These are times when large numbers of college students have never read a book and when it's possible to get a degree without having read Shakespeare.
I believe this is disastrous when it comes to developing important insights on human nature.
If I were meeting with a class of men and women in their early twenties and our main topic was how the world really operates, my initial inclination would be to assign the following works of fiction:
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Erasure by Percival Everett
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Submission by Michel Houellebecq
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
What would be on your list?
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