Lovecraft Makes All Time Reading List

75. H. P. Lovecraft, Tales: Edgar Allan Poe’s 20th-century successor as the master of "weird fiction." His Cthulhu mythology has spawned a cult following. Caution: Lovecraft’s work is pessimistic, and redemption plays almost no role in his stories.

At LewRockwell.com an all time fundamental reding list gives Lovecraft as a notable.

More Cultural Literacy: A Reading List for Beginners
by Jason Jewell

In my last article, I provided the first half of a 100-title reading list for cultural literacy that grew out of conversations with some literary colleagues.1 This second half picks up chronologically where the first one left off, in the 19th century. ... more here.