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ITT: List your twelve favorite books.

These are mine, in no particular order.

1. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
2. The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
3. USA by John Dos Passos
4. IT by Stephen King
5. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
6. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
7. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
10. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
11. Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
12. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

>> No.1523676

1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
3. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
4. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
5. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
6. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
7. Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
9. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
10. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
11. Grendel by John Gardner
12. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

>> No.1523694

This is always subject to change, but here goes:

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Crash by J. G. Ballard
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

>> No.1523827

Why twelve? OP you dummy.

in no real order:

1. This Side of Paradise- Friedrich Nietzsche Fitzgerald
2. A Hero of Our Time- Lermmy
3. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World- Yoko Ono
4. All the Pretty Horses- Corms
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader- C.S. Day-Lewis
6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milo and Kunderra
7. Orlando- me
8. Wuthering Heights- Emily Dickinson
9. Norwegian Wood- John Lennon
10. The Stranger- Voltaire
11. Sons and Lovers- DP Lawrence
12. The Bible (old school testament)- The Lord High God Almighty, Creator and Protector of Man, Earth, and the Heavens

>> No.1523853

These are my twelve favorite novels, so it's not factoring in nonfiction. That would make picking twelve more difficult than it already is.

Till We Have Faves by C.S. Lewis
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller, Jr.

I've spent a lot of time studying Dickens. Frankly, you're lucky the whole list wasn't Dickens novels.

>> No.1523859

Please post more lists without discussing anything, it's really very interesting

>> No.1523869

>>1523859
I get it.

>> No.1523884

>>1523859
Maybe instead of complaining, you could ask one of the posters about why said books are in their lists, hmm? No? Rather make useless comments? Alright then.

>> No.1523897

>>1523884
>Hey, that pile of steaming wet feces you just shat out in my living room reeks

>Make a sandwich out of it then bro, stop complaining

>> No.1523921

>>1523897
i don't even...

>> No.1523932

>>1523897
Yeah, that's a logical step.
You dislike that people are making lists and not discussing the books in them. So what do you do? Discuss the books in the lists, of course. Oh, wait, no. You'd rather just complain. That's not the same as your comparison. Not at all. That's more like saying you want a sandwich when there's bread and meat and cheese on the table, and then complaining that no one is making a sandwich.

>> No.1524031

>>1523932
I dislike the very nature of the thread itself and have no desire to consume it or help perpetuate such threads by contributing positively to it. Is that clearer, OP, you raging moron?

>> No.1524238

>>1524031
Tell me the twelve reasons you're mad.

>> No.1524241 [DELETED] 

>>1524031

OP of the thread here, and I've made only one post on this thread.

I was just interested in seeing what other people have on their favorites lists. That's about it.

>> No.1524252

>>1524031

OP here. I've only made one other post in this thread.

Happily piss off, please. I was interested in seeing what books people have on their favorites' list, and that's it. Not looking for people to justify their choices or anything.

>> No.1524276

Catcher in the Rye is my personal favorite, along with The Bell Jar and The Great Gatsby.

>> No.1524278

>>1524031
Yeah, not OP. Just a person who wants to point out how stupid you sound.

>> No.1524282

hi OP....my taste does not mesh well with 99% of this board, but I really like your list.

have you read Knockemstiff? It's kind of a modern-day Winesburg. Check it out.

>> No.1524310

So much pathetic samefaggotry and fail attempts to generate discussion after being called out on the idiotic nature of the thread.

Laughable. inb4 dozens more bumps from the same guy.

>> No.1524611

Christ, this is a bitch to come up with. And I know I'll remember something as soon as I post. But whatever.

Lolita
Child of God
The Big Sleep
Watership Down
House of Leaves
The Sirens of Titan
As I Lay Dying
Heart of Darkness
A Scanner Darkly
Paradise Lost
For Whom the Bell Tolls
One Hundred Years of Solitude