Post what you've read this year.

[Anonymous No.19521834]

[Anonymous No.19521844]

All day every day every month every year. Kant stop won't stop.

[Anonymous No.19521932]

>>19521834
thank you to whoever posted about 'The Sluts' on this board. Such a surprisingly addicting read.

[Anonymous No.19522307]

>>19521834
I made a chart but its on my pc and now I'm using my phone. Will post when I get back

[Anonymous No.19522312]

Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain
Game of Thrones/Clash of Kings - GRRM
White - Bret Easton Ellis
Crime and Punishment

yea yea i know

[Anonymous No.19522537]

I unironically started reading this year. Thank you, /lit/. I owe it all to you.
>1984
>The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
>Aeneid
>On the Heights of Despair
>The Prince
>Animal Farm
>Oedipus King/at Colonus/Antigone
>Faust
>Crime and Punisment
>La Țigănci by Mircea Eliade
>Memories from the House of Dead
>Wuthering Heights
>Iliad
>Odyssey
>the Divine Comedy
>Prometheus Chained
>Ion/Charmides/Euthyphron/Criton/Alcibiades I/Protagoras/Laches/Theages/Lysis/Hippias I+II/Appology
>Notes from the Underground
>Meditations
>Letters from a Stoic(haven't finished it yet)
>Ubik
>Time Out of Joint
>Dubliners
>Macbeth
>King Lear
>Merchant of Venice
>Thus Spake Zarathustra
>The Trial
>Metamorphosis + most of Kafka's short stories
>Lord of the Flies
>Candide
>Frankenstein(haven't finished it yet)
>Nicomachean Ethics
>Metaphysics(got filtered so I haven't finished it)
>Epicurus letter for Herodotus
>Discours de la Methode(got filtered)
>Tolstoy's Ressurection
>Ajax
>+Matthew&some other chapters/various Romanian poems and small plays/bits from Suma Theologiae/some books on Roman and Byzantine history

[Anonymous No.19522547]

[Anonymous No.19522556]

>>19521834

[Anonymous No.19522615]

>>19522547
Very nice; would be your friend, we seem to be interested in some similar authors

[Anonymous No.19522630]

>>19522547
>>19522615
Also: check out Sergio Pitol. You seem to like Compton-Burnett and he's very much inspired by her work. He's also considered a sort of predecessor for Bolaño, Vila-Matas and so on

[Anonymous No.19522649]

>>19521834
I just started reading a month ago and I haven't finished anything yet.
Maybe next year i will have a list of books just like this anon
>>19522537

[Anonymous No.19522693]

>“Technological Slavery”
by Theodore J. Kaczynski. >“Fight Club”
by Chuck Palahniuk. >“Studies in Pessimism”
by Arthur Schopenhauer.
>“Civilized to Death”
By Christopher Ryans.
>“Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians”
By Fanny Kelly.
>“Invisible Monsters”
By Chuck Palahniuk.
>“Can Life Prevail?”
By Pentti Linkola.
>“Stories of Old Greece and Rome”
By Emilie K. Baker.
>“On the Heights of Despair”
By Emil Cioran.

Presently reading: “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant.

[Anonymous No.19522721]

19 so far, the ones nearer the top I liked most.

[Anonymous No.19522739]

>>19522649
The beginning is the hardest part, anon. Your brain has to adapt to every new habbit and that takes some time. It is especially hard if you spent your teenage years on vidya, anime and porn. For example, it took me 2 fucking weeks to finish the Aeneid. At first I couldn't read more than 20 pages without loosing my focus and jittery but now I can read up to 80 pages in one sitting depending on what I read. Granted I had a lot of free time this year and nothing better to do. I believe in you, anon.

[Anonymous No.19522749]

>>19522721
Painfully American

[Anonymous No.19522752]

i won't list them all, only the best ones

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Selected Writings, Thomas Carlyle
Mysteries, Knut Hamsun
The Wanderer, Knut Hamsun
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
A Glastonbury Romance, John Cowper Powys
Suspended Judgments: Essays On Books And Sensations, John Cowper Powys
Rats in the Sacristy, Llewelyn Powys
Thirteen Worthies, Llewelyn Powys

[Anonymous No.19522842]

Some good shit, some absolutely dire shit.

[Anonymous No.19522891]

>>19521834
Surprise Kill Vanish by Annie Jacobsen
Surviving the Killing Fields by Haing S. Ngor
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick (re-read)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters
Wiking by Henk Kistemaker
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Somewhere in there I read the Pentateuch as well. I'm re-reading The Lord of the Rings now (and quite loving it!)

[Anonymous No.19522928]

>>19522537
Good work, anon. I started reading in the last third of this year but was not as well rounded as you. The Guenon shitposters got to me unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.19522995]

>>19522928
i've been reading for years but it was only this spring i stopped reading meme crap.

[Anonymous No.19523013]

Not sure what the random 5 stars shit is about. I didn't rate any of these

[Anonymous No.19523037]

>>19523013
That's not 5 stars, it's 0 stars - they fill in red when rated. The year end summary pulls out highly rated ones and makes them bigger, so I guess if you don't rate any it just picks some at random.

[Anonymous No.19523062]

>>19523037
Oh thanks anon. I had a feeling it might have been something like that

[Anonymous No.19523078]

unironically started reading seriously in 2021 thanks to /lit/. Attempted to start with the greeks but 'ngmi'ed and took short cut but not regretted yet. With chronological order

Crime and Punishment
Myth of Sisyphus
Metamorphosis
Moby Dick
About 10-15 dialogues of Plato
WD Ross book on Aristotle
Several SEP articles mostly synopsisms of major Philosophers chronologically from Descartes to Hegel
Durant`s Story of Philosophy
Gombrich`s short history of the world
Kolakowski`s Main currents of Marxism (1st and 2nd vol yet)

Currently reading: the Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.19523092]

I started reading this year

[Anonymous No.19523096]

>>19523092
forgot pic rel.......

[Anonymous No.19523137]

>>19521834
Pic rel
>inb4 forgot pic rel
I didn't.

[Anonymous No.19523154]

>>19521834
The Ministry for the Future - KSR
Mean Business of North Ganson Street - Zahler
The Slanter Guttter - Zahler
A Congregation of Jackals - Zahler
Corpus Chrome, Inc - Zahler
Annihilation - Vandermeer
SPQR - Beard

if you like Zahler's movies at all, you'll really enjoy his books. he's a good puply writer. I'm finishing up Herbert's Dune books now.

[Anonymous No.19523163]

>>19523154
What are his books like anon? I liked Dragged Across Concrete but wasn't a big fan of Bone Tomahawk

[Anonymous No.19523199]

>>19523163
Did you not like Bone Tomahawk because it was a western? His books basically read a lot like his movies. So Mean Business and The Slanter Gutter and modern day crime dramas, so if you liked Dragged Across Concrete then I recommend these two books. If anyone here liked Bone Tomahawk, I recommend Jackals since it's a western. The books are quick reads, with fast dialogue and a good amount of violence. And for those that like Philip K Dick and want some pulpy sci-fi, read Corpus Chrome.

[Anonymous No.19523215]

>>19523199
I don't mind Westerns. I just found Bone Tomahawk poorly structured. It had nice ideas but 90% of the film felt superfluous. I felt the "slow burn" dynamic worked way better in Concrete. Thanks for the recommendations though anon

[Anonymous No.19523279]

>>19523215
absolutely, I am just here to spread the word. I fuckin love Zahler.. as indicated by me reading a lot of his books back to back this year. enjoy. 'Mean Business' is a great start for you.

[Anonymous No.19523281]

>>19521834
Also these as audiobooks
>cixin liu - remembrance of earth's past 1-3 (finnish translation, read the english translation few years ago)
>väinö linna - täällä pohjantähden alla 1-3 (under the northstar)
>kalle päätalo - ihmisiä telineillä (people on scaffoldings)
>nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra (finnish translation)
>susanna clarke - piranesi
>frank herbert - dune
>mika waltari - sinuhe egyptiläinen
>katarina baer - kiinan suurin harppaus (china's greatest leap)
>christa steinby - herodotos
>wolfram eilenberger - taikurien aika & vapauden tuli (2 books about philosophers in 1919-1943)
>sunzi - the art of war (finnish translation)
>dostojevski - crime and punishment (finnish translation)
>hemingway - the old man and the sea
>kalevala - original

[Anonymous No.19523290]

>>19522630
oh this looks right up my street, thanks for the recommendation!

[Anonymous No.19523341]

Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
The Stranger - Camus
American Psycho - Ellis
Stiller - Frisch
Ansichten eines Clowns - Böll
Death of a Salesman - Miller
The Death of Iwan Ilyich - Tolstoi

Just recently got back into reading and read these since September or October.