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Why Read the Classics?

This selection was based on Harold Bloom's studies, and others rankings such as the Times and Modern Library magazines. The ultimate decision was draft by Bravo! magazine.
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Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
1
Homer
Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
2
Homer
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
3
William Shakespeare
Dom Quixote (Cervantes)
Dom Quixote
4
Cervantes
Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante's Divine Comedy
5
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
6
Marcel Proust
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
7
James Joyce
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
8
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
9
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Selected Essays of Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Selected Essays of Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
10
Édipo Rei
Édipo Rei
11
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
12
William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
13
Gustave Flaubert
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
14
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Kafka (The Trail)
Kafka
15
The Trail
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Doctor Faustus
16
Thomas Mann
Les Fleurs Du Mal (Charles Baudelaire)
Les Fleurs Du Mal
17
Charles Baudelaire
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
18
William Faulkner
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
19
T.S. Eliot
Teogonia (Esiodo)
Teogonia
20
Esiodo
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis
21
Franz Kafka
Le Rouge Et Le Noir (Stendhal)
Le Rouge Et Le Noir
22
Stendhal
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
23
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Season in Hell
A Season in Hell
24
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
25
Victor Hugo
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
26
Albert Camus
Medea (Euripides)
Medea
27
Euripides
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
28
Virgil
Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
29
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
30
Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
31
Joseph Conrad
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
32
Aldous Huxley
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
33
Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
34
Herman Melville
Narraciones Extraordinarias (Edgar Allan Poe)
Narraciones Extraordinarias
35
Edgar Allan Poe
La Comedie Humaine
La Comedie Humaine
36
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
37
Charles Dickens
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
38
Robert Musil
Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gullivers Travels
39
Jonathan Swift
Finnegans
Finnegans
40
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