Dutch literature is treated separately here. Each one of the following (listed chronologically) I read at least twice, some three to four times.
- Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura (Latin, 1st BC)
- Johann Wolfgang von Gœthe, Faust I (German, 1808)
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac (French, 1897)
- James Joyce, Ulysses (English, 1921)
- Ernest Hemingway, A farewell to arms (English, 1929)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mort à crédit (French, 1936)
- Ernest Hemingway, For whom the bell tolls (English, 1940)
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The lord of the rings (English, 1954-1955)
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (English, 1957)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Féerie pour une autre fois - Normance - D'un château l'autre - Nord - Rigodon (French, 1952-1961)
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