Great literature merit badges

Wouldn’t it be awesome if, after reading a great book, you could show the world that you’d finished the whole thing by adding a merit badge to your reader scout sash? Wouldn’t it?

Since I just finished the Divine Comedy, here is the merit badge I would wear:

As another example of this sort of thing, here is the merit badge for Homer’s Odyssey:

Coming soon: merit badges for Infinite Jest and more.

Update September 19th: A merit badge for Infinite Jest:

My wife wisely pointed out that my earlier Odyssey merit badge could have been for any number of books. So, here is a newer version of The Odyssey‘s merit badge:

Update November 6th: New merit badges, and any others I create in the future, can be found here: Great literature merit badges.