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Minimal Canon

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

#1

The Odyssey

-800 • 1,923 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

#2

#3

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

2017 • 5 Readers • 866 pages 4.5

#4

Aeneid

-19 • 3 Readers • 532 pages 5

#5

Metamorphoses

8 • 23 Readers • 500 pages 4.3

#6

King James Bible

2010 • 1 Reader • 1,520 pages

#8

The Canterbury Tales

1400 • 39 Readers • 672 pages 3.4

#9

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

2022 • 3 Readers • 2,532 pages

#10

Don Quixote

1605 • 1 Reader 3

#12

Paradise Lost

1 Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

1667 • 636 Readers • 512 pages 3.7

#13

Gulliver's Travels

198 • 604 Readers • 462 pages 3.4

#14

Pride and Prejudice

6 Cozy Classics

1811 • 3,239 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

#15

Frankenstein

181 • 3,093 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

#16

Faust

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

19 • 428 Readers • 526 pages 3.8

#17

Dead Souls

1842 • 301 Readers • 520 pages 3.7

#18

Wuthering Heights

Continuum Contemporaries

1847 • 2,040 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

#19

Moby-Dick

1851 • 9 Readers • 543 pages 5

#20

Madame Bovary

19 • 713 Readers • 256 pages 3.6

#21

Les Miserables

1862 • 68 Readers • 1,468 pages 4.2

#22

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

#1 of 3 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1864 • 1,073 Readers • 132 pages 3.9

#23

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,428 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

#24

War and Peace

190 • 1,244 Readers • 838 pages 4.1

#25

Great Expectations

3 Graffex

1860 • 1,110 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

#26

Anna Karenina

1877 • 1,625 Readers • 1,480 pages 4

#27

The Brothers Karamazov

1878 • 1,511 Readers • 908 pages 4.4

#28

In Search of Lost Time

1927 • 24 Readers • 728 pages 5

#29

Ulysses

1920 • 802 Readers • 656 pages 3.8

#30

The Magic Mountain

1924 • 280 Readers • 752 pages 3.9

#31

The Trial

1925 • 1,119 Readers • 255 pages 3.9

#32

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 830 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

#33

To the Lighthouse

1925 • 728 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#34

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 538 Readers • 274 pages 3.7

#35

A Farewell To Arms

199 • 689 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

#36

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 523 Readers • 231 pages 3.6

#37

Waiting for Godot

1952 • 491 Readers • 136 pages 3.8

#38

Molloy

#1 of 3 in The Trilogy

1958 • 58 Readers • 512 pages 4.3

#39

Gravity's Rainbow

1973 • 566 Readers • 760 pages 4.1

#40

Blood Meridian

1985 • 1,244 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

#1

Middlemarch

#2 of 2 in Middlemarch (2 volumes)

1831 • 640 Readers • 840 pages 4.2

#1

The Red and the Black

1830 • 3 Readers • 576 pages

#1

The Charterhouse of Parma

1839 • 61 Readers • 560 pages 3.4

#1

Emma

16 Manga Classics

6 • 1,271 Readers • 334 pages 4

#1

Bleak House

1852 • 291 Readers • 682 pages 4

#1

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 2,928 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

#1

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,092 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

#1

Dracula

1897 • 2,559 Readers • 440 pages 3.9

#1

Eugene Onegin

1825 • 183 Readers • 408 pages 4

#1

Jane Eyre

1847 • 2,325 Readers • 580 pages 4

#1

Cover 7

1951 • 2 Readers

#1

The Decameron

1349 • 153 Readers • 418 pages 3.6

#1

Gargantua and Pantagruel

#1-5 of 2 in Gargantua and Pantagruel

1564 • 68 Readers • 1,041 pages 3.1

#1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

#2 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

1876 • 1,508 Readers • 327 pages 3.6