Here are ten books I love:
- The Silmarillion
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Adventures of Captain Alatriste
- The Three Musketeers
- Masters of Rome series
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days
- Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
- Xenophon’s Anabasis
The Iliad and the Odyssey are essentially super-books. They're the plot for a gazillion other books, including LOTR.
Definitely one of the pillars of Western storytelling, and therefore Western culture. Everything human seems to be contained in them, failing, fighting, revenge, love, compassion, pride, shame. Absolute must read.
