The year is ending /lit/, what did you read in 2019?

[Anonymous No.14366056]

Here's what I finished:
>Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge - Jean Piaget
>Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>The Acquisition of Knowledge - James Russell
>Mind Hunter - John Douglas
>Obsession - John Douglas
>Anyone You Want Me To Be - John Douglas
>On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers
>Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
>The Killer Across the Table - John Douglas
>How Conversation Works - Ronald Wardhaugh
>A Way of Being - Carl Rogers
>Motivation and Personality - Abraham Maslow
>Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development - Herbert P. Ginsburg & Sylvia Opper
>The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
>Notes from a Dead House - Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.14366211]

Currently reading:
>The Genealogy of Morals
>The Iliad
Finished:
>Ficciones
>By Night in Chile
>The Man Without Qualities
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>The Old Man and the Sea
>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>Book of Disquiet
>Beyond Good and Evil
>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
>The Red and The Black
>Kokoro
>The Republic

[Anonymous No.14366266]

>>14366056
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Ligotti
>The Stranger - Camus
>No Longer Human - Dazai
>Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
>The Fall - Camus
>Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
>Roadside Picnic - Strugatsky brothers
>The Iliad - Homer
>The Odyssey - Homer
>Eclogues - Virgil
>The Aeneid - Virgil
>Metamorphosis - Kafka
>The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
>Moby Dick - Melville
>Alcibiades I, Lysis, Laches, Charmides, Protagoras, Hippias major, Hippias minor, Gorgias, Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Symposium - Plato

[Anonymous No.14366344]

Guan Hanqing - The Injustice to Dou E
Lao-zi - The Daodejing
Unknown - The Kudrunlied
Solomon Volkov - Testimony
Alexander Pushkin - Ruslan and Ludmila
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Michel Houellebecq - Whatever
Lev Shestov - Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the underground
Yukio Mishima - The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Lev Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Ilich
Liu Zhang - The tale of how Zhong Kui stopped the Demons
Thomast Bernhard - The Lime Works
Richard Wagner - Tristan and Isolde
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Péter Wintermantel - A history of Hungaro-Japanese relations
Yu Hua - China in ten words
Henrik Ibsen - The wild duck
Henry Longfellow - Hiawatha
Shen Fu - The old man of the moon
Matsuo Basho - Selected Haiku
Thomas Bernhard - Old Masters
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Sophocles - Antiogne
Sophocles - Philoctetes
Dante - Inferno
Thomas Mann - The sorrows and greatness of Richard Wagner
Natsume Soseki - Selected Haiku
Dezső Kosztolányi - Anna Édes
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
Mihály Babits - The Nightmare
Akutagawa Ryunosuke - The life of a stupid man
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism

I guess the year started off strong and it sort of got weaker and slower as it went on. There are only two books I plan on reading in the weeks that are left from 2019. One is "Death rode out from Persia" by Péter Hajnóczy and the other is the Iliad to make up for that short coming like I did with finally taking my time and carefully reading Hamlet, Dante and Sophocles.
Out of all the books I read this year, I'd say the top three were C&P, The Lime Works and Testimony.
There were a few I started reading but dropped halfway through for various reasons (Like Dostoevsky's Idiot,State and Revolution, and a small collection of short stories and poems by Liu Zongyuan)

[Anonymous No.14366849]

>>14366056
Asterisks denote the best ones

>The Confidence Man
>The Elementary Particles**
>Submission**
>Whatever
>Serotonin
>The Life and Times of Michael K
>Crime and Punishment (reread)**
>Absalom, Absalom**
>Sometimes a Great Notion**
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Hunger
>Nausea
>Dead Souls**
>Desolation Angels
>My Confession (Tolstoy)
>Sapiens
>Conspiracy Against the Human Race
>White Noise

[Anonymous No.14366899]

>>14366056
Brothers Karamatzov
Molesworth omnibus a few times
Terry street (poems)
Akira series
7 madmen
Neuromancer for the first time which was pretty excellent
Solaris
Sculpting in Time
Foucoult for beginners
Raymond Chandler Omnibus
The Steppe and other stories, 1887-1891

[Anonymous No.14366902]

>>14366056
>Free Will - Sam Harris (shit book, if I had a physical copy, I would have burned it by now)
>Mediterranean In The Ancient World - Fernand Braudel (good intro to Med history)
>Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev (best book I read this year)
>Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt (disagreed with a lot and very forgettable)
>Into the Wild - John Krakauer (enjoyable book)
Hopefully I can read some better books in the coming year.

[Anonymous No.14366916]

Managed to complete a science degree and read this much, so fairly happy.

The Lottery and Other Stories by Jackson
Pan by Hamsun
At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Campbell
The Horla (short) by Maupassant
Tree and Leaf by Tolkien
The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Dunsany
The Castle of Otranto by Walpole
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Poe
Master and Man (short) by Tolstoy
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
The Haunting of Hill House by Jackson
Ancient Greece (a very short introduction) by Cartledge
Classical Literature (a very short introduction) by Allan
The Iliad of Homer
A Little History of Literature by Sutherland
The Tunnel by Sabato
The Collector by Fowles
The Celts by Roberts
Mythology by Hamilton
The WoW Diary by Staats
Aesop’s Fables
Diary of a Madman (short) by Gogol
No Longer Human by Dazai
Wabi Sabi: the Japanese Art of Impermanence by Juniper
The Denial of Death by Becker
Environmental Ethics (a very short introduction) by Attfield
How Fiction Works by Woods
Titus Groan by Peake
Will My Cat Eat my Eyeballs? By Doughty
Unfollow by Phelps-Roper
Gormenghast by Peake
In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki
Titus Alone by Peake
The Swords (short) by Aickman
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury
The Gutenberg Revolution by Man
A Nervous Breakdown (short story collection) by Chekhov

[Anonymous No.14366978]

>1984 - George Orwell
>The Art of The Deal - Donald Trump
>Stoner - John Williams
>The Trial and Death of Socrates - Plato
>American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
>The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I just started getting into books so no bully pls

[Anonymous No.14367176]

>>14366056
>Create Dangerously - Albert Camus
>Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
>Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy
>VALIS - Philip K. Dick
>The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
>The Anti-Christ - Friedrich Nietzsche
>Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
>Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
>The Enchiridion - Epictetus
>Mythology - Edith Hamilton
>The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
>Oblivion - David Foster Wallace
>The Power of the Powerless - Václav Havel
>Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
>Nahe Null - Vladislav Surkov
>Soumission - Michel Houellebecq
>The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
>Stoner - John Williams
>Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation - Lao Tzu & Roger T. Ames
>The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
>Gravity and Grace - Simone Weil
>Pleasure Dome - Yusef Komunyakaa
>Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
>The Aeneid - Virgil
>Dispatches - Michael Herr
> Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
>The End - Samuel Beckett
> Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

[Anonymous No.14367204]

>Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
>Hall - Warlock
>Grossman - Life & Fate
>Dosto - Demons
>Bernanos - Diary of a Country Priest
>Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
>Marlowe - Dido, Queen of Carthage
>Rulfo - Pedro Páramo
>Petrarch - Selected Sonnets, Odes, and Letters
>Bulgakov - Heart of a Dog
>Krzhizhanovsky - Memoirs of the Future
>Dos Passos - 1919
>Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
>Eco - The Island of the Day Before
>Calvino - If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
>Goethe - Faust, Part I
>Mann - Death in Venice
>Strunk & White - The Elements of Style
>Nabokov - Pale Fire
>Burckhardt - The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
>DFW - Oblivion
>The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
>Auster - The New York Trilogy
>Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
>Kristensen - Havoc
Looking back, despite being a shit year, this might have been my most productive reading-wise, and was my only real productive one writing-wise. Feels good.

[Anonymous No.14367280]

50 books in total. My best year yet since I started keeping track.

[Anonymous No.14367318]

>Crime and Punishment - Dostojevskij
>If on a winters night a traveller - Calvino
>Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
>The Idiot - Dostojevskij
>A hero of our time - Lermontov
>Notes from a dead house - Dostojevskij
>Cossacks - Tolstoy
>Kreutzer sonata - Tolstoy
>Family happiness - Tolstoy
>Humiliated and Insulted - Dostojevskij
>The Hobbit - Tolkien
>We - Zamyiatin
>Some short stories by Chekov
>Lotr a fellowship of a ring - Tolkien
>My struggle 1, 2, 3 - Knausgard
>Discourses and selected writings - Epictetus
>Snow Country - Kawabata
>A thousand cranes - Kawabata
>Sleeping beauties - Kawabata
>Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
>Butchers crossing - Williams
>Devil - Tolstoy
>Some short stories by Conrad

I want to read more philosophy next year.

[Anonymous No.14367335]

unironically the year i started reading
i have read:
the theogany
the journey to the west
the prose edda
the poetic edda
the penses
Institutiones Divinae
and a book named tampa. that one was pretty bad but that's what I get for being a coomer i suppose.
all in all reading is fun and i have learned a lot of new words

[Anonymous No.14367347]

OP here, I've been looking through your responses and it seems that fiction is the predominant form of literature here. What percentage of /lit/'s gen pop reads non-fiction and why don't you guys engage with the form more regularly?

[Anonymous No.14367348]

> House of Leaves
> Tristram Shandy
> The tartar steppe - Dino Buzzati
> Senza mai arrivare in cima - Paolo Cognetti (psychiatrist's gift)
> Le otto montagne - Paolo Cognetti (idem)
> The narrow road to the deep north - Basho
> A natural history of senses - Diane Ackerman
> Aristotle's Poetics
> I Malavoglia - Giovanni Verga
> La ciociara - Alberto Moravia
> Gli indifferenti - Alberto Moravia
> Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins - Konrad Lorenz
> Iphigenia in Tauris - Euripides
> Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
> Una via di fuga - Piergiorgio Odifreddi (mother's birthday gift. meh.)
> Online machine learning crash courses at google and kaggle
> A few isolated poems
> Various crap on the internet

Still reading:
> Ulysses
> Kamasutra
> Yeats's Collected poems
> LINGVA LATINA PER SE ILLVSTRATA

This is what I remember. I don't keep a list. Not too bad considering a long depression phase following phd applications where I played all the Advance Wars games nonstop. Do those count?

[Anonymous No.14367363]

>>14367347
Well, the thing is, I read non-fiction, but I don't read whole books of none fiction. Just the relevant essays/chapters in a volume.
So I don't keep track of it.

[Anonymous No.14367373]

>>14367335
>unironically
words have lost all meaning in 2019

[Anonymous No.14367410]

>>14367347
I read things that I enjoy, and non-fiction very rarely intrigues me enough for that. I've honestly learned more in introductions and notes to fiction than the amount of non-fiction I've read.

[Anonymous No.14368038]

>>14366056
Odyssey by Homer
The Complete Poems of Sappho
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Shining by Stephen King
Carrie by Stephen King
Beowulf by Anonymous
Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
Tao te Ching by Laozi
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
It by Stephen King
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
The Clouds Float North by Yu Xuanji
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

[Anonymous No.14368104]

>>14366056
Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
Females by Andrea Long Chu
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Wang
The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise by R.D. Laing
Biography of Agnes Smedley
Market Street by Xiao Hong
Ma Bole’s Second Life by Xiao Hong
Blades of Grass by Lao She
Midnight by Mao Dun
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
Tales of the Hulan River and The Field of Life and Death by Xiao Hong
The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Stories by Lu Xun
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Vanderkolk
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
The Lover by Margaret Duras
Moderato Cantabile by Margaret Duras
A Life Beyond Boundaries by Benedict Anderson
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
K-Punk by Mark Fisher
Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
Taipei People by Pai Hsien-yung
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
Cat Country by Lao She
Ariel and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
Wang in Love and Bondage by Wang Xiaobo
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Jamison

[Anonymous No.14368821]

>>14366344
>>14366916
>>14368038
>>14368104
How do you guys manage to read that many books in a year?

[Anonymous No.14368941]

>>14367373
so have numbers, dates especially

[None !AGE6b9iJaw No.14368950]

Last year I promised myself I'd read 50 pages a day and post in a year what I managed to read. It's not exactly a year but I won't be finishing any more books in the next few days and this thread is up now so I'll post now.

If you want to do something similar yourself, I'd advise you not to pick a particular number of pages a day, and instead either read a certain amount of time per day or adjust the number of pages per day on a book-by-book basis. I abandoned the 50 page requirement when I found I felt more pressure to read a certain amount than to understand and enjoy. Nevertheless, setting a goal and tying an identity via tripcode to the post gave me enough motivation to read more this year than I've read in the past, so I'm glad I did it.

1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2. Dubliners
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. The Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation)
5. Crying of Lot 49 (I read this twice)
6. Ulysses
7. Myth of Sisyphus
8. Wuthering Heights
9. V. (Pynchon)
10. Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
11. Shakespeare bio by Bill Bryson
12. Neuromancer
13. As I Lay Dying
14. Othello
15. The Plague (Camus)
16. The Tempest
17. Catch-22
18. Notes from Underground
19. Gravity's Rainbow
20. Crime & Punishment
21. Vineland
22. Timon of Athens
23. Exile and the Kingdom
24. Cannery Row
25. Great Gatsby
26. Macbeth
27. The Death of Ivan Ilych
28. The Idiot
29. The Sound and the Fury
And I'm currently 430 pages into Infinite Jest

Favorite: Gravity's Rainbow
Least favorite: Neuromancer (didn't hate it, but didn't really "get" it)

My post from last year: >>/lit/thread/S12268158#p12271014

[Anonymous No.14369028]

Knut Hamsun- Hunger
Yasunari Kawabata- Kyoto
Yasunari Kawabata-Thousand cranes
Antonio Di Benedetto- Zama
J. M Coetzee- Disgrace
Daniel Sada- Una de dos
Kobo Abe- The woman in the dunes
Emiliano Monge- Las tierras arrasadas
Mario Bellatin- Salón de belleza/La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuan/Efecto invernadero/Damas chinas
Reinaldo Arenas- Antes que anochezca
César Aira- Como me hice monja
David Foster Wallace- Brief interviews with hideous men
José Lezama Lima- Paradiso
Samuel Beckett- The unnamable
Junichiro Tanizaki- In praise of shadows
Italo Calvino- If on a winters night a traveler
Karl Ove knausgard- A death in the family
Clarice Lispector- La lámpara
Virginia Woolf- Orlando
Javier Marias- Corazón tan blanco
Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughter house 5
V.S Naipaul- Guerrillas
Mario Bellatin- El libro uruguayo de los muertos
Virgilio Piñera- Cuentos fríos
Juan Vicente Melo- Los muros enemigos
Jonathan Franzen- The corrections
Paul Auster- Ghosts
Louis- Ferdinand Céline- Journey to the end of the night
Yasunari Kawabata- House of the sleeping beauties
Michel Houellebecq- Serotonin
Julian Herbert- Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino
Richard Brautigan- The monster of Hawkline
Adolfo Bioy Casares- La invención de Morel
V.-Thomas Pynchon
Currently reading: Reinaldo Arenas- El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas.

[Anonymous No.14369038]

[Anonymous No.14369048]

How many books should one read in a year lads?
I'm making the switch from anime to literature as i've decided that i've fully outgrown the former.

[Anonymous No.14369111]

>>14369048
>How many books should one read in a year lads?
It doesn't matter, just read every day. # of books or # of pages is a dumb thing to work for because books and pages are of varying lengths and complexities.

>I'm making the switch from anime to literature as i've decided that i've fully outgrown the former.
But anime is the superior art form.

[Anonymous No.14369129]

>>14369028

What did you think of Woman in the Dunes? I've got Face of Another coming tomorrow and it will be my third Abe novel but I like how he places his main characters in the most interesting backdrops for a real sense of alienation.

[Anonymous No.14369140]

>>14366056
lmaoing at you nerds, jsut came here to say that. fuck books, book sare for pussies, go hit the gym

[Anonymous No.14369188]

>>14369140
>not being /fitlit/
ngmi

[Anonymous No.14369302]

Middlemarch
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Red Cavalry
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
The Farm in the Green Mountains
O Pioneers
Gilead
The Puritan Dilemna - Edmund S. Morgan
The Torch in My Ear - Canetti
A Good School - Yates
Puritan Village - Sumner Chilton Powell
Doctor Faustus
Old School - Tobias Wolff
Tender is the Night
Doctor Zhivago
The Morning Watch - James Agee
Prince of Darkness and other Stories - J. F. Powers
Augustus - John Williams
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Yates
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers
Go to the Widow-Maker - James Jones
A Coffin for King Charles by C. V. Wedgewood
A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship - Gershom Scholem
In Hazard - Richard Hughes
A Time of Gifts - Fermor
Woodcutters - Bernhard
The Black Spider - Gotthelf
Cold Hand in Mine - Aickman
The Search for Joseph Tully - Hallahan
The Winter’s Tale - Shakespeare

Currently reading The Piano Teacher by Jelenik but not really enjoying it so far. I might just drop it.

[Anonymous No.14369311]

>>14366056
>Jean Piaget
>Dostoevsky
>"Man's Search for Meaning"
you just got done watching a bunch of Jordan Peterson lectures on youtube didn't you lol?

[Anonymous No.14369318]

>>14369129
Loved it. It was my first Abe novel (and the only one so far). I was really into Kawabata at the time, and I thought the prose would be similar (transparent, naturalistic, intimate and discrete), and I was completely wrong, but not at all disappointed. He uses light math and physics almost as a rhetorical figure, including it in order to enhance the atmosphere and feeling of dread and anxiety, which I found to be awesome. Also, I laughed out loud a couple of times. It's half paranoia, half absurdity, which as far as I know is pretty much the whole Abe premise. What other Abe books do you recommend? Is the box man, by instance, any good?

[Anonymous No.14369322]

Here's what I read :3

Jeremy Bentham - A Defence of Usury
Books I and V of Witelo's Perspectivae
Aristotle - Prior Analytics
Clive Granger - Spectral Analysis of Economic Time-Series
Adam Smith - The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler - The Capitalist Manifesto
Ibn Al-Haytham - On the Configuration of the World
Oskar Morgenstern - On the Accuracy of Economic Observations
Ptolemy - The Almagest
Alexis De Tocqueville - Democracy In America
Joseph Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Leonardo Pisano - The Book of Squares
John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern - The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Leonardo Pisano - Liber Abaci
Ibn Al-Haytham - Completion of the Conics
Ibn Al-Haytham - Books V and VI of the Optics
Aristotle - On Interpretation

20 books.

[Anonymous No.14369336]

>>14368821
Just finished university and had a lot of free time; this number is somewhat fewer than the amount I planned on completing

[Anonymous No.14369375]

>>14368950
I read almost all of the books you did!!! Currently reading gravity's rainbow and I might drop it,,,, do you think it's a really good book?

[Anonymous No.14369441]

>>14369375
>do you think it's a really good book?
Yeah, I loved it. It might be my favorite book I've read. Try to at least get to part 2, when the story starts to focus on Slothrop it gets easier.

Don't feel bad if you don't like it or can't get into it, it's probably the second or third most started-then-stopped novel. Also don't try to figure out absolutely everything, being overwhelmed is sort of part of the experience. I would compare the first reading of most of the Pynchon books I've read to a drunken revel. When you finish, you have bits that stick in your memory and a feeling that something important happened but trying to piece it all together is pretty much impossible.

When I re-read Crying of Lot 49, I think I learned more about the story and characters than I did the first time I read it. With most books you learn the most about the story on the first read and just fill in gaps on subsequent reads.

[Anonymous No.14369450]

>>14366056

>WASHING OF THE SPEARS
>THE DOUBLE
>INFINITE JEST
>THE CRYING OF LOT 49
>FERAL
>SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY
>A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY
>AMERIKA
>TAO TE CHING
>THE STRANGER
>A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
>FRAGMENTS FROM MY DIARY (Gorky)
>SIDDHARTHA
>A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY (maculloch)
>THE LEOPARD
>NO GODS, NO MASTERS
>HAMLET
>PARADISE LOST
>A NEW HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY (Kenny)
>WHITE NOISE
>STORM OF STEEL
>ON ANARCHISM
>THE EGO AND ITS OWN
>LES CHANTS DE MALDOROR
>CANDIDE
>THE ECOLOGY OF FREEDOM
>MUTUAL AID
>HUMAN ALL TOO HUMAN
>HUNGARY: A SHORT HISTORY
>FEAR AND TREMBLING
>SIMULACRA & SIMULATION

[Anonymous No.14369455]

>>14366211
must have been quite the year for you.

[Anonymous No.14369471]

>>14369311
>Jean Piaget
Not really, I started reading Piaget after picking up a primer on the pioneers in psychology. The section on Piaget referenced the terms "constructivism" and "genetic epistemology," so I just continued exploring that world. Last year I read Piaget's works for about 5 months; this year I switched topics, slightly.
>Dostoevsky
>"Man's Search for Meaning"
After reading about childhood development and healthy progression, I was curious about the other side, unhealthy transgressions, man's capacity for evil, and how that affects those who fall victim to malevolence. So, naturally, I started reading atrocity literature (hence Dostoevsky's and Frankl's books) and criminology (hence the Douglas books).

The Rogers/Maslow books, and to some extent Frankl's book, are attempts to wade into the topic of psychotherapy in order to understand the degree to which man can change or be saved from the more malignant aspects of his nature. For the most part, I'm really interested in interactionism, as well as the tendency for entities to become more complex/transform overtime.

[Anonymous No.14369486]

>>14369471
How do you find Piaget? I don't really know where to start with him.

[Anonymous No.14369491]

>Currently Reading
The Iliad
Meditations on First Philosophy

>Read
Cat's Cradle
The Jungle
Perfume
Sophie's World
Plato's Five Dialogues
The Republic
The Taming of the Shrew
The Road
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Moby Dick
The Sun Also Rises
No Country for Old Men
As I Lay Dying
Discourse on Method
Hamlet
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Stranger
Journey to the End of Night

[Anonymous No.14369492]

>>14369302
How was Berlin Alexanderplatz? Was it a demanding read?

[Anonymous No.14369541]

>>14366056
Relatively in the order I read them:
>Under the Dome - Stephen King
>Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
>Succession Duology - Scott Westerfield
>Ubik - Philip K. Dick
>Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
>Existentialism Is Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
>The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
>Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
>The Trojan War: A New History - Barry Strauss
>The Iliad - Homer
>Neuromancer - William Gibson
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thomson
>V - Thomas Pynchon
>A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
>The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho
>Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Bonne gut
>A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
>The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
>Occultation - Laird Barron
>Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe - Thomas Ligotti
>The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
>Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes
>Ethics - Baruch Spinoza
>Discourse on Metaphysics - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
>Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
>Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
>Urth of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
>Fate, Time, and Language - David Foster Wallace
>The Ruin of Kasch - Robert Calasso
>Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return - Martin Riker
>The Forge of God - Greg Bear
>Anvil of Stars - Greg Bear
>Der blonde Eckbert - Ludwig Tieck
>Das kalte Herz - Wilhelm Hauff
>Der Sandmann - E.T.A. Hoffman
>Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
>Dracula - Bram Stocker
>Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant
>Mindfulness in Plain English - Henepola Gunaratana
>Fanged Noumena - Nick Land
Teatro Grottesco - Thomas Ligotti

R8 my shit

[Anonymous No.14369563]

>>14369471
Ah okay thats fair. I just assumed because JP loves Piaget, Dosto, and Search for Meaning.

[Anonymous No.14369614]

>>14366056
Dune
Lotr
The silmarillion
Stoner
The trial
C&P
Slaughterhouse 5
The stranger
Broom of the system
So you’ve been publicly shamed
48 laws of power
Edith Hamilton Greek myths
Crying of lot 49
The old man and the sea
The sun also rises
Poe short stories
Perfume
Suttree
The Iliad
Tales from the dying earth
Guards, guards
Hamlet, king Lear
The king in yellow
TBK
Notes from the underground
House of leaves
The sound and the fury
Started the bilble
2nd year physics and calc textbooks

I’m starting my journey into philosophy in the new year, the start with the Greeks meme.

[Anonymous No.14369624]

>>14369471
I personally read a lot of his work in a foolish/backwards order that didn't make Piaget's dense corpus of work an easier to grapple with. If I were you I'd start with "Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development" by Herbert P. Ginsburg & Sylvia Opper since it is a pretty comprehensive discussion of his life's work, plus it's pretty short. If you want a summary of his work written by him then check out "The Psychology of the Child."
If you have a background in philosophy, you may find "The Acquisition of Knowledge" by James Russell to be interesting if you are curious about the origins of "genetic epistemology" and those who preceded Piaget.
I read most of his actual work from archive.org, here are a few links:
>The Language And Thought Of The Child
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.188629
>Judgment And Reasoning In The Child
https://archive.org/details/judgmentandreaso007972mbp/page/n12
>The Child's Conception of the World
https://archive.org/details/childsconception01piag/page/n5
>The Moral Judgment Of The Child
https://archive.org/details/moraljudgmentoft005613mbp/page/n6
>The Origin Of Intelligence In The Child
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458564/page/n1
>Play Dreams And Imitation In Childhood
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.425445/page/n3
>The Acquisition Of Knowledge - James Russell
https://archive.org/details/TheAcquisitionOfKnowledge

I believe these are in order of publication. As a counterpoint, after you've read a bit of Piaget, you could read Vygotsky's "Mind in Society," although I can't vouch for it, since I've yet to read it yet.

[Anonymous No.14369632]

>>14369624
meant for >>14369486

[Anonymous No.14369724]

Highlights for me this year:

Finding the band of recently translated, contemporary writers from Norway--Dag Solstad and Jon Fosse being favorites--and reading their works.

Discovering more and more stories by Robert Walser I had never read or knew existed.

Reading The Nun and Jacques The Fatalist by Diderot followed by Andrew Curran's biography on him.

Delighting in the absurd humor of Jung Young Moon and a few other Korean writers the Dalkey Archive has published (this led to discovering the wonderful films of Hong Sang-Soo as well).

The terse, glittering sentences in Fleur Jaeggy's Sweet Days of Discipline.

Getting a new book every month from a small publisher in the mail after subscribing to their year-long service.

Reading so many book that I cannot remember them all off-hand, or would be able to list them while feeling like I loved literature more this year than I have since childhood.

Next year, I want to read more history, philosophy, science, poetry and poetics (sad to say I only half-heartedly hopped from one master to another), translate an easy story from French (I'm a beginner), and work with better dedication on fiction.

[Anonymous No.14369748]

>All those long lists

I've read:
>The Language of Birds - Farud ud-Din Attar
>A book by Bruce Lee that I didn't finish
>some other unfinished books or books that I've read the prologue

I was never much of a reader, I admit and I feel very guilty about it. I can't concentrate, for the past 5 years I've been having trouble even watching a film. I wonder if I'll ever recover from this and actually sit down to read a book again. My mind is mashed potatoes and I'm getting dumber every year.

[Anonymous No.14369768]

>>14369748
Is it from drug abuse? I used to use opiates and weed a lot, they both destroyed my attention span for a time. I’m on an adhd medication and it’s helped me read more, I went from 2 books a year to my list.

I’m >>14369614 btw

[Anonymous No.14369804]

The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
In the miso soup
Black matter
Treasure island
Wasp factory

Gulag Archipelago
Rape of Nanking
Saddam Hussein bio

[Anonymous No.14369819]

>>14366056
Tesla - Cheney
A Generation of Sociopaths - Gibney
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - Wallace
Industrial Society and its future - Kaczynski
Watchmen - Moore
The long midnight of Barry Thompson - Lindsay
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Dick
The Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment - Golas
Brave New World Revisited - Huxley
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Animal Farm - Orwell
Come and Take It - Wilson
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Stoner - Williams
Frankenstein - Shelley
The Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
Man and His Symbols - Jung
Welcome to The Monkey House - Vonnegut
Notes from underground - Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.14369821]

>>14369768
A bunch of factors I guess, I blame technology a lot, but drugs too, weed. Everyday. I actually stopped years ago, but got back to it after I had a harsh break up and I guess I never recovered since my current relationship is with a girl that also smokes a lot. I'm considering quitting in 2020. I've done it before, and I was also managed to stop smoking regular cigarettes, which is way harder. I don't think it will solve my problems, but maybe it'll help. I'm taking advices if anyone has one.

[Anonymous No.14369827]

A bunch of superfluous drivel, other than the following two. I liked both.

> A confederacy of dunces
> Stoner

[Anonymous No.14369836]

>>14366056
Roughly in order
V. - Thomas Pynchon
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Dialectic of Enlightenment - Horkenheimer and Adorno
Fanged Noumena - Nick Land
Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut
Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guatarri

Currently reading The Notebooks of Malte Lauridis Brigge by Rilke, and will probably pick up Nova Express or Process and Reality next

least favorite was Kafka on the Shore. By far worst book I've read in a while

Favorite either Ulysses or Anti-Oedipus, for different reasons of course

Textbooks
- Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group - Nigel Goldenfeld

Parts of "Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics" by Jonathan Cardy

Probably "a books worth" of assorted physics and biology papers in the past year

[Anonymous No.14369852]

like 60 books for my thesis, all of the novels by what is now my favorite novelist, and assorted other shit.

[Anonymous No.14369860]

>>14369821
Maybe try vaping if you need the nicotine fix, I know smoking is part of the addiction, but you’ve got to make steps somehow.

Weed will destroy any urge you have to read, it nullifies boredom and makes reading seem boring in comparison. I remember spending hours just watching mindless yt videos while stoned, I don’t think I learned, or grew as a person at all during that time. Imo drugs stunt your emotional development and if you want to stop feeling shitty you’ll have to be bored for a little while as you quit.

The only reason I’ve quit these drugs desu is because I’ve moved away to school and my course load is way too heavy to be high, there’s also no access to weed in my area(it’s a blessing).

[Anonymous No.14369936]

>>14369492
Not that guy but I also read it this year. I don't think it was particularly demanding. Probably comparable to Faulkner-tier in the stream-of-consciousness parts, but most sections are completely straightforward. Absolutely give it a read if you're considering it.

[Anonymous No.14369976]

>>14366978
Free yourself from /lit/ charts, fren

[Anonymous No.14369981]

>>14368821
Read epubs on my phone; fall asleep reading every night. 70+ books this year

[Anonymous No.14369986]

>>14369976
If he just started reading then it’s not the worst place to begin.

[Anonymous No.14369990]

>>14369981
Epubs are based, you can get nearly any book free.

[Anonymous No.14369994]

>>14369990
what's that?

[Anonymous No.14369996]

>>14369860
Thanks anon. I'm done with nicotine and I also find vaping kind of ridiculous to be quite frankly. I think I'll go cold turkey and maybe get a new sobering hobby or something like that.

[Anonymous No.14370009]

>>14369994
digital book format, like kindle (although kindle only reads .mobi and .azw3)

[Anonymous No.14370046]

>>14366056
this

[Anonymous No.14370229]

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
1984 by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
There There by Tommy Orange
Othello by William Shakespeare
Currently reading: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

[Anonymous No.14370244]

Dallaire - Shake Hands with the Devil
Mann - The Magic Mountain
Solzhenitsyn - unabridged Gulag Archipelago
Didn't bother reading until the third week of November this year, I was really ignoring how much I missed it.

[Anonymous No.14370324]

>>14369996
Vaping isn’t more ridiculous than getting cancer because you don’t want to look like a fag.

I’d tell you to replace your addiction with an addiction to exercise, but I don’t think I could take myself seriously.

[Anonymous No.14370580]

>>14369724
Which publisher did you subscribe to?

[Anonymous No.14370597]

I started with the Greeks.
>Mythology by Hamilton
>the odyssey
>the iliad
>The Histories by Herodotus
>the Oedipus trilogy by Sophocles
>The First Philosophers by idr
>reading Plato now

[Anonymous No.14370599]

>>14370597
You read homer out of order? I’m on the same journey anon, just finished the odyssey, hopefully this meme pays its dividends.

[Anonymous No.14370607]

Not totally done all of these but I hope to be once Christmas vacation starts for me.

[Anonymous No.14370614]

Crime and Punishment
Mystery of the Grail
The Ego and its own
The God of small things

[Anonymous No.14370636]

>>14370599
No I just typed it out of order. Honestly I think Histories was mostly a pointless slog but the rest are good to know of

[Anonymous No.14370673]

>>14370636
I may skip it, or just read a summary of it then.

[Anonymous No.14370738]

This seems like as good a time to digitize my 2019 list as any:

Really dedicated myself to reading more this year, even with an increased academic workload (Poli Sci major)

Fiction:
>Escapes - Joy Williams
>Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
>Steps - Jerzy Kosinski
>To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
>Man in the Holocene - Max Frisch
>Angels - Denis Johnson
>Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
>Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Meloy
>The Fall - Albert Camus
>The Waves - Virginia Woolf
>Macbeth - Shakespeare
>Richard III - Shakespeare
>Fires - Raymond Carver
>Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
>Candide - Voltaire
>Varieties of Disturbance - Lydia Davis
>The Stranger - Albert Camus
>Othello - Shakespeare
>Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino
>The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
>Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
>If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
>The Tempest - Shakespeare
>Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
>Seven Plays - Sam Sheppard
>Wild At Heart - Barry Gifford

Poetry:
>The Angel of History - Carolyn Forche
>A New Path to the Waterfall - Raymond Carver
>The City in Which I Love You - Li Young Lee
>Dear Ghosts - Tess Gallagher
>Time and Materials - Robert Hass
>Repair - C.K. Williams
>Blizzard of One - Mark Strand
>Blue Hour - Carolyn Forche
>Selected Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke
>Ariel - Sylvia Plath
>Transformations - Anne Sexton

Nonfiction:
>Aesthetics and Politics - Adorno et al.
>Zen in the Art of Writing- Ray Bradbury
>Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
>Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
>Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
>On Television - Pierre Bourdieu
>Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
>The Wages of Whiteness - David Roediger
>Generations and Collective Memory - Amy Corning and Howard Schuman
>Violence - Slavoj Zizek
>The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
>Theory of the Young-Girl - Tiqqun
>A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
>Blue Nights - Joan Didion
>Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses - Regine Pernoud
>Carceral Capitalism - Jackie Wang
>Mythologies - Roland Barthes
>The Coming Insurrection - The Invisible Committee
>24/7 - Jonathan Crary
>Duty Free Art - Hito Steyerl
>Alt-America - David Neiwert
>Separate and Dominate - Christine Delphy
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
>Freedom Summer - Doug McAdam
>Mistaken Identity - Asad Haider
>New Dark Age - James Bridle
>Darkwater - W.E.B. Dubois
>The Origins of Capitalism: A Longer View - Elizabeth Wood

[Anonymous No.14370758]

Currently reading Man Without Qualities. I should be able to finish it before the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.14370763]

>>14370758
I also read Dostoevsky's Demons and some other miscellaneous books but I moved and didn't bring them with me. Oh well. Not too shabby considering I'm a NEET.

[Anonymous No.14370845]

>>14370763
What do you mean? Neets have no excuse not to be reading, they have nothing but free time.

[Anonymous No.14370853]

>>14366056
jordan-peterson-core/10

[Anonymous No.14370870]

>>14370758
>Maurice and Confessions of a Mask.
Are you a homo?

[Anonymous No.14370903]

>>14370845
I meant I should have gotten more reading done since I was a NEET all year. Didn't read anything until mid-March, or anything during summer.

[Anonymous No.14370917]

>>14366211
>By Night in Chile
How did you feel about it? Was the translation good or did you read original?

[Anonymous No.14371053]

>>14369048
There was this guy who could memorize entire books in few minutes, but still he had some form of cerebral deformity, so he couldn't interact with humans in any way except by throwing his feces at them

[Anonymous No.14371080]

>>14370853
see >>14369471

[Anonymous No.14371138]

>>14368821
I'm this guy.>>14366916
I don't have many other hobbies apart from reading and writing and I try to focus on these. I did my last year of uni whilst reading most of these and I admit sometimes it was hard work getting the motivation, but I've come to really enjoy the feeling of experiencing a new author and striking something else of the list, you know?

[Anonymous No.14371153]

>>14371138
Addition: although I admit some of my books aren't quite as high brow as have been posted by others.

[Anonymous No.14371163]

>>14370758
>Being and Time
Yeah, sorry, but we all know you didn't read this.

[Anonymous No.14371173]

>>14369541
I want to read The Bell Jar but I've heard nothing but negatives 'reviews' on it from /lit/. Apparently it's YA tier. Is it really, or is just because she's a woman?

[Anonymous No.14371352]

>>14370324
I know you have good intentions, but I think you misread me. I'm addicted to weed, which is more due to habit than chemical necessity. I've given up on nicotine for a long time and would be stupid of me to replace weed with cigarettes or vapes. And vapes gives you cancer too AND you look like a fag.

[Anonymous No.14371360]

>>14370009
Except you can easily convert epub to mobi, so even with kindle it works.

[Anonymous No.14371362]

Persuasion - Jane Austen
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Complete Stories - Evelyn Waugh
A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
The Nature of a Crime - Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
American Kingpin - Nick Bilton
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
The Midlander - Booth Tarkington
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky
Heinrich von Ofterdingen - Novalis
The Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Disgrace - J.M Coetzee
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Possibility of An Island - Michel Houellebecq
Emma - Jane Austen
Serotonin - Michel Houellebecq
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold - Evelyn Waugh
Other Inquisitions - Jorge Luis Borges

[Anonymous No.14371422]

>>14370636
Histories is by far the most entertaining book in your list

[Anonymous No.14371470]

Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Crime and Punishment by Dosto
Hyperion by Simmons
if on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino
Gilead by Robinson
Storm of Steel by Junger
Lolita by Nabokov
Brave New World by Huxley
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Marquez
Stoner by Williams
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey
The Trial by Kafka
Kitchen by Banana
Mrs Dalloway by Woolf
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Woman in the Dunes by Abe
Light in August by Faulkner
The Leopard by Lampedusa
To Live by Hua
Nightwood by Barnes
The Turn of the Screw by James
A Crock of Gold by Stephens
Never Let Me Go by Ishigoru
A Good Man is Hard to Find by O'Conner