The 10 Greatest Books of All Time - My List

📚 Read the Great Books with the Hardcore Literature Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature ———————————— 0:00 what are the greatest books of all time? 2:00 criteria for great works of literature 3:00 how to choose your desert island books 4:00 curating my all-time favourite authors 5:00 Dickens, Austen, Hardy complete works 6:00 1,001 stories from the Arabian Nights 8:00 Honoré de Balzac's Human Comedy 9:00 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 10:00 Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin 11:00 theology, philosophy, science 12:00 learning Euclidean geometry 12:30 reading non-fiction vs fiction 13:30 Darwin, Schopenhauer, Aquinas 14:00 my favourite children’s books 14:30 Homer’s epics in original Greek 15:00 how do you choose a single poet? 15:30 Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables 16:00 Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings 16:30 the novels of Dostoevsky 17:00 the novels of Jane Austen 18:00 what about manga and comics? 18:30 my top ten favourite books 19:00 Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki 21:30 Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology 23:00 Masterpiece Library of Short Stories 24:30 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 27:00 Don Quixote by Cervantes 30:00 Canterbury Tales of Chaucer 34:30 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 39:00 Proust’s In Search of Lost Time 42:00 Essays of Michel de Montaigne 44:30 Complete Works of Shakespeare 48:00 King James Version of the Bible 52:00 your top ten greatest books?