Posts tagged "literature":

To-read list: Hardmode

Taken from Harold Bloom's Western Canon, this list is mostly just for fun as I don't expect to even read a 10th of the books in my lifetime. Fortunately Bloom focuses on 26 writers in particular, so I'll be content if I at least get the majority of these read:

To-read list

Below is a list of all the recommended books Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren's "How To Read a Book". This is the widest-ranging list of historically signifcant western literature I'm aware of, as it includes scientific works, which most similar lists omit.