/lit/ - Literature

>>19373007
Brautigan also made the summer chart, fren.

>>19368412

Hi there pure denizens of the /lit/izens band. I've finally taken the tally and crunched the bunch into a chart for your consideration. The chart contains twenty-four of the most read books this past summer and is companioned by twelve randomly selected honorable mentions of books read by anons which are underappreciated or underread around these parts. Thank you to everybody who participated in this 'month's' poll.

Most Read:
1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
3. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
5. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
6. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
7. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
8. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
9. The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner
10. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
11. The Iliad - Homer
12. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
13. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
14. Stoner - John Williams
15. Confessions - St. Augustine
16. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
17. The Odyssey - Homer
18. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
19. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
20. Dubliners - James Joyce
21. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
22. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
23. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
24. Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger

Honorable Mentions:
1. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter - Cesar Aira
2. The Voice of the Desert - Joseph Wood Krutch
3. Travels With Herodotus - Ryszard Kapucinski
4. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
5. Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
6. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
7. Lost Horizon - James Hilton
8. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
9. New Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussell
10. Pierre et Jean - Guy de Maupassant
11. The Impossible Climb - Mark Synnott
12. Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

The foggy nights are here
Beckoning the wanderer,
Cloaking the light's harshness
In softness tender to pain,
Enough moisture in the air
To hide the tears,
Enough mist in the night
To hide memories.
Children understand, and the lonely
Who hurt too much to say anything.

I love the foggy nights.
The shadows of strangers passing,
The obscurity that veils
Even a curious eye.
No need for words or even glances,
Only a walk with myself
When the bold are as obscure
As the timid,
When the neon lights are as soft
As the distant moon.

I will walk for a time,
The motion of my body
Quieting thought,
The stillness of the night
Healing the gaze of the sun.
I will be beautiful in the haze,
Silent as a forest
High above the foothills,
One with the secret force
That nourishes the lonely,
Who find special peace on foggy nights.