For the foreseeable future we will be aiming to stick to classic literature chosen from the following list:
In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust
Ulysses - James Joyce
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey - Homer
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Iliad - Homer
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Pride and Predjudice - Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
1984 - George Orwell
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Trial - Franz Kafka
One Thousand and One Nights
The Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Aeneid - Virgil
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Collected Fiction - Jorge Luis Borges
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Candide - Voltaire
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka
Tristram Shandy - Laurence Stern
Alright, now that I've finished typing that up I'm open to adding anything that you guys think SHOULD be on this list but is missing.
So far we've had nominations for:
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
The Divine Comedy
Ulysses
The Sound and the Fury
Don Quixote
I plan on leaving suggestions open until 8pm pacific time on Monday 2/13. At that point I'll open a poll that I'll leave open through Friday 2/18 to pick the actual selection.
This post has been edited by JPK: 12 February 2017 - 06:43 PM