The French Classics
Moliere
The Learned Ladies
The Misanthrope
The Bourgeois Gentleman
Monsieur Pourceaugnac (probably will need to read it in French)
Racine
Athalie
Phedre
L’illusion Comique by Pierre Corneille
La Comedie Humaine by Balzac
La Marre au Diable by George Sand (heart)
The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais
L’Ouevre, or anything by Emile Zola that comes recommended.
Rememberance of Things Past by Proust
Faust by Goethe
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christophe Rilke by Rilke, also the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, and the Book of Hours.
The Stranger by Camus
The Castle, and The Contemplation by Kafka (not french, but classic)
(the poetry section)
The complete works of Paul Verlaine, to be read online most likely.
Rimbaud
Illuminations
Barbare
Fleurs
Phrases
A Season in Hell
Les Fleurs du Mal, by Baudelaire (I do not expect to like him, though)
The Science Fiction Section
(to be expanded)
Stranger in a Strange Land
More stuff by LeGuin
Suggestions? I don’t expect people to know my tastes in literature, but it’s been so long since I’ve read fiction that I’m fairly open to anything that isn’t a complete waste of time.
Terry Pratchett is one of the better science fiction authors out there right now. While I wouldn’t say his books are particularly dense, he does mix in some social satire and commentary.