open your eyes

The List, Part I [The Canon]:

The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton
Villette, Charlotte Bronte
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
the collected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Room With A View, E. M. Forster
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Ulysses, James Joyce
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Utopia, Thomas More
An Unsocial Socialist, George Bernard Shaw
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Aeneid, Virgil
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

That, of course, is only the beginning of the list, and I doubt I'll be able to finish it for years, what with all the other reading I have. For example, just this semester I will be reading (and/or have read):

The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte [a reread]
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Maryse Conde
School Days, Patrick Chamoiseau
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
rabbit run, John Updike
White Noise, Don Delillo
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut