/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19728851]

What are some good hidden gems?

[Anonymous No.19728923]

Can’t read all the titles, have a written list of all these?

[Anonymous No.19728936]

I only read books with over 1,000,000 ratings on goodreads

[Anonymous No.19728972]

Suicide by Édouard Lève is great

[Anonymous No.19728975]

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[Anonymous No.19728988]

>>19728851
MUH OBSCURITY AAAAA IS THAT A DOSTOVESKY NOVEL YOU ARE READING AAAAAAA IM GOING TO INSANE AAAAAA STOP READING THAT PLEB SHIT

[Anonymous No.19728996]

>>19728851
Good thing hardly any of those books in OP can be called hidden gems

[Anonymous No.19729001]

>>19728851
Aura
Cuentos sobrenaturales
Both by Carlos Fuentes, I don't know if you can find the latter in english though

[Anonymous No.19729044]

>>19728936
This. And anything under 4.2 stars is not worth your time. My personal favorite is Midnight Library, such a thought provoking and interesting book!

[Anonymous No.19729131]

>>19728851
The best on there is the Third Policeman, then the Beckett Trilogy. The Tunnel is long and interesting and boring and interesting again.
Lanark is better to my mind than the Journal of Albion Moonlight, which is too disjointed to garner sympathy. Ice was OK, a bit like Carver meets Kafka. Beheading isn't so captivating as Nab's more famous work. I can't remember anything about Herzog. Titus Grown is fun for adolescent boys. Not much has happened in the first 5 chapters of the Tartar Steppe, and I don't suppose much else will. I can't comment on the others, or I can't read their titles.
you should probably read The Third Policeman. it's charming and funny and interesting.

[Anonymous No.19729135]

Call of the Crocodile

[Anonymous No.19729158]

love seeing the pic I made years ago is still being posted around. Hope some people have found some good books from it.

[Anonymous No.19729164]

>>19728851

[Anonymous No.19729196]

>>19728936
bait

[Anonymous No.19729212]

>>19729196
Oh shit glad you called it out. Wouldn't have realized otherwise.

[Anonymous No.19729236]

>>19728851
The Will to Power

[Anonymous No.19729240]

>>19729212
you're welcome.

[Anonymous No.19729271]

>>19728851
Speedboat is fantastic, the way she uses the heavily fractured narrative to alter the readers relationship and perspective to the main characters past is fantastic.
>>19729158
Why did you make it so small so most of the titles can not read?

[Anonymous No.19729286]

>>19729158
can't read all the titles and several of these are widely known works, not hidden gems in any sense.

[Anonymous No.19729291]

>>19729158
Do you have it in better res?

[Anonymous No.19729299]

>>19729286
They're only known if you're into reading. For the world at large they might as well be hidden gem.

[Anonymous No.19729322]

>>19728851
Haven't read it myself but heard that the tartar steppe is good

[Anonymous No.19729338]

>>19728923
Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (I highly recommend this)
The Maimed by Hermann Ungar
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolyani
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Ice by Anna Kava
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
Omnibus by B.S. Johnson
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Maldoror by Comte de Lautremont
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Trilogy by Samuel Beckett

[Anonymous No.19730353]

>>19728851
You can't really go wrong with any of these. The Tartar Steppe is a personal favorite of mine

[Anonymous No.19730363]

>>19728851
if you like Ice read The Taiga Syndrome by Christina Rivera Garza and anything by Sjon

[Anonymous No.19730369]

J.G Farrell. The Siege of Krishnapur is like a superior version of Catch 22

[Anonymous No.19730380]

>>19729299
You can honestly say that about every single interest and hobby

[Anonymous No.19730387]

>>19728851
May I suggest pic rel

[Anonymous No.19730388]

>>19730369
Yawnnnnnn

[Anonymous No.19730533]

>>19730387
This one has more SOVL

[Anonymous No.19730543]

If you seek out books like it you’ll find this one but I never see it on lists. One of the greatest books I’ve ever read and have only heard it referenced in conversations about Wolfe.

[Anonymous No.19730548]

Beware of Pity is hilarious in a morbid way. I recommend it.

[Anonymous No.19730556]

>>19728851
For people who enjoy fantasy, Flameweaver by Margaret Ball is one of my favorites from back in the day.

[Anonymous No.19730564]

Most works by Philip K Dick. People know Do Androids Dream and maybe Ubik or some of his shorts because of the movies based on them but most of his best stuff has fallen into obscurity except for nerds

[Anonymous No.19730594]

I am now further convinced that there is something to be said in general for studying the history of a lost cause. Perhaps our education would be more humane in result if everyone were required to gain an intimate acquaintance with some coherent ideal that failed in the effort to maintain itself. It need not be a cause which was settled by war; there are causes in the social, political, and ecclesiastical worlds which would serve very well. But it is good for everyone to ally himself at one time with the defeated and to look at the “progress” of history through the eyes of those who were left behind. I cannot think of a better way to counteract the stultifying “Whig” theory of history, with its bland assumption that every cause which has won has deserved to win, a kind of pragmatic debasement of the older providential theory. The study and appreciation of a lost cause have some effect of turning history into philosophy. In sufficient number of cases to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs. It would be perverse to say that this is so of every historical defeat, but there is enough analogy to make it a sober consideration. Not only Oxford, therefore, but every university ought to be to some extent“the home of lost causes and impossible loyalties.” It ought to preserve the memory of these with a certain discriminating measure of honor, trying to keep alive what was good in them and opposing the pragmatic verdict of the world.

[Anonymous No.19730633]

>>19728851
Six Days in the Life of David Vallejo

[Anonymous No.19730735]

The Wizardry series by Rick Cook is another good one for people who like fantasy. They have a ton of old computer references and stuff in them that's before my time, but I still have a lot of fun reading them.

[Anonymous No.19730869]

Literally a books have become hidden gems besides Harry Potter. No book, even the biggest classics, sells more than five thousand copies a year except to schools or if a movie comes out based on it. And even then less than half of them get read.

[Anonymous No.19730882]

>>19728851
what book is that in the bottom left corner? under Beckett's three novels

[Anonymous No.19731702]

>>19730869
>all books are hidden gems besides Harry Potter
>millions of sales > 5000 sales worldwide > 100 sales nationwide > 10 copies sold from a car trunk > 1 found on the fleamarket > 0 available physical copies > 0 traces left
there's some kind of tier ranking to it really

[Anonymous No.19732234]

>>19730882
Looks like a Dalkey Archive Press edition, perhaps that’s of any help

[Anonymous No.19732285]

>>19728851
On Elegance While Sleeping

[Anonymous No.19732480]

>>19730533
Le Grand Meaulnes made it into a chart. I was the first that started talking about it here. I am proud. Truly a great book for pre WW1 frenchaboo catholic France

[Anonymous No.19732526]

'Soon I will be Invincible' by Austin Grossman.

A shockingly competent literary novel masquerading as a goofy superhero parody.

[Anonymous No.19732919]

ice trilogy by vladimir sorokin

NYRB has all three volumes in one paperback

[Anonymous No.19733251]

>>19730882
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz. It's very good.

[Anonymous No.19733291]

>>19728851
None of these are "hidden"

[Anonymous No.19733298]

>>19730380
So?

[Anonymous No.19733318]

Tumbling in the Hay - Oliver St. John Gogarty
A Dream of Fair to Middling Women - Samuel Beckett
The Evenings- Gerard Reve

[Anonymous No.19733377]

Star Trek novels. People ignore them because they’re licensed but there are lots and lots of great scifi stories just sitting there as good as anything by Heinlein or Dick

[Anonymous No.19733584]

I'm sure if this book was translated into English, it will be one of / lit / 's book (it is french btw)

[Anonymous No.19733631]

>>19728851
What's the book between Herzog and The Tunnel?

[Anonymous No.19733918]

>>19733631
The Cannibal by John Hawkes. Excellent book

[Anonymous No.19734159]

>>19733918
It's pretentious bullshit. Read this instead >>19733377

[Anonymous No.19734170]

>>19733318
>A Dream of Fair to Middling Women - Samuel Beckett
Isn't that Beckett's worst book?

[Anonymous No.19734192]

>>19732285
I read this one in Spanish and it surprised me how good it was. Do you know of any more books like it, anon?

[Anonymous No.19734406]

>>19734170
Worst? Far from it—

[Anonymous No.19734495]

>>19733918
Much appreciated

[Anonymous No.19734721]

>>19728851
>chart for ants