阅读1600年前的经典书籍。 阅读1600-1913年的经典作品。 阅读1914-1995年的经典著作。 阅读更多1980年至今的当代经典作品。

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Reading the classics is the very first thing you have to do to be well-read. If you want to build a solid foundation for your understanding of the books you read, then you can't avoid some of the earliest plays, poems, and oral tales ever written down. Remember that the novel didn't really get popular until the 18th century, so you won't find novels on this list. Without reading the poetry of Homer or the plays of Sophocles, you won't be able to call yourself well-read. Here's a list to get you started:   The Epic of Gilgamesh (Unknown author) (18th – 17th century BCE)  The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer  (850–750 BCE, 8th century BCE) "The Oresteia" by Aeschylus (458 BCE)  Oedipus the King by Sophocles  (430 BCE)  Medea by Euripides  (431 BCE)  Aeneid by Virgil (29–19 BCE)  One Thousand and One Nights (Unknown author)  (700–1500)  Beowulf (Unknown author)  (975-1025)  The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu   (11th century)  The Divine Comedy by Dante (1265–1321)  The Decameron by Boccaccio (1349–53)  The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer  (14th century) "The Mahabharata" by Vyasa Though a large amount of material is covered in these measly 300 years, reading the books from the time period when the novel emerged until the beginning of World War I will give you a sense of the progress that the novel and other works had made throughout the Romantic and Victorian periods, as well as an understanding of the realism that was the traditional mode for novels which was then turned on its head with the advent of Modernism and the disillusionment that came from WWI. Here's a list to get you started:   Don Quixote by Cervantes 1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2) "Taming of the Shrew," Romeo and Juliet, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Merchant of Venice," "Much Ado About Nothing," "As You Like It," "Julius Caesar," Hamlet, "Othello," "King Lear," and "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare (1593, 1594, 1595, 1596, 1598, 1599, 1599, 1600, 1604, 1605, 1605)  Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen...