Here's a question

[magaidhbhan]

...for all you students who, like me, have a little too much time on your hands as the summer days get boring.

I am compiling a preliminary list of books I feel I need to read before I can call myself an educated person, in no particular order:
Plato, The Republic
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (Commentary by Mortimer Adler if I can find it)
Dante, Divine Comedy
Machiavelli, The Prince
Boswell, Life of Johnson
Melville, Moby Dick
James, Washington Square, Wings of the Dove, and The GOlden Bowl
Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and the rest of Dubliners
Hardy, Jude the Obscure and Tess
Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom
Milton, the rest of Paradise Lost
Shakespeare, the rest (esp. histories)
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Antigone
Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government
Boccaccio, Decameron
Chaucer, the rest of The Canterbury Tales
Voltaire, Candide
Goethe, Faust
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Eliot, The Waste Land

I'd be most interested to see what y'all would add to this. Two things, though: this is probably pretty annoying, but I as made this list for my own benefit, I have not included any of the books that I have already read. So there are going to be some eye-poppingly glaring omissions. But I'm sure you'll think of things that haven't even crossed my little mind. Secondly, I'm only really including prose (and plays) here. Poetry would be another list altogether - I'll save it for the upcoming Thesis-procrastination days!

But what are your thoughts? I'd love to hear what others would put on a list like this one.

Thanks, folks -- hope you're all well!