The Definitive /lit/ Book List

[Anonymous No.18655449]

Top 20 books you think anons on here should read? I'm gonna make a poll and try to read the books you recommend over this year

[Anonymous No.18655454]

>>18655449
>Ulysses
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow

No but seriously
>Wolf Hall
>Dune
>Atlas Shrugged

No but actually seriously
>The Bible

[Anonymous No.18655476]

>>18655449
>Summa Theologica

[Anonymous No.18655709]

Linear algebra done right
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Bible
The Illiad
The Odyssey
Complete Works of Plato
Complete Works of Aristotle
The Aeneid
Summa contra gentiles
Petrarch's Secretum
Don Quixote
Meditationes de prima philosophia by Descartes
Les Pensées of Pascal
Plays of Racine
Critique of pure reason
Complete Works of Rousseau
Hugo's poetry
Baudelaire's poetry
À Rebours by Huysmans
History of a soul by St. Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus

[Anonymous No.18655939]

>>18655709
50% Rather Based
50% Rather Cringe

[Anonymous No.18656092]

Faust I & II
Don Quixote
Tempest
Hamlet
Moby dick
Ulysses
Borges' short fiction
Life a user's manual
And pic related

[Anonymous No.18656121]

>>18655449
Beloved
Invisible Man
Ulysses
Moby Dick
Ceremony
House on Mango Street
China Men
Agape Agape
Notes from the Underground
Orlando
The Trial
Philadelphia Fire
Passing
Catcher in the Rye
As I Lay Dying
Waiting for Godot
Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Oedipus Rex
Dante’s Inferno

[Anonymous No.18656158]

>>18655709
>“Definitive works everyone should read”
>nothing published after 1900, mostly irrelevant garbage like Plato
Pseud

[Anonymous No.18656161]

>>18655709
I understand including mathematical texts, but why an undergraduate linear algebra textbook instead of EGA or Euclid, or any other seminal work?

[Anonymous No.18656170]

A list thread is basically a low-effort version of a chart thread

[Anonymous No.18656259]

>>18655449
Lord of the Rings
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Shadow over Innsmouth
Gormenghast
Foundation
Dune / God Emperor of Dune
Neuromancer
Treasure Island

Ulysses
Moby Dick
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.18656275]

>>18656161
I prefer an introduction to linear algebra rather than an advanced treatise on geometry, because linear algebra, while not immediately visualizable, is certainly visualizable to a certain extent and makes a nice junction between visualization and abstraction. Of course one cannot be satisfied with this and it is always good to complete with other fields of mathematics. Also I have never read Euclid so I don't recommend it.

>>18656158
I don't know if it's bait, but all the proposed philosophical works offer remarkable insights, and if some can be accused of not being topical they all have at least an interest in the understanding of history and the discursive development of thought.
You can call me pseud, but when one has to condense in twenty books a kind of quintessence, one confines oneself mainly to those references that have the virtue of being especially wide-ranging.

[Anonymous No.18656279]

>>18656092
>Tempest
by whom?
>>18656121
>Ceremony
>Passing
>Orlando
whomst?

[Anonymous No.18656293]

If only every voting citizen had read this. Basically counts as a 2,000 page survery of philosophy too since Durant focuses on ideas and culture.

[Anonymous No.18656308]

>>18656293
Very eurocentric...

[Anonymous No.18656323]

>>18656275
>remarkable insights
yeah, forms muh dick muh slaves goddamn read a fucking book by from the past century you loser

[Anonymous No.18656327]

>>18656279
Anon, if you don’t know the Tempest is by Shakespeare, you’re definitely new to all this. So to help you out, Ceremony is by Leslie Marmon Silko, Passing is by Nella Larsen, and Orlando is by Virginia Woolf

[Anonymous No.18656331]

>>18656279
By Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.18656340]

>>18656121
>Agape Agape
Worst Gaddis. Better put some Bernhard there instead.

[Anonymous No.18656345]

>>18656340
>worst Gaddis
It’s a 90 page sprint of pure literary genius. I did almost put Carpenter’s Gothic, but Agape Agape is what anyone wanting to write nowadays should tango with to see what a real powerhouse of writing can do

[Anonymous No.18656358]

>>18656170
lainpill? more like playinpill becuz thats just what the "lainpill" is; a distraction meant to divert /lit/ from the actuality occurring in the frame of technics.

[Anonymous No.18656386]

>>18656327
>>18656331
I-I know most of Shakespeare's plays, swear on me mum, I just never knew Tempest was its original title. I've read Hamlet in my lang at least :(
>Leslie Marmon Silko
>Nella Larsen
>Virginia Woolf
Well in my defense, these are all women.

[Anonymous No.18656400]

>>18656386
>ignorant faggot hates women
What a surprise.

[Anonymous No.18656401]

>>18656386
Woolf is one of the most legendary of all the modernists, Passing is one of the most acclaimed Black modernist stories of the 1900s, and Silko is one of the most successful and critically appreciated Native American authors in academia, so you should know all of their work before you know some niche dickhead like Celine or whatever

[Anonymous No.18656430]

>>18656401
>Woolf
>legendary modernist
Absolutely destroyed by Frater Asemln

[Anonymous No.18656452]

>>18656323
I appreciate Bernanos, Bachelard, Rilke, Heidegger, Arendt, Breton, Aragon and some other authors of the 20th century, but in all honesty none of them seems to me comparable to the least of those I have proposed. Afterwards, it must be said that I have much less inclination for the literature of this century and that, in spite of some rare nitescences, I find it much less enjoyable than the main part of the other ages. For the same reason, apart from the Aeneid, I have not included any Latin literature.

[Anonymous No.18656544]

>>18656358
Well then redpill me on technics. Who would that be, Mumford? Ellul? Archimedes?

[Anonymous No.18656602]

>>18655449
Top ten
The Bible
The Illiad
The Odyssey
Tragedies (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
Aeneid
Complete Works of Plato
Complete Works of Aristotle
Don Quixote
Faust
Divina Commedia

Also writers

Joyce (Ulysses and Dubliners)
Proust (Lost time)
Tolstoy (Anna Karenina and War and Peace
Dosto (The Brothers Karamazov)
Borges (Collected Fictions)
Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)
Hegel (The Phenomenology of Spirit)
Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

[Anonymous No.18656778]

>>18656275
As a subject it is a good introduction to higher mathematics, but extremely uninspiring if studied per se, at least for me. I was really moreso saying that I find it worthwhile to read original texts, and would rather I had read the Principia than Rudin's Analysis if I were forced to choose. I guess I'm more interested in the history of ideas than than the object of investigation itself.

[Anonymous No.18656799]

>>18656778
>>18656602
>>18655449
Do you guys have /lit/ approved romance books?

I just want to read about a couple falling in love and shit. Any tier lists on that?

[Anonymous No.18656830]

>>18655449
>Iliad
>Odissey
>Bible
>Aeschylus' Orestiad
>Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
>Sophocles' Thebaid
>Euripides Medea
>Plato's Dialogues
>Aristotle's Methphysics
>Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
>Virgil's Aeneid
>Cicero's De Re Publica
>Augustine's City of God
>Dante's Divine Comedy
>Cervante's Don Quixote
>Shakespeare's Complete works
>Hobbes' Lebiathan
>Spinoza's Ethics
>Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
>Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
>Kant's Critique of the Pure Reason
>Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit
>Kierkegaard's Either/Or
>Thoreau's Civil Disovedience
>Tocqueville's Democracy in America
>John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
>Tolstoy's War and Peace
>Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamzov
>Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Franz Kafka's Stories

[Anonymous No.18656890]

>>18656799
Daphnis and Chloe. It's really light reading in translation, and focuses more than any other book I've read on love and attraction.

[Anonymous No.18656962]

>>18656799
Toni Morrison - Jazz
A short novella called Silk
Graphic novel called Soppy

[Anonymous No.18657044]

>>18656890
Best translation to read?
>>18656890
>>18656962
Thanks for the recs anons.

[Anonymous No.18657055]

SEX AND CHARACTER
THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
THE NEW TESTAMENT
STAGES ON LIFE'S WAY
SOREN KIERKEGAARD'S JOURNALS AND PAPERS/NOTEBOOKS
THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA
THE DHAMMAPADA
THE ZEN TEACHING OF HUANG PO
POISON FOR THE HEART
THE COMPLETE MYSTICAL WORKS OF MEISTER ECKHART
THE TAO TE CHING
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
THE ATTACK UPON CHRISTENDOM
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO
ZHUANGZI
MULAMADHYAMAKAKARIKA
UEBER DIE LEZTEN DINGE
CEREBUS
THE HEART SUTRA

[Anonymous No.18657167]

>>18657044
I read a German translation that I don't have within reach as of the moment, so I'm afraid I can't recommend one. With most prose I'd generally advise you pick a translation based purely on its merits as a work of English prose, then look into current scholarship if you want to attain a deeper understanding. (you shouldn't have any trouble finding monographs about Greek novels and romance)

[Anonymous No.18657277]

>>18657055
this

[Anonymous No.18657381]

>>18655449
Homer - Iliad
Homer - Odyssey
Aeschylus - Oresteia (considered as singular)
Sophocles - Theban "trilogy" (Oedipus/At Colonus/Antigone)
Plato - Complete Works
The King James Bible
Virgil - The Aeneid
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Livy - History of Rome
Apuleis - The Golden Ass
Dante Alighieri - Inferno
Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron
Chrétien de Troyes - Arthurian Romances
Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
William Shakespeare - Complete Works
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust II & 2

I appreciate that there are tens more worthwhile, amazing works after Goethe's time, but this list contains the sort of things you'll want to read as a groundwork, and I don't believe 20 books is enough even for that. Much in the same way there's a medieval gap filled overwhelmingly by Chretien, which you can expand into Poundian Provençal hipsterdom at some later date to see the development of romances and lais.

[Anonymous No.18657386]

>>18657381
Forgot to add a 20th lol I'm retarded. I would say The Pilgrim's Progress.

[Anonymous No.18657398]

>>18657381
>Faust II & 2
based schizo alchemist

[Anonymous No.18657411]

>>18657398
>he doesn't know

[Anonymous No.18658009]

>>18656830
I'd also add Camus Sisyphus myth. I surpassed the 20 books anyway

[Anonymous No.18658036]

>>18658009
and I forgot the Heidegger's Being and Time

[Anonymous No.18658066]

Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Nietzsche, Zarathustra
Heidegger, Being and Time
Benjamin, Das Passagenwerk
Schmitt, Political Theology
Marx, Das Kapital
Foucault, History of Sexuality
Derrida, Of Grammatology
Arendt, The Human Condition
Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness
Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Hamsun, Growth of the Soil
Ibsen, The Wild Duck
Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
Plato, The Republic
Aquinas, The Summa
Augustine, City of God
Lacan, Ecrits
Deleuze & Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Pound, The Cantos

[Anonymous No.18658076]

>>18658066
I should add
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. One Thousand and One Nights

[Anonymous No.18658099]

>>18655449
I can't belive no one has said Finnegans Wake yet

[Anonymous No.18658154]

>>18656308
>eurocentric
>first book is "our oriental heritage"