What are the 5 most essential books in the western canon?

bible
iliad
odyssey
hamlet
ego and its own

Bible, Iliad, Divine Comedy, Hamlet, Paradise Lost

>>9186431
Nice little joke at the end there

>>9186432
this

>>9186436
im not joking - essentialism is a spook

>>9186446
Essentialism is essential, actually.

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>>9186426
The Rose that Grew From Concrete
Dreams From My Father
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews
Autobiography of Malcom x
Uncle Tom's Cabin

>>9186446
>>9186431
This.

>>9186432
>Dante
HAhahaha There's your joke post, OP.

Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
The Canterbury Tales
Macbeth
Waiting For Godot

The Iliad
The Oddyssey
Hamplanet
On Women
My Diary desu

>>9186463

>>Dante
>HAhahaha There's your joke post, OP.

Honestly your taste is so bad here it isn't even worth raging over. An indifferent reply suffices.

>>9186431
>>9186470
>>9186480
The Complete Works of Shakespeare is a single book.

>>9186512
So are the Iliad/Odyssey, The plays of Sophocles and the works of Beckett. Why aren't you complaining about those?

>>9186458
the secret relationship between blacks and jews actually seems like an interesting read. i put it on my buy list. thanks

>>9186514
Because people have the idea that they can't say The Complete Works of Shakespeare and it's pretty much the most important.

>>9186426
Harry Potter
Game of thrones
The Bible
Fifty Shades of Gray

Bible
Homer
Shakespeare
Don quixote
Harry potter

>>9186426
The Bible
Homeric Epics
Don Quixote
The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare

Critique of Pure Reason
The Republic
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Bible

>>9186714
>>9186604
What is so great about Quixote again?

>>9186426
Bible
Iliad
Republic
Confessions
Hamlet

Heres my take (I cheated a little):

Iliad/Odyssey
The Republic
The Bible
Divine Comedy
Hamlet

>>9186750

its been good enough to survive for over four centuries. also this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/08/humanities.books

seriously, take the time to read it, even if you read snips here and there.

>>9186838
Don Quixote. A cruel and crude old book.

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The book of Job.