A list ...
of five works of fiction in English that everyone should read and most of you haven't:
- The King James version of the Bible
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (at minimum, read the Miller's Tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale)
- Farmer Giles of Ham, by JRR Tolkien
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn
Also consider reading News From Nowhere by William Morris, 1984 by George Orwell, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and The Lay of Havelok the Dane.
And here's five that you should read in an English translation, and again probably haven't:
- Hrafnkel's Saga
- The Iliad and The Odyssey
- The Quran
- Asterix and the Golden Sickle
- Medea, by Euripides