Reading list

I came up with a reading list last night. It is a rough list of all the books I should read in order of publication. Some of them aren't books so much as poems, plays, essays, or even writers, but the general idea is the same. Of course, this isn't a comprehensive list and doesn't include the more personal choices. Some of them I don't even want to read, I just feel like I should. A few I actually have read, but I left them in there just so I could see them in relation to other works being published at the time. Strangely, now that I have made a list, it doesn't seem quite so impossible.

Gilgamesh
Code of Hammurabi
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Gatha Avestan text by Zoroaster
I Ching
Bramanas
Older Torah
Iliad
Odyssey
Sappho
Aesop's Fables
Newer Torah
Classic of History
Tao Te Ching
The Art of War
The Upanishads
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Confucius
Mahabharata and Ramayana
Plato
Aristotle
Book of Job
Vendidad (Zoroastrian)
Cicero
New Testament
Metamorphosis (Ovid)
Beowulf
One Thousand and One Nights
Dante's Divine Comedy
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man
Machiavelli
Thomas More's Utopia
Shakespeare
Don Quixote
Discourse on the Method (Descartes)
Two New Sciences (Galileo)
Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (Margaret Cavendish)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke)
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels
Micromegas (Voltaire)
A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
Candide (Voltair)
Marquis de Sade
Immanuel Kant
Faust (Goethe)
Jane Austen
The Brothers Grimm
Rob Roy
Frankenstein
Ivanhoe
The Last of the Mohicans
Charles Dickens
Charles Darwin
Edgar Allan Poe
Hans Christian Andersen
Alexander Dumas
The Scarlet Letter
Moby Dick
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Les Miserables
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Crime and Punishment
Little Women
War and Peace
The Idiot
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
Venus in Furs (Sacher-Masoch)
Nietzsche
Mark Twain
Gilbert and Sullivan
Treasure Island
King Solomon's Mines
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
Sherlock Holmes
The Man Who Would Be King (Kipling)
Oscar Wilde
The Jungle Books (Kipling)
The Time Machine (Welles)
Dracula
War of the Worlds
The Wizard of Oz
Jack London
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Wind in the Willows
Tarzan
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
James Joyce
TS Eliot
F Scott Fitzgerald
Hermann Hesse
Hemmingway
Faulkner
The Maltese Falcon (Hammett)
Brave New World (Huxley)
Steinbeck
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
Daphne de Maurier
The Once and Future King (TS White)
Sartre
Camus
Ayn Rand
1984 (Orwell)
CS Lewis
Ray Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye
Waiting for Godot
Casino Royale
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
Lolita
On The Road
Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
The Magic Christian
To Kill A Mockingbird
Catch-22
Stranger in a Strange Land
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Thomas Pynchon
Kurt Konnegut
Marshall McLuhan
Roald Dahl
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Carlos Castenada
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Celestine Prophecy

Right now I'm reading The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It's simple, but good. I recommend it.