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What will be your last books of this year?

>> No.14340154

>>14340146
The Sorrows of Young Werther

>> No.14340159

I'm rereading LOTR

>> No.14340179

planning on starting 2666 soon so that I guess

>> No.14340182

>>14340146
yoink

>> No.14340193

pictures at a revolution

>> No.14340197

>>14340146
Finishing up the tartar steppe now. Hopefully get a few more books of the republic done before the new year

>> No.14340201

Rotk
The Iliad
A confederacy of dunces
The trial
Guards, guards

I have a lot of spare time this winter break because my family doesn’t do anything other than watch tv.

>> No.14340211

Neverending Joke (Infinite Jest)

>> No.14340213

going away soon and torn between starting i am a cat or rereading something old, want to be sure of what i'm taking since i don't want to get bored of it while over there

>> No.14340215

Can people seriously stop posting jezebels? It's not cool

>> No.14340218

>>14340146
>Alice in Wonderland (reread)
>A Farewell to Arms (reread)
I'm hoping to finish My Struggle book one. It seems good so far, pretty compelling writing.

>> No.14340230

goblin emperor
a memory called empire
strange bird (novella)
war and peace (started, won't finish it this year)

>> No.14340254

Mein kampf
The bible
All the days on my quote a day calendar that was gifted to me last year and I never used.

>> No.14340257

A Wizard of Earthsea. I"m rereading it, since I picked up the illustrated Earthsea collection.

>> No.14340266

I am reading Anna Karenina, which I will finish
Then, A dream of red mansions, and finally the lotus Sutra, of which either I will not finish this year.
Thank you for asking :)

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of the decade too
i think the last one will end up being godwin's enquiry concerning political justice

>> No.14340329

>>14340146
The same one I started it with, Dune.
I'm a slow reader.

>> No.14340350

I wish to bust multiple loads on hee fine visage. also, Technological Slavery and Neuromancer

>> No.14340426

Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant

>> No.14340452

>>14340179
you wont finish it 17 days tho

>> No.14340467

>>14340452
yeah, I know, I'll start at least

>> No.14340493

>>14340146
I’m going to read the rest of 20000 leagues today (they just visited the volcano hideout for the first time)
Then read crying of lot 49 as I travel home to see parents for Christmas
I think I’m getting pensees and the ethics for Christmas so I’ll try to read those before the year ends, though preferentially I’ll read the ethics

>> No.14340540

>>14340493
Read Mason & Dixon instead of Lot 49, it's a better mood for traveling during the winter

>> No.14340601

St Augustine’s Confessions

>> No.14340659

>>14340540
Well I already have a copy of lot 49 so I’m going to read that, I go home in two days and I’m going to be too busy to get more books before then

>> No.14340666

I just started The Idiot

>> No.14340749

>>14340146
Reading Moore's Voice of the Fire. The 1st chapter was great.

>> No.14340798

>>14340146
Disco Elysium, American Psycho, and Peter Watts blog posts.

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This then maybe Auto da Fe by Canetti

>> No.14340811

>>14340146
Crying of Lot 49, picked it back up after getting pleb filtered after the first chapter a year ago

>> No.14341254

The book of disquiet

Is in my bookshelf and i have'nt even touched it

>> No.14341266

>>14340146
Probably selected works of Rilke

>> No.14341456

The Hero of a Thousand Faces or Poor People by Dosto.

>> No.14341531

I'll probably finish Goodbye, Columbus today so that will meet my reading goal (30) for the year. There's still three weeks and holiday is soon. I'm working on Delta of Venus, The Bluest Eye, Origins of Totalitarianism right now, so I imagine it'll be one of those unless I pick up something really good once I finish Roth.

>> No.14341536

>>14340666
I started it two weeks ago and felt like a dumbass for not getting a copy of bkz instead. I know Idiot is supposed to be good but bkz is just more interesting from the get go.

>> No.14341539

I'll probably finish before the end of the year, but currently it's Other Inquisitions by Jorge Louis Borges.

>> No.14341580

>>14340146
The Coomer Diaries (self-published)

>> No.14341603

>>14341536
How do you know it if you haven't read tbk?
Also I'm reading both anyway eventually so it doesn't matter the order.

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>>14340146
The obscene bird of night, probably

>> No.14341621

>>14340146
Might try and sneak in Ice, can anyone recommend that?
Otherwise it will probably be The Names by Delillo

>> No.14341625

>>14340146
mind if I save your e-girl?

>> No.14341628

>>14341603
I started tbk a while back and got a quarter in but then got busy and had to drop it for other stuff. I liked what I read.

>> No.14341693

I'm making my way through Moby Dick right now. I could probably finish by the end of next week if I really sat down with it every day, but I can't foresee myself having that sort of time. Hopefully I'll be done with it by the end of the year.

>> No.14341820

>>14340146
"Freedom", by Jonathan Franzen

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>>14340329

>> No.14341852

Derrida's Specters of Marx or Shalamov's Kolyma Tales

>>14340601

Blessed and holypilled

>> No.14341858

I want to finisdh Hesse's Demian and, perhaps, something short by either Bolaño or Calvino. But the end is nigh and I'm lazy as fuck.

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>>14340179
Upskies brotha

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>>14341625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fSL8lXSPqc

>tfw no norf gf

>> No.14342371

looks like sarah from ed edd n eddy

>> No.14342379

>>14340146
Nueromancer and Das Kapital

>> No.14342403

A short story collection from henry james that includes turn of the screw and maybe As I Lay dying

>> No.14342411

>>14340146
either Wuthering Heights or The Trial, haven't decided which I'm gonna read yet. which one would /lit/ pick?

>> No.14343296

>>14342070
You know people put this on, crank one out, and then fall asleep.

>> No.14343329

If I manage to finish it, Infinite Jest, but more likely Dance Dance Dance by Murikami

>> No.14343730

>>14340154
I read that a little while back. It wasn't very good.

>> No.14344636

Master and Margarita, I'm not even sure what the fuck this is but so far it seems interesting

>> No.14344652

>>14340146
Death on Credit, Serotonin (French), Suddenly A Knock At The Door, The Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins, The Lost Scrapbook, The Unnamable, In The Tartar Steppe, A History if God, and The Tempest. All should be completed and logged by the afternoon of 12/31.

>> No.14344664

>>14344636
I liked MaM. I enjoy lit with Satan being a main character.

>> No.14344694

Plutarch On Sparta

Some Herman Hesse short stories can’t remember the name of the book

Houellebecq - Unreconciled (poems translated from French)

Might not finish unreconciled. It’s a dual language book and the English is painful to read

>> No.14344698

>>14342411
/lit/ is filled with anons that have different tastes in literature. What I say will be different from someone else’s opinion.
Personally, I recommend starting with The Trial. Enjoy reading, anon.

>> No.14344707

>>14340146
Rimbaud's Illuminations and a vol. 1 of Artaud's writings.
Maybe the Flowers Of Evil if I can squeeze it in.

>> No.14344710

>>14340146
Probably Surface Detail by Iain M Banks

>> No.14344747

About 100 pages into Faulkner's Light in August. On holidays atm so don't see why I shouldn't finish it before the New Year. Might even start something else.

>> No.14344785 [DELETED] 

My last books of the year? Oh, not much, really. Just a quick flip through the complete works of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripedes, Hesiod, Aristophones, Herodotus, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Wyatt, Sidney, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Leopardi, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentjier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann,Sillanpää, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xinjiang, Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Elizabeth Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara

>> No.14344925

>>14340146
Are all manchester girls this pretty?

>> No.14344992

>>14340146
V. Thomas Pynchon

>> No.14345551

im about to finish Magick Book 4 by Aliester Crowley

>> No.14345584

>>14340146
Gonna finish the posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas today and probably start the melancholy of resistance tomorrow

>> No.14345595

>>14340146
I'm not sure yet. Reading a bunch of Auerbach over the winterbreak

>> No.14345651

Gonna try to get through The Unknown Masterpiece and Rock Crystal for Christmas.

>> No.14345661

>>14343730
why didnt you like it

>> No.14345702

Le Soleil de lève à l'aube (Hemingway)

>> No.14347031

>>14340146
JoJo's Bizzare Adventure: 4th The Book

>> No.14347129

i'm reading the magic mountain at the moment, it's great times

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>>14340146
Some Plato, I guess. I'm on Symposium now, with 15 of his works remaining, including big ones, like The Republic. I doubt I will have finished him by the New Year's eve.

>> No.14347162

>>14341693
Moby Dick really picks up the pace when you are half way through it. You can do it, anon.

>> No.14347179

>>14340146
been reading Star Trek Deep Space Nine Millenium trilogy this past ~9/10 days cos I cbfa lately

>> No.14347188

Either the Iliad, Gilgamesh or Capitalist Realism.

>> No.14347201

>>14340211
oh Perennial Pisstake

>> No.14347465

The Man Without Qualities

>> No.14347893

i dont think im gonna finish the last 200-300 pages of crime and punishment this year

>> No.14347905

Blue at the Mizzen

>> No.14347910

>>14340146
War and Peace.
I'm only finishing first book.

>> No.14347993

>>14340146
The Financier probably. Started it yesterday and read 200 pages so far, but won't be able to read much next week because of wageslaving

>> No.14348480

>>14340146
Moby Dick

>> No.14348966

CCRU: Complete writings

>> No.14349441

>>14340146
how did you get that photo of her insta is priv

>> No.14350156

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

Christmas gift for my sister but I'm gonna read it first since she never will

>> No.14350216

Nothing. Stuck here and in my head

>> No.14350222

>>14349441
get out whore.

>> No.14351059

Catch-22. Ironically got it last Christmas and am just now reading it. Hopefully, I'll finish it by Christmas.

>> No.14351377

>>14340146
The Magic Mountain maybe, if not that then probably Xenophon's Anabasis.

>> No.14351408

>>14340146
>>14349441
Maybe somebody who follows her could also upload the rest of her Instagram pictures? I would have tried to follow her, but I don't use social media.
Please, anons! I ask this only for innocent artistic and aesthetic reasons.

>> No.14351412

>>14340146
The Double

>> No.14351424

If I stay focused I'll finish Against the Day before New Year's.
Last year I started reading A Wizard of Earthsea on New Year's Eve and finished it a little before midnight. I might try to find another comfy short read to end this year in a similar fashion.

>> No.14351598

I was hoping to finish the Sea of Fertility series by Mishima but given how the month is going it'll probably be some academic BRILL book on an obscure part of early modern history.

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>>14351408

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>>14353038

>>14349441
just make follow request

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>>14353048

>> No.14353144

>>14347201
Perpetual Puns

>> No.14353281

>>14340146
Homer The Odyssey

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>>14353071

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>>14353712

>> No.14353803

>>14340146
Homo sacer, hopefully I'll be able to finish it

>> No.14353809

Advanced Magick for Beginners, by Alan Chapman

>> No.14353849

>>14340146
Erebus: The Story of a Ship

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definitely this
I'll try to squeeze in spinoza or vaneigem, maybe something short from land

>> No.14354425

>>14340146
R. Reno's Return of the Strong Gods and Shusaku Endo's Deep River (if I finish it).

>> No.14354441

The first quarter of War and Peace

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>>14354385

>> No.14355676

Just finished Mason & Dixon, boy that was difficult, had its moments too.

Probably gonna start my re-read of TPK by christmas, before that maybe some Updike or the Shipping News by Annie Proulx (pullitzer prize winner). need a little break between these gargantuan novels

>> No.14355913

>>14340254
Based

>> No.14355998

Prometheus Rising and then Man and His Symbols

>> No.14356003

Buddenbrooks and Flashman’s Lady

>> No.14357342

>>14355279
morew

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>>14355279

>> No.14357414

>>14340146
Waiting for the End of the World

>> No.14357424

>>14340146
Balún-Canán by Rosario Castellanos
Complete Whitman

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>>14357387

>> No.14357633

Almost certainly Madame Bovary. I'm halway through God and the State by Bakunin, but only five chapters in Madame Bovary.

>> No.14358157

Kafka by the shore

>> No.14358164

>>14358157
On the shore fuck you know what I mean

>> No.14358505

>>14353718
I would tear that up so hard she'd be paralyzed from the waist down once I'm finished.

>> No.14358592

Reading The Name of the Rose right now, either it will be the last or then Berlin Alexanderplatz.

>> No.14358618

>>14340146
Melancholy by László F. Földényi

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>>14357566