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Bloom's Western Canon + Guardian 1000 + 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
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Several attempts to define a literary canon, all lumped together. I'm aiming to get up to at least 10% here.
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required scores: 1, 24, 98, 154, 253
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Homer -- The Iliad
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The Odyssey
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Egyptian Book of the Dead (Translator: Faulkner)
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Mahabharata
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Bhagavad Gita
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Ramayana
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Works and Days
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Theogony
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Odes
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Aeschylus -- The Oresteia
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Seven Against Thebes
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Prometheus Bound
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Persians
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Suppliant Women
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Oedipus the King
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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophacles
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Antigone
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Electra
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Ajax (Sophocles)
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Women of Trachis
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Philoctetes
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Cyclops
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Heracles
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Alcestis
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Hecuba
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The Bacchae
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Orestes
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Andromache
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Medea
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Ion (Plato)
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Hippolytus
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Helen
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Iphigenia at Aulis
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The Birds
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The Clouds (Aristophanes)
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The Frogs
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The Knights
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Lysistrata
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The Wasps
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