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
✖️ In search of lost time – Marcel Proust
✖️ Ulysses – James Joyce
✖️ The diary of a young girl – Anne Frank
✅ 1984 – George Orwell
✖️ The second sex – Simone de Beauvoir
✖️ Gravity’s rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
✖️ Infinite jest – David Foster Wallace