/lit/ - Literature

0/100

Without looking I'm going to guess 5-10

>>18351845
Damn I thought we all lost our reading privileges, is that just me?

>>18351845
i have read several of these books

>Literally half or more of it is post-modern trash, genre fiction, or extremely entry level shit
Disgusting

>>18351845
Just read Stoner yesterday, was great, I'll pick some other from this list very soon

>>18351845
I've haven't been following this chart, but I've read 41 of them.

43ish

>>18351845
It's actually retarded to try to fill out a chart of random books like this instead of trying to understand a specific author, lineage, or time.

>>18351986
They should primarily be used to introuduce you to authors, by the time you've read a couple you should be able to adandon such a chart.

>>18351845
I'm in my third trimester, soon my hellspawn shall walk the earth and rightfully claim what is his

>>18351958
Stoner is one of my favorite, very depressing though cannot bring myself to read it again.

>>18351845
Didn't realise lit liked The Plague that much.
Surely this isn't from this year though, right? It seems like a lit top 100 from 2013

>>18351845
Wow. I got 29. Better than expected I
but still quite a long way to go.

>>18351845
39. There's a lot there that I'm not interested in reading, several I started on and abandoned.

>>18351845
This list is from 2014. Why lie and say it's from 2021 you faggot?
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/2/27/Top100lit2014.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20160102025035

>>18351930
>still clutching pearls at the sight of "genre fiction"

Fragile and close-minded, not gonna make it

>>18351845
More than half is Anglo trash

>inb4 not gonna mak it
>inb4 cope
>inb4 you've not read all of them
>inb4 midwit

>>18352359
A lot of it trash, Anglo or not.

>>18351845
I have read literally all of them except for the hipster anglo mutt trash and The Savage Detectives.

>>18351845
Ah, back when /lit/ used to vote for books they had read.

>>18351845
24/100
Did I miss the train, bros? Am I too behind?
Also there's too much genre fiction.

>>18351845
1

Ain't getting fooled twice.

>>18352434
Unironically just read what interests you, if you stress over what you read you may end up reading less. Out of those 24 books, which did you love? Which were a slog? Explore the works of the writers you loved.

>>18351845
24 so far. Plus I think the "call of" horror series should be counted, as well as the learned disguise.

Borges, Camus, Hesse? I’ll pass, my Reddit fren

>>18351845
10

49 it looks like. God, I feel like faggot

>>18351845
I still got a ways to go.

>hitchhikers guide

>>18351845
kek, the hobbit is literally the first book I've ever read when I was 6.
Apart from Moby Dick I refuse to read more burgers tho.

>>18351845
25/100, I own like 50/100 of those though, so got plenty on my backlog, not a bad list desu

>>18351845
this is from like 2015

/lit/ hates Vonnegut how is he so high

>>18351845
22/100

The Stranger
The Brothers Karamazov
Lolita
The Trial
Picture of Dorian Gray
Catcher in the Rye
1984
Great Gatsby
Hamlet
One Hundred Years of Solitude (3/4)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Odyssey
Metamorphosis
American Psycho
A Clockwork Orange
The Bible
Lord of the Flies
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Animal Farm
The Illiad
The Old Man and the Sea

>>18352601
that's why it's actually good and not full of lame religious shit or spammed with russians

>>18352705
because the list is 7 years old. The one from last year is much different

>>18351845
85
mostly good titles. nice list

>>18352766
All these books are stories are shit. Would sooner watch Rambo First Blood Part 2 than suffer through any of that shit.

>>18352803
*All these stories are shit

>>18352807
all of them?

>>18352757
Can you post the updated one

>>18352906
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/f/fa/Top100list2020-notrolls.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20210113205856
Here's a link just incase the image is poor quality

>>18352906

>>18352920
Thanks I love you anon

>Harry Potter
>How far along this irrelevant list are you /lit/?

>>18352944
Wait that's the wrong one (it didn't correct for troll answers) so I deleted it. I've posted for you the right one

>>18352977
>taking meme picks srsly
Anons weren't such self serious faggots back then.

>>18352942
Redpill me on house of leaves. I tried reading it and couldn't really get it. But I have bad memory retention. :(

>>18351845
36/100 for that one and 37/110 for the 2020 one. Funnily enough, there wasn't much overlap: ~15 books.

>>18352359
Large parts of this board are anglos, moreso in 2014 when that chart was made. Even now /lit/'s general distate for translations combined with the fact that 4channel is an English-language website makes anglo literature dominate the charts, see >>18352942

>>18352072
Might become my favorite too, but I'm not well-read at all for now so it might change quickly

>>18353581
Also I read it in french and nobody here seems to acknowledge this book even if it has been translated

>>18352324
>t. fat genre fiction reading man child

39

Green: Read
Yellow: Reading
Red: Will not read.

>>18351845
25/100, The Guide deserves to be way higher, certainly higher than the Harry Potter series

i regret reading dead souls. it's a turgid mess

My first time on /lit/, where do I start? I'm gonna buy some books.

>>18351845
>The Stranger
>Moby-Dick
>The Trial
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Catcher in the Rye
>1984
>The Great Gatsby
>Hamlet
>Notes from Underground
>Dune
>The Odyssey
>Heart of Darkness
>The Hobbit
>A Farewell to Arms
>The Metamorphosis
>The Sun Also Rises
>Harry Potter
>The Grapes of Wrath
>Solaris
>about 50% through The Bible
>Lord of the Flies
>Huckleberry Finn
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
>Animal Farm
>East of Eden
>The Old Man and the Sea

>>18351845
22/100

>>18354099
Newfag here.
What's wrong with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Also, should I get Ulysses?

>>18354149
Start with the Greeks

>>18353761
non-fiction is still fiction

>>18351845
8/100
I barely visit this board tho

>>18351845
34, but if you follow this list unironically you're an idiot.

About 38 if I counted correctly.

>>18354339
Why is that?
>>18354333
Checking those sweet digits

>>18354149
The Iliad. Fagles and Fitzgerald are great layman's translations; Lattimore is for a closer rendering of the Greek. Basically any of the three are solid starting points, and you can compare their translation styles here. https://iliad-translations.com/translation-comparison/ . Naturally The Odyssey is your follow up read, and the translation suggestions apply there as well. It may also be a good idea (depending on how familiar you are with classical mythology on the whole) to pick up Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Gods and Heroes, or Richard P. Martin's Myths of the Ancient Greeks. Both are terrific entry level reads for background to the Homeric epics, and just to literature in general.

this board talks a lot of shit about r*ddit even though the taste is pretty much the same.

>>18351845
25/100. More than I expected honestly.

>>18351845
6/100 sorry

>>18351845
25/100. Maybe 26 but I can't remember if I read East of Eden or not

>>18351845
48

>>18351845
1) Haven't read. 2) Haven't read 3) Haven't Read.
4) Haven't REad. 5) Haven't read. 6) Haven't read. 7) Haven't read. 8) Have read. 9) Haven't read. 10) Haven't read. 11) Haven't read. 12) Haven't read. 13) Have read. 14) Haven't read. 15) Haven't read. 16) Haven't read 17) Haven't read. 18) Haven't read. 19) Have read. 20) Haven't read. 21) Have read. 22) Have read. 23) Haven't read. 24) Haven't read. 25) Haven't read. 26) Haven't read. 27) Haven't read. 28) Haven't read. 29) Have read 30) Haven't read. 31) Have read. 32) Have read. 33) Haven't read. 34) Haven't read. 35) Haven't read. 36) Haven't read. 37) Haven't read. 38) Haven't read. 39) Haven't read. 40) Haven't read. 41) Haven't read. 42) Haven't read. 43) Haven't read. 44) Have read. 45) Have read! 46) Haven't read. 47) Haven't read. 48) Haven't read. 49) Have read. 50) Haven't read. 51) Haven't read. 52) Haven't read. 53) Have read. 54) Have read. 55) Haven't read. 56) Haven't read. 57) Haven't read. 58) Haven't read. 59) Haven't read. 60) Haven't read. 61) Haven't read. 62) Haven't read.

>>18351845
I own maybe about 30 of those books. Of that 30, I've probably only ever finished maybe 10-12 of them.

A lot of these universally praised classics are either incredibly boring or just waaay too fucking long.

>>18351845
Since when was #47 The Crying of Lot 49 written by Don Delillo?

39/100
Many of my favorite books aren't here. Some of the books in this chart aren't actually good. But fine, who cares if most people in this site are English-speaking teenagers.

>>18354873
Then post your favorite books then you whiny faggot.
You want to see change, fucking push for it. Don't be a moppy little bitch

>>18354873
now for >>18352942
30/100 + 6

>>18351930
It is a popularity chart, what do you expect?
Idiot.

>>18354914
I don't care for change, I think I made it clear. But, fine, a few good books (imo, of course):
>Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Turgenev
>Chekhov's Short Stories (all of them)
>On Heroes and Tombs, Sabato
>Obscene Bird of the Night, Donoso
>anything from Guimarães Rosa (no good translations into English, though)
>Kolyma Tales, Shalamov
>By Night in Chile, Bolaño (punchier than his longer works)
>If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Calvino (way better than Invisible Cities)
and some of the things on >>18354936

A few books that are fine, but definitely not "top 100":
>Ubik
>The Stranger
>Catcher in the Rye
>The Hobbit
>Harry Potter (c'mon)
>Valis
>Steppenwolf
etc.

>>18354976
Very good.
Thank you for your time

Too busy reading Call of the Crocodile, mate.

>>18351845
20

>>18351845
27/100

>>18355365
Fuck off with that shit.
Go be a faggot elsewhere

>>18351845
I got 24. Nice

37/100

*blocks your path* yep that's right i actually read books what are you going to do about it lit

Is there a /lit/ top 100 for non-fiction?

>>18354377
I am never going to understand why people recommend Hamilton. Not only are most people not going to actually get all that much out of it, but the majority of the theoretical value a hypothetical reader would get from it would probably be better suited to be learned via a footnote, if the edition has it for that particular bit of mythology, or just searching Wikipedia or something when you don't understand the mythological context of something. It would be one thing if Hamilton's Mythology was interesting to read, but it's absolutely not.

>>18354099
new to /lit/, surprised that I already read more than half of this list. Illuminatus was borderline readable, still ok, but harry potter is also where I will draw the line. Just got Infinite Jest based on it being in two of these lists now, you better not disappoint me /lit/!

Also, am I the only one that loves LeGuin and is disappointed not to see Earthsea or The Dispossessed on there? Also think Ender's Game/Series (at least first three) deserve a place. I mean, if Harry Potter can make this list...

I have knocked out a considerable portion of the top novels, which is all that really matters since the bottom half are totally arbitrary

>>18351845
10 or 11 and 4 or 5 more in part.

>>18357377
Which one was your favourite?

>>18351845
39/100 isn't bad, I guess. But that list is wank and the Iliad should be way, way, way higher, you midbrow pseuds.

>>18351845
27

>>18351845
77/100
Not a real list anyway

39/100. i tried to be as strict on the count as possible, there's plenty of things on there like the iliad and the odyssey and the bible and the divine comedy and don quixote that i'm familiar with but haven't read start to finish. also some books i got far in and dropped like pale king and mason dixon.

not to be mean but this list is also targeted for 19 year old boys. weird collection of required reading (catcher in the rye, great gatsby), meme authors (4 pynchon books out of 100 lol), and "literary" fantasy books (dune, tolkien, fuckin harry potter)

WHAT THE FUCK. I'VE ONLY READ 13 FUCKING BOOKS HERE. AND I THOUGHT I WAS BASED

>>18351845
31/100
I didn't count In Search of Lost Time or The Bible sine I haven't read either completely.

>>18351845
12/100
Also
>Harry Potter Series
>Top 100
Abysmal chart.

>>18351845

>Infinite Jest
>1984
>The Odyssey
>The Hobbit
>American Psycho
>The Iliad

I... am ashamed...

>>18354149
Start with the Mesopotamians.

>>18351845
Like only 22

7

>>18361050
How come you have read Absalom Absalom but not the sound and the fury?

>>18351845
I've read a few
02. YA
03. YA
04. garbage
09. nepotism
10. insane garbage (funny)
13. okay if you're 12
14. reddit
17. a good book
19. Trump's America
20. a good book
26. i wasn't 12 anymore
34. good book, talking cat, Jesus, funny
40. it's alright
43. great book
50. funny
51. a classic, i've read it about a dozen times
57. okay if you're 12
59. turboreddit
64. sickening filth
72. adolescent
80. a book for children
88. a great book
94. boring, primitive
97. even if you're 12 this sucks

>>18362478
let this be bait

>>18351881
Same here. Looked at the first row and I've read the Brothers Karamazov and Lolita. Extrapolating that, I assume I've also read around 5-10 books.

>>18362556
You can't refute it. Your fave is YA.

What a gay ass list

>>18362576
Wowee that's a based application of science dude!

>>18351845
i hope i don't get banned for asking but why isn't the fountainhead on this or any other list

>>18362780

>>18362785

>>18362790

>>18362795

>>18362798
i don't have a 2020 chart

>>18351845
>>18362803

>>18351845
46/100
also this list is trash and /lit/ has no taste

>>18362860
>says list is trash
>missed some of the best
what should be there that isn't?

>>18362875
That list is trash because it has lots of mediocre books. Not bad books, mind you, but very mediocre ones which can't be seriously compared to its neighbours. I do understand that this chart is a result of the poll and that it shows the popularity of certain books rather than their worth but still why do anons read so much Faulkner, Dick and Tolkien?
Also, where is Houellebecq? Every day there is a thread or two about him and yet he isn't present.

>>18362910
>where's Houellebecq?
votes for him might be distributed to his five or so known books, hence none of them make the top 100. he'd be included in a top 100 authors.

>>18362714
Cause for the most part Ayn Rand causes monumental amounts of seethe here. Personally though, I like The Fountainhead. Roark is about as based as you can get.

>>18351930
Nigger

>>18351845
Rolling for what my life will be like

>>18363336
>war and peace get
prepare for poverty, peasant
>rolling
check mine

>>18351845
19/100

>>18362478
The only one you’re right about is 14
This is bait

>>18363318
seething by definition is intense unexpressed anger? in the preface she mentions that that's the flow of energy one has when he wants to change the world and then gives up on the dream. not sure what parts seem like seething and what it means in your context but thanks for the response, i'm glad we agree on something.

>>18357813
Hard to say. The only ones I did not enjoy were White Noise, The Master & Margarita, and The Crying Of Lot 49.

My favorites might be 2666, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, Lolita, Don Quixote, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Brothers Karamazov

>>18363597
I'm not talking about the book. I'm talking about the reaction she elicits when ever someone here brings her up (she's a very polarising character). I was thinking though, just based on popularity, if any of her works were to be in this list Atlas Shrugged is probably more likely. The Fountainhead is better though... at least in my opinion.

>>18351845
>Catch-22
>1984
>The Hobbit
>A Clockwork Orange
>American Psycho
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>Fight Club
Does watching the movies count?

>>18363884
I guess if you put subtitles on.

>>18352757
it says from 2021 though?

>>18351845
66/100

>>18351845
Well, I read a book each day. I'm really intelligent, yes. I basically finished that list a month ago. I can read 3x that list in a year.

For anyone wondering, Infinite Jest is a meme and a terrible book.

>>18364068
>t. F Gardner enjoyer

>>18351845
Only 14.

I should really stop procrastinating. I've read like 1% of the books I own.

>>18351845
39/100

>>18351845
Why is harry potter there

>>18364077
Never read anything by F. Gardner. And there's a reason nearly all of the people in this thread have never read the "number 1" book; it's a joke.

>/r/ing that pic of AOC explaining how it's her favorite book

>>18351845
What are some prime midwit books? Just read Old Man and the Sea and it was great. I love simple lines about wanting to chop off your left hand if it doesn't get its act together.

>>18351845
4 proper + bits of two
Hamlet
parts of the bible
animal farm
hitchhikers (its inclusion is further evidence /lit/ is full of idiots)
Hobbit
a bit of paradise lost

Last two digits of this post is the book i read next (unless its some childrens book). Roll

Animal Farm/100

>>18351845
13/100, +2 abridged version as a kid (Illiad & Odyssey), and a handful I started but got tired of (Infinite Jest, Voyage au bout de la nuit, etc). A few are on my backlog, but i'm burn out of fictions for now.

No idea what the fuck Harry potter is doing here.

>>18351845
>but 1488 would've been better
holy mother of cringe

>>18352158
2014

only 34

>>18354254
>What's wrong with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Nothing, it's a good book. The fanbase is obnoxious though. They're like a mix of the quoting Holy Grail fans and the fake science nerds. OP is a fag for dismissing the book though.

>>18351845
101

I've read 20 of them

>>18354143
t. polack

Monktree go read Bartleby the Scrivener

>>18351930
based

49/100
haven't read some since middle and high school but whatever.
what do I read next?

>>18351845
5/100 but there are 2 of them I should read again.

What’s with all the children’s books?

ITT: these books are shit and I have not read them.

>>18368249
A Tale of Two Cities or
Stoner or
Fear and Loathing or
The Grapes of Wrath (how you have read so much of this list and not this surprises me).

37 for me

>>18352568
>>18354099
>>18354753
>>18354873
>>18354936
>>18356022
>>18357377
>>18360107
>>18361050
>>18362860
>>18368249
>>18368308
Please edit your image like this anon: >>18368997

>>18353002
its bad in lots of ways and one of the few books i wish i hadnt wasted time reading.

>>18351845
I'm not reading this pseud garbage lmao

>>18351930
This

>>18369006
There. Realized I only read 32 out of 100

>>18351845
/lit/king here
I've read 5 books on this list, one of which is Harry Potter
/lit/king here

>>18371032
ok

>>18369988
cringe

>>18367800
no

>>18351845
99/100. Only one I'm missing is hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, which I refuse to read because it's reddit shit.

>>18351873
fpbp

>>18351845
4, and one of them is harry potter so not really proud of that.

>>18351845
>harry potter series
Why?

>>18352987
>self serious
Ok retard, thanks for your input.

>>18352942
What is this grotesque satire? It's disgusting.

>>18377626
Retarded pseud.

>>18377650
When you name the retard he lashes out in anger for it is his only recourse.

>>18377670
Retarded pseud
>retard doubles down on his pretentiousness

>>18377679
>pretentiousness
>self serious
>>retard doubles down on his pretentiousness

>>18377670
>newfag retard can't even post properly
Fucking embarrassing lol. No wonder you are crying about Harry potter in a /lit/ list.

>>18377690
>cries about muh harry potter
>N-no you are pretentious. I totally know what self serious means
Describes faggots like you to a tee lmao.

>>18377691
>>18377703
lol I made a typo so I deleted my post, a totally normal, human, thing to do. Your raving, bitter, loathing, multiple replies prove me correct when I point out the fact you're a retard. Look how upset you are retard.
>hyphen

>>18377724
>lol I made a typo so I deleted my post, a totally normal, human, thing to do
Because you are double digit IQ lmao.
>retard can't even type properly.
>"I-I am not retard durrr, your retard durrf retard"
Look how mad you are Ahahahahaha!!!
Eat my shit, retarded newshit.

42. /lit/ has really mediocre taste

>>18377769
>no u
Indicative.

>>18377769
>>retard can't even type properly.
Ironic.

>>18378974
>>18378979
>>18378974
>still seething after two hours
>"N-no you are mad and retarded"
Ironic.

>Infinite Memes
Started but not finished
>GR
Started but not finished
>The Trial
Started but not finished
>Ulysses
Finished
>1984
Finished
>Notes from Underground
Finished, I love this book btw
>The Odysee
Finished, but I haven't read the Illiad
>The Divine Comedy
Finished
>The Waves
Started but not finished
>Stoner
Finished
>Dublines
Started but not finished
>Heart of Darkness
Finished, probably my favourite book
>The Crying of Lot 49
Finished, the epitome of style over substance imo
>Metamorphosis
Finished
>Harry Potter
Finished
>Solaris
Finished, what a weird book
>A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
Finished, so boring I swear to G-d
>To The Lighthouse
Started but not finished, Woolf keeps filtering me
>Also sprach Zarathustra
Started but not finished
>Animal Farm
Finished
>Walden
Started but not finished
>The Old Man and the Sea
Finished

Am I /lit/ yet

>>18378998
I see you're still hanging off my every word, shows you're a no-life loser (which does correlate with being a moron). I think at this point I have to explain since you're too stupid to take the hint: self-serious has a hyphen. It's a dumb phrase to use but you also used in incorrectly which makes you look even more retarded (along with the lego batman gif you posted in an attempt at a gotcha moment). I know you're too childishly arrogant to have the self-awareness, or intelligence, to admit you were wrong so I'll let you have the last word since you equate that to success. All you've posted is the 'no u' meme from the beginning. It doesn't bother me, it's just pathetic. As expected from a loser ferociously defending Harry Potter.
>My last reply retard

>>18351845
5/100, starting Odyssey soon.

>>18379066
You are so retarded nigger, it's fucking hilarious. You are genuinely a "self-serious faggot" like I described. Imagine being such a newfag loser you stay mad over a fucking hyphen for 3 hours lmao. only a fucking ESL would think there is anything wrong with putting a hyphen over there. This is the epitome of being a pretentious, worthless loser with too much free time and sensitivity of a lil' bitch. You probably wanted some obscure book that nobody has read on the list, like /lit/ is some bastion of great literary taste. Fags like you are the first to cry over how shit /lit/ is.
Cut the bullshit, you are fooling nobody. you are so fucking dumb that you can't even see how apt my criticism is for your behaviour. For 3 hours you have been trying to get even with the name calling. Bitch was trying to patronize me for multiple replies but is so assblasted he is doing the same.>>18378974>>18378979
>newshit retard is unironically using ">>" to quote
Oh my! so many ways to pwn your retarded ass.....must control myself....
>"last reply"
No, retard. I know how fucking puny you are. You will see all the name calling and be buttblasted enough to reply again, newshit.

Tl;dr: do your parents a favour and find a busy intersection.

>>18379066
P.S.
>It's a dumb phrase to use but you also used "in" incorrectly which makes you look even more retarded (along with the lego batman gif you posted in an attempt at a gotcha moment).
This nigger still can't type to save his life but has the gall to lecture people. And this is an imageboard reddit retarded bitch, what else do you expect?