My Reading List
There are two lists here. One is composed of recommendations from people whom I love. The other is the canon (groan, quease) that I've been trying to work through since Honours. I'm looking to move through them at a fairly equal rate. You'll be able to judge my efforts in that regard according to the pretty green squares.
List One (Joy)
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Guido Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method
Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler, Capital as Power
Charles Bukowski
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Byron C. Clark, Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists
Joan Didion
Diane di Prima, Memoirs of a Beatnik
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away
Stephen Fry, Mythos
David Graeber & David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Jack Kerouac
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
Bernard Levin
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Haruki Murakami
Chantal Mouffe, After Left Populism
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
James Strock, Serve to Lead
Nevil Shute, On the Beach
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
Beatrice Warde, The Crystal Goblet
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Walt Whitman
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria
James Joyce, Ulysses
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Henry Watson Fowler, Fowler's Modern English Usage
Benito Mussolini, The Fascist Manifesto
List Two (Pride)
Epic of Gilgamesh
Homer, Iliad
Homer, Odyssey
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Politics
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Virgil, Aeneid
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Plutarch, Parallel Lives
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
St. Augustine, Confessions
St. Augustine, City of God
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
Beowulf
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Dante, Divine Comedy
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Machiavelli, The Prince
Montaigne, Essays
William Shakespeare, Complete Works
Hobbes, Leviathan
Milton, Paradise Lost
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Voltaire, Candide
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Goethe, Faust
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Dickens, Great Expectations
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
James Joyce, Ulysses
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Albert Camus, The Stranger