Books I think are of great historical, literary or personal importance – hence why I want to read them. Listed below in roughly (“published”) chronological order.
✖️ The Illiad - Homer
✖️ The Odyssey - Homer
✖️ The republic - Plato
✖️ The elements - Euclid
✖️ Bhagavad Gita
✖️ The city of god - Augustine of Hippo
✖️ Bardo Thodol - Padmasambhava, Yeshe Tsogyal
✖️ The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
✖️ Prose Edda - Snorre Sturlason
✖️ Heimskringla - Snorre Sturlason
✖️ The devine comedy - Dante Alighieri
✖️ The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
✖️ Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
✖️ Principia - Isaac Newton
✖️ The wealth of nations - Adam Smith
✖️ The count of monte cristo - Alexandre Dumas
✅ Moby dick - Herman Melville
✅ Crime and punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
✖️ Capital - Karl Marx
✖️ War and peace - Leo Tolstoy
✖️ The brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
✖️ Ulysses - James Joyce
✖️ The diary of a young girl - Anne Frank
✅ 1984 - George Orwell
✖️ Gravity’s rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
✖️ Infinite jest - David Foster Wallace