I’ve been thinking about reading some of the classics.

This is a list of books that I acquired from Artificial Intelligence.

The list didn’t include full canons, such as those from Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe.

Which of these have you read?

Would you recommend any of these?

Are there any books on this list that you haven’t read – but wished that you had?

I’ve placed an asterisk beside the titles that I’ve read.

Ancient Classics

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. The Iliad by Homer
3. The Odyssey by Homer
4. The Aeneid by Virgil
5. Metamorphoses by Ovid
6. The Republic by Plato

Classical Literature

7. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
8. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
9. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Renaissance to Enlightenment

10. Paradise Lost by John Milton
11. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
12. Candide by Voltaire

19th Century

13. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
14. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë *
16. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë *
17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
19. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
20. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
21. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert *
22. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo *
23. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
24. Middlemarch by George Eliot

Early 20th Century

25. Ulysses by James Joyce
26. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald *
27. 1984 by George Orwell
28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
29. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
30. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Mid to Late 20th Century

31. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
33. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
34. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
35. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
36. Beloved by Toni Morrison *
37. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
38. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Non-English Classics

39. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Japan)
40. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (China)
41. One Thousand and One Nights (Middle Eastern collection)
42. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
43. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)

Modern Classics

44. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
45. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
46. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

This list includes works from various cultures and periods, representing a broad spectrum of the human experience through literature.