>bookshop is barely sorted at all and it's just a mix of random names from all sorts of languages only sorted by publisher that you have to spend a while digging through, all of them overpriced with a very small selection of books most of which you have already read
>hundreds of YA and self help books on the other side of the store catching all the attention, super colorful and all with big honking names
>brown store clerk girl asks me to spell out Mishima, Celine and Bataille for her 3 times over
>manga section is just shonen slop
Happened to me yesterday...

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.