Originally Posted by Lord Nelson

To be considered educated and literate, you must read the following titles/authors:

The Trial and Death of Socrates.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Tao Te Ching
Gilgamesh
Thucycidides
Sophocles
Euripides
Catullus
Plato
Aristotle
Aeneid
Herotidus
Seneca
Boethius
Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare
Gibbon's History of the Roman Empire
Nietzsche
Hegel
Kant
Marx
Freud
Dostoevsky
Goethe
Thomas Mann
Baudelaire
Balzac
Hemingway
Melville
Gogol
Kafka

etc.