[CalChris]

Must read?

1984 and Animal Farm.

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It.

Emma and Pride and Prejudice.

Iliad, Odyssey and first half of the Aeneid.

A Room With A View and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The Great Gatsby, Call of the Wild and Age of Innocence.

War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Don Quixote.

[rg111]

> Iliad, Odyssey and first half of the Aeneid.

I didn't read the Odyssey, but read both Iliad and Aeneid.

I read Iliad first, and then Aeneid. Reading Aeneid right after reading Iliad was a great experience. It felt like I was reading a sequel! It felt right at home.

[CalChris]

You might double back and read the Odyssey. The Aeneid is in two halves, the Odysseian first half and the Iliadic second half. Virgil is creating a new creation myth for Rome, different from Romulus and Remus, and he's binding it to the Homeric epics. I like the Odyssey more but I like both.

[rg111]

I will give it a try. Thanks.