Does my 5 year plan make sense?

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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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