/lit/ - Literature

>>19470988
checked

bump

>>19470988
BUMPING

1. Moby Dick
2. Iliad
3. Gravity's Rainbow
4. Thus spoke Zarathustra
5. Metamorphoses Ovid

>>19471034
GR to the top bros

A bit early isn't it?

>>19471043
No
2014's list ran in the spring
2016's list ran from September 30th to October 13th
2017's list was December 30th to Jan 2 (so a /lit/izen had to be on during the holidays)
Might as well start it end of November and let it run till sometime deep in December so we have the results and chart by Christmas

>>19470988
Dont try to fucking censor it like last time by removing Mein Kampf and the Bible

>>19471034
Yeah, just place it in the form
>>19471070
I'm no redditor

I haven't read every book ever but these are the five I picked:

Death of a Salesmen
The Rules of Attraction
The Tunnel (Gass)
The Sound of The Mountain
The Remains of The Day

>>19470988
Call of the crocodile
Call of the arcade
Call of the kappa
Call of the cradle
Call of the cherokee

>>19470988
Is it possible to vote for the same book five times? iirc that's how last year we got hitler on top

>>19470988
I'll give some thoughts, but I'm sure the following will happen:

>Thousands of years of human literature
>Half of the list will be 20th century American writers, including memebooks that will be completely forgotten in a century from now (such as DFW or Pynchon)
>Some Greeks, Romans and Russians here and there, maybe even a modern Jap, but nothing beyond this
>No Sumerian, Hindu Persian, Chinese, Arabic or Scandinavian literature

>>19471181
>>19471349
Please use the form
>>19471430
No, if the same person votes for the same title multiple times, it only counts as one vote. It would be the same as if you just put one vote, then left the rest blank.
>>19471513
You'd be surprised, looking at the results. You are welcome to include eclectic pieces, who knows.

>>19471181
>>19471349
Please use the form
>>19471430
No, if all the titles selected are the same, it only counts as 1. It would be the same if you only voted for 1 book. I'll note that the under-appreciated authors that don't make the top 10 will be included in a B-list poll after the results come in.
>>19471513
Looking at the results so far, you'd be surprised. Just vote the books that you have found to be your most favorite.

>>19471430
>that's how last year we got hitler on top

>>19471513
boo hoo nigga ion care

>>19470988
Is it already that time of year again. Christ almighty.

>IM GONNA..... IM GONNA VOOOOT

>>19471070
Anyone who vote Mein Kampf is an edgelord faggot, that book is mediocre and reads like it was written by an incel

>must be signed in
I will not be doing that so here I will list the top 5 books I read this year.

1. The Sun Also Rises
2. The Three Theban Plays
3. Growth of the Soil
4. A Sand County Almanac
5. The Mill on the Floss

>>19472186
This. The bible on the other hand is a highly valuable (and extremely important) piece of literature, regardless of its ideological connotations.

Oresteia by Aeschylus
Madame Bovary
Sex and Character by Weininger (pbuh)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian
Moby Dick

>>19470988
Are you going to filter the meme books or are you going to ruin this chart like it was ruined last year?

>>19471690
How are the entries weighted, like how many more points does a number 1 slot garner vs a number 5?

>>19471070
>Mein Kampf never shows up on a list in previous years
>last year every OP mentions Mein Kampf specifically
>Mein Kampf ends up on the list

>>19472530
Last year's list was raided by /pol/ because a butthurt anon got upset that last year's OP said he wasn't going to censor meme picks (he said something about memes being a part of /lit/ culture), and then the butthurt anon went to /pol/ asking them to raid the list with Mein Kampf to just to fuck with last year's OP. Cue shitstorm of Mein Kampf votes.

>>19472542
Very interesting anon, now tell me, are those /pol/ chuds here with us now?

>>19472564
Would you like them to be?

>>19472568
I mean, you're the one whining about the /pol/ boogeyman

>>19472574
I'm not whining anon.

>>19472206
Signed in to a Google account, your info doesn't get shared. The only info given is when you voted and what you voted.
>>19472471
This is open to everyone, different individuals have different tastes. I will just report the aggregate
>>19472486
This is no weighting, it is a simple write in plurality vote.

>>19472186
>>19472267
Back to Ieddit

>>19470988
2019wtf?
1.byswanswaydeluxe
2.ofmiceandmen
3.plato
4.eccehomo
5.dictionary.com

>>19475181
What?

>>19470988
Hurrah for the yearly utter disaster! What catastrophes shall we encounter this time?

>not starting with a secure tripcode
>not providing any rules
>probably don't know how to properly use spreadsheets
>may not keep posting threads as they die
>many other problems

>>19473273
>still not using a secure tripcode

>>19475857
The rules are simple, add up to 5 different books that are your favorite of all time

Everything else is just your speculation

You know what to vote for.

Does it need to be formatted in any way, like full title and then author? and when do results get announced?

>>19470988
watch all the beta males. put endless fiction books.

>>19475951
>watch all the beta males. put endless fiction books.

>>19475934
On the form I only ask for the book. You can add the author if you want, "title - author".
For most books listed so far it's not a problem, but feel free to add the author.
Results will be announced December 17th. Thus this poll runs for 3 weeks
>>19475951
Feel free to add your favorite non-fiction books

>>19470988
1. Absalom, Absalom!
2. Moby Dick
3. The Recognitions
4. As I Lay Dying
5. In Search of Lost Time

>>19475951
spoken like a godchad
brace yourself for the inevitable virgin replies

>>19475951
>>19476010
samefag

>>19476014
>>19476014
samefag

>>19470988
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

Oh fuck homo thugs, moby dick will be number 1

>The Holy Bible
>The Imitation of Christ
>Mein Kampf
>The Art of the Deal
>On the Jews and Their Lies
Simple as.

Lacademie
The learned disguise
Mein Kampf
My twisted world
There's a tale to this city

Op, kindly input the results for me I don't have a google account

>>19474193
Back to your discord server, fag

Voting for Le Greeks

add these OP because I dont have a google acc:
1) In Search of Lost Time
2) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
3) Don Quixote
4) Frankenstein
5) L'etranger (not a personal favourite but it deserves to be charted)

>>19470988
This time /lit/ HAS TO put some Indian literature or philosophy. Fags just write The Bhagavad Gita. This year there should be more than one books from India.

>>19476606
That would mean lit would have to read and enjoy Indian Literature

>>19470988
>The Mahabharata
>The Bhagavad Gita
>Gitanjali
>Midnight's Children
>Godaan

>>19476611
>That would mean lit would have to read and enjoy Indian Literature
and 'understand' too

>>19470988
bump

I will be submitting the form, but here's the list for anyone who wants to judge.
1. A Canticle for Leibowitz
2. Storm of Steel
3. Gormenghast Trilogy
4. The Man who was Thursday
5. Roadside Picnic

>>19476606
Recommend some Indian literature and philosophy.

>>19476646
Patrician taste

>>19471034
cringe

>>19472186
but it makes people like you seethe
go back LOL

>>19476928
fuck off newfag

>>19476928

>>19476606
good morning sirs

>>19476681
>Plays, poems by Kalidasa,
>Novels and poems of Tagore, also Gitanjali (which singlehandedly won him the Nobel).
>Some modern poets include: Nissim Ezekiel, Ruskin Bond, Vikram Seth
>Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie
>Satyajit Ray's short stories (he was primarily a filmmaker though).

Philosophy:-
>Vedas and Upanishads
>Mahabharata and Ramayana
>Gita, though with different commentaries like that of Shankaracharya
>Vasubandhu, Chanakya, Nagarjuna, Carvaka,

>>19476630
A terrible way to present and the worst version to do so.

>>19477855
idiot

>>19476577
>L'etranger (not a personal favourite but it deserves to be charted)
This shit is charted every single year with or without your help you tourist, it was even top fucking two a few years prior.

Critique of Pure Reason
Divine Comedy
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Master and Margarita

>>19478067
t.has never felt the warmth of a non-mother woman.

>>19476928
embarrassing

The Man Without Qualities
Flowers of Evil
War and Peace
The Red and the Black
The Savage Detectives

>>19476630
What are you using to do this?

>>19470988
>best books of all time
It's kind of a silly poll. If it were like "favorite books" it might make a bit more sense, but are we supposed to determine if some novel we like is better than Homer or Dante?

>>19478650
>If it were like "favorite books" it might make a bit more sense
Thats how I took it, I put my personal favs in. I think you're right that OP should have worded it a bit better.

>>19478042
doesn't change the fact that it deserves to be charted

1) My diary Desu
2) Poems from the Finno-Korean Hyperwar
3) The Decline of the Sex

Results so far?

>>19476646
Picnic is horrible and Canticle is great

>>19476646
Huge midwit energy

>>19476928
>go back LOL

>>19477427
currently reading the english edition of Gitanjali (Song Offerings), it is quite good indeed, anon

curious what the results will be now that /qa/ fags have invaded the board

>>19479861
>>19479982
I'm not revealing any of the books as to avoid potentially baising the results, but there almost 200 responses so far.

>>19480239
Note:
192 responses on Q.1
188 responses on Q.2
185 responses on Q.3
181 responses on Q.4
179 responses on Q.5
So that is 925 books submitted as of right now, of course there are select ones that have taken the lead, so it is not 925 different books, but there is quite a good variety that will only get better as time goes on.

>>19478650
>>19479230
On the form it asks for "up to 5 of your favorite books of all time"
I'll make sure to use that phrasing in the thread next post.

>>19476630
>>19477855
>>19477857
Here's one example that's better than that, though there are others.

>>19479577
why does it deserve to be charted? why THE FUCK does it deserve to be charted??

use something that doesnt require a jewgle account and ill vote

200 responses now
~1000 books

>>19480239
No one cares, don't be a pussy

stoner
blood meridian
Sailor Who Fell with grace with the sea
The Idiot
The bible

>>19481025
>the idiot over brothers karamazov
ngmi

>>19481034
I'm reading that soon

>>19480844
Oh no I did Author - Title (because that's how it should be)

>>19481044
Since this is just about the books, I prioritized the book. Don't worry, I'll be adjusting them to all be the same so the spreadsheet is easiest to read. Reformatting isn't a big deal. Thank you for voting.

>>19481043
Lol

>>19481043
Godspeed then

>>19476646
>3. Gormenghast Trilogy
Based and same.

>>19481113
>>19481186
:0 is it a difficult read?

>>19481205
It's not that different from the Idiot in terms of difficulty, your cat just made me laugh

Did my part and voted. Looking forward to complaining at the results

>>19476427
Op I agree with this please put in these answers for me as well as I also do not have a google account

>The Holy Bible
>Brothers Karamazov
>Crime and Punishment
>Pensées
>Fear and Trembling

>>19477157
Good morning

>>19476606
good morning sir

>>19470988
Thus spoke Zarathustra
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Germinal
The Master and Margarita
The Devils

maybe Plague by Camus

>log in
guess I wont be participating in this along with every other Anon who values privacy. Enjoy your skewed results.

>>19482035
privacy doesn't exists nowadays so wote

>>19470988
My vote:
1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
3. Half of man is woman - Zhang Xianliang
4.Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
5 Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
I wanted to balance books that'll get there anyway with books that might not

>>19482035
The results are always skewed. It's only a matter of which sort of skew is preferred.

>>19482180
In this case it will be the zoomies dragging everyone down

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Upanishads Eknath Easwaran
Bhagavad Gita
Communist Manifesto Karl Marx

>>19470988
Easy.
1. The Alchemist
2. Harry Potter and Prisoner of Askaban
3. Art of War
4. Oliver Twist
5. 50 Shades of Grey

It's a tie between 4th and 5th place desu

>>19482109
>Zhang Xianliang
this nigga straight up chinese

submitted the form. my choices:

1. Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
2. Faust - Goethe
3. Furdydurke - Gombrowicz
4. Wuthering Heights - Bronte
5. Labyrinths - Borges

>>19482883
>5. 50 Shades of Grey

>>19483763
Read more

>>19483799
I forgot to say based underneath it, my mistake.

>>19470988
2022 I'll read all the books on the list!

>>19470988
I'll read all the books in 2022!

Doing my duty as a /lit/izen with a bump

Voted for Kilpi again. Hopefully he makes top 100 this year.

>>19485068
Come the reveal
>anon

>>19470988
Gonna be pretty much the same books as every year, I expect. Seems to be almost entirely fiction, with a few philosophical books (usually Nietzsche, Augustine). Will be interesting to see how much Houellebecq makes it on this time around.

>>19470988
1.The Bible
2.
3.
4.
5.

>>19480844
raided or we go for a record

>>19485847
Everything is looking good so far!
Hopefully we can reach 500 or even 1000 by December 15th

not voting. get back to me when you don't mandate a google account.

>>19485997
>>19485997
nice try /pol/fag, raid your mom or smth

bump; I voted.

First year voted - fight the good fight survey taker

>>19486366
>>19486092
Thanks for voting!

>>19476630
Look at this image! Year after year. Why do /lit/fags have such a hard on for dick?

test

>>19486418
welcome back

>>19481432
BASED fear and trembling

>>19486534
It's good if you are into yuri femdom

The Bible by God

Heh. Heh. Heh...

>>19477157
I hate women

>>19487067
me too

>>19485890
There are not that many people on /lit/. 1000 votes would mean that the contest got raided by poltards or, even worse, redditors.

>>19487929
not so worse than i thinked

>>19487929
How many are we then?
>the contest got raided by poltards or, even worse, redditors
The whole fucking catalogue has been like that for months

>>19487929
Would you say 500 is the cap?
Previous polls run in the 350-500 range
I was expecting to get around 500

>>19487978
what are we at now pollster?

Hehehe someone just submitted HITLER..... xD

bump

>>19487929
There are easily 1000 people on /lit/, we get 150 in a single thread often.

>>19488316
We are at 300 now

>>19489733
Are you planning to weed out the obvious memes/shills?

>>19489780
>>19471151

>>19476681
Rupi Kaur

The Iliad
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
East of Eden
Growth of the Soil

>>19482109
Would you recommend Steppenwolf to someone that did not enjoy Siddhartha?

>>19470988
1) The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
2) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
3) Histories by Thucydides
4) Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
5) Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Bump

>>19489918
I guess I'm more concerned with shills. Nothing against the Bible, Mein Kampf, etc.

>>19470988
Ayn Rand
>The Fountainhead

Mark Twain
>The Mysterious Stranger

Voltaire
>Candide

Mises
>Theory & History

God
>The Bible

>>19483763
Actually I probably should have put that up there instead of The Bible ( Nothing against you God - A bible is in a category of its own )
The thing about 50 shades is that it demonstrates a realistic level of masculinity because it comes from the perspective of a woman, who ultimately is able to recognize these things better than men.

Its the same thing with Shoujo anime. Yes; most Shoujo is fucking garbage, but when they get it right:
>Girls Monthly Nozaki Kun
>My Little Monster
The man is tall, doesnt give too much of a fuck about the woman, he lacks emotion and has a peaceful demeanour instead, and is on his own path.
Contrast that with any harem anime, the MC is usually some nerdy short weak emotional guy, who is loved by women despite his extreme dishonesty, only because he did something implausibly simple, like:
>hot girl drops her books
>He picks it up
>[girl] oh no guy has ever done that sort of thing for me

So in short; 50 shades of Gray is a great book.

>>19490510
troll

>>19490532
>t. Natsuki Subaru
Cry moar.

are we talkng tens or hundreds of responses to this poll?

>>19490840
any nudes or lewds of molly?

>>19490840
We are already at 324 responses, easily hundreds.

>login to google

mein kampf
fanged noumena
on war
tractacus logico-philosophicus
phenomenology of spirit

>>19470988
when are results out
>>19490448
>Ayn Rand
shit taste

>>19491118
>shit taste
Be more specific.
The Fountainhead is an excellent novel, but has appeal only to a narrow class of individuals who can fully appreciate its nuances.
Frankly; I havn't read a better novel, and when mocked about it prior; I asked for something better and never got a response.

So? You going to reccomend James Joyce or some other book full of superflous meandering fluff? Something you don't understand and conclude it must therefore be brilliant?

>>19491067
oh no not the heckin glowniggerinos

>>19491151
>only a few can understand the nuance of Rand's novel
>Joyce is bad because I didn't understand it
I'mnot the same guy and I actually quite liked Atlas shrugged. Assuming the fontainhead is anything like it, nuanced isn't how I would describe it, in fact I appreciated her choice to lay bare her ideaology without any pretense of hiding it.

>>19491151

>>19491185
>and I actually quite liked Atlas shrugged. Assuming the fontainhead is anything like it
Its not. Its very VERY different.
Atlas Shrugged... is embarrassing to read.
Ayn Rand wrote most of it while high on speed.

The Fountainhead is much more sober.
Its antagonists aren't wooden nor one dimensional, and they each explore an ideal of a strong competent man, who's true success is just an inch out of their reach. It tries to explound upon the idea of Egoism as a virtue, and what true selfishness and true altruism looks like.

Atlas Shrugged on the other hand had black and white characters, and it's villians are perpetually incompetent and given names like
>Tinky Halloway
Where Heroes are given names like
>Sebastian McPowerfulChad

>>19491223
I've never read it. What I know about it is that a Hippy was telling me about how profound it was, and said something like
>those who control the spice control the universe
I felt embarrassed for him that this was the hot take he got from this book. I'm sure that retard Malthus would be proud.

>>19491271
>Atlas Shrugged on the other hand had black and white characters
Sure the character are all caricature, but they're entertaining and serve to convey her point. It's like a classic morality tale, but for Rand very peculiar ethic.

>>19491271
>>19491298
to add one thing, I don't think the bad guys in atlas shrugged are all one dimensional, the fact that they are in the wrong is never in question but the like of Jim Taggard and Rearden's wife are given plenty of depth

>>19491298
Yeah there are apologists who state that romance shouldn't be so closely scrutinized, which I understand.
But the problem with her classic morality tale Atlas Shrugged ( I view it more as Science Fiction ), is that when done properly, the villians are made as competent and as strong as possible, who in this book are primarily politicians, who she merely assumes to be people who do not think beyond a single thought. Sort of like:

>Well if everyone is poor, then lets pass a law to make everyone rich!
>hurr durr I'm just like Occasio Cortez
If I had to make her write it again, I would have her write the politicians as cynics acutely aware of how manipulative and stupid the masses could be, that idealism is punished, and that people do not deserve good governence, and so
>I might as well have power and make my coin.
But instead, she makes them giant dirty diaper wearing babies.

>Jim Taggard and Rearden's wife are given plenty of depth
Even in those cases. She should but probably did not recognize what [people like] Rearden's wife are actually doing.
She was testing Rearden, to see if he was weak. Rearden was dishonest in how he treated and talked to her. He was in effect, a Beta Male; Something holistically repulsive to any self respecting woman.
Jim Taggard... He just reminded me of some sort of squeeling jew type of character. Weak, neurotic, and not capable of self reflection or deserving of any sympathy.

>>19491384
I see AS as not trying to convince of Rand viewpoint, simply presenting without any reserve her belief

>>19471070
>Dont try to fucking censor it like last time by removing Mein Kampf and the Bible
okay reddit

>>19491118
Dec 15

>>19491687
I don't know what you are trying to say.

Moby Dick
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Abolition of Man
The Silmarilion

STFU I haven't read much okay, I'll need a few years before I can put some non fantasy stuff on there

>>19477157
Please do the needful sor and redeem your votes for the five sir

>>19476606
>>19481835
>>19477157
>>19492060
good morning sirs!

>>19481043
Cute puss

>>19483763
Five and a half shades of grey?

What's the best audiobook?

bumperino

>>19471070
>removing Mein Kampf and the Bible
I think only MK was removed, which is weird

>>19493854
only weird if you’re newfag

>>19470988
The Decline of the West
A Clockwork Orange
Stinky Steve
War and peace
The old man and the sea

>>19477157
>>19481835
>>19492060
>>19492069
good morning sir.
Lmao I am so funny

Bump

>>19471070
it was not censored, they simply made two copies
actual copy is picrel

>>19471070
>>19494041
picrel is the "modified" version minus the bible and MK

Finally, picrel is 2019. All previous editions allowed the Bible. Whoever's making this list better not be the same one as the 2020 fag

Here's a list of all previous charts, someone's posted this stuff already probably I'm just too bored to read through the whole thread. Cheers

>>19494046
plenty of other memes was removed as well from this list, but bible should’ve stayed on

>>19494046
You posted the novels one, which nobody bothered voting for since it was completely redundant

iliad
odyssey
beowulf
bible
oera linda

>>19494406
>beowulf
explain

>>19494413
The first old english epic, very influential and poetic, unique monster, etc. Would we even have modern fantasy without it?

>>19494431
The prompt was your favorite though, not the best all time, and would think the reasons for a book being your favoorite should be more than just influential.

>>19471034
Moby Dick was ok to me. It wasnt outatanding, what did you find so good about it? The homosexual undertones?
>>19476577
Why DQ? I found it repetitive.
Isnt it inly famous cause it was the first modern novel. Not cause its good. Its like enjoying the first cave painting over Rembrandt.
>>19482833
Marx, I love the retard political comeedies as well like Mein Kampf, a good chuckle at how retarded people were at economics back in the day.
>>19482883
Twisty aint bad not top 10 though. (Obvs youre joking).
>>19489949
Great book East if Eden dont know why so many jack to Grapes. I think Seppas must have read it in school and thats the only book they know cause it was short.
>>19490448
Best list so far. Needs Rothbard.
>>19491098
Clausewitz? A decent straregy book better than that faggy shit by asian Zu.
>>19492462
Not a book but TTC is good.

>>19494346
How do we vote on this one? This one's for the novel list I presume?
It's marginally better. Some good surprises (Bataille) some not so good (Guenon) but I can't find it anywhere on the /lit/ charts page

>>19494483
What's TTC?

>>19494483
kys m8

>>19470988
hope they don't censor MK this year, also hope for more diversity and authors from the Balkans and EE!

>>19494456
I self insert as beowulf, having that much physical power. I imagine living in a time of close connections between related clans. Very comfy. Other, more modern writings don't do it for me. I've never read conan the barbarian, does that have a similar vibe?

I voted for books I've never read, but sounds fun

>>19494784
cool

>>19494740
Right, so you're trolling. Thanks for wasting my time.

>>19494831
fucking idiot

>>19494854
Ok bro it was funny but you need to be more subtle next time.

>>19470988
1. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
2. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
3. Ulysses - James Joyce
4. The Tunnel - William Gass
5. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil

>>19494528
>but I can't find it anywhere on the /lit/ charts page
Probably because whoever archived the 2020 didn't feel like including a chart that was arbitrarily tempered with
You can't find the original 2019 one either I think, which originally included antifragile, mein kampf, and industrial society and it's future

>>19494528
>This one's for the novel list I presume?
There never was a distinction between fiction and non fiction for these charts before last year. I guess the anon Who made the poll was looking for recs and didn't want to bother weeding out the philosophy entries

>>19494831
I'm not trolling... how is that weird? The historical importance and poetry appeals to me, that didn't appeal to you, so i thought about what else i liked about it.

>>19491803
I recognize it's extra work, but I'd encourage you to include the vote count for each book in your chart. Thanks for your work on this.

>>19495137
ok whatever bro

>>19494941
>>19494528
They're in the charts mega.

>>19491780

>>19470988
I don't have a Google account

>>19495319
make it

>>19495690
Kill yourself kike

>Faust
>Candide
>Aeneid
>Divine Comedy
>The Trial

Voltaire doesn't get enough love on /lit/.

>>19494784
This is the correct /lit/ response.

>>19494055
I'm a different person, this is the first lost that I will make
>>19494528
Vote with the firm included in the OP post.
This is for your favorite books, be the fiction or non-fiction.
>>19494684
I'm not here to be a censor, but to be a registrar of /lit/s votes.
>>19495165
Yes, I intend on including the vote counts of each book.

>>19494055 #
I'm a different person, this is the first list that I will make
>>19494528 #
Vote with the firm included in the OP post.
This is for your favorite books, be the fiction or non-fiction.
>>19494684 #
I'm not here to be a censor, but to be a registrar of /lit/s votes.
>>19495165 #
Yes, I intend on including the vote counts of each book.

>>19495881
you can delet it afterwards

>>19495881
t. cannot set up a vpn and come out with a fake name and date of birth
ngmi

Don't forget to vote for underrated books
Burke
Thucydides
Hobbes
Aeschylus
Herodotus
Machiavelli
Codreanu

>>19496489
come up*

Hamlet
Hamlet
Hamlet
Hamlet
Hamlet

>>19497342
This would count as 1 vote for Hamlet.

was relatively sure most of the stuff i felt belonged was gonna make it on so i just voted for pic related. posting for the bump

>>19494041
Mein Kampf aside, this list is an outlier from previous top-100s. Many of the old standbys are still there, but I don't remember seeing a good third of those books on a top 100 before. Having Faulkner's Absalom Absalom and Ishiguros Unconsoled suggests that this list is at least somewhat based, even though there are a number of shit books on here as well.

What went so right *and* so wrong last year?

>>19470988
>using a survey that requires people to sign in
>on an anonymous imageboard
faggot

>>19489953
I found Siddhartha to be meh while Steppenwolf is one of my favorite all time books

>>19489949
Dosto was a degenerate pulp fiction writer who was paid by the word to fuel his insatiable gambling addiction. If you like his work you are the literary equivalent of a soccer mom picking up a harlequin romance novel in the check out line at the local super market.

>>19495927
Why did you like Candide so much? I thought it was okay but nothing really stood out to me. I get the satire and humor of it but it was just mostly forgettable

>>19498350
I never noticed before, but it’s pretty retarded that this pasta says “the literary equivalent of” and then uses a literary example

That's weird, noones mentioned my self-published book?

>>19498196
>>19496489

>>19496491
>Hobbes
Thoughts on Leviathan?
>Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France is more depressing because Burke begins the downfall of Anglo "philosophy." Burke's perspective against abstract / speculative metaphysics is more telling than his criticism of the Enlightenment/Revolution. Burke certainly is principled, but for abstract metaphysics he has no time, and no patience. It is amusing then that he takes this theme in order to critique positions, which are those affirmed by the modern left - and affirmed by the left in an anti-metaphysical perspective. Marx was a retard but his critique on Burke was unironically 100% true


>Herodotus
>Thucdides
Based
Reflections on the Revolution in France represents everything wrong with Anglos

>>19498357
I liked the humor mixed with debating the theory of optimism. The dialogues felt like a clever crackhead play and Voltaire's knowledge in geography is impressive. It had me thinking all the way through about whether things realy are as good as they can possibly be and whether all evils realy do serve a greater good and I still can't give honest answers. The work presents simple yet deep questions wrapped in a funny and accessible format.

>>19498189
>What went so right *and* so wrong last year?
There was a system implemented that allowed you to vote multiple times for the same book, so each response could contribute up to 10 points to a novel's tally
How ishiguro made it in? An anon really likes it and probably wrote it in 10 times

>>19470988
This can't possibly be the best of all time if it's an annual thing.

>>19497342
Fucking based.

>>19499018
It's more to get an indication of how the board has progressed and changed over the year. A harmless bit of fun if nothing else.

400 responses so far

All those charts should rename with "Anglo appreciation".
This is fucking retarded.

>>19499373
why

>>19499373
what language are you posting in, mon ami?

>>19499514
Ah yes because English being the heh lingua franca implies that its literature is somehow superior. In reality it merely results in this board being flooded with amerimutts that will shove anything that their mediocre literary tradition has produced up other people's asses. I'm looking at the last year's chart: Moby Dick, Stoner, IJ, Blood Meridian, The Book of the New Sun, Gravity's Rainbow - only the first one deserves to make the top 20, though it could be easily argued that not even that. The truth is that amerimutts don't read; they only know authors that were forced-feeded them at school (Melville, Hemingway, Sallinger, Twain) and meme titles shilled on this board (Stoner, IJ, GR). It's pointless to vote if most or all of the above-mentioned are going to end up higher than Divine Comedy, Faust or Metamorphoses. It's a fucking joke.

>>19499603
Quite annoyed too that the Divine Comedy isn't first place. I bet the chaps voting haven't ever come close to the original.

>>19470988
Please don't fuck it up like last year where we had multiple versions floating around.
Also what the fuck are goym with no google account supposed to do ?

>>19499603
>Divine Comedy, Faust or Metamorphoses
Um, those are all translations...

>>19499718
>not reading them in the original

>>19499603
this list is about anons’ personal favorites, of course there’s gonna be a bias towards the anglo classics on an english website. make more threads about poc lit if you want more people here to read dante, ovid etc

>>19499735
Um, I'm monolingual...

>>19499738
wanna be bilingual? i can put my tongue in your mouth

>>19494041
>>19494055
>>19494346
I won't trust a list with no vote counts.

>>19499603
I've read the divine comedy in Italian and I still cast my vote for gravity rainbow over it. People may just prefer other stuff over western canon classics you know
Here's a chart from reddit that should satisfy you more

>>19499866
>Ulysses first place
bet nobody understood it but they want to sound smart

>>19499866
yeah they may. they may also be retarded, which is the case for most of americans.

>>19471070
are gaytheists genuinely censoring the bible? its been on every one of these for years

My picks
>bible
>divine comedy
>invisible cities
>four quartets
>yeats collected poems

>>19500189
only happend because poltards spammed it as part of their epic culture war, but yes it should be on the chart even if we filter meme books

>>19500230
I agree with removing /pol/ shit (if its blatantly a meme) but the bible deserves its place on there. I have no issue with texts from other religions being on there either, it just seems weird to have stuff like st augustine but not the bible.

>>19471181
Based for The rules of attraction. Ellis' best novel by far.

>>19499808
Vote counts are lame. They just highlight how few votes are needed to make it into the chart

>>19500277
which is good

I can't be fucked to reset my google account password, which I never use, so if someone could vote for one flew over the cuckoos nest and for sometimes a great notion for me I'd appreciate it.

>>19501753
It's for the better you can't vote

>>19501782
They are two of the greatest novels of all time pleb.

my submission:
Les Miserables
Moby Dick
The Sound and the Fury
Capital
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

>>19501945
is lenin actually good or are you just being cheeky?

post 1) how many books you've read (to completion) of the current top 100, 2) the number of sexual partners you've had, 3) what you studied/are studying in college, and 4) your political affiliation

1) 34
2) 25
3) math
4) marxist

>>19501967
Lenin's style is compact and straightforward, a very no-bullshit rhetorical style except when he takes the opportunity to polemicize. Robert Tucker summarized his approach very well
>A well-known person whose name escapes me has said that one should speak for one's contemporaries and write for posterity...One feels that when Marx wrote the superb first lines of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, he knew that his publicistic essay was going to be an historical classic. With Lenin it is different: his classics-to-be are often written as though he were simply dealing with issues of the revolutionary here-and-now with hardly any sense of lasting importance.

His work on imperialism is particular is dry, and is mostly a bunch of tables of export/import figures, but the conclusion (which is almost delivered in passing) is profound.
>If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Such a definition would include what is most important, for, on the one hand, finance capital is the bank capital of a few very big monopolist banks, merged with the capital of the monopolist associations of industrialists

Bourgeois scholars alike have been unable to escape this conclusion, and socialist scholars have largely not found a need to replace it. It's incredibly robust. Granted, Lenin wasn't the only one noticing the interplay between finance capital, monopoly, and imperialism (Hilferding and Luxemburg were also on their way there) but he was the one to most succinctly and lucidly articulate it.

>>19470988
The Abyss (Yourcenar)
Ragtime (Doctorow)
Tartar Steppe (Buzzati)
Growth of Soil (Hamsun)
L'Assommoir (Zola, who needs more love from this board)

bump

Absolam Absolam belongs above The Sound and the Fury. Let's get it right this time please

>>19501945
Based list

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>>19478230
actually non even mother warmth

Any updates on voting?

>novels
1. Billy Budd
2. Confidence Man
3. Pierre
4. Under Western Eyes
5. Lord Jim

Can someone vote for me? I don't like google.
>The Dragon Reborn (Robert Jordan)
>A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
>Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
>Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats (Belanger/Bredesen)
>The Austere Academy (Lemony Snicket)

>>19470988
1. The Bible
2. Divine Comedy
3. Iliad
4. Hamlet
5. Ulysses

>>19504091
Cmon anon dr isn't even the best wot book

>>19504502
Fine, I amend it to The Great Hunt but The Fires of Heaven comes in very close. But I hold a special place in my heart for The Dragon Reborn. Rand was truly beginning to understand his destiny by then.

>>19500258
Thanks for actually responding to my fucking list. I feel like a ghost enough in real life! I went to a bookstore today and despite it being comically liberal they stocked his books. I went to look at the first page of the novel and I was just astonished. How could anyone write this? His work is awe-inspiring to me, from Less Than Zero to The Informers. I need to read after The Informers thoough.

>>19502062
1) 35
2) 26
3) math and physics
4) political affiliations are for plebs
Well, looks like I'm better than you!

>>19504070
445 votes recorded so far

bump

>>19504070
Is Lord Jim a good place to start with Joseph Conrad?

1. Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

>>19502062
5
8
architecture
non affiliated

>>19505433
I'd take the amnesia pill then read Lazarillo de Tormes again. It was the book that got me into reading

>>19505582
sorry 1) and 2) its the other way around

>>19502062
20
1
History/Philosophy
Radical Centrist/Accelerationist

>>19505433
Life and Live pills; So many possible coomer scenarios!

>>19505748
Love*

>>19502062
1) 13
2) 2
3) geography
4) l/acc

>>19505460
NON, HOD, or that are all good starting spots. I think his first 2 are pre- his correspondence with Ford Madox Ford who was his editor and consultant, so I skipped them.

>>19470988
>have to put in my email
Nah, fuck off cunt. Shit poll already.

>>19494041
For one to understand Mein Kampf they MUST read Crime and Punishment first. This list is confused.

>>19505989
what an idiot

>>19502062
35
61
Business
Cynicism

>>19505989
>schizo doesn’t have a burner

Bumpo

>>19505433
Body pill - Jotaro Kujo or that guy from 1984 who was super huge,tall and strong and had the intellectual capacity to entertain 2 contradictory trains of thought at once.
Life pill - some hot big titty anime b with enough brains to be cool and quirky w me

>>19505251
1) 36
2) 27
3) Math and Physics
4) Liberal Right

>>19505251
1) 36
2) 27
3) Math and Physics
4) Liberal Right

Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Plague
Been down so long it looks like up to me
Story of the Eye
Notes from Underground

>>19472206
t. I've only ready 6 books

>>19482018
Why the plague?

>>19482067
It doesn't exist only if you are lazy anon

>>19505251
>math and physics
You watered down your education by taking messy physics classes when you could've been taking more math classes? How does this make you better than me?

>>19484324
faggot

>>19509200
idiot

>>19509205
nonono man, everything is tracked on a hardware level

Bump