The Only 10 Books You Need

[Anonymous No.17457287]

The only 10 books you need.

[Anonymous No.17457303]

Yeah, to throw in the garbage

[Anonymous No.17457305]

It’s not the bill of needs, it’s the bill of rights.

[Anonymous No.17457316]

>>17457287
English translations of Sheikhespeare and Milton hahaha oh no

[Anonymous No.17457324]

>>17457316
>"Edited" means translated
The retard is you.

[Anonymous No.17457332]

>>17457287
No Ovid, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Keats, Marlowe, etc
No such list can contain all of the books you need

[Anonymous No.17457336]

>>17457303
t. subhuman

[Anonymous No.17457345]

>>17457303
Um.......hello, based department?

[Anonymous No.17457351]

>>17457287
This is fucking stupid.
Might as well just be a chart titled “only book you ever need” and have a photo of the entire western canon as one volume, seeing as how you’re considering entire bodies of work as “one book.”

[Anonymous No.17457366]

>>17457351
>Each of the volumes in OP is not a book
Show me where I can buy this Western canon "book" you describe.

[Anonymous No.17457369]

>>17457366
Not him but I will one day compile all of the worthwhile literature of the world in chronological order into a single book. No volumes or anything.

[Anonymous No.17457370]

>>17457369
That's called the Bible, Anon.

[Anonymous No.17457372]

Nearly everything in the bottom row is trash.

[Anonymous No.17457393]

>>17457303
>Yeah, to throw in the garbage
DAAAAAAAAAMNN recked

[Anonymous No.17457400]

Homer should be one volume, giving us a free slot for Alexander Pope

[Anonymous No.17457559]

>>17457287
Missing Chaucer and Goethe

[Anonymous No.17457584]

>>17457287
anglocope

[Anonymous No.17457632]

>>17457584
Have sex, Sp*niard.

[Anonymous No.17457661]

>>17457287
The only 2 books I need

[Anonymous No.17458097]

>>17457303
fpbp

[Anonymous No.17458134]

>>17457287
Only thing you need to LARP as an 18th century midwit in the 21st century

[Anonymous No.17458159]

>>17457303
>>17457345
>>17457351
>>17457393
give us your top 10

>>17457332
I agree with Sophocles and Aeschylus would probably substitute Milton and Virgil with them. Haven't read Spenser nor Chaucer so can't say about them, but Donne, Keats, Marlowe, top 10?

[Anonymous No.17458188]

>>17457287
Fixed

[Anonymous No.17458253]

>>17457287
>no Goethe

[Anonymous No.17458262]

>>17458188
>Greeks
>no tragedians or Hesiod

[Anonymous No.17458274]

>>17457316
you haven't read shakespeare until you've read him in the original klingon.

[Anonymous No.17458285]

>>17457332
>Marlowe
Get the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.17458302]

>>17458262
I agree but I just cut out the superfluous part in OPs pic I didn't add anything

[Anonymous No.17458319]

>>17457661
kek that pretty much covers all my reading

[Anonymous No.17458965]

>>17457287
>the only ten books you need
>mostly translations

[Anonymous No.17458972]

>>17457287
Very Lindy, brother.

[Anonymous No.17459053]

>>17457370
Not quite... maybe if you throw in one of the major DFW essays.

[Anonymous No.17459158]

>>17457303

[Anonymous No.17459177]

>>17458274
Underrated

[Anonymous No.17459204]

>>17457287
It’s hard to argue with this OP
This OP has done his homework

[Anonymous No.17459207]

>>17458285
Seethe harder faggot.
>>17458159
Donne is one of the most important poets in human history, as is Keats. I'll give you that Marlowe probably isn't in the top ten.

[Anonymous No.17459214]

>>17458274
I like how Klingon Hamlet says to survive or not to survive, completly butchers the line but it sounds hilarious.

[Anonymous No.17459236]

>>17458159
>>17457332
Euripides is better than Sophocles plebs. Also if you haven't read Spenser and Chaucer you have no business talking about literature.

[Anonymous No.17459248]

>>17457287
Replace Milton with Kant's complete works and okay.

[Anonymous No.17459257]

>>17459236
Why are you quoting me exactly? I mentioned Euripides, Spenser, and Chaucer in my list because I've read them and love their work, and I also happen to think Euripides is the best tragedian. Did you not read my post?

[Anonymous No.17459265]

>>17459257
I thought you said Sophocles and Aeschylus too, sorry buddy

[Anonymous No.17459297]

>>17459265
I did? Them not being as good as Euripides doesn't make them not worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.17459324]

>>17459297
I meant I thought you only mentioned those 2 and skipped Euripides like the other anon. I do think Aeschylus is better than Euripides, but they're both better than Sophocles. I'm just tired of classicists glorifying Sophocles and being so slow in learning to appreciate Euripides.

[Anonymous No.17459351]

>>17457287
>no 18-volume Talmud

[Anonymous No.17459352]

>>17457287
>No Sappho, Austen, George Eliot or Woolf
You just know an /r9k/ autist or RETVRN TO TRADITION /pol/cel made this chart

[Anonymous No.17459357]

>>17457287
>No HG Wells
>No Jules Verne
>No Robinson Crusoe
>No Swiss Family Robinson
>No King Solomon's Mines
>No children's or adventure literature of any kind
ngmi

[Anonymous No.17459374]

>>17459352
>holeposting
Always cringe

[Anonymous No.17459391]

>>17459324
Ah I see. Imo The Bacchae is the best work from the three, so yeah people do sleep on Euripides. I wish we had more of Menander's work, what we have of his work is great.

[Anonymous No.17459457]

>>17459357
You sound like a pedophile

[Anonymous No.17459715]

>>17457287
The only books you need are the complete works of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Arrian, Thucydides, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Bruno, Boccaccio, Leopardi, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Herbert, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegels, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Austen, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Potocki, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Thackeray, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Hughes, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Anderson, Ford, Maugham, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Pinter, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Moravia, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Queneau, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xingjian, Mo Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, de Man, Kristeva, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Davenport, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Arno Schmidt, Therouxs, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Robinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara.

[Anonymous No.17459730]

>>17457287
throw out shakespeare and give me quixote

[Anonymous No.17459949]

>>17459357
t. Michael Jackson (hee hee)

[Anonymous No.17460027]

@17459715
You need to have sex.

[Anonymous No.17460032]

>>17457303
This but unironically. I would throw that Douay-Rheims right in the dumpster.

[Anonymous No.17460063]

>>17459730
Now, that is interesting.