Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?

[Anonymous]

Literature buffs, lit majors and lit scholars, what great authors and canon texts have you not (yet) read?

[Anonymous]

Hemingway

[Anonymous]

The last chapter of Ulysses 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Moby Dick. Somehow I’ve avoided it, but I keep thinking I should read it.

[Anonymous]

Anna Karenina

[Anonymous]

Middlemarch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moby Dick. Somehow I’ve avoided it, but I keep thinking I should read it.

I have started this book three times, including for two different classes, but I just could not get into it!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Middlemarch

I read it so you didn't have to. Not to my taste.

I have not yet read War and Peace, although I have studied Russian language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moby Dick. Somehow I’ve avoided it, but I keep thinking I should read it.

I finally read it during a summer where I traveled for work in a foreign country and was very off the grid.

Good experience when you can fully focus on it. I reread a couple chapters just to ponder the writing in depth.

[Anonymous]

I never finished Dante’s Inferno. Lit major here and they sometimes (all the time) assigned too much reading to one night. I even took one lit class twice to fit in more reading.

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Emma

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Gatsby is the one I somehow was never assigned in school and have always been a little curious.

Moby Dick was forgettable. I remember the first sentence.

Faulkner was the worst. Didn't finish either of his books that I was assigned.

Hemingway I read on my own. Old Man and the Sea I liked, The Sun Always Rises I had to force myself to finish.

[Anonymous]

In Search of Lost Time.

[Anonymous]

Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer.

[Anonymous]

Never read Gatsby. Doubt I missed much. So many other books and so little time.