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Minimal Canon

Pruning down the Western Canon to the most essential reads for influence on other works.

#1

Cover 6

1951 • 1 Reader • 527 pages

#2

Cover 1

1963 • 506 pages

#3

The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

2017 • 3 Readers • 866 pages • 4.5

#4

Aeneid

2007 • 1 Reader • 532 pages

#5

Metamorphoses

8 • 14 Readers • 500 pages • 4.3

#6

King James Bible

2010 • 1 Reader • 1,520 pages

#7

Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno

1889 • 416 pages

#8

The Canterbury Tales

1400 • 26 Readers • 672 pages • 3.2

#9

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

2022 • 3 Readers • 2,532 pages

#10

Don Quixote

1605 • 1 Reader • 3

#11

The Works of Moliere

2016 • 380 pages

#12

Paradise Lost

1667 • 334 Readers • 512 pages • 3.7

#13

Gulliver's Travels

198 • 304 Readers • 462 pages • 3.5

#14

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen's Children's Collection

1811 • 1,922 Readers • 292 pages • 4.2

#15

Frankenstein

#16 of 15 in The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection

181 • 1,765 Readers • 63 pages • 3.8

#16

Faust

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

1808 • 250 Readers • 244 pages • 3.9

#17

Dead Souls

1842 • 180 Readers • 520 pages • 3.8

#18

Wuthering Heights

197 • 1,172 Readers • 432 pages • 3.6

#19

Moby-Dick

1851 • 7 Readers • 543 pages • 5

#20

Madame Bovary

1856 • 398 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7

#21

Les Miserables

2013 • 40 Readers • 4.4

#22

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

#1 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1864 • 627 Readers • 206 pages • 3.9

#23

Crime and Punishment

19 • 1,393 Readers • 602 pages • 4.3

#24

War and Peace

#1 of 1 in War and Peace (

190 • 699 Readers • 1,396 pages • 4

#25

Great Expectations

1860 • 683 Readers • 548 pages • 3.5

#26

Anna Karenina

1877 • 947 Readers • 1,480 pages • 3.9

#27

The Brothers Karamazov

#1 of 4 in The Brothers Karamazov

1879 • 836 Readers • 1,495 pages • 4.4

#28

In Search of Lost Time

1927 • 10 Readers • 728 pages • 5

#29

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

1920 • 486 Readers • 656 pages • 3.9

#30

The Magic Mountain

1924 • 153 Readers • 854 pages • 4

#31

The Trial

1925 • 56 Readers • 4.1

#32

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 462 Readers • 264 pages • 3.6

#33

To the Lighthouse

1925 • 426 Readers • 326 pages • 3.7

#34

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 309 Readers • 326 pages • 3.8

#35

A Farewell To Arms

199 • 399 Readers • 352 pages • 3.6

#36

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 298 Readers • 231 pages • 3.5

#37

Waiting for Godot

1952 • 279 Readers • 136 pages • 3.9

#38

Molloy

#1 of 3 in The Trilogy

1958 • 40 Readers • 512 pages • 4.3

#39

Gravity's Rainbow

1973 • 327 Readers • 760 pages • 4.1

#40

Blood Meridian

1985 • 689 Readers • 368 pages • 4.1

#1

Middlemarch

18 • 323 Readers • 810 pages • 4.2

#1

The Human Comedy, Vol. I

#1

The Red and the Black

2021 • 2 Readers • 555 pages

#1

The Charterhouse of Parma

1839 • 30 Readers • 560 pages • 3.6

#1

Emma

1815 • 774 Readers • 334 pages • 4

#1

Bleak House

1852 • 172 Readers • 682 pages • 4

#1

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 324 Readers • 186 pages • 4.1

#1

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 2,223 Readers • 180 pages • 3.7

#1

Dracula

Bullseye Chillers

1897 • 1,470 Readers • 410 pages • 3.8

#1

Eugene Onegin

1825 • 109 Readers • 408 pages • 3.8

#1

Jane Eyre

1847 • 1,339 Readers • 580 pages • 4

#1

Cover 7

1951 • 2 Readers

#1

The Decameron

1349 • 86 Readers • 418 pages • 3.7

#1

Gargantua and Pantagruel

#1-5 of 2 in Gargantua and Pantagruel

1564 • 38 Readers • 1,041 pages • 3.6

#1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

#2 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

1876 • 840 Readers • 235 pages • 3.6