/lit/ - Literature

I parsed out the list because fuck you buzzfeed

1. The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud
2. What She Saw…, by Lucinda Rosenfeld
3. The Deptford Trilogy, by Robertson Davies
4. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
5. Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin
6. A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
7. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
8. Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid
9. The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
10. White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
12. Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
13. Bright Lights, Big City, by Jay McInerney
14. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
15. Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman
16. The Rachel Papers, by Martin Amis
17. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. A Home at the End of the World, by Michael Cunningham
21. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
22. The Group, by Mary McCarthy
23. Quicksand and <i>Passing</i>, by Nella Larsen
24. Pastoralia, by George Saunders
25. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
26. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
27. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
28. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
29. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
30. Generation X, by Douglas Coupland
31. The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem
32. Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
33. I Love Dick, by Chris Kraus
34. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
35. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins
36. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami
cont'd

>>6018930
37. Bossypants, by Tina Fey
38. Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
39. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, by Toby Young
40. The Dirt, by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss
41. Lunar Park, by Bret Easton Ellis
42. Just Kids, by Patti Smith
43. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, by Nick Flynn
44. Oh the Glory of it All, by Sean Wilsey
45. I Don’t Care About Your Band, by Julie Klausner
46. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
47. Lit, by Mary Karr
48. I’m with the Band, by Pamela Des Barres
49. Dear Diary, by Lesley Arfin
50. The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, by Anne Sexton
51. Actual Air, by David Berman
52. The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, by Kenneth Koch
53. Alien vs. Predator, by Michael Robbins
54. The Collected Poems of Audre Lord, by Audre Lord
55. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
56. How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran
57. My Misspent Youth, by Meghan Daum
58. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion
59. Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell
60. How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman
61. How’s Your Drink?, by Eric Felten
62. The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian, by Christopher Hitchens
64. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards
65. He’s Just Not That Into You, by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

With this unholy bash command:

grep '<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">' books-you-need-to-read-in-your-20s.htm | sed 's/<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">//' | sed 's/<\/span> <i>/ /' | sed 's/<\/i>//' | sed 's/<\/h2>//'

>>6018933
>grep '<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">' books-you-need-to-read-in-your-20s.htm | sed 's/<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">//' | sed 's/<\/span> <i>/ /' | sed 's/<\/i>//' | sed 's/<\/h2>//'


fucking nice man

>>6018933
What a list, holy shit haha.

The list seems to be directed not so much towards young people, but to young women and hipsters.

>>6018933
>grep '<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">' books-you-need-to-read-in-your-20s.htm | sed 's/<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">//' | sed 's/<\/span> <i>/ /' | sed 's/<\/i>//' | sed 's/<\/h2>//'

>>6018965
>>6018948
Thank you! I just learned that you can combine sed commands with semicolon

grep '<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">' books-you-need-to-read-in-your-20s.htm | sed 's/<h2><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">//;s/<\/span> <i>/ /;s/<\/i>//;s/<\/h2>//'

Are you meaning to tell me anyone on /lit/ is actually well-read enough to give a worthwhile opinion on this list?

Has anyone here read I Love Dick? A friend of mine told me it was amazing, but she eats semiotext(e) for breakfast

>>6018974
>>6018965
>>6018948
W-what is it? What am I missing?

>>6018933

Alien vs. Predator, by Michael Robbins

Maybe it’s Maybelline. Why can’t you be true?
You re-gifted the VD I wrapped up just for you.
My penis and my brain team up to penis-brain you.
It is now my duty to completely drain you.

>>6018975
It is hard to be well read when the list is full of shit books.

>>6018976
>how heterosexuality works to keep women unrepresented and unable to fully represent themselves, and how that affects the world.
Sounds weird.

>>6018983
>the list is full of shit books.
Which is a claim you can make because you read them?

>all this feminist lit

No thanks.

>>6018995
Yes.

Fucking hate how this type of "journalist" always universalises their experience.

>>6018980
It's a linux terminal command that goes to the webpage and grabs all the titles and spits them in a list.

Despite what it looks like, it's quite succinct and clever.

>>6018933

you can remove all the tags in one go with
|sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'

thats less to type, is a versatile pattern to remove and it looks a bit like a penguin.

>>6018898
65 books in 10 years? That's too much!

>>6019033
Wonderful!! That even gets rid of that one leftover italics

>>6018898
ITT: If you read only feminist shit in your 20s you will have all the good books to read during the rest of your life.

>8. Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid
>9. The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
>10. White Teeth, by Zadie Smith

Yyyyup, no ned to look any further in that li-OH WAIT

>17. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

There you go, you can dismiss this thread

>>6019050
>tfw my first name is not Jamaica

I curse you, German culture

And this is why I never learned to read.

>37. Bossypants, by Tina Fey
>38. Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

>>6019050
How can you not like Zadie?

>>6019656
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id fuck her

>>6019656
Looks aren't everything