/lit/ - Literature

this list is shite

>>5069867
which one should I start with?

>>5069867

i didn't make this

>Catcher in the Rye ranked 17th
>the bible ranked above paradise lost
Subjective judgements based on taste and worldview etc.
Anyway there are some of these if you click the reccomendations link in the sticky.

>>5069867
Check the wiki, you faggot.

>>5069867
boo

>>5069974
You tell him, bro! #TeamFeminister

>>5069867
[obligatory comment saying this list is shit, hence proving myself as having superior literary taste to the rest of /lit/]

>>5069996
[obligatory comment telling you to kill yourself because you're a massive cum guzzling faggot and you seriously should]

>>5069867
>Beckett that low
>no Gaddis
>no McElroy
>Infinite Jest at 1
No surprise that /lit/ is pleb tier.

>>5070044
Thank god that one patrician is among us.

>>5070044
No surprise /lit/ doesn't conform to your particular tastes.

>>5069996
>>5070044
:^)

>>5069867
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I want /pleb/ to leave.

best chart

>>5070142
Now taking bets on how many of those EvolaKid has actually read

I'm putting fifty on none

>>5070142
>Vonnegut
What.

>>5070067
>no fun allowed

>>5070044
I LOVE POMO MAXIMALISM/MINIMALISM LOOK AT ME

I remember there were about 15 people that voted for infinit jest, out of 150 voters. That's still not a lot of people. People need to realize this.

>>5069958
Is this reliable? I've been wanting to get into it but I've no idea where to start or where to go from there, or if any substantial prior knowledge of things like religion, mythology etc are necessary other than the basics

>>5070142
wow, you're just too edgy

All of these are on the wiki, OP.

>>5070142
why is master and magerita on there?
>reactonary
lewl

>>5070142
What utter dribble

>>5070142
>Master and Margarita
What? Heart of a Dog, maybe, but not that.

Is there an essential Christian lit chart?

>>5072440

>essential

The Holy Motherfucking Bible

But Renaissance era Catholicism had some pretty cool some

>>5072445
The typically drooling reply of a modern Christian.

lots of missing stuff

>>5072445
Well obviously. I'd like to see something with some variety though.

>>5072460

The typically condescending reply of a modern shut-in.

I'm not Christian, by the way.

>>5072440
Bump cause I'm interested in something like this.

I'd assume the holy bible (particularly books like Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, The Gospels, and Revelation) would be on there. I'd also be willing to bet Aquinas is a great place to start for christian thought and philosophy.

I'm not a christian anymore, but something like this interests me, as the religion itself is captivating in an academic sense to me.

>>5069867

I stopped looking after the very first book.

>>5072491

>>5072498

>>5072501

>>5072491
>tfw never travelled

>>5072506

>>5072511

>>5072513

>>5072518

>>5072524

>>5072529

>>5072533

>>5072534

>>5072536

>>5072484
you must be kidding

>>5072538

>>5072542

>>5073903

>>5073915

>>5073924

>>5072440

This would be nice

>>5073937

>>5073950

>>5073955

>>5073958

>>5073967

>>5072484
>Ayn Rand not in shit tier.
>Everything in shit-tier shouldn't be in shit tier.

>>5073972

>>5072538
Is this a deconstruction of recommendation charts?

>>5073978

>>5073980
parody/copy of /mu/, so sort of

>>5072484
>Huck Finn in shit tier
Fight me IRL

>>5072484
Am I on /v/?

>>5072484
When you have LOTR in shit tier, your opinion no longer matters. Just a tip for next time.

>>5074653
>>5074689
>>5074757
Jeez, buddy, you got baited really hard. Chill the fuck out.

>>5074771
It's funny that everyone bitches about that one, paying no attention to non-bait charts.

>dilettante pidede

>>5072510

Why not?

>>5073947
>>5072481
>>5072440
All this interest. I can't believe there isn't one, we should really make one.

>>5074928
If you guys make the list, I'll place them on the wiki and maybe compile the covers for an image.

I don't care/read much about Christian literature, so I can't do it all myself.

>>5072491
Needs Blue Highways by Heat-Moon

>>5072506
>Cloud Atlas
Seriously?

Any recomendations on Brazilian/south american lit?

Anybody have the esoteric leftist greenpill essentials chart?

>>5076287
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881) by Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro (1899) by Machado de Assis

>>5076296
thanks

>>5076296
>The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
aka Epitaph of a Small Winner

Also there's
Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha
Jose de Alencar
Jorge Amado
Mario de Andrade
Clarice Lispector

>>5076287

For Argentina:
Jorge Luis Borges
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Julio Cortazar
Macedonio Fernandes
Ernesto Sabato

>>5076287

Chile:
Isabel Allende
Jose Donoso

I'm new to reading but I've learned that its a lot like /mu/. Find a genre and talk to people within that genre

>>5072440
Please do this

>>5076513
lol
no
most people here will shit on you for even using the term 'genre'

>>5076534
What can I say I'm new

I just enjoy reading whatever.even stupid 4chan stories

>>5076287
Brazilian here, was going to sleep but:
Graciliano Ramos - pretty much anything, but Barren Lives and Memories from Incarceration are his most renowed books, I guess
Clarice Lispector - The Hour of the Star
Jorge Amado - Captains of the Sands
Rubem Fonseca - Lucia McCartney and his other crime novels are pretty great, despite being, well, crime novels
Machado de Assis - Though I've read little of his stuff, AFAIK, he's our biggest giant
Carlos Drummond de Andrade - Favourite poet, everything by him is great, specially if read chronologically and with a biography as a companion, so you can understand what's driving him each time

>>5072440
Why would there be? You just need to read "The God's Delusion" to disprove all of it.

>>5076576
*tips fedora

Grow up though seriously
Every reader recommends you read the bible

>>5076332
Don't forget Roberto Bolaño.

any portuguese language literature guide?

>>5076576
>Aalewis
Nice trollin'.
Also though:
>going on reddit

>>5069867
This chart is full of bullshit. It mixes genres that has nothing in common.

biographies chart anyone?

>>5076921
0/10

Does /lit/ have any non-fiction recommendations? Like for history or something like that

>>5069867
>no Umberto Eco
>Harry Potter

Laughing my tits off over here m8

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow

Congratulations. You can now participate in 90% of /lit/ discussions.

>>5077016
I'm reading Incompleteness right now, and if you have any interest at all in the history of mathematics you will love it.

Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry™ series.

>>5077016
see >>5072491 and >>5072524

>>5076576
New atheism is reactionary.

>>5070652
start with the hermetica (with notes)

>>5076921
>It mixes genres that has nothing in common.

No shit Sherlock

>>5076294

>>5070142
Every time I see this chart it gets smaller and smaller, the creator gets perpetually told he doesn't know what he's talking about. I remember when the collected works of Blake was on this list.

>>5070563
...
james bond and hercule poirot are fun but they don't belong in a literature chart

>>5072440
take your jujuman voodoo and leave

Essential Sci-Fi?

The wiki only has Dystopian on it, and personally I find that there are more interesting sci-fi's than dystopian.

>>5078434
It doesn't only have dystopian. The charts cover all of it, it just hasn't been transferred to tables yet.

Anything for fantasy or space opera stuff or maybe just long epic fantasy/sci-fi epics?

>>5078863
Yes. In the fantasy section. On the wiki. Where all these images come from.

>>5078925
Does any of those authors have a solid medieval warfare knowledge? Let's take the popular ASOIAF; it makes me cringe very time Martin tries to describe swordfighting and equipment, he just doesn't really know about it.

>>5070142
That list is full of fail and you come off as poorly read and a shitty "ambassador" for traditionalism.

Confessions of a Mask is basically about discovering that you're gay, and should not be on that list. Nor should Blake, Vonnegut and probably many others.

This coming from somebody with plenty of Evola, Mosley, Spengler, Faye etc. in his bookshelf.

>>5072440
>>5072481

I would put Confessions by Augustine and Summa Theologica on the list myself, but my knowledge about Christianity is limited.

>>5073978
I haven't read much Czech literature, but judging from the little I have read and several titles in that chart, it seems like they have a lot of melancholic writers.

>>5079039
They do. Central and Eastern European literature tends towards that.

Any good medieval fiction? Other than Bernard Cornwell.

>>5079100
bump

>>5069867
>Lolita not in the top 3.

OP is clearly a newfag.

>>5079341
The image is the results from a poll done on /lit/ a few months ago, not OP's opinion you dolt.

are there any lists for Philosophy and Philo lit?

>>5079100
Chaucer

>>5080000
yeah anon, find the philosophy category here:
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Non-fiction

>>5069867
rolling :^)

>>5080245
Hahaha.
Enjoy, mate.

>>5069867
What's with the authors colors?

i mite roll hehe

>>5080726

>>5080727
wana swap

reroll

read already

>>5078377
Is there one for iron pill too?

>>5069867
Roll for giggles

>>5073903
But The Metamorphosis is not good.

>>5076976
>the god delusion
lel

>>5072538
best chart in this thread

roll

>start with the Greeks
Any chart to post along whenever we say this?

>>5078989
>>5072481
What about Christian fiction?

Anybody can share them packed in one file?

>>5081519
If you look on the wiki, there are collected downloads for some. Not OP's, but any generic "top 100" torrent will give you the same shit.

>>5081519
You are in luck.
http://www.firedrive.com/file/D468A91F5E50FF02

>>5081533
That is very kind of you, thank you very much!

>>5069867
rrolling

Anyone got a chart for political (or, less preferably, courtroom) fiction?

>>5074816
Poor and Australian. The only choices are ocean and more Australia.

>>5075317
>didn't get cloud atlas

>>5073903
>Perfume
fuck this pleve shit, it's only slightly richer man's Coelho

>>5069867
>138 voters
>100 books
So I assume people could vote for multiple books? Otherwise most of the books would only have one vote each.

>>5076976
this is a trolling list, right?
>Les Miserales
one of the plebbest books ever, Twilight of its time just like any of Hugo's other novels, if you cut out the randum philosophical digressions which are also pretty pleb

>>5077122
what is SMT?

>>5081738
Shin Megami Tensei

>>5081691
Yes, it was a "Post your five favorite books and OP will tally the results in a chart" kind of deal

>>5072484
>the picture of dorian gray
>high-tier

it's definitely god-tier

>>5069867
>the count of monte cristo below harry potter
who voted for this

>>5082404
/lit/

>>5082391
>Dorian Gray
>God-tier
Easy now....

>Karamazovs
moralfaggotry nothing else.stopepd reading it at ~220 page.Does it get any better?

>>5084564
dostoevskij is all about being patient, newfag-chan

>>5084593
>30% of book read
>still shit
Does it stay the same?I don't want to force myself keep reading

>>5084625
You'll miss the murder, and the end gibs tears

>>5084627
if i want murder ill take a look at ur mums pussy after im done with her faget

>Faust so low

>>5081512
>Christian fiction

top kek

>>5084671
Good

>>5070044
the /mu/ attitude isn't as cool here

>>5072491
Thank you for posting this bro, I've been looking for a decent list of travel books for a long time

>>5084705
>Doesn't read based Endo

Leave.

Alright, so would you guys say these are the top 4 recommended books to read before you die and how many times have you read them?

>>5087027
Those aren't the top four recommended books.

That's just the splash page for the entrance to the wiki. They're placeholders for the different categories.

You have to actually click the link above them to get to the recommendations.

>>5087027
>>5087045
And if you've got that much of a problem with it, what other method would you suggest? Pictures are attractive to the eye. A picture of one of the charts would be less worthwhile than one of a book cover.

Only having the title of the different pages sans picture would likely be even more prohibitive than it already seems to be, as it's already obvious that no one reads the text-without-pictures at the bottom.

>>5087045
Oh, what would you say is your top 4 recommended books?

I think I found what I wanted to read <3

>>5087094
Have fun with those. I also highly recommend the Jean-Pierre Manchette and Edogawa Ranpo works in that section.

For general recs, I dunno. The Blind Owl, Pedro Paramo, Sorrows of Young Werther and The Once and Future King are those I've especially loved lately.

>>5087114
I'll be sure to check them out, thanks!

does anyone have the left wing lit chart?
it's not on the wiki.
thanks.

>>5087253

>>5087268
thank you kindly anon.

Even though there is some anarcho-lit in there, but I wish that there was an anarchist-specific chart.

>>5087666
cool, saved

>>5087294
try

David Graeber - Debt, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Rudolf Rocker - Anarcho-Syndicalism in Theory and Practice
James Scott - Seeing Like a State, Two Cheers for Anarchism
Chomsky on Anarchism

>>5070044
lol beckett is such an entry-level passive piece of shit that you should end yourself

>>5087268
How do I make lists like this, is there a program?

anglo shit

>>5088648
Thanks, of those I've only read Chomsky.

This is why I want a chart. I've read a lot of the older stuff that's required reading for Anarchists (even if it isn't strictly anarchist itself), Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Bakunin, Kropoktin, Proudhon, etc etc

But as far as contemporary anarchism, I basically have nothing. Chomsky, and to a certain extent, Zinn.

Some anarcho-punk kids keep telling me to read Crimethinc shit but every time I try, it is fucking awful and honestly depresses me a bit.

>>5088705
Yes, Paint. The simplest image editing program works.

>>5088682

>beckett
>entry tier

/lit/erally why haven't you killed yourself yet

>>5088705
>>5089583
Seems to be Photoshop.

>>5089615
You could do the exact same thing in Paint though. It doesn't take anything fancy to place pictures of book covers on an image.

>>5089619
>hi-quality text
>paint

Pick one

>>5089644
Almost all the ones with a white background itt were made in Paint.

>>5069867
Rill

>>5081288

>>5089807

hahaha

but

>no evola

>>5089820
Iron Pill recommends Ride the Tiger

>>5089828

oh sorry my eyes were too feeble to see

:"(

>>5078422
>Little to no understanding of scifi lit

Hitchikers is not only a fun read, it's a brilliantly crafted hybrid of science fiction adventure and comedy. The first book is errorless.

>>5090777

And the second's bearable, and the rest aren't worth reading.

>>5069867

Just made these. All of these books stayed with me for a long time.

>>5091032
>original content
>some new titles and authors
Thank you anon. This happens just often enough to make the site bearable.

>no portuguese lit chart

Come on, the internet is flooded with huehuehue and not a single one of them has bothered?

>>5091147
>huehuehue
>>>/sp/

>>5078925
Shit. These are in the wiki? I was fucking saving them one by one, trying with all my might not to lose these precious insights into western culture like grains of sand in a desert. fight me

>>5091061

My pleasure. These are actually pretty fun to make. I like trying to find the balance between books that aren't super popular/cliche and not needlessly esoteric and mediocre.

i'm glad everyone is just reposting whatever they find in the link on the sticky without any substantial discussion about them

>>5091276
I like Pynchon. He's a goofy guy and knows how to show restraint.

>>5069867
which one should I start with?

>>5091291
Fuck off.

>>5091297
Have you not read any of them?

If so, try Catcher in The Rye. It's short and pretty alright.

By complete accident, I started with Blood Meridian. I thought it would be a standard genre-fiction western, and I was completely blown away. It was the book that got me into "literature".

The Crying of Lot 49 is also a great and short intro into so-called post-modernism.

>>5091321
I've read Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies but that's it. Thanks for the recs.

>>5091342
Those two are also pretty good intros. If you liked Animal Farm, you should read Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's Orwell's best work and a really heartbreaking story.

>>5091303
Shit that post was edgy, you must be pretty badass, you sure showed him who's boss around here.

>>5091378
Lets not. Please.

>>5069867
So euro-centric.

>>5091431
this is the equivalent of saying "so misogynistic"

>>5091431
yeah b/c europe is the best continent and its cultures produce the best literature

>>5076327
Echeverría, godfuckingdammit

>>5081732
>this is a trolling list, right?
Infinite Jest is on it twice

>>5091710
centering on europe = hating women
This is how you think.

>>5076976
>Nietzsche
>Infinity Jest
>Infinity Jest
>Divine Comedy

that is disgusting

>>5091032
I loved the Castle, Frieda was cool, K was a prick

>>5093782
autism

>>5072510
That feel.
I understand you bro.
I'm 22 and have never watched the sea, nor the beautiful woods though I live nea the fucking Amazon jungle.
I hope I can get to know some beautiful places.

>>5091032
Why not CATHR instead of Teattro?

>>5076563
Thank you brazilian brother.
I'm colombian, I highly recommend you to read Fernando Vallejo (colombian)

>>5089807
Green - /x/
Red - nazis
blue - atheists

What is the iron pill supposed to be?

>>5077091
Show tits pls

>>5092524
No, he was saying that the line is comparable to complaining about a list of mostly male authors being anti-woman.

>>5094258
He's a third positionist, neo-paleo eating, lifting, right wing hippie sort of type.

>>5089807
what is brown pill's reading list?

>>5069867
>The Count at 100
You could've prevented this /lit/

>>5070652
Anything you want to know about the supernatural/spiritual can be learned through souces such as the Bible, Catholic theology, and your local Catholic priest or exorcist. The other stuff just makes you more prone to possession.

because the Catholics are right

>>5072440
Everybody has just replied with Catholic theology/philosophy. But what about legit Christian LITERATURE (like novels and what not)

I'd imagine such a list would include the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Brothers Karamazov, etc.

>>5072498
>Song of Songs
>erotica

I bet you think the divine, inevitable communion of God and man is erotic too.

Requesting a good fellow helping me with listing Italian and Latin literature:

Vergilius: Bucoliche, Georgiche, Eneide
Cicerone: De Republica, Orator
Catullo: Carmina
Lucrezio: De Rerum Natura
Livio: Ab Urbe Condita
Plauto: Anfitrione, Aulularia, Mercator, Miles Gloriosus, Mostellaria
Terenzio: Heautontimoroumenos, Andria, Phormio
Cesare: De Bello Gallico, De Bello Civili
Cornelio Nepote: De Viris Illustribus
Varrone: De Re Rustica, De Lingua Latina
Orazio: Carmina, Sermones, Iambi
Ovidio: Metamorfosi, Ars Amandi, Fasti, Epistulae ex Ponto
Tibullo: Elegiae
Anonimi: Corpus Virgilianum
Fedro: Fabulae
Apuleio: De Magia, Metamorfosi
Petronio: Satyricon
Plinio Iunior: Epistulae
Plinio Maior: Naturalis Historia
Seneca Iunior: Agamennone, Fedra, Tieste, Medea, De Vita beata
Stazio: Achilleide, Tebaide
Tacito: Annales
Tertulliano: Apologeticum

>>5095028
Italian literature(if someone screen-capped this and helped me in doing a chart, I would be very glad, for I cannot do them)

Dante: Divina Commedia, Rime, De Volgari Eloquentia, Convivio
Boccaccio: Decameron, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, Ninfale Fiesolano
Petrarca: Canzoniere
Ariosto: Orlando Furioso
Boiardo: Orlando Innamorato
Tasso: Gerusalemme Liberata, Aminta
Galilei: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del Mondo
Alfieri: Saul, Mirra
Goldoni: La Locandiera, La famiglia dell'Artigiano;
Parini: Il Giorno
Alessandro Manzoni: Promessi Sposi, Rime(5 Maggio and so on); Alcesti;
Verdi: Traviata
Verga: Novelle, I Malavoglia, Mastro Don Gesualdo
Leopardi: Canti
Pirandello: Uno, Nessuno e Centomila
Pietro Aretino: Sonetti Lussuriosi
Pascoli: Opere
Montale: Opere
Quasimodo: Opere
Fogazzaro: Piccolo Mondo Antico
Pirandello: Il Fu Mattia Pascal
Svevo: La Coscienza di Zeno
Calvino: Se una notte di inverno un viaggiatore, Il Visconte Dimezzato, Il barone rampante, Il Cavaliere Inesistente
Umberto Eco: Il nome della Rosa, il Pendolo di Foucault
Sacchetti: Trecentonovelle

>>5095067
Why can't you do them? Just save the covers and paste them into an image editing software in a vaguely chart-like form.

>>5082391
Seconded

>>5095363
I don't have any image editing software, my friend.

Can /r/guys do it?

>>5069867

rolling

giving my self 3 re-rolls because I've read at least 3 books pre row

rollin

>>5070652
STOP

Read the illuminatus trilogy first.

If you still want to delve into occultism after reading that, keep going.

>>5069867
roll

>>5072484
I always thought that Gatsby was shit when they made us read it in high school. It's about a betafag in mansion, ffs

>>5089807
>The Doors of Perception
I'd rather not be a red pill, you have fun with your drugs.

>>5091276
>>5091032
Those are both great, nice job.

>>5069867
this chart made me realise how much of this i read in childhood and how little i remember now

>>5098801
>Not reading the classics once a year

>>5076287
Colombia:
Manuel Mejía Vallejo
José Eustacio Rivera
Tomás Carrasquilla
León de Greiff
Gabriel García Marquez

>>5069867
>Hamlet
>a book

Why isn't citizen Kane on this list?!

>>5076327
what about leopoldo marechal?