Suggestions wanted - 8xx

I know about the Suggestions Wiki, of course. It's outdated and so many of what's there are unread and unattributed so they're basically just statements that "A book exists in this category." What I'm hoping for are actual suggestions of books people have read and enjoyed (or even that are on someone's TBR stack - that's still more of an endorsement than just being on the wiki).

I noticed when looking at my tracking spreadsheet that I've been making extremely slow practice in the 8xx class. I read a lot of fiction, but almost all of it was originally in English, so it's almost all 813 or 823. I've picked up most of the other 8x3 here and there, but that's about it.

So I'm hoping to get a few suggestions here so I can make a little progress. My list in http://www.librarything.com/topic/64953#1279897 is up to date, and my only TBR is an 896. So, suggestions?

I couldn't find any 8/10 stars or greater in that section. I did find one 7/10. The rest of the numbers I've read you already had a selection for.

803
Super Pop! by Daniel Harmon
I started off not liking this book because it wasn't what I expected. I thought I was getting a book of light-hearted top ten lists. Instead, I got lists that were more thoughtful with reviews for each entry. Once I got past my initial frustration, I mostly enjoyed it. The format was good and the writing has clarity. For the most part, I liked reading it though at times it got too dry or snarky. I went through the book with highlighter in hand for books, movies and such to search out later. One marker of success for this book is the amount of highlighting I did!

How about Der Struwwelpeter for 831. Old cautionary tales meant to scare children into behaving.

Struwwelpeter is really ghastly.

Max und Moritz is still very dated, but a little easier to swallow.

Thanks for the warning, MarthaJeanne, I don't do ghastly well. And thanks for the suggestions, everyone!

Here are some:

801 How to Read and Why, Harold Bloom
808 Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, Constance Hale (the most entertaining grammar book I've ever read!)
809 Who Murdered Chaucer?, Terry Jones
833 Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
839 The Dinner, Herman Koch
843 Candide, Voltaire
843 The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, Gaetan Soucy
863 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
882 Antigone, Sophocles
891 Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
891 Women Without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur
895 Sky Burial: an Epic Love Story of Tibet, Xinran

Thanks, Nickelini. I've actually got all those sections covered, but hopefully they'll be useful for others!

After scouring my files, here's what I found for suggestions:

838: Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
842: No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
865: In Search of the Present by Octavio Paz
868: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

I have a bunch more on my to-be-acquired list, so I can't speak for them just yet.

I didn't like this all that much, but for German poetry, 831, you could go with Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, which is at least short and not actually poetry in German. I have never thought of Germans as a poetical people.

Waiting for Godot is in 842, French drama. I liked it, but it's not for everyone. It did make more sense to me in French, so if you read French, I would suggest reading the original and not a translation.

I'm glad I read The Poems of Catullus, which fits in 874, Latin lyric poetry, even though I wound up not liking it very much (I think it was just too much of one thing for me--I think you have to really like a poet to want to a read a whole book of that person's works).

Oedipus is in 880. I read it for a class at some point, but I remember liking it reasonably well; the same is true of Protagoras and Meno, which is in 888.

carlym, I have Oedipus in 882 (Greek drama), which seems like a better fit, and which is the consensus classification on LT. I've actually read all three of the Theban plays, including Oedipus at Colonus which the prof for the class I read it for described as "the one nobody reads". Waiting for Godot is an interesting suggestion, though. My French is non-existent, so I'd need to read a translation, unfortunately.