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>tfw i don't have to read any more books for the rest of the year
feels good man :)

>> No.19013285

>reading challenge
Get off my fucking board you filthy subhuman bug, absolutely disgusting

>> No.19013307

>>19013285
All YA

>> No.19013333

>>19013239
Post profile.

>> No.19013433

What were those 75 books?

>> No.19013439

>>19013239
Fair fucks, but surely you'd want to keep going and have a surplus?

>> No.19013571

>Reading cookbooks and YA.
Go feed your cats, lady.

>> No.19014741

>>19013333
https://www.goodreads.com/visiblecities
>>19013439
good idea, i think i'll start a bunch of books and then i can quickly finish them all early january next year for mad gains on my next challenge

>> No.19014751

>>19013433
William Golding - Pincher Martin
W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician
Richard Yates - A Special Providence
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Molly Keane - Good Behaviour
Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives
Richard Brautigan - The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
George Saunders - Fox 8
Homer - The Iliad
Joyce Carol Oates - Rape: A Love Story
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Italo Calvino - Why Read The Classics?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Demons
Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Homer - The Odyssey
Jan Morris - Hav
Kenji Miyazawa - Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
Philip K. Dick - Dr. Bloodmoney
Javier Marías - Venice, An Interior
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
Ivy Compton-Burnett - Manservant and Maidservant
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Antonin Artaud - Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist
Louise Glück - The Wild Iris
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
Anne Carson - Plainwater
Yūko Tsushima - Territory of Light
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and other Essays
Barbara Comyns - Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Samanta Schweblin - Fever Dream
John Fante - The Brotherhood of the Grape
Barbara Comyns - The Vet's Daughter
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Zachary Mason - The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Osamu Dazai - Schoolgirl
Alexander Frater - Chasing the Monsoon
Wisława Szymborska - Map: Collected and Last Poems
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Osamu Dazai - Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
László Krasznahorkai - Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
Fay Weldon - The Life & Loves of a She Devil
Elmore Leonard - Hombre
Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet
Eliot Weinberger - Angels & Saints
Lydia Davis - The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Eliot Weinberger - Karmic Traces
Luigi Malerba - What Is This Buzzing? Do You Hear It Too?
Ivy Compton-Burnett - A House and Its Head
Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
Victor Pelevin - Omon Ra
Stefan Zweig - The Post Office Girl
Alfred Hayes - My Face for the World to See
Alfred Hayes - In Love
Samanta Schweblin - Little Eyes
Mariana Enríquez - The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Dorothy B. Hughes - In a Lonely Place
Ali Smith - Winter
Louise Glück - Faithful and Virtuous Night
Mihály Babits - The Nightmare
Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing
Isabella Morra - Poems
Jean-Patrick Manchette - The Mad and the Bad
Frank Herbert - Dune
Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond
David Diop - At Night All Blood Is Black
Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
José Saramago - All the Names
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
Andrey Platonov - Soul
Atiq Rahimi - Earth and Ashes
Max Porter - The Death of Francis Bacon
Marlen Haushofer - The Wall

>> No.19015338

you've read a lot of books i haven't heard of. good job.

>> No.19015343

>>19014751
7/10 anon, good job

>> No.19015994

you're a woman

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19016200

not going well bros ...

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>>19013239
A more modest goal OP.

>> No.19016396

>>19013239
Cool, now uninstall this shit app/unsuscribe from this söy website and read more

>> No.19016526

>>19014751

A bunch of fiction or YA shit judging by the bland titles

>> No.19016548

>>19014751
>Homer - The Iliad
>Homer - The Odyssey
Only books worth reading. All the rest are shit

>> No.19016569

>>19014751
What have been the standouts?

>> No.19016715

>>19013239
what site/app is that

>> No.19016801

>>19016715
goodreads you pleb

>> No.19016808

>>19016526
>a bunch of fiction

you realise what board you are on right? you fucking faggot. anyoen that takes literature seriously should know at least 75% of those authors.

>> No.19016862

>>19016801
mean

>> No.19016867

>>19016801
rude

>> No.19016885

>>19016526
Filtered by a list. Pseud of all pseuds.

>> No.19017018

>>19013239
what'd you read holmes?

>> No.19017266

>>19016200
you can do it, I believe in you :)

>> No.19017732

>>19014751
>Only fiction.

Jesus.

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>>19013239
I always put it on 12 books per year. This year I've already read like 20 books and my counter is still in 9 (because it only count books that you read for days and I only use goodreads like an archive, not to track reading advances).

>> No.19018901

>>19016569
it's a bit of an embarrassment of riches, i've loved an awful lot, but i would say five that have really wowed me that i don't normally see mentioned here are manservant and maidservant, all the names, hav, fever dream, and too much happiness

>> No.19018911

>>19016526
it is mostly fiction but the only one i'd say could count as YA was all the light we cannot see which i read for my book group and found a bit meh

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>>19013239
>set reading goal to 100
>read 60 comic book/manga volumes, 20 plays, 10 short poetry colelections, 9 average size novels, and 1 1000+ page novel

>> No.19019046

>>19017797
>it only count books that you read for days
???
you can set your start and finish date to the same day

>> No.19019073

>>19016808
>gatekeeping /lit/
Sorry your brain isn't folded enough to store the knowledge you would obtain reading nonfiction you lepper