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Steve Donoghue's Western Canon Starter Kit

Veteran book reviewer Steve Donoghue created a youtube series that recommends a very lean Western Canon, meant to be readable in a year or so, for those looking to familiarize themselves with the tradition without having to go back to school.
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Holy Bible
Holy Bible
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Iliad
Iliad
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Odyssey
Odyssey
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Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
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The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus)
The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus)
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The Eumenides (Aeschylus)
The Eumenides (Aeschylus)
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Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone (Sophocles)
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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex
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Hippolytus
Hippolytus
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Medea
Medea
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Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
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Crito (Plato)
Crito (Plato)
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Euthyphro (Plato)
Euthyphro (Plato)
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Republic (Plato)
Republic (Plato)
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Symposium (Plato)
Symposium (Plato)
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Apology (Plato)
Apology (Plato)
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Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
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Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics (Aristotle)
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Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid (Virgil)
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Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
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The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
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The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
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Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Le Morte Darthur (Sir Thomas Malory; E.D. R. M. Lumiansky)
Le Morte Darthur (Sir Thomas Malory; E.D. R. M. Lumiansky)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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Essays of Michel De Montagne
Essays of Michel De Montagne
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The Prince
The Prince
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Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly
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Shakespeare Complete Works
Shakespeare Complete Works
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The Complete English Poems by John Donne
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
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Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
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David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
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Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
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