I made it a goal for myself to read books off of Harold Bloom's Western Canon (http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html).

I don't know if I will ever finish it, but it's a good way to open myself up to new and good books. If you are interested in this idea, or reading off of any "Western Canon" (they all have a lot of similar...more »

I made it a goal for myself to read books off of Harold Bloom's Western Canon (http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html).

I don't know if I will ever finish it, but it's a good way to open myself up to new and good books. If you are interested in this idea, or reading off of any "Western Canon" (they all have a lot of similar books), please join this group. We can try checking off our lists together.

Here is a sample of how the list starts:
The Ancient Near East
* Gilgamesh
* Egyptian Book of the Dead
* Holy Bible (King James Version)
* The Apocrypha
* Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)

It goes all the way up through the 20th century. « less