/lit/ - Literature

As every year since I was born: The Bible.
Any other book is for contrarians and degenerates.

Here's my reading list for 2015. Still reading the Bible, probably won't be done with that for a while.

I read much less than I wanted to this year.
>Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,Joshua Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles
>The absolutely true diary of a part-time indian
>nine stories
>The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need
>200+ poems and 100+- short stories for school

>>7507288
>Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,Joshua
Post right above you. I really did not like reading any of these. Genesis and Exodus were much better, but everything picks up again at Judges and then David comes in and everything is 10/10.

>>7507293
Yeah, they were a bit of a slog to get through. Hey, open your Bible to 2nd Kings 21:3-5.

It is phrased very strangely. When I read it I was struck by the thought that the verses seemed to give credence to the idea that there were other gods.
I know what it typically refers to, but why refer to false gods as "hosts of heaven"? Very strange. What's your opinion on it?

>Moby Dick
>1984
>Fahrenheit 45`
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>American Psycho
>Catcher in the Rye
>The Man in the High Castle
>Crime and Punishment

>>7507343
Fuck, Fahrenheit 451, not 45`

I DON'T KNOW SENPAI

Books I read in 2015

1. The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
2. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
3. The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt
4. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
5. Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
6. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
7. The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
8. The Man Eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson
9. Confessions of a Mask by Yukiko Mishima
10. The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
11. Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
12. The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
13. Conversations on a Homecoming by Tom Murphy
14. The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
15. My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger
16. The 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States
17. Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
18. Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge
19. The Collector by John Fowles
20. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
21. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
22. Operation Shylock by Phillip Roth
23. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
24. The Sea by John Banville
25. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
26. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
27. Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

ASOIAF
KingKiller Chronicles
Stormlight Archive
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow

>the know-it-all
>catch 22
>in the heart of the Sea
>the martian
>outsider in the white house
>drop city
>how to be good
>catcher in the rye
>Walden
>one summer: America 1927
>the old man and the sea
>hamlet
>kite runner
>your fathers, where are they?...
>Dune
>room full of mirrors
And the following vonnegut:
>cats cradle
>slaughterhouse 5
>time quake
>sirens of titan
>man w/o country
>player piano
>breakfast of champions
>Slapstick
>mother night

>>7507364
ASOIAF isn't a single book you retard.

>>7507236
>flowers for algernon
>picture of dorian gay
>unbearable ligthness of being
can't remember anything else

>>7507366
Lmao

Blood of Dragons
City of Dragons
Dragon Haven
The Stranger
The Dragon Keeper
Grendel
The Divided Mind
Fear and Trembling
Book of the Law
Bhagavad Gita
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Wicca: A Solitary Practitioner's Guide
Stranger Souls
Clockwork Asylum
Shadows of North America
Dunkelzahn's Secrets
Beyond the Pale
Neo Anarchist's Guide to North America
The Republic
King James Bible
Wolf in White Van
Livy VI-X
Livy I-V
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Freakonomics
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
Moneyball
Courage Under Fire
In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer
Candide
Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Hamlet
Brave New World
4 Texts on Socrates
The Enchiridion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

>>7507343
so I see you've done your homework. you're one of us now

>>7507357
what did you like the most?

>>7507379
>>7507366
I'm impressed. Do you guys balance work, school friends, or does reading take precedence?

>>7507385

>>7507379 here. Half the books on that list are ~100 pages or less. I read some of them for school. Otherwise I have no work or friends to distract me. Oh, I forgot The Iliad. And with that, I realize I've actually completed my goodreads yearly reading challenge, hah.

>>7507357
>12. The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
How was it? I really enjoyed Jesus' Son.

>>7507383
my favorites of the year were
Anna Karenina
The Peregrine
The Red and the Black
Foucault's Pendulum
The Rings of Saturn

>>7507404
I found Laughing Monsters a bit of a disappointment compared to Jesus' Son, Train Dreams or Angels. Still worth reading, just not one of his best. Reminded me of a Robert Stone novel.

1. Doctor Faustus
2. Gargantua and Pantagruel
3. Old Testament
4. Half of New Testament
5. Faerie Queen
6. Richard III
7. As You Like It
8. Utopia
9. The Prince
10. Sidney's works
11. Essays - Montaigne
12. Republic
13. Plato's Dialogues
14. Works of Aristotle
15. Groundwork..Morals - Kant
16. Enquiry...Morals - Hume
17. Utilitarianism
18. Augustus
19. Invention of Morel
20. Sons and Lovers
21. Mason & Dixon
22. Dryden's Aeneid
23. Joseph Andrews
24. Faust pt 1 & 2
25. The Begger's Opera
26. Oroonoko
27. The Divine Comedy
28. Sixty Stories
29. Martin Dressler
30. Cosmicomics
31. Civilwarland in Bad Decline
32. Ethics - Spinoza
33. Assorted works of Pope
34. Prolegomena
35. Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre
36. Works of Herder
37. Phenomenology of Spirit
38. I, Claudius
39. Lunar Landscapes - Hawkes
40. Breakfast at Tiffany's
41. Shorts of Melville
42. Titus Groan
43. The Moviegoer
44. Something Happened
45. Nine Stories
46. t-Zero
47. Stand on Zanzibar
48. Laocoön - Lessing
49. Theological-Political Treatise - Spinoza
50. Crime and Punishment

Well goddamn! I read way more than I thought. I was actually beating myself up; I always forget how long a year is.

Happy New Year /lit/!

>>7507385
I'm a chemical engineer in my 3rd year. Also have a part time job, working 25 hrs weeks. I still have free time to spare. The trick is to spendo as little time as possible on your phone.

The year 1 AD was just as long as this one. Don't let the illuminati convince you that all this technology makes time in the present more valuable/rare.

>>7507288
>100+ short stories
>200+ poems
Wtf major is this?

2666
metamagical themas
GEB
I am a strange loop
The magic mountain
Tiitisen lista
Antifragile
thinkin fast & slow
parts of instauratio magna from here and there
Utopia


-Didnt finish yet:
leviathan
few sven hassel books
few books about Napoleon
on obligations
bible
some Jules Verne stories

Also business-/self-help-/hand- and psychologybooks. ( i usually just go and skim trough these, so i cant say that i really read them ).

I just hit my 200 book mark on goodreads for this year.

Favorites in no order:
Blood Meridian
Suttree
Moby Dick
The Iliad and the Odyssey (didn't particularly like the Aeniad but I'm glad I read it)
Stoner
Solaris, Cyberiad, Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
The Recognitions, Carpenters Gothic, and J R by William Gaddis
Cartesian Sonata by William Gass
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein (not because I enjoyed it, but mostly because of how hilariously bad it was)
2666, The Savage Detectives, and Nazi Literature in the Americas by Bolaño.
Gravities Rainbow and V. by old Tom Pinecone

>>7507236
not in order but here:

the castle
lolita
american pastoral
white noise

Hamlet
Crime and punishment
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
Animal Farm
Lord of the flies
Hunger
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Memoirs of a Police Sergeant
The slum
The iliad
The odyssey
Dubliners
Death of Ivan Ilych
The Stranger
The metamorphosis, Kafka

Currently reading War and Peace.

Infinite Jest 15 times

Woman Hating
Right Wing Women
Our Blood
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Pornography and Civil Rights
Life And Death
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism

Not joking.

1. Frankenstein
2. Great Expectations
3. Washington Square
4. Turn of the Screw
5. Daisy Miller
6. McTeague
7. The Awakening
8. On the Road
9. Mythologies
10. A Room of One's Own
11. Morphology of the Folktale
12. Downtown Owl
13. Crooked Little Vein

>>7507381
Not at all, what kind of pleb taste is that

Started reading this year and this is what I read in chronological order.
>1984
>11/22/63
>Childhood's End
>The Road
>The Brother's Karamazov
>Notes From Underground
>Blood Meridian
>Infinite Jest
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Gravity's Rainbow
>White Noise
>Slow Leaner
>The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
And now currently reading Naked Lunch and Ulysses

>>7507257
Do you hate yourself?

Stoner
No Longer Human

I read both of these in January.

It's so hard to read anything and keep myself interested in things. ;_;

>>7507580
No, why do you ask?

>>7507257
>Precalculus
>Calculus
Lmao

>>7507584
a lot of those books sound painfully boring

My dairy.

>>7507469
It was homework for two classes at my community college.

>>7507603
Anything can be fun, even math, you just gotta learn how to make it fun.

Beyond Good and Evil
Faust, Pt 1
The Plague
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Irrational Man
Crime and Punishment
Faust, Pt 2
Selfish, Whining Monkeys
The Decline of the West
Fascism Viewed from the Right
Why I am So Wise
Ride the Tiger
The Fall
Napoleon
Poetics
Sartor Resartus
The Meaning of Conservatism
Notes from Underground
Kant - A Very Short Introduction
Hegel - A Very Short Introduction
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Heidegger - A Very Short Introduction
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands - Thinkers of the New Left
Beauty - A Very Short Introduction
The Gambler
Hegel
The Swan King - King Ludwig II of Bavaria
ABC of Reading

Currently reading the introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of History.

>>7507629
>Anything can be fun, even math
>even

>>7507385
I work about a third as much as most people while earning about 7ish times the amount of minimum wage most weeks. Note that minimum wage isn't shit in my country unlike the US. Gives me lots of time to read.

I read 93 books this year, I was hoping to get to 100 but my motivation kinda fizzled out.

My top picks this year:
>Debt: the first 5000 years - Graeber
>Have a Nice Day - Mankind
>The Beautiful Thing that Awaits us All - Barron
>Red Harvest - Hammet
>North American Lake Monsters - Ballingrud
>The Devil's Dictionary - Bierce
The Devil All The Time - Pollock
>The Hall of Uselessness - Leys
>Ghost Stories vol.1 - M R James

>>7507670
>I was hoping to get to 100 but my motivation kinda fizzled out.
There's still six days left.

>>7507671
I know but I just got a PlayStation 4...

>>7507674
Good, there's no games for it yet, so you can read until Ratchet and Clank comes out.

>>7507680
I might finish Quixote idk.

gonna try to do it off the top of my head, might forget some


stalin - kotkin
portrait of a woman - james
portrait of the artist - joyce
the double - dostoevsky
melville short stories
nostromo - conrad
eugenie grandet - balzac
andrei platonov short stories
name of the rose - eco
augustus - williams
notes from underground
modern greece: what everyone needs to know
revolution from above - kotz
bolshevik revolution - carr
everyday stalinism - fitzpatrick
disgrace - coetzee
light in august - faulkner
ben bernanke essays on great depression
age of extremes - hobsbawm
making of the english working class - thompson
mishima short stories
runaway horses - mishima
schoolboy's diary - walser
memoirs of a revolutionary - serge
making of the middle ages
amsterdam stories - nescio
kafka short stories
pierre et jean - maupassant

plus lots of french and english poetry

>>7507670
m2 bb. i've got 5 or so to go and no motivation or time

Middlemarch
Treatise of Human Nature
Critique of Pure Reason
Pride and Prejudice
Second Treatise of Goverment
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
The Social Contract
The Misanthrope
Tartuffe
Don Giovanni (libretto)
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Gulliver's Travels
Wealth of Nations
Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, American Constitution and the Amendments
Huckleberry Finn
Being and Time
The Pearl
Of Mice and Men
On Truth and Lies in an Extramoral sense
Critique of Judgment
War and Peace
Phenomenology of Spirit
Communist Manifesto
Capital
Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
The German Ideology
Fear and Trembling
Philosophical Fragments
Use and Abuse of History for Life
The Republic
Theory of Parallel's
QED
Flower of Evil
Swann's Way

>Am I patrician, /lit/?

>>7507768
Was Middlemarch worth it? I've been meaning to check it out but I'm not overly fond of books from that era.

>>7507379
>>7507426
>Impressive, very nice.

>>7507771
Extremely worth it. At least as good as War and Peace and Eliot is way fucking smarter than Austen. I felt like she had way more compassion for her characters than Austin does. Not that she doesn't show them as laughable and as silly as Austen sometimes shows hers, but she's less dismissive and the wider scope gives them more room to really come alive with what dignity they have.

And I forgot Hume's Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Lud-in-the-Mist

>>7507784
Meant to add why I thought she's smarter than Austen: the stuff I said about her characters implies to me that she was a better imagination and broader intellect. It's easier for small minds to sneer and people's weaknesses, and I feel like I hear a little too much of that from Austen.

>>7507481
What'd you think of GEB? Reading it atm and loving it. Does he actually manage to bring the concepts together well?

R8 me /lit/.

1. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
2. High Fidelity
3. The Little Prince
4. The Elements of Style
5. The Place of the Skull
6. Heart of Darkness
7. The Trial
8. Contemplation
9. A Modest Proposal
10. Watership Down
11. Hamilton's Mythology
12. The Crying of Lot 49
13. The Things They Carried
14. A Hunger Artist
15. On Palestine
16. On the Good Life
17. The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
18. The Symposium
19. Stoner
20. Sin noticias de Gurb
21. Logicomix
22. Aurelius' Meditations
23. The God of Small Things
24. The Man who was Thursday
25. Unabomber Manifesto
26. Epic of Gilgamesh
27. Lolita
28. The Problems of Philosophy
29. The Communist Manifesto
30. Demian
31. Enchiridion
32. Hamlet
33. Unpopular Essays
34. Discipline and Punish

1. The Globalisation of Addiction by Bruce K. Alexander
2. The Mechanical Bride by Marshall McLuhan
3. The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
4. Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
5. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
6. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
7. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
8. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
9. Tenth of December by George Saunders
10. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
11. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
12. Neuromancer by William Gibson
13. Burning Chrome by William Gibson
14. Hiroshima by John Hersey
15. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
16. Mount Analogue by René Daumal
17. Emma by Jane Austen
18. Faust Part One by Goethe
19. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Freud
20. The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud
21. VALIS by Philip K. Dick
22. Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges
23. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century by Neil Postman
24. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America by Daniel Boorstin
25. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
26. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
27. Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
28. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

An abhorrently apparent absense of abundance, though I tried really really hard this year.

Please look after Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Inherent Vice by Pynchon
Childhood's End by Clarke
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
The hour before the dawn by Maugham
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Grushin
The Conformist by Moravia
5 novellas by Poe
The Woman of Rome by Moravia
Heart of the Dog by Bulgakov
Diary of a Madwoman by Geza Csath
A Lost Paradise by Junichi Watanabe
The New Life by Pamuk
Silk by Baricco
and finally, A Christmas Carol.

Still in the process of reading Moravia's Boredom. List's kind of a mesh of random shit. Neither litcore, nor anything else really.

After Dark - Murakami
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain
Various Tales from Lovecraft
Persona - Erik Axl Sund

And currently reading:

A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha - Cervantes
Hijo de Ladrón (Son of a thief) - Manuel Rojas

Pretty disappointed with my pace this year but I got through a few good ones.

We
Antigone
Hamlet
Michael Kohlhaas
Der Proceß
No Country for Old Men
Die Panne
Happy Birthday, Türke!
We Can Build You
The Tempest
The Kingdom of Auschwitz
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Julius Caesar
The Things They Carried
Classical Mechanics -- John Taylor
Crime and Punishment
Philoctetes
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
King Lear
The Wave
Let's Play Chess
My Life as a Foreign Country
Thermal Physics -- Ralph Baierlein
The Illiad -- Fagles translation

Bump

>>7507236
i am cool now?

>>7509456
hi sebastian.

Stoner
Frankenstein
Inherent Vice
Notes From Underground

A few Carson McCullers short stories
Madonna of the Future

It was not a good year

Bump.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Seiobo There Below
Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen
Nicholson Baker - The Mezzanine
Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Patrick Hamilton - The Slaves of Solitude
Justin Torres - We the Animals
Richard Yates - Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Vladimir Sorokin - Ice Trilogy
Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The Melancholy of Resistance
Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars
Richard Yates - Disturbing the Peace
Jerzy Kosinsky - Steps
Louise Erdrich - The Antelope Wife
Kuzhali Manickavel - Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings
Meg Wolitzer - The Wife
Dezső Kosztolányi - Kornel Esti
Dezső Kosztolányi - Skylark
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
David Ohle - Motorman
H. P. Lovecraft - The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of The Ring
Ernst Jünger - Storm of Steel
Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party and Other Stories
Dezső Kosztolányi - Anna Edes
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Two Towers
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Return of the King
Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
Angela Slatter - The Girl With No Hands
Robert Walser - Jakob Von Gunten
Richard Yates - The Easter Parade
Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
John Crowley - Little, Big
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Gods of Mars
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Philip K. Dick - VALIS
Katherine Mansfield - Bliss and Other Stories
Ryū Murakami - In the Miso Soup
Jonathan Lethem - As She Climbed across the Table
Svetlana Alexievich - Voices from Chernobyl
Ryū Murakami - Audition
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Max Porter - Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Richard Yates - Liars in Love
Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz
David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Elmore Leonard - Swag
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Elmore Leonard - Pronto
Reginald Hill - On Beulah Height
Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley

favourites are yates, dick, krasznahorkai, kosztolanyi and tolkein. and the ice trilogy which was rad as heck.
although i tend to like everything i finish

I read around 35 books this year. I know /lit/ get's so much shit for being elitist and stupid but without it, it'd never happen.

>>7509984
Agreed. When I was first starting out (four years ago) /lit/ made me feel terrible if I didn't at least crank out a book every two weeks

>>7509961
>krasznahorkai, kosztolanyi
:$

Read like 70 and was thinking about 50-60 so I'm happy.
Favourite books were by Bloy, Krasznahorkai, Kostolanyi, Dostoievski, Rebatet and Döblin.

>>7507381
Thanks.

For real though, I only recently just started getting back into reading since I last stopped when I was around 11 reading Harry Potter and shit, so there's all these books that I haven't read yet and am only now just starting to catch up.

Stephen King: The Waste Lands
Gene Wolfe: The Claw of the Conciliator
Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space
Philip Pullman: Northern Lights
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
Roger Zelazny: Nine Princes in Amber
Jack Vance: The Dying Earth

Last Christmas I read The Two Towers and this Christmas I'm reading The Return of the King, I've never read LOTR in English before and decided to make a two-year project out of it.

>>7510861

Dispatches by Michael Herr
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Underworld by Don DeLillo

Maybe In Cold Blood

There may be more but I can't remember

I'm in grad school studying physics, and last year I got practically no reading done because of schoolwork. I made a really concerted effort to get some reading done this year. It kinda hurt my social life, but I don't really like a lot of the people here anyway.
* = recommended

1. 2666- Bolano*
2. By Night In Chile- Bolano*
3. The Book of Five Rings- Musashi
4. Rashomon and Other Stories- Akutagawa*
5. The Metamorphosis- Kafka*
6. Bend Sinister- Nabakov*
7. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions*
8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (more like Strange Shit & Mr. Shit)
9. Walden- Thoreau*
10. Self Reliance- Emerson*
11. Animal Farm- Orwell
12. Redeployment- Clay
13. The Adventures of Tom Saywer- Twain
14. Ancillary Justice- Leckie (more like ancillary shit)
15. Girl Meets Boy- Smith*
16. Mother Night- Vonnegut*
17. Cat's Cradle- Vonnegut*
18. Siddhartha- Hesse*
19. Desert Solitaire- Abbey*
20. The Brave Cowboy- Abbey*
21. Black Sun- Abbey (more like Black Shit)
22. Existentialism is a Humanism- Sartre*
23. Three Body Problem- Liu (more like Three Shit Problem)
24. Captain Corelli's Mandolin- De Bernieres*
25. Arguably- Hitchens*
26. The Martian- Weir (more like Shit Martian)
27. The Fall- Camus*
28. Chronicle of Death Foretold- Marquez*
29. Gardens of the Moon- Erikson
30. Deadhouse Gates- Erikson*
31. Memories of Ice- Erikson*
32. House of Chains- Erikson (more like House of Shit)
33. Girl in a Band- Gordon
34. Unknown Pleasures- Ott*
35. Radon- Fristoe and Cometbus
36. Everything is Illuminated- Foer
37. Bream Gives Me Hiccups- Eisenberg (more like Bream Shits Hiccups. Quite possibly the worst book I have ever read)
38. The Sun Also Rises- Hemingway*
39. Under the Glacier- Laxness*
40. Candide- Voltaire*
41. The Three Musketeers- Dumas*
42. Morphine- Bulgakov*
43. The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov*
44. The Rider- Krabbe*
45. Infinite Jest- Wallace*
46. Lions of Kandahar- Bradley
47. Dawn- Bulter (Shit)
48. Heart of Darkness- Conrad*
49. The Land of Little Rain- Austin*
50. The 50 Year Sword- Danielewski
51. Catch 22- Heller*
52. Suicide- Leve*
53. The Half Has Never Been Told- Baptist*
54. The Confessions of Nat Turner- Turner*

Currently about a third of the way through The Savage Detectives by Bolano and about 10% through The Atom Station by Laxness.

Also, read significant portions of these:
Classical Electrodynamics- JD Jackson (more like JD Sadist)
Modern Quantum Mechanics- Sakurai
Classical Mechanics- Goldstein (more like Shit Mechanics)
Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continuum- Fetter and Walecka*
The Physics of Plasmas- Boyd, Sanderson

1 Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
2 The Little Saint by Georges Simenon
3 The Ring by Elisabeth Horem
4 Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven by Antoine Volodine
5 Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
6 Daddy Cool by Donald Goines
7 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
8 The Stepson by Emmanuel Bove
9 Suicide Bridge by Iain Sinclair
10 Lud Heat: a book of the dead hamlets by Iain Sinclair
11 J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face-to-face with Time by David Attwell
12 Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser
13 So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
14 Crow Fair: Stories by Thomas McGuane
15 Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Mohsin Hamid
16 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
17 The Man With the Little Dog by Georges Simenon
18 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
19 The Door (La Porte) by Georges Simenon
20 The return of Philip Latinovicz, by Miroslav Krleža
21 Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
22 Minor Angels by Antoine Volodine
23 The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
24 My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes
25 Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt by Chris Hedges
26 Les Complices by Georges Simenon
27 The Blue Room by Georges Simenon
28 Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History by Alexander Waugh
29 The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić
30 Eldorado Red by Donald Goines
31 Klausen by Andreas Maier
32 The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
33 Lacombe, Lucien: The Complete Scenario of the Film by Patrick Modiano
34 The Bells of Bicetre by Georges Simenon
35 And Yet ... by Christopher Hitchens
36 Eyes: Novellas and Stories by William H. Gass
37 Rapids by Patrick Boltshauser
38 Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines
39 The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by J.M. Coetzee
40 Hope Diamond Refuses by Iris Owens

41 The Lost Childhood and Other Essays by Graham Greene
42 On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža
43 Naming the Jungle: A Novel by Antoine Volodine
44 A New Lease Of Life by Georges Simenon
45 The Dance of a Sham by Paul Emond
46 A Bohemian Youth by Josef Hiršal
47 The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile – The Night Watch – Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
48 Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
49 La Place de l’Étoile by Patrick Modiano
50 Purity by Jonathan Franzen
51 Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
52 The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays by Dubravka Ugrešić
53 Tristano Dies: A Life by Antonio Tabucchi
54 The Train by Georges Simenon
55 Newspaper by Édouard Levé
56 One Out of Two by Daniel Sada
57 Navidad & Matanza by Carlos Labbé
58 Because She Never Asked by Enrique Vila-Matas
59 The Premier by Georges Simenon
60 Street Players by Donald Goines
61 Submission by Michel Houellebecq
62 Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
63 Law of Desire: Stories by Andrej Blatnik
64 Soy Realidad by Tomaž Åalamun
65 After Claude by Iris Owens
66 Lodgers (Writings from an Unbound Europe) (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Nenad VeliÄković
67 Striptease by Georges Simenon
68 The Fate of the Malous by Georges Simenon
69 Writers by Antoine Volodine
70 Ballerina, Ballerina by Marko SosiÄ
71 British Dramatists by Graham Greene
72 Behind the Station by Arno Camenisch
73 The Alp by Arno Camenisch
74 The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh
75 Faulkner's MGM Screenplays by Bruce F. Kawin
76 God by Alexander Waugh
77 The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
78 Peltse and Pentameron by Volodymyr Dibrova
79 Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
80 The Taker And Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca
81 Brueghel Moon by Tamaz Chiladze
82 Orphans (French Literature Series) by Hadrien Laroche
83 Dopefiend by Donald Goines
84 The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov
85 The Tree with No Name by Drago JanÄar
86 The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza by Max Blumenthal
87 Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream by Dubravka Ugrešić
88 Walking Small by L.J. Davis
89 Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
90 A World Of My Own: A Dream Diary by Graham Greene

91 Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
92 A Winter's Journal by Emmanuel Bove
93 Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
94 The Heart of a Man by Georges Simenon
95 The Negro by Georges Simenon
96 So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano
97 The Murderer by Georges Simenon
98 Kvachi by Mikheil Javakhishvili
99 Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
100 The Blue Guitar by John Banville
101 Vano and Niko: And Other Stories by Erlom Akhvlediani
102 Will This Do? An Autobiography by Auberon Waugh
103 Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
104 Freud's Sister by Goce Smilevski
105 In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories by Dubravka Ugrešić
106 Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
107 The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
108 A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis
109 The Things We Don't Do by Andrés Neuman
110 Old Times in the Faulkner Country by John B. Cullen
111 Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen by William Faulkner
112 Doom Fox by Iceberg Slim
113 Me, Margarita: Stories by Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili
114 The Fugitive by Georges Simenon
115 Across the Street by Georges Simenon
116 The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
117 Heavenly Supper: The Story of Maria Janis by Fulvio Tomizza
118 Helen: A Courtship and Mississippi Poems by William Faulkner
119 The Little Man from Archangel by Georges Simenon
120 A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg
121 Natural Novel by Georgi Gospodinov
122 Armand by Emmanuel Bove
123 Stallion Road: A Screenplay by William Faulkner
124 You Do Understand by Andrej Blatnik
125 The Wishing Tree by William Faulkner
126 Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror by Bryan Burrough
127 Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh
128 Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays by Brian Boyd
129 Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 by Philip Roth
130 Graham Greene: A Life in Letters by Graham Greene
131 Franz Kafka: The Office Writings by Franz Kafka
132 National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling by Tim Hornbaker
133 Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925 by William Faulkner
134 The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
135 Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš by Mark Thompson
136 Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim by Justin Gifford
137 Shetani's Sister by Iceberg Slim
138 The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner
139 A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
140 Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
141 Fording the Stream of Consciousness by Dubravka Ugrešić
142 New Orleans Sketches by William Faulkner
143 The Survivors by Georges Simenon
144 Black rain by Georges Simenon
145 The Great Fire of London by Peter Ackroyd

146 Aunt Jeanne by Georges Simenon
147 My Friends by Emmanuel Bove
148 Conversation with Spinoza: A Cobweb Novel by Goce Smilevski
149 Materada by Fulvio Tomizza
150 Addendum to a Photo Album by Vladislav Otroshenko
151 Skinswaps by Andrej Blatnik
152 And Other Stories by Georgi Gospodinov
153 Father Abraham by William Faulkner
154 Marble Faun and a Green Bough: Poems by William Faulkner
155 KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
156 Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by Vladimir Nabokov
157 Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd
158 Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd
159 Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach
160 Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
161 Nabokov's Congeries by Vladimir Nabokov
162 Selected Letters by William Faulkner
163 The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges
164 Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
165 Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
166 Rumour at Nightfall by Graham Greene
167 The Higher Jazz: A Novel by Edmund Wilson by Edmund Wilson
168 Borges on Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
169 Yes and No: And, for Whom the Bell Chimes by Graham Greene
170 The Great Jowett by Graham Greene
171 The Return of A.J. Raffles: An Edwardian Comedy In Three Acts, Based Somewhat Loosely on E.W. Hornung's Characters In The Amateur Cracksman by Graham Greene
172 Carving A Statue by Graham Greene
173 The Complaisant Lover by Graham Greene
174 The Potting Shed by Graham Greene
175 The Living Room by Graham Greene
176 The Fortress by Meša Selimović
177 Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971 by Simon Karlinsky
178 Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov
179 The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
180 Collected Essays (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene
181 The Big Seven by Jim Harrison
182 I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
183 Selected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
184 Notes on Prosody: From the Commentary to his Translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin by Vladimir Nabokov
185 Lolita: The Screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov
186 The Waltz Invention by Vladimir Nabokov
187 The Zürau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
188 Reflections by Graham Greene
189 Ways Of Escape by Graham Greene
190 The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
191 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
192 This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges
193 An Introduction to American Literature: by Jorge Luis Borges
194 The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
195 A Sort of Life by Graham Greene
196 Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983 by Jorge Luis Borges
197 Doctor Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges
198 Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges
199 Atlas by Jorge Luis Borges
200 Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll

201 Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
202 The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
203 On Argentina by Jorge Luis Borges
204 Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Jorge Luis Borges
205 A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages-- Especially English by Anthony Burgess
206 The Spell by Hermann Broch
207 The Name of Action by Graham Greene
208 English Literature: A Survey for Students by Anthony Burgess
209 The Unknown Quantity by Hermann Broch
210 On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
211 The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
212 On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges
213 A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
214 It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene
215 The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
216 Moses: A Narrative by Anthony Burgess
217 Ernest Hemingway and His World by Anthony Burgess
218 Byrne by Anthony Burgess
219 Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
220 Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea by Claudio Magris
221 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
222 Flame into Being: Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence (Abacus Books) by Anthony Burgess
223 The Novel Now: A Student's Guide To Contemporary Fiction by Anthony Burgess
224 Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 by Anthony Burgess
225 On Going To Bed by Anthony Burgess
226 Beirut, Beirut: A novel of love & war by OµÙ†O1 O§Ù„له O¥O¨O±O§Ù‡ÙŠÙ…
227 Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
228 The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
229 Pedigree: A Memoir by Patrick Modiano
230 The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War by William T. Vollmann
231 The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
232 Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
233 Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi
234 The Life of Graham Greene, Vol. 3: 1955-1991 by Norman Sherry
235 The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry
236 Letters to Felice‎ (Schocken Classics) by Franz Kafka
237 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
238 Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
239 The Life of Graham Greene, Vol. 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry
240 The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
241 Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié
242 Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by José Saramago
243 The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
244 In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
245 Arguably: Selected Essays by Christopher Hitchens
246 One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings by Anthony Burgess
247 Selected Letters of William Styron by William Styron
248 Letters to My Father by William Styron
249 Conversations with William Styron by William Styron
250 How's Your Glass?: A Quizzical Look at Drinks and Drinking by Kingsley Amis
251 Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
252 On Drink by Kingsley Amis
253 What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions by Kingsley Amis

>>7507639
How were the VShort Intros? Do you plan on reading Kant etcetera? Or did you use them only to get the gist?

>>7510902 here
>>7507357
How was Darkness at Noon? That's on my list.

And what was your take on A Confederacy of Dunces? I've heard a lot of mixed things about it.

254 But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings by Anthony Burgess
255 Urgent Copy by Anthony Burgess
256 The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
257 The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas
258 At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
259 Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
260 A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
261 Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
262 The Clockmaker: Originally Published in English as the Watchmaker by Georges Simenon
263 William Styron, A Life by James L.W. West III
264 Conversations with Anthony Burgess by Anthony Burgess
265 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
266 Difficulties with Girls by Kingsley Amis
267 Devil of a State: A Novel (The Norton Library) by Anthony Burgess
268 The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps by William Styron
269 The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis
270 My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
271 A Life of Saul Bellow: 1915-1964 by Zachary Leader
272 The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
273 Mozart And The Wolf Gang by Anthony Burgess
274 Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays by William Styron
275 The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
276 The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader
277 Memoirs by Kingsley Amis
278 A Tidewater Morning by William Styron
279 Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
280 Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
281 The Master Builder and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
282 God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
283 Time Ages in a Hurry by Antonio Tabucchi
284 Fairy Tales: Dramolettes by Robert Walser
285 The Biographer's Moustache by Kingsley Amis
286 Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
287 You Can't Do Both by Kingsley Amis
288 Mr. Barrett's secret and other stories by Kingsley Amis
289 The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis
290 We are All Guilty by Kingsley Amis
291 The Folks That Live on the Hill by Kingsley Amis
292 This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings by William Styron
293 The Iron Stair Case by Georges Simenon
294 Sophie's Choice by William Styron
295 In the Clap Shack by William Styron
296 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
297 Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
298 A Vision of Battlements by Anthony Burgess
299 The Dark Brain of Piranesi: and Other Essays by Marguerite Yourcenar
300 The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch

301 Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar
302 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
303 The Message To The Planet by Iris Murdoch
304 Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis
305 Beard's Roman Women: A novel by Anthony Burgess
306 Russian Hide and Seek by Kingsley Amis
307 Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
308 Collected Short Stories by Kingsley Amis
309 The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
310 Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar
311 The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
312 Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
313 The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch
314 The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
315 Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
316 Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
317 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
318 The Crime of the Century by Kingsley Amis
319 Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements by Anthony Burgess
320 Set This House on Fire by William Styron
321 Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
322 Dreams and Destinies by Marguerite Yourcenar
323 Island by Aldous Huxley
324 Henry And Cato by Iris Murdoch
325 Man Of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess
326 The Silence of Mohammed by Salim Bachi
327 The Musical Brain: And Other Stories by César Aira
328 The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya
329 Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
330 A Word Child by Iris Murdoch
331 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch
332 One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess
333 Fires by Marguerite Yourcenar
334 Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyane Savigneau
335 Invitation by Claude Simon
336 The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
337 Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway
338 The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson
339 Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene
340 The Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis
341 The Human Factor by Graham Greene
342 Beds in the East by Anthony Burgess
343 The Enemy in the Blanket by Anthony Burgess
344 Time for a Tiger by Anthony Burgess
345 How Many Years: A Memoir by Marguerite Yourcenar
346 Yours Etc.: Letters To The Press by Graham Greene
347 Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1) by Georges Simenon
348 An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
349 Dear Departed: A Memoir by Marguerite Yourcenar
350 Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis

>>7507614
what website/program did you screencap this from?

351 The Comedians (20th-Century Classics) by Graham Greene
352 With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey by Marguerite Yourcenar
353 The Jealous God by John Braine
354 The Eve of St Venus by Anthony Burgess
355 Plays by Marguerite Yourcenar
356 queen of a distant country by John Braine
357 The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
358 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
359 Life At The Top by John Braine
360 Lowball (Wild Cards, #22) by George R.R. Martin
361 Nothing Like the Sun: A Novel about William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
362 I Want it Now by Kingsley Amis
363 A Coin in Nine Hands: A Novel by Marguerite Yourcenar
364 The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
365 A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
366 The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
367 Room at the Top by John Braine
368 A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar
369 The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess
370 A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
371 The Egyptologists by Kingsley Amis
372 Life with a Star by Jiřà Weil
373 The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
374 One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
375 The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
376 The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud
377 The Right to an Answer by Anthony Burgess
378 Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
379 My Enemy's Enemy by Kingsley Amis
380 Mishima: A Vision of the Void by Marguerite Yourcenar
381 Petersburg by Andrei Bely
382 Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
383 That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar
384 Paris by Marcos Giralt Torrente
385 Silent Extras: A Novel by Arnon Grunberg
386 Of Song and Water by Joseph Coulson

The Clown
The Glass Bead Game
Dubliners
The Doomed City
Dune
The Circle

>>7507236

Notes from the Underground (Dostoyevski)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevski)
The old man and the sea (Hemmingway)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Steppenwolfe (Herman Hesse)
Every Plato Dialogue
Every Aristotle work except for his politics
Précis de decomposition (Emil Cioran)
Capital in the XXI century (Picketty)
Anti-Dühring (Engels)
A Brave New World (Huxley)
I have no mouth and I must scream (Ellison)

And some other thinks that I might not remember.

>>7510952
That's a goodreads screencap. They've also got a new My Year in Books feature this year which I will not share because I had a terrible year.

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>>7511008
How do you navigate to such a view? I'm only used to the grid or list view.

I NEED THE MUST READ LIST FOR BE A /LIT/ SO THIS 2016 I START WITH IT.

>>7507236
André Gide- Les caves du vatican
André Gide- Les faux monnayeurs
Hemingway- A farewell to arms
Homer- The odyssey
Borges- Fictions/ The Book of Sand/ Brodie's report
Pynchon- Gravitys rainbow
Hesse- Siddharta
Hesse- The Glass Bead Game
plus one novellas collection by him
Junger- journal 1939-40 and 1944-45
Bernanos- Sous le soleil de satan
Mann- The magic mountain
Lovecraft- The quest of unknown Kadath
Flaubert- Madame bovary
Stendhal- Le Rouge et le noir
Kafka- The Castle (plus one novellas collection)
Greg Egan- Shilds Ladder


pretty satisfied since the first time I tried to read Gravity's rainbow I gave up about 150 pages in

I'm unemployed though so that doesn't amount to much

The Bhagavad-Gita
Exit The King
Julius Caesar

To be quite honest, I am amazed that I could even get through one

>>7511107
When you click on My Books, you should see this pic as a banner at the top, which should give you your Year in Books when you click on it.
Otherwise, you can go to
>https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2015/[user_number]
where [user_number] is the number that shows up when you view your profile page at
>https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/[user_number]-[username]
if that makes sense

>1984
>Animal Farm
>Brave New World
>Constantine's Crossroads
>Black Banners and Long Nights
>The Omen of the Angels
>Rain Dogs
>The Mountain Wreath
>Through Distant Worlds and Times
>The Misanthrope
>Meditations
>Enchidridion
>Durch die Wüste
>Deux Amis
And have recently begun "History of the Yugoslavs" by Corovic

>>7511183
Actually i meant the histogram view, but I found it in stats. I never knew it was there.

>>7507581
Feel ya bruh

>>7511238

I'm sorry. Glad you found what you wanted despite my obtuseness.

Analects
Zhuangzi
Tao Te Ching
The Histories
History of the PP war
The Republic

Almost done with the greeks and gooks

>>7507236
i read so many that i cant be bothered to list them
about 1000 book though

>>7511256
Nice b8 m8

>>7510921

Behold, the man whose internet penis is of grand physique.

ubik
the count of monte cristo
war of the worlds
the island of dr moreau
gone girl
the adventures of huckleberry finn
the master and margarita
moby dick
blood meridian
the sun also rises
the metamorphosis and other stories by kafka

gonna polish off slaughterhouse five before 2016

>>7507558
>moby dick
>pleb
I WANT OFF THIS RIDE

>>7507368
Maybe he's listing the entire series because he read it all this year hur dur bet you didn't think about that.

>>7511256
is this you?

1-Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
2-Dark Spring - Unica Zurn
3-Silvio in the Rose Garden - Julio Ramon Ribeyro
4-Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
5-Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
6-Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe - Jose Donoso
7-The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe
8-The Plains - Gerald Murnane
9-Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
10- The Dark Room - Junnosoke Yoshiyuki
11- The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
12- Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
13- The Genocides - Thomas M. Disch
14- The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
15- Solo Faces - James Salter
16- Queer - William S. Burroughs
17- The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
18- Endangered Species - Gene Wolfe
19- Peru - Gordon Lish
20- Nightwork - Christine Schutt
21- The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Ursula K. Le Guin
22- Ice - Anna Kavan
23- Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan
24- Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K. Le Guin
25- A book by a relative.
26- The Lover - Marguerite Duras
27- Break it Down - Lydia Davis
28- Richard Yates - Tao Lin
29- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
30- Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolano
31- The Blood Oranges - John Hawkes
32- The Waters of Kronos - Conrad Richter
33- The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
34- Snakes and Earrings - Hitomi Kanehara
35- Lightning Rods - Helen DeWitt
36- Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia E. Butler
37- The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
38- The Book of Revelation - Rupert Thomson
39- The Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
40- The Collected Stories - Breece D'J Pancake
41- Zone - Mathias Énard
42- Continent - Jim Crace
43- Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
44- The Image - Jean De Berg (Catherine Robbe-Grillet)
45- July's People - Nadine Gordimer
46- The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat
47- The Butcher - Alina Reyes
48- The Fatal Bodice - Alina Reyes
49- Tales from a Troubled Land - Alan Paton

I kind of got in a bit of a depressed mood and played a lot of video games this year. I still really enjoyed a lot of books.

Shieeet, let's see if I can remember them alls:

2666 by Bolaño
Dhalgren by Delaney
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do by Michael J Sandel
Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
J R by Gaddis
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy
Seize the Day by Bellow
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
To the Lighthouse by Woolf
The Hounds of Baskerville by Doyle
All Gall is Divided by Cioran
Solaris by Lem
Childhood's End by Clarke
American Society: How It Really Works by Wright & Rogers
The Metamorphosis by Kafka
The Magus by Fowles
The Cannibal by Hawkes
The Prank by Chekhov
Last Stories and Other Stories by Vollmann
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
The Republic by Plato
Enchiridion by Epictetus
Ariel by Plath
This Explains Everything edited by John Brockman
Demian by Hesse
Discipline and Punish by Foucault
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
As You Like It by Shakespeare
The Doors of Perception by Huxley
Understanding Media by McLuhan
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
White Noise by DeLillo
Neuromancer by Gibson
The Undiscovered Self by Jung
The Pleasure Principle by Freud
Ficciones by Borges
The Information: a history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick
Under the Volcano by Lowry
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie
Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl
Les Chants de Maldoror by de Lautreamont
Between the World and Me by Coates
History by John Vincent
Japanese Haikus by various
Invisible Cities by Calvino

and I think that's it. Though looking back, I def need to read more non-fiction next year–!

>Stolen - Daniel Palmer
>Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
>Slow Getting Up - Nate Jackson
> Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
>American Sniper - Chris Kyle
>Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
>In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
>Take Down - James Swain
>One Summer in American, 1927 - Bill Bryson
>Eleven Rings - Phil Jackson
>The Wild Truth - Carine McCandless

Took me ages to remember them all, I'm quite proud of myself actually, I didn't think I'd read as much

Oscar Wilde short stories
De profundis and other essays
The idiot
Crime and punishment
Notes from underground
Demons/The Devils
Catcher in the rye
Catch 22
Animal farm
To kill a mockingbird
Journey to the end of the night
Symposium
Candide
Zadig
The Odyssey
Oedipus cycle
Naked lunch
The communist manifesto
The time machine
Descarte's Meditations
The Philosophy Book
Why I Am So Wise - Nietzsche
Aphorisms on Love and Hate - Nietzsche
Schopenhauer's essays and aphorisms
Dubliners
The portrait of the artist as a young man
On the road
Howl and other poems
Marriage of heaven and hell
Blake's verse
John Keats' verse
Byron's verse
Hamlet
Venus in furs
The stranger
The American night - Jim Morrison
D.H. Lawrence Short Stories
Turn of the screw
The trial
Metamorphosis

Age of Reason
Cat's Cradle
Steppenwolf
High Fidelity
The Consolations of Philosophy
The Time Machine
The Art of War
Nausea
The Little Prince
Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
The Trial
The Dharma Bums
The Beach
Eichmann in Jerusalem
On the Road
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Narziss and Goldmund
Tao Te Ching
Trainspotting
The Subterraneans
Fight Club

The Dharma Bums was my favourite, haven't seen it discussed too much, has anyone else read it?

>>7511328

I'm not sure what you mean. Those are the books that I read this year. Is that some kind of issue?

>>7507257
Why the fuck are you reading The Annals?
It's more like a boring journal of the Roman Empire
lol ... I don't believe how can someone read it

read some books

>>7511769
Haven't read Dharma Bums, but really? That was your favorite? Knowing what I do know about it, I'm surprised to hear anyone call that a favorite over several others on that list that I have read, in particular A Clockwork Orange, either of the Hesse works (especially Narcissus and Goldmund), and the Tao Te Ching.

>>7510956
R u srs

>>7511769
Weird, I was just looking at its Wiki pageout of curiosity because I recently learned that when I was born a famous guru named Yogi Bhajan, a friend of my father's at the time, gave me the name Dharma as a spiritual token, as well as my other siblings. Meaning destiny, among other things, it only seemed appropriate to want to read it–!

What did you like about it? without spoilers!

>>7511832
He's either a) not serious, b) a NEET who does nothing but read, eat, and blink, c) that obnoxious guy from the "Here in my garage. I just bought this new Lamborghini here as a reminder..." who claims to read a book a day (by which he means he reads the first page of a book a day), or d) delusional.

>>7511830
I wasn't expecting to like it nearly as much as I did but it has this amazingly calm and clear tone which very well represents the ideals of the themes like the zen Buddhism and eastern philosophy while being grounded in a bit more of a contemporary and also real setting than you get with Hesse. Because it's got the Kerouac style of being based in his experience it carries and develops really interestingly and his ideas don't really come from dogma or a formal ideology but rather just from his gathered experiences.

Hesse was one of my favourites over the year too though, I forgot to include Sidhartha and I'm reading glass bead game now so if you are into him then Dharma Bums is a must read in my book.

>>7511837
Haha that's a very fitting sign, I think you should read it as well

Infinite Jest

I'm not jesting, it's literay the only book I read this year.

Legionary Gods and Emperors
The Song of Kali

How'd I do

1. Mein Kampf

>Got inspired
>Killed a Jew
>Out on bail awaiting trial
>Too depressed to read

>>7511882
Was it worth it?

>>7510942
>How was Darkness at Noon?
It was a compelling read. I found it plausible. An interesting psychological portrait of a show-trial defendant and of his interrogators. It's only about 220 pages, so I read it in three or four days.


>And what was your take on A Confederacy of Dunces? I've heard a lot of mixed things about it.
I didn't think it was the funniest book ever written but some moments were funny. I thought it was an interesting portrait of misfits though. And it made me depressed about my dead end job and the misfits I work with.
Worth reading but not going to make my favorites list.

read the 6th extinction and on immunity, cadillac dessert and just read between the world and me

Who the fuck keeps track of this shit, like just read books. Why make it pretentious? Are you all 5?

>>7511650
Did you also read Huxley's Heaven and Hell after The Doors of Perception? If not, I suggest you do.

Other recs if you enjoyed what you read and haven't hit these yet:
Tolstoy - Kreutzer Sonata
Hesse - Siddhartha; Steppenwolf; Narcissus and Goldmund; Beneath the Wheel; Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game)

>>7511866
Thank you for the elaboration on why you enjoyed Dharma Bums so much. My issue is I thoroughly hated his style in On the Road to the point I am extremely hesitant to pick up another Kerouac.

I eagerly await the end of each year just so I can engage in these vaguely masturbatory threads:

>A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
>Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
>Woe is I by Patricia T. O'Conner
>The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
>Darkness Visible by William Styron
>Lysistrata by Aristophanes
>What's it all About by Julian Baggini
>Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum
>Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective by Peter Berger
>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
>Genius by Harold Bloom
>Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
>Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
>Jaguars Ripped My Flesh by Tim Cahill
>Signaletics by Emilia Philips
>The King in Yellow & Other Stories by Robert W. Chambers
>Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
>Hank by Abraham Smith
>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
>A Brief History of Modern Warfare by Richard Connaughton
>Thieves of Paradise by Yusef Komunyakaa
>It Would Be Quiet by Jan LaPerle
>Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin
>The Boys of my Youth by Jo Ann Beard
>Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf by R.A. Salvatore
>No One Writes to the Colonel & Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>A Pretty Place to Mourn by Jan LaPerle
>Whats is Citizenship? by Derek Heater
>Dark Journey by Elaine Cunningham
>The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter
>Freedom and Culture by John Dewey
>The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
>Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
>Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
>Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
>The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
>Collapse by Jared Diamond
>Politics in States and Communities by Thomas R. Dye
>The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
>The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
>Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss
>Buried Child by Sam Shepard
>New Orleans Sketches by William Faulkner
>The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodr Dostoevsky

I also anticipate finishing:
Invention as a Social Act by Karen Burke LeFevre
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

>>7507236
Here´s mine. Gonna finish No. 54 either today or tomorrow.

January

4th: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
27th: Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
29th: The Damned Yard - Ivo Andrić

February

12th: Death and the Dervish - Meša Selimović
18th: South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
28th: As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

March

10th: Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
25th: The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

April

10th: Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
21st: The Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

May

-

June

-

July

19th: Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

August

21st: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
24th: White Fang - Jack London

September

-

October

-

November

-

December

-

I've read 35 books last year, so this one has been kinda disappointing, but at least it's something. I'll try reading much more next year. It's hard working on all your backlogs at once.

> The Road
> Stoner
> No longer human
> Blood Meridian
> V.
> Extension du domaine de la lutte (Whatever)
> Notes from the underground
> 100 years of solitude (finishing it today)

Tell me what I should read next

(I also red Madame Bovary and Les Misérables but i haven't finished them completely )

>>7509431
You aren't cool but rad, mate.

>>7512831
Ironically, I've heard conflicting opinions–! But since it's so short (and I own it), I'll check it out.

Also, so many people have recommended Steppenwolf, it's a shame I haven't read it yet. Will do, as with your Tolstoy rec–love him.

Persepolis
Something like an Autobiography (Kurosawa)
Dubliners
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
A View from the Bridge
American Psycho
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
Animal Farm
1984
Gravity's Rainbow
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Double
Notes from Underground
Beneath the Underdog (Charles Mingus)
The Metamorphosis
The Bell Jar
The Last Unicorn
The Meek One

I wanted to keep my year in literature light, so many of these are fairly short and there's only 20 books altogether that I read. I want to read 40 books next year though since I finish my final year at university.

>>7511650
>>7513594
Have you read American Psycho? I've almost finished reading it. Almost. It was really a good experience. Going to read Embassytown and The City and the City by China Mièville next. Your opinion?

43 books including big fuckers like IJ, W&P, Brother Karamazov, Moby Dick, C&P

Did i do good lit?

>>7507539
underrated post

>>7513815
sure well done

>>7513815
Might as well write them out
Celine: Journey to the edge of the night
Herman Bang: Stuk
Platonov: Foundation Pit
Beckett: The triology
Ellis: American Psycho
DFW: IJ
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Tolstoy: the death of ivan ilyich
Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
Pasternak: Dr Zhivago
Dosto: Br. Karamazov
Dosto: The eternal husband
Dosto: The Double
Dosto: Notes
Dosto: Crime and Punishment
Hamsun: Hunger
Hamsun: Growth of the soil
Johannes V. Jensen: Kongens fald
Johannes V. Jensen: Himmerlands historier
Knausgård: My struggle 1,2,3
Peter Hoeg: Kvinden og Aben (absolute trash)
Bukowski: Post Office
Sallinger: Catcher
Camus: The Fall
Camus: The Outsider
Camus: Myth of Sisyphus
Stefan Sweig: Sternstunden der Menschheit
Sartre: Nausea
Sartre: Existentialism is humanism
Orwell: 1984
Carver: Short cuts
Melville: Moby Dick
Tom Kristensen: Hærværk (don't know if it's translated, but i heavely recommend it)
Williams: Stoner
Plato: The Republic
Aristoteles: Nico. ethics

There. That felt good

r8 pls

>>7513805
I have actually, but didn't really like it, tbqh. It's a charming and often times funny satire for sure (in it's own twisted way), but I found the constant descriptions of brand name items and violence tedious, like an unnecessarily long-winded version of the film. It might be because I had a deep fascination with violence-in-fiction when I was younger, and so have exhausted my appreciation for it (even in an ironic context), but while reading it, I kept finding myself saying: "okay, okay, I get it. Wall St. culture is cutthroat. Bateman is unreliable, etc. etc." And so I lost patience (especially by the time he kills the Shar-pei).

My favorite parts, however (because I really didn't despise the book, just found it overly indulgent, almost like a Tarantino flick), were the musical interludes–funny, succinct, tasteful, and actually quite accurate!

As for Mieville, haven't read any of his stuff. But from what I understand, his brand of 'weird fiction,' as I think they call it, is largely influenced by Lovecraft, who I really enjoy. For me, he's the Conan Doyle of horror fiction–such delicious plot-lines! (To say nothing of prosody ;)

>>7513855
Thanks and much appreciated.

>>7513853
Seems like you had a good year.

>>7507357
>15. My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger

>>7513853
I see someone just discovered /lit/ this year. Thank you for reading every "recommendation" we have to offer. What will you do now?

>>7513917
Do you feel better now?

Anyway, I think the guy deserves a pat on the back. He took suggestions from a source he respected and stuck to them. Not everyone has the time nor necessity to pave their own path in literature–nor anything else. It's why people like Pandora radio and Spotify, not to mention Bloom.

>>7507343

So there's somebody else who finally read some classics.

For me it was

>Fahrenheit 451
>Brave New World
>Jerusalem (The play)
>Give a boy a gun
>Wild
>To kill a Mockingbird
>The Martian
>After the Plague
>The Harder They Come
>Drop CIty
>Duma Key
>Lord of the Flies

And no matter how much I anticipated it, I wasn't able to finish The Road, sadly.

Moby Dick
Napoleon the Great
Greco-Persian Wars
The Road
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy
Byzantium Vol 1&2
Master and Commander/Post Captain/HMS Surprise/Mauritius Command

>>7513853

Hvor gammel er du?

I never actually finished Hærværk - I did like what I've read of Kristensens poetry though. How'd you like it.

As for a rating, that's pretty poshlost. If you liked the Russian literature you've read, I'd heartily recommend Gogol. His short stories in particular are among the greatest I've ever read of the genre - he manages to take you from amusement to profound sorrow in a matter of lines.

If it catches your fancy, I'd recommend The Overcoat ("Kappen" på dansk, hvis du foretrækker det), The Portrait and The Squabble (longer, more of a novella). The first two are short reads, so it shouldn't take up too much of your time - if you like it, you could move on to Dead Souls - I consider Dead Souls one of the greatest works of literature I've ever read.

>>7513853

(Addendum to this >>7514003)

How'd you like Growth of the Soil? It caught my interest a few months ago.

>>7513997
Also:
The Pelopponesian Wars
The Trial
Empire of Liberty

For Whom The Bell Tolls
A Moveable Feast
A farewell to arms
Ulysses
Dubliners
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Sartori in Paris
Visions of Gerard
The Subterraneans
Desolation Angels
Junky
Queer
Naked Lunch
Yage Letters
Beyond Good and Evil
Birth of Tragedy
Genealogy of Morals
Beyond the 100th Meridian

Lolita
Portnoy's Complaint
Cosmic Trigger
The Kybalion

C# for dummies

The Book of Night Women
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, Revised Edition, with a New Preface
The Remains of the Day
John Crow's Devil
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Memoirs of Hadrian
Night Without End
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
The Conquest of the Incas
The Four Feathers
The Devil All the Time
The Underdogs
Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Empires Of The Sea: The Final Battle For The Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Tao Te Ching
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
The Master of Go
Down the Rabbit Hole: The Curious Adventures of Holly Madison
The President
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
The Prague Cemetery
Meditations
The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins
A Myth of Innocence: Mark & Christian Origins (Foundations & Facets)
Jude the Obscure
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
The Saga of the Jomsvikings
Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
2666
Matterhorn

Almost done with River of Trees, so 44 this year.

The Odyssey
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Stranger
The Aleph
The Divine Comedy

>>7514003
I'm 20

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Might be my favorite book, at least my favorite Danish book. I read his complete poetry as well. His prose is unmatched. Only Danes i see up with him, are Kierkegaard and Jensen

Gogol is probably going to be where i go next. Thanks for the recommendations; i will surely look into it. How about Gorky? Have you read anything by him? I just read a short book where he writes about his time spend with Tolstoy; very interesting.

Hvad er din holdning egentlig til danske oversættelser? Jeg foretrækker generelt engelske oversættelser, når det er fra russisk. Jeg ved egentlig ikke hvorfor, men jeg tror at fordi markedet er storre for engelske oversættelser, så tror jeg også at kvaliteten er bedre. Oversættelser fra tysk, holder jeg mest til dansk.

Growth of the Soil is a very 'comfy' book. You can really sense Hamsun's conservative views, but in a good way. It gives you a sort of longing of simpler times, with no religion or things that nature. Just a man and his land.

>>7514123

Sounds like I should finish Hærværk - I did enjoy what I read of it, but I just sort of slipped out of it.

I've only read one short story by Gorky, called "One Autumn Night". It wasn't bad, but it wasn't mindblowingly amazing by a long-shot either, but I figure I shouldn't judge him on that singular work.

Det varierer fra forfatter til forfatter, men overvejende tror jeg at jeg foretrækker danske oversættelser. Det er ikke en særlig markant præference. Jeg har ladet mig fortælle at russisk er tættere på dansk end på engelsk - om det er sandt ved jeg ikke. Men det er en udmærket pointe du kommer med. Når jeg kommer til Tolstoj bliver det på engelsk, med Maudes oversættelse. Modsat foretrækker jeg danske oversættelser af Gogol, Dostojevskij og Bulgakov.

Black Holes and Time Warps
Cien Anos de Soledad
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes From Underground
Fathers and Sons
Anna Karenina
The Plague
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Octopussy and The Living Daylights
You Only Live Twice
Goldfinger
Thunderball
OHMSS
Casino Royale
Dr. No
Neuromancer
The Mote in God's Eye
Stranger in A Strange Land
The Communist Manifesto

>>7514218
Har også snublet over den med at russisk er tættere på dansk end engelsk. De er dog stadig rimelig langt fra begge to. Jeg tror også et element har været, at jeg generelt synes engelsk er et spændende sprog, og dermed et jeg har haft lyst til at mestre.

Hvorom alting er så vil jeg sige tak for Gogol anbefalingen; det har helt klart vækket min interesse.

Og lige af ren nysgerrighed; starter dit navn med A og læser du filo på KU? Jeg får en lidt bekendt vibe fra dig

>>7514267

Negativ på den, selvom jeg nok ender på filo-studiet. Det bliver bare i Århus.

>>7514123
>Growth of the Soil is a very 'comfy' book. You can really sense Hamsun's conservative views, but in a good way. It gives you a sort of longing of simpler times, with no religion or things that nature. Just a man and his land.

Har du lest den på norsk?

t. Nordmann

>>7514365
Yea i read it in its original language. I don't even think anyone has bothered translating it to Danish, since Hamsun's Norweigan is so similar to Danish

>>7514376
True. But the book is so old that Bokmål wasn't even an established Norwegian writing system yet though.

So in some sense it is Danish just with Norwegian idioms and expressions.

My list: (1/2)

The Internet is a Playground by David Thorne
I’ll Go Home Then, It’s Warm and has Chairs by David Thorne
Greek Mythology: Gods and Heroes by Marilena Carabatea
West-Running Brook by Robert Frost
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 5
America and Other Poems by J.M. Whitfield
A Further Range by Robert Frost
Tender Buttons by Gurtrude Stein
Howl and other poems by Alan Ginsberg
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake 10
Robert Frost: A Work of Knowing by Richard Poirer
Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop
A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Apartment of Tragic Appliances by Michael D. Snediker 15
Sandman #1 Sleep of the Just by Neil Gaiman
The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death and the Spring by Sarojini Naidu
Steeple Bush by Robert Frost
Permit Me to Dream by Stephen Caulfield
Incense Tree – collected poems by Louise Ho 20
In A Clearing by Robert Frost
Masque of Mercy by Robert Frost
Masque of Reason by Robert Frost
The Collected Poems of Robert Frost
Voice Carried My Family by Robert Sullivan 25
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book
Remember, Body... by C.P. Cavafy
The Georgics by Virgil 30
Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays edited by Ed Folsom
The Oresteia translated by Ted Hughes
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
Come Close by Sappho
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse translated by Richard Hamer 35
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent Tongue (Icelandic Saga)
Antigoni by Sophocles
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Circles of Hell by Dante Alighieri
Time Split by Patricia Smith 40
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sandman #2 by Neil Gaiman
The Major Themes of Robert Frost by Radcliffe Squires
Robert Burns (Everyman’s Poetry)
Sappho (Everyman’s Poetry) 45
Sandman #3 by Neil Gaiman
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Ezra Pound: The London Years 1908-1920 edited by Philip Grover
Robert Frost: A Life by Jay Parini
The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey 50
Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition by Karen Kilcup
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (essay anthology)
Modernism and The Culture of Celebrity by Aaron Jaffe
Modernism in the Magazines by Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman
Robert Frost: Collection of Critical Essays 55

(2/2)

Observing the Storm from a Barstool by Luke Timms
Robert Frost: The Critical Reception by Linda Wagner.
Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Selected Poems by W.B Yeats
Shropshire Lad by A. E Housman 60
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
The Fall of the House of Usher and others by Edgar Allan Poe
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney 65
Henry IV part 1 by William Shakespeare
Poems of Love by John Donne
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Henry IV part 2 by William Shakespeare
The Scrolls of the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson 70
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney (translation of Antigoni)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Invisible Cities by Italio Calvino 75
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns
The Elder Edda translated by Andy Orchard 80
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Sea Garden by H.D
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 85
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Ancient Chinese poetry collection)
The Quran
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
Failed States by Noam Chomsky 90
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Robert Burns the Scottish Bard
Prufrock and other Observations by T.S Eliot
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 95
Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Atheist's Mass by Honore Balzac
Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius
Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata 100
Men at Arms Terry Pratchett
History of Philosophy without any gaps volume 1

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse - Demian
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

I didn't really get back into reading until around the end of this year. I'm planing to read stuff from authors other than Hesse though. I was really into Camus in high school, and I'm planning to go to the river to re-read the Prophet (which was a favorite of mine in high school) in a few days.

>>7512790

Bro. Wait until you get old and you're trying to figure out if you already read book X or book y back in 1996. A site like Goodreads is helpful, and it only takes about 10 seconds to enter each book.

>>7514402
which was your favorite of those three Hesse books?

>>7507325
Some people think that Biblical Judaism was a monolatrisic not monotheistic religion, meaning that the existence of other gods was acknowledged but that only one god was worshipped. The nonexistence of other gods would have come later.

Ha, OK. Can't wait to get shit for this list

>The Sirens of Titan
>The Road
>Animal Farm
>Things Fall Apart
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>Childhood's End
>Rendezvous with Rama
>The Plague
>The Confusions of Young Törless
>Bed: Stories
>Quack This Way
>The Crying of Lot 49

~65 pages into Stoner

The Devil at my Heels
Don't Give In, Don't Give Up
- Louis Zamperini

Mr. Mercedes
Finder Keepers
Full Dark, No Stars
Bag of Bones
- Stephen King

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
- David Wong

The Devil in the White City
- Erik Larson

The Road
- Cormac Mccarthy

>>7514854
Also
Gone Girl
-Gillian Flynn

>>7510902
Where are you studying anon?

>>7510902
Tips for reading as much as you do?

I only read 12 this year >>7514830 and would like to read a lot more. After like 10-20 pages, I'm usually ready to be done for the day.

>lolita

Didn't even finish that really.

>>7514814
Siddhartha, hands down.

Cloud Atlas
The Kite Runner
M. Butterfly
Life is a Dream
Naomi
The Republic
Measure for Measure
Moll Flanders
Dao De Ching
The Art War

I know I read more but I can't remember atm.

>>7512790
>nofunallowed.jpg

>>7515077
Thirteen Moons
The Sun Also Rises
The Old Man and the Sea
I think I read Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas this year.

Also I've read about 1/3 of the King James Bible and The Legacy of Totalitarianism in the Tundra.

>>7507236

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Who Could That Be At This Hour?
A Thousand White Women
Catch-22
High Fidelity
Percy Jackson Series
Harry Potter Series
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows(currently reading)

I can't remember if I read any more in between...

Not too many this year, but I read most of the books listed since mid-November when I got laid off...

Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Knulp by Hermann Hesse
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby by F. S. F.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Battlecry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson

>Bede - Ecclesiastical History of the English People
> Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
> Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room
> Freud - The Uncanny/Screen Memories/Da Vinci and various other essays
> Melville - Moby Dick
> Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
> Proust - Swann's Way
> Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man
> Goethe - Faust Part 1/ The Sorrows of Young Werther
> John Williams - Stoner/ Butcher's Crossing
I may have missed a few, not sure. No fucker's gonna read this anyway.

>>7515134
Even the shitty new Percy Jackson books?

>>7507236
>Point Omega
>White Noise
>Cosmopolis
>Blood Meridian
>When You are Engulfed in Flames
>Archaeology of the Holy Land
>Archaeology of the Land of the Bible
>Despair
>Roadside Picnic
>1Q84
>Let the Right One In
>Captured: The True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
>Aristotle: Selections
>Cultural Resource Laws & Practice
>Cultural Resource Archaeology
>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
>The Ancient Maya
>The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
>Poems of Catullus
>Love Poems of Sappho
>The Enchiridion of Epictetus
>The Rhesus
>The Priapeia
>Ars Amatoria
>Daphnis & Chloe

1.Roses by Leila Meacham
2.The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
3.The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
4.The Swamp by Michael Grunewald
5.Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories by Various Authors
6.Croatoan, Earth: The Saga Begins by KoyoteeLaughter
7.Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany
8.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9.Zero History by William Gibson
10.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
11.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
12.Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
13.So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
14.Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
15.The Snows of Mount Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemmingway
16.Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
17.House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
18.Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
19.A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20.The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin
21.The Great Transition by Lester R. Brown
22.Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
23.The Tao of Love and Sex by?
24.Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
25.Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
26.The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
27.The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
28.Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling
29.Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling
30.Bossypants by Tina Fey
31.Yes Please by Amy Poehler
32.Zealot by Reza Aslan

>>7514919
In the southwestern US.

>>7514996
Don't really have many tips.

I carry a book with me at all times. I read over lunch unless I go out with friends. I pretty much read whenever I get free time. I play volleyball with some friends once a week, but other than that I'm something of a hermit.

It's also easy for me because reading is my favorite hobby.

>>7516620
league or just pickup?

this year, i tried to read something every day. I was mostly successful


Mikhail Sholokhov - And Quiet Flows the Don - 9/10
Mikhail Sholokhov - The Don Flows Home to the Sea - 8.5/10
Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto - 9/10
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles - 6.5/10
Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma - 7/10
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice and Other Stories - 10/10
Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek - 8.5/10
Anton Chekhov - Early Short Stories - 9/10
Ivan Turgenev - Sketches from a Hunter’s Album - 8/10
Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov 7/10
Leo Tolstoy - Hadji Murat - 8/10
Isaiah Berlin - Hedgehog and the Fox - ongoing
And a bunch of individual short stories too small and too numerous to mention.

>>7516630
Pickup. We hold the competitive courts sometimes, but I don't have the time to do leagues. In a year or so I'll be done with the hard parts of my program and will probably join two leagues then.

>>7507257
Wtf why did you write your textbooks on the list. Calculus isn't literature

>>7516700
I disagree. For example, Serway, Moses, and Moyer's 'Modern Physics' is one of my favorite books. I think everyone should read it. Griffths's QM book is another 5 star book for me. Textbooks can be fantastic reads, too.

>>7516710
>book =/= literature

>>7507687
Just go watch some plays.
I'd recommend Schiller, Mann, Frisch and Dürrenmatt if you feel like do a German classics marathon.

>>7507236

>>7516720
If you say so. You should still read 'Modern Physics.' It's really a wonderful book.

>>7514822
Interesting. Any recs for this?

Ulysses.
Paradise lost
Moby dick
The sickness onto death
As I lay dying
Crime and punishment
The prince
Blood meridian.

Not bad, but not great.

>>7517841
Just look at exodus where Moses and his staff challenges The magicians, or where Elijah challenges the priests of Baal. The Yale open course on the Old Testament is good too.

>>7517859
Forgot notes from underground

>>7507236

>>7514830
I don't see anything wrong with that list.

The Road is just a darker novelization of Wile E Coyote adn Roadrunner, but people seem to like it.

>>7518134
What the fuck did you read, if you did at all? There's not even an antagonist in that book.

>Foundation - Asimov
>Saga 1,2,3 - Vaughan
>Leviathan Wakes - Corey
>Inequality and the 1% - Dorling
>A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
>Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
>Inherent Vice - Pynchon
> First 3 of Dark Tower series and just started 4
>I Think There's Something Wrong With Me - Smith
>The Trial / Metamorphosis - Kafka
>The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
>The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
>The Road - McCarthy
>V. - Pynchon

Some pretty bad ones in there but at least I could get some enjoyment from how bad they were.

>>7517841
The First Commandment, in Exodus.

Dune
Grapes of Wrath
Stoner
Old School
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Inherent Vice
Severin's Journey Into the Dark
The Martian (no judgement plz)
The New York Trilogy
Oblivion
The Forever War
The Bell Jar
Story of the Eye
The Futurological Congress
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Candide
The Peripheral
I, Robot
Cat's Cradle
The Three-Body Problem
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Kapitoil
The End of the Affair
East of Eden
The Stranger

Blood Meridian
Roadside Picnic
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Stranger
On the Road
Of Mice and Men
Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Various Lovecraft stories

2/3 through The Road

I'd been reading about a book a week for several years but only 1 in 2014 and 1 less than that in 2015. I'm planning on getting back on track in 2016 though.

>>7507366

>>7507426
Patrician AF. That's a solid book per week.

>>7518582
Good luck, anon–!

>>7511832
I just saw this. Yes. Though, to be fair, a lot of the books in my list are like 100 or 200 pages.

>>7507236
>>7519424
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Pearl
Purity
Reynard the Fox
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Making Gay History
Between the World and Me

>>7511847

Or e. He, meaning I, makes a living as a book reviewer.

That said, I only averaged 301 pages per day. That's roughly 5 hours of reading per day. If you think that's an unreasonable amount, you clearly aren't that into reading.

>>7507236

Swann's Way
Ulysses
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Various Moliere ( Don Juan, Tartuffe, etc.)
Crippled America
The Book of Matthew
Kamasutra
Peer Gynt
Melancholy of Resistance
Les Enfants Terrible
The Annals of Confucius
The Art of War
Waiting for Godot

The Nichomacean Ethics* -Aristotle
The Physics* -Aristotle
The Metaphysics* -Aristotle
De Anima* -Aristotle
The Crito* -Plato
The Laches* -Plato
The Lysis* -Plato
The Apology* -Plato
The Republic* -Plato
On the Genealogy of Morals* -Friedrich Nietzsche
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals* -Immanuel Kant
The Great Gatsby* -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes were Watching God* -Zora Neale Hurston
Crime and Punishment* -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grendel* –John Gardner
The Crucible* -Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter* -Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Grapes of Wrath* -John Steinbeck
The Jungle* -Upton Sinclair
In the Garden of Beasts* -Erik Larson
Fahrenheit 451* –Ray Bradbury

Moby Dick –Herman Melville
Walden –Henry David Thoreau
The Road –Cormac McCarthy
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao –Junot Diaz
The Samurai’s Garden –Gail Tsukiyama
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time –Mark Haddon
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian –Sherman Alexie
The Power of One –Bryce Courtenay
The Lessons of History –Will and Ariel Durant
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men –David Foster Wallace

*- Read on school assignment

The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus
Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Notes From Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, other dosto novels since I get really caught up on authors and this year was the year of Dostoevsky
The Metamorphosis
Thus Spake Zarathustra not yet finished
And countless bits of other existential novels and miscellaneous philosophical essays

>>7507364
the meme /lit/ books, good job! now what are you reading?

>>7519496

Not as much as you, obviously. But's since it's your job, congrats.

>>7519556

Thanks. If one is looking to make decent money, they should stay far away or at least do something else on the side, but getting paid anything to do what I would already be doing for fun is nice.

>>7515271
i read it
fuck you

>>7512842
On the Road is much more fast paced, and while you do get those long sentences and funny whatever word comes to his head descriptions they are definitely more thought out and in Dharma he talks about writing and actually quotes the poems and things he and people were writing at the time so I think he is a bit more measured.

Which is your favourite Hesse?

>>7511131
>Junger- journal 1939-40 and 1944-45
In French or German? And why isn't this available in English?

It's been practically memoryhol'd on amazon and goodreads:
http://www.amazon.com/Paris-Diaries-1941-1944-Ernst-Junger/dp/0374229880/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6847676-the-paris-diaries-1941-1944

>>7507236
The Brothers Karamazov
Genesis

That's it

I read about 50 but I'm nowhere near my 'books read' list (about 2000 km away), so I'll just point that out: I read about 50.

>>7507257
what, why did you put genki on this

>>7510956
I'm guessing a social life wasn't in the picture for you, was it?

>>7519972
Its all the books I read, not necessarily literature. There's literature on it, alongside textbooks.

>>7510902
How do you afford this?

>>7519979
I mean.... you don't really read genki though. You sort of reference it.

Hells Angels - Hunter S Thompson
The Plague - Albert Camus
Malcolm X - Malcolm X
Brave New World - Huxley
Dharma Bums - Kerouac
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Road - Mccarthy
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Post Office - Bukowski
Currently Reading: Blood Meridian

>>7507236

I acquired another order of magnitude more of books than I read. And the ones I did read were tiny.

Wittgenstein-tractatus logico philosophicus
Lavey-Satanic bible
Crowley-the book of the law
Crowley-the book of lies

>>7514996
>>7516620
Actually now that I think about it, the best tip I have is to read two books simultaneously. I really enjoyed Infinite Jest, but it is very long, and some chapters can be quite fatiguing. I probably read a dozen other books while reading IJ because I'd pick up something else whenever I got bored or disinterested.

>>7520071

This is something I did when I was a young kid, and thought nothing of it. Then I got into this autistic thing of "start one, finish it, then another". Now I have bookmarks in like 6 different things and I'm reading more print again.

>>7520078
Yeah, I said two, but I often am doing more. Books like IJ or The Savage Detectives, which have so many characters that I worry about mixing them up, keep me to two books at a time, max.

>>7519975

Of course, averaging 5 hours a day reading and another couple of hours per day reviewing books, when most people spend 8 hours a day at their jobs, totally precluded any social interaction. I'm sorry that you feel butt hurt that someone read 300 pages a day.

>>7507548
literally die

painfully and filled with fear

>>7519990
You know about libraries, right?

The only reason to pay for books is because you're impatient.

>>7507236
War and Peace
Book of numbers (cohen)
Min kamp vol1
The dinner
Kafka on the shore
Nebbia
The melancholy of resistance
Broom of the system

>>7507236
What I read ten years ago, 2005

>1984
>Animal Farm
>This Side of Paradise
>Catcher in the Rhye
>Infinite Jest
>White Noise
>Settlers of the Marsh
>The Trial
>Brave New World
>Surfacing
>The Stranger
>Cloud Atlas
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>The Heart of Darkness
>Henderson the Rain King
>Lolita

>>7507236

1984
The Talented Mr Ripley
American Psycho
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
The Island of Dr Moreau
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
Candide
Communist Manifesto
What we Believe but Cannot Prove
A quarter of "The Idiot" by Dostoyevsky but gave up because it was too fucking boring.

Blood Meridian (again).
The Scarlet Letter.
American Psycho.
Lolita.
Invitation to a Beheading.
Brothers Karamazov.
Fear and Loathing.
Sult.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
The Writing Life.
Civilization and its Discontents.
Macbeth (again).
Twelfth Night.
The Wasteland and other Poems by T.S. Eliot.

>>7507236
>The Ego and It's Own
>Sickness Unto Death
>Fear and Tembling (only most of it, sorry /lit/)
>Inherent Vice
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Problems of Philosophy by Berty Russel (most of it too, sorry /lit/)
>After Virtue, Mac Intyre (got around 200 pages in, dropped for time issues and my inability to follow his thread, was quite exhausted at this time)
>The Plague
>The Stranger
>The Myth of Sisyphus
>No Exit and Other Plays
>Hamlet
>Arcadia by Stoppard
>Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
>The Winding Stair by Yeats
>Brave New World
>The Synoptic Gospels
>Mere Christianity (CS Lewis's essays are rather poor)
>A lot of Larkin's poetry, which is excellent and really deserves more love on a place as melancholy as 4chan

Pretty short I know, I'm a recovering dyslexic, only really just started reading seriously thanks to you anons (thank you again for that). I'm currently 140 pages into GR and Brother's Karamazov, and am reading Kafka's short stories with Kafka on the Shore as my light reading (mainly for when I'm stoned, although I'll try GR too). I fell that there are more books on my list that have slipped my mind, which is a real shame and I'm annoyed I didn't fully finish a lot of my reading.

While I hate the vanity of the meme, and I wouldn't ascribe myself next to it either, I'm still curious - am I, at least, on my way to patrish? I plan to get into Oxford and read/write as much as I can in the future.

Would anyone be so kind as to rec me some books? I'm travelling to India pretty soon, so something along those lines would be nice.

>>7519574
How do you go about becoming a book reviewer? Need an English or Classics degree?

Just curious because money isn't my main concern–rich family and all.

>The Gospels of Matthew, Mark Luke and John, 1 Kings, the book of Job
>The Catcher in the Rye
>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Reasonable Faith
>Manufacturing Consent
>Event by Zizek
>Living in the End Times
>Stoner
>On Anarchism
>To The Lighthouse
>Norwegian Wood
>Beethoven Biography
>Emma

I wished I'd spent half the time I wasted on 4chan reading or doing work.

>>7520944
forgot I also read
>Mere Christianity
>The Recovery of Belief
>Othello
>Thus Spoke Zarathrustra

War and peace
Confederacy of dunces
Neon bible
Death of Ivan Ilyich and other short stories
Exile and the kingdom
Lake
Kafka on the shore
Simon
Sermon on the Mount by Emmett fox
Alcoholics Anonymous
Twelve steps and twelve traditions
Narcotics Anonymous

>>7520609
How was Book of Numbers? I have it sitting on my shelf.

Going through this list is an humbling experience.
Need to read more

>>7507236

probably 100ish novels, picked at dozens of poetry books and read thousands of poems, picked at a few language books, read a dozen or two plays, probably a dozen screenplays, etc.

I honestly can't remember half of what I read. I know it was mostly good though. No pulp or sci fi or trash like that.

>>7515271
>Da Vinci by Freud
just read Merezhkovsky

>>7507236
>House on Mango Street
>Some dumb book called Speak
>Diary of Anne Frank
>1984
>The Yearling
wew

>>7507236
Memoirs of a Geisha
Notes from Underground
Fight Club
Crime and Punishment
Slaughterhouse Five
The Little Prince

>>7521482
oh yeah,
I forgot All Quiet on the Western Front

>>7521190
Please do.

Post yours, and see if people can give you recomendations. If your honest and sincere, a good portion of /lit/ will always help you.

Happy almost New Year anons.

>>7507236
All four volumes of The Black Company
The First Law Trilogy
About half of Gardens of the Moon
About a quarter of Infinite Jest
Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator
The Stranger
The White Tiger
A Sense of an Ending
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Goodnight Punpun
And right now I'm reading Logan's Run.

>>7521161
I honestly think that it will end up finding its way into literature textbooks of the future. It's very good in a Fontana kind of way. Not the best of the genre, but the first to do something original. And the original thing is the way it deals with the internet. To quote the kike "this novel is the first that doesn't take from the internet, it gives the internet". And it's something i find hard to explain with words but once you read it i think you'll agree with it fondly

i dont know how to feel about my list

The Fountainhead - Rand
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Carroll
The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis, … - Kafka
For Reasons of State - Chomsky
Problems of Knowledge and Freedon - Chomsky
At War With Asia - Chomsky
American Power and the New Mandarins - Chomsky
Reflections on Language / Language and Responsibility - Chomsky
A Dance with Dragons - Martin
A Feast for Crows - Martin
Fear and Trembling / The Sickness Unto Death - Kierkegaard
The Conference of the Birds - Attar
The Hobbit - Tolkien
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Into the Wild - Krakauer

I know it's not too much, I'll try reading more next year.

>>7519496
that's unreasonable if you aren't a book reviewer or neet tbqh

>>7519496
what are your favorite books m8

>>7522113
I've read two books by Selimović this year (loved them both) and planned reading this one soon: how did you find it?

>>7522198
What are those two books of him you've read? I'm guessing "The Death and the Dervish" and "The Fortress"?
I've read both, "The Death and the Dervish" this year, as you can see on the image.
I found both to be amazing, although to be honest, "The Death and the Dervish" had some boring parts, but overall it was a great experience.
I didn't read the translation, but the original work. Haven't checked out the translation, but I am sure some meaning and atmosphere was lost in it (just like every translation creates that loss).

Emma by Jane Austen
The taming of the shrew Bill Shakespeare
Misery Stephen King
The shining Stephen King
The revenant (currently) Michael punke
Roy Keane's autobiography
The nowhere men Michael Calvin
The great gatsby
A bunch more i cant remember

Reddi the reddit list of reddit you erddit DPigfuck
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>>7522210
I've read translations, five or six of his novels have been published in french. Of course the fortress (which was absolutely fantastic); the second one being the island.
As you appear to be fluent in serbo-coratian (?), would you be so kind to recommend another author you liked? Sadly, there is not much discussion of east-europe and balkan literature around.
Thanks for the feedback

The Grifters by Jim Thompson (4/5) - great from half on, but starts a bit rocky imo
Shattered Sea Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie (3/5) - fast paced fantasy that is supposedly YA but because fantasy is pretty much all YA i couldn't tell the difference too much
Echopraxia by Peter Watts (3/5) - good ideas but slow as fuck
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (2.5/5) - interesting in some parts but i didn't enjoy the delivery of her somewhat novel style
Jean le Flambeur Trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi - (4.5/5) great, loved it. recommend to sci-fi fans interested in show-not-tell and interesting characters/plots/ideas. it gets a little hamfisted as the trilogy goes on, but nowhere near has doooiii as something like the expanse books
The Great Dissent by Thomas Healy - (3.5/5) about Oliver Wendell Holmes and the people around him to influenced his philosophical development
The Brethren by Bob Woodward - (3.5/5) about the Burger Court which was pretty interesting and informed my understanding of a lot of opinions out there. especially liked it to understand the growth of Blackmun's opinions over the years

slow year cuz lawl school though i did read a grip of books for school that i won't list

>>7507236
>Ethics - Spinoza
>An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Locke
>A Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge - Berkely
>120 Days of Sodom - De Sad
>The Enquiry - Hume
>Kant's Critical Philosophy - Deleuze
> Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
>Critique of Practical Reason - Kant
>LSD: My Problem Child - Hoffman
>Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark
>Oil Painting Techniques - Harold Speed
>Color and Light - Gurney
>The Sorrows of Young Wether - Goethe
>The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
>Siddhartha - Hesse
>Diary of a Madman - Gogol
>Oliver Twist - Dickens
>A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
>Taipei - Tao Lin
>Selected Tweets - Tao Lin
>Walden - Thoreau
>The Philosophy of History - Hegel
>Nature - Emerson
>Fathers & Sons - Turganev
>Van Gogh and Gaughin: The Studio of the South
>Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
>The Poetics of Space - Bachelard
>Love is a dog from Hell - Bukowski
>CBT - Tao Lin
>The Man Suit - Schomburg
>The Book of Joshua - Schomburg
>The Dream Songs - Berryman
>Selected Poems - Reufle
>Selected Poems - Olson
>Before the Law - Derrida
>Picasso's Tears - Wong May
>Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
>On Violence, Arendt
>Complete Poems of Shakespeare
>Dante's Inferno - Carson Translation
>The Book of Job
>The Bridge - Hart Crane
>Faust - Goethe
>Hegel - Charles Taylor

>>7522378
I'm Serbian myself. I can recommend a lot of great stuff, but I'm not sure whether or not translations exist. So, what interests you? Novels? Short Stories? Poetry?

1984
Last Exit To Brookyln
The Tenth Man
The Rules of Attraction
A Confederacy of Dunces
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist
The Heroin Diaries
Ham on Rye
Hell's Angels
Fear and Loathing Campaign Trail
Slash autobiography
Our Band Could Be Your Life
Trainspotting
The Stranger
The Basketball Diaries
The Actual
The Art of War
Life (Keith Richards autobiography)
White Noise
High Fidelity
Slaughterhouse Five
The Big Sleep
A Clockwork Orange
Notes From Underground
The Trial
Permanent Midnight
How We Got To Now: Six Innovations....
Citizen Soldiers
Lolita
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
Of Mice and Men
One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich

Currently closing out the year with the Great Gatsby

Pic related is my favorite from this year

>>7522121
Not really, provided one isn't a parent. I still managed to read a similar amount when I had a 9 to 5 (and a social life):

From/to work: 2 hours daily, 10 hours per week
Lunch break: 1 hour daily 15 hours were week
Smoke breaks: 30 min daily, 2.5 hours per week
2 hours before bed: 14 hours per week
=41.5

+sunday (after socializing on friday night and saturday) = 14

=55.5

Get your head out of your ass. Most people just don't know how to prioritize.

>>7522127

I'm not sure if I have the self control to narrow it down to books, but some of my favorite authors are Burgess, Nabokov, Faulkner, Roth, Simenon, Updike, Greene, Dick, Vidal, Amis(both of them), Borges, Grass, Bernhard, Vollmann, Coetzee, Bellow, DeLillo, Everett, Yourcenar, Walser, Zweig, Banville, Dostoyevsky, Le Clezio, Waugh, Marias, Gombrowicz, Malamud, Tabucchi, McCarthy, Jelloun, Kosinski, Aira, Stone, Bowden, Matthiessen, Michaels, Sebald, Kertesz, Peace, Kis, Pynchon, Puig, and Salter.

1. Invisible Cities - Calvino
2. War Dances - Alexie
3. Journey to the End of the Night - Celine
4. Lolita - Nabokov
5. Siddhartha - Hesse
6. Inherent Vice - Pynchon
7. 100 Years of Solitude - Marquez
8. V. - Pynchon
9. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino
10. Cosmicomics - Calvino
11. Road to San Giovanni - Calvino
12. The Stranger - Camus
13. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
14. My Twisted World - Rodger
15. The Baron in the Trees - Calvino
16. The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Mishima
17. Confessions of a Mask - Mishima

(My favorites were Invisible Cities, V., 100 Years of Solitude, Lolita, and Journey to the End of the Night)

>>7522987
Actually, please excuse my typo on the lunch break. It should read 5 hours per week and that section should total 31.5. I usually picked up the additional 10-11 hours during "misc" periods (taking dumps at work, occasionally just shutting my office door and reading, reading more than 2 hours at night, not going out EVERY Saturday, etc.)

Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds, Tales Of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Crack'd Pot Trail, The Wurms of Blearmount all by Steven Erikson

Night of Knives, Return of the Crimson Guard, Stonewielder all by Ian Esslemont

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

>>7520923
I am an old who got in while old media was more meaningful and the traditional path (plus, presumably, talent) worked. These days, it seems like a person has to do free shit online and develop a name that way.

>>7523031
Thanks–!

I literally haven't read a single book from start to finish this year. I read just enough to meme on /lit/

>>7507642
What do you do for work?

>>7519990
What >>7520568 said. I still buy many books, but it's easy when it's your one big hobby. I make shit as a grad student, but it's still plenty when you buy used off amazon.

Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
A Clockwork Orange
Intensity
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Minority Report
Brave New World
Anthem
Steppenwolf

slow plebian reader )':

>>7507236
>Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
>The Dunwich Horror
>The Shadow Out of Time
>The Tomb
>The Doom that came to Sarnath
>The lovecraft story where that guy gets blown off a mountain and the one where a guy becomes obsessed with the dreams of a retard

Started The Road a week ago

>>7522530
I can actually make a list of what I've heard of since it's really short. The only yugoslavian/serbocroatian authors I've read are Andrić and Selimović; the only slovenian being Jančar.
I guess poetry isn't much translated, and since I've never read any short stories from there, that would be what I'm most interested in.
But again, as I know so little, I'd look into anything you recommend.

>Legend, David Gemmell
I had read the Rigante series a few years ago and they were... significantly better. The series is 11 books long and spans 20 years. Maybe I should skip a few books and get to the point when he was a better writer.
>Reaper's Gale (Malazan 7) Steven Erikson
>The Bonehunters (Malazan 6), Steven Erikson
>Midnight Tides (Malazan 5), Steven Erikson
>House of Chains (Malazan 4), Steven Erikson
>Memories of Ice (Malazan 3), Steven Erikson
>Deadhouse Gates (Malazan 2), Steven Erikson
>Gardens of the Moon (Malazan 1), Steven Erikson
They're all slow to start; it isn't until the end of a book that you find yourself liking any of the characters. And they usually don't appear in the next one. So on I read until in book 8 some bad characters were introduced and now I'm done.
>The Liar's Key (The Red Queen's War 2), Mark Lawrence
The berserker-coward spiel is overplayed.
>Sword of the North (The Grim Company 2), Luke Scull
A weaker cast than the first one and the story is shaping up to be much the same.
>The Autumn Republic (The Powder Mage, #3), Brian McClellan
This really ramped up in the magic department. There was less Taniel x Pole than in book two so it was overall worse.
>The Crimson Campaign (The Powder Mage, #2), Brian McClellan
The characters all became much stronger here. It was a solid read.
>The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1), Scott Lynch
This falls apart at the end like you wouldn't believe. It's as if the author was ordered half way through to make it a series.
>A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet, #1), Daniel Abraham
Even after reading a summary I don't remember this book. Not noteworthy. I gave it 1/5.
>Dawn Of Empire, Sam Barone
Historical fiction about the father/grandfather of Sargon of Akkad.
>Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1), Mark Lawrence
Pompus coward is forced to do some work. I was hoping for a First Law like ending, but it never came.
>Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan Vol 2, Misora Riku
>Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan, Misora Riku
It got an anime this season. Based off the books I wouldn't bother.
Don't take the fact that I got to the end of the second volume as an indication of enjoyment, I read them both in the one sitting.
>The Skull Throne (Demon Cycle, #4), Peter V. Brett
The big let down of the series. Number 2 is one of my all time favourite books so the Author better get his shit together.
>The Magicians' Guild (Black Magician, #1), Trudi Canavan
The series should have been one book. Not worth it.
>The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2), Mary Stewart
God these books are slow. Of particular note was the poor reasoning Uther has for despising magic. Also Merlin is too self important.

A shit year.
Last year was shit too.
Maybe I've already gotten through the good stuff.

I read Harry Potter 2 in Japanese and some manga.

YOU ASKED FOR IT (part 1/2)
The Enchantress Of Florence Salman Rushdie
Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Rudolph Grey
Kersantin poika Veijo Meri
Candide Voltaire
Image of the Beast Philip José Farmer
The Shattered World Michael Reaves
Youth J.M. Coetzee
Tukikohta Veijo Meri
Fury Salman Rushdie
Suku Veijo Meri
The Breast Philip Roth
Wool (Wool, #1) Hugh Howey
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Throne of Bones Brian McNaughton
Header Edward Lee
The Golden Ass Apuleius
Ecce Homo Friedrich Nietzsche
Noctuary Thomas Ligotti
I Am Legend Richard Matheson
Karhu ja muita novelleja William Faulkner
The Mist Stephen King
Skeleton Crew Stephen King
Damnation Alley Roger Zelazny
Kauhupokkari 1 Markku Sadelehto
Kuoleman kirjat 2 Markku Sadelehto
Kuoleman kirjat 1 Markku Sadelehto
Ondskan Jan Guillou
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Whisper Of Blood Ellen Datlow
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
Rape: A Love Story Joyce Carol Oates
Isaac Asimov science fiction valikoima 4 Kari Lindgren
Rock Crystal Adalbert Stifter
Isaac Asimov Science Fiction: Valikoima 3 Reijo Kalvas
Isaac Asimov science fiction valikoima 2 Kari Lindgren
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre
Old Masters: A Comedy Thomas Bernhard
Yes Thomas Bernhard
Peter Camenzind Hermann Hesse
Matala maa Herta Müller
Juhannustanssit Hannu Salama
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory Edward Branigan
Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo
Big Game - Kuinka Hollywood tuotiin Suomeen Kalle Kinnunen
Valonkantajat: Välähdyksiä suomalaisesta salatieteestä Perttu Häkkinen
Bashan and I Thomas Mann
Diary of a Superfluous Man Ivan Turgenev
Höyhen Asko Sahlberg
Demons Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
The Complete Poems Hart Crane
The Complete Stories Franz Kafka
Leaves of Grass: The "Death-Bed" Edition Walt Whitman
Ja kesän heinä kuolee Timo K. Mukka
Koiran kuolema Timo K. Mukka
Punaista Timo K. Mukka
The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
The Plague Dogs Richard Adams
Watership Down Richard Adams
Florville and Courval Marquis de Sade
Justine Marquis de Sade
Across the River and into the Trees Ernest Hemingway
Selected Poems William Carlos Williams
Texas, sakset Harry Salmenniemi
Sketches from a Hunter's Album Ivan Turgenev
How to Read and Why Harold Bloom
My Education: A Book of Dreams William S. Burroughs
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein
Europe Central William T. Vollmann
The Tunnel William H. Gass
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Kirjeitä Afrikasta ja runoilijakomeetan kirjeitä Arthur Rimbaud
The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño
Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Expanded Edition) Mel Gordon
The Innswich Horror Edward Lee
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft

>>7525017
(part 2/2)
Violence Slavoj Žižek
Galveston Nic Pizzolatto
Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais
The Animated Movie Guide Jerry Beck
The Trial of Gilles de Rais Georges Bataille
Slither Edward Lee
The Morbidly Obese Ninja Carlton Mellick III
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
The Odyssey Homer
Toisella kerralla koirasi ei enää haukkunut Mervi Antti-Poika
Will o' the Wisp Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Miss Julie August Strindberg
Crash J.G. Ballard
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway Slavoj Žižek
A Winter Book Tove Jansson
The Journey to the East Hermann Hesse
The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells
A Cool Million Nathanael West
Patriotism Yukio Mishima
Death in Venice Thomas Mann
Mario and the Magician Thomas Mann
Tonio Kröger Thomas Mann
The Dream Life of Balso Snell Nathanael West
The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosiński
Hogg Samuel R. Delany
Sinuhe egyptiläinen Mika Waltari
Laulu Sipirjan lapsista Timo K. Mukka
Täältä jostakin Timo K. Mukka
Survivor Chuck Palahniuk
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
Paradise Lost John Milton
Giacomo Joyce James Joyce
Kivirivit Harry Salmenniemi
Runojä Harry Salmenniemi
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant
Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West
Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
The Epic of Gilgamesh Anonymous
Lumen pelko Timo K. Mukka
Kyyhky ja unikko Timo K. Mukka
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates Slavoj Žižek
Pyhä, rivo rakkaus – Kirjeitä Noralle James Joyce
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Matsuo BashÅ
Skylark Dezső Kosztolányi
Silence ShÅ«saku EndÅ
Book of Numbers Joshua Cohen
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Herman Melville
Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
Transparent Things Vladimir Nabokov
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Laird Barron
My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror Thomas Ligotti
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1) Robert C. O'Brien
Virrata että Harry Salmenniemi
Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1) Fritz Leiber
Songs of a Dead Dreamer Thomas Ligotti
Bag of Bones Stephen King
Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, #5) Douglas Adams
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide, #4) Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3) Douglas Adams
Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR Dave Thompson
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2) Douglas Adams
The Shadow of Sirius W.S. Merwin

>>7524046
Sorry for the slow reply, I wasn't able to monitor the thread.
Anyways, concerning poetry, check out Milan Rakić, Vladislav Petković Dis, Jovan Dučić, Aleksa Šantić, Branko Radičević, Đura Jakšić and Laza Kostić.
>Novels
Stevan Sremac, Branislav Nušić - for mostly comedic stuff
Borislav Pekić, Danilo Kiš - top-tier authors, and actually kinda famous outside of Serbia, I'm sure they have the most translations out of all the writers named here
>Short Stories
Radoje Domanović, Petar Kočić, Branislav Nušić again, Ivo Andrić has short stories too, check them out if you haven't
>Drama
Jovan Sterija Popović, Petar II Petrović Njegoš
Off the top of my head.

I've been thinking of making a "recommended serbian lit" chart, but two things are stopping me from doing it:
>almost 100% sure almost everything I put on there won't have a translation, and if it does it will probably be hard or impossible to find online
>I haven't got good knowledge when it comes to poetry, plus I am not skilled enough to give a complex systematization (for example which movement of serbian literature some books belong to, funny, I know, I read but don't know that basic shit related to my country's lit)

>>7523015
cool thanks for the list fàm

>>7523015
>Dostoevsky
>Faulkner
God-tier taste.
>Kis
Sublime, if it's Danilo Kis you're talking about. He gets mentioned very rarely here. What's your favorite work of his?

>>7524186
I seem to have missed a few

>Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy 3), Jacqueline Carey
The same as the other two.
>Bitterblue (Graceling Realm 3), Kristin Cashore
Worst of the series. The author has no skill at writing political intrigue or child abuse stories.
>The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1), Jonathan Stroud
Shallow. Seen it all before.
>The Goddess Test (Goddess Test 1), Aimee Carter
Smut without the smut
>Spellwright (Spellwright 1), Blake Charlton
The world has some good potential but not enough happened in this book. It's quite reminiscent of some of Garth Nix's stuff; it'd be better as a children's book.
>The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1), Mary Stewart
Fuck it was slow. Also it starts really early in the timeline, when Arthur's uncle ruled (before Uther).
>Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)
Hearne, Kevin *
Short and shallow. I read it for the Irish mythology but I just ended up comparing it to Gemmell's Rigante.
>Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1), E.L. James
The first chapter or so was amazing. The thoughts and emotions of the characters were portrayed perfectly. But someone else wrote the rest of the book. After reading it I told my sister it was shit, then predicted the outcome of the second book. Se assured me that I was wrong. Half way through I dropped it and called my sister out on her bullshit.
Seriously, who lies about a book to trick you into reading it?
>Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage 1), Brian McClellan
Interesting magic system. Snort gunpowder then run shoot magic bullets for days on end.
>The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #2), Brian Staveley
There's some really interesting back story here that looks like it is about to come to the forefront. I'm expecting something similar to The Warded Man.
2 of the 3 main characters are really dopey, so the story is held back there.
>Temple of the Winds (Sword of Truth, #4), Terry Goodkind
This is where the Author started padding out his work to extend the series.
>What a Dragon Should Know (Dragon Kin 3), G.A. Aiken
>About a Dragon (Dragon Kin 2), G.A. Aiken
The same story as 1. Which is smut, so it's bearable. But having a new perfect marriage in each book gets boring.