[thenerdhead]

Pretty reasonable advice. The Western Canon list seems like a couple lifetimes to get through. Does anyone know a decent way to estimate how long such a list would take to get through? I’m on year 4 of seriously reading as an adult and have touched the tip of the iceberg of this list(maybe half a dozen of these large works).

[cafard]

If you have a job, I suspect that eighty pages a week is a good pace for something like philosophy. Fiction can be a good deal quicker to read, at least if there is a strong narrative (i.e. "not Proust"); Four hundred pages a week seems doable. History would be somewhere in the middle.