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/lit/, let's see your to-read piles/lists. No shame in having a lot.

>> No.1110414

-The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
-Watership Down
-Middlemarch
-At Swim-Two-Birds
-Guilty Pleasures
-The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time
-A Death in the Family
-Portnoy's Complaint
-Ironweed
-The Hotel New Hampshire
-A Scanner Darkly

>> No.1110413

-say you're one of them
-fabric of the cosmos
-a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
about half way through each, the first one is depressing as fuck

>> No.1110416

The History of Western Philosophy, The Republic, Plato Euthyphro Apology Crito Phadeo Phaedrus.

>> No.1110421

>>1110414
>-The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Just read Hamlet instead, but pretend Hamlet has a bunch of dogs.
that's pretty much the plot of Edgar Sawtelle.

>> No.1110422

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
*The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
2666 by Roberto Bolano
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
*Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
The Difference Engine by William Gibson
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
*The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima
Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
*The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
*Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
*The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Ringworld by Larry Niven
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
1984 by George Orwell
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Contact by Carl Sagan
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Paper Door by Shiga Naoya
The Wayfarer by Natsume Soseki
A Cat, A Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki
Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki
Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki
Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
*Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto


A lot of these I really should have already read at one point in my life, but, well. At least I'm getting to it now.

>> No.1110426

>>1110421
>Implying that a vague plot outline is the only reason one could possibly have to read a particular book.

>> No.1110436

>>1110426
yeah, that was kind of in jest.
i really enjoyed edgar sawtelle.
I thought the style was really good, especially for a first book.

>> No.1110447

-Lolita (current)
-One Hundred Years of Solitutde
-The Demon-Haunted World
-The Republic
-The Prince
-An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy

>> No.1110450

In no real order.

Journey to the West
Consider Phlebas
Hyperion Cantos
Gravity's Rainbow
infinite jest
Cat's Cradle
I am a Cat
And then there were none
Terminal World
Brave New World
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Starship Troopers
Arabian Nights
Slaughterhouse-Five
1984
neuromancer
A Scanner Darkly
House of Leaves
The Trial
Catch-22
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Glasshouse
Les Miserables
Julius Caesar
No Longer Human
Kokoro
The 120 Days of Sodom
Spare Key
Blood Meridian
Ringworld
The Portrait of a Lady
Name of the Rose
Joan of Arc: In her own words
the grand design

>> No.1110451

Currently reading The Road by Cormac Mccarthy

In my to-read pile is:
Up in the air by Walter Kirn
The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Great american short storys

>> No.1110465

-Lord of the Ring (current)
-War of the Flowers
-The Dying of the Light
-A Song of Ice and Fire
-Count of Monte Cristo
-Final Blackout
-Enders Game
-Dune (reread)
-Dune Messiah
-Children of Dune
-Strange Wine
-Deathbird Stories
-Paingod and other Delusions
-Old Man's War
-Pros Eddas
-1984
-Animal Farm
-The Stand
-Stranger in a Strange Land
-Starship Troopers
-Neuromancer
-Conan (all the short stories)
-Sherlock Holmes (complete)
-Edgar Allen Poe (complete)
-Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
-The Republic
-The Stand

And those are only the books I currently own (I probably missed a few). You guys are smalltime.

>> No.1110467

Currently: The Reivers, William Faulkner
Night, Elie Wiesel
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Odyssey, Homer
A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Light in August, William Faulkner

>> No.1110497

>>1110465
see >>1110422

I was also doing only what I physically own, minus a few dozen of the more embarrassing ones so the post wasn't too long.

>> No.1110521

A lot of stuff on Pacific Island cultures and all my A-format books. Then I'll have another shelf completely clear!

>> No.1110526

>>1110422
Have you seen the film for Woman in the Dunes? It's one of my favorites.

>> No.1110533

>>1110526
I haven't! I actually didn't even know there was one. But now I'm going to go off and look for it.

>> No.1110550

http://pastebin.com/d7hVV8zA

>> No.1110554

John dies at the end
Fool's Errand (+ the rest of the trilogy)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Calling
All the Mass Effect novels :D can't wait for a chance to begin reading.

>> No.1110972

Currently:
Richard Dawkins- The God Delusion
Bram Stoker's Dracula (almost done)
H.P. Lovecraft- The Horror in the Museum (short story collection, about halfway through)

In my posession, awaiting to be read:
Tolkien- Silmarillion
Tolkien- Tales From the Perilous Realm
Dostoevsky- The House of the Dead & The Gauntlet

Books my parents have, but that i'm interested in reading sometime or another:
George Orwell- 1984
Carl Sagan- Cosmos
Carl Sagan- Contact
Stephen Hawking- A Brief History of Time

>> No.1110978

The rest of Chuck Palahnuik's Haunted.
Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing
George Orwelle's 1984
Claudio Sanchez' Year of the Black Rainbow

>> No.1110994

Recent Stuff:

The Interrogation - J M G Le Clezio
Peter Camenzind - Hermann Hesse
Notes on a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski
Gentlemen and Players - Joanne Harris
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
Home on the Gentry - Turgenev
The Man in the High Castle - Phil K Dick
Love Among the Chickens - P G Woodhouse

Stuff I've put off for months/years and will one day read:

The rest of Naked Lunch - W S Burroughs
The rest of the first LotR book - J R R Tolkien
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow - Durp
A big book of Icelandic Sagas, recently bought
Many French language novels including Balzac, once I get better at reading French without looking up a word every sentence.

>in squism

>> No.1111014

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Letters From The Underworld
The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer

Currently reading More Than Superhuman

>> No.1111033

- Godel, Escher, Bach
- Six Easy Pieces
- Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
- Pity the Nation
- Chinese Civilization
- The Fabric of the Cosmos
- The Demon-Haunted World
- All Our Todays
- Baghdad's Spy
- Delta Force
- Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret
- The Political Animal
- The Balkans
- Prisoner of the State
- Red Moon Rising
- Sahara
- Just So Stories
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- War and Peace
- Seven Years in Tibet
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

>>1110972
All of your parents' books are great; read them right away.

>> No.1111037

-the trial (kafka)
-alice (patrick sénécal in french)
-douze hommes rapaillés (french canadian poetry)
-the grapes of wrath (steinbeck)
-the brothers kamazerov (dostoevsky)

>> No.1111045

Reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Heinlein,

To read:
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Endymion by Dan Simmons
Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Things That Never Happen by M. John Harrison
The Worm Ouroboros by E.R.Edison
Phantastes by George Macdonald

>> No.1111059

reading: making of the atomic bomb
anathem
grand design
moby dick :^/

>> No.1111064

Some lovecraft collection
Charlotte Gray
A fire upon the deep/a deepness in the sky (I'm not looking forward to these, from the first 50 or so pages they seem like unintelligible 80s scifi)
World War Z
The last 4 books of the Dark Tower saga

Nothing very good except Charlotte Gray but I want to clear my shelves so I'm reading the dregs before I smack them away.

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>>1111033
Protip: Flying saucers are real, the mind is not anything like Hofstadter thinks it is, and either people can remember others' lives or reincarnation is real as well.

>> No.1111100

>>1110422

Not a bad selection of Japanese stuff. I love Some Prefer Nettles, and secretly think it's better than the Makioka Sisters. You won't be disappointed. Also House of the Sleeping Beauties is one of the better Kawabata stories.

Have you already read other stuff by Natsume Soseki?