I missed out on a lot of classic literature, which I'm trying to correct. So I've just read The Great Gatsby for the first time, and then To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time that I actually remember and understand it. And I was thinking of moving on to the Diary of Anne Frank, but now I'm compelled to ask: are there any great books everyone has to read that aren't about how much humanity sucks? Is that, like, a prerequisite for great literature?
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I won't recommend Dostoyevsky, then. Or Tolstoy. In fact, might have to give all East Slavic literature a miss :-p
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - so many imitators, none succeeded.
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien. Inspired a new entire genre.
Dune, by Frank Herbert.
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Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer; Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey; anything by Cormac McCarthy!