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>S Tier
Shakespeare
Proust
Joyce
Milton

>A Tier
Nabokov
Kafka
Wallace
Henry James

>B Tier
Dostoevsky
Goethe
Yeats

>C Tier
Conrad
Achebe

>D Tier
Fitzgerald
most Americans

>F Tier
Harry Potter, genre fiction, your diary desu, etc

>> No.14338270
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>>14338262
>S Tier
Dead white European males
>Diarrhea tier
Everything else

>> No.14338271

>>14338262
>Goethe in B tier with Dosto while Nabokov is in A tier
Make a Retard tier for yourself

>> No.14338282

>>14338262
Where the FUCK is melville
And why in god's name is wallace of all people A tier

>> No.14338289

>>14338262
>Kafka above Goethe
>a virgin Jew who wanted to incest his sister and mother above and aryan Herrenmensch

kek

>> No.14338290

>>14338282
I haven't read much Melville yet so I didn't think it was right to include him in any particular tier prematurely.

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>>14338262
S Tier:
KJV Bible
Shakespeare
Milton
Cervantes
Pushkin
Goethe
A Tier:
Moliere
Proust
James
Nabokov
Joyce
Gogol
Melville
Yeats
B Tier:
Kafka
Tolstoy
Turgenev
Bulgakov
Dumas
Dickens
Kipling
C Tier:
Conrad
Salinger
Bradbury
Camus
Tolkien
D Tier:
Fitzgerald
Steinbeck
Kerouac
Thompson
Wallace
Hemingway
F Tier:
Rowling
Martin
King

>> No.14338302

>>14338297
literally better in every respect
very based and redpilled

>> No.14338308

>>14338289
Where'd you get that bs info

>> No.14338310

>>14338262
>no tolstoy
what

>> No.14338313

>>14338297
Good list but where does dost rank in your opinion?

>> No.14338317

>>14338290
if wallace is A tier, melville is certainly SS tier. I haven't read much of consequence other than those two, but it's staggering how much better melville is than wallace. (though I do enjoy wallace)

>> No.14338319

>>14338262
>no gogol
what

>> No.14338322

>>14338270
Literally everyone in S tier were black females

>> No.14338328

>>14338313
Between Bulgakov and Dumas

>> No.14338342

>>14338297
LYNCHED
And where's Faulkner?

>> No.14338344

>>14338308
>hasnt read kafka

>> No.14338354

Now riddle me this... where does chaucer rank?

>> No.14338355

>>14338297
>nabokov above tolstoy
lmao. nabby just wrote one good thing in his life, that too not the entire book, only the first half.

>> No.14338363

>>14338354
A Tier, easily

>> No.14338375

>>14338355
No.

>> No.14338381

>>14338363
What's his failing

>> No.14338432

>>14338381
Not quite as profound or poetic as Shakespeare or Milton, for example

>> No.14338480

>>14338432
t. Only read canterbury tales

>> No.14338486

>>14338480
Yes, which is why I didn't bother including him in my rankings. But I was asked.