Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Western (and beyond) Canon Books tag #booktube #classics @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Western Canon book tag

Aaron Facer’s original tag: youtu.be/Bb0El3zXivQ
I was tagged by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Ros’s version of this tag: youtu.be/2auXuGmJk4g

Please see Aaron’s video for the exact wording. The question I’m answering is slightly different: What books in the classic canon have been most influential on you as a reader?

Fairy Tales (Andrew Lang; Grimm brothers; Charles Perrault)
Fables (Jean de La Fontaine)
Uncle Remus/Brer Rabbit stories (Joel Chandler Harris)
La chèvre de Monsieur Seguin (Alphonse Daudet)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol)
Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Sword in the Stone (TH White)
The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge)
Le Malade Imaginaire (Moliere)
Mythology — Greek; Roman; Norse
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Oscar Wilde
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
Ramayana and Mahabharata
The Odyssey (Homer; Emily Wilson translation)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Antigone (Sophocles) — because of Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)