Help me make a reading list /lit/ I want to hit the majors, what

Waverley
Pride & Prejudice
Great Expectations
Ulysses
You Can't Go Home Again
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>>9384286
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Metamorphoses
The Aenid
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Dead Souls
War & Peace
Crime and Punishment
In Search of Lost Time
Don Quixote
Moby Dick

I enjoyed Slaughterhouse 5, 1984, and Brave New World, anything like that?

>>9384430
Fahrenheit 451 fits in there. Also, We by Zamyatin and The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov

>>9384319
This, just add Canterbury Tales and maybe Beowulf

>>9384458
>>9384319
>>9384295
Anything more contemporary?

>>9384866
>I want to hit the majors
>Anything more contemporary
kys

>>9384866
>I want to hit the majors
>anything more contemporary
Wew lad, most of the important books in history are old, but if you want essential contemporary books you can check this http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html#chaos

>>9384968
I added most of what they said, i just dont want exclusively old material.
Majors and contemporary aren't mutually exclusive

>>9384978
Jesus you guys, i want new and old.

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>>9384991
Did you even check that link? It sums up the entire essentials of the western canon from 2000 BC to the 20th century. I even linked you specifically to the 20th century page

>>9385002
I was just responding to the criticism that i wss getting for also wanting newer stuff. The link is great actually

>>9384866
The problem with asking for contemporary stuff is that a text being "major" is an historical agreement. What you'll get now is a lot of personal preference and/or vague reaching for what might stand the test of time. Some might say Infinite Jest, for example, but 100 years from now that might be a footnote to greater interest in, say, The Universal Baseball Association.