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Hi /lit/, long time no see,

I have a $100 gift card for Barnes and Noble.
What do I get?

Here are some of my favorites. I'll list a book if that's the only thing I've read by an author:

Hermann Hesse
Franz Kafka
Jack Kerouac
Ian Fleming
Roger Zelazny
Kurt Vonnegut
Charles Dickens
JRR Tolkien
Catch-22
Watership Down
The Brothers Karamazov

Also,
I can sometimes be a sucker for those pop psychology books.
Reading Pillars of the Earth right now by Ken Follett and I'm digging the historical medieval setting.

>> No.2683811

donald barthelme

>> No.2683813

Get some Ernie Hemingsworth.
And by that I mean Ernest Hemingway.

>> No.2683815

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz and Berlin Stories by Robert Walser.

They'll appeal to a Kafka fan.

>> No.2683816

Siddhartha, Steppenwolf
The Trial, Metamorphosis, The Castle
Cat's Cradle, Slapstick, Sirens of Titan
Unfinished Tales
Crime & Punishment, Notes From Underground

>> No.2683818

journey to the end of the night.. I promise you will not regret it. From what you posted we have similar taste.

>> No.2683820

If you liked Tolkien's books, you you try the inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, i found them extremely enjoyable

>> No.2683821

>>2683813
Ernson McHemsbroth?
I read a Farewell to Arms and there were some manly tears at the end. Been meaning to read more of him.

>> No.2683824

Buy some decent contemporary lit and support authors who are still alive and in need of money. Just pirate e-books of older books.

>> No.2683829

oops, I meant you could

>>2683820

>> No.2683828

Thomas Mann - Magic Mountain
Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night

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>>2683805
Buy used. There's no point in getting new books if used ones are for sale.

I just got 3 books out of a $25 card, including shipping.

>> No.2683839

>>2683833

From B&N? How reliable is their marketplace feature on the website?

>> No.2683841

>>2683833
Yeah, the vast majority of my books were purchased used. Love to haunt yard sales and book sales, but in this case I think I'm limited to Barnes & Noble. I could probably flip the card in some way, but I'm too lazy.

>> No.2683845

>>2683841
You can buy used books on BN.com I just did it earlier today.

Some of them you only have to pay shipping because the warehouses are overstocked.

>> No.2683848

>>2683845
Totally unaware of that. Thanks for the tip.

>> No.2683857

>>2683845

What if you have a membership? Is shipping free, then?

>> No.2683865

>>2683857
I honestly do not know. I don't think they "qualify"

>> No.2683910

>>2683857
You get free 2-day express shipping with a B&N membership.

>> No.2684124

(This should leave you with enough for more books.)
Complete Fictions by Borges
Later Novels and Other Writings by Raymond Chandler
A Gentleman's Game by Greg Rucka