/lit/ - Literature

How many of these have you read?

>>21042278
>starting on the top 100 novels listed in the /lit/ sticky.
careful, a lot of that list is memes
missing on pic related is The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, and Flannery O'Connor's collected stories

>>20541448

Ignore the rest, philosophy is a waste of time, read Evola and Jung instead.

>No Moby Dick

>>18870943

>>18295622

>>18278925
got this one from another thread today

>>18267684
have a chart

Do you agree with this chart?

>>17020598

Name one 10/10 book.

How many of these have you read?

I came to this board looking for some good female writers in order to gain some more perspective on the human condition in a way that is impossible as a male. Frankly, I'm pretty disappointed with what I see on the /lit/ wiki.

On every "starter kit" all I see are a bunch of books made by white people. And if they're not white, then they're most definitely a man.

Shit, it took me 10 minutes of looking through these lists in order to see someone put down one of Woolf's books (pic related). And of that list, there's only 1 female writer out of 42 books!

Now don't get me wrong, I love the writings of Pynchon, Joyce, and Lawrence, as examples. I just feel like a lot of these suggestions are a product of the average 4chan /lit/ male reader agreeing with the male-centric views that summarize the viewpoints of characters (and in extension, the writer) that are inherently male.

So. Would it be possible for some of you to post some good female writers in this thread for everyone to enjoy?

Some of my favorite female writers:
* Virginia Woolf
* Maya Angelou
* Sylvia Plath
* Joan Didion
* Jane Austen
* Harper Lee Collins
* Toni Morrison

Thanks for your time.

>>13030898
After that, you should start getting into longer books. There are some repeat books between these charts, you don't need to read them twice. These books are really long, some in the thousand+ page range. Yet these are essentials that I think you'll enjoy reading very much

>>11283498
Core /lit/, gonna post novellas next.

>>9844454
Here's a pretty wide selection. I've read every book on this chart other than 2666 and Mishima and I would say they're all good to very good, though as a rule of thumb I would say avoid the American ones other than Stoner for now. Nabokov and Conrad aren't native, so they're fine

This is a little better

Well constructed bate

>>8689675
>not a book you could recommend to people
I don't agree with you and even if I did Proust is a bad example of what you are talking about.


>>8689613
kek at thinking you are acquainted with music after listening to /mu/'s recommendations. Just read Stoner, Blood Meridian, Lolita, and The Stranger
then pretend to have read the rest of pic related.