/lit/ - Literature

>>15998420

>>15998420
Sorry dawg, this chart looks like shit. Not even bothered enough to learn what it's about, it's too complicated for my peanut brain.

Don't bet on this catching any traction at all

this is good
very fucking good

>>15998420
>>15998649
Make up your mind schizo

Maybe I'll create a version 2 tomorrow with better formatting

>>15998420
Made organized and maybe adding some it could be the best literary guide made in the history of /lit/

Hey OP.

May I ask how many of these books you've read yourself?

>>15998770
2

>>15998420

I really had hope for this list. I really did. It looked like it had the temerity to actually do it. A one-hundred percent pure Male Western Canon, No Girls Allowed. But right on cue, as usual around the 17th-19th century even when the rest is solid, the curator feels obliged to toss in that one stupid meme. Whether it's Austen, Wollstonecraft, Eliot or another hole of the age. And that the error rate here is less than one percent makes it that much more painful. So close, yet so far away.

>>15998831
I did it so that butterfly doesn't feel left out

>>15998664
yeah the formatting is pretty fucked up but the contents are good

>>15998420
>Doesn’t include Tolkien
Mate, how do you expect me to learn about escapism, romanticism, and storytelling as applied through allegory and fantasy without reading the greatest fantasy writers of all time?

>>15998881
mate, the book is from 1940 before tolkien wrote lotr

>>15998881
Continue.

>>15998844

If this were true, it would make matters worse since that thing is the worst tripfag in the history of the entire site. But of course the claim is anachronistic, if the graphic is to believed: the list is supposed to be a simple repetition of one given in "How to Read a Book" itself. So either you're one of the authors of the book and can travel through time and have horrible taste in human beings, or you're the OP and cooked up a decent western canon list but misrepresented it as issuing from "how to read a book" yourself, or you're some fuck and don't care about any of this and are just having a giggle.

>>15998909
*basedjack*

>>15998881
Continue

>>15998881
NOOOO JRR HECKIN TOLKIERINO

>>15998420
My diary is missing, sir

>>15998420
>Start With How To Read A Book
You need to read How To Read How To Read A Book before you read How to Read a Book.

>>15998881
Continue.

>>15998420
There's an unfortunate lack of poets. Blake? Whitman? Yeats? Rilke? Baudelaire?

>>15998831
Austen is great though, and deserving to be on any western canon list.

>>15999154
Your diary lacks any sign of discerinble talent.

>>15998831
Kys you absolute retard incel.

>>15998420
I don’t see why you would want a chart of this as opposed to just a list. I mean nice work I guess but this is hella ugly.

I present version 2.0, with better human readability.

>>15998420
I'm expected to call u neetfeet now?

post neet feet

>>15999466
>>15999468
It's my brand, I'm also to be found on multiple botnets with that name.

>>15999485
gross, are you homosexual?

>>15999512
No, I do like big veiny cocks though

>>15999457
cant you just make all the portraits line up in a straight line

>>15999590
actually, the names, as some portraits are taller than others

>>15999590
>>15999610
Maybe in version 3, formating is quite time intensive

>>15998420
i dont need a retard to tell me how to read a book lmao

There’s a regular list here otherwise
https://thinkingasleverage.wordpress.com/book-lists/mortimer-adlers-reading-list/

>>15998420
Let me check it out, and judge it.

>>15998420
Your Plato and Aristotle reading lists were done horribly, you can do better. I don't mind the Republic at the start though.

The chart has no title. There's no theme, no sorting criteria. Five books by Kant, the New Testament, some Proust, Joyce, the Greeks, more novels. I'm afraid I don't see its use, OP. It's not even good for a roll game.
It's a shame because it must have taken some time putting it together.

>>15998420
>>15998438
Do you remember when /lit/ would make fun of themselves for being dumb and pseuds when they were actually very smart and had good judgement, and now they are dumb and have bad judgement from an oversocialised corruption of the prime principles of this boards content.

I really miss old /lit/. Please, mods, just for now ban all the meme threads. Imagine if medieval peasants all suddenly converted to priests and started poorly transcribing every book they could find.

>>15999666
For Plato it says Dialogues and for Aristotle it says Works, basically the chart is telling you to read all of Plato's dialogues and the complete work of Aristotle. The texts in paranthesis are highlighted works.

>>15999673
Chart has a title retard, it's a complete guide to becoming well read.

>no kierkegaard
>has "how to read a book" instead
The type of cringe only /lit/ can post

>>15999526
We don't want to see your smelly man feet fag. If I stuck my feet in your face would YOU like it? No, and if you did, then that's just disgusting and you don't deserve the right to be spoken to if you're not even going to publicly hide that.

>>15998420
>freud instead of jung
what the fuck, nigger?

Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
The Old Testament
Aeschylus – Tragedies
Sophocles – Tragedies
Herodotus – Histories
Euripides – Tragedies
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
Hippocrates – Medical Writings
Aristophanes – Comedies
Plato – Dialogues
Aristotle – Works
Epicurus – Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
Euclid – Elements
Archimedes – Works
Apollonius of Perga – Conic Sections
Cicero – Works
Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
Virgil – Works
Horace – Works
Livy – History of Rome
Ovid – Works
Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia
Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germania
Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic
Epictetus – Discourses; Encheiridion
Ptolemy – Almagest
Lucian – Works
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Galen – On the Natural Faculties
The New Testament
Plotinus – The Enneads
St. Augustine – On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
The Song of Roland
The Nibelungenlied
The Saga of Burnt Njál
St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly
Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Thomas More – Utopia
Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises
François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Michel de Montaigne – Essays
William Gilbert – On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
Francis Bacon – Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays
Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler – Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
John Milton – Works
Molière – Comedies
Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light
Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics
John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education

Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies
Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
William Congreve – The Way of the World
George Berkeley – Principles of Human Knowledge
Alexander Pope – Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile – or, On Education, The Social Contract
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
Edward Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
James Boswell – Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers
Jeremy Bentham – Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
William Wordsworth – Poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems; Biographia Literaria
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Carl von Clausewitz – On War
Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
Lord Byron – Don Juan
Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism
Michael Faraday – Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology
Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy
Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America

>>15999730
>>15999737
why are you posting this

John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
Charles Dickens – Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden
Karl Marx – Capital; Communist Manifesto
George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch
Herman Melville – Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories
Henrik Ibsen – Plays
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power
Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces
Max Planck – Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography
Henri Bergson – Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
John Dewey – How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic: the Theory of Inquiry
Alfred North Whitehead – An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
George Santayana – The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places
Vladimir Lenin – The State and Revolution
Marcel Proust – Remembrance of Things Past
Bertrand Russell – The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
Albert Einstein – The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
James Joyce – 'The Dead' in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
Jacques Maritain – Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
Franz Kafka – The Trial; The Castle
Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

>>15999718
Jesus, chill out. You aren't feet phobic are you? Luckily you are on 4chan but imagine showing your feet phobia IRL or on different social media platforms, chee.. I can only imagine.

>>15999744
To make the list readable unlike OP's image

>>15999754
someone already posted a link to a list but ok

>>15999754
You could've just linked wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

>>15999704
>The texts in paranthesis are highlighted works.
I was aware one was obviously just meant to read all of them, but the highlighted works were in a bad order. For example, what's even the point of putting the Apology after the Phaedo?

>>15999762
>>15999768
I wanted to have ITT archived

>>15999751
No, I just dislike you posting your feet for no reason whatsoever and then acting as if you aren't a closet fag.

>>15999773
why lol

>>15999774
Why are you sexualizing feet? Are you a fag?
I just posted my feet but felt completely indifferent by it, for me it's just like posting hands.

>>15999710
It doesn't. Nobody cares about whatever shitty filename it was given. The first thing you should see is a big title. "How to become well read" or something (inb4 how to read a book is a good enough title)

>>15999776
Because it should be self-contained you savage

>>15999770
The chronology of plato's work are unknown

>>15999805
retard detected

Disturbing lack of Twilight on this list.

>>15999786
Pls forgive me I thought you just posted your feet for no reason and didn't realise you posted it as a humerus response.

>>15998420
Nikolai Lenin?
also while we're deciding we'll start with "How to Read a Book", has anybody read Ezra Pound's ABCs of Reading? Is it good?

>Another book compilation where the author hasn't even read a fraction.
When will it stop? 90% of the charts on this board are pure fiction and garbage.

I'm a non-White brown person. I'm gonna read all of these books and absorb your precious knowledge, White man. Muahahaha.

>>15998803
Jesus. Should have worked on this instead of making this stupid chart. Start with the Greeks.

>>15998420
No Faulkner so dropped hard.

>>16000034
You won't understand it because you're not white

Start with the basics

>>15998420
>No Laiseca
>No José Asunción Silva
KEK

>>16000192
I'll wear whiteface as I read

>>15998420
Looks like shit goddammit

>>16002853
Did you see version 2 as well? >>15999457
It's a bit better

>>15998420
this is trash and retarded, the "western canon" doesn't exist, great books lists are for college freshmen and normies who don't know shit

I appreciate the effort, Anon, but this chart needs to be more visually appealing. Right now it's no better than just having a pastebin with the titles.

great work anon

>>15998420 I'm aware this is Adler's list but it's missing a few in my opinion. There's no Hesiod, none of Nine Lyric Poets (at least Pindar), none of Seneca's dramas or stoic philosophy (may as well add since you have Epictetus and Aurelius), no Beowulf, lacks The World as Will and Representation, nothing by Kierkegaard, no Frankenstein, forgets Metamorphosis, and nothing by Jung despite Freud's appearance. There's also a lack of poets like Whitman, Eliot, Yeats, etc.

>>15998420
you skipped all the fucking scholasticists besides the big one.

>>15998420
>neetfeet

hey, i remember you, you made a youtube video saying you were going to discuss /lit/ things then died.

>>15998831
based incel

>>16003695
Hesiod is honestly fucking boring

>>15998420
Thanks you frendo

>>15998902
The version the OP used was rewritten and co-authored by Charles Van Doren in the 70s

>>16003731
Yea... I'm still alive

>>16003695
>>16003723
>>16003800
>>16003105
Do you guys know of any other great book lists that are better?

>>16003743
Yes, at least in English, but Theogony and even Works and Days to a lesser degree are essential Greek mythological texts.

>>16003822
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html

You can use this site to look at different lists. Bloom's list is very extensive, with a focus on literary fiction, but lacks most essential philosophical texts. I would use his as a base but then trim away certain texts, especially a lot of the Chaotic Age, while adding anything you feel is missing.

>>15998420
thank you OP for this list

>lenin but no Marx

>>16004723
Check 108 comrade

>nothing but old white men
yikes

>>15999717
>browsed the entire list just to discard it because it doesn't have my favorite theorist

>>16003105
Agreed. Let's not select or rank books ever; just read whatever words are in front of our eyes at any given moment.

nice feet

>>15998420
roll

>>15998420
>99% is of old dead white guys
hard pass