/lit/ - Literature

>>14237209
What is that edition of 100 years of solitude?

>>14237209
Good taste OP. I liked that B&N's Paradise Lost.

You know what, I like your taste except for the degenerate suttree.

>>14237238
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics

>>14237263
Thanks I liked the commentary, but didnt always agree with it

>>14237314
The others didn't have enough sleaze

>>14237209
I was about to spark you up, but this actually a decent stack compared to a lot of the stack posts on here. But don’t get too pleased with yourself, while you might be a few tiers ahead of most littards, you are only just leaving the atmosphere.

> Pretty generic, but I haven't read tons of esoteric books yet.
1. Moby Dick
2. Lolita
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Trial
5. The Waste Land
6. Hamlet
7. Heart of Darkness
8. Catcher in the Rye
9. Great Gatsby
10. 1984

>>14237328
>>14237263
>>14237209
I picked up the B&N Paradise lost for $4 on sale been meaning to get to it
Is it good?

>>14237209
7/10

>>14237340
6/10

>>14237346
The simultaneous footnotes and endnotes can be a lot, but they're a good addition

>>14237209
And I don't have all my books here with me but:

Iliad and Odyssey - Lattimore or Fagles, they're both dece / Aeneid - Fitzgerald
Paradise Lost - Milton
Leaves of Grass - Whitman
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
Galapagos - Vonnegut
The Hobbit & LoTR & Silmarillion - Tolkien
Les Mis - Hugo
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Emerson's essays
Rant - Palahniuk

>>14237346
Yes read it. It's great. It's about time to read it again, maybe with the cadence of link related. Slight spoilers obvs from the final passages.

https://youtu.be/sthmEkUjACM?t=62

>>14237393
>Vonnegut
>Tolkien
>Palahniuk

Sure is pleb af in here.

>>14237393
+1 for leaves of grass

>>14237338
how do i level up

>>14237340
You might like Journey to the End of the Night

It's funny how all all you morons can do is this virtue signalling bs
It's like Instagram for pretentious losers these days

>>14237393
>>14237340
>>14237209
These look like cookie-cutter entry-level chart choices. I'm not even expecting some obscure Eastern European author, but there is no personality here. Obvious picks for obvious tastes. All great books, but that's a given. Be more audacious in your readings, anons.

>>14237209
I'm not calling you a pseud faggot nigger retard or anything but there's a lot of pristine unbroken book spines there friend.

>>14237428
Just started it

>>14237457
Like what?

>>14237463
I also read it going into winter, I think it added to the experience in some parts. hopefully it does for you too

>>14237457
I've read more than this obvs, but Calvino and Pynch and Vollman and DFW and Cormac McThesaurus and Hesse didn't do it for me.

>>14237457
Epic hipster moment

>>14237492
Vollman seems out of place there

>Be me
>LOVE too get a bunch of beautiful physical books
>still read 90% of the time on phone or laptop

>>14237512
I can't imagine reading everything like that

>>14237477
Not that anon, but here's mine:
Lichtenberg's Notebooks
Sabato's The Angel of Darkness
Monterroso's Perpetual Movement
Miguel Hernandez's The Unrelenting Lightningbolt
Emerson's Essays
Gass's Essays
Basho's Road to Oku
Redfield's Nature and Culture in the Iliad
Shakespeare's King Lear
Pindar's Odes

I know I might get accused of being a tryhard, but I don't care. These are all authors and books that have spoken to me on a fundamental level, and I think that's what matters.

>>14237536
>Pindar
fucking based

>>14237536
How old are you?

>>14237531
It’s more comfortable, especially on laptop, because with books it’s difficult to get a position that isn’t either looking down for a while, which is somehow a demoralizing prospect, or crinking the neck (if laying down and holding it on your chest, for instance). Whereas with a laptop you can plop it on a table or in your lap, kick back in your chair and read it at eye level.

>>14237209

I had a 3x3 thread earlier based on this, but remove Merleau-Ponty, Frege, and Karl Rahner because although I want to brush up on my Science and Theology for the latter two, the 2nd one is a fill in for the space and doesn't need to be a primary. Frege is just shit all around.

>>14237536

As for your books, I don't see you being a tryhard. I myself liked Sabato for a bit but then realized he skewered off into being a little too melodramatic. Plus, his works on "one and the universe" seem more interesting than his published ones, but I can't seem to find anything online.

Licthenberg is pretty good. I should use him as a backdrop more often.

I recommend getting into Ionesco to help brush up on playwrights other than Shakespeare

P.S. that guy at the bottom right is Blaga, I think. Lucian Blaga.

>>14237209
The Bible
Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
The History of America
The Secret Garden
Little House on the Prairie
Walden
Anne of Green Gables
White Fang

>>14237609
Jane Eyre
Pilgrim's Progress

>>14237209

I'm looking into a lot of yours right now, I like it! I'm going to Japan next year so Mishima is definitely someone I'm looking into.

I have a Kindle that I've started to read a lot more on because it makes travelling a lot easier.

On that, I just read The Stranger, The Book of Disquiet, and For Whom The Bell Tolls. I love Kindle collections, $1 for entire collections is insane. Nietzche and Dostoyevsky are on there.
Have Journy to the End of The Night on route which I'm excited to jump into.

Not pictured is my copy of We by Yevgen Zimyatin.

Very open to recommendations. Of everything I've read recently that I was really into I'd still say The Stranger. I can read French if there aren't good translations out there as well.

>>14237393
>Rant - Palahniuk
>A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
>Galapagos - Vonnegut

>>14237209
Excellent taste

>>14237614
The Stranger is a fun read. Not very moving but fun.

>>14237209
Anyone else think Steinbeck is boring?

>>14237314
Cormac has so much talent for his depressing nihilism.

>>14237629

I actually found it quite riveting. The thought of sitting there waiting to die over a partially justified killing was really haunting to me. Those final sequences really got to me, especially when he tears into the priest.

We know what death is like, it's just like before we were born, yet still, we turmoil as if it matters. I love that positive nihilism.

>>14237340
Good list. Generic is good for a reason.

Horace's Odes
AE Housman - "A Shropshire Lad"
Robert Burton - "Anatomy of Melancholy"
Francois Rabelais - "de Gargantua et de Pantagruel"
Iliad & Odyssey - trans. Pope
Vergil - Georgics & Eclogues
Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Andrew Marvell - Collected Works
Shakespeare - Hamlet
King James Bible, particularly the wisdom literature, gospels, and NT epistles

No particular order:

Growth of the Soil
The Red and the Black
Love in the Time of Cholera
Endurance
For Bread Alone
Heaney's Beowulf
Huck Finn
Catch 22
Cancer Ward
Homage to Catalonia

>>14237614
if you don't already know, you can download kindle files from libgen for free

>>14237659
What are your thoughts about The Red and the Black? If you read a translation, what did you think about it? I've been wanting to read it because it sounded reminiscent of The Count of Monte Cristo but from a more personal, first-person perspective which sounded so fascinating.

>>14237662
Libgen has non-academic stuff? What URL do you use?

>>14237659
nice! did you read Hamsun?

>>14237662

It timed out for me. I make pretty good money so I don't mind. I really hate that all of the best writers seem to be dead though. Feels stupid giving their estate my money.

My logic is that the publisher uses it to publish more books. Vote with your dollar.

>>14237669
>>14237677
All you're doing is supporting Jeff Bozo. The works of dead and great writers should be accessible to everyone

libgen(period)is

>>14237668
I juggled between two translations; Slater's translation (Oxford World Classics) was by far the best. The book is funny -- hilariously so -- but the humor is often very subdued, and relies on buildup before bursting the surface. That's hard to translate; Slater does a good job.

>>14237209
1. Gene Wolfe - Book of The New Sun
2. Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast Trilogy
3. Thomas Pyncheon - Inherent Vice
4. John Williams - Stoner
5. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
6. Patrick O'Brien - The Aubrey-Maturin Series
7. Phillip K. Dick - Ubik
8. Gene Wolfe - Book of the Long Sun
9. Albert Camus - The Plague
10. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

I'm not terribly well read, but these are what I enjoyed and got the most value out of what I have.

>>14237688

Damn actually, your link worked. That was easy.

Fuck Bezos.

Behold my kino stack, goyim

>>14237727
I'm gonna break into your house and steal all of that. But you can keep the Goethe

>>14237574

Well?

>>14237701
Thanks for reminding me I bought Titus Groan at a yard sale months ago and forgot to read it.

>>14237747
Good eye, Goethe is the worst thing there.

>>14237643
Positive nihilism is an oxymoron. It's being unnecessarily depressing. The human condition is depressing, no need to concoct fake depression-giving our lives no real meaning is stealing the joy and hope of the truth found in God's Son saving us from our sins if we are humble and repent.

>>14237727
Wow every single one has beautiful binding

>>14237393
7/10
>>14237536
8/10
>>14237609
7/10
>>14237614
7.5/10 you’re so close...
>>14237653
7/10
>>14237701
7/10

>>14237796

My asshole fucking burns.

>>14237614
What do you guys think about Metamorphosis?

>>14237810
Then stop letting your uncle rape you

>>14237796

>God

stopped reading right there friendo

I don't believe in magic. I'm not arrogant enough to assume I know exactly what made me but defining my life my own way is way more liberating than letting some priest tell me what to do.

The Bible was written by salesmen.

>>14237825

Maybe you shouldn't let your father FUCK YOU IN THE MOUTH.

>>14237806
>>14237806

>7.5/10 you’re so close...

get me there, I want more

What are books you've tried reading but they need up being too boring?
For me it was anything by Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Catch 22, and All Quiet on the Western Front

>>14237209
4/10

>>14237340
6/10

>>14237393
5/10

>>14237536
3/10

>>14237609
3/10

>>14237614
4/10 but has some of the best picks so far in that 4

>>14237653
8/10 and very good picks

>>14237659
5/10

>>14237701
3/10

>>14237727
1/10

>>14237839
Maybe you should get some taste in literature, low brow. I'd rather be raped by my father than be a brainlet who reads the shit you do.

>>14237830
Then you don't know good literature.

>>14237416
This.

>>14237779
I don't buy my books from B&N. I wait for library sales. I've gotten beautiful $50 books for $.75

>>14237854
Thanks but if I wanted to impress people, I'd post things you're supposed to pretend to like.

>>14237856

You don't even know what I read.

>>14237892
It's obvious.

>>14237340
You have to go back.

>>14237864

I'm this guy:

>>14237614


Maybe I don't know good literature. I'm a STEM guy. I read and write for my own enjoyment. I look to learn from others and formulate my own opinions. Literature remains subjective to the reader, right or wrong is moot.

So with that said it is my opinion that you're wasting your time praying to an empty sky but that's your choice, so keep on keeping on friendo.

>>14237892
Don't care, don't need your retarded life's story. Anyone who looks at Creation and concludes there is not a Creator is a fool.

>>14237701
>Gene Wolfe
I’m serious: you guys can’t keep coming here.

In no real order:

Moby Dick
The Annals- Tacitus
Nana- Zola
The Debacle - Zola
The Peloponnesian War- Thucydides
Darkness at noon
The Big Sleep
Sodom and gammorah
The antiquarian
Augustus

>>14237948
2/10

>>14237951
This

>>14237854
>1/10
Let me guess, too many white males?

>>14237921
>Maybe I don't know good literature. I'm a STEM guy.
Cool to see another stem guy into lit unlike the usual braindead retards I associate with.

>>14237948
I keep putting off Thucydides and Tacitus, but I know I'd love them.

>>14237340
>>14237948
There really is no line more great than the first line of Moby Dick.

>>14237960

I am still very much a brain dead retard but at least I'm somewhat aware of it.

What did you study? I took engineering and have a good career going now. So nice to be able to read for fun. I couldn't imagine reading for academic purposes. I see the value in it but I think it would suck the fun out of it.

>>14237972
All of Gaul is divided into three parts

>>14237982
>I am still very much a brain dead retard but at least I'm somewhat aware of it.
hahaha,
>What did you study? I took engineering and have a good career going now. So nice to be able to read for fun. I couldn't imagine reading for academic purposes. I see the value in it but I think it would suck the fun out of it.
I studied math and am looking for jobs in data analysis, or software development now. Really whatever I could get that's good enough paying so I could move out. I agree about lit though, I hate how's it taught and how every book is reduced to the system's ideology.

>>14237948
1/10

>>14238001

Data analysis is pretty dope. I'd highly recommend becoming a whiz with Python, Jupyter Notebooks are a great way to show potential employers what you can do as well. They don't tell you this in uni but it's always worth it to keep a portfolio together.

Best of luck with the hunt!

>>14238017
>I'd highly recommend becoming a whiz with Python, Jupyter Notebooks are a great way to show potential employers what you can do as well. They don't tell you this in uni but it's always worth it to keep a portfolio together.
Sweet I'll work on this. Any tips on how to improve my python?

No Pale Fire? Sheee-it....

>>14238022

Python is really diverse in what it can do, but Jupyter can take a lot of the overhead out of it.

I'd say pick some data sets off the internet and try to do present them in a cool way.

https://www.fusioncharts.com/blog/best-python-data-visualization-libraries/

>>14237946
What should I read instead?

>>14237209
1. Malazan Book of the Fallen (Steven Erikson)
2. The Kharkanas Trilogy (Steven Erikson - series unfinished)
3. Prince of Nothing (R. Scott Bakker)
4. A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin - series unfinished)
5. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
6. The First Law (Joe Abercrombie)
7. The Kingkiller Chronicle (Patrick Rothfuss - series unfinished)
8. 1984 (George Orwell)
9. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
10. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Chuck Palahniuk)

>>14238084

they're going to get mad at you but I like your list.

I'm bitter that Kingkiller Pt 3 is taking so long.

>>14238145
we need to kidnap Rothfuss and just force him to finish it at gunpoint

>>14238084

>>14238084
>malazan gets top billing and a pic
can i get a quick rundown?

>>14238181
Basically 1 step up from Animorphs

>>14238181
In a D&D style world the gods are manipulating mortals and there;s an ongoing purge of the "old guard" in an empire once ruled by men who have now ascended to godhood. There are a lot of characters, it's graphic and it's heavy on the magic. Erikson's sense of humour is also exactly my thing.

Also it looks like two from my list are on your list, I think I'll read The Idiot next, I've liked Dostoevsky's stuff before.

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
5. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
10. Das Kapital Vol. 2

The Aeneid
Against Nature
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Paradise Lost
Oblomov
Faust Part 1
Sorrows of Young Werther
The Temptation of Saint Anthony

No order really.

>>14238217
Forgot Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw. That's ahead of Das Kapital.

>>14238217
rodrick rules is the worst one cmv

>>14238216
was gonna say it looks like something straight from a Faerun sourcebook, I'll check out the first book

>>14237569
25

>>14237574
Sabato might read "melodramatic", but I don't think he was. I still consider him one of the most profound writers I've read, and perhaps the bravest man I've known, with the most integrity and dignity.

I read Ionesco once, and he cracked me up real good. I actually have read lots of playwrights, but Lear is still a seminal work for me (my undergrad dissertation was on it).

From your chart I've only read Emerson and some Kawabata, but anyone who likes Emerson is a friend of mine.

>>14238230
I think the Malazan world was originally from a homebrew tabletop game played by Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont (who writes books in the same universe)

>>14238232
Is Sabato in English or do I have to learn Spanish?
> perhaps the bravest man I've known
You knew him, then opinion discarded

>>14238240
yeh, and I just noticed it's from the late 90s, early 2000s, and some of the bits and pieces might seem to borrow a bit from elder scrolls. ebony/gold armor, drow/dunmer guy, high elf guy, bug armor guy, orcs, imperial legion human guy.

incidentally have you read Three Musketeers and them? Dumas is king of this sword and costume stuff, minus the magic.

>>14237209
I only read horror stories and children's literature. I am a man of duality. I tend to focus on short story genre for horror stories and picture books for children's literature though. Here are my top 10:

1. Robert Aickman
2. Thomas Ligotti
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Lovecraft
5. Laird Barron
6. Beatrix Potter
7. Jill Barklem
8. Tove Jansson
9. Inga Moore
10. Esther Averill

>>14238226
No, it's the most poignant. Pure brotherly harmony and companionship. I teared at both the book and the underrated film that would have been better if the studios allowed them to accurately portray kids of that age. i.e Call of Duty, Mountain Dew, and Racist jokes.

>>14238257
>I only read horror stories and children's literature
based.

>>14237944

>>14238249
I don't know, I think it's more that the Malazan world and the Elder Scrolls world both draw on the same D&D world tropes from way back.

I never read the Three Musketeers! I like historical fiction though. I finally finished War and Peace recently, it's probably the longest single book I ever read, and it is really good just a little too religious for my tastes.

>>14238243
>I've known
Yeah, poor phrasing. Sadly I never met him, but I meant that he's the bravest man I'm aware of. Penguin has published two of his three novels, and I hear they are good translations. One of them, The Tunnel, has been memed here since forever, and recently I've seen it in doomer charts. It's a pretty solid nouvelle, you could finish it in one sitting.

>>14238217
why did these books always smell like stinky toilet paper?

Only got three:
Cratylus - Plato
Life of Artaxerxes - Plutarch
Pimp - Iceberg Slim

Lolita
Ulysses
Hamlet
Pale Fire
Moby-Dick
Death of a Salesman
Macbeth
Othello
King Lear
Shakespeare: The Invention of a Human

>>14237457
O fuck off you pretentious cunt, they dont reflect your personality, theyre just famous good works of literature that are so famous for a reason, theyre fucking good af.

>>14238217
unfunny

>>14237238
literally says it on the spine you fucking halfwit

Top 10 Stephen king books IMO
1. The Stand
2. It
3. 11/22/63
4. Cujo
5. The Regulators
6. The Tommyknockers
7. Pet Sematary
8. 'Salems Lot
9. The Long Walk
10. Gerald's Game

>>14237209
not necessarily in order:
Tadeusz Konwicki - Small Apocalypse
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
Nikolaj Gogol - Dead Souls
Thomas Pynchon - V.
Bolesław Prus - The Doll
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Witold Gombrowicz - Trans-Atlantyk
Dorota Masłowska - Snow White and Russian Red
Jaroslav Hašek - The Good soldier Švejk
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls

Every time someone posts a top 10 featuring only books from the /lit/ canon I have the same question: how can your favourite book(s) not be written in your own language? My country has a relatively small literary body of work and even I can't imagine thinking that a translated version of a work that is not at all connected to your national identity/culture/roots is better than the literary works of your fellow countrymen. Or do you guys really limit yourselves to what /lit/ says is good rather than explporing your own literary tradition by yourselves?

>>14239300
At least Jakub here knows what's good

À rebours
Watt
Le Baphomet
Thomas l'obscur
Hedyphagetica
Petrolio
Tristram Shandy
Locus Solus
Éden, Éden, Éden
Justine ou le malheurs de la vertu

>>14239334
Presque edgy.

>>14239334
No Chants de Maldoror?

>>14237209
1. The Tunnel, Gass
2. Maldoror, Lautreamont
3. Collected Works, Rimbaud
4. Discipline and Punish, Foucault
5. Society of the Spectacle, Debord
6. Complete Works, Mallarme
7. Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire
8. Idea of Phenomenology, Husserl
9. The Waves, Woolf
10. Transcendence of the Ego, Sartre

>>14237209
1. Hunger
2. The Trial
3. Blood Meridian
4. Heraclitus's writings
5. The Judgement(Short story but still)
6. Sorrows of a Young Wether
7. No Longer Human
8. Lolita
9. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
10. Brontë/Pavese poems
10. TCoL49

I'm sure i'm forgetting some but whatever. AP was also really, really memorable despite what some people might say.

Here's mine /pol/

>Mein Kampf - Hitler
>The Prince - Machiavelli
>Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
>The Art of War - Sun Tzu
>Guerrilla Warfare - Che Guevara
>The Devil's Notebook - Anton LaVey

Moby Dick
Absalom, Absalom!
Blood Meridian
East of Eden
The Great Gatsby
Look Homeward Angel
The Adventures or Huckleberry Finn
Stoner
Revolutionary Road
Rabbit Run

>No order except the first three are my top 3
Paradise Lost
Joseph and His Brothers
Don Quixote
East of Eden
Homer's Odyssey
The book of Samuel
The Master & Margerita
Goethe's Faust
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Lord of the Rings

1. Heine - Buch der Lieder
2. Ariosto - Orlando Furioso
3. Goethe - Faust (both)
4. Tolstoy - War and Peace (translated)
5. Yeats - The Tower
6. Dickens - Great Expectations
7. Roberts - Napoleon the Great
8. Homer - Iliad
9. Milton - Paradise Lost
10. Bécquer - Rimas

>>14237209
Possibly a silly question, but how come your edition of Paradise Lost is so thick? I've got the OWC one and I'd say it's about half in size (and it does have annotations)

War and Peace
Book of Disquiet
Hopscotch
The Idiot
The Magic Mountain
Iliad
The Red and The Black
The Sun Also Rises
Anna Karenina
The Man Without Qualities

>>14237209
(In no particular order)

1. Paradise Lost - Milton
2. The Aleph and Other Stories - Borges
3. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
4. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
5. Suttree - Caramel MacArthur
6. Don Quixote - Cervantes
7. Underworld - Don DeLillo
8. Crime and Punishment - Dosto
9. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
10. VALIS - Philip K Dick

>>14239575
B&N classic editions have pretty thick pages, that might be why

>>14237209
>Invisible Cities

1. Moby Dick
2. The Trial
3. Crime & Punishment
4. American Psycho
5. The Catcher In The Rye
6. The Death of Ivan Ilych
7. The Crying of Lot 49
8. The Stranger
9. Lolita
10. A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man

>>14237209

Suttree
>my buddy
Great taste OP

The Bible KJV
Moby Dick
Sot Weed Factor
Blood Meridian
Suttree
Tao Te Ching/Zuang Zi
Paradise lost
East Of Eden
Gulag Archipelago/One day in the life
All Quiet on the Western Front

Dead Souls
Narcissus & Goldmund
Blood Meridian
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Rashomon & Other Stories by Akutagawa
Dubliners
Don Quixote
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Arabian Sands

No particular order:

All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque
Amongst Women- John McGahern
In The Kingdom of Ice- Hampton Sides
The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
Homage to Catalonia- George Orwell
Dubliners- James Joyce
The Dark- John McGahern
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
On The Road- Jack Kerouac
Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
Honorable Mentions:
The Empire Builders- Boris Van (a play, didn't make it to the list for this reason)
The Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury (liked it a lot when I was younger)
The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka

May not be sophisticated, but it's mine

>>14237959
No, too many terrible books.

>>14237209
>all this Sutree
based

War and Peace
Suttree
Crime and Punishment
Hamlet
No Country for Old Men
Desperation
The Death of Ivan Illyich
All Quiet on the Western Front
Blood Red Snow
Brothers Karamazov

I guess I am unoriginal

>>14237416
Listing Tolkien with that trash is criminal

The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
Im Westen Nichts Neues - Erich Maria Remarque
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Miguel Street - V.S. Naipaul
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoi
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Stiller - Max Frisch
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

In no specific order, here are some of my favourites;

Iliaden & Odysséen (Iliad & Odyssey) - Homeros, translation by Erland Lagerlöf
Ständernas Svall (Return to Ithaca) - Eyvind Johnson
Moby-Dick (Moby-Dick) - Herman Melville
Krig och Fred (War and Peace) - Leo Tolstoy, translation by Hjalmar Dahl
Doktor Glas (Doctor Glas) - Hjalmar Söderberg
Bergtagen & Doktor Faustus (The Magic Mountain & Doctor Faustus) - Thomas Mann, translation by Ulrika Wallenström
Aniara - Harry Martinson

Curious if any anglophones have read anything by Söderberg or Johnson on this board; if not, I recommend it, they are fantastic authors both. There are obviously more books I revere, but these were the ones that popped into my mind.

>>14237609
>White Fang
my absolute nigger

>>14240636
>On The Road- Jack Kerouac
why does /lit/ hate this book again?

>>14237209
It’s good

>>14237638
Just finished his border trilogy. It seemed the only reason to posit an uplifting scenario was to bring it down in a crashing ruin later. And as beautifully written as it was, there was a constant sense of vacillating over theology. He himself said he goes back and forth over whether there’s a God or not and tbqh it shows. There was just constant ruminating in his writing.

>>14237727
nice i have that same edition of The Red and the Black. im also jelly of your edition of Confessions

>>14237634
no

>>14240963
It makes them sound intellectual

>>14240963
It's really repetitive is the reason I don't like it personally. I imagine others have other reasons for disliking it, also.

>>14238232

I'm not your friend.

>>14239331
human nature is the same all over the world.
what the fuck do you think books are about?

>>14239331
Aren't you just assuming people here don't natively speak these languages? Aren't you just assuming they aren't from the same nation as the books?

>>14239331
True but people in my country are either retarded commies or retarded catholics, which means we never had any good literature to begin with.

fuck man I forgot on my top 10. Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. Or Treasure Island. Where my historical fiction anons?

>>14237209
>>14237263
Classics Summarized: Paradise Lost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMDtsPgfD0&t=519

>>14237830
cringe

>>14242526
He’s right.

>>14242554
cringe

Started reading proper books a bit over a year ago. In no particular order:

Confessions - Saint Augustine of Hippo
Diary of a Country Priest - Georges Bernanos
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Song of Roland
Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso (Esolen translation)
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
>>14237727
Jealous of your Augustine

Moby Dick
Mason & Dixon
The Tunnel
Europe Central
Lolita
Blood Meridian
Pale Fire
As I Lay Dying
If on a winter's night a traveler
White Noise

>>14238084
the first Law is awesome

im just happy were all reading books

I'm autistic, but entirely sincere.

Finnegans Wake
Piers Ploughman
Ulysses
Canterbury Tales
Dubliners
Troilus and Criseyde
A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
The Legend of Good Women
The Book of the Duchess
The Bridge

Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Trial
Butcher's Crossing
Stoner
Civil Disobedience (not really a book but idc)
Crime and Punishment
Macbeth
Meditations
Lolita

>>14244223
The funny thing is this is a pleb list to someone well-read, but to 99.9 percent of people you interact with you are a patrician. Weird how that works anon. I also have read most of these books and loved them. What translation of Ivan Ilyich and Marcus' Meditations did you go with?

>>14244180
You're very autistic and I'm envious that you've read Chaucer and Ulysses. I'm reading Ulysses now and I cant wait to reflect on my experience reading the book. I don't think a work can be fully appreciate until you think back on having read the book.

>>14244141
I really need to read Pale Fire

>>14240963
>>On The Road- Jack Kerouac
>why does /lit/ hate this book again?
I just finished it and was blown away. Kerouac wrote a perfect book IMO. The ending, lack of genuine conflict, it's a complete deconstruction of all contemporary literary cliches, and how he somehow was able to craft a character that was not cynical in the slightest (much to /lit's dismay). The diner scene where Sal fights with Dean put a tear in my eye and the ending chapter was fantastic especially the final paragraph and Remi being a broken man.

>>14240921
>To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
based

>>14240636
Things Fall Apart author has always deterred me from reading it (even more so than Celine and I'm Jewish lol), but I enjoyed Clockwork, On the Road, and Catcher in the Rye. Why did you like Things Fall Apart so much?

>>14240552
Dead Souls seems based. Rashomon may be the best movie I've ever seen, have you seen it anon?

>>14239602
>The Magic Mountain
>The Man Without Qualities
Both books I have to read. Are you German anon?

>>14239379
Hunger is a book I need to read.

just started reading classic /lit/ so
>notes
>the stranger
>illiad
>sorrows of young werther
>a hero of our time
>in search of lost time
>hamlet
>portrait of a lady
>hunchback of notre dame
aaaand ISAIF, last one is a classic and with each work of philosophy i read i always see how it links up to what uncle ted says.

1. Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
2. Michael Herr - Dispatches
3. James Joyce - Dubliners
4. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
5. Kawamata Chiaki - Death Sentences
6. Don Delillo - Libra
7. Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
8. John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany
9. PKD - A Scanner Darkly
10. Tom Robbins - Still Life with Woodpecker

>>14237446
if someone made a thread on /tv/ about their favorite movies you wouldn't call it virtue signaling, but because books have "le big wordz" it's virtue signaling.
also unlike 70% of threads made here, this thread actually gets people talking about books which is the main purpose of this board you fucking faggot.

>>14237209
Not in order

>Paradise Lost
>War & Peace
>Middlemarch
>The Book of the New Sun
>Moby-Dick
>The Lord of the Rings
>Lord Jim
>Permutation City
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Watership Down

>>14237701
Someone hasn't read Book of the Short Sun yet.

Might want to start thinking about which book you're going to bump off your Top 10.

Just started reading regularly this year so the list is very new
>Kafka on the shore
>As I lay dying
>Ticket to the stars
>The trial
>Crime and punishment
>Waiting for godot
>The enchanter
>A farewell to Arms
>Factotum
>Frankenstein
I know it's very surface level at this point but I'm working on it.

>>14244141
Why if on a winter's night a traveler? Never read anything by calvino or whatever his name is but I'm somewhat interested in this one

>>14244287
>>in search of lost time
You read all of it?

>>14244291
>7. Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Based Kerouac

>>14244305
You'd have retardation and not a single move before 1970

>>14244309
>>Lord Jim
Really need to read this

>>14244330
You're more well-read than most Americans already.
>>A farewell to Arms
Great book
>>Factotum
Kek, I do not like Bukowski, but enjoy him sometimes.

>>14237209
6/10

>>14237340
6/10

>>14237393
4/10

>>14237536
2/10

>>14237609
4/10

>>14237653
4/10

>>14237659
4/10

>>14237701
6/10

>>14237727
3/10

>>14237948
4/10

>>14238084
1/10

>>14238221
7/10

>>14238919
6/10

>>14239300
8/10

>>14239371
6/10

>>14239379
5/10

>>14239395
6/10

>>14239433
8/10

>>14239602
8/10

>>14239970
8.5/10

>>14240386
6.5/10

>>14240391
8.5/10

>>14240552
7/10

>>14240636
lrn2count

>>14240731
6/10

>>14240921
3.5/10

>>14242969
7.5/10

>>14244141
8/10

>>14244180
7/10

>>14244223
8/10

>>14244287
3/10

>>14244291
4/10

my top 10 is:

1.) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2.) Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
3.)Call of the Wild by Jack London
4.)Candide by Voltaire
5.)The Stranger by Albert Camus
6.)Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
7.)The Road by Cormac McCarthy
8.)The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
9.)Dubliners by James Joyce
10.)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

>>14244180
I am very surprised you managed to read all of Finnegans Wake. That must've been hard to get through

>>14244244
True, I don't pretend to be well read or anything, and I feel like there's still so many significant works I haven't read. But at the same time, it seems silly to criticize someone for having read well known and great works. But recently I've been branching out and trying to read more lesser known works of famous authors, two classes I took this semester helped point me to some really great short stories from authors I've never heard of

I've read Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky and Louise Maude & Aylmer Maude for Ivan, preferred the Maude translation. In the P/V translation, I feel they're not as clever with the religious aspect of the book.
Meditations I've read Gregory Hays

>>14237209
Here goes

#1 : Hugh Selwyn Mauberley - Pound
The rest aren't in any order
Daisy Miller - James
Soumission - Houellebecq
Tristram Shandy - Sterne
Doctor Faustus - Marlowe (Tamburlaine is good as well)
Le Corbeau et le Renard - La Fontaine
Songs of Innocence and Experience - Blake
Book of Revelations
Le Testament - Villon
To Brooklyn Bridge - Crane

Something Happened - Heller (my top book without a doubt. to write something like this and sustain it for nearly 600 pages requires inhuman talent)
The Moviegoer - Percy
Grendel - Gardner
Stoner - Williams
Peace - Wolfe
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Mishima
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
On The Edge - Chirbes
Suttree - Cormac
Catcher in the Rye