/lit/ - Literature

>guns, germs and steel by Jared diamond
>The god delusion by Richard Dawkins
>The Martian by Andy weir
>Color of magic by Terry Pratchett
>The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams

>>9088471
>Dead Souls, Gogol
>A Hero of our Time, Lermontov
>Roadside Picnic, Br. Strugatsky
>The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
>Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky (Have not finished yet)

>Bourdieu, Les héritiers: les étudiants et la culture
>Camus, The Plague
>Heraclitus, Fragments
>Sartre, No Exit followed by The Flies
>Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

>>9088471
idk what to say

>>9088511
>>9088529
cool men.

>Henry IV
>TCoL49
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Walden
>Ulysses (re-read)

post above is bait

>Man and his Symbols
>Stephan Mallarmé's poetry
>Korkergaaerd Either/Or
>Letters to Theo, Vincent van Gogh
>V.

>>9088569
>>Stephan Mallarmé's poetry
>>Korkergaaerd Either/Or
>>Letters to Theo, Vincent van Gogh
>>V.

nice/10

Bel-Ami
Against Nature
Swann's Way
Nadja
As I Lay Dying

All the kings men
As I lay dying
Infinite jest
The fountainhead
Wuthering heights

ive only been reading short stories and poetry *flips hair*

>>9088534
>TCoL49
The Crying of Lot 49?

>On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, Thomas Carlyle
>One-dimensional man, Herbert Marcuse
>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron
>Repressive Tolerance, Herbert Marcuse (essay)
>Political Theology, Carl Schmitt (currently reading)
Lots of non-fiction. I'll grab me some Balzac soon, though.

>>9088709
No, the other one

>>9088511
>>9088529
>>9088569
>>9088638
>>9088737

Don't forget to rate

A death in the family
Tortilla Flat
Vertigo (sebald)
2666 (re-read)
The nik

>>9088789
>Tortilla Flat
What'd you think of it? I loved it, my favorite Steinbeck

Savage Detectives
Anna Karenina
Dubliners
The Stranger (reread for class)
Fear and Trembling (for class)

>>9088471
Odyssey
Hamlet
Dubliners
Portrait of the artist as a young man
Ulysses

>>9088486
Seems cool
>>9088511
How is Brothers K?
>>9088529
Tao Te Ching will fix your existential crisis
>>9088569
>>9088591
>>9088638
>>9089273
All cool

>>9088471
>The Idiot
>The Invention of Morel
>Franny & Zooey
>Fathers and Sons(current)
>A Single Man(current

The Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward (current)
Hyperion
Uther and Igraine
Battling Boy
All Quiet on the Western Front

>>9089281
nice selection of classics.
>>9089408
I need to read more Russian stuff

>>9089299
I'm only on pg 122 but so far it is great. Make sure that you get the Volokhonsky translation though. I started with the Garnett translation (What I read C&P in) and Thank god my professor corrected this mistake of mine. A bad translation takes so much away from the experience.
Ex.
Volokhosky version: "Her 20 year old face, healthy, broad, and ruddy, was completely idiotic; and the look in her eyes was fixed and unpleasant, though mild."
Garnett Version: "She had a fat stupid face."

>>9089464
I really recommend F&S.
I was a tad hesitant because I knew nothing of Turgenev and its not really memed here, but it's a great book. Turgenev writes nothing like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. His descriptions of settings are emotive and relevant to the scenes, his character descriptions aren't granular like Tolstoy's but utilize the same brief insight, and he sets up opposing philosophies without beating around the bush like Dostoyevsky. and he doesn't use exaggerated hyperactive maniacs to express his points.
He's actually a bit like Chekhov, now that I'm thinking about it. This book is every bit as deserving of being put on the same pedestal as Crime and Punishment as an exploration of nihilism, adolescence, and love. I really recommend it.

>The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama
Great overview on the evolution of various political systems. First time I've read Fukuyama but I can't wait to read the rest of his work. He puts a lot of focus on China as the first modern state, and makes a lot of good points supporting that. The one complaint I had was that he spoke a lot about the lack of rule of law in Chinese politics, despite its efficient bureaucracy, and seemed to imply at many points that a democratic or at the very least accountable Chinese government would be an almost perfect system (I'm exaggerating but bear with me). I felt that this was a very anti-Hegalian (while I've often heard of him called a Hegelian thinker) observation to make, as it attempted to separate the bureaucratic system from the rest of the government.

>The Black Swan, Nicholas Taleb
Great book on Taleb's theory of empirical skepticism, especially in light of everything that's happening right now, where the future seems very much up for grabs. He provides

>L'Arabe du Futur, Riad Sattouf
Self hating(?) French Arab talks about his childhood in the middle east in Syria and Libya. Interesting book, although it doesn't take itself nearly seriously enough. I'm sure Sattouf had a reason for that, but I felt somewhat underwhelmed.

>The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Probably the best book on this list. Gabriele D'Annunzio was like a god among men, and I recommend this book to everyone. Full of daring, intrigue, romance, and passion, all set with a backdrop of a modernizing Italy and the first world war.

>The autobiography of Malcolm X
The adventures of Black Hitler and why his being a piece of shit is all the white mans fault (which, to be fair it kind of was). I read this on a plane ride home after living in Brazil for some time and being exposed to/living around lots of low life nigger hustlers like Malcolm X. I've got absolutely no sympathy for him, and the way leftists fetishize him is truly dumbfounding. A few days ago I passed a table at UoT being manned by the Canadian communist party that was handing out pamphlets on him, and got in a very interesting debate where they tried to defend every single oppressive regime and racist demagogue under the planet, provided they weren't democratic or provide a decent standard of living for their citizens. It was an illuminating conversation to say the least.

>>9088486
>tips fedora

>>9088511
10/10. Hero of our Time and M&M are both amazing books, and I think its an undeniable fact that the Russians have perfected the art of literature.

>>9088591
A reboots changed my life when I read it. I've said this before, but I feel that no other book more accurately captures the modern condition. Are you French, or just a francaboo?

>>9088737
Go to bed Bannon.

>>9089281
'""''good""""" """"""taste""""""" in literature.

>>9089501
I read The Diary of a Superfluous Man a while back but found it completely unbearable. Is fathers and sons actually any better, or is it just more r9k tier whining?

>>9089613
I haven't read that but F&S isn't r9k-tier whining so I'll just assume so

>>9088486

you seem insufferable you atheist faggot

>>9088471
>Diary of Anne Frank, Otto Frank
>It, Stephen King
>Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
>Almost Transparent Blue, Ryu Murakami
>The Overcoat, Nikolaj Gogol

>The Illuminatus! Trilogy
>The Gospel of Thomas
>The Gospel of Judas
>How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
>The Man in the High Castle

My coworkers then informed me The Man in the High Castle was being made into a television series.


>>9089273
Good stuff there.
>>9089281
Also good

>In Job’s Balances, Shestov
>The Kolyma Tales, Shalamov
>Stoner, Williams
>The Royal Game, Zweig
>Book 3, Knausgaard

How am i meant to assess people's taste if i don't know what they thought of the books?

laszlo krasznahorkai - the last wolf and hermann
karl ove knausgaard - my struggle 1
alfred bester - the stars my destination
elizabeth jane howard - the long view
richard matheson - i am legend

>>9088737
Good choices.

I'm too pleb to rate, here are mine though

Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Carl Jung
Crime and Punishment, ya boi Dosto
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, Verne
1984, Orwell

>>9089820
>implying people are not just posting books that they already like (and are not actually the last 5 books they read)

Modern Digital Design with EDA, VHDL, and FPGA
Archetypes and the Collective Unconcious
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past
Self-Hypnotism : the Technique and its Use in Daily Living


>>9089602

read Nate Silver's "Signal and the Noise"

>>9089776

read The Yiddish Policeman's Union

>>9089831

read Ecce Homo

>>9089474
The Garnett is honestly better there.

>>9089860
>The Yiddish Policeman's Union
I should clarify that I didn't enjoy The Man in the High castle.
But I was expecting Land of Red and Gold/Dune stuff, not forgery and a weird love/hate thing going on with Japan.

>>9089501
Cool thanks for the rec!

Demons - Dostoyevsky
Man's Search for Meaning - Jung
The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn
Faust pt. 1 - Goethe
The King and the Corpse - Zimmer

>>9090009

>man's search for meaning - jung

Lmao, I meant Modern Man in Search of a Soul. What a freudian slip, I guess I know what I should read next

>Gwynne's Grammar by N.M. Gwynne
>How to Grow Old by Cicero and Philip Freeman
>Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
>Batman: The Man Who Laughs by Ed Brubacker and Doug Mahnke
>Basic Japanese Through Comics by Ashizawa Kazuko

>The Oresteia
>The Great Gatsby
>The Bible
>Stoner
>Grendel

>almost finished Don Quixote
>The Master & Margarita
>The Broom of the System
>The Stranger
>Oblivion

Book of Sand + Shakespeare's Memory - Jorge Julius Borges
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitzyn
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer – Philip K. Dick
Rules for the Direction of the Mind & Meditations on First Philosophy with critique and author's response - Descartes
Jerusalem - le fish rape wizard

The Rise of Endymion Dan Simmons
Storeys from the Old Hotel Gene Wolfe
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
The Sorcerer's House Gene Wolfe
The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez

>>9088471
Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Shogun by James Clavell
Enchiridion and Discourses by Epictetus
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein

>>9088486
Entry tier pleb

>>9088534
Meme/10

>>9088569
8/10

>>9089281
9/10

>>9088638
6/10

>Locusts Have No King - Dawn Powell
>Oman: A History - Wendell Phillips
>The Gallery - John Horne Burns (reread)
>A History of the Middle Ages - J M Riddle
>Madame Bovary - Flaubert (reread)

Collected Fictions - Borges
The Long Ships - Bengtsson
Gravity's Rainbow - Pinecone
Giles Goat Boy - Barth
Ada - Nabokov

>>9089814
Nice job with Chess Story by Zweig. Check Beware of Pity by him. Wonderful novel

>The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser
>Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein
>Barbarians at the Gate, John Helyar & Bryan Burrough
>Against The Double Blackmail, Zizek
>Chess, Stefa Zweig

Currently reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

>Ancient History: A Paraphase - McElroy
>The Elementary Particles - Houellebecq
>Tristana - Galdos
>Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End, Plus One - Snyder
>Double or Nothing - Federman

>>9088471
how was the Coover

>>9090311
>Giles Goat Boy - Barth
nice

everyone is fine good job everyone for reading books

knausgaard - my struggle, book 1
oliver - a poetry handbook
white - the living and the dead
shakespeare - as you like it
sterne - tristram shandy

why so many people reading knausgaard

>>9090391
>sterne - tristram shandy
nice

>>9088529
8/10
Is the Kierkegaard one hard to understand ? and what % of the Bourdieu pages require several readings ? Bourdieu can be a bitch.

>Republic - Pluto
>Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
>The Odessy - Homer
>Slaughter House 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
>The Stranger - Albert Camus

>>9090475
meme/10

>>9090508
I've not read that much, got to start somewhere.

>Beckett - Trilogy
>Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
>Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation
>Houellebecq - Platform
>Spinoza - Ethics

>Scott Adams - How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1
>Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan
>Dino Buzzati - The Desert of the Tartars
>Michel Foucault - Discipline & Punish

>>9090009
Take it you're a fan of JBP?

>lolita - nabokov
really enjoyed, probably a favourite. love nabokov's writing, though for some reason i'm now stuck at about 72% in pnin, it's just not engaging me as much

>kokoro - soseki
this was average? i honestly can't remember a great deal of it but it was a nice enough read

>tender is the night - fitzgerald
enjoyable too. same as above, though i remember more about this one

>the master and margarita - bulgakov
very very good, though i know i missed a lot of nuances to the soviet etc. but definitely intend to read bulgakov's other works

>last exit to brooklyn - selby jr.
really liked this one too. something about the prose and characters and settings always gets me in selby jr's books. didn't top requiem for a dream though

currently reading don quixote and enjoying it.

>Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
>Lermontov, A Hero of our Time
>Gazdanov, Buddha's Return
>Gazdanov, An Evening with Claire
>Sorokin, Telluria

Now I'm trying to read more non-fiction, Spinoza and Kant. Also reading Snow Country and Humboldt's Gift on the side, though. Need some fiction in your life ...

>>9088486
literally plebbit

>>9088529
18yo edgelord detected

>>9088511
>>9090539
my men

>>9088471
Can someone please rate me, the OP.

I just woke up.

>>9090456

Kierkegaard yes, a little bit, but I was struggling to concentrate while reading for some reason. I'm following up with Diary of the Seducer and it's going more smoothly now.

As for Bourdieu, French is my natal language so I didn't really struggle outside of a few sentences that required careful rereading.

>After Dark, Murakami
>The Portrait of Dorian Grey, Wilde
>Neverwhere, Gaiman
>Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
>A Hat Full of Sky, Pratchett

>>9088471
Timequake
Taipei
A farewell to arms
The crying of lot 49
Deadeye dick

>>9090539
My man

>Infinite Jest
>Cloud Atlas
>1Q84
>And Quiet Flows the Don
>Ham on Rye

>>9089602
>Autobiography of Malcolm X

Disagree. I always had a bad opinion of him, always considered him to be a militant muslim MLK. Reading that book made me empathise a lot. I think I could have turned out extremely similarly in the same circumstances. And not just that, but that was one of the most entertaining books I've ever read.

>>9088789
>Rereading 2666

Because rereading rape and murder crime scenes for 350 pages that served the sole purpose of bludgeoning you with grotesque details until you didn't even care anymore wasn't bad enough the first time. I understand the point, from an artistic POV, but I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed that book. And pretty much all the other sections were annoying to read too, aside from the last one. I tried to read By Night in Chile and Bolaño started straight off with the literary professor plot again and flowery prose. I guess he's just not for me.

>>9090836
>Taipei

Hi Tao

>A Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket
>All The Wrong Questions, Snicket
>Catch Me If You Can, Leo DiCaprio
>Roadside Picnic, Strugatskavitches
>Gravity's Rainbow, pinekone

>>9090585

How'd you guess?

>>9089874
>The Garnett is honestly better there.
Garnett is a literary butcher.
The Character that is being described there is supposed to be empathized with and is often described as a "Holy fool" (what could be an illusion to Downs Syndrome) who walks around barefoot and simple before dying alone giving birth a product of her (possible) sexual assault.

2666-Bolano
Les Misreables-Hugo
The Monk-Lewis
The Double-Dostoyevky
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men-Wallace

Now I'm reading Don Quixote by Cervantes.

>>9091046
How was que teen?

>>9090223
Im assuming youve read other Borges too? TBoS and SM contain some of his weaker (which for him still means great) works, if not read Artifices, and The Garden of Forking Paths at a minimum. Theyre probably my two favourite collections

>>9090221
Is oblivion worth reading?

>>9088471
How was Maps of Meaning?

I'm plowing my way through Peterson's recommended reading list, since it incorporates a bunch of stuff that I wanted to read anyway, and I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago right now.

>>9088471
>The Algebraist, by Ian M. Banks
>Beyond Good and Evil
>A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
>Consider Phlebas, by Ian M. Banks
>The Spy Who Came in From The Cold, by John le Carre

>>9088471
>brave new world
>crying of lot 49
>the stranger
>the fall
>white noise

>>9091937
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
LoTR trilogy
Heart of Darkness
Under the Volcano
No Longer Human

currently reading Gravity's Rainbow

>>9091897
What

>>9091910
Oblivion and Consider the Lobster are my two favorites of his besides IJ so I would say yes. It's probably the least DFW thing that DFW put out.

>2666
>Iliad
>Desolación - Gabriela Mistral
>Mythology by Hamilton
>On poetics - Aristotle

>>9089464
Nice on Hyperion, you planning on reading all the Cantos?

>>9090203
That poor Agamemnon
>>9090223
Jorge Luis* Borges m8, did you enjoy it? I preferred The Aleph (and Fictions especially) way more

>>9092067
Say it outloud.

Queue Teen may be a better spelling

>>9091979
I picked up No Longer Human a couple weeks ago, what am I in for?
Godspeed with GR

>A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
>The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
>The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
>Satori In Paris by Jack Kerouac
>The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

>>9090836
>Taipei
nice

>>9091761
garnett dost is bad, grnett tolst is good

>>9091979
>Under the Volcano
nice

American Psycho (reading in progress)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (re-read)
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
The Upside of Irrationality
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

>>9092105
Oh haha. It was my second favorite Murakami I've read.

Wind Up>1Q84>Sheep Chase>Dance^3>Hard Boiled Wonderland>Kafka>Norwegian Wood

I like all of them though, NW is a good book too. HBW is tricky because the Hard Boiled part is some of the worst Murakami but the End of the World is phenomenal, in my opinion. In Kafka I thought the oedipal plot device was forced and it was one of those split-alternating-POV books where I vastly preferred one story to he other. But yeah 1Q84 was great, it gets a lot of hate but I think if you like Murakami you like it, whereas if you're not sure if you like Murakami you probably shouldn't invest all the time in it (yet).

>>9088471
>Kraszz
>Mathews
Noice.

>Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Schumpeter)
>Zero to One (Thiel)
>Heidegger, Strauss and the Premises of Philosophy (Velkley)
>The House of God (Shem)
>The Question Concerning Technology (Heidegger)

>The Metamorphoses - Ovid
>Histories - Herodotus
>The Divine Comedy - Dante
>History of Philosophy vol.11 - Copleston
>History of Philosophy vol.10 - Copleston

>>9092218
Cool, I've been putting off reading it so thanks

>>9092174

>>9088511
r8 my russian tea cup

>Harem: World Behind the Veil
>The Life and Times of Townes Van Zandt
>Penguin Classics' Thomas Ligotti
>Fanged Noumena by Nick Land
>Twelve Stories by Eudora Welty

It's been a weird year already.

>>9093662
Russian Tea cup/Tea Cup
That is like an 862/10.

>>9093680
thanks friendo <3

>>9088638
Loved Fountainhead, As I Lay Dying was alright, couldn't read more than 20 pages of Wuthering Heights. Been wanting to get my hands on a copy of Infinite Jest. How was it, in broad terms?

>The New Complete Works of Josephus translated by whoever
>A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole
>Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
>Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein is the only one I've finished because I've been busy and haven't had the energy to finish anything. If someone could recommend a light, hopeful read that could restore some energy, maybe a short story even, I would appreciate that.

1. The Door, Magda Szabó
2. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski
3. Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
4. A Tomb for Boris Davidovitch, Danilo Kiš
5. The Return of Martin Guerre, Natalie Davis

4/5 of these were for classes

>Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
>Showboat (Kobe Bryant biography), Roland Lazenby
>Barbarians Inside the Gates, Thomas Sowell
>SPQR, Mary Beard
>Homage To Catalonia, George Orwell

>>9093676
The Townes Van Zandt biography alone gets you super high marks from me

>>9092355
Interesting stuff

>>9092142
Maybe a narrow range, but top-tier

>>9088471

As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, Carver
Notes from Underground, Dosto
Infinite Jest, Wallace

the history of the kings of britain
arthurian romances
sir gawain and the green knight
le morte d'arthur
the idylls of the king

>>9094070

Yo, you've gotta chill with those dense works. Read some Mary Renault or PKD's Man in the High Castle for some easy reading with enough interesting shit to keep you going.

And, in future, it's probably better to read a commentary on Josephus rather than the primary source. /lit/ might throw a sissy but you're going to miss 90% of what the primary source is talking about without even knowing it unless you are an actual academic scholar. Secondary sources are always preferable.

>>9090221
Don Q is great especially once you get to Book 2.

I assume you've gotten to the part where Sancho gets to govern the island?

>>9088471

lonesome dove - mcmurtry
inherent vice - pynchon
wild bill donovan - waller
dead souls - gogol
dune - herbert

>>9094167
I read Le Morte D'Arthur about a year and a half ago, do you recommend any of those other readings as supplemental or did I more or less get everything out of Le Morte? I'm mostly interested in the mythology/metanarratives.

Also I never expected 60% of the entire collection to be about Sir Tristram.

>>9094171
Yeah i just finished the part where Don Quixote gets his face shredded by a cat.

joan didion - play it as it lays
Geoff Manaugh - A Burglar's Guide to the City
Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Chuck Klosterman - But what if we're wrong?

current reading:
Michael Herr - Dispatches
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish

James Joyce - Portrait of the artist as a young man
James Joyce - Ulysses
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
William H. Gass - Omensetter's Luck

>>9088486
dont listen to them. you seem like a cool guy anon.

>Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky
>Moral Tribes, Joshua Greene
>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer
>Nothing to Envy - Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
>Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Crime and Punishment
The Way of Men - Jack Donovan
Death of the West - Pat Buchanan
The Iliad
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead

Thorstein Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class
Ludwig Von Mises - The Theory of Money and Credit
Euclid - Elements
Irving Fisher - Theory of interest as determined by impatience to spend income and opportunity to invest it
Archimedes - Collected works translated by T.L. Heath

no bully pls

I'm gonna use /mu/s rating system for their 3x3s
>>9094350
0/0
>>9094182
1/1
Dune
>>9092355
1/1
the histories
>>9092081
0/1
the iliad

>>9088471
Fahrenheit 451
Stranger in a strange world
Starship troopers
1984
"Die Physiker" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Voyage to Faremido by Frigyes Karinthy

The Book of Odes by Confucius

Circle of Chalk by Li Xing-Tao

Selected novellas if Akutagava Ryunosuke

The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra by Anonymous

bump

>>9088691
ive got some poetry for ya ;O

https://youtu.be/_J09aeeBVtk

>Structure in Action: The Makings of a Durable Dog
>A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness
>The Norsemen, H A Guerber
>Tistou of the Green Thumbs, Maurice Druon, Ashley Ramsden
>some book on how to write novels, title and author(s) forgotten

>As I lay dying, Faulkner
>the times of Shakespeare, Laraque
>patterns of polity, Leroy Long Jr.
>the hero: myth image symbol by Notman
>the creation of zero, Kenney

>I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream - Ellison
>Snow Crash - Stephenson
>The Unincorporated Man - Kollin
>Child of God - McCarthy
>The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon

>>9094372
interesting mix. how was buchanan?

>>9094404
pretty good. 1984 and stranger get a lot of hate here but i liked them both very much.

>>9089750

>Insults somebody just for reading atheist literature

You are part of the problem.

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

The Undoing Project

The Gene

Hillbilly Elegy

Killing Rommel

A Correspondência de Fradique Mendes - Eça de Queiroz
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
Confucius to Cummings, edited by Ezra Pound
Correspondência - Eça de Queiroz

>>9090574
Read the Scott Adams book and thought it was garbage

>>9096088
Someone needs to write a book about the friendship between Hunter S Thomson and Pat Buchanan

What if i haven't read 5 books?

>The Catcher in the Rye
>Lolita
>The Colour of Magic
>Pet Sematary by Stephen King
>The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
reading Dune right now

>>9096304
I have little to say about most of these, except I first read The Wasp Factory when I was 12 and that was a wild ride for a little kid. What did you think?

>>9096205
Atheism is a problem.

>>9088471
>The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
>The Road
>Symposium
>Le Mort D'Arthur
>Lolita

>>9096367
I guess i didn't think much of anything about it, i enjoyed it for what it was, interesting and pretty imaginative as a look into a mind of a sociopath. The pointless killing and torturing did trigger me a bit, same feeling i could get by going on /b/ and seeing a gif of some retard burning a dog alive or whatever.

>5 pieces of American high school required reading
>go back to plebbit and kys you entry-level baiting scum

>5 pieces of Russian high school required reading
>what a 10/10 patrician let me kiss you on the mouth and anus

You guys are fucking hilarious sometimes.

>>9088471
Illuminatus Trilogy, R.A.W and Robert Shea
Divine Comedy, Le Medieval Autist
Mastery, Robert Greene
The Art of War, Steven Pressfield
Philosophy in the Tragic Era of the Greeks, Neet-chan

>>9096270
Yeah it was pretty useless.

Might as well just read Influence by Cialdini and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman.

He just regurgitates their findings with some anecdotes about losing his voice.

>all these tastelets ITT
sad

Huhuhuh, welp here goes

Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Colfer's "Opal Deception"
Some book my mom found at a dollar store (really awful yarn with space detective or something)
Brown's "Angels & Demon's"
Some Dean Koontz book I think was the first in a series.

Pretty much everything I've actually gone cover to cover with in the past few years because most of my reading is reference material and articles.

The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
The Cossacks, Tolstoy
An Artist of the Floating World, Ishiguro
Blood Meridian, McCarthy

Stoner- John Williams
Donuts-33 1/3 series
Notes From a Small Island- Bill Bryson
Blood Meridian- Cormac Mccarthy
Miles: The Autobiography- Miles Davis

>>9097431
>Demon's

>Of Mice and Men/Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
>Stories of mr. Keuner, Bertold Brecht
>The Gambler, Dostoyevsky
>A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen

>Irrational Man, William Barret
>Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
>The Philosophy of Art, G. W. F. Hegel
>Rosa Alchemica, W. B. Yeats
>An Introduction to Mathematics, Alfred North Whitehead

I'm also continuously reading the Holy Bible.

>>9094484
This is an interesting list.

>>9094387
So is this.

>>9094336
He's lying to you. So are your parents.

>>9091073
dude the rape and murder section is genuinely one of my favourite passages of literature, and the glorious prose of the fifth section kind of revives you

idk it's not for everyone (not a condescending thing to say) but re-reads yield multitudes

>The three kingdoms: Russian folk tales
>A history of Japanese literature by W. G. Aston
>The Iliad
>A companion to the Iliad by Wilcock
>The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald

>The Grammar of Polish Language, Piotr Bąk
>The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis, Lacan
>Homo ludens, Johan Huizinga
>The literary work of art, Roman Ingarden
>Cybertext. Perspectives on ergodic literature, Espen Aarseth

The Recognitions by William Gaddis (current)
Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs
Reflections by Walter Benjamin
A Night of Serious Drinking by Rene Daumel

>The Claw of the Conciliator
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>East of Eden
>Oryx and Crake
>The Big Sleep

>>9097452
me tier

>>9096088
how's Ellison? also I hope you didn't start with lot 49

>>9094328
What a self-pitying louse you've gotta be

>>9097949
whoops forgot to post mine...

>The Stranger, Camus
>The Metamorphasis, Kafka
>Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
>Dubliners, James Joyce
>Event, Slavoj Zizek

i'm not even kidding

>>9097963
I'm 19 and this is deep. Stick at it though these are good starting points

>Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
>My Hot Date, Noah van Sciver
>Elephant in the Room, Jon Ronson
>Born to Run, Springsteen
>The Vegetarian, Han Kang

>>9097739
Drop BOTNS and read After the Flood right now, you can thank me later

> A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
> Guerrillas - V S Naipaul
> Bend in the river - V S Naipaul
> The kindly ones - Jonathan Littell
> Riddley Walker - Russel Hobban.

>>9088529
why did you stick Heraclitus's Fragments in there?
it's like 20 pages of completely inscrutable speculative metaphysics bundled up in translated poetry
were you just trying to look cool? based on the Camus, Sartre, and Kierkegaard, I suspect yes

A New Pair Of Glasses
The Eyes Of The Dragon
Dark Tower 3: The Wastelands
The Stand
Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three

>Dialogues, Plato
>The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
>The Hobbit, J R R Tolkien
>The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño
>The Wall, Jean Paul-Sartre

>D
>Ci-Cz
>Q-R
>B
>T

>>9098648

>>9088471
>Napoleon The Great
>Mistborn 1
>Mistborn 2
>Mistborn 3
>Dead Souls

Pretty diverse, I hadn't thought about what I've been reading.
I am also currently reading The Fault in Our Stars by our guy John Green. Its pretty pedestrian, honestly, I expected a tryhard 2deep4u book, and its just a teenager love story.

>>9094328
Just discovered /lit/.

>>9088486
Outdated fedora.

>>9088511
Strong Russian gentlemen who needs no joy.

>>9088691
Those are usually printed in books too.

>>9089776
Working on becoming the leader of a cult.

>>9089820
You can judge what they are interested in in the fist place.

>>9090475
So did you give up on books yet?

>>9094167
The hero we deserve.

>>9094404
Good luck with the finals.

>>9096088
90s kid

>Storm of Steel
>Lolita
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom
>The Mint
>The Prince of Homburg

For God, Country and Coca-Cola - Mark Pendergrast
Letters between Carl Lachman and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Vol.1
Letters between Carl Lachman and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Vol.2
(Jacob) Grimm smaller writings, Vol.1
Passages from the diary of a late physician

>Today I Wrote Nothing, Kharms
>Elements of Set Theory, Enderton
>House of the Sleeping Beuaties and other stories, Kawabata
>Mishima: A Vision of the Void, Yourcenar
>My Struggle 5, Knausgaard
>

>>9088471
>A Catcher in the Rye
>Untimely Meditations
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>The Great Gatsby
>No Longer Human

I'm not super edgy and trying to read everythimg Nietzsche wrote, I just wanted to read Thus Spoke Zarathustra and had to read the Meditations first.

>Hannibal by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
>Alexander by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
>A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
>The Septuagint
>Cannibals All! or Slaves Without Masters by George Fitzhugh

I read the Septuagint a book or so at a time concurrently with other things.

>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hunter S. Thompson
>All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class, Tim Shipman
>The Key, Junichiro Tanizaki
>Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World, John W. Dower
>David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

> Bram Stoker's Dracula
> Richard Adams' Watership Down
> Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves
> Cervante's Don Quixote
> Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

I swear that I'm not straight out of high school and that I have been reading recreationally for a while now but I know what it looks like.

>>9097607
Thank you for calling my list interesting.
But what makes you say that?

>Perks of Being a Wallflower
>Confederacy of Dunces
>Crying of Lot 49
>The Ghost Writer
>Pnin

>Don Quixote, Cervantes
>Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
>Some Jeeves and Wooster stories, PG Wodehouse
>Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
>A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Catcher in the Rye
Siddhartha
The Gunslinger
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>>9100505
Extremely plebeian