/lit/ - Literature

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Will post a wishlist thread in a week when I get paid to return the favor :O
or maybe I'll just do it anyway

Okay, /lit/ simple question with a massive list. I just finished The Satanic Verses and reread Othello. What should I pull from my pile next?

Another Country by James Baldwin, The Magus by John Fowles, 2666 by Bolaño, Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore, Libra by DeLillo, Things Fall Apart by Achebe, The Book of Other People (collection edited by Zadie Smith), One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez, Suttree by McCarthy, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing by some dudes, Mason & Dixon by Pynchon, The Man With the Golden Arm by Algren, Portnoy's Complaint by Roth, Juneteenth by Ellison, The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, or the complete EA Poe.

Phew. tl;dr throw a book at me to read
Also, I know: a picture of the stack would be simpler

-A girl got into a hansom a few days ago, he went on, in London. She was on her way to meet her mother whom she had not seen for many years. At the corner of a street the shaft of a lorry shivered the window of the hansom in the shape of a star. A long fine needle of the shivered glass pierced her heart. She died on the instant. The reporter called it a tragic death. It is not. It is remote from terror and pity according to the terms of my definitions.
-From Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface
-Finnegan's Wake


Does anyone else feel like Joyce lost his shit later in life?

>Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson
>She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf.
>her passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf

>>479027
Last night your coat was full of rocks and I fucked them out of you.

And FYI, it's Virginia Woolf.