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Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 3: Britain & Ireland (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
96 books — 14 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Complete Plays by Christopher MarloweThe Complete Poems by Andrew MarvellGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Appendix B (Pt 2): The Aristocratic Age cont. (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
100 books — 12 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliDon Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraMeditations by Marcus AureliusThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Appendix B: The Aristocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
83 books — 14 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane Austen
Appendix C: The Democratic Age, Pt 2 (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
100 books — 16 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesThe Old Testament by VariousThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Appendix A: The Theocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
89 books — 28 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerTender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 8: The United States (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
109 books — 16 voters

Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoZeno's Conscience by Italo SvevoIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 1: Italia and Iberia (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
67 books — 11 voters