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/lit/'s Top 100 Books of All Time 2020 - RESULTS!! Anonymous Mon Dec 28 10:58:44 2020 No.17138338 [Reply] [Original]

Finally, the long-awaited 2020 chart is here. This is the most eclectic top list we've had so far, since the voting system was a bit different this year - one person was able to vote for a single book multiple times.

I'm not the same anon who hosted the polls and came up with the voting system; he disappeared, so I made the chart following the Excel sheet he posted, which contained the poll results.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 10:59:00 2020 No.17138340 These are the only authors with more than one book on the list: >Fyodor Dostoevsky (5) >God (2) >Homer (2) >Leo Tolstoy (2) >James Joyce (2) >J. D. Salinger (2) >Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2) >Franz Kafka (2) >Thomas Pynchon (2) >Henry James (2)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:00:34 2020 No.17138349 >>17138338 is this a joke

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:04:34 2020 No.17138367 >>17138338 every year it gets worse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:05:39 2020 No.17138373 >>17138338 koroshitekure

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:08:40 2020 No.17138388 >>17138338 a decent list, if you ignore the obvious meme entries

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:09:26 2020 No.17138394 >>17138338 I hate that cover art for loslita

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:11:55 2020 No.17138413 >>17138394 it's disgusting

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:13:02 2020 No.17138418 What was the 2019 one?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:13:23 2020 No.17138419 >>17138338 Shitty system, shitty result. Somehow Raise high the Roof Beam, Carpenters made it on this list. Probably one anon using his ten votes on one book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:13:53 2020 No.17138420 >>17138418 imagine this one but not quite as bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:14:15 2020 No.17138421 >>17138340 Melville tw/oo

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:16:20 2020 No.17138429 >>17138338 at some point in the past, we should have made two charts instead of one >favourite BOOKS including non-fic and memes >favourite Novels excluding shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:17:18 2020 No.17138434 >>17138338 >no New Sun :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:17:51 2020 No.17138438 This is actually better than I expected, not that that means too much.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:19:06 2020 No.17138444

>>17138338
>count of monte cristo
>not the three musketeers
shit taste.
I didn't really like the system where an anon could plunge 10 votes into a single book. Kind of retarded, but this doesn't affect me or my taste in lit, so Ill just ignore it like last years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:19:57 2020 No.17138448 >>17138338 Six female authors and one black one (Assis). Is this /lit/ at its most progressive?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:20:32 2020 No.17138453 >>17138429 That is being polled now too. I think it just finished so the anon running that should reveal the results soon, and hopefully someone will make a chart for the novels.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:20:59 2020 No.17138459 >>17138421 You're right, I forgot about that

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:21:18 2020 No.17138463 >>17138338 Bronze Age mindset. Based lit.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:24:09 2020 No.17138484

>>17138349
>>17138367
>>17138373
>>17138419
>>17138420
>>17138429
Cope. Unlike the previous lists, this one at least reflects /lit/ more accurately. There are daily threads on Guenon and Kaczynski, when's the last time you've seen Gracq discussed? Or Merrill? Yet these two are often on the list(s).

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:27:15 2020 No.17138501 >>17138484 >this one at least reflects /lit/ more accurately. Yeh, that's the part that makes it shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:27:56 2020 No.17138508 >>17138501 This list would be so based if everyone just let me do the voting

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:29:36 2020 No.17138516 >>17138463 why read /pol/ meme trash instead of actual philosophy or classic works?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:31:31 2020 No.17138530 >>17138516 Seethe. Cope. Dilate

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:31:36 2020 No.17138532

>>17138338
Thanks for making the chart. I don't care for bitching about it, but it would make sense to add a footnote or something to the no. 1 saying it was spammed by /pol/. The multiple-vote system was interesting—there are some interesting new picks—but imperfect: some picks are quite random and seem like they were just voted for by two people 10 times. I think one should've at least voted for 2-4 books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:34:03 2020 No.17138548 >>17138516 because thats too hard

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:34:48 2020 No.17138558 >>17138338 >mein kampf number 1 why do stormniggers need to ruin everything?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:35:00 2020 No.17138559 >>17138532 Was it the original OP who posted the poll to /pol/ asking them to spam it with Mein Kampf or was that someone else?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:36:47 2020 No.17138579 Someone post it on r/books again

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:37:41 2020 No.17138586 >>17138558 this. I demand revenge.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:38:08 2020 No.17138591 >>17138338 how many anons voted on the heights of despair? that would help me know how many posters /lit/ has

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:43:49 2020 No.17138635 >Mein Kampf 1st place And this is how i realize /pol/ overran this board. I hope Biden will shut down this flaming pile of shit and someone will make an alternative website WITHOUT political boards.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:44:19 2020 No.17138641

>>17138338
I am going to say it, but Mein Kampf is unironically an interesting book, a fascinating insight into one of the most important dictators in earths history, his early history and how he build up his political party. Also gives a lot of insight into pre war Germany.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:44:33 2020 No.17138643
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>>17138338
the whole system of voting is retarded, no one in their right minds would think that Stoner, or Catch-22 or The Catcher in the Rye are better than The Divine Comedy by Dante, yet it is number 38 on the list, only a retarded would think that "Industrial society and its future" is better than War and Peace by Tolstoy.
that's why a much better system would be like pic related, as done by /mu/, where individual works are compared with one another directly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:45:32 2020 No.17138648 >>17138635 >>17138586 >>17138558 >>17138532 Did anyone of you seriously read Mein Kampf?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:45:36 2020 No.17138650 >>17138641 yeh good luck explaining that one to anyone in real life. That's a book that remains off my goodreads, thank you very much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:46:03 2020 No.17138656 It would be nice if utter memes like Hitler, Guenon, and TedK werent on there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:46:42 2020 No.17138660 >>17138338 Surprisingly based list, allowing all entries was fun. I don’t get why people want the list to be so serious.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:47:59 2020 No.17138672

>>17138650
>yeh good luck explaining that one to anyone in real life.
Easier then you think, you just have to give the impression that you are a WWII history buff and are reading Hitler, Stalin and Churchill to get a better idea about the period. Not much people who will question your choices.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:49:56 2020 No.17138686 >>17138672 saying mein kampf is your #1 book of all time though, very suspect to say the least.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:50:26 2020 No.17138692 >>17138686 >saying mein kampf is your #1 book of all time though, very suspect to say the least. Didnt say or imply that it was.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:50:30 2020 No.17138693 >>17138643 Catch-22 is better than the Divine Comedy, and that system is retarded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:55:36 2020 No.17138729 >>17138643 This looks fun, lets do this. Moby dick will win because of burgers but anyway.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:56:22 2020 No.17138738

>>17138672
100% I visited Australia and was conversing with white color family’s and this was right after Christchurch revenge and I accidentally shouted out I watched the video multiple times. I then corrected myself and said I watch it to try to better understand what that man was going through andhow to help peole .. before this we were talking about my psychology degree

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:00:28 2020 No.17138765 >>17138338 American Psycho but no Great Gatsby. wtf is wrong with /lit/

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:01:21 2020 No.17138771

>>17138338
>Pedro paramo
>History of Charles XII
>Modernity and cultural decline
>Satantango
>Ubu roi
>Extinction
>On the heights of despair
>Take five
>The unconsoled
>The making of Americans
>The changing light at sandover
>The tartar steppe
>The posthumous memoirs of Bros cubas
>Voss
>The opposing shore
>The major works of Thomas Browne
>The passion according to GH
>Pan
What's with all these books that literally never get discussed here? I'm here every day and I never heard of these.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:04:22 2020 No.17138794

>>17138771
Seems like you don't go into any threads ever then. Pataphysics/Uburoi/Alfred "Janny" is mentioned all the time. Pedro Paramo is talked about in any discussion of Latin literature ever. The Changing Light at Sandover is discussed in any thread about epic poems. I have seen virtually all these books discussed in the last 6 months on here

Lurk moar

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:04:22 2020 No.17138795 >>17138771 same. well, there are Jarry/Ubu Roi threas and tartar steppe is often recommended, but all the others are literally single anons shilling their favourite book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:06:02 2020 No.17138808 >>17138771 hell I've made discussions about The Passion According to G.H. numerous times including this week since its one of my favorite books, although I brought it up in a thread never made one for it. You should read it and join in

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:06:41 2020 No.17138813 >>17138338 Kek /pol/ really fucked up this board

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:08:05 2020 No.17138819

>>17138771
It was a combination of trolls and the voting system.
The voting system allowed you to tally any of your 10 votes to a book. For instance you could do 3 for the Iliad, 1 for blood meridian and 6 for the Odyssey. Anons who seethed for some reason shitposted books, and obsessive anons bumped their favorite books.
However, some of those are genuinely good books and you should read more before posting

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:10:41 2020 No.17138836 >>17138765 Burgers who read gatsby in high school have a weird rejection of it. It connects somehow to wanting to fuck their mothers, but I cant figure out how

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:11:59 2020 No.17138845

these lists are dumb. most people won't vote if you need verification. also 'best books of all time', a better title would be 'fads, fancies and phases 2020', then we could skip all the usual shit like dosto and homer and just concentrate on the newly discussed books that crop up over the year and that would be much more interesting for books recs and also to see the changing tastes and fascinations of this board over time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:14:10 2020 No.17138860 /lit/ looks so normiefagish from this list. Nothing on this list looks surprising or interesting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:15:16 2020 No.17138866 >>17138338 >worst Krasznahorkai that high >Fucking LONDON BRIDGE FROM CELINE >Pedro Paramo that high >no Mason & Dixon and The Recognitions >House of Leaves GARBAGE.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:16:23 2020 No.17138877 >>17138836 There's not a single motherly character in the whole book, if anything they are all quite terrible as persons, but maybe that's what pointed them to their conclusion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:18:12 2020 No.17138896 >>17138641 Mein Kampf being #1 is juvenile and unfunny, but at least it's not the stale old /lit/ chart formula where the top spots always belong to ancient classics (Bible, Iliad, etc.) and popular American books (Pynchon, Wallace)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:19:44 2020 No.17138904 I thought Salinger only wrote catcher in rye and some posthumous stories

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:20:41 2020 No.17138909 >>17138338 >"we HAVE to count the meme /pol/ entries guys, I assure you it's essential. also I'm not encouraging you to do it haha" >a fucking meme is in first place fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:20:47 2020 No.17138910 >>17138738 A bullet

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:21:22 2020 No.17138916 Supposed to filter out meme answers

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:23:03 2020 No.17138928 >>17138909 #notmytop100

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:23:06 2020 No.17138929 Voting Mein Kampf first is the final sign that this board has been fully taken over by the contrarian 15 year olds that make the rest of this site insufferably unfunny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:23:58 2020 No.17138933 >>17138656 Guénon is great, and Ted K is really interesting though. Anti-Tech Revolution is a great book

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:24:19 2020 No.17138936 Hopefully this will bring more incels to the board

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:24:27 2020 No.17138937

>>17138338
Somehow this list is more meme-ish then previous years. It also seems like it's full of books that nobody here actually read. Unless hundreds of anons read the major works of Browne, modernity and culture decline, laozi and being and time. Which I doubt it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:25:49 2020 No.17138948 File: 78 KB, 500x791, Laszlo_KRASZNAHORKAI_Sotonskitango_9789533320472.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17138771 Lurk more

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:26:08 2020 No.17138950 The worst list we’ve ever had.... thank you OP

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:26:52 2020 No.17138954 >>17138836 When I read it at 16 in highschool I finished the book the week it was assigned and then read it again the next week before moving on to more Fitzgerald the week after that. Apparently none of my classmates were as enamored with him

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:28:49 2020 No.17138970 Herman Hitler - Moby Kampf Adolf Melville - Mein Dick

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:29:52 2020 No.17138982 >>17138635 Newfag. Also have you even read mein kampf? I have it’s surprisingly good

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:30:11 2020 No.17138986 >>17138648 Yeah, its a shit book, but nowhere near as shit as the autistic troons who crawled out from tumblr for some reason. Based Hitler will keep the board fresh from disgusting feminists this year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:30:27 2020 No.17138988 >>17138937 after the first few rows the votes are in the 10s and the last 2 or so rows are ones. Since you could vote for the same book this year just one person could make a book get somewhat high on the list.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:32:06 2020 No.17138997 these lists and this board have been shit for years but, damn. nice going boys. the final nail

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:32:29 2020 No.17138999 >>17138656 >Guenon >He is a meme, so he must be like Hitler Commit suicide.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:33:44 2020 No.17139008 So what was the voting system? This just looks manipulated

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:34:34 2020 No.17139012 File: 3.95 MB, 9729x8572, charles-bukowski-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17138338 White fragility on the list? I'm off this board, it's now officially for retarded people.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:35:03 2020 No.17139013

>>17138771
>Satantango
Hello, newfag, literally the most discussed non-mutt contemporary writer except for Houellebecq

>Ubu roi
Alfred Janny, nigger

>The posthumous memoirs of Bros cubas
>implying some brazilian faggot didn't spend months spamming the board about this

>The tartar steppe
>The opposing shore
Nigga, /lit/ is how I discovered these book. Lurk more. Open Junger threads.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:36:00 2020 No.17139020 >>17139012 Go back to your subreddit board and bring along all the stormfaggots

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:37:02 2020 No.17139027

>>17138559
I'm not sure. I thought someone was complaining about meme picks and said he'd countervote with White Fragility, whereafter someone posted the thread on pol telling to vote MK. But I've seen people say the op running was a poltard himself, so \_(ッ)_/

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:38:21 2020 No.17139040

>>17139008
There were no limits to how many times you could vote for a book. Some people voted for the same book dozens of times using different Google accounts to boot. Also someone (the original OP?) crossposted the poll to /pol/ begging them to flood it with Mein Kampf.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:38:49 2020 No.17139046 >>17139027 Of course OP is a /pol/tard otherwise he wouldn’t have taken meme picks from a different board.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:39:09 2020 No.17139050 >>17138643 Let's do this >>17138693 Faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:41:17 2020 No.17139067 >>17139040 What a farce

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:42:14 2020 No.17139079 >>17139040 Shame.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:42:25 2020 No.17139082 >>17138692 yeh but that's what we're discussing -- Mein Kampf being in the #1 slot. Not whether it's worth reading if you've got some extra time on your hands and want to lie about being a WW2 buff to your friends.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:43:59 2020 No.17139099
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>>17139046
>>17139020
>5%th medical school national exam percentile in Western Europe with no studying, 4 hours of sleep and went partying the night before the exam
>more well read than most people here

If you're not racist by modern conventional politically correct insane standards (privately and not a nazi-larper fofc), then you're not smart. But keep callling us poltards, sure (no we don't actually browe pol).

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:44:05 2020 No.17139100 >>17138338 Maybe next year we. Make a “legends” ranks and put the books like mein kampf moby and the Bible. So it can free up some spots and leave room for new interesting book

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:44:10 2020 No.17139101 >>17139046 Why are you so worked up about meme picks like some fucking loser? This is 4chan what did you expect? Voting for Hitler is tradition at this point

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:45:11 2020 No.17139108 >>17138999 Hitler is literally just Guénon with V-2 missiles

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:45:12 2020 No.17139107 >>17139100 Good idea so long as mein kampf always remains #1

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:45:44 2020 No.17139111 >>17138338 kek, laught loudly for mein kampf

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:46:10 2020 No.17139117 >>17139108 Why do you pretend to have read philosophers you haven't read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:46:21 2020 No.17139119 >>17139111 imagine being this new

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:48:49 2020 No.17139132 >>17139119 wat? kek have ever happened the #1 for mein kampf?

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:48:50 2020 No.17139133

This chart doesn't reflect voting that occurred after December 9th, so it's not even accurate based on the stupid poll where people can vote 10 times.

Can someone just make another chart from one of the other polls? MK being book #1 is retarded and a result of assholes just trying to screw up the chart. That's probably true of other entries.

1. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
2. Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Iliad - Homer
4. War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
5. Collected Works - John Keats
6. Ulysses - James Joyce
7. Stoner - John Edward Williams
8. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
9. The Bible
10. Dubliners - James Joyce
11. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
12. The Republic - Plato
13. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
14. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes
15. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
16. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
17. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
18. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
19. The Stranger - Albert Camus
20. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
21. The Dialogues - Plato
22. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
23. Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
25. JR - William Gaddis
26. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
27. The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
28. Technological Society - Jacques Ellul
29. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
30. No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
31.The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
32. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
33. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
34. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
35. Dune - Frank Herbert
36. The Odyssey - Homer
37. The Recognitions - William Gaddis
38. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
39. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
41. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
42. Ubik - Philip K. Dick
43. The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
44. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon
45. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
46. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
47. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
48. The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
49. Anti-Oedipus - Gilles Deleuze
50. Fanged Noumena - Nick Land
51. Fathers & Sons - Ivan Turgenev
52. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times - Rene Guenon
cont.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:48:59 2020 No.17139137 >>17139117 >Hitler is a philosopher Jeez, you incels are insufferable

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:49:17 2020 No.17139141 >>17138338 52/100 Guess I got my reading list for next year

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:49:38 2020 No.17139145 >>17139137 So, you are dyslexic as well

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:49:48 2020 No.17139146 We should do a top 100 philosophy books

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:50:18 2020 No.17139149

>>17139133

cont.
53. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
54. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
55. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
56. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton
57. Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
58. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
59. The Aeneid - Virgil
60. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
61. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
62. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - Yukio Mishima
63. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
64. The Epic of Gilgamesh
65. The Plague - Albert Camus
66. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
67. Augustus - John Edward Williams
68. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
69. The Learned Disguise - Waldun
70. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
71. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
72. The Bhagavad Gita
73. The Trial - Franz Kafka
74. Les Fleurs du Mal - Charles Baudelaire
75. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
76. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
77. Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
78. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
79. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
80. The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
81. Molloy - Samuel Beckett
82. The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
83. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
84. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
85. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
86. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
87. Fragments - Heraclite
88. Agape Agape - William Gaddis
89. Fantomas - Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
90. My Friends - Emmanuel Bove
91. The Last Grain Race - Eric Newby
92. The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
93. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
94. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Marie Remarque
95. A Glastonbury Romance - John Cowper Powys
96. A Gray House - Mariam Petrosyan
97. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
98. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
99. Manual - Epictetus
100. Secret History - Donna Tart

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:50:55 2020 No.17139157 >>17139133 >after Dec. 9 What do you mean?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:52:19 2020 No.17139173 >>17139101 Isn't this the first time Hitler made the list?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:52:34 2020 No.17139176 >>17139149 cont. Use that list instead for the chart. Like I said I think it's based on another poll that was done this year and it hasn't been messed up with stupid shit entries.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:53:26 2020 No.17139183 >>17139149 Wait, was this not the read in 2020 list? (I might be confused.)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:54:44 2020 No.17139196 >>17139149 >>17139133 What list is this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:56:20 2020 No.17139205 >>17139133 >>17139149 so this means that on the heights of despair was a meme book spammed by edgy poltards?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:56:21 2020 No.17139207 >>17139176 >>17139183 Yes, I believe it was. If someone were to make a chart of this, it should be specified this was the top 100 books that people actually read in 2020

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:56:35 2020 No.17139209 >>17139183 It is, those results have been out for some time, they just haven't gotten an image yet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:58:00 2020 No.17139220 I've never seen that Iliad artwork wtf

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 12:59:26 2020 No.17139233 >>17139207 >implying people didn't read Hitler and Guénon

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:00:24 2020 No.17139244

>>17139099
>qualifying your exam grades with how little sleep you had + partying.
>identifying with and simultaneously distancing yourself from /pol/
>whipping out credentials on an anonymous forum
>referencing some vague ‘we’ and speaking for the group
Is this pasta or did you write this juvenile drivel yourself?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:00:38 2020 No.17139248 >>17139133 >>17139149 >every year some faggot has to make an alternative list

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:01:40 2020 No.17139258 >mein kampf #1 >for my legionaries not in top 100 Ooof

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:01:41 2020 No.17139259 >>17139207 Ok then this should be used >>/lit/thread/S17094700

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:12:18 2020 No.17139346 >>17139259 Nigger

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:14:07 2020 No.17139363 >Gravity’s Rainbow at 55 what the fuck happened to /lit/

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:15:11 2020 No.17139373 >>17139360 stop posting this

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:15:59 2020 No.17139384 The next year's poll should discard those authors who were present in every previous one. So, Melville, Homer, Dosto, etc. This is how we'll get fresh results without getting memed like this year.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:17:15 2020 No.17139392 >>17138656 If you got filtered by Guenon you don’t deserve to be alive

>>	Saint Seiso !Mahdi26/jg Mon Dec 28 13:17:31 2020 No.17139395 >>17138643 >The Divine Comedy by Dante >hell is cold Its trash.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:20:07 2020 No.17139426 >>17139386 imagine wanting to fuck your son's boipussi so bad and watching other people get to but never you. the pain must be excruciating.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:20:54 2020 No.17139434 >>17139395 kys

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:21:56 2020 No.17139450 >>17139384 Good idea

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:23:09 2020 No.17139461 >>17139426 The saddest part is that he would undoubtedly get it if he just asked

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:24:07 2020 No.17139473 >>17139173 It made it in last year but artists got mad and made an alternate grid on the wiki

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:24:21 2020 No.17139477

>>17138643
/mu/ originalfag here, just want to let you know that this was an embarrassment and perfectly represents the massive influx of underage casuals and the decline of /mu/ during the 10s. going into a tourney like this you assume everyone else is as informed and enthusiastic about interest as you are but in practice you'll quickly realize how retarded everyone around you is. if you do this just be prepared for the big names and most memed books to sweep every tournament

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:25:41 2020 No.17139489 I literally can't im shaking rn

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:26:05 2020 No.17139493 >>17138338 I only saw the 2018 top 100 before this and I'm pretty surprised to see such a change between the two.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:29:52 2020 No.17139520 >>17139493 In 2017 the bible was like the 63rd most popular book on /lit/, now it's 2nd lol.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:30:46 2020 No.17139528 File: 310 KB, 705x535, CCCE4370-95EE-485F-B6DB-C393BD99D52E.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17139520 AAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:33:06 2020 No.17139540

>>17139196
>>17139248
This is the list of favorite reads in 2020 (as opposed to an all-time top 100): >>/lit/thread/S16979368
It's not simply an "alternative list" trying to correct this one itt, but an other one altogether (there's also a third one this year, of novels only; results still pending).

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:35:07 2020 No.17139558 >>17139540 >novels only; results still pending spoke too soon: >>17139549

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:35:16 2020 No.17139559 >>17138516 Polfags don't/can't read. Just ignore the meme pics. They raided just because they're lonely and crave attention.>>17138548

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:36:58 2020 No.17139569 >>17138340 God wrote both the Bible and the Quran?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:38:58 2020 No.17139587 >>17138338 Dude, I saw those results. THEY WERE NOT UP TO DATE, YOU STUPID SHIT. You're supposed to post a Google Sheet or something as well. God this board is so full of dumb retards. >>17138434 It had like 40 votes, more than some of those books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:40:16 2020 No.17139596 >>17138338 Should I read Mein Kampf?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:41:32 2020 No.17139604 >>17139099 Haha ewwww at you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:42:35 2020 No.17139615 >>17139099 >5%th Clearly aren’t very good at mathematics lol!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:43:21 2020 No.17139620 >>17138338 My only grudge with this list is that you have 2x dosto in the top 10. It kills the balance. I don't even look past the top 10 because who reads this much anyways.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:43:32 2020 No.17139621 >>17139615 Not the anon, but are you aware what a percentile is?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:44:00 2020 No.17139624 >>17139569 He's prolific

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:44:29 2020 No.17139626 >>17139596 Sure. At least then you could complain actually knowing what you're talking about instead of eternally seething at the funny dictator like all the faggots itt

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:45:02 2020 No.17139630 >>17139587 You sound like a nigger

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:45:58 2020 No.17139637 >>17139569 It's a fine approximation for the bible instead of listing Moses, the evangelists, and so on And if you out God for the bible you can't out Mohammed for the Qur'an. That would be offensive

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:46:01 2020 No.17139639 >>17139384 It would be a different list then. This says the top 100 books of all time 2020 pick. It does not say the top 100 books of all time except the real top books but more obscure picks 2020

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:46:49 2020 No.17139644

>>17138338
>Pedro Paramo 9th
this list was memed
>Ulysses 20th
This board is lost

memes pushed by one person respectively:

>Pedro Paramo
>History of Charles XII
>Modernity and Cultural Decline
>The Making of Americans
>Take Five
>The Unconsoled
>The Changing of Light at Sandover
>The Posthumous Memoirs of of Bras Cubas
>Raise High the Roof Beams
>Voss
>London Bridge

worst list yet

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:47:08 2020 No.17139651 >>17139587 I'll post a Google Shit on your head

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:47:43 2020 No.17139655 RESULTS TOP 100 NOVELS (2020): >>17139549

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:48:47 2020 No.17139664 File: 710 KB, 1800x1200, 1596531534399.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17139644 >NOOO WHY AREN'T THE RESULTS THE SAME AS ALWAYS

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:49:22 2020 No.17139670 >>17138340 Technically, didn't God write every book? What would also be nice to know is to have the number of the entire bibliography of an author like Kafka 2/6 (6 is just an random number)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:50:24 2020 No.17139684 >>17139670 >Technically, didn't God write every book? No..?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:50:31 2020 No.17139686 >>17139664 Which one did you shill?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:50:39 2020 No.17139689 >>17139670 >Technically, didn't God write every book If you're a pantheist

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:53:30 2020 No.17139712 >>17139626 we don't care about the book. the contents of the book are not the point. the point is that it was not a legitimate win, it was just shilled by people who don't normally browse this board.

>>	Voila Mon Dec 28 13:53:59 2020 No.17139716 >>17139363 The voting system happened. Fags spammed their favorite books like JR in all ten spots and...

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:54:17 2020 No.17139720

>>17138338
>>17139587
These are the form's results
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19A8gVk9ElugTBCJTzZrswrfjZsmloPh9kAkS4NZJhT8/edit#gid=1509913325

They clearly show the list is using an outdated count. Buddenbrooks is on the same tier with books that received less votes. Madame Bovary received more than No Longer Human. Das Kapital received 6 votes more than Buddenbrooks and yet it appears in a lower position.
God, this year's top 100 has been an absolute shitfest.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:55:43 2020 No.17139732 >>17139712 There is just no way to prove that though. Moreover what is the required amount of browsing required to vote? Is there a ratio lurking/posting to reach too?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:56:45 2020 No.17139742 >>17139720 If the anon Who made the poll didn't fuck off after two threads it would have gone better I reckon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:56:45 2020 No.17139743 >>17139461 Never ask for pussi, incel, take it

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:56:56 2020 No.17139744 >>17139716 J R isn't even that high, anti-gaddisfag

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:58:07 2020 No.17139757 >>17138338 > white fragility No one here read this, no one here has discussed it, and if anyone has read or discussed it, it was probably negatively. Why? Give space for better books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:58:50 2020 No.17139762 It's not that bad of a list. Mein Kampf being number one is dumb but if it scares off the tards then whatever.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:59:31 2020 No.17139770

>>17139732
>There is just no way to prove that though.
I'm not trying to prove it and I don't need to. It's obvious to literally everyone, I don't care whether it holds up to "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" because I'm not trying to win a criminal case, I'm just explaining why everyone is annoyed

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:01:04 2020 No.17139782 >>17139732 Mein Kampf received several hundreds more votes than the other books, just because of the /pol/ brigade

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:01:25 2020 No.17139784 >>17139770 Well, no one gives a fuck I believe >everyone is annoyed Seems like a you problem

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:01:33 2020 No.17139786

>>17138338
Ahh the polfag. The most incessant of peurile entity. Breeding exclusively on imageboards and feeding on the excrement of their betters. Oh how they shriek and whine. They sre truly the NPCs of board culture. None here fear their ideas or even view them as genuine or controversial anymore. They're milquetoast, a gag that's gone on long enough. As for the list, it's rather funny that they've continued to clamor and claw their way into spaces of higher discourse, an egotistical thirst for recognition drives most of their behavior. They're entire identity is a thinly veiled beg for the attention that no one will give them outside of their cyber safe space. They must invade every nook and cranny, slinging their shit and wallowing in their own detritus until the plave begins to smell like home. At that time the place will have lost all of it's original charm and be replaced with this pseudo edgy anti-intellectual contrarian irony, it's like the Americanization of culture happening to all of our favorite image boards. Their doscourse lacks knowledge and breadth and their counterarguments stink of hot-dog water. Just bland inscrutable blathering to replace the once unique and nuanced conversation. A sad thing to witness indeed.

Simply ignore the meme picks, read Mein Kampf and realize how pathetic it is to worship such a jealous and childish psychopath.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:02:34 2020 No.17139793 >>17138338 Hey OP do you mind redoing it including the full results? >>17139720 Seems like a pity to use a non-updated result sheet

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:03:43 2020 No.17139799 What/where are the correct results then?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:06:03 2020 No.17139821 >>17139784 >everyone is annoyed >Seems like a you problem yeh, it's definitely a "me" problem that all the other people posting in this thread think it's stupid MK got #1

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:07:46 2020 No.17139835 >>17139793 I did the chart following that very link, the "Validation and Reconciliation" tab, whicvh I assume are the final results.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:08:09 2020 No.17139838 >>17139720 >most votes are the same book 10 times disgusting, fuck whoever came up with this system

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:08:33 2020 No.17139843 >>17139799 Fags here weren't autistic enough to influence the vote and are now pissing themselves

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:09:55 2020 No.17139855 >>17138338 kinda sad that me voting for Les Deux Etendards 4 times wasn't enough to get it on the list

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:11:03 2020 No.17139860 >>17139835 That tab hasn't been updated in weeks! Because the anon retard abandoned the project. It's the auto recorded data on the first tab to look at. Whatever, I'm redoing this myself. You're a retard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:13:11 2020 No.17139877 >>17139860 Nobody cares faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:14:40 2020 No.17139894 >>17139626 Which translation should I go for? I feel like something like this would be heavily censored/redacted.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:17:48 2020 No.17139919 So the real results are unknown except for the original poller who bailed?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:17:48 2020 No.17139920 1-169 updated version https://pastebin.com/GEpFdzWm

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:18:48 2020 No.17139931 >>17139919 Yes. This has basically just been a LARP from some /pol/tard

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:19:37 2020 No.17139938 >>17139920 So it's almost the same thing but without White Fragility?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:23:40 2020 No.17139967 >>17139920 No that's also wrong. Book of the New Sun got over 40 votes and is high on the actual list. Your count is fucked.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:23:40 2020 No.17139968 File: 168 KB, 1305x1300, 1609137827724.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17138338 "I only trust the top 100 I faked myself." Winrar Churchhill

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:25:53 2020 No.17139986 >>17139894 Idk not an anglo

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:36:04 2020 No.17140075 >>17139968 This is extremely funny anon, thanks for this!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:37:41 2020 No.17140092 >>17138338 Of all the year charts I've seen, this is by far the worst, even if there are a few based picks that might not have made it normally.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:46:01 2020 No.17140154 >>17138643 >minecraft and anime won Yeah I don’t think that method works

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:39:55 2020 No.17140573 >>17138982 it's really not. People saying shit like this is quite the teen contrarian filter

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:43:50 2020 No.17140607 Needs to be voted again

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:09:10 2020 No.17140795 just remove mein kampf and white fragility from the pic, doing it again is useless cuz they will do it again and more remember that /pol/tards have nothing to do all day, they stay all day in front of their pc blaming others for their laziness

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:17:00 2020 No.17140859 >>17138419 >32/100 WOW impressive list /lit/. I got less than a third. I usually scrape the 50% mark on all other top 100 lists. This is probably the best one so far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:17:20 2020 No.17140863 >>17138448 don't forget Dumas, although I guess he is not black depending on your definition.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:26:09 2020 No.17140927 >>17138656 it perfectly resembles /lit/ finally. but then again: >>17138771 this is true. some of these are literally no name books on /lit/

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:26:24 2020 No.17140934

>>17139101
you know as well as I do that the current year /pol/iticization of discourse is completely different from the olden-chan "this will rustle those normie sensibilities" edgy contrarianism. that was more of an aesthetic statement than a political attitude.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:29:25 2020 No.17140950 File: 119 KB, 1242x1758, gysludzcj3p51.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is nonsense. The vast majority of /lit/ do not read literary fiction. I swear you guys only do this to try and impress r/books. bunch of faggots

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:30:29 2020 No.17140959

>>17139782
Retard. it's because some faggot sperged out over it in the voting threads and the contrarian connoisseurs of /lit/ pushed back.

>>17139644
Guess how I know you haven't read most of these

>>17139968
Dangerously based

52/100, not bad. Best list yet. I think we have made progress in bullying the mutts out of the board, eurochads.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:32:07 2020 No.17140967 >>17139101 Yet somehow Hitler shit trash wasn't on any other list. This isn't /pol/ retard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:33:08 2020 No.17140976 >>17140934 Fuck off, Hitler is keeping /lit/ clean from trannies and nigger-lovers. Do you want to have a repeat of the post-BLM raids we had this summer by what I assume were tumblr discord troons?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:34:11 2020 No.17140987 >>17140967 Hitler was on literally every list since /lit/'s inception, you fucking idiot newfag. He is just doctored out eventually.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:35:19 2020 No.17140998 >>17140976 I'd make you share a """labor camp""" with the left-wing identitarians if I were given the opportunity centrist death squads

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:37:16 2020 No.17141008 >>17138349 >>17138367 Thats what you get for ignoring the threads

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:39:59 2020 No.17141023
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>>17140998
AAAAHHHHH NOOOOOOO HE CONSIDERS THE PRACTICAL MATTER OF KEEPING A CERTAIN BRAND OF IDIOTS OUT OF THE BOARD, NOOOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT, ITS JUST AS BAD AS ANTI-FREE SPEECH LEFTISTS, DONT YOU UNDERSTAND

Imagine my surprise at seeing the directionbrain completely miss the irony of him complaining about identity politics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:40:53 2020 No.17141028 >>17140976 Yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:43:54 2020 No.17141056 >>17141023 >A CERTAIN BRAND OF IDIOTS how would we go about keeping you out at the same time? >you don't. it's either us or them so be grateful to hitler, sieg heil always the same playbook

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:45:55 2020 No.17141073 >>17140959 No dumbass, it quite literally was a brigade

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:47:15 2020 No.17141087 Haha polfaggots are the worst. Childlike in mind and spirit. Snake like in action.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 16:52:52 2020 No.17141124 politicals, not even once

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:02:06 2020 No.17141182 >>17138338 Good work lad

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:03:01 2020 No.17141188 >>17141161 Why would you post a picture of my future husband as a way of insulting someone?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:06:12 2020 No.17141216 >>17138643 industrial society and its future is unironically better than w&p

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:06:45 2020 No.17141220 >>17141209 A simpler time

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:08:07 2020 No.17141228 In my ideal future, all the nazis and commies have brainwashed each other into sissies with a bbc fetish and the rest of us can get on with our lives.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:08:08 2020 No.17141229 >>17139782 >brigade Fuck off back to r*ddit, tourist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:08:30 2020 No.17141234 File: 2.77 MB, 2000x3700, lit2019.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17138418 This is the 2019 chart

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:10:01 2020 No.17141253

>>17138338
eh, not great but definitely better than the last year one, glad to have voted this year too. Shame for the #1 since there was a faggot who spammed MK like 1000 times.
>>17138394
ikr
>>17138429
I'd like a 50 books chart for fiction and a 50 books chart for non fiction
>>17138643
>you can't say A is better than B
>let's put A vs B and C vs D so that A could be better or worse than D
/mu/ is just Fantanofags btw
>>17138656
Guenon and Ted are not memes, maybe they pick the most memey Guenon book but I like his works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:12:49 2020 No.17141268 >>17138419 How ought it be organized then?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:14:06 2020 No.17141282 >>17141268 the way it was in previous years. you get up to x votes, but you can only vote for an individual book once.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:17:26 2020 No.17141314 >Exactly the same as every other year except with some /pol/ tourist garbage thrown in for good measure Thanks for making the chart anyway

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:23:55 2020 No.17141370 >>17138338 >my favorite book is somehow #100

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:25:46 2020 No.17141386 Why is Moby Dick always rated so high? Is it actually good? I thought it was legitimately just a meme. Is it worth reading for anything other than sperm jokes?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:25:52 2020 No.17141387 >>17141209 2014 >>17141221 2015 >>17141348 2016 >>17141363 2017 >>17141372 2018 >>17141234 2019 >>17138338 2020

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:27:39 2020 No.17141402 >>17141209 Its a better list but infinite jest makes me seethe too much

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:32:43 2020 No.17141436 >>17139860 thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:36:14 2020 No.17141460 Well anons, which list is the best? >>17141387

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:37:07 2020 No.17141467 >>17141386 it's unironically one of the best novels in the English language. both scholars and plebs like us have been praising it for over a century. how can you not know this?

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:40:50 2020 No.17141499

>>17138338
A lot of the books in the list were obviously pushed by people giving all their votes to their favorites, but having some variety instead of the same shit every year is nice.
My impressions from the things I've read:
>Mein kampf and books about racial shit
Mein Kampf got voted to #1 thanks to /pol/, which prompted an autistic contrarian to push books about racial politics into the list.
>Satantango
Nice to see Krasznahorkai, but it's weird to see Satantango instead of The Melancholy of Resistance.
>On The Heights of Despair
Cioran is good as far as depressing literature goes, but I'd have picked A Short History of Decay instead.
>Pedro Paramo
I don't think it should be that high. It's good, but not that good.
>The Unconsoled
I rarely see mentions of Ishiguro here, but it's nice to see him in the list.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:43:03 2020 No.17141521 >>17141467 Well I know that people talk about it being great but I thought it was "great in a historical context" not necessarily actually enjoyable to read. Shit, I guess I need to amend my 2021 reading list.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:43:44 2020 No.17141525

>>17141314
this. it's useless.

i like charts because i want new recommendations. none of these are new, they are almost all insanely popular classic works.

i'd like to see a /lit/ list of best books with under 1000 votes on goodreads, or something, some way to filter out all of the usual obvious suggestions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:45:42 2020 No.17141535 >>17138338 Whoever voted for Zhuangzi is thoroughly based.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:45:54 2020 No.17141536
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>>17141521
Ya definitely give it a read, it's one of my favorite books and I reread it once a year usually. Melville's other novels and short stories are worth checking out as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:48:31 2020 No.17141560 >>17138338 #Notmytop100

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:51:38 2020 No.17141581 >>17138338 This is what happens if you allow non-fiction. Meme answer by /pol/tards and memesters about books they never read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:52:49 2020 No.17141594 >>17138338 tradfags who treat the bible as a status symbol are worse than hitler imo you're not the heirs of christianity, you're just fetishistic larpers who like the aesthetic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:53:06 2020 No.17141597 >>17138808 Based.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 17:59:51 2020 No.17141662

>>17139520
>>17139528
Honestly what's up with this resurgence of christianity on here and the internet in general? For the longest time it was "muh atheism" now it's been "muh jesus loves you too" for the past year or so. Did the boomer pastors finally learn to use the internet? Was it Jordan Peterson?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:04:03 2020 No.17141694 >>17141525 >none of these are new You're full of shit there is stuff that has never appeared before and that I have never even seen discussed here

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:05:25 2020 No.17141710

>>17141662
4chan is aggressively contrarian above all, so they're atheist while Christian is the norm (see /lit/ before 2015) and when atheism starts permeating the internet, they become Christian. Eventually there will be a resurgence of atheism again in a year or two.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:07:12 2020 No.17141723

>>17141460
I like the 2017 and 2018 ones because they have less genre fiction but still don't have much philosophy. Closer to my taste
I'd say this board has overall good taste across all years but earlier a selected few authors were much too prominent and more variety was needed

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:07:20 2020 No.17141725 >>17138338 8th row is best

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:07:29 2020 No.17141726

>>17141662
it's the resurgence of positive identity. people don't want to admit that they live in a postmodern hellscape, that they can't quite define who they are and who they want to be, so they revert to idolatry and gather around their golden calfs.
you can tell by the emergence of memes like "Yes." chad.png that there's a new anti-discursive mentality. people don't care how ridiculous their beliefs are or how good the reasons for challenging them might be, they just want to believe and belong.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:08:25 2020 No.17141735

>>17141694
there are two books there by authors that are new to me, and a few lesser works by classic authors. everything else is humdrum. if you aren't familiar with it all, or you don't recognise these books from discussions here, then sorry, but lurk moar.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:08:31 2020 No.17141739 >>17141710 old /lit/ wasn't atheist in the reddit sense.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:10:46 2020 No.17141757 File: 90 KB, 449x683, 1609150484811.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17138463 >

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:21:03 2020 No.17141866 File: 267 KB, 1198x1200, 1593015554166.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17138338 >Canticle of Leibowitz made it on holy BASED

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:34:06 2020 No.17141961 >>17141188 Excuse me sir, but I do believe that is in fact my current husband in the aforementioned image file. Please leave us alone and go find another.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:37:10 2020 No.17141987 >>17141209 >silmarillion and the hobbit on the list but not LOTR ???

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:38:31 2020 No.17141999 >>17138338 >sees Pan based, this list might be worth looking into >sees White Fragility oh no

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:47:55 2020 No.17142076 >>17141987 Contrarianism

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:58:31 2020 No.17142157 >>17140976 It would unironically be preferable, yes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 19:15:35 2020 No.17142249 File: 262 KB, 400x358, 1600125902611.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Disappointing but not unexpected.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 19:26:58 2020 No.17142324 >>17141525 You do realize the mainstays of the lists are known for being some of the greatest books of all time, right?Would you expect a lot of obscure books to be lit's favorites?Find a thread for lesser known books.They're here all the time

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 19:29:16 2020 No.17142337 >>17139133 >>17139149 Nice list, definitely better than the current one. Shame it probably won't be made official, but we can always make a side one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 19:36:20 2020 No.17142385 >>17138866 London Bridge is his best. You got filtered.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 20:21:36 2020 No.17142733

>>17142324
you are right. but at the same time, it is redundant to have a 'greatest books of all time' list made every year. the greatest books of all time will remain the same for many years, and certainly no one of any intellect would depend on /lit/ to order them. but it is of interest, to me at least, what books /lit/ is most focused on in a year, discounting the usual suspects.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 20:31:21 2020 No.17142804 >>17138338 All political literature should be disqualified. I’m not a leftist, but Mein Kamf should not be #1. Also white fragility shouldn’t even be on this list.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 20:56:15 2020 No.17142994 >>17142733 Oh, I gotcha and kinda agree.I misunderstood and jumped the gun because I thought you were going full blown contrarian mode and insinuating that there weren't good books on the list

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 21:02:25 2020 No.17143037 File: 3.95 MB, 3500x7700, 1609171124505~3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17138338 Only 8 and half books, I don't know if it's something good or bad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 23:16:19 2020 No.17144006 >>17138338 > Ted Kascinsky > Tao Te Ching > Charles XII > Zhuangshi Holy based. Needs some Marcus Aurelius too though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 23:19:48 2020 No.17144039 >>17141228 Based.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 23:19:57 2020 No.17144040 I was going to vote but writing the the title and author of every single fucking entry is too much work. You should have made a list of all the most popular works, i.e., the western canon, and just left three entries open for other titles.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 23:27:06 2020 No.17144086 >>17138338 >mein kampf number 1 /pol/ get out, it's not even a good book and the meme is stale.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 23:31:31 2020 No.17144109 >>17138866 >>17139644 >>17138419 WAHHHHHHHH MOMMMMY MY LIST ISN'T REDDIT ENOUGH MOMMY MOMMY I POOPED MY DIAPER TAKE THE MEAN BOOKS OFFF WAHHHHH

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:03:00 2020 No.17144302 >>17144109 Not an argument faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:04:03 2020 No.17144312 >>17144040 That's basically what I've been saying since the start

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:19:07 2020 No.17144392 >>17141229 What?

>>	board trespasser Tue Dec 29 00:24:39 2020 No.17144435 >>17138338 wtf I thought /lit/ is a smart board

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:28:04 2020 No.17144463 >>17141467 2014 and 15. Before the plague of zoomers arrived.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:40:58 2020 No.17144555 >>17138394 It's the corner of a room but I can't tell what it's supposed to look like. Spread legs viewed from the front? Legs bent over? Legs standing in shorts? Regardless, it is distasteful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:43:25 2020 No.17144569 >>17138643 I agree. This is a cool idea. Can someone who isn't me put this together?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:44:27 2020 No.17144579 >>17138771 Cioran and Satantango get discussed here dude what are you talking about

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:46:57 2020 No.17144598 Newfags aren't going to be happy about this one

Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:47:03 2020 No.17144600

I don't mind the meme picks and references to board culture but this list can't really be compared to previous ones anymore. I feel like there should be a separate list done the same way as every other one for the last few years. This really triggers my 'tism

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:49:13 2020 No.17144621 RIP the old list format that actually worked from 2014-2019. Zoomers and /pol/ ruin everything... this is what being a boomer must feel like

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:50:42 2020 No.17144634 This list is shit. House of Leaves? Catcher in the Rye and American Psycho top 50? No Wolfe? I'll head over to the other top 100 thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 00:52:54 2020 No.17144647 >>17144634 >t. the OP of the other top 100 thread

Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:09:45 2020 No.17144731

The only thing redeeming about this list is that Foucault’s Pendulum is as high as it is, which I am convinced is at least partly because of my constant shilling - which I am obligated to do because it is objectively the best book of the second half of the twentieth century (and subjectively, in my view, the best book ever)

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:21:02 2020 No.17144791 File: 13 KB, 474x295, downloadfile.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17144731 Based Foucault's Pendulum poster

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:24:05 2020 No.17144800 >>17144302 >This list doesn't match every other (((best books list))) Kys tranny

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:27:03 2020 No.17144808 >>17144800 Post your nose.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:46:22 2020 No.17144892 >>17144808 You post yours kike

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:47:36 2020 No.17144897 >>17144808 >>17144892 Jew fight! JEW FIGHT!

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 02:03:18 2020 No.17144973 File: 9 KB, 253x199, 1607835998187.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17144897

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 03:48:31 2020 No.17145465 >>17141521 Moby Dick is the greatest literary representation of the relationship between humanity and divinity ever made, arguably rivaling the Bible itself. I would not be surprised if Moby Dick was divinely inspired.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 03:51:34 2020 No.17145482 >>17145465 >Moby Dick is the greatest literary representation of the relationship between humanity and divinity ever made Please explain

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 03:53:48 2020 No.17145486 >>17138367 the first one has harry potter on it and the stranger at #2

Anonymous Tue Dec 29 03:57:50 2020 No.17145495

>>17145482
It would be hard to without writing a whole essay but at the most basic level, imagine that the white whale is a symbol of the mystery of faith and the inherent unknowability of God. Ahab's wrath comes from trying to make sense out of something that will never make sense to him. There's tons more in the novel, but that's the largest point I can think of. And of course this is just my interpretation but it seems fairly sound based on several references like the color white being stressed as divine, the awesomeness and mysteriousness of whales (Melville seriously loved whales), and the quote about mankind's insanity being heaven's sense. I'd highly suggest reading it, assuming you're who I was replying to. If you've already read it you should give it another try with these themes in mind.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:17:04 2020 No.17145561 >>17145495 >assuming you're who I was replying to. I’m not. I wasn’t even planning to read it but your pitch is compelling. I’m “hooked”.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:25:33 2020 No.17145602 >>17138338 For once it's not an utterly anglocentric list and it is representative of /lit/ except for a few odd ones, midwits will rage over this because making top 100 is serious business and we at 4chan are serious people

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:27:11 2020 No.17145607 >>17145602 >few odd ones like?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:29:47 2020 No.17145619 >>17138771 Knut Hamsun is often discussed and rightfully well liked, Gracq is sometimes mentionned in french threads or when discussing the tartar steppe or on the marble cliffs, Janny became a meme though there was some good discussion on pataphysics

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:32:18 2020 No.17145632 >>17140934 >you know as well as I do that the current year /pol/iticization of discourse midwits on /lit/ have been complaining about that since 2013-2014

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:33:59 2020 No.17145637 >>17145607 well for instance Voltaire's Charles XII instead of Louis XIV or Céline's London Bridge instead of his other books and pamphlets

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:35:03 2020 No.17145640 >>17138338 >no Waldun >no Beleca >no Gardner >no bugs,... >Nabokov This board went to shit!

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:35:21 2020 No.17145644 >>17145637 What's wrong with either?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:36:47 2020 No.17145649 >>17145561 I hope you do read it! It's definitely slow and deliberate and some chapters (Cetology) are a slog to get through but there will be a certain point where it clicks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:40:35 2020 No.17145666 >no east of eden fuck you guys.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:41:38 2020 No.17145670 >>17145666 >no second rate mutt thrash which only other mutts care about Pretty based if you ask me

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:46:08 2020 No.17145681 >>17145670 I'm white and not an amerifat. The book deserves its place in the top 100. You retards put Marquez in there kek

Anonymous Tue Dec 29 04:56:55 2020 No.17145703

>>17145681
Neither of these writers deserves a spot.
You faggot, if this is your biggest complaint about the list, you should really start reading proper books, not just 20th century entry level classics memed on lit. Mahabharata? Greek drama? Boccaccio? Rabelais? Nuh, uh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:03:10 2020 No.17145718 >no ashtar command transcripts >no seth material >no chariots of the gods what in the samfuck are you cocksucking ass-snorkling shitfaggot queers doing!?!?!

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:09:07 2020 No.17145739 >>17138338 So many clowns on this board...

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:12:18 2020 No.17145747 >>17145670 I'm a euro and that's one of my favorite novels. It's amazing >>17145681 Marquez is good too (that one at least) >>17145703 I voted for Rebelais but alas

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:16:25 2020 No.17145769 >>17145739 Go back

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:31:09 2020 No.17145826 >>17145703 >Mahabharata? Greek drama? Boccaccio? Rabelais? Nuh, uh. shit taste, kys dumb reddit mutt

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:35:11 2020 No.17145839 >>17145644 It's not that they are wrong, rather that it's odd they turn out in the list instead of the more well known/acclaimed books

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:35:35 2020 No.17145841 >>17145826 >t. sub 70 IQ mutt larping as an intellectual on the 4chins At least kneel to your superiors, maggot

Anonymous Tue Dec 29 08:08:16 2020 No.17146405

>>17138463
I had taken the bait and tried to read it. It reads like a high school tier essay. How it is literary in any sense is beyond me. Am I missing something or you just are really just autists who never read anything beyond hungry caterpillar at school?

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