/lit/ - Literature

Alright /lit/, before college my literary exposure was defined entirely by the generic American high school reading requirements. Now I'm trying to read as frequently as possible. I'll list what I have read as well as what I've decided to read (at some indefinite point in the future) in hopes of receiving recommendations. Whether it be something hailed as a classic that one just can't miss, or a personal favorite that fits somehow into the list I've compiled, I would love to hear suggestions for one who's deeply interested in broadening their literary horizons.

Read: ( and enjoyed/found valuable or insightful)

The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
Island
Animal Farm
1984
The Stranger
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
The Pale King
A Confederacy of Dunces

Want to read:

Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
The Castle
Lolita
Pale Fire
Transparent Things
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from Underground
To The Lighthouse
(Hemingway but don't know what, but A Clean Well Lit Place was great)
Anna Karenina
Independent People
Madame Bovary

Thanks in advance?

>>1439789
yeah, that's really uncanny.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared
was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no
one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of
information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we
would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth
would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in
a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.
Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some
equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal
bumblepuppy. As Huxley re

marked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and
rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take
into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984,
Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New
World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell
feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love
will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.