Hey guys I'm new here. Currently I just read Fantasy, but

The greeks or DFW. Your call, really.

Since you like fantasy, Don Quijote would be a good starting point

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>>7362339
The Iliad and The Odyssey

1) It'll appeal to your fantasy tastes
2) You'll be reading true patrician lit
3) Starting with the Greeks

>>7362339
The Greeks is quite difficult a place to start with, if you are accustomed to reading only fantasy. Maybe try out some short dramas, but otherwise I suggest you stick with some classics from 19th century or the early 20th.

>>7362339
that picture makes me really excited. Like, oh my god.

>>7362439
>>7362465

Starting with the Greeks might actually be cool for you if you enjoy fantasy stuff, I also recommend Gilgamesh since it sounds like something you'd enjoy quite a lot.

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>>7362339
There is a sticker with a lot of references and a starter guide. What do you read, exactly? “Big books” are quite difficult to go through so you might prefer to commence a set of selected short stories. I personally recommend the following stories and short stories collections, in any order you like. It looks like a lot to go through but most aren't longer than forty pages.

“Tales of the Alhambra” by Washington Irving (U.S.A., 1851)
“Mosses from an Old Manse” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (U.S.A., 1846)
“Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe” by Edgar Allan Poe (U.S.A., 1907)
“Mysteries of the Worm” by Robert Bloch (U.S.A., 1993)
“The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien” by Fitz-James O'Brien (U.S.A., 1881)
“The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches” by Herman Melville (U.S.A., 2010)
“The Shadow and the Flash” by Jack London (U.S.A., 1903)
“The King in Yellow” by Robert William Chambers (U.S.A., 1895)
“Dagon and Other Macabre Tales” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (U.S.A., 1965)
“My Aunt Margaret's Mirror” by Scott Walter (England, 1828)
“The Judge's House” by Bram Stoker (England, 1891)
“The Silver Hatchet” by Arthur Conan Doyle (England, 1883)
“Markheim” by Robert Louis Stevenson (England, 1886)
“The Finest Story in the World” by Rudyard Kipling (England, 1890)
“The Door in the Wall” by Herbert George Wells (England, 1906)
“The Red Room” by Herbert George Wells (England, 1902)
“The Man-Wolf and Other Tales” by Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (France, 1976)
“One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances” by Théophile Gautier (France, 1882)
“Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant” by Guy de Maupassant (France, 1950)
“Arabesques” by Nikolai Gogol (Russia, 1835)
“The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin” by Aleksandr Pushkin (Russia, 1831)
“The Wall” by Leonid Andreyev (Russia, 1902)
“Lemon” by Motojirō Kajii (Japan, 1925)
“Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories” by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Japan, 2004)
“The German Philistine's Horn” by Gustav Meyrink (Austria, 1909)
“Hauff's Fairy Tales” by Wilhelm Hauff (Germany, 1903)
“The Desolate Presence, and Other Uncanny Stories” by Thomas Owen (Belgium, 1984)
“Ghouls in My Grave” by Jean Ray (Belgium, 1965)

>>7362469
Not OP, but any particular recs? Also read fantasy
>>7362494
Don't wanna come off dumb, but Gilgamesh is more patrician than modern why?

The Me Me Trilogy

Start with The Stranger by Camus, it's a rather easy philosophical novel

>>7364099
>philosophy
Hahaha ok guy

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>>7364099
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>>7364110
>>7364135
any better rec ?