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Hello there, /lit/.

A while back, there was a recommendation thread, a "must-read" /lit/ recommendation thread, where OP promised he would make this kind of chart and post it. He did not.

The thread became some taste discussion, where people would recommend Dostoyevsky and fight to prove his better taste with the ones who recommended Stephen King. Same ol' /lit/ threads.

But then, there were some folks who did recommended some nice (and some nasty, may I say) stuff, so I made a list.

That's not a must-read list, it's just a random recommendation one. But, if you try the books in here, the ones that matches with your taste, you'll certainly not be disappointed.

Please save the list and feed it with more recommendations. We may aswell use this thread for talking about new stuff.

Yep, that's it.

>> No.1470095

So is this just books_lit_likes.jpg

because i'm okay with that

>> No.1470099

>>1470095

Precisely.

>> No.1470109

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

I like it. I'll take the picture and add it in somewhere. Me and a few other people are kind of re-hauling the wiki so it's a little more useful.

>> No.1470115

I'm really glad to see some lesser-known Nabokov on the list, but I'm not exactly sure why Despair is the best of his novels to serve as the gateway to his other works.
Wouldn't Lolita or Pale Fire be more appropriate as the "face of Nabokov" on this list?

I mean, it's the same as using C&P as a stand-in for the rest of Dostoevsky's works. It makes sense to use the most well loved and most famous work in a list like this, not something lesser known, like The Idiot or something.

I'll also humbly submit any of Kurt Vonnegut's novels (pending support by another lo/lit/a, of course), and perhaps Hunger, by Knut Hamsun, for a little more international flair.

>> No.1470116

>>1470109

That's real nice. Thanks!

>> No.1470121

>>1470115
I think you need to keep in mind this isn't really an organized recommendations list with any kind of logic, it's just a bunch of books /lit/ likes

or at least it seems that way

>>1470109
That's cool. Just curious, could you go into a little detail as to what you guys are doing

>> No.1470124

So this is a list of books we discussed here everyday + a couple more?

>> No.1470134

That's a weird list, OP.
For instance, you put two of Huxley's obscurer works (or at least, I haven't heard of them) instead of Brave New World, but then you put both of Orwell's major works.

And some weird choices for certain authors, such as C&P instead of The Brothers K, The Old Man and the Sea instead of The Sun Also Rises, and The Plague instead of The Stranger, although the last one would make sense with both.
Also, Despair? You should have put up Lolita, Pale Fire, or Ada.

>> No.1470138

>>1470115

In the old thread, people would not only say the titles, but also speak a little bit about the book. Here's what the person who told about Despair said:

"The story of a man who kills his doppelganger, committing the perfect crime. As his plan to get away with it unravels, so does straightforward nature of the retelling. More accessible than Lolita or Pale Fire if you want to start reading Nabokov, and one that people who have read a few of his works usually don't touch. It should be more commonly read, as it's very good."

I can't say much myself, for I read only Lolita.

>> No.1470147

>>1470124
>>1470134

Read >>1470121

That's not a "best book by author" list, that was just what people recommended.

>> No.1470143

Oh yeah, I never did that. Sorry guys. My desire disappeared. Maybe one day I'll do it. Probably not.

>> No.1470148
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1470148

aw yeah

>> No.1470152

>>1470134 Here
Uh, confused reading of your original post. Disregard some of my post, but the parts that make sense still stand, i.e. why Despair and the obscurer Huxley (you should have put Island).

>> No.1470154

>>1470115
Loving the shout-out to Pale Fire. It is my favouritest book ever. I want to have its babies. I think the point of the list was that it's sort of unexpected. Lolita is recommended all over the place - though I don't know if PF is also popular on /lit/? If not, I agree it would be a better choice than Despair.

>> No.1470159

>>1470134
Yeah, this is sort of what I was getting at, but I kind of understand what OP is trying to say about the goal of this.

>>1470138
Well, I'm not sure I would call it the most accessible (traditionally, "entry level" Nabokov for people who don't want to read Lolita is Pale Fire or Pnin), but that part about it being mostly unread by people who have read a few of his books won me over.

I'm not expressing myself very well, but if you include a lot of "lesser known" books by famous authors (as you have done, with Nabokov, Huxley, etc.), then this list could be useful to both newcomers to /lit/ and people who have already read a lot of books.

>> No.1470161

>>1470121

Right now, it's just an organizational thing. Before we just had a bunch of these big image chart recommendations posted, but we're copying the books on the more complete lists and creating actual genre or subject specific pages for them. An example being a page for fantasy with a table listing the recommended books as well as their author, page number, short description, and a picture of the book cover. Right not not much has descriptions, but that can be remedied pretty simply.

Right now I'm working on Science Fiction, and you can see on that page how things are going.

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Fiction

If anyone wants to add anything, I'd love it.

>> No.1470165

>>1470134
Actually, all the instances of 'odd choices' you just gave seem perfectly reasonable to me (apart from Nabokov, where I agree with you). At least in England, C&P, the old man and the sea, and the plague, have at least as much recognition as your proposed alternatives.
Plus, the plague is often considered to be Camus' greatest work - he did get a Nobel right after he published, after all

>> No.1470173

>>1470159
This

>> No.1470181

I never expected this to come to anything :D

>> No.1470186

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>> No.1470199

Lord of Light by Robert Zelanzy needs to be squeezed in somewhere close to Gene Wolfe's New Sun.

>> No.1470222

>>1470186
Do we pay attention to these fucktards, or just let them tucker themselves out with their tantrums?
Anyway, I'd personally add One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Passage to India and Middlemarch to the list.
The latter two, especially, I feel are under-read (though not, of course, underrated)

>> No.1470237

>>1470161
I'm guessing you're Sky-Wolf (I'm Sriq)! So what do you think the size should be for the covers on the tables? I had the Japanese ones set at 100 pixels, but the sci-fi ones seem to be a lot bigger. We should probably try and keep some kind of unanimous sizing for that.

>> No.1470239

I think we should just each compile our own recommendation posters, otherwise we'll just end up with a massive pile of books that no one wants to sort through.

>> No.1470246

>>1470237

OP here, mine was 100 pixels too.

>> No.1470259

>>1470237

How funny is this, I just sent you a message on the wiki. And in regards to the pictures, I was actually just taking any picture I could find and using the thumbnails. But yeah, the 100px standard looks good, I think.

>> No.1470270

>>1470259
Mkay! If it's cool with you I can go through and change that on sci-fi/fantasy?

>> No.1470276

why do we even have these threads? it makes no sense to have a canon. get a random book from the literature section and see if it fits you. that's it.

>> No.1470291

that said i found most youngsters read a dozen of american beatnik porno, existentialists and dorian grey. it is bad taste to disseminate the very same bs through 4chon. we're ought to know better

>> No.1470311

>>1470270

Definitely, fix it up. Wanna trade contact info so we can hammer out the details on the rest of the wiki?

>> No.1470322

>>1470276

Are you fucking serious? Think of how many books are out there and how many of them are actually decent. I've read many books that I adore that I was recommended from the wiki. Including my current favorite

>> No.1470326

This should be nice.

>> No.1470332

>>1470311
Well, if you've got AIM, I'm rawrVolitans there.

>> No.1470341

>>1470322
>I've read many books
if you did your style'd be better. there are no universal measure unites for the goodness of a book. there are no good books.

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1470342

>mfw botns is on this list

>> No.1470350

>>1470326
O come on, do NOT want.
>>1470276
no bias this way

>> No.1470412

>>1470259
>>1470270

Make sure to keep us posted of your advanced in the wiki here in /lit/.