The Bloom Boxall Great Fiction List--Read 'Em Or Else Vol. I: Pre-1800

I cross-referenced Harold Bloom’s Western Canon with the Peter Boxall "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" (2006 and 2008 versions, inclusive) to come up with this Must-Read list to end all Must-Read lists. It will be split into three volumes by century. PLEASE DON’T ADD OR DELETE ANYTHING. Create your own, or adopt mine and leave me a comment if I have omitted something. Please remember that Bloom is hopelessly stuffy (H. G. Wells is "serious" literature and Jules Verne isn’t; Waugh’s political satire is worthwhile and "Brideshead Revisited" is fluff) and that his "canon" doesn’t include anything from the past 20 years or so. Boxall’s lists are almost entirely comprised of novels.

Send to Printer The Bloom Boxall Great Fiction List--Read 'Em Or Else Vol. I: Pre-1800 I cross-referenced Harold Bloom’s Western Canon with the Peter Boxall "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" (2006 and 2008 versions, inclusive) to come up with this Must-Read list to end all Must-Read lists. It will be split into three volumes by century. PLEASE DON’T ADD OR DELETE ANYTHING. Create your own, or adopt mine and leave me a comment if I have omitted something. Please remember that Bloom is hopelessly stuffy (H. G. Wells is "serious" literature and Jules Verne isn’t; Waugh’s political satire is worthwhile and "Brideshead Revisited" is fluff) and that his "canon" doesn’t include anything from the past 20 years or so. Boxall’s lists are almost entirely comprised of novels.
	1.		Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition (Classics Illustrated) by R. and Higton, B. Ash
	2.	?	The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection) by Anonymous
	3.	?	The Metamorphoses by Ovid
	4.	?	Rabelais, Francois-Garantua And Pantagruel
	5.	?	The Luciads by Luis de Camoëns
	6.		The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: A Critical Edition, Including the Original Spanish Text
	7.		The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) by Apuleius
	8.		The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jack Wilton (Dodo Press) by Thomas Nash
	9.	?	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
	10.	?	The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
	11.	?	The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette
	12.		A Tale of A Tub (Great Ideas S.) by Jonathan Swift
	13.		Gulliver's Travels (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Jonathan Swift
	14.	?	Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
	15.		Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions) by Daniel Defoe
	16.	?	Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
	18.		Clarissa, Or The History of a Young Lady: (Abridged Edition) (Signet Classics) by Samuel Richardson
	19.	?	The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams-Henry Fielding
	20.	?	Pamela by Samuel Richardson
	21.		The Adventures of Roderick Random (Webster's English Thesaurus Edition) by Tobias Smollett
	22.	?	Candide by Voltaire
	23.		The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia (Oxford World's Classics) by Samuel Johnson
	24.		Emile, or On Education by John, Jacques Rousseau
	25.	?	The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
	26.	?	Tristam Shandy (The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman) by Laurence Sterne
	28.	?	A Sentimental Journey Through France and Germany by Laurence Sterne
	29.	?	The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
	30.	?	Evalina by Fanny Burney
	31.		Dangerous Liasons (Classic Fiction) by Choderlos de Laclos
	32.	?	Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
	33.	?	Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
	35.		Elective Affinities (Oxford World's Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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