/lit/ - Literature

Dear /lit/

I am looking for the title of a book I read a while back. It was about absolute equality. Smart people were forced to wear noise emitting machines, and strong people were forced to wear weights. As a result, everything was mediocre. The climax was when a dancer on a television show took off his weights and as a result got shot down by the police. Then everything goes to normal.

My memory is a little hazy, so the plot might not match word for word. I will delete this thread as soon as someone posts the title.

>but the majority of them are philosophy related

No, that's just the philosophy section. Look at the charts sorted by country. Most of those are novels, or at least fiction.

There's also the novellas chart, which may help if you think a book a week isn't doable. These books are all about 200 pages or shorter.

Here's the novellas list for you.

>>2167174

>Assume everyone is already acquainted with the novellas chart.

For reference.

>>2138177
Here you go. You're supposed to click the magnifying glass in the lower right hand corner of the pictures to make them bigger.

General novella recommendations thread?

Lets try and say a bit about the novellas we recommend as well, instead of simply listing.

Novellas usually range from 10,000 to 70,000 words and tend to be 200 pages or less, so use that as guidelines if you're unsure.

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Anyone else think we should make a 100 Novellas - Part 2 chart? With another list of 100 more novellas, for the people who want more recommendations.

I've seen threads with people saying they've read most of the ones off the other chart, so maybe a second one is in order at this point? It's not like there's any lack of great ones out there.

There's always this, for starters.

Pick one.

Most of these are around 200 pages or less.

They're called novellas (~200 pages). Here's a chart of them. Probably not as much sci-fi/fantasy/horror as you'd like though.

How many books off the 100 novellas chart have you guys read?

22 here.

And here's a clean version of the chart if anyone wants to make marks

A helpful chart for you, OP.

You might like this OP. I've only read a few of them though, so I can't offer you many opinions.

We could have this be a general novellas recommendation thread as well, if /lit/ wants. Besides the ones on the recommendation chart.

U jelly of my prowess?
Don't read it. I don't care.
Pic always related, because its the best

Whitmans Wake
By Patrick Flynn


They are duly ship’d aboard with him, hailed up to him and the retrieved from the storm
For passage upon the vast ever undulance. Lordly,
Hand cupped, he tends the vessel up through bend of bay.
They to the land are tallied in his ubiquitous, encompassing body;
Through sprung from the loin of the near unto madam of depths,
Are children of a feary father who bellows long cyclical gust.
They under image ascribed approach the break in the zephyrous gyre;
The angel harkens westward wind- “Hallowed thy name, dear angel!”
Cries admonition from we who tally ourselves in thee.
They are They, of an archetype he’s branded upon himself
With his beard a fire, his staff a leaping flame; he first mate
To their captainhood dried or immersed in the Wake.
They are acquiesced: fully realized with him hand in hand
As foot on foot approaches the lapping waves,
Storm long subdued since were harked the downward rays

I, for as it matters, I am thee tallied in he, as he is as much tallied in we.
Constituent of time, I too tread the face of our father
‘til comes the day I gladly lay my head down
for my stay in the wombanly arms of our mother depths.

Anyone got other lists like this? I found this one pretty useful in finding some good books.

Have you already read all the ones on the chart thing? (besides the female/modern ones)

Let's have a novellas recommendations thread, not including those on this list.

We have established that these are awesome, but I'd like to have a list of more.

Grab some novellas.