Sunday, April 27, 2008

Ranked List

Seeing as I have an obsession with making lists, I have updated the list from two posts ago and ranked the books that are most important to me. I will be updating this list henceforth. (Can one end a sentence with henceforth?) Enjoy

Twilight of the Idols: or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer; Friedrich Nietzsche
Hamlet; William Shakespeare
Ecclesiastes
Poems of Eliot
Poems of Keats
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: Immanuel Kant
The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Milan Kundera
The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Trial; Kafka
Beowulf
King Lear; William Shakespeare
The Odyssey; Homer (Fitzgerald)
Niels Lyhne; Jens Peter Jacobson
Candide; Voltaire
The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps; Charles Bukowski
The Anxiety of Influence; Harold Bloom
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; James Joyce
The Merchant of Venice; William Shakespeare
The Three Sisters; Anton Chekhov
The Frogs; Aristophanes
Night; Elie Wiesel
The 100; Michael H. Hart
The Prophet; Khalil Gibran
The Aeneid; Vergil
Ethan Frome; Edith Wharton
The Stranger; Albert Camus
Slaughterhouse-Five; Kurt Vonnegut
The Short Reign of Pippin IV; Steinbeck
The Fall; Albert Camus
The Literary 100; Daniel S. Burt
Animal Farm; George Orwell
A Farewell to Arms; Ernest Hemingway
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian; Kurt Vonnegut
The Panther and the Lash; Langston Hughes
Washington Square; Henry James
The Art of Reading Poetry; Harold Bloom
Great Expectations; Dickens
The Iceman Cometh; Eugene O’Neill
The Bacchae; Euripides
Peer Gynt; Henrik Ibsen
The Sorrow of War; Bao Ninh
Mother Night; Kurt Vonnegut
Cymbeline; Shakespeare
Naming and Necessity; Saul Kripke
The Elegant Universe; Brian Greene
Notes From the Underground; Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deep River; Shusaku Endo
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; Ludwig Wittgenstein
No Exit; Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is Elsewhere; Milan Kundera
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde; Robert Louis Stevenson
,Said the Shotgun to the Head; Saul Williams
The Painted Bed; Donald Hall
Oxford History of the Biblical World
“Master Harold”…and the boys; Athol Fugard

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