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I'll go first
>Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
>The Crying Lot of 49
>The Faerie Queene
>À Rebours

>> No.12942360

>>12942160
>Infinite Jest

>> No.12942437

>>12942160
>À Rebours
Haven't read it, but someone on /lit/ described it as the Illiad boat lists but for decadents

>> No.12942447

>>12942360
it's good, but you can fit so many better books that you'll get more out of in the same span of time as one full read of IJ
>>12942437
wow, okay, that just dropped several places on my to read list, thanks

>> No.12942453

>Our Lady of the Flowers
>Roadside Picnic
>Bandini Quartet
>History of Madness

>> No.12942460

Jacobsen - Niels Lyhne

>> No.12942504

>>12942160
>>12942360
>>12942453
>>12942460
finish all those unread books you have on your shelves first

>> No.12942515

Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Ádám Fejér - Raskolnikov, the victim of humanist thought
>Gyula Illyés - The people of the puszta
>Gerald Murnane - The plains

>> No.12942516

Mandelbaum translation of the Divine Comedy

>> No.12942519

>>12942504
every single person on /lit/ eternally btfo

>> No.12942559

>>12942504
>unread books on shelves
Do people actually do this? What for?

>> No.12943523

>>12942559
You're not slick.

>> No.12943706

>>12942437
>Haven't read it, but someone on /lit/ described it as the Illiad boat lists but for decadents
lel I didn't know this board could be funny

>> No.12943709

>>12942559
y i k e s
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>> No.12943723

>>12942559
Pseud cred, backlog issues, hoarder syndrome

>> No.12943796 [DELETED] 

>>12942559
I find it pseud and cringe af when people have tonnes of unread books on their shelves.
I have a friend who has an entire shelf (upwards of 90-100 books) on his shelf of great poetry and philosophy and he hasn't read a single one.
cringe and pseudpilled

>> No.12943801

>>12942559
I find it pseud and cringe af when people have tonnes of unread books on their shelves.
I have a friend who has an entire bookcase (upwards of 90-100 books) completely filled with great poetry and philosophy and he's read like 3 of them.
cringe and pseudpilled

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>>12942160

>> No.12945746

>>12942559
the only books I keep are the ones I haven't read yet - why would you hold on to a book you've already read? Give it away or sell it.

>> No.12945785

>>12942559
Too depressed to read, and the stimulation of buying things helps me get by. Also, some of my books are there for reference purposes.

>> No.12945804

>>12942360
The Bakemonogatari bundle box

>> No.12945810

Tolstoy - The Gospel in Brief
Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
Zweig - The World of Yesterday

>> No.12945827

>Ham on Rye

>> No.12945831

>>12945717
it's like a dumbed down, even more self-important 1984
>>12945745
it's a book about anthropology by a dabbler who got his degree in biology. if you want that sort of subject matter, go for People's History of the US instead, which is by a marginally more respectable person
>>12945785
relatable