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Hello /lit/. For as long as I can remember, I've loved reading. But now that I'm about to start my senior year, I realize that I'm pretty uneducated when it comes to literature. I want to start reading some good books/short stories/novellas/essays/poems/whatever, but I have no idea where to start. What would you suggest, /lit/? (letting me know a little about the book, or at least the genre would be greatly appreciated.)

Also: favorite books?

>> No.812988

we get a post like this so many times a day
see http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

>> No.812995

>>812988
oh yeh and lurk moar - this is a very slow board and some of the posts here are very informative. Browse all 15 pages first :)

>> No.812997

Essays, you say?
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift.

>> No.813006

>>812970
everything listed in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon

>> No.813008

Read Roadside Picnic, it's a great story.

>> No.813014

>newfag

Go back to /b/ for your conditioning!

>> No.813021

>>812988
Wow, those pictures are small and suck balls. How can anyone see that?

>> No.813025

>>813021
uhhmmm magnify it.

>> No.813030

of mice and men, dracula, Count of Monte Cristo, Frankenstein, War and Peace, Great Expectations, anything by mark twain but huckleberry Finn,Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Lord of the Flies, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, 20,000 leagues beneath the sea, The Portrait of Dorian Grey, Anthem,The Canterbury Tales, The Arabian Knights, The Divine Comedy, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesare, 1984, The Catcher in the Rye. and for fun read The Man With the Golden Torc

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>>812988
Can someone who has an account on wikia add this list to the collection?

>> No.813061

Thanks to everyone who's responded. :)

>>812997
I've actually read that one. It was... interesting, to say the least.

>> No.813062

>>813061
>I've actually read that one. It was... interesting, to say the least.

gtfo, it's a classic.

>> No.813091

>>813042

Done

>> No.813104

>>813091
>Nigra lit
Really?

>> No.813111

>>813104

It be what it be

>> No.813116

>>813111
Proof that you're a moron?

>> No.813129

>>813116

I calls em like I sees em

>> No.813168

>>813062
I didn't say it was bad! o.o;

>> No.813222

>>812970

See www.4chanarchive.org and go to /lit/

>> No.813248
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813248

Any collection of stories by Jorge Luis Borges. The stories are short and very fun. Read some of them. If you like what you read (and you probably will), you can branch off of that. Try Franz Kafka, Phillip K. Dick, Italo Calvino next. Read the back of those books. See who reviewers compare them to. Follow the recommendations on the books that you like.

>> No.813298

1984

>> No.813314

>>812997
Eating babies, mmm.

>> No.813406

Re-read a good book you HAD to read for school - for your own purposes and on your own terms. Pretend they didn't try to ruin it for you.

Moby Dick is a good place to start.

>> No.813628

twilight

>> No.813727

>>812970
On The Road,
great catalyst for becoming a literature snob

>> No.814420

Read Bad Monkeys by Martin Ruff. I really liked it. Dynamic characters, but too short.

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814435

>>813727
>implying real literature snobs are impressed by Kerouac

>> No.814482

>>813406
Moby Dick is long and gay. Get The Imp Of The Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe it's only a couple of pages so you can read it onscreen. After that it's Kafka time.

>> No.814513

I'm rather surprised to not see Jim Butcher on the recommended reading list at all.

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>>814513
Really?

>> No.814520

>>814518

While The Dresden Files isn't particularly deep, it's got a pulpy appeal and was well enough written to keep me entertained. Inb4 personal insults about my terrible taste.

>> No.814526

>>814520
>Inb4 personal insults about my terrible taste.
Brotip: >>814518 was an insult about your terrible taste.

Seriously, though, Butcher is pretty popular with /lit/'s fantasy crowd. You're not alone. A lot of people here like him.