I have a goal or reading some of the greatest works during my 30s, having just entered them. Would love your input and guidance whether this plan is feasible and makes sense. I plan to use audiobooks.
Year 1
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: ~796–840 pages
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez: ~417–448 pages
- Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: ~700–800 pages (usually in three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: ~940–1,000 pages
Year 2
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: ~400 pages (Parts I and II together)
- Paradise Lost by John Milton: ~300–400 pages
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick: ~210–240 pages
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: ~1,079 page
Year 3
- The Republic by Plato: ~300–400 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle: ~250–350 pages
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: ~100–150 pages
- Confessions by Augustine of Hippo: ~300–400 pages
Year 4
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: ~320–400 pages
- No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre: ~120 pages
- Capital (Volume I) by Karl Marx: ~1,000 pages
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus: ~150 pages
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: ~300 pages
Year 5
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu: ~1,000–1,200 pages
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: 700 pages
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare: ~80–120 pages
Questions
Is this feasible?
Any tips on how to approach this?
Would you change the order?
What is the right mindset to have?
Edit: I have read the consensus. It does not make sense 😭
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