/lit/ - Literature

>>8901454
Mines loose and subject to change
>The Waves, Woolf
>The Door, Szabo
>The Last Interview with James Baldwin
>Gass
>Tolstoy
>Silas Marner
>Fathers and Sons
>Light in August/Absalom
>Dostoyevsky's short stuff
>Butcher's Crossing, Williams
>Silence, Endo
>The Nigger of the Narcissus, Conrad
>Chekhov
>various nyrb's
>Bible
>Wise Blood, O'Connor
>Ulysses
maybe finish Borges' complete fiction. Maybe Kafka too.

>>8901454

I read mostly classics this year so in 2017 I am going to catch up on a lot of pleb fantasy shit that I want to read.

But there are a few classics I want to read in 2017:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Fantasy pleb shit I want to read:
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Scar by China Mieville
Iron Council by China Mieville
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
The City & the City by China Mieville
Kraken by China Mieville
Embassytown by China Mieville
The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

>>8901454
>January - Ulysses
>February - Ulysses
>March - Ulysses
>April - Ulysses
>May - Ulysses
>June - Ulysses
>July - Ulysses
>August - Ulysses
>September - Ulysses
>October - Ulysses
>November - Ulysses
>December - Finnegan's Wake

>>8901487

looks like your'e gonna read 0..000001 of the canon.

>>8901499
i'm gonna start a Ulysses reading group this spring break.
3 weeks, one chapter per day, six days per week, catch-up on Sundays.

>>8901538
PLease do

>>8901538
Where is this happening? Genuinely interested.

My goal is to read 100+ books in 2017.

>list of books you're going to read for 2017

what a profoundly boring idea

>>8901603
get a girl and eat her pussy

>>8901579
>>8901581
Here.

I'll make a chart and post about it beforehand.
at least read Portrait beforehand and be familiar with the Holy Bible and Homer's Odyssey or else get left behind in the discussions.

>Don Quixote
>Les Miserables
>The Idiot
>Moby Dick
>Demons
>Dune
>2001
>Kafkas novels (besides The Trial which i have already read)

Those are the ones I have on my shelf and have been wanting to read, so I should get to them eventually

My goal is to read 40 books in 2017. No idea what they will be.

I usually read about 12 books a year, I wonder if I can do it.

>>8901487
>The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Fucking fantastic book. Hopefully none of it's been spoiled for you yet

Not yet. I plan on reading at least 100 books in 2017, with ideal results in the 150 range.
I will probably read more French and Greek classics, and I want to read more Latin-American literature.

January
>Herodotus - Histories (less than 200 pages to finish)
>Hesiod - Theogony, Works and Days (less than half to finish)
>Homeric Hymns
>Apollonius Rhodius - Argonautica
>The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists

February/March/April
>Plato - Complete Works

May
>Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
>Plutarch - Greek Lives

June
>Xenophon - A History of My Times
>Xenophoon - Conversations of Socrates

July
>Xenophon - The Persian Expedition
>Arrian - Anabasis of Alexander
>The Discourses of Epictetus, The Handbook, Fragments

August/September/October/November/December
>The Holy Bible

throughout the year, when I have time:
>Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander

if i have the time
>Apollodorus - THe library of Greek Mythology
>Greek Lyric Poetry
>Pindar - Odes
>Theocritus - Idylls
>Apuleio - The Golden Ass

>writing out a specific list

I hate to sound like a lofty faggot but I find never stick to such lists. Books seem to choose me.

Sowell - Basic Economics
Sowell - Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Camus - The Plague
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Melville - Moby Dicc
Kafka - The Trial
Dostoyevsky - Brothers K

and if i get to them

Ellis - American Psycho
Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Proust - In Search of Lost Time
and maybe some Asimov

>>8901487
>reading things other than the canon

Whatever I feel like fucking reading. Also, I hope none of you faggots actually read only one book a month unless they are some fucking big books.

>he doesnt read a book every day/two days

come on now

>>8901454
this is fucking gay

>>8901454
If I don't read more than 100 books next year I'll kill myself op. Huck Finn takes literally 2 hours to read, it's better that way.
As far as resolutions? I'm going to try and read everything from a single author, mark Twain or kurt Vonnegut for example, or maybe someone with less notable work.

/lit/ babby, so I'm going to do this list for 2017

>>8902416
I've read a shittonne of these and I can tell you your life's not going to get much better. Everyone here approaches life wrong, it's like, "Wow, I'll read all the classics and be super smart and learned and have meaning in my life!"

It ... doesn't work out. I did the same thing it seems a lot of people here are doing (forcing oneself to read "classics") and it's just ... not worth it, hilariously enough.

>>8902416
Gay, there's a reading list of like 1k novels but do you think everyone sets out to complete that?

>>8902416
If you've barely read anything before jumping right to the greeks is not a good idea

>>8902416
Stop posting this. It's literature propaganda, not everyone's bookshelf looks the same

>>8901487
dickens really not that great, if you don't like great expectations definitely don't force yourself to get through tale of two cities. read something a little, less, choppy, maybe

>>8902434
Why

>>8902434
>>8902436
I've already read stuff like Joyce and Dosto, and I've already read the Odyssey and Republic, so I can do this

>>8902381
For real, if I'm not almost finishing a book I'll go crazy. It's nice if I can finish multiple novels in the same day

>>8902381
>>8902480
Pseud detected

>>8902428
>being this pleb
Either you didn't actually read them or you just didn't spend enough time on them. Nonetheless I guarantee you if you actually understand what you're reading there are a few classics out there that will have a profound influence on you and will teach you things about yourself.

Give pic related a shot if you don't believe in the value of the classics.

>>8902436
>Many of the most influential/profound/aesthetic works of all time
>propaganda
kek

>>8902416
Put Isaiah on that Bible list.
Read it before the Gospels.

>>8902784
If you cannot dedicate yourself so much as to read a work within two days of reading, that's pathetic. You're the pseud

>>8902416
That shitty list again. I bet you're the idiot that made it and you've not even read them.

I try not to plan out an exact order for reading so I can jump into something on a whim, or so that it feels less like a chore, but I've got some books I'm excited to get into starting in the new year (provided I stagger out of the last few hundred pages of Moore's 'Jerusalem' in the next 2 days)

The Magic Mountain - Mann
Ada - Nabokov
Complete Fictions - Borges
Histories of Herodotus
2666 - Bolano
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich & the Gulag Archipilago - Solzhenitsyn
Dubliners & Portrait - Joyce
Short History of Byzantium - Norwich
Dune trilogy - Herbert
A History of the English Speaking Peoples - Churchill
Assorted fictions & essays - Ellison

In addition, I've also been making use of a nifty Science Fiction Book Club collection which includes 10 favorite novels of the 50's, 60's and 70's, and reading these when I don't feel in the mood for the drier writing. (stuff like Heinlein, Pohl, Dick, Clarke, Asimov, etc.)

Other stuff I might consider, is perhaps more Melville (Omoo and Typee perhaps), as well as authors i've had recommended to me, exploring other books by authors i've enjoyed, or have been meaning to get at.
>Ariosto
>Virgil
>Kawabata
>Yasushi Inoue
>Michener
>Dostoyevsky
>Shirer
>some other niggas I'm forgetting because its 2 AM
>MAYBE the rest of the meme trilogy just to get it over with
Oh, and also finishing up the last of reading everything PKD ever published. Somehow I've put off Scanner Darkly and Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and that I can't allow any longer

Is there a /lit/ mega please?
I got a kindle for Xmas and want to fill it.

>>8901454
kys, you fucking casual

>>8902050
Your year looks like it will be similar to mine

>>8902416
>Pale Fire

I don't like to plan all of my reading, so I have a list of some books I will read, and I will just append to it ad hoc.

Aristotle - Poetics
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family
Don Delillo - White Noise (maybe)
Emile Zola - Therese Raquin

This year, I read:
James Joyce - Dubliners
Thomas Pynchon - V
Raduan Nassar - A Cup of Rage
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Renata Adler - Speedboat
William Shakespeare - Othello
James Joyce - Ulysses

>>8901538
id also be interested, make it happen, il be looking out

>>8902894

Is there an ebook version of this? I've been looking for while but couldn't find it even on #bookz.

I don't plan my reading, I'm aiming for something like 40-50 books but I just read whatever I feel like.

>Books I will read for sure in the near future
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear (reread)
Macbeth (reread)
To the Lighthouse

>Books I plan to read througout the year
All of Beckett's novels (Watt, Murphy, Trilogy, How It Is, etc)
A biographical novel on Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
La vida es sueño (Life is a dream, by Calderón de la Barca)
Pride and Prejudice
Casi un objeto (Almost an object, by Saramago)
A bunch of Basho's haikus
Lorca's Romancero gitano

>>8901487
Mieville is super weird, I'm probably going to read City myself. Otherwise, I've lined up:

>Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
>A Collection of Essays - George Orwell
>The Pope and the Heretic - Michael White
>Voice of the Fire - Alan Moore
>The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pinecone
>The Pickwick Papers - Chuck "The Dick" Dickens
>Book of the Damned - Charles Fort

>>8901454
>my cherished brainwashed child-murdering psychopaths in arms, I miss you so much..

>>8903320
I am not sure if i should read the Bible or full Aristotle, i think i will let Aristotle to 2018/2019 when i begin to study more philosophy.

What your year will look like?

I don't have an order, but I would like to read

(1) The meme triology
(2) Anna Karenina
(3) Emma
(4) Crime and Punishment

I have a bunch of non-fiction books too
(5) Mind and Brain
(6) The Case on Qualia
(7) Abandoned to Lust
(8) How we learn
(9) Emotions, Qualia, and Conciousness
(10) The Mating Mind
(11) Attention in Action
(12) Demonic Possesion and Exorcism in Early Modern France
(13) After Poststructuralism

(etc)

>>8902428
I agree with the other guy that replied to you. If you're not getting meaning out of classics, and if you're "forcing" yourself to read them, the fault is with you. I've only been enriched by reading them.

What's a good translation of the divine comedy? Footnotes are also a must for me

>>8905906
Longfellow is my preference. The Barnes & Noble edition has surprisingly good footnotes

>>8902428
You are a tard if you actually thought this way and only read classics because of this.

>>8905909
I'd like a version generous with footnotes for my first reading, so would you recommend the Barnes & Nobles edition or by Longfellow?

>>8902050
I'm also doing the Greek meme for 2017

I've read Martin, Hamilton, and Homer since November. I've set weekly reading goals and plan on finishing through Plato by June. Haven't planned out the rest yet.

>>8901454
>Moby Dick
>For Whom the Bells Tomb
>A Farewell to Arms
>Old man and the Sea
>Islands in the Stream
>The Hobbit
>Lord of the Rings Trilogy
>Confessions of a mask

I plan to try and read a few of the door stoppers that i've been putting off, Les miserables, man with the iron mask, and war and peace. Beyond that though I dont know. I read so many books a year that making is list would be pretty difficult/pointless.

>>8901454
Oh hey, I had a plan kind of like this based around the larger works I want to get to:
>January - War and Peace
>February - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
>March - The Count of Monte Cristo
>April - Holy Bible*
>May - The Histories
>June - Finnegans Wake
>July - Moby Dick
>August - The Recognitions
>September - Bottom's Meme
>October - Complete Stories of JG Ballard*
>November - Gargantua and Pantagruel
>December - Swann's Way
And there's a bunch of short novels, story collections (including *) and philosophy works I'll be working on in between these.

>>8901454
>planning your reading

Where's the serindipity in that?

Loose plans:

>The Bible
>The Divine Comedy
>La Princesse de Cleves
>Le Misanthrope
>La Condition humaine
>Les Essais (some of it, at least)

Apart from that, I'm hoping to read forty to fifty overall, with at least ten in French. If my study abroad plans work out, that last one should be easy.

>>8907088
Also, I'd like to knock down Plato's complete dialogues, in pure cumulative page count I'm somewhere around 1/3 through it.

>>8907088
>reading Bottom's Dream in a month

BD isn't a thing for reading. It's not like Ulysses where it's a little confusing but you can get the gist with SparkNotes. BD is more like a fucked up TV show that you can watch a little randomly to get the jist and then walk away

I want to read Oblomov, The Good Earth and My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin. No plans beyond that.

>>8903338
You been to the National Gallery's Beyond Caravaggio exhibition?

>>8907174
Yes, I'm assuming you recognised the painting from the second last room, which I thought was fantastic - as was the exhibition overall. Assuming you went, what were your thoughts?

>>8902428
What do you mean it doesn't work out?

>>8907122
It's 50 pages a day anon, it's doable with patience.

>bible (some passages not the whole thing)
>jesus of nazareth book 1 - ratzinger
>holy anorexia - bell
>the star of redemption - rosenzweig
>book of disquiet - pessoa
>les chants de maldoror - lautreamont
>notre dame des fleurs - genet
>ragazzi di vita - pasolini
>the origin of family etc. - engels
>froth on the daydream - vian
>amleth - shakespeare
>orphean chants - campana
>canzoniere - saba
>philosophy of modern music - adorno
>the society of the spectacle - debord
>the order of things - foucault
>complete poetry - rosselli
>spoon river anthology (to finish)