Lol oh Fifty Shades of Gray, the tome of tired middle aged women. Lol idk though, I mean if we're going by the standard of acceptable to the most hardline Christianity-only then of the books listed to my knowledge then only really L'Morte D'Arthur fits that bill. The rest are quite pagan. I mean Brave New World and 1984 are the heads and the tails of the coin of humanism. Pride and Prejudice is the Fifty Shades of Grey for its day! The Odyssey is about a mortal that defied the beings that in the greek language are called daemons.
Heh it is an irony that the frustrated librarians and the tortured poets which they lovingly catalogue are so divergent in tastes and opinions, and yet their counterpart personalities are quite complementary. I hope your rest will refresh your beautiful head and if it chances not to do so, perhaps you will find some joy in this waking day instead.
There are many lessons in
Brave New World and
1984. Not the least of which is making government your God- this falls in line with "whatsoever things are true". I remember in
Brave New World about the fact that people no longer could stand any pain, and were forever breathing in clouds of soma (I think the drug was called) pumped into their houses to tranquilize them all, and about the constant need for entertainment- two things that are a cautionary tale to us and go along with Christian truth. What is the message of Big Brother? It is conform, or else. The message of Christ is to NOT conform. There are a lot of Christian truths in both these books if we have eyes to see them. I think it will be an interesting discussion.
To compare the beauty of Austen to the trash of Gray (I don't even know the name of the author, so called)- is like comparing a diamond to a dollar store ring. I am going to trust that you are joking.
The Odyssey is Greek mythology, and I know some people who have qualms about reading mythology- BUT, I think it is good to compare- to compare the excellency of our God to the pettiness of the Greek gods. Our God, by comparison is worthy of worship.
I don't know that librarians and poets have such different tastes and opinions. It would depend upon the librarian and the poet, of course. You are a past master at making sweeping generalizations.