/lit/ - Literature

Did he have good taste, /lit/?

http://www.davidbowie.com/news/bowie-s-top-100-books-complete-list-52061

The official list follows. Enjoy.

What a surprise, mods removed >>10465694 despite >>10459747 still being up, so this is clearly desired.

I'm doing this since nobody else has yet. The survey is at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCJVnSTO8pJCd12Uagawf69Flsfa2RS0lXGHTt5Nc9lGwIQQ/viewform?usp=sf_link#response=ACYDBNgLXx1Ytb99fW4TMK_oWeGyXArX3Hn5MVrDTkfZlr4rWvbnQSbfH0cBXg..
No auth required, so I can't collect data. Don't sperg out.

I'm closing the survey at the start of 3rd Jan UTC, as per suggestions in the last thread. It's still a 2017 list tho.

The other list is from discordfags, and very unrepresentative. Ignore them, even if they start samefagging in this thread. To be clear, the full results are at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QVUneg8EeFVZMEuEYfR8NYou_et6DUoRnjQDijoJe7c/edit?usp=sharing so you can check for yourself. I'll tidy things up in different sheets in that workbook.

Since nobody else is doing it, here's a link. Vote on 5 books and optionally best meme.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCJVnSTO8pJCd12Uagawf69Flsfa2RS0lXGHTt5Nc9lGwIQQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

I'll spend my New Years Eve collating responses and dealing with tiebreakers. Please don't vote for Milk and Honey.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13086.Goodreads_Top_100_Literary_Novels_of_All_Time

is this list good for a beginner who wants to get into seriously reading novels? should I start at the top and work my way down?

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>One is all and all is one !
>So Deep !

Well at least its better than the alchemist...

I was that guy who started the polling for a 2017 chart about 3 months ago in response that that fake weeb chart but gave up after everyone chimped out.

Soo, when are we doing one? I could scrap this one and start another, or we could continue from were it left off. I just wouldn't know how to make a nice looking chart once polling is completed.

If you want to have a look at the chart and vote:

Form:
>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KRFhA4nDS2bxbT2pL8fjqF--2LJu9zCTWImmNCuvFBY/edit

Spreadsheet:
>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K_aanz5Q8Czs0aNA2G_ZtnIwYolN7uk3m_h5N1RLhso/edit#gid=1725342026

Aside from a couple of meme and spam responses that are marked with a line through them, and 1-2 people obviously padding the votes for the same 2-3 books, the responses were coming along nicely.

When the top 100 list of /lit/ will be done this year ? /lit/ newfag here

herro friends

here are my top 100 pics for 2017

prease enjoy muchly

thank you!!

Does /lit/ have one?

Have we been able to reach a consensus on the latest /lit/ Top 100 chart yet? I'm in the process of adding new books to my backlog and want to know if this is the most accepted version.

inb4 hurr durr read what interests you. I do but I want to engage in /lit/'s discussion/shit-flinging

Top 100 thread.

Why haven't you taken the /LonesomeDove/ pill yet?

Do you believe this is a good list of worthwhile literature?

http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/

What do you think is missing and deserves to be on here? What should be removed?

Voting link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSer1V_-u_LhqXLa4-xPeCrycYIqy8ss75X3RcaFPZMkODRnCg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Results sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K_aanz5Q8Czs0aNA2G_ZtnIwYolN7uk3m_h5N1RLhso/edit?usp=sharing

Voting has just passed the halfway mark of the 500 vote goal with 254 responses.

What do you think of the list and votes so far?

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BOOK DUMP

Hey guys I made a Mega of pic related, /lit/ top 100, missing #13 (Bottoms Dream) however.

https://mega.nz/#F!KgcnTALC!9QmFF05ekmd5b7KoI-uopg

Now go get some reading done ya bums.

Vote here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSer1V_-u_LhqXLa4-xPeCrycYIqy8ss75X3RcaFPZMkODRnCg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K_aanz5Q8Czs0aNA2G_ZtnIwYolN7uk3m_h5N1RLhso/edit#gid=1193738395

So far 125 responses have been recorded. Last year's total was 496.

>NO RESPONSES HAVE BEEN EDITED OR DELETED.
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Now that the top 100 fiction chart is finished, would anyone be interested in voting for a chart of top 100 philosophy books? If this is too narrow, we could expand it to top 100 non-fiction books.

With the release of that terrible top 100 chart by the fake Polling anon that is loaded with Japanese cuck lit, its time to get a new chart created for the 1st half of 2017. The voting form is below.

Like with any voting thread on here, troll responses, Reddit-tier votes and people artificially inflating votes for some books will be deleted.

If you have a favourite author its fine to vote them multiple times.

If there are any flaws with this voting system or you would like to see changes to it - e.g. an option for a negative vote or two, I can do that.

Voting:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSer1V_-u_LhqXLa4-xPeCrycYIqy8ss75X3RcaFPZMkODRnCg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Responses chart:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K_aanz5Q8Czs0aNA2G_ZtnIwYolN7uk3m_h5N1RLhso/edit?usp=sharing

Hello /lit/! It's me, the polling anon, back at you again with the results of the poll.

I closed voting 1 week ago and since have been spending my time counting the votes and constructing the graphic. I had to get some help from my friend, who will remain nameless, but to whom I owe endless thanks and gratitude.

In the first couple days of polling, I accidentally left the poll in such a state that it was possible to vote multiple times. Accordingly, I was able to go through and, by hand, compare votes that appeared to be made arbitrarily close to one another, or had suspicious parallels in style and content. Thus, I have conflated the votes that seemed too suspicious to be true. I've spent a lot of hours on this, and I can confidently say that next to no legitimate votes were affected and illicit votes were reduced to a negligible minimum.

I've also received a number of fake titles and authors, some of which were amusing. I saw a Gregory Berrycone or two, a number of plays on Thomas Pynchon's name, and youtubers. While I had to discount these votes, I have to say they brought a smile to my face as I was laboring over this for you guys.

Anyways, this is the last of me you'll be seeing for a while, but sometime next year we can conduct another poll...

Anyways, signing off,
The Polling Anon

P.S. How many out of 100 have you read?

Hello /lit/ . It's me, the polling anon!

The poll is going well, I have 433 responses and am just about ready to wrap it up. This is your last chance to vote, if you haven't.


Just look at the flowers, /lit, and think of the rabbits.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2G-VEFDyLZb2ThRcLJwWrKY4zRMAO8FTqB3JG6AmGnu-LCw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Hello /lit/! It's me, the polling anon. Sorry for the sudden start and stop the other week, the last thread got me all stressed. I hope you got it all out of your system and we can now proceed in peace. i'm probably not going to be responding to posts in this thread because I don't wanna get mixed up with all this shit. So if someone takes my name, it's not me.

Meanwhile, take the poll if you haven't. If you try to vote again it just overwrites your last vote.

Pictured is Don Delillo. I hope he comes in here and votes, i like him a lot. You'd never know.

Current Vote total:
1. Ulysses
2. Infinite Jest
3. Lolita
4. The Bible
5. Brothers karamazov
6. The Stranger
7. Blood Meridian
8. Crime and Punishment
9. Shakespeare
10. Moby Dick

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2G-VEFDyLZb2ThRcLJwWrKY4zRMAO8FTqB3JG6AmGnu-LCw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Hello /lit/. It's me, the polling anon from 2016. I'm back to host another poll of your top 100 books, so we can measure the progress of /lit/'s taste and get a chart to help beginners find new books.

If you're wondering why I'm doing this again so early, it's because /lit/ has the ugly tendency to succumb to memes (when I did the last poll, Alan Moore's Jerusalem was "in" and made the top 35 I think, which wouldn't have happened had we done it in a meme-free time). For another example, Bob Dylan won the nobel prize and dominated /lit/'s collective attention for a month or so. If I'd made the poll then we surely would've lost a lot of time to having to delete the "Blonde and Blonde" and "like a rolling stone" entries. not to hate on Dylan who I like, but it would've delayed progress. There don't seem to be any memes currently other than the longrunning ones, but they shouldn't affect the polling more than we can expect.

This time, I'm allowing 3 entries. The first gets 5 points (ie, 5 votes), the second gets 2, and the last gets only 1. That way you can give more weight to the books you like most, and we can get a more concise list that's easy to count and also factors in just how much ppl like certain books.

I've missed you /lit/. Also, enjoy Joyce playing the guitar.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2G-VEFDyLZb2ThRcLJwWrKY4zRMAO8FTqB3JG6AmGnu-LCw/viewform?usp=sf_link

http://spinelessbooks.com/mccaffery/100/index.html

What does everyone think about this guys list? There are a few surprise commissions and admissions, but I overly find it very interesting, and what I recognize of what's there gives me confidence to explore some of what I don't recognize that he's included.

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http://spinelessbooks.com/mccaffery/100/