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A Primary Canon of Sorts - Greaterbooks.com

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Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
1
Homer
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
2
Miguel De Cervantes
Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante's Divine Comedy
3
Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
4
Homer
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
5
Jane Austen
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
6
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
7
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
8
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
9
William Shakespeare
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
10
Virgil
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
11
Herodotus -- The Histories (Herodotus)
Herodotus -- The Histories
12
Herodotus
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
13
Essays
Essays
14
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
15
Sophocles
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King
16
Sophocles
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Confessions
17
Saint Augustine
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
18
Herman Melville
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
19
Leo Tolstoy
The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
The Origin of Species
20
Charles Darwin
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
21
Daniel Defoe
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
22
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
23
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
24
Niccolò Machiavelli
The History of the Peloponnesian War
The History of the Peloponnesian War
25
Huckelberry Finn
Huckelberry Finn
26
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
27
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
28
George Eliot
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
29
Plato
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
30
Voltaire
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
31
François Rabelais
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson
32
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
33
Henry Fielding
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
34
James Joyce
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
35
William Shakespeare
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus
36
Sophocles
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
37
Walt Whitman
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia
38
Aeschylus
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
39
On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
40
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