Faust has been on my bucket list for a very long time. Ever since I was a wee lass who just finished Madoka almost ten years ago. But I never got around to it until now. I read both parts over the past couple of days. They were fun reads, but I liked the first better than the second. Some thoughts under the cut.

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A few months ago I got really into this game called Limbus Company. The details aren't too important - what's relevant is that most if not all the major characters are based on classic literature (many of them are named after protagonists and other characters). I decided to start reading some of this source material (I guess you could call it that), starting with Yi Sang. Forgive me if I'm doing some kind of faux pas, first-time poster. More under the cut.

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The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

This is not The Lord of the Rings. It isn't even in the same genre, and the difference is greater than with The Hobbit (and in the other direction).

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54. Purloined Letter and Murders in Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
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55. Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

My review

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56. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

My review

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57. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

My review

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58. Sugar Rush by Elaine Overton

My review

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Sadly, I didn't read a lot of the classics while in school. So now I'm trying to catch up and read as many as I can. So my question to all of you is what your favorite classics are and why?

Thanks!