I haven’t, but I doubt I’d be into him at a glance. Look into some of these.
PreClassical
Gilgamesh (epic, c. 2500 BC, Mesopotamia)
Classical
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Aristotle, Poetics
Euripides, Medea
Homer, Iliad
Homer, Odyssey
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Plato, The Symposium
Ramayana (epic, c. 550 BC, India)
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Virgil, Aeneid
Old English
Beowulf
“The Battle of Maldon”
“The Dream of the Rood”
“The Seafarer”
“The Wanderer"
13th Century
Dante, The Divine Comedy
18th Century
Novel
Austen, Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Fielding, Tom Jones
Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Richardson, Pamela
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
19th Century
Novel
Bronte, C. Jane Eyre
Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights
Chopin, The Awakening
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans or The Pioneers
Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
Dickens, Bleak House
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazoz
Eliot, Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and selected short stories
Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
James, The Ambassadors or Portrait of a Lady
Melville, Billy Budd
Moby Dick
Shelley, Frankenstein
Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Wharton, House of Mirth or Age of Innocence
20th Century
Novel
Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God
Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaiden’s Tale or Surfacing (Canada)
Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Borges, Jorge Luis, selected short stories, such as “The Garden of
Forking Parths” or “The Lottery in Babylon” (Argentina)
Camus, Albert, The Outsider (France)
Cather, My Antonia or Song of the Lark
Coetzee, J. M., Life and Times of Michael K or Age of Iron (South Africa)
Conard, Heart of Darkness
Erdrich, Louise, Love Machine
Ellison, Invisible Man
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom, The Bear, The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Forster, A Passage to India
Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Gordimer, A World of Strangers
Greene, The Quiet American, The Power and the Glory, or The Heart
of the Matter
Hemingway, “The Nick Adams” stories, *The Sun Also Rises
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man
Dubliners, Ulysses
Kafka, Metamorphosis or The Trial
Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lawrence, The Rainbow or Sons and Lovers
Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Mann, Death in Venice
Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, or selected stories
Marshall, Praise-Song for the Widow
Morrison, Beloved, or Song of Solomon
Narayan, R. K. The Painter of Signs or Malgudi Days (short stories, India)
Orwell, 1984 and Animal Farm
Proust, Marcel, Swann’s Way (France)
Sartre, Jean Paul, Nausea (France)
Silko, Ceremony
Woolf, V., To the Lighthouse
Wright, Native Son, The Outsider, or Black Boy
source: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/academics/elon_college/english/readinglist.xhtml
Try out some of these. I’ve omitted some, but tons of these are good/interesting.
Sorry for cluttering this up, to whoever is reading.