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What's on your reading list, /lit/?

School reading lists or personal ones, a few books long or a hundred, I like seeing what people are planning to read. And if we've read what someone else is planning to read, maybe encourage that anon to bump it up in the queue a bit. I know its always especially exciting for me to see someone planning to read one of my favorites. It makes me wish I could go back and read it again for the first time.

So list them!

>> No.1944565

"Year To Success" - Bo Bennett
"The Stranger" - Albert Camus
"The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture" - Bart Ehrman
"The Humanist Approach To Happiness" - Jennifer Hancock
"The Testament" - Jean Meslier
"59 Seconds" - Richard Wiseman

>> No.1944563

My local library doesn't have any epic poems. Divine Comedy,Paradise Lost,Odyssey and the illiad.So i'd like to read to get one of those but fuck me if i'm going to actually spend money on a book.

>> No.1944570

>>1944563
Woah, that has to be a pretty shitty library not to have any of those. What the fuck.

>> No.1944569

>>1944563

You can get these as free audiobooks on http://librivox.org/

>> No.1944590

I HAVE 500+ ON MY TO-READ LIST, SO QUITE SILLY TO LIST THAT.

HOWEVER, THIS IS WHAT IS ON MY CURRENTLY READING LIST, WHICH I HOPE TO READ IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO

VIRGIN SOIL - TURGENEV (ACTUALLY READING THIS NOW)
THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO - DOSTOEVSKY
TARTUFFE - MOLIERE
IMMENSEE - STORM
THE ADOLESCENT - DOSTOEVSKY
THE LITTLE DEMON - SOLOGUB
THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO - WALPOLE
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY - TURGENEV
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU - WELLS
THE JEW OF MALTA - MARLOWE
THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE - BALZAC
MARY STUART - SCHILLER
THE VICOMTE DR BRAGELONNE - DUMAS
A STUDY IN SCARLET - DOYLE
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS - TANIZAKI
THE FRUITS OF CULTURE - TOLSTOY
THE TROJAN WOMEN - EURIPIDES
A TALE OF A TUB - SWIFT
THE SECRET AGENT - CONRAD
TRISTAN - MANN
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - TOLKEIN

>> No.1944595

used to work in a book shop.

When they closed down I robbed them blind, filled up about 8 boxes with books(aprox 250 books), have been slowly working my way through them, down to 5 boxes. Anything and everything, but am most liking childrens books.

>> No.1944597

>>1944563
Fairly certain those are most, if not all, public domain

Anyway
Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I Am Providence - S. T. Joshi

>> No.1944598

"Infinite Jest"
"Grendel"
"Tropic of Cancer"

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>>1944570
I never realized how good the library i went to on Long Island was until i moved to Florida. I was so embarrassed because after i looked around i asked the librarian at the counter where the stairs to the second floor was.
>Her face when

>> No.1944603

I'd like to read the entire Dear Canada series. I'm a sucker for those Scholastic diary series... unfortunately getting my hands on these books is proving difficult. No library that loans out books in my state has them, and I don't know if I can justify dropping $15 per book + shipping for most of the series.

>> No.1944605

All of this. I don't feel like retyping it.

>> No.1944606

I've got a pile, not so much a list.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (lol)
Chuck Palhaniuk - Rant
Dan Simmons - The Terror
Stephen King - Desperation

Anyone have any opinions on The Terror? It looked interesting enough for $3.

>> No.1944607

>>1944605
forgot link...
>>1944594

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Just finished "The Sickness unto Death" by Kierkegaard. Will probably re-read "Fear and Trembling" as well, but for now my summer reading list stands as:
A Sword of Fire and Sea - The Chaos Knight (Book One) by Erin Hoffman. New fantasy series by the lady more commonly known as the EA Spouse.
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>>1944590
>The Island of Dr. Moreau
>mvq
I frickin' love that book bro. I think Wells does a lot better when he writes shorter. Or it could just be the grotesque nature of the novel itself (something that may explain another equally loved book, 'Frankenstein'). Didn't care much for 'War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' after the first read.

>> No.1944612

Here is stuff I have either checked out from the library or loaded on the Kindle (though I also have like 350 on my bookshelves I need to read):

>Stoner by John Williams
>The Long Ships by Frans G Bengtsson
>A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
>Aelita by Alexei Tolstoy
>Kornel Esti by Dezso Kosztolanyi
>The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
>The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach
>Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
>Dancing Lessons For the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
>Selected Stories by Robert Walser
>The Assistant by Robert Walser
>The Clown by Heinrich Boll
>The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
>Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin
>The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
>The War With the Newts by Karel Capek
>Love and Garbage by Ivan Klima
>Conjugal Love by Alberto Moravia

>> No.1944615

NEXT BOOK

The surrealist Manifesto - Andre Breton (translated)
Any poetry by Tristan Tzara
Forcing Inspiration - Max Ernst (anyone know where to find I looked on amazon and fishpond nothing!!)

Just went to see a surrealist exebition and want to read more... MORE

>> No.1944620

>>1944615
DO I SEE CAPS?

YES I FUCKING DO

>>1944610
YES, I HAVE SEEN SOME REVIEWS ON HOW WELLS IS STILL ABLE TO INSTILL FEAR IN THE READER FROM HIS NOVELLA THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU, AS THE ESSENCE OF HUMANITY IS INDETERMINABLE FROM THAT OF BEAST. SEEMS LIKE A VERY INTERESTING NOVELLA THAT I AM EXCITED TO SOON READ.

>> No.1944625

>>1944600
>Florida
No joke. I never realized how small my library was until I visited family in Maryland and when we went to their library one floor was bigger than my entire school.

>>1944606
I thought it was OK, the whole ice monster stalking pirates thing was entertaining but the language can be a bit thick. And I personally hated the ending but eh. For $3 it's not bad.

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Books I have:
1321 Dante The Divine Comedy
1513 Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince
1886 Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good And Evil
1912 Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies & Sonnets To Orpheus
1940 Jean-Paul Sartre The Psychology Of Imagination
1947 Albert Camus The Plague
1963 Thomas Pynchon V
1973 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
1985 Don DeLillo White Noise
1985 Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian
1987 Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
1996 David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
1997 Don DeLillo Underworld
2005 Stieg Larsson Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2010 Slavoj Zizek Living in the End Times

Books I don't have:
1951 J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
1953 J. D. Salinger Nine Stories

>> No.1944635

>>1944620
If I may be so bold, I would suggest you pay close attention to the creatures of the island and what words Wells specifically uses to describe them. It hits pretty hard as the plot develops, and in one particular chapter where the words show off just how everything has gotten crazy for the main character.

>> No.1944637

I'M CONTEMPLATING LEAVING THE DIVINE COMEDY UNTIL NEXT YEAR, OR PERHAPS DURING MY SUMMER BREAK THIS YEAR (I'M IN AUSTRALIA)

I WAS NEVER A BIG FAN OF POETRY, BUT I HEARD THE IMAGES ARE QUITE VIVID IN IT AND THE SUBJECT MATTER TOO IS OF SIGNIFICANT INTEREST TO ME

>> No.1944638

>>1944635
WILL DO. MANY THANKS GREAT ANON.

>> No.1944657

>>1944638
I try, I try. I read it for a college course so that probably helped my enjoyment of it, but I'm more than happy to spread appreciation for what I consider Wells's best work, although I'm not sure if that statement holds much sway since I've only read three of his works.

>> No.1944668

>>1944657
WITH IT BEING LESS THAN 200 PAGES AND THE INFLUENCE IT'S HAD ON POPULAR CULTURE AND THE WHATNOT, CAN'T SEE ANY REASON NOT TO READ IT

>> No.1944673

>>1944563
I empathize with you. My local library sucks as well. There's almost no Philip K. Dick, no Metamorphosis by Kafka, no Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut and no Pynchon.

It's really fucking annoying.

>> No.1944678

>>1944673
I THOUGHT BRISBANE'S LIBRARY CATALOGUE WAS POOR. WOW, JUST WOW

>> No.1944689

>>1944678
Luxury, that is what Brisbane is!!

You should hit up regional libraries.

Nothing but pop, and cooking books. But the childrens story time is fun,

BTW any good second hand book stores in Bris? am on holiday and need something to read.

>> No.1944694

>>1944689
THEY DON'T EXIST. SO EXPENSIVE

BOOKDEPOSITORY.CO.UK IS YOUR FRIEND

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My library only has one copy of Ulysses, Took me three months of reserving it before i could get a hold of it. When i finally did get it, a quarter of the pages were written on with pen(to the point where you couldn't read the text) and another quarter of the pages were just completely missing. I brought it back and showed it to the librarian, she said i can't take out anymore books until i pay for it to be replaced. I nearly dropped her with my fist.

>> No.1944714

>>1944695
YOU AMERICAN? NEVER HAD ANYTHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN TO ME.

ALTHOUGH, THESE DAYS I READ ALMOST SOLELY FROM MY KINDLE.

>> No.1944741

>>1944695

You're an idiot. They would have taken the book out of circulation if they had noticed the damage to the pages. When you show them what they missed, you implicate yourself.

>> No.1944751

>>1944741
Yeah but a good librarian would be more interested in keeping patrons than playing the stick-up-the-ass hair-in-the-bum marm.

If he noticed it quickly he'd have more of a chance. If it was weeks since he checked it out they'd be more suspicious.

At the library where we worked we never charged for damaged books. We wanted them returned and we wanted patrons coming back. What we lost in damages we earned ten fold in excellent patronage numbers.

>> No.1944789

My library is decent. I live in a fairly small, conservative town in southern Pennsylvania, but we still have three book by Pynchon, three by Camus, four by Vonnegut, five by Cormac McCarthy, two by Philip K Dick, and a bunch of other good stuff.

I'm happy.

>> No.1944808

KEEP POSTING THOSE LISTS GUYS

ANYWAYS, ABOUT LIBRARIES. IF SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED HERE, THE LIBRARIAN WOULD TAKE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT AND PROBABLY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO HIS/HER ATTENTION

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>>1944565
>"The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture" - Bart Ehrman
Oh come off it!
Its all corrupted! The bible is devoid of its whole and has been since the beginning. Its all invalidated by the existence of the gnostic gospels.
<-Put this on your list instead.

Next to read list:
Pictured
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero - Riall
The Castle - Kafka
1453 - Crowley

Thinking of buying On Revolution - Arendt, and Road to Wigan Pier - Orwell

>> No.1944860

City of the Sun - Tommaso Campanella
Life is a Dream - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Lessing
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis - Ugo Foscolo
The House by the Medlar-Tree - Giovanni Verga
The flowers of evil - Charles Baudelaire
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry - Walter Pater
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Day of the Owl - Leonardo Sciascia
Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
Conversations in Italy - Elio Vittorini
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel - J.M. Coetzee
The Lord Chandos Letter - Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Fair Play - Tove Jansson
Boredem - Alberto Moravia
The Unknown Masterpiece - Honoré de Balzac
The Jokers -Albert Cossery

>> No.1944993

>>1944860
WISH YOU POSTED THE YEARS FOR THEM :(

>> No.1945010

>>1944860
Have you read The Summer Book by Tove Jansson already? I'm really hoping Fair Play is going to be as good as that one; I'm picking it up soon too.

Also! Have you read any other Leonardo Sciascia novels? I read The Day of the Owl and was left a bit. I dunno. Underwhelmed, but maybe more confused. Be sure to post your thoughts about it on /lit/ once you've read it!

>> No.1945017

>>1944860

That's a seriously impressive and interesting reading list. Sciascia is a totally underrated writer---besides Owl, I really enjoyed his parody version of Candide (Candido). And his book on Aldo Moro, if you're interested in the politics of terrorism.

Ti piace la letteratura italiana? Ha vista "Lo Meglio Gioventù"? Quello é il mio film favorito.

>> No.1945051

Some I want to cover in the next few months:

A Light in August - William Faulkner
Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
Othello - William Shakespeare
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Michael Kohlhaas - Kleist
Tonio Kroger - Thomas Mann
Mario and the Magician - Thomas Mann
Green Hills of Africa - Ernest Hemingway
Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
House Made of Dawn - Momaday
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H. G. Wells
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Stoppard
The Last of the Mohicans - James Cooper
Vathek - Beckford
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Three Sisters - Chekhov
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
Swann's Way - Proust

>> No.1945083

>>1944860
you should get a trip

>> No.1945219

>>1945051
Othello is very easy to read, you could happily read it in an afternoon. It's one of my favourite Shakespeare plays.

>> No.1945642

>>1945017
No ho letto niente da Sciascia ancora. Si, ho visto "la megio gioventù" due tempi, mi piacela molto.

>> No.1945654

The Citadel of The Autarch by Gene Wolfe
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
2666 by Robert Bolano
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (reread)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

>> No.1945669

Rene Crevel - Babylon
John Wray - Canaan's Tongue
Samuel Beckett - Murphy
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
WB Yeats - A Vision
Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
Douglas Hyde - The Gift
Hillary Mantel - A Place of Greater Safety
Oakley Hall - Warlock
Jeffrey Masson - Final Analysis
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
Gershon Scholem - On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
Edmund Wilson - To the Finland Station
Raoul Vaneigem - The Movement of the Free Spirit

that's what's next to my bed, anyway

>> No.1945696

>>1945642

due tempi? o dodici ore?

>> No.1945701

Big list. No time. Additions/Subtractions plz

Molloy, South Wind, Pale Fire, Labyrinths, The Castle, Anna Karenin (hesitant b/c i don't speak russian), Moby Dick, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain, Infinite Jest, V., Gulliver's Travels, The Sorrows of Young Werther

>> No.1945746

>>1945696
scusi, due volte o dodici ore. Penso.

I have seen it twice.

>> No.1945761

>>1944590
which of those will you be reading in their original languages?

>> No.1946587

bump