My Bookshelf & Reading List
Fiction
| All Time Favs | Worth Recommending | Enjoyable |
|---|---|---|
| LOTR - Tolkien | Gentleman Bastards - Scott Lynch | Iron Gold Trilogy - Pierce Brown |
| Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman | First Law - Joe Abercrombie | Sword of Kaigen - ML Wang |
| Stormlight Archive - Sanderson | Red Rising Trilogy - Pierce Brown | Blood Over Bright Haven - ML Wang |
| Mistborn - Sanderson | Discworld Series - Pratchett | |
| Magician - Raymond E. Feist | Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A Salvatore |
My Full Classics Book Recommendation List
While I recommend all these books, bold are standouts, highlights are favourites, bold highlights are must-reads
| Title | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|
| The Iliad | Homer | 8th BC |
| Odyssey | Homer | 8th BC |
| The Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | 5th BC |
| Olympian Odes | Pindar | 5th BC |
| Pythian Odes | Pindar | 5th BC |
| Fragments | Pindar | 5th BC |
| The Eumenides | Aeschylus | 5th BC |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | 429 BC |
| The Clouds | Aristophanes | 423 BC |
| The Bacchae | Euripides | 405 BC |
| The Republic | Plato | 4th BC |
| Nichomachean Ethics | Aristotle | 4th BC |
| Poetics | Aristotle | 335 BC |
| Selected Works | Cicero | 1st BC |
| The Eclogues | Virgil | 37 BC |
| The Georgics | Virgil | 29 BC |
| The Aeneid | Virgil | 29-19 BC |
| The War with Hannibal | Livy | 1st BC |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid | 8 AD |
| The Jewish War | Josephus | 75 AD |
| Vera Historia | Lucian | 2nd Cen |
| Epistle to the Corinthians | Clement of Rome | 2nd Cen |
| Metamorphoses/The Golden Ass | Apuleius | 2nd Cen |
| The Annals of Imperial Rome | Tacitus | 2nd Cen |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 2nd Cen |
| The Confessions | Augustine | 4th Cen |
| Beowulf | Unknown | 8th-11th Cen |
| The Song of Roland | Unknown | 11th-12th Cen |
| Aquinas' Shorter Summa | St Thomas Aquinas | 12th Cen |
| Brut | Laȝamon | 1190-1215 |
| Huon of Bordeaux | Unknown | 1216-1268 |
| The Prose Edda | Snorri Sturluson | 13th Cen |
| Divine Comedy | Dante | 1308-1320 |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 14th Cen |
| Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1380 |
| The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | 14th Cen |
| Revelations of Divine Love | Julian of Norwich | 14th Cen |
| The Cloud of Unknowing | Unknown | 14th Cen |
| Sir Gawain & the Green Knight | Unknown | 14th Cen |
| Le Morte Darthur | Sir Thomas Malory | 1485 |
| Orlando Furioso | Ludovico Ariosto | 1516 |
| Tragical History of Romeus & Juliet | Arthur Brooke | 1562 |
| Arcadia | Sir Philip Sidney | 16th Cen |
| The Faerie Queene | Edmund Spenser | 1590 |
| Romeo & Juliet | William Shakespeare | 1591-1595 |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 1601-1602 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | 1606 |
| The Winter's Tale | William Shakespeare | 1611 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | 1590-1597 |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare | 1599 |
| The Apparition | John Donne | 17th Cen |
| The Shepherds Sirens | Michael Drayton | 1627 |
| The Temple | George Herbert | 1633 |
| Urn Burial | Thomas Browne | 1658 |
| Andromaque | Jean Racine | 1667 |
| Phedre | Jean Racine | 1677 |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | 1667-74 |
| Samson Agonistes | John Milton | 1671 |
| The Rape of the Lock | Alexander Pope | 1712-1714 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726-1735 |
| Micromegas | Voltaire | 1752 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 |
| History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Samuel Johnson | 1759 |
| Vathek, an Arabian Tale | William Beckford | 1782 |
| Life of Johnson | James Boswell | 1791 |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1798 |
| The Prelude | William Wordsworth | 1798 |
| Selected Poems | William Wordsworth | 1800 |
| Michael | William Wordsworth | 1800 |
| The Excursion | William Wordsworth | 1814 |
| Pride & Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 |
| Guy Mannering | Walter Scott | 1815 |
| Adolphe | Benjamin Constant | 1816 |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | John Keats | 1819 |
| Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner | James Hogg | 1824 |
| Witch of Atlas | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1824 |
| The Kalevala | Elias Lonnrot | 1835-49 |
| Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 1836 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1848 |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 |
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan | Edward Fitzgerald | 1859-89 |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope | 1857 |
| Phantases | George Macdonald | 1858 |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 |
| Middlemarch, A Study in Provincial Life | George Eliot | 1871-72 |
| Erewhon | Samuel Butler | 1872 |
| The Hunting of the Snark | Lewis Carroll | 1874-76 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1880 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 |
| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions | Edwin Abbott | 1884 |
| Praeterita | John Ruskin | 1885 |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1898 |
| First Men in the Moon | H.G. Wells | 1901 |
| The Door in the Wall | H.G. Wells | 1911 |
| Tales | Beatrix Potter | 1902-1930 |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | 1904 |
| Tarzan | E.R. Burroughs | 1912-1965 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1908 |
| The Old Wives' Tale | Arnold Bennett | 1908 |
| The Crock of Gold | James Stephens | 1912 |
| Sons and Lovers | D.H Lawrence | 1913 |
| Sacred Emily | Gertrude Stein | 1913 |
| The Idea of the Holy | Rudolf Otto | 1917 |
| Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice | James Branch Cabell | 1919 |
| Everlasting Man | G.K. Chesterton | 1925 |
| The Castle | Kafka | 1926 |
| How The Reformation Happened | Hilaire Belloc | 1928 |
| The Resurrection of Rome | G.K. Chesterton | 1930 |
| Descent into Hell | Charles Williams | 1937 |
| Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie | 1937 |
| Titus Groan | Mervyn Peake | 1946 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 |
| Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954-55 |
| The Mind of the Maker | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1956 |
| Till We Have Faces | C.S. Lewis | 1956 |
| An Experiment in Criticism | C.S. Lewis | 1961 |
| Theism and Humanism | Balfour | 1962 |
| What We Can't Not Know | J. Budziszewski | 2001 |
| Total Truth | Nancy Pearcey | 2004 |
| The Virtues of Nationalism | Yoram Hazony | 2018 |
| Cynical Theories | Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay | 2020 |