/lit/ - Literature

>>15724071
The Stranger should be top 5.

>>12165357
Chart here. Actually early 2014 and Infinite Jest was voted the top, not DFW himself - though there may be another one that matches what I said first.
Whatever the state of /lit/ now is, I'm pretty sure no longer thing Infinite Jest is the best book is a change for the better.

>>11647635

>>11304935
I’m not an expert on this but the one that actually seems to cover how to read Literature in an advanced way is wikipedia org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

>>11304555
Any book that is considered a ‘classic’ really. Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, etc.
Maybe you want to get into philosophy and start with the Greeks

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Is everyone fucking depressed here ? Just look at your fucking """"favorite"""" books.

>>8683099
I'll just dump the gen charts

>>8654939
>Why is DFW's work a meme
I dunno m8, you should read it to find out. Or the fact that it was already number 1 two years ago

And Joyce may be a meme on this board (the fart letters and all), but that's not to say Ulysses doesn't hold great literary merit. And I can guarantee that anyone who picks up Ulysses just to be a pseud and read the meme books are gonna have a bad time. I know I did.

How lit are you?

20/100 and have another 5-10 in waiting. I think I'll probably try them all at some point.

Dab

Is it wise to read more than one novel at a time?

What is truly your favorite book that's not a meme?
Basically if you say any book from this list or god forbid reddit's list your taste sucks and you have no individuality.

Did this pic ever get updated? Also, general book list picture (whatever the fuck these are called) thread.

>>7487421
Buy some classics if you are new to literature

The favorite books of the board that loves to talk about philosophy.

It's me again, The Polling Anon.
I'm sorry for asking all of you to take so many polls, but this will be the final poll.

You are probably asking: "Wait? didn't I just participate in a poll?" and the answer is, yes you probably did but that poll was a complete failure due to the fact that I overestimated how many people frequented /lit/.
In the original poll you could only vote for one book and as of now 162 votes have been cast but the problem is that only 91 different books have been voted for. Which means that a big part of the books will have gotten on the list with just one vote. That means that the list would not properly represent /lit/'s taste.

So I have now made a new poll where everyone will not only vote for their favourite books but also their favourite writers. Everyone can now vote for 3 different books and 3 different writers. But you cannot vote for the same book or writer multiple times and remember to state the name of the author of the book to avoid confusion

I hope you will participate in this poll
http://goo()gl/forms/W78cRcuodO
Replace the () with a "."

Pic related is the 2014 version of the list.

>>7205104
Here's the other thread that was made

Forever your's: The Polling Anon

For those wondering about the original thread that was made. The original plan was to use the replies from that thread to make a multiple choice poll (I know, it's fucking stupid) but then I realized that this was a much simpler solution.

If there are any questions regarding the poll post them here.

Pic related is the 2014 version of the list.

Yours truly: The Polling anon

>>7205111
Yeah I'm sorry about that.

Hey /lit/ it's me, the anon who took on the task of conducting another poll for /lit/'s new top 100 list.
I just wanted to check in here to let you know that I am working through the responses from the thread that was made a while ago and it's going pretty well. I'm going to try to conduct the poll this week so be aware of that.

If there are any questions or requests regarding the poll feel free to post it here.

Your's truly: The Polling Anon

This list was made on the 3rd of april. It is therefore over a year old. It now time for a new list to take it's place.
Therefore we need to make another strawpoll.
So post your 5 favourite books and I will gather the data and make a strawpoll later when the thread is dead.

Thank you for your attention

/r/ similar charts of literature with this

Don't pay attention to the positions

>>6260367
It's Hedonism without the pleasure, so it's pointless. They want to read the best of the best, but they don't want to do it because they like it but because they think they should like it, and they don't read it to read it, but to have read it.
Said it without so many paragraphs ;)

>>5256100
We could start with this list for the classics category

>Will put here
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