/lit/ - Literature

>>3589169
>>3589126
>being this new

Oh shit, butterflies.

This man will wear shorts and a hat and examine your genitals.

Is the interest of the chess game in the last move, or in all of those before it?

>>2865594
>listening to the Backstreet Boys is fun!
>watching MLP is fun!
>reading YA is fun!

I'd like to keep track of what I've read and what I want to read. People recommend me stuff everyday and I need to organize my mental shelf.

I know there are tons of webistes that feature this sort of thing, but what is /lit/'s favourite?

>The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Pratchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates — “to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.”

>Of the 544 separate titles selected, each is assigned a reverse-order point value based on the number position at which it appears on any list — so, a book that tops a list at number one receives 10 points, and a book that graces the bottom, at number ten, receives 1 point.


>TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Ulysses* by James Joyce
Dubliners* by James Joyce
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The complete stories of Flannery O’Connor
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

>TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 19th CENTURY

Anna Karenina* by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary* by Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The stories of Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch* by George Eliot
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Great Expectations* by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emma* by Jane Austen