Let's have a bit of a shameful confession thread. Post writers whom you have NOT read, but that are considered integral to Western literature. Post writers you really should have read by now, but haven't.

I haven't read any of the Russians. Not a word of Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, let alone somebody like Pushkin. I also have barely touched Dickens; just Great Expectations when I was in high school, and that's it.