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Hey /lit/, I was thinking that we should compile a list of authors and work out what best three works of him/her, to help people who are yet to be introduced to them.

Purely as an example, these aren`t even what I think the best are, but:

Leo Tolstoy:
War and Peace
Master and Man
The Cossacks

And then, we continue doing so with other authors, and then someone could make a chart or something along those lines. If the author needs more than three, then we could add more.

If we do a chart, it could simply be a picture of the author, with their name underneath, and the list of books/novellas/whatever under that.

What do you think guys? Think we can make this work? Good opportunity to check out lesser-known works of authors too I suppose

>> No.1499405

Don DeLillo
White Noise
White Noise
White Noise

FUCK UNDERWORLD YEAH I SAID IT

>> No.1499414

Tolstoy is boring

let's do something with room for open interpretation

like Shakespeare

>> No.1499431

Yasunari Kawabata:
Snow Country
The Master of Go
Palm-of-the-Hand-Stories

>> No.1499463

>>1499414
The more authors, the better. Mine was purely an example.

Please only provide authors you are well-versed in, but if you see someone post something you believe should be otherwise, feel free to make a suggestion to an alteration and/or addition.

>> No.1499468

i'll do the real tolstoy list then:

anna karenina
anna karenina
anna karenina

>> No.1499476

>>1499468
As much as I appreciate your love of that particular work, I would further appreciate it if you took your replies seriously.

>> No.1499482

Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
The Crying of Lot 49
Mason & Dixon

Anyone disagree? Didn't think so

>> No.1499486

Shakespeare

1 Hamlet
2 Timon
3 Caesar

>> No.1499517

I will be noting these down into a .txt or .doc file, hoping to get more updates before I bother putting it into a graphical form

>> No.1499532

>Junichiro Tanizaki
The Makioka Sisters
Naomi
Seven Japanese Tales

>> No.1499539

>>1499431
>>1499532

Is that you Raven? If so, thank you from a friend you recommended quite a few books to ;)

>> No.1499542

Tolstoy:
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Death of Ivan Ilych

>> No.1499543

>Natsume Soseki
Kokoro
The Miner
Mon: The Gate

>> No.1499544

>>1499431
>>1499532

That you Raven? ;)

>> No.1499552

>>1499544
she's s' ma d' right now, cant talk.

>> No.1499554

>>1499544
It is! Feel free to argue these with me though, I'm probably going more by favorites than what's commonly thought of as their best.

>> No.1499558

>>1499431
>>1499532

That you Raven? ;)

When I compile this list, I am going to separate the authors by nationality (of birth) and then within that chronologically by birth

>> No.1499559

Tolstoi

death of ivan ilyich
war and peace
family happiness

fix'd, now move to another author.

>> No.1499564

itt shitstorm
people who dont know shit/havent read those books posing as experts of the subject
dont make a fool of yourselves and go to another thread

>> No.1499565

Sorry, my replies are taking like five minutes to go through, didn`t know first one worked.

>> No.1499583

>>1499564
>posing as experts of the subject
LUUK OUT BETCHES

EXPURT COMINN THRU!!!!!!

i'll just make fun of your opinions then!!... wait

>> No.1499601

>>1499583
And he didn`t even contribute himself.

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1499607

Palahniuk:
Choke
Fight Club
Invisible Monsters

>> No.1499642

In all seriousness;;

Camus:
The Plague
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Stranger.

>> No.1499676

>>1499482
I think V is a lot better than Lot 49, but for the sake of a list for introducing people to authors, I think yours would be less intimidating.

>> No.1499694

I AM GOING OUT NOW GUYS, PROBABLY WON`T BE BACK FOR AT LEAST 24 HOURS, DOING AN ALL-NIGHTER DRINKING SESSION, SO PLEASE DON`T LET THIS THREAD DIE.

>> No.1499706

>>1499607
As someone who legitimately enjoys Palahniuk, that's wrong.

Rant
Invisible Monsters
Haunted

>> No.1499717

>>1499706
That's not a list with Survivor on it...

>> No.1499730

>dostoyevsky
brothers k
crime and punishment
notes from underground

too easy

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1499792

Roger Hargreaves:
1. Mr. Greedy (incisive satire of Western capitalism).
2. Mr. Bump (exploring the difficulties of living with dysphraxia. More moving than watching Daniel Day Lewis in 'My Left Foot').
3. Mr. Impossible (existential surrealism).

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1499840

>mfw covert power-ranking thread

>> No.1499900

Ernest Hemingway; top three:

The Sun Also Rises
The Garden of Eden
A Moveable Feast (they call it a memoir, but there's so much bull-shittery in here that you might as well cal it fiction; also, it's friggin' awesome)

>> No.1500549

bump

>> No.1500564

only problem with this list is the fact that it might be a little difficult to know what authors to not include

>> No.1500578

>>1499840
source, dude?

>> No.1500579

I like the cut of your jib, OP.

George MacDonald:
Lilith
The Princess And The Goblin
Phantastes

Only been reading his fantasy and children's novels, can't speak for his C19 Scottish realism or whatever.

>> No.1500586

>>1500578
dude, get back to class. your teachers want their asses licked.

maybe you might be babysitting some first years today.

>> No.1500593

>>1500586

so are you back at college yet or what

>> No.1500597

>>1499482

You dropped your Against the Day.

>> No.1500601

>>1500593
Gotta say man. I've seen you around and tried to be nice, supported you a little, said I wanted to read your MW2 fanfic, felt sorry for you when you said your life is sad and lonely and you just sit at home playing videogames and getting high.But you're also a fucking dick sometimes. I don't feel so sorry for you anymore. And I no longer want to read your stories. (I originally thought they were stories involving modern warfare... not Modern Warfare as in Call of Duty Modern Warfare).

>> No.1500602 [DELETED] 

>>1499482

Kazuo Ishiguro:

A Pale View of Hills
Never Let Me Go
The Remains of the Day

I'd read at least one of his other works before The Remains of the Day.

>> No.1500605

dat horse

>> No.1500612

French intellectual contributan'


Théophile Gautier :

Captain Fracasse.
Le Roman de la Momie.
+ Poems and Short stories.
(Oscar Wilde uses two Gautier poems in The portrait of Dorian Gray).

Molière :

Dom Juan
Tartuffe
Misanthrope
The Miser

Racine :

Phèdre
Britannicus
Andromaque

Victor Hugo :

Les Misérables.
The legend of centuries (La Légende des siècles).
Ruy Blas
+ All his poems.

Baudelaire :

Everything

Verlaine :

Poèmes Saturniens
+ Everything

Balzac :

Père Goriot
The Chouans
Colonel Chabert

Anatole France

Garden of Epicurus (probably the greatest book ever written).
The Gods are athirst.
The Angel's revolt.

Rimbaud :

Not a specialist, but read everything.
Bateau ivre is the best poem.

>> No.1500613

>>1500601
lmao

>> No.1500614

Céline :

Journey to the End of the Night.
Most of what he did after was hurr durr anti-zionist conspiracy diatribe.

Camus :

The Plague.
The Stranger.
A Happy Death.

Zola :

Germinal.
Other stuff is too time-consuming. Better discover another author.

Proust :

In Search of Lost Time.
P.S : Keep in mind I only included God-tier authors.

Barely genius tier, such as Jules Vernes was not included, since French literature has so many overwhelming geniuses already.

>> No.1500633

>>1500614

Zola hater is just wrong. Too time consuming? absolute nonsense, many of his novels are so luridly compelling as stories alone that you can't put them down.

Theresa Raquin
La Bete humaine
L'Assomoir
Nana

>> No.1500637

/r/-ing top threes for Vonnegut, Robert Louis Stevenson and CS Lewis from anyone who's read a lot of their stuff.

>> No.1500639

>EM Forster
A Passage To India
Howards End
The Machine Stops (short story)

>> No.1500641

>Iain Banks
The Wasp Factory
Use Of Weapons
The Bridge

>> No.1500642

>>1500633

I'm not a hater. I'm just saying that one could benefit more from reading 2 other books than one more Zola work after Germinal.

Opinions opinions.

Also, Zola is shit tier when compared to a few others on my big list, so other readings could be more productive.

>> No.1500648

>>1500612
>Colonel Chabert
Wikipedia summary makes this sound really interesting. This is going straight on my Balzac list, cheers.

>> No.1500652

Terry Pratchett:

Going Postal
Monstrous Regiment
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)

>> No.1500654

>>1500648

My list is god-tier only, friend, I suggest you read it all :-)

>> No.1502049

THANK GOD CAPSGUY DIDN`T GO TO SLEEP AS SOON AS HE GOT HOME FROM LAST NIGHT, OR THIS THREAD WOULD`VE DIED!

>> No.1502070

Vonnegut:
Slaughterhouse-5
Cat's Cradle
The Sirens of Titan

>> No.1502088
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1502088

>Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilych

>Don DeLillo
End Zone
Underworld
White Noise

>Shakespeare
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear

>Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Misérables
The Man Who Laughs

>William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom!

>Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
The Heart of the Matter
The End of the Affair

>> No.1502130

>>1502049
>>1499694

Samefag

>> No.1502143

>>1502130
I DID SAY I WAS COMING BACK, SO IT WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT I WAS THE SAME PERSON....

GOOD TRY AT TRYING TO APPEAR CATCH ME OUT THOUGH

>> No.1502335

>>1500612

i wonder what a intellectual looks like. do you guys wear antennas? a special outfit? do you have special library cards? do you rule the shit outta the uni you go to?