Of the 10 on the list, Ive read Atlas Shrugged and Ulysses. I’ve started Moby Dick. I was supposed to read it in college and when I dropped out. I kept a lot of my books, something I don’t regret. One thing that bothers me is their persistence in calling the whale a fish. I know that should t bother me but it does. I was amused when a direct descendant of Melvilles said in an interview that he could have used better editing.
I read Anna Karenina a few years ago but have been having a hard time with War and Peace.
Some so-called old classics are barely readable, IMO. Pilgrims Progress comes to mind.
“Pilgrims Progress comes to mind.”
That book would probably be #1 on a list of books that used to be very popular but which are completely obscure today.
I finally read Pilgrim’s Progress when I realized that almost every character in every 19th C. novel I’d ever read had read it!
I liked it OK and thought it held up well for something so old and rather strange. Some parts of it have really stuck with me.