Post the last four books you acquired.

[Anonymous No.18686061]

No cheating to make yourself look good.

[Anonymous No.18686069]

>>18686061
Ibn Arabi - The Bezels of Wisdom
Greek Myth and Tragedy
Georges Bataille - The Accursed Share Vol. II/III
Gilles Deleuze - Expressionism in Philosophy

[Anonymous No.18686075]

>>18686061
Tao te ching
Saragossa manuscript
Mao tse tung red book
Oresteia
15 bucks in total more or less. I mostly buy used books

[Anonymous No.18686084]

Heideggers introduction to metaphysics
Knowledge a very short introduction
Harassment architecture
Pure land history tradition and practice

[Anonymous No.18686105]

The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy - William James
Community and Society - Tonnies
Governing the Commons - Ostrom
Classics in Social Choice - McLean and Urkean

[Anonymous No.18686110]

>>18686061
The Good Soldier Shitcunt
The history of wargaming Operation Sealion in the UK military
Two books on complexity levels of Aboriginal gathering from White archival sources. (Greatest Park and the Reynolds one)

[Anonymous No.18686123]

>>18686061
Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
Kenzaburō Ōe - A Personal Matter
新堂エル - 晒し愛

[Anonymous No.18686139]

>>18686061
Nienasycenie
The Confidence Man
Heart of Darkness
Berlin Alexanderplatz

[Anonymous No.18686143]

>>18686061
Why not more? I always buy more than one book at the time.
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
The Vampire in Lore and Legend (Montague Summers)
Aliens Phalanx (Scott Sigler)
Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink
Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures
Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy
Shadows of Carcosa

[Anonymous No.18686299]

>>18686061
Honesty incoming

[Anonymous No.18686304]

>>18686061
Summa Theologica
Homilies on Genesis and Exodus by Origen
The Philocalia
The Life of St. Anthony

[Anonymous No.18686326]

>Less than zero - Bret Easton Ellis
>Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
>Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
>The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Oe

I’m a brainlet don’t bully me

[Anonymous No.18686352]

>>18686061
from recent to oldest, I read 3/5 already
>ESV Study Bible
>Tolstoj - On Life
>Tolstoj - Confessions
>KJV
>Capitalist Realism
yes I know

[Anonymous No.18686353]

>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Notes from Underground
>A Tale of Two Cities
>Against the Day
I've only read SWFGS so far, have a backlog of books to read but I've been busy. Started Notes from Underground but haven't really been able to get into it yet.

[Anonymous No.18686367]

>>18686061
Well, I've been broke so I haven't bought these, but I downloaded them off of libgen.

Matthew Stokoe - Cows
Samuel R. Delany - Hogg
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
Dale Pendell - Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

I'm glad I didn't purchase Hogg or Cows. Cows is actually surprisingly well written for what it is.

[Anonymous No.18686498]

>The Odyssey (Already read it, just wanted to have a copy)
>The first book of In Search Of Lost Time
>Turgenev collected works (around a thousand pages)
>The Portrait Of The Artist As a Young Man by Joyce

[Anonymous No.18686522]

Moomin series
The Gender Doctrine
Autism handbook
Atomic Habits

[Anonymous No.18686583]

Aristotle, Metaphysics
H. D. F. Kitto, Greek Tragedy
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Marx, 1844 Manuscripts
>>18686352
I like them, anon

[Anonymous No.18686593]

Population Bomb
Complete Keats
Byron's poetry
Genealogy of morals

[Anonymous No.18686628]

EE Cummings Complete Poetry
Robert Frost Collected Poems
Peter Adamson Philosophy In The Islamic World
Idries Shah The Sufis

[Anonymous No.18686632]

>>18686061
The heart is a lonely hunter
Amerika
Franny and Zooey
A portrait of the young artist as a man

[Anonymous No.18686657]

>>18686061
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
Friedrich Schiller: Poet of Freedom Volume I
Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise

[Anonymous No.18687841]

>>18686061
Richard Zenith's biography of Fernando Pessoa
The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Airships by Barry Hannah
first edition hardcover of Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.18687851]

>>18686061
Herodotus histories
Divine comedy
Decameron
Canterbury tales

[Anonymous No.18687892]

>>18686061
KJV Apocrypha, Cambridge press
Meditations on the Tarot
Against Heresies by Irenaeus of Lyons
Man and his Symbols by Jung

[Anonymous No.18687896]

>>18686061
Plague Dogs - Richard Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How - Theodore John Kaczynski
Technological Slavery - Theodore John Kaczynski

[Laura Numeroff !BmHtx5LcGM No.18687903]

Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter
The blind owl
Story of the eye
Death of a red heroine

[Anonymous No.18687922]

The revolt of the masses - Ortega

Propaganda - Jacques ellul

Manifesto for breaking the financial slavery to interest - gottfried feder
The Ancient Regime and the Revolution - de tocqueville

[Anonymous No.18687946]

>>18686061
Midnight of the Century - Serge
The Sickness Unto Death - K.
Golem and other short storie - Meyrink
A collection of Enrico Berlinguer writings.

[Anonymous No.18687955]

>>18686353
>Started Notes from Underground but haven't really been able to get into it yet.
If you're not hooked at the first sentence, it probably won't be nice for you.

[Anonymous No.18687965]

Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism
The Libertine Reader
In the Shadow of Olympus
Alexander the Great and His Empire

[Anonymous No.18687982]

Slow learner by pynchon, last stories and other stories by vollmann, half a lifelong romance (got naked earth earlier) by eileen chang and pedro paramo by some mexican guy

[Anonymous No.18687991]

The Old Man and the Sea
1984
Brave New World
48 Laws of Power

[Anonymous No.18688777]

>>18686061
>the portrait of a lady
>the portable Nietzche
>Xenophon-The Shorter Writings
>The principal Upanishads

[Anonymous No.18688800]

I’ll do you six

[Anonymous No.18688807]

Acquired as in got or fully read?

[Anonymous No.18688873]

Libra and The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Lolita
The complete edition of Bone by Jeff Smith
Siddhartha is the fourth if you don't count Bone, but I count Bone.

[Anonymous No.18688988]

>Franny and Zooey
>The Last of the Mohicans
>Don Juan Tenorio
>Deep Work

[Anonymous No.18689063]

[Anonymous No.18689085]

[Anonymous No.18689099]

The Greek Philosophers - Guthrie
Anger and Forgiveness - Nassbaum
The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature - Moretti
Distant Reading - Moretti

[Anonymous No.18689104]

>Storm of Steel
>Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Meno)
>First Philosophers - Presocratics and Sophists
>Much Ado About Nothing

[Anonymous No.18689262]

>>18686069
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>>18686110
>>18686123
>>18686139
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>>18686326
>>18686353
>>18686367
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>>18687841
>>18687896
>>18687903
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>>18688988
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>>18689099
these guys read

>>18686084
>>18686105
>>18686304
>>18686352
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>>18686657
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>>18688777
>>18689104
these guys don't

[Anonymous No.18689278]

>>18686061
>Gothic Violence- Mike Ma
>The Summer of the Gar- Mark Spitzer (about gar fish)
>Some book about cod and cod fishing
>My own novel

[Anonymous No.18689297]

>>18686061
Propaganda — Bernays
Propaganda — Ellul
Gunfighter Nation — Slotkin
The Virginian — Wister

[Anonymous No.18689306]

>>18689297
I was really hoping that bernays book would be an easy read but it's a trudge

[Anonymous No.18689321]

Dune was a gift :)

[Anonymous No.18689342]

>>18689321
>partch
damn, look at you!
nice one

[Anonymous No.18689360]

>>18689342
Ive had a passing interest in temperament autism for a while now, finally decided to dive in

[Anonymous No.18689380]

Melville - Moby Dick
Titus Livius - History of rome
Seneca - Letters to Lucilius
German folk poetry of XI - XVIII century

[Anonymous No.18689395]

Manuscript found in Saragossa
Memories of Soplica
War and Peace
The glass Jar

[Anonymous No.18689429]

Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead
The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 1, Mickey Spillane
The Nigger of the Narcissus, Joseph Conrad
Sun and Saddle Leather, Badger Clark
Emperor of Portugallia, Selma Lagerlöf

Also have a copy of German for Reading in the mail.

[Anonymous No.18689447]

>Trainspotting
>Last Exit to Brooklyn
>Naked Lunch
>Glamorama

no bully pls

[Anonymous No.18689677]

[Anonymous No.18690093]

>What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense
>Ethica Thomistica by McInerny
>On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
>The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World by Hittenger
It's for a Natural Law class I'm taking for my theology degree

[Anonymous No.18690117]

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann - Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

Everyman's Library copies of each

[Anonymous No.18690128]

>>18686628
Cummings is a good choice anon

[Anonymous No.18690131]

>>18686061
Got the first 3 yesterday and the bottom one a lil bit ago.

[Anonymous No.18690235]

>>18686061
Thousand cranes - Kawabata
Omon Ra - Pelevin
First love - Turgenev

already read the first two. both are great, but I liked Thousand cranes more.

[Anonymous No.18690343]

>>18690235
>First love - Turgenev
I liked this one. The one I read was a very slim book, the other day I noticed my mother has an older edition in another language and it was at least double the thickness. Not sure why
Female protagonist name is my crush' mother btw

[Anonymous No.18690393]

>>18690343
my edition is quite thin as well. less than 100 pages, I believe. I'm gonna read it as soon as I finish what I'm reading right now.

[Anonymous No.18690599]

Eileen chang: half a lifelong romance
William t vollmann: last stories and other stories
Thomas pynchon: slow learner
John berryman: the dream songs (the two collections combined)

[Anonymous No.18690606]

Paul Celan - Complete Poems (trans. Hamburger)
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
Mo Yan - Red Sorghum
Richard Taruskin - Defining Russia Musically

[Anonymous No.18690610]

I only own Shoe Dog by Phil Knight and that is the only book I will ever need

[Anonymous No.18690614]

>>18690235
Thousand cranes is one of my fav books. I wish i could read it in the original, but it's still so incredible. Such great use of symbolism, very haikuish. What a fucking writer kawabata is to give such a small story is given generational stakes and to make cups breaking genuinely thrilling.

[Anonymous No.18690617]

Stoner by williams
cannery row -steinbeck
the unfinished masterpiece
confessions of a justified sinner- hogg

[Anonymous No.18690672]

>>18686069 god
>>18686075 i'm a junior in high school and this is deep
>>18686084 larping
>>18686105 okay
>>18686123 baste
>>18686139 okay
>>18686143 gross
>>18686299 bad but at least I know you read
>>18686304 larping
>>18686326 you are a brainlet but maybe after reading those you will be less of a brainlet
>>18686352 larping
>>18686353 larping
>>18686367 baste
>>18686498 larping
>>18686522 ugh
>>18686583 good list but probably larping
>>18686593 also good
>>18686628 good
>>18686632 okay
>>18686657 larping
>>18687841 nice
>>18687851 larping
>>18687892 larping
>>18687896 larping
>>18687922 larping
>>18687946 good
>>18687965 larping
>>18687991 underage
>>18688777 good
>>18688800 larping
>>18688988 bad
>>18689085 cool
>>18689099 cool
>>18689104 basic
>>18689278 baste
>>18689297 larping
>>18689321 lendvai was making shit up but it's still a decent book. check his math and you'll see that he inconsistently segments his examples to fit his golden ratio scheme.
>>18689380 good
>>18689429 larping
>>18689447 good if basic
>>18689677 ugh
>>18690093 larping, also fuck scruton
>>18690117 baste
>>18690131 good
>>18690235 good
>>18690599 good

[Anonymous No.18690772]

>>18690672
>Thinks the Iliad is passe
>Doesn't know who Marie-Claire Blais is
>Too pretentious to give Christopher Ware a shot
>Richard Powers was a recommendation (he probably hasn't read anything by him...neither have I).

New pic is last 4 read. Fuck yourself pseud.

[Anonymous No.18690813]

>>18690772
Chris* Ware.

[Anonymous No.18690831]

>>18690672
Thats disappointing about landvai but I'm still gonna read it, always liked Bartók, interested in putting his harmonic ideas to use in my own playing/writing

[Anonymous No.18690853]

>>18690614
Kawabata is insane comfy. I think the only other author who can be as subtil and profound with just a few dozen pages as him is Chekhov.

[Anonymous No.18690884]

>>18690772
you've got me that I'm too pretentious to pick up a comic book, but nice Ellwood.

[Anonymous No.18690894]

>>18690772
tired of seeing people reading the iliad just to get it out of the way so they can read song of achilles

[Anonymous No.18690903]

>>18686061
Hard to remember but I think it was in no specific order
>The Death of Ivan Ilyich
>The Iliad
>Sun and Steel
>Bronze Age Mindset

[Anonymous No.18690951]

>>18690853
Try his palm of the hand stories. Some are weird parables, some are three/four scenes with nothing but symbolism yet still great, some are weird imaginative pieces about turning into flowers and a girl having a sister in another town rest her feet on her shoulders type shit.

[Anonymous No.18690986]

>>18690903
Gross

[Anonymous No.18691019]

>>18690903
based chad, we will crush leviathan

[Anonymous No.18691027]

>>18690672
You dont have very good instincts for larping

[Anonymous No.18691031]

>the outlaws - ernst von salomon
>the weird and the eerie - mark fisher
>the dream god - brendan heard
>fanged noumena

[Anonymous No.18691038]

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Steppenwolf by Hesse
Don Quijote de La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes (Spanish Edition)

These are my most recent purchases.

[Anonymous No.18691073]

>>18690951
I don't think this book was published in my country, I'll try to buy an English copy on Amazon. Thanks for the rec.

[Anonymous No.18691086]

>>18691073
No problem, in many ways it's kawabata at his most kawabata

[Anonymous No.18691088]

>>18690951
>>18691073
I'm wrong: it was translated. I'm adding it to my cart.

[Anοnymous No.18691181]

>>18686061
>The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (book that Lawerence of Arabia is based on, purchased today)
>No.44, The Mysterious Stranger (purchased on July 4th, finished a few days ago)
>Children of Dune (purchased two months ago)
>??? oh God it was 1st To Die, The Women's Murder Club #1

[Anonymous No.18691216]

>>18686061
Spring Snow
Runaway Horses
With Nails
The Ordeal of Civility

[Anonymous No.18691283]

>>18690894
Song of Achilles was so disappointing how do people rate that drivel so highly, I admit I enjoyed it for a little but the characters were so flat just turns into a far less interesting Iliad

[Anonymous No.18691318]

>>18686061
The King in Yellow
No Longer Human
The Iliad
Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.18691319]

>>18686061
Brave New World
Anna Karenina
Confessions of a Mask
Temple of the Golden Pavilion

[Anonymous No.18691366]

>>18690894
>Song of Achilles
Why the fuck would I want to read Greek-themed slash fiction written by a dried-up Gen X/Y cunt? (For the record, I rebought The Iliad because I was an idiot and bought Caroline Alexander's version because I found it in a used bookstore).

[Anonymous No.18691400]

>>18690672
>anyone who reads anything besides young adult contemporary filth is larping

[Anonymous No.18691467]

Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
I AMness
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

[Anonymous No.18691471]

The Plague - Camus
The Iron Heel - London
Moby Dick - Melville
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

[Anonymous No.18691517]

>>18686061