles by HoratiusThe Basic Works of Aristotle by AristotleThe Portable Plato by PlatoFour Plays by Aristophanes
Appendix A: The Theocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
89 books — 27 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,019 books — 949 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBlood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The ACTUAL 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
214 books — 315 voters

The Holy Bible by AnonymousMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,530 books — 13,054 voters