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winter_mute t1_j9syfab wrote

Could be a job to whittle things down to 100. Could add Kipling, Zola, Proust, Flaubert, Balzac, D.H.Lawrence, Chekov, Virgil, Camus, etc. etc.

Having no Middlemarch in there is a straight-up crime though.

Just to be forewarned, a couple of those texts are probably going to be pretty dry, heavy going. Reading The Bible cover-to-cover is no joke. The Second Sex isn't riveting, and it's long. A Room of One's Own (while an important text) is essay-writing Woolf, rather than language-loving, exhuberant Woolf. Still, fun to see how it goes. Probably worth keeping a log of what you've read and what you liked / disliked.

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