/lit/ - Literature

>>17223386
no anon has read all hundred, some between 20 and 60. there are books (#28, #20, #71...) on this list I have never seen discussed here. there is a lit starter kit chart, a short essential lit chart, and an exit level chart in the megafolder. top 10 of pic related is pretty accurate.

>>17223386
lit is a poetry board, novels and philosophy are not welcome here

>>17223386
Read Stoner, Blood Meridian, The Trial
Pretend to have read Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, Russians
That's all you need to fit in here

>>17223562
sad, but not wrong

>>17223386
im new here too - check the wiki there are literally hundreds of charts

>>17223434
Henry James is mentioned often.

The rest is pure pseudery.

>>17223386
Is Moby Dick really that great?

>>17223803
Bump, I was thinking the same thing

Anyone have a spirituality or religions essentials?

>>17223947
>>17223803
Yes, it is.

>>17223771
rarely. James is recommended or said to be good, but never discussed

Is there a chart for people an inch away from going literally crazy

>>17224123
sure.

>>17224244
Pretty great chart, but why is The Manuscript Found in Saragossa on there? What's exit-level about it? It's not depressing and nowhere near similar to, say, The Melancholy of Resistance or Journey to the End of the Night.

>>17224281
>What's exit-level about it?
no one quite knows what "exit-core" means, search warosu and there are a lot of interpretations. The meaning has been lost

>>17224291
it is said one may leave this place for good after finishing this chart

>>17224244
missing Thomas Manns doktor faustus, probably the best example of this in the genre, seeking genius, he contracts syphilis, which satan later convinces him was a voluntary decision during a trance in sickness.

>>17223434
The top 10 is more like a top 12 desu.

>>17224373
>Tolstoy before Corncob and Pinecone
pesky Ruskies rigging elections again

>>17223548
Keyed

Here’s the real list.