Over the course of the next few weeks, literature bloggers Jake Fournier and Joe DiGrigoli will compile what they’ve dubbed “The List,” and count down the 16 greatest books of all time. An ambitious endeavor, to be sure, but Fournier did quite a convincing job at laying out the case for such a list, and you can check out his reasoning here. But before we get rolling with the official festivities, check out their honorable mentions, in no particular order, after the jump.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Ulysses by James Joyce
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bible by God, as Told To Many Different People
The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (and possibly others)
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Complete Plays of Antiquity by Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, et al.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
U.SA. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
10 Days to Faster Ready by The Princeton Language Institute
The Dover Anthology of Romantic Poetry edited by Stanley Applebaum

Is one of these titles undoubtedly in your top 5? Think they’re all shit? Sound off in the comments.