/lit/ - Literature

>>21458060
Havamal
Prose Edda
Children of Time

That's pretty much it, the rest are huge volumes I have yet to finish (1,000 pages of the Tanakh, 900 pages of the Digha Nikaya, etc.)

>>21458060
I'm really more interested to hear what people have read so far in 2023 t b. h

>>21458060
This is everybook i read this year in order

The hobbit
Lotr
Count of monte cristo
The iliad
Several short stories by phillip k dick and f scott fitzgerald
Gone with the wind
Wise blood
Blood meridian
The road
A christmas carol
The shadow riders

Thats all of them. I also read like 120 or so pages out of angels and demons but it was pretty shitty so i stopped reading it. Out of all the books i read this year. Id say count of monte cristo, blood meridian and gone with the wind were my favorites bros. This was the first year i ever read like this and will continue

Books i have read this year (2022):

1. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler;
2. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg;
3. Confessions of a Mask by Mishima;
4. Sun and Steel by Mishima ;
5. Patriotism by Mishima;
6. An Introduction to Philosophy by Russ Payne;
7. Philosophy of Science: a Contemporary Introduction by Alex Rosenberg;
8. Two Arms and a Head: The Death of Paraplegic Philosopher by Clayton Atreus;
9. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell;
10. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell;
11. Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche;
12. Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche;
13. Whatever by Michel Houellebecq;
14. No More Mr. Nice Guy! by Robert A. Glover;
15. Nihilism: The Root of the Modern Revolution by Seraphim;
16. The Myth of Sissyphus by Albert Camus;
17. Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb;
18. The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb;
19. Death Poems by Thomas Ligotti;
20. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius;
21. Edgar Allan Poe: Storyteller;
22. Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon;
23. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo;
24. Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt;
25. Political Theology by Carl Schmitt.

>>21458253
what a journey. Congrats, anon. How do you feel before and after this year readings?

>>21458292
Before: feeling suck
After: feeling much better.

I understand the world better and thus i can adapt quickly. Also reading books makes me less naive.

*Thanks btw

18 books finished this year. Very happy with that.

The republic
Book of 5 rings
Rich dad poor dad
Meditations
Models
Thinking fast and slow
Letters from a stoic
I will teach you to be rich
Atomic habits
The war of art
Notes from underground
Man's search for meaning
Making sense of God
Moderns mans search for a soul
Man and his symbols
Deep work
Based on a true story
Discipline is destiny

A good start. I'm happy with the improvement from MAYBE 1 or 2 books a year and that's being generous. I've been rereading stuff recently and have a big step into some other stuff to come out in 23 swinging.

Goals for next year is more Dostoyevsky. More books on pure learning.

Discipline is destiny is basically a reread of some light-stoic stuff. The end of the year and beginning were slow on new books, but all good.

If someone sees this repost from our discord, hey dude.

>>21458352
Based fellow self improvement enjoyer.

shocked that I never see Saunders discussed or even mentioned on /lit/. possibly the best story writer of the century so far

>>21458540
I've read a couple of his short stories and have to admit that I didn't like them very much, but perhaps he has better ones I haven't gotten to yet

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>>21458560

try

sea oak
pastoralia
liberation day
ghoul
escape from spiderhead

>>21458060
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Hobbit
The Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

I haven't read a lot. Only three. My goal is to read at least 15 books in 2023. Ten pages a day, you read 12 300 page novels so they say.

I'd've read a lot more, but I went up and joined the military instead.

Philosophy for Militants - Alain Badiou
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle - Jonas Ceika
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight - Muhammad al-Nafzawi
Nietzsche and Philosophy - Gilles Deleuze
The Egg - Andy Weir (Short Story)
Carnival and Cannibal - Jean Baudrillard
Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia (I gave up 30% on the way when she started applying theoretical discourse on various writers and poets I hadn't read yet; will come back)
Cosmogonic Reflections; The Biocentric Worldview - Ludwig Klages
Phyl Undhu; The Thirst for Annihilation - Nick Land
Why Philosophize - Jean Francois Lyotard

basic economics (great)
other minds (ok)
I am pilgrim (great)
the great gatsby (ok)
blood and ruins (good)
the old man and the sea (good)
world war II: the definitive visual experience (ok)
political order and political decay (ok)
atomic habits (boring)
facing violence (ok)
japan at war: an oral history (great)
the photo ark (good)
SAS survival handbook (ok)
some norwegian book about wallace russell (bad)
crime and punishment (too wordy and conversation-focused for my taste)

currently reading:
hunger
washington: a life
the new york times complete world war II

soon to start reading:
a christmas carol
the origin of species

>>21458605
Sounds like youre more into non-fiction

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (reread)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (dnf)
The Black Book of Communism (still reading intermittently – it's very long)
[extended break in the spring]
All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet
A bunch of H.P. Lovecraft stories
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Currently reading: Conquest by Hugh Thomas; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (rereading) on audiobook which I have only roughly 1.5 hours left of so I hope to finish it before the year is out. Next I'll finish Conquest and Treasure Island. Then after that I'm going to read more on the Spanish conquest of Mexico in Bernal Diaz' memoir (the newest translation with the intro by Hugh Thomas).

>>21458625
(Forgot to mention Slaughterhouse-Five was also a reread.)

>>21458625

what's your motivation behind re-reading instead of reading something new?

>>21458667
Not that poster, but it’s like watching an old movie you like.

>>21458516
Ty, anon, happy new year :)

>>21458253
damn

Bumperino.

>>21458131
Based fantasy enjoyer.
>>21458253
Did you reach enlightenment?
>>21458589
Based degenerate.

>>21458725
Of course :)

>>21458060
Started reading this year
>My twisted world (not sure this one counts....)
>Count of monte cristo
>The Stranger
>Notes from underground

There was another book I read but I can't recall its name right now

>>21459241
Good taste anon.

Das Kapital Vol 1
The Sickness Unto Death
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
A Rebours
Kafka - Amerika
Don Quixote
Bruno Schulz collected stories
De Sade - Justine (abridged version)
Book of Disquiet
War and Peace
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Capitalist Realism
Keeping the Breath in Mind
No Longer Human

>>21459272
Is Das Kapital enjoyable to read ?

>>21458060
Don Quixote
Quo Vadis
Blood Meridian
The Iliad
The Cure at Troy
Faust (Part I & II)
East of Eden
Hamlet
Stoner

>>21459241
>There was another book
I remember now. It was The Alchemist.
It was utter crap, no idea why every website suggested it as a good entry-tier book.

>>21459264
thanks :)

>>21459315
The Alchemist is okay-ish, not great. I agree it's overrated but i also think it's a nice introduction to literary fictions for people who never tried to read them

>>21459298
not easiest to read but its pretty clear and straightforward and full of interesting historical anecdoted on working conditions back then

>>21458060
Didn't read a lot this year
White Line Fever
I am Ozzy
Don Quixote part two
Anabasis
Flame and Shadow

1984
Cities of the plain
Please kill me
Pulp
Brave new world
Serena
Just started The Passenger

>>21458060
I can screenshot instead.

My life went to shit this year so all I read was novellas and short stories whenever I could find the time:
Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales
Hawthorne - Mosses from an Old Manse
Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / The Bottle Imp
O. Henry - The Four Million
Conrad - Youth / Heart of Darkness / Typhoon / Falk
Kipling - about 30 or so stories from the Everymans collection
Poe - about 80% of the stories from the Everymans collection
Plato - the shortest dialogues I could find (Ion/Euthyphro/Laches/Lysis/Criton)
I think that's all I read this year :/

The complete 120 chapters translation of water margins
Martin du Gard : Devenir!
Martin du Gard : Jean Barois
Martin du Gard : Les Thibault
Cervantes : Don Quixote
Simenon : a dozen novels
Stendhal : the red and the black
Balzac : le père goriot
Nietzsche : Thus spoke Zarathustra
The first 330 nights of the 1001 nights
Milton : paradise lost
Stoker : dracula
Journey to the west, 30 chapters translation
Tevis : The queen's gambit
Tocqueville : on democracy in america
Mishima : the golden pavilion
Camus : the myth of sisyphus
Ishiguro : never let me go
Beauvoir : the second sex I
Faulkner : the sound and the fury
Mme de Sévigné : Letters
Hemingway : for whom the bell tolls
Tolkien : the hobbit

I probably forgot quite a few, but I couldnt read as much as I'd like anyway, it was a busy year (I did a 1500km pilgrimage then worked 90 hours/week)

>>21458060
Not too much
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
Hunger
Mysteries
Pan
Viktoria
The Trial
Kokoro
Rashomon
Doctor Zhivago
The Plague
Short stories by Bruno Schulz

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>>21459625
Happy new year, frens. May this year bring us enlightenment and happiness

>>21459983
Thanks fren happy new years and everybody read good books here.

>>21459625
Is Les Miserables worth a read?

I read
>Anna Karenina
>Manufacturing Consent
>Orthodoxy
>Ethics of Ambiguity
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>The Fall
>Hamlet
>Fuzz
>Consider the Fork

>>21459618
>pic
what if you pee in the sink, which category do you fall in?

>>21458540
His short stories are incredible

>>21458560
"Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz" and "Escape from Spiderhead" are some of his best ones

New problems of philosophy: abstract entities.

Tensor calculus for physics.

Schaum's tensor calculus.

Leo strauss, key contemporary thinkers.

Introduction To General Relativity And Cosmology

Fundamentals Of Mathematical Analysis

Causation (Key Concepts in Philosophy)

The Philosophy of Language (Fundamentals of Philosophy)

Puzzles of Reference (Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language).

Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics).

Principles of Tensor Calculus.

Students guide to general relativity.

Students guide to waves.

Students guide to analytical mechanics.

Students guide to the Schrödinger Equation.

Introduction to Differential Geometry of Space Curves and Surfaces.

Dynamics and Relativity (Manchester Physics Series).

Poetry, Language, Thought by heidegger.

A Critical Introduction to Properties.

What is Metaphysics?

Kripke: Puzzles and Mysteries (Key Contemporary Thinkers).

General Relativity Simplified & Assessed.

Logic for Philosophy.

Philosophical Logic: A Contemporary Introduction.

Hitler, by kershaw.

A very short introduction to the crusades.

A very short introduction to the Spanish civil war.

British history for dummies.

The story of greece and rome.

A very short introduction to the Palestinian and Israeli conflict.

The history of philosophy by ac grayling.

A very short introduction to adorno.

A Friendly Introduction to Group Theory.

Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook.

Kant: The Three Critiques (Classic Thinkers).


Stalin by simon sebag.

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution.

Most interesting reads were:
Borges - The Library of Babel
Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
Kierkegaard - Either/Or
Plato - Phaedo
Knausgaard - My Struggle Book 2
DFW - Oblivion Stories
Pic rel is my feel for the year.
>>21458352
>Man and his symbols
Just finished reading that and it was pretty interesting, especially the anima / animus stuff. Going to start one of his other books later.

- The Stranger, Albert Camus

- Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche

- Beyond Good and Evil, ibid.

- Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard

- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

- The Pearl, John Steinbeck

- Hamlet, William Shakespeare

- Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky

- Crime and Punishment, ibid.

- Two Paths: Orthodoxy and Catholicism, Michael Whelton

- The Fall, Albert Camus

- No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai

- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

- The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

>>21458060

Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Darth Bane Trilogy by Drew Karpynshyn
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Vampire Hunter D Vol. 1-9 by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Dune, Messiah, Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
Overlord Volumes 15 and 16 by Kugane Maruyama
I, Robot by Issac Assimov
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K Dick

and Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

>>21461337

I want to read Dostoevsky's crime and punishment I was wondering if you've read it before and what you thought?

>>21461087
Anima and Animus sent me on a trip aswell!

Dreams have become the tool tips for my life since reading it.

Don't attempt the red book like I did though, it filters you fairly quickly and he has (I assume) far better books to go as your second dose of Jung. Let me know if you pick one out.

Highly recommend to anyone that hasn't read. It's certainly a great introduction to some interesting ideas.

>>21461337
I also read a christmas carol. I enjoyed dickens style of writing to be honest. However it being so short. The story was completely known to me from how many times ive seen it as a movie. So i didnt enjoy it at all from that perspective but i liked Dickens writing and will read more. I got this big compilation book. Its got oliver twist, great expectations and tale of two cities as well. They threw christmas carol in way at the end so they can say 4 books are in it instead of three. And its a big book with small print kinda so like one page is 6 pages in a smaller book or something

>The Cave and the Light - Arthur Herman >The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
>Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick
>Crash - J.G. Ballard
>The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
>Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
>Bureaucracy - Ludwig Von Mises
>Anatomy of the State - Murray N. Rothbard
>The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
>Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake
>Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
>Neuromancer - William Gibson
>Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje
>Ripostes - Ezra Pound
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
>Planned Chaos - Ludwig Von Mises
>The Great Depression and New Deal Monetary Policy - Garet Garrett and Murray Rothbard
>War is a Racket - Brigadier General Smedley Butler
>Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
>Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
>Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
>Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada - Pablo Neruda
>Books of Blood, Vol. 1 - Clive Barker
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
>No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
>Books of Blood, Vol. 2 - Clive Barker
>Books of Blood, Vol. 3 - Clive Barker
>Christie Malry's Own Double Entry - B.S. Johnson
>Sculpting in Time - Andrei Tarkovsky
>The Progressive Era - Murray Rothbard

>>21458060

Ice by Anna Kavan was the best book I read this year. Well and truly captures everything I love about reading novels. It had an incredibly strong, imagistic style which was simple enough to feel fable-like/mythical, yet ambiguous and unintrusive enough to let my mind run wild with the possibilities the story opened up. Although it does not have a super definite resolution or immensely detailed character and world history, it seems to value the pure sensuality of reading over everything else, feeling more akin to music or film than most other novels. It also takes place in a setting, and exudes a tone which very much aligns with my own aesthetic fancy—dreary nights capes, snowy mountains and forests, the loneliness of dusk bayed back by torchlight, castles and bureaucratic halls. I often read it while listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor, Burzum, or some other dark ambience. And it was also one of the first full-length novels I read on an electronic device. This was actually really helpful because I would turn off all the lights in my room, put the ereader on dark mode, and seep into the nightscapes.

Didn’t read as many books as I wanted to, but I finished around 20 and read a wealth of short stories, essays, and fragments of non-fiction books. Started reading more history which is a habit I want to carry forward!

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
Aristotle's Poetics
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
The Iliad by Homer
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur aka Monster Kody Scott
The Terminal List by Jack Carr
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Every Man a Menace by Patrick Hoffman
Stoner by John Williams
Five Decembers by James Kestrel

1/9/22 Blood Meridian
1/24/22 If on a winter's night a traveler
2/6/22 As I Lay Dying
2/12/22 The Wasp Factory
2/19/22 The Autumn of the Patriarch
3/5/22 Strange Pilgrims
4/17/22 Atomised
5/12/22 On the Road
5/20/22 The Subterraneans
6/11/22 The Fall
6/27/22 Bright Lights, Big City
7/26/22 A Farewell to Arms
9/1/22 Roadside Picnic
9/13/22 The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
9/17/22 The Body Keeps the Score
9/30/22 Notes From the Underground
10/10/22 I Am a Cat
10/24/22 Leaves of Grass
10/31/22 Solaris
11/22/22 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
12/22/22 Malone Dies
12/31/22 St. Marks is Dead

>>21458060
I’ve read nothing this year.

1. Trouble Boys
2. Distant Star
3. King Solomon’s Mines
4. Cities of the Red Night
5. Miami Blues
6. The Rebel
7. Melville by Jean Giono
8. Strange Tales by Hanns Heinz Ewers
9. The Night Watch by Patrick Modiano
10. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
11. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
12. Starve Acre
13. Tarka the Otter
14. The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
15. One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis

I’ve got about 60 pages left of Snow Country but I’ve got a cold and keep dozing off while trying to read
Tarka the Otter was the best book I read this year
That was my fifth Bolano. I liked it better than The Third Reich but not as much as 2666, The Savage Detectives or Nazi Literature in the Americas. I will probably try By Night in Chile next.
The Kingsley Amis one was meanly funny. There was a /pol/-tier imitation of African-American vernacular in a Harlem jazz club the fat Bong walks into. Actually ‘bix nood” might have been a bit less cringey than Amis’s attempt. That was my second Kingsley Amis. Not as fun as Lucky Jim but his hatred for Americans was enjoyable. I will probably try either The Green Man or The Old Devils next year.
Giono’s book on Melville is out and out fan fiction but I enjoyed it. I have The Horseman on the Roof and will probably read that sometime next year.
Cities of the Red Night is probably the most enjoyable Burroughs that I’ve read but still I’m probably going to take a break from gay snuff fantasies next year. Eventually I will probably read The Place of Dead Roads
A disappointing count for the year
Hopefully 2023 will be better

>>21461998
2666 ≥ Savage Detectives > Antwerp > Nazi Literature in the Americas > Distant Star > Amulet > By Night in Chile > Little Lumpen Novelita

15 is more than 1 per month king, keep it up

i dont read

>>21458060

I've easily read 20-30 books this year, maybe more. The best non-fiction I'd read was Leviathan and Its Enemies, by Sam Francis. It's just the most accurate, least spooked analysis of the Western power structure that I've ever read. The best fiction book that I read was Ulysses, by James Joyce. He's one of the few writers that I've read who are talented enough to pull off experimental literature.

>>21462586
That's not surprising.

>>21461998
>>21462030
How can you guys enjoy Bolano? 2666 in particular was a very pretentious read. I have to admit, I've been filtered after a few 100's pages

>>21458060
Treasure Island
Parts of the Bible
Most of Robinson Crusoe (still reading)
Parts of “Between Two Fired” (dropped the book, it was dogshit
Silence
Consecration to St. Joseph

That’s all that I can remember