/lit/ - Literature

>>20884161
Comfy

>>20884161
What other stuff do you like? Also, there’s a bunch of charts in the sticky/wiki.

>>20884161
Hemingway

>>20884161
Finnegans Wake

>>20884161
I remember really liking Watership Down. I think it's kind of long but it's supposed to be a children's book so shouldn't be too hard.

The old man and the see is really short and would maybe be a good start. I'm by no means a bookworm, however

Siddhartha is kind of a good classic starting point although it just depends on your interests. If you're just getting into reading it can be a good idea to read some fun schlocky stuff that you can tear through in a day or two, to get your motivation up. Heinlein's Starship Troopers or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, or the Foundation series, for example, or even decent fantasy schlock like The Black Company.

>>20884161
What kind of book are you looking for? Just something easy but critically acclaimed? Be more specific anon.

>>20884161
phänomenologie des geistes

>>20885154
I second that, Watership Down was mindblowing when I read it, i went expecting funny childrens tale about rabbits on its hill and found a more mature exodus type of story with rabbits

>>20884161
Combo of easiest to read and most acclaimed in my opinion:

Robinson Crusoe
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
Catcher in the Rye

There's also a lot more in fantasy or sci fi that's super approachable.

you could try the Sherlock Holmes books, start with the first one, a study in scarlet, it is short and a nice introduction to detective trillers

>>20884161
Anything by Carl Schmitt

>>20884161
Start with the Greeks.

>>20886821
Anywhere to find free audiobooks of them?

>>20886929
Nah they didn't leave any recordings

>>20886940

The Blind Owl

>>20884161
My best recommendations, take this very wise advice to your heart, you will find it of great use, anything from this list goes, I even included the translations:
>Fiction and non-fiction
*Plato's Republic (C.D.C. Reeve, 2004)
*Hesse's Siddhartha (Bernofsky)
*Crime & Punishment (P&V)
*1984
>"Genre fiction"
*Hobbit & LotR
*Dune
*ASOIAF
*Starship Troopers
>Science fiction
*The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
*Non-Stop, and other stories by Brian Aldiss
*Roadside Picnic (not sure which translation)
*The Left Hand of Darkness, and other stories by Ursula Le Guin
*Solaris (French->English translation)
*Futurological Congress
*The Man in the High Castle
*Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
*Three Stigmata of Paul Eldritch
*Ubik

>>20884161
My best recommendations, take this very wise advice to your heart, you will find it of great use, anything from this list goes, I even included the translations:
>Fiction and non-fiction
*Plato's Republic (C.D.C. Reeve, 2004)
*Mythology by Edith Hamilton
*Storm of Steel (Original 1929 translation or Michael Hoffman, these are translations of different editions which differ in the overall tone and "message")
*selected books from the Bible
*Hesse's Siddhartha (Bernofsky)
*Crime & Punishment (P&V)
*1984
>"Genre fiction"
*Hobbit & LotR
*Dune
*ASOIAF
*Starship Troopers
>Science fiction
*The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
*Non-Stop, and other stories by Brian Aldiss
*Roadside Picnic (not sure which translation)
*The Left Hand of Darkness, and other stories by Ursula Le Guin
*Solaris (French->English translation)
*Futurological Congress
*The Man in the High Castle
*Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
*Three Stigmata of Paul Eldritch
*Ubik

>>20888394
Also, there's a treasure trove of Mystery and Horror (or "Weird fiction") stories (Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Lovecraft, Ligotti Grabinski and... Stephen King... the last one if you're seriously bored, ADHD and book-averse)

>>20886929
Find some on YouTube

>>20886965
Yeah if you want audio recordings you have to probably start around Tolstoy

>>20884161
Grapes of Wrath

>>20884161
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

>>20884161
H-how do you even win the Snorlax?

Project Hail Mary

>>20884161
Notes from the underground. While your reading it try to see if you relate to anything he says constantly then self reflect.

>>20884161
Game of Thrones

>>20884161
Start with the Australians

>>20884226
Is this actually good or are you just memeing me?

>>20894209
Stop shilling your books

bump

>>20885231
jekyyl and hyde gets slept on
good rec

>>20892343
I am also waiting for this answer anon

>>20884161
Not OP but im looking for a short book (around 200 pages) that has that melancholy feel to it, you know the one im talking about. Any recommendations :)?

>>20884226
How is that beginner friendly?

>>20884161
The Holy Bible

>>20884161
Ew why are you even here???

>>20888403
>>20888394
Trying to recommend books is like trying to recommend shoes or food.
Most of these lists are just popular books. If we don't know the taste of OP we can't make good recommendations

>>20894683
>>20897544
Not a meme, and I mentioned it cause it’s short, I finished it in a weekend.

>>20884161

>>20884226
haven't been on /lit/ for a while, why is this book a meme here? does the author post here like the crocodile and behead all satans guys?

>>20898512
Yup, he's just shilling his own book.

>>20898568
premise sounds interesting enough so i might give it a shot. i bought behead all satans a while back but haven't read it

>>20884161
Orwells Down and Out in Paris and London.

>>20898512
Anon who wrote it was giving it away for free, so ya that might be him but I know there are some people have read it

>the Greeks
Start with them

>>20899858
Ok where???

>>20900113
Project Gutenberg

>>20884161
Some say he is still trapped inside of there.

Sounder
Old Yeller
Where the Red Fern Grows
Call of the Wild

>>20900113
Start with Aeschylus

>>20901888
holy based