/lit/ - Literature

>>8717052
oh yeah, and some super emotional books would be nice too, for those quality feels

did we ever get a nice graphic for the recent poll?

>>8717052
There are many charts on the wiki my friend :^)

>>8717052
>doesn't have a backlog
>wants one
... just don't

Start with some plays.

>>8717063
Aye, here it is

>>8717087
that's a nice sample

>>8717052
Is there a text version of this chart knocking around? I want to paste the ones I have yet to read into a bookshop wishlist.

>>8717094
Yea, the sample generally denotes that the person came from reddit. Here's the real one so you don't look like a shmuck

>>8717087
>>8717094
>>8717131
I don't understand, that's just a slightly higher res of the exact same image. What is "sample"?

>>8717052
>>8717131
And here's the 2015 edition, so you can compare how /lit/'s taste has evolved (generally I'd say for the better, there's less and less high school reading list-core).

Why the fuck do people come onto new boards and ask for all the answers without even taking the time to lurk for a bit?

>hey new guy here just wanted to know if you guys could give me every resource possible :))

Fuck off. There should be something that prohibits people from creating threads if they haven't been here for longer than a month.

>>8717362
Why do you care so much?

>>8717390
Because it's lazy. You're asking for handouts, if you were really interested in literature you wouldn't need to ask for this shit.

And because it takes up space.

>>8717401
I disagree. They're interested in good literature so they go on a board about literature to get Information. It's not hurting anything.

>>8717407
>live n let live :))
>not botherin anyone :))

Click the sticky next time. It's there for a reason.

>>8717413
holy shit, anon. having a bad day? a bad life

>>8717413
At the end of the day our opinion doesn't matter anyways. People will post what they want.

>>8717423
i dont wanna talk about it anon

please let me bitter and miserable in peace

>>8717087
>>8717131
>>8717207
why does /lit/ like too deep 4 u shit?

>>8717079
Wow this is really good. Didn't expect Kalidasa or Du Fu from /lit/. Only thing is I was swap out Sons and Lovers for a different Lawrence, and I'd give Kawabata only one slot to allow for something else. Maybe Hunger.

>>8717466
it's really satisfying to read and makes you feel nice

>>8717469
Oh and also The Trial and Stories are enough for Kafka. I like him like anyone else but including The Castle too is pushing it.

>>8717362
This, it doesn't even take long unless you're a complete idiot. Many newfags don't even seem to bother with stickies.

>>8717466

I see nothing on the lists that is 2 deep 4 u shit though. It's a fairly standard list, it's not like the list is full of philosophy tracts which are unintelligible to the layman.

>>8717801
...stickies?

>>8717807
>>8717466
Agreed, it has some Plato and Camoo on it but the Stranger and Republic are pretty accessible compared to books from Kant or Hegel

>>8717903
>What is the very first post on any board
The link it gives is quite helpful, grouping fairly /lit/-approved books from country to genre to fiction and nonfiction. The Greek chart could use some work though

anyone got the humor chart

>>8717052
rolling

>>8718414

>>8718330
I thought Notes from Underground was quite funny.

>>8718485
>The Trial is listed as humor
I will NEVER understand this.

>>8718684
I'd've put the Castle instead desu

>>8717466

The only book that qualifies for that on that list is Zettel's Traum/Bottom's dream.

>>8718686

what do the blacks got to say thats so interesting

>>8718684
david foster wallace: "in some of kakfas most horrific stories his neigbors would complain because he would be laughing so hard late at night"

new question, is after the quake a good place to start with murakami? the chart i found says to start with kafka on the beach, but after the quake is the only one i have on hand

Hard Boiled Wonderland, Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, just don't read 1Q84 unless you want to have an unpleasant time

>>8717131
>Iliad finally moving up
Its about fucking time.

>>8718684
see:
>>8719177
It's what got me into Kafka and when you read it in that mindset, and the narrator's voice in your head is Bill Burr, Kafka's Complete Works immediately become the most entertaining literature of the last 50 years

>>8719169
Read some Chester Himes or Ishmael Reed and find out.

>>8717131
>Siddhartha moving up 1 space from last year
we out here

>>8719144
what the hell is that?

>>8717052
Can we just reply read the fucking sticky and then leave these kind of posts alone?
OP isn't even asking for specific recc's, just asking for us to spoonfed him something he could find through sticky/lit wiki/googling.

>>8717052
do you guys think it's a little weird that there's one book here written by a woman (Wuthering Herights)?

>>8720219
you're right. there should be none.

>>8719904

>Not knowing our ultimate memebook.

>>8720231
it's kind of a token women's book too, isn't it?

>>8720219
inb4 Virginia Woolf is also on there

Step it up sempai. And I don't remember if Middlemarch is on there but I know it is for the later years, even though the author is George Eliot it's actually Mary Ann Evan's pseudonym

>>8718684
read it again and imagine him chuckling writing about the breakfast at the beginning

>>8720241
That's not Jerusalem

>>8721141
not obtuse enough

>>8721149
It has a better penis drawing though

>>8718485
needs aristophanes, maybe plautus.

Nabakov list anyone?

>>8721177

Look at that glans though.

>>8717052
Here's the new starter kit, supposedly better than the more popular one.

Is the stoner a meme?

>>8717087
maybe /lit has gotten more patrician throughout the years... polling anon should've weighed against Bottom's Dream (which should be Zettels Traum in the list anyway) and Jerusalem for the bias of their new-release status.

>>8717087
>tfw i havent read a SINGLE book on this list.
do i just end it?

>>8722448
>having 100 of the greatest reads of all time ahead of you
>a bad thing

If you honestly believe that then yeah

>>8719548
>narrator's voice in your head is bill burr

>>8722287
>The Odyssey
>Not the Illiad
Because surely that`s the order you read them in.

>>8717087
>bottoms dream

>>8722448
No, you buy or download some and start this very week.

is there a list of best disturbing novels? i want to see if the book my teacher recommended to me is on it

>>8722287
>Ivan Ilych
>Literally a Justice album cover