@neauoire RE: classics, as a teenager I had to pick one for my reading list, and "monk writes hugely popular satirical work mocking the corrupt church, but kinda gets away with it because the book's narrator presents themselves as a foolish unreliable narrator to begin with" sounded interesting so I picked "The Praise of Folly". I actually enjoyed it!

I had the benefit of a recent Dutch translation though, no idea if the English Gutenberg versions are nice to read:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/30