/lit/ - Literature and Writing

The Iliad and the Odyssey
The Aeneid
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Oresteia(really any Greek plays you can get your hands on but this is the most important one)
Beowulf
The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda
The Song of Roland
The Decameron
Don Quixote
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Romance of the Rose
The Kalevala
The Brothers Karamazov
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
War and Peace
Waverley
Faust parts I and II
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Chateaubriand's Rene
Les Miserables
The Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes
The fairy tales of people like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm
Candide
Moby Dick
Gulliver's Travels
The Tragedies of Jean Racine
The Comedies of Moliere
Lord Byron's Don Juan
Manzoni's The Betrothed
Petrarch's Canzoniere
The Mabinogian
The Poems of Ossian
The Count of Monte Cristo

>>115
>no cuck shit
better drop canterbury tales then lmfao
>>116
and about half of these

>>118
>none of them even have mein kampf
>despite it being the beat selling book in the world
So much for classics huh? You can instantly get a copy of the marquis de sade's degenerate torture porn (in the classic section btw) but ask for one of the non kiked versions of mein kampf to be special ordered and they'll refuse and look at you like you're insane despite them normally ordering books with no problem. Ive read a bunch of classics and the only one that really stuck with me was crime and punishment.

+1 for Brothers Karamazov
+1 for Don Quixote

Do not read Faust part 2 until you have read every other book on the list. It is the ultimate pleb filter, the ultimate book to challenge yourself on.

The hunchback of Notre Dame is better than Les Miserables

I would add
>A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Tin Drum
>The Death of Ivan Ilych
>Brave New World
>

>>115
>>116
To add to the list:

Golden Legend (1260) Jacob de Voragine
Utopia (1516) Thomas More
New Atlantis (1626) Francis Bacon
Paradise Regained (1671) John Milton
Complete Workds of Edgar Allen Poe
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker

>>234
Oh, and The Bible

>>118
Most classics aren't actual classics. The same way the biggest grossing movies of all time aren't the best movies. The publishing industry is run the same way pro-wrestling is. They pick who has the title and how long they keep it for.

>>115
You need to stop being an amerimutt and come to terms with there being no "Western" anything. The writings of each nation stands alone and saying the foundation of Scottish literature and Spanish literature is just plain stupid.

Where did the real /lit/ go, not this /tv/reddit clowhole?

>>284
The "real /lit/" was always more reddit than /tv/ could ever be. They only ever talked about the same handful of authors that everyone had to read in school.

I wonder if OP ever read any of these books?

>>287
kys

>>287
/tv/ doesn't read any books and is a bunch of literal reddits, so…

About Don Quixote: before reading it check out at least one knight epic referenced in his library, some get thumbed through by the monk and some other guy when they are about to burn it in Part I.

It's amazing reading Amadís de Gaula and realizing it is better than anything the people that wax poetry about Quixote and the jump to contemporary literature have ever written.

Omg! Quick! Someone yell all you can eat KFC outside with Diet Coke to get that kid out of that thing!

>>115
>Orlando Furioso
Read Orlando Innamorato first.