Minimal Canon
- Updated about 2 years ago
- 55 Books
Pruning down the Western Canon to the most essential reads for influence on other works.
| #1 |  The Odyssey
| 3.8 | 1,171 reads | |
| #2 |  The Odyssey Homer The Odyssey Homer
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #3 |  The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
| #4 |  Aeneid
| 5 | 1 read | |
| #5 |  Metamorphoses
| 4.33 | 11 reads | |
| #6 |  King James Bible
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #7 |  Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #8 |  The Canterbury Tales
| 3.35 | 27 reads | |
| #9 |  The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works
| 0 | 2 reads | |
| #10 |  Don Quixote
| 3 | 1 read | |
| #11 |  The Works of Moliere
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #12 |  Paradise Lost
| 3.73 | 220 reads | |
| #13 |  Gulliver's Travels
| 3.43 | 369 reads | |
| #14 |  Pride and Prejudice
| 4.17 | 2,262 reads | |
| #15 |  Frankenstein
| 3.85 | 2,114 reads | |
| #16 |  Faust
| 3.8 | 197 reads | |
| #17 |  Dead Souls
| 3.75 | 106 reads | |
| #18 |  Wuthering Heights
| 3.64 | 1,199 reads | |
| #19 |  Moby Dick
| 3.58 | 677 reads | |
| #20 |  Madame Bovary
| 3.59 | 329 reads | |
| #21 |  Les Misérables
| 4.17 | 453 reads | |
| #22 |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 3.9 | 888 reads | |
| #23 |  Crime and Punishment
| 4.25 | 1,137 reads | |
| #24 |  War and Peace
| 4.07 | 371 reads | |
| #25 |  Great Expectations
| 3.55 | 646 reads | |
| #26 |  Anna Karenina
| 4 | 639 reads | |
| #27 |  The Brothers Karamazov
| 4.4 | 476 reads | |
| #28 |  In Search of Lost Time
| 5 | 4 reads | |
| #29 |  Ulysses
| 3.85 | 226 reads | |
| #30 |  The Magic Mountain
| 3.89 | 66 reads | |
| #31 |  The Trial
| 3.92 | 552 reads | |
| #32 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 3.64 | 509 reads | |
| #33 |  To the Lighthouse
| 3.75 | 281 reads | |
| #34 |  The Sound and the Fury
| 3.78 | 212 reads | |
| #35 |  A Farewell To Arms
| 3.71 | 403 reads | |
| #36 |  As I Lay Dying
| 3.59 | 239 reads | |
| #37 |  Waiting for Godot
| 3.83 | 320 reads | |
| #38 |  Molloy
| 4.3 | 13 reads | |
| #39 |  Gravity's Rainbow
| 4.16 | 118 reads | |
| #40 |  Blood Meridian
| 4.1 | 497 reads | |
| #1 |  Middlemarch
| 4.19 | 178 reads | |
| #1 |  The Human Comedy, Vol. I
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #1 |  The Red and the Black
| 0 | 2 reads | |
| #1 |  The Charterhouse of Parma
| 3.41 | 21 reads | |
| #1 |  Emma
| 3.99 | 655 reads | |
| #1 |  Bleak House
| 4.02 | 97 reads | |
| #1 |  The Picture of Dorian Grey
| 4.06 | 1,760 reads | |
| #1 |  The Great Gatsby
| 3.72 | 3,372 reads | |
| #1 |  Dracula
| 3.86 | 1,592 reads | |
| #1 |  Jane Eyre
| 3.99 | 1,365 reads | |
| #1 |  Portrait of a Lady Portrait of a Lady
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #1 |  The Decameron
| 3.54 | 40 reads | |
| #1 |  Gargantua and Pantagruel
| 3.14 | 21 reads | |
| #1 |  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
| 3.59 | 1,123 reads | |
| #1 |  Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
| 3.96 | 79 reads |