Must-reads by end of young adulthood vs. must-reads before you die...

What are people's thoughts? I'm 27, and there's still plenty of reading I 'need' to do. My biggest priorities are as follows: Balzac (read some but not all), Proust, Tolstoy, Beckett, Dostoevsky (read some but not all), Melville, Kafka, Joyce, Faulkner (read some but not all), Dante, Moliere. I'm quite drawn to French and Russian literature and am interested in reading whatever I can get my hands on from either of these two traditions. There are certain more recent figures I'd like to read as well like Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Bernhard, and some of the Italian anti-fascist stuff (i.e. Pasolini, Moravia, Sciascia).

So I'm wondering, what should I prioritize to have read by my early thirties and what stuff is a must-read in general but not necessarily by the end of young adulthood? Thanks.

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Must-reads by end of young adulthood vs. must-reads before you die...