Scallydandling about the books | The Western Canon Book Tag #tagtuesday @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 53 minutes ago.
It's ages since I did a tag and now I have picked an impossible one. Does the Western literary canon even exist? And if it does how to narrow down my selection to just twenty books?

Thank you Jim @jimsbooksreadingandstuff for tagging me to do Aaron Facer's new tag youtu.be/Bb0El3zXivQ
Jim's version youtu.be/SFiLwkMeSNA

I tagged some people who may do a better job of it than me.
@brittabohlerthesecondshelf
@bouquinsbooks
@lindysmagpiereads
@Shellyish

The prompts, summarised a bit as I can't copy and paste today:
You are to pick 20 books to represent your reading of Western literature. How do you choose? What gaps to you see in your selection. Tell us your twenty.

Now I have to sit here regretting everything I missed out. And you can disagree with my logic or tell me what you'd pick instead.

The Odyssey, Homer
Oedipus Tyrannus, Sophocles
The Aeneid, Virgil
Metamorphoses, Ovid
The Volsunga Saga, anon
The Divine Comedy, Dante
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Hamlet, Shakespeare
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Paradise Lost, Milton
Tristram Shandy, Sterne
Candide, Voltaire
Faust, Goethe
Pride and Prejudice, Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Moby Dick, Melville
War and Peace, Tolstoy
Middlemarch, Eliot
Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Ulysses, Joyce