/lit/ - Literature

charts everyone saves but no one in history of /lit/ has ever gotten through one
useless thread.

>>19785204
I don't think you're supposed pick random charts and read every single book on there... That's quite autistic anon...

>>19785191
>nihilistic
Outer Dark.

>>19785210
This is unironically one of the best charts /lit/ made. Alongside pic related.

>>19785231
>This is unironically one of the best charts /lit/ made.
Except for the anglocentrism.
No reason for Shakespeare or Paradise lost being on Primary texts and the likes of Divine Comedy and Faust for fuck's sakes being Secondary.
Also Pilgrim's Progress is far from being essential.
20th Century is also filled with trash and/or high school literature.

>>19785191
Just use the charts mega

>>19785191
I don't know why Catch-22 keeps showing up in those lists like it isn't a cheap American rip-off of Der Prozess
Is this a high school curriculum book by any chance?

>>19785191
is there an adventure lit chart?

>>19785202
I don't understand why Essays & Aphorisms is meant to be doomer core. The genius of these aphorisms is to the utmost degree highly enjoyable and pleasant. Just because the will is ultimately what causes us to suffer, it does not mean that life has to be shit. Is is only a fact to acknowledge or not

>>19786078
you are talking to a doomer chart bro

>>19785240
>Faust
Faust is secondary at best though

One of the better /his/ charts I've found. For a good chunk of them it's clear the person who made the chart has never even read any of the listed books.
Most of the books I've read on here are pretty good. If you want a book on Venice, Venice: A Maritime Republic.

>>19786119
Merriam-Webster gets me every single time

>>19786119
I love how normalfags are getting exposed to Call of the Crocodile now lmfao

>>19786515
stop posting this under every copy of this picture

>>19786119
cancer

>>19786119
Based list

>>19786432
Based list

I really wish there was a solid flowchart for Gothic lit. Obviously it would start with Castle of Otranto.

>>19786417
Based list

>>19788345
this actually seems kinda legit, ngl

>>19788403
Based list

>>19788345
>>19788352
samefag

>>19788445
I mean, you want me to screen cap and show you it wasn't?

>>19786119
>Call of the Crocodile

Yeah I’m thinking based. Does this mean reddit is finally catching up to reading that?

>>19789028
They literally just steal our memes and it’s like two years old now. So probably

>>19788345
Just read The Rational Male, you faggot.

Who the hell makes these charts anyway ???
Are there some virgins with that much free time cataloguing every book-mention on this board ?

>>19789776
boomer?
>>19785191
do you have one for journals, letters or diaries?

>>19789776
votes

>>19789776
Your stepfathers

Does there exist a scifi chart?

>>19788345
>understanding wahman
>no houellebecq
fug oo

>>19791683
I know I've seen one, but I do not have it

>>19785212
Pound at 4.
Ask me how I know you're full of shit without even looking at where you placed anyone else

>>19792116
just because I keep seeing it, wtf actually is Mason & Dixon? I always just assume it's some "slavery bad" shit. Is this accurate?

>>19792215
It’s about Mason and Dixon surveying the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Goofs and gags happen, classic Pynchon.

>>19791683

>>19786119
Based

>>19792116
oof, this is bad

>>19785191
Damn pretty fantastic chart

>>19785600
Link

>>19785191
Wuthering Heights was good. Very comfy and well worth the 2 pages of absolute rage by Catherine. I've never seen anyone else that mad at anything before.

>>19785206
When you look at the top 10's of /lit/ since 2014 you really learn what the world is coming to.
They're now full of strong heroes who defy all odds in such a way that everything was stacked against them. Whether the hero wins or loses, the challenges themselves are beyond grand.

>>19785618
Look. I know it's easy and fun to take cheap shots at American schooling. But it really is bad. Students are only taught what they can use to be productive worker bees. Math so they can keep time and add and subtract parts for building cars or whatever. History being just lists of names and dates. I sure learned Rosa Parks sat in the back of the bus but I didn't know where Napoleon was from, even though one of his most famous names was the Corsican Ogre.
American children are not taught any philosophy at all, just the years around where Aristotle existed.
Even fucking Home-Ec can't teach kids to cook.
Health classes are pathetic jokes. You don't learn about how to ensure you get proper nutrition, just the names of things so they can go on multiple choice tests. Like they don't even consider moving Health and Home-Ec one after the other so you can collaborate for a longer period so you have more time for bigger projects.

In short, I was shocked to learn that Count of Monte Cristo is like 8th grade stuff. That boys are supposed to read the Lord of the Rings when they're 10... It's why I didn't read Wuthering Heights when I was supposed to. I was too stupid to care or understand any of what was going on in that book. I read it later and was blown away by how much I enjoyed it.

Why are there never any German lit charts posted in these threads

>>19793467
If you want an intro to german literature, check out the works mentioned here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kanon

>>19792910
It's on the wiki which is in the sticky, in the /sffg/ thread, and also sure, here: https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ

>>19785215
Incorrect.

>>19789954
>do you have one for journals, letters or diaries?
I don't, maybe the sticky has a chart.

>>19792594
Based

>>19792982
Yeah it's quite a comfy read. I particularly enjoyed much of the description and style which you can't get from film adaptations.

>>19793122
Everything is self absorbed trash presented in a smorgasbord of infantile narratives that permeate society on every level.

Swipe for sex. Swipe for laughs. Like. Like. Lmaololomgdtfbbq. You are great. They are bad. You. You. Winner winner chicken dinner.

>>19786423
Anyone read Jensen? Possibly a fun read by the looks of it.

>>19785191
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>19792215
>Is this accurate?
No and I have no fucking clue how you would have been lead to believe that

>>19792116
>Dante
>Ashbery
>whoa, nice, just like me-

then realized the poems section is also alphabetical, lol Alighieri. still, good to see Ashbery here.

>>19788345
>Understanding women?
I always got the impression that Austin and Bronte hated their heroines. Tolstoy sure as hell did. Did I misinterpreted something in those books?

Unironically >>19789743

>>19793122
Humbert Humbert? Raskolnikov? Both reject the society around them, but they’re both pathetic and flaccid in their own ways. It seems like neither is actually a hero fighting against anything but themselves.

>>19785634
the buried giant was maybe not the best of his books, but it gave such a comfortable environment felt amazing reading it.

>>19793216
I read your post and it was a good post.
If you love your children you must teach them well and enrol them into actual schools, not these factory training centres which are called schools.

any charts on central asia and silk road?

>>19785198
why is casanovas memoirs not on this list

>>19785204
im not interested in reading all of them but i have been using the charts exclusively to pick books. its better that other people pick out the gems out of the millions of books, most of it trash, so i dont waste my time.

I don't get why everyone makes this into some kind of image instead of a link or document, at least alongside or in the image.

>>19799589
because links can die and images are eternal

>>19799596
There's plenty of link sites that last eternally as long as it isn't used for copyright violation shit.

>>19799611
Links last as long as they are hosted. This has been a problem for 30 years

>>19799640
What about a torrent instead? Seems ideal

>>19799655
torrents can die too

>>19800409
Meh, they have good survivability rates if enough people are downloading them.

I see book collection torrents that I saw alive 7-8 years ago still doing well.

>>19792594
>Spinoza's Ethics

>>19800616
roll