/lit/ - Literature

Key:
Green - Books that stay
Blue - Books being replaced by another by the same author
Orange - Books on which it's undecided
Red - Books that will be removed
Nothing - This book has not been talked about, so I have almost no information on it

Some people have said that Lolita should not be on the list, and since I myself am the only one voting in favour of it, I'll remove it.

People have talked about adding both Blood Meridian and Child of God. What is your opinion on this? Does adding both add enough variety to warrant McCarthy having two books on the chart? Are they different enough?

Should Last Exit to Brooklyn stay?

I would like all books on the list to be at least slightly available to people who want to read them, and I have a problem with Selfish, Little: I cannot find a digital copy anywhere, and physically it's basically unavailable. Would it be a good choice to change it to Proxy (a collection of Tool, Index, Special, Lazy, and Tick, all of which I have a link to)? I also have the links to Pure 1-3, but I've heard his first work isn't as good as his later.

These are the current standings. Still a lot of books that are undecided, but we have 42 confirmed books (although some can be gone if enough people vote against it), 7 books on the list that haven't been talked about, and 16 books recommended by a single person.

>Books that are going to be added:
Shakespeare - Macbeth
Marquis de Sade - 120 Days of Sodom
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Sarah Kane - Cleansed
William S Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Poppy Z Brite - Exquisite Corpse
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
Evan Connel - Diary of a Rapist
Gabrielle Wittkop - Necrophiliac
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Petrolio
Mo Hayder - Pig Island
Artaud - Heliogabalus
John Ridley - The Drift
Leon Bloy - Sweating Blood
Agota Kristof - The Notebook Trilogy
Edgar Hillsenrath - The Nazi and the Barber

>Books on the list no one has talked about (in depth): should they stay or do they have to go, and why?
Louis Aragon - Irene's Cunt
Hubert Selby Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn
Elfirede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
Slavenka Draculic - The Taste of a Man
J T LeRoy - The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Joyce Carol Oates - Rape: A Love Story
Natsuo Kirino - Grotesque

>Books that are recommended to be added to the list, but only by one person: should they be added, or not, and why?
Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School
John Hawkes - Second Skin / The Lime Twig
Joseph Heller - Something Happened
Sorokin - The Day of Oprichnik
Jachym Topol - The Devil's Workshop
Nikanor Teratologen - Assisted Living
Kenzaburo Oe - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Charles Maclean - The Watcher
Steven Barber - Caligula: Divine Carnage
Frederick Exley - A Fan's Notes
Andrea Dworkin - Mercy
Kate Millet - The Basement
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine
Dennis Cooper - The Sluts [to replace Frisk]
George Bernanos - Mouchette