Great Books I Have Yet to Read

A few months ago, I posted a list of long books that I have read. Many of those books appear on various lists of great books.

I recently watched a YouTube video by Benjamin McEvoy about a list of the “fifty greatest books of all time.” McEvoy didn’t provide the source of this list, and I was unable to find it with a little web searching.

By the way, Benjamin McEvoy’s YouTube videos about literature are very good, and I recommend them. However, I cringed when in one video he announced he’s a Pisces and that means he prefers books written by Pisces. That’s pseudoscience rubbish.

To return to the point, I reviewed the video about the list of the “fifty greatest books of all time,” and I made this list of the fourteen books I haven’t read yet:

• Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
• The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
• Collected Fiction, by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Stories of Anton Chekhov, by Anton Chekhov
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison
• Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
• The Red and the Black, by Stendahl
• Absalom! Absalom!, by William Faulkner
• One Thousand and One Nights
• The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
• To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
• The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

These are eight books from the list that I haven’t read recently (in, say, the past thirty years) and that I would like to read again:

• Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Stern
• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
• Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
• The Trial, by Franz Kafka
• Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
• Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
• Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So much to read, so little time.