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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
459th out of 2,999 books — 2,480 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books of the Ancient World
131st out of 277 books — 294 voters

Aesop’s Fables by AesopPoems and Fragments by SapphoLao-Tse's Tao Te King by Lao TzuThe Analects by ConfuciusThe Odes by Pindar
A.C. 750-450
5th out of 33 books — 2 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Odyssey by HomerThe Histories by HerodotusThe Aeneid by Virgil
Books Prior to the 4th Century
94th out of 111 books — 18 voters

On the Nature of Things by LucretiusThe Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall by Edgar Allan PoeThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerTorah, Hebrew Bible by Anonymous
From Ancient Greek to Postmodern
12th out of 100 books — 3 voters

The Odyssey by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Mostly western world cannon
36th out of 100 books — 3 voters
The Two Nations by Christopher HollisThe Odyssey by HomerWorks and Days by HesiodMetamorphoses by OvidThe Natural Philosophy of Love by Remy de Gourmont
Sources of the Cantos
25th out of 181 books — 2 voters

The Qur'an by AnonymousThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Odyssey by HomerThe Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Random List, I guess...
82nd out of 88 books — 2 voters
If Not, Winter by SapphoThe Complete Poems by CatullusThe Captive / The Fugitive by Marcel ProustConfessions by Augustine of HippoHistory of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Anne Carson Reading List
52nd out of 100 books — 1 voter

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerVirgil by K.W. GransdenThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalian Journey by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Novel Canon: Formation Through Imagination
37th out of 44 books — 1 voter