/lit/ - Literature

>>11896523
1.) Culture of Critique
2.) Milk and Honey
3.) Looking for Alaska
4.) Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
5.) Maps of meaning

>>11896523
top 100 books of lit's top 5

>>11896523
bible 1
bible 2
bible 3
bible 4
hunger games 1

>>11896569
What? I read bible 1 and bible 2. But I didn't even know they made a 3 and 4! When did those come out? After the tribulation? Dang I need to get out more.

>>11896564
this year's list is fucking awful

literally ruined by 3rd world retards

>>11896644
they should have stopped it after bible 3 really
i mean after st mark got dropped for all those drug revelations about other members of the cast it just wasn't as good
and to think they cancelled firefly after one season

>>11896523
1) 12 Rules For Life (MASTERPIECE)
2) The Maps of Meaning
3) The End of Faith
4) The God Delusion
5) God is Not Great

>>11896796
>and to think they cancelled firefly after one season
TRUEEEEEE
>>11896644
like what the fuck... it's just like star wars IX. Diversity IS NOT GOING TO FIX YOUR SHITTY BOOK. And the TV spin-off was terrible... why did they need to make him black.

>>11896532
epic post

>>11896905
VIII*

>>11896523
>gauguin by himself etc
good lord
i have a copy of william morris by himself
but didn't actually realise that was a series with books about other artists
now i have ordered some of them from amazon
thanks anon, this is why bookshelf threads are the best threads here

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
My Struggle Book 1
My Struggle Book 2
A Sportsman’s Notebook

1. The Quran
2. The Holy Bible
3. The Wealth of Nations
4. The Republic
5. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

>>11896805
xD awesome!!!

>>11896732
kill your self, I usually just write kys, but you deserved it in full.

I guess I’ll be the first serious answer:

The Magic Mountain
War and Peace
Hopscotch
Sleepwalkers
The Man Without Qualities

Bonus: The Idiot, Stoner, The Sun Also Rises

>>11896564
Fucking Gene Wolfe invalidates this entire list

>>11896523
Augustine: city of god
Dostoevsky: notes from the underground
Kierkegaard: sickness unto death
Ernst Junger: storm of steel
Paul Carrel: Afrika Korps

>>11897523
I'd give a serious answer but how am I supposed to choose just five? I've read about 500 books as an adult, and god knows how many as a kid.

can u guys be serious for once

am I still banned?

>>11897603
reported

>>11897594
If you were on a deserted island... etc. Just pick 5

>>11897519
Nah, go fuck yourself little kid

Anna Karenina fucking THIRTY four, W+P that low, BotNS and LOTR that high, and most notably all the fucking south american shit laughably, hugely overrated and ranked way too highly across the board

absolute shit list compared to previous years

>>11896564
>moby dick at 1
The only correct thing in the entire list

Infinite Jest - I work in community services so all the recovery stuff hits home.
The Sound and the Fury - A perfect novel.
Miss Lonelyhearts - A real brutal and chuckle-worthy look at the problem of suffering. I have no idea why nobody talks about Nathanael West on here.
Moby Dick - An absolute joy.
Death on Credit - My fave Celine novel.

Looks like I'm kinda obsessed with suffering idk

>>11897594
Just post five books you really like. Nobody is going to hunt you do if you later think you like another book more than some of the five.

Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
Catch 22
Infinite Jest
Moby Dick

Hon mention: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Thus Spake Zarathustra

1. J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series
2. Anne Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" series
3. Cynthia Leitich Smith's "Tantalize" series
4. Libba Bray's "Gemma Doyle" trilogy
5. Anne Bishop's "The Black Jewels" trilogy/series

Bonus:
1. Michelle Shepherd's "The Madman's Daughter" trilogy
2. Richelle Mead's "Vampire Academy/Bloodlines" series
3. Nancy Holder's/Debbie Viguie's "Wicked" series
4. Deborah Harkness's "The All Souls" trilogy

et cetera

>>11897959
>books
>every answer is at least three books

>>11897594
Hey guys, look at 500 books McGee. He's read 500 books. That's the same as 4 hundreds. And that's bullshit.

>>11897962

You're very much welcome!

>>11896905
Black Jesus? I think you mean Asian Jesus

>>11896523
>Norwegian Wood
>Emma
>The Book Thief
>To The Lighthouse
>Never Let Me Go

Phew that was blummin' tough

>>11897855
I feel you

>>11896564
read 23 of these. i feel kinda plebeian. feels bad

>>11896523
normal pleb with full of illusions here:
1)The mirro in the mirror
2)The Great Gatsby
3)Aphrodite
4)Gulliver's Travel
5)The godfather
>Bonus: books that secretly love
Momo, The Neverending Story, Arabian Nights

No particular order, prose only

>War & Peace
>The Storm of Steel
>The Book of the New Sun
>History of the Peloponnesian War
>The Master & Margarita

Bonus: Redwall, The Last Unicorn, The Glass Bees, Dune, The Cyberiad

No order

On the Road (Original Scroll)
Breakfast of Champions
Catcher in the Rye
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Rings

street of crocodiles
kaputt
dirty snow
minima moralia
friday (tournier)

>>11898424
negative
>>11892367

>>11898681
Breakfast of Champions must be the only Vonnegut book you've read.

In no particular order:
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Behead All Satans

Jitterbug Perfume
Flowers for Algernon
Brave New World
Cat's Cradle
The Black Company

>>11898880
Not OP, but I haven't read even one of his books. I can't imagine actually reading an entire novel in his style

>>11897777
i saw two books from south america,

one of them was borges, are you pretending to be retarded?

Plague Dogs
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Blood Meridian
Mother Night
Jerusalum

>>11898880
I don't think that's fair. Not OP but it I've read Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, and Player Piano. Breakfast of Champions is definitely my favourite.>>11898908

>>11896523
Confederacy of Dunces
a Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as I lay dying
V.
wuthering heights

>>11898681
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Confederacy of Dunces
All the President's Men
A Storm of Swords
Les Miserables (except the ending where Marius acts like a total asshole to Valjean... fuck that guy)

Oyasumi Punpun
The Pale King
White Noise
Foundation, Foundation & Empire, Second Foundation
Catcher in the Rye

Bonus: Chopin's The Awakening was forced on me in high school but I was surprised by how much I liked it and the ending. I've never read any other romance/feminist novel desu. Franny and Zooey has a special place in my heart.

>>11896523
The Recognitions
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Infinite Jest
Suttree
Siddhartha

I like a good meander

>>11896564
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the best book ever written and isn't even on the list.

Moby Dick.
Sodom and gammorah
The annals- tacitus
The Debacle
Darkness at noon

>>11899306
How is alexanderplatz? I've been eyeing the new nybr edition for a while now

Mein Kampf
Meditations
Holy Bible
Poetic Edda

The Sound and the Fury
>Without a doubt the greatest, most profound novel ever written
Crime and Punishment
>The examination and suffering of Raskolnikov combined with the Christian motifs make this one of the most moving novels I've ever read
Ficciones
>In English and in Spanish, this is probably the most beautifully written work I've ever read
No Longer Human
>Starring the most relatable character in the most emotionally desolate, unbelievably distressing work I've read
The Master and Margarita
>Uplifting, joyous, funny, and happy. Can single-handedly raise spirits and is probably the best example of literature as entertainment I can think of (the other candidate being Dead Souls)

The Republic of Wine (Mo Yan)
The Petty Demon (Sologub)
Mémoires d'Hadrien (Yourcenar, don't read this in anything other than French)
The Tartar Steppe (Buzzati)
Black Rain (Ibuse)

The Sea Wolf
Tess of D'urberville
For my Legionaries
The sound and the fury
In search of lost time

>>11896564
>Fanged Noumena makes it in the list
>The Culture of Critique doesn't despite having the votes
If we can't be impartial in our judgement on meme books, then this list has no meaning.

The Sound and the Fury
Moby Dick
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Name of the Rose

The Republic of Wine (Mo Yan, don't read this in anything other than Chinese)
The Petty Demon (Sologub, don't read this in anything other than Russian)
Mémoires d'Hadrien (Yourcenar)
The Tartar Steppe (Buzzati, don't read this in anything other than Italian)
Black Rain (Ibuse, don't read this in anything other than Japanese)

>>11900293
>don't read this in anything other than Italian
lmao are you retarded?

>>11900295
no

>>11896805

>>11897523
how do you feel about the rape in Stoner?

>>11899251
i like this man

Moby Dick
Right Ho, Jeeves!
Blood Meridian
Understanding Power
The Brothers Karamazov