What the FUCK

[Anonymous No.19920527]

Is your top 3 books?

[Anonymous No.19920532]

>>19920527
Portable Jung, Brothers Karamazov, the teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda.

[Anonymous No.19920541]

>>19920527
Is there a decent hardcover of tbk?

[Anonymous No.19920545]

>>19920541
Have not seen, would be sweet though.

[Anonymous No.19920547]

1. The Big
2. Book of
3. Reddit

[Anonymous No.19920549]

>>19920527
Is lide really so simple that you can just narrow it down to 3 books? Ive got well over 100 books and at one point probably owned close to 300. I dont read often enough to have really been profoundly effected by a choice few.

[Anonymous No.19920564]

>>19920549
I agree, I feel there was many other books that deserved to be among this list because they were equally good. But just pick three dammit, you won't go to hell if it's not perfect.

[Anonymous No.19920573]

>>19920547
Eat a penis

[Anonymous No.19920577]

>>19920573
no u

[Anonymous No.19920591]

>>19920527
Carl Schmitt's The Concept Of The Political
Tao Te Ching
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork On The Metaphysics Of Morals

[Anonymous No.19920595]

>>19920527
Not a single rec, thanks you pieces of shit

[Anonymous No.19920604]

>>19920591
Hmm, interesting

[Anonymous No.19920640]

>>19920527
I only make lists in even numbers based on artwork of light (spenta) and darkness (Angra). Since you asked for 3, I am going to give 4.

Top 4:
Spenta: Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden
Angra: The Best of Poe, The Nightmare Factory

I only read and watch horror and children's artwork.

[Anonymous No.19920654]

Moby Dick
Crime and Punishment
Twilight

[Anonymous No.19920676]

>>19920640
Neat

[Anonymous No.19920809]

>>19920527
WHO THE FUCK

cares?

[Anonymous No.19920845]

1. Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
2. Thomas Pynchon - Mason and Dixon
3. DFW - Consider the Lobster

[Anonymous No.19920863]

1. War & Peace
2. Anna Karenina
3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

I've read at least a thousand books but none of them do it for me quite like the Count

[Anonymous No.19920878]

>>19920640
What's your fav scene in murder she purred? Or two scenes: one angra, one spenta for the sake of balance.

[Anonymous No.19920886]

I never know how to do these things. I’m not a zoomer so I don’t rank. Do I rank the books that made me most excited to read, what books have made a lasting impression on me, what books are my favorite on a technical level, what books do I have the best memories of, etc. I’ll also have “nostalgic” favorites and “current” favorites. And it depends what mood I’m in. To top it off, there are probably 20-30 contenders for being in my top 5.

[Anonymous No.19920889]

>>19920809
Who the FUCK

knows

[Anonymous No.19920890]

>>19920527
Speedboat
Finding a Form
So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away
>>19920549
it is just a game, socializing. Pick the three books which have been on your mind the most recently and call it good. You are not committed to them for life or even for the next breath, and for fucks sake this is anonymous, be retarded and have fun, join in for once in your life.

[Anonymous No.19920894]

>>19920527
1. bible
2. bible
3. bible

[Anonymous No.19920900]

>>19920886
This predates zoomers by centuries and has nothing to do with ranking. You are overthinking it and then some. Have you ever taken a chance in a social setting?

[Anonymous No.19920902]

>>19920527
Lolita, House of Leaves, American Gods.

[Anonymous No.19920904]

>>19920886
The purpose of the post wasn't about ranking, I am always looking for new books and thought it would be an efficient way of extracting some good new books to look into.

[Anonymous No.19920910]

>>19920904
It's not the best method because top 3 or top 5 lists tend to be occupied with widely read classics that you've already heard of.

[Anonymous No.19920917]

>>19920878
Most of Murder She Purred was *overall* spenta. It also ended in a spenta way. Granted, I think the murder that was indicated off-screen was angra ofc. Here's the review I wrote on it recently:
>This was a great heartfelt movie set in a small rural community of Virginia. It follows the story of a woman, who loves detective novels, including her lovable corgi and kitty. In the community, there was recently a murder, and given the female protagonist's love of detective stories, she starts investigating the clues along with the local police department and friends. However, the real stars of this film are the furry detectives whose voice actors did a splendid job of capturing their personalities. The movie follows their perspective largely. Even though the movie centers on investigating a single murder, it does not have a dark or tense atmosphere, meaning it is fine for children.
>The scenery in this film is absolutely gorgeous and looks like something straight out of a picture book. It also had time to fit in other wholesome activities like fishing, horseback riding, and even a fancy guest party. You also truly feel a sense of Southern hospitality from the way the characters interact and converse with each other. The dialogue of the furry detectives was also very charming with a nice touch of humor.
>I highly recommend this hidden gem. It truly deserves a HD remaster. The ending was also very elating

[Anonymous No.19920925]

>>19920910
Thank you perfect Peter for the advise, now kindly note down some books

[Anonymous No.19920928]

>>19920878
I may need to pick something that's more spenta, but I liked the combo of a corgi and cat detective in a relaxing rural area.

[Anonymous No.19920932]

>>19920900
>have you ever taken a chance in a social setting?

Armchair psychology. Whenever I’m asked my favorites, I cast a wide net and drop a bunch of names, stressing what I’ve been into recently

[Anonymous No.19920940]

>>19920910
I will make a post in the next couple days called, "top 5 books that no one has heard of"

[Anonymous No.19920953]

>>19920925
Not him, but some of my favorites that aren’t perennial lit 100

Germinal
Tropic of Cancer
The Colossus of Maroussi
Mysteries
Memoirs of Hadrian
Sentimental Education
A Sportsman’s Notebook
Sometimes a Great Notion
Lonesome Dove
Look Homeward Angel
Van Gogh’s Letters
Of Human Bondage
The Third Policeman
Winesburg Ohio
Warlock
The Opposing Shore
The Rings of Saturn
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Collector
Mrs Dalloway
Nine Stories

[Anonymous No.19920954]

Joseph and His Brothers

[Anonymous No.19920959]

>>19920527
From Libau to Tsushima, Maxim's and reflections, Gödel Escher Bach

[Anonymous No.19920984]

>>19920959
Also, The life and Thought of Japan and What is the Name of this Book, both gems

[Anonymous No.19921004]

>>19920932
That is not psychology, it was a literal question. This is psychology, you more or less answered my question.

[Anonymous No.19921049]

>>19920863
Extremely based. Tolstoy really is the goat.

[Anonymous No.19921379]

>>19920591
Why

[Anonymous No.19921542]

Commonly-known ones:
Essays by Montaigne
In Search of Lost Time
Anti-Fragile

>>19920953
>Winseburg Ohio
>Mrs. Dalloway
>Van Gogh’s Letters
Excellent taste, especially when it comes to Van Gogh's letters. Mrs. Dalloway is probably the most mainstream Woolf novel though. To the Lighthouse is just more highly-regarded on /lit/ and it's top 100 rankings. I'll check out your others based on the picks I recognized. Thanks

>>19920953
>>19920940
Secret gems/well-known but rarely cited as top books on /lit/
>Anatomy of Melancholy
Similar to Montaigne's essays in nature but very different tone
>Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
>The Name of the Rose
>Sexual Personae
>Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
>Democracy in America
A classic, yes, but its relevance is underrated. Tocqueville was right about everything.
>Labyrinths
Borges but not included in Ficciones
>The Death of a Salesman

[Anonymous No.19921604]

>>19921379
why not?

[Anonymous No.19921633]

Nothing better was ever written

[Anonymous No.19921759]

>>19920527
Heroes of Olympus book 4
Ranger's Apprentice book 4
Land of Stories book 3

[Anonymous No.19921833]

>>19920527
Right now my top 3 are
-Confessions of a Mask by Mishima
-The Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg
-Sexual anomalies: the origins, nature and treatment of sexual disorders. A summary of the works of Magnus Hirschfeld

[Anonymous No.19922214]

>>19921633
now this looks fucking good

[Anonymous No.19922220]

Jakob von Gunten, Walser.
The Loser, Bernhard.
Nadie nada nunca, Saer.

[Anonymous No.19922234]

>>19920591
Carl Schmitt and Tao Te Ching is so different wtf

[Anonymous No.19922277]

>>19920541
I've got one

[Anonymous No.19922435]

>>19920527
always hard to pick
Crime and Punishment, Dostoievski
Confessions of a Mask, Mishima
The Cloven Viscount, Calvino (this one will change for sure)

[Anonymous No.19922461]

>>19921542
Seconding Gombrowicz, criminally overlooked.

[Anonymous No.19922625]

>>19920886
What the fuck man, just pick a few books. You know you’re anonymous right? You know you can say literally anything. I appreciate that you’re obviously very autistic and struggle with open ended questions, but please use it as an opportunity to express yourself xx

[Anonymous No.19922630]

>>19920527
Blood Meridian
Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives
Lovecraft’s collected stories.

[Anonymous No.19922751]

1 The Big and the Small by Böuert
2 Thinking Outside of Time by Lindenross
3 The Skyscrapers of Our Hearts by Fortana

[Anonymous No.19923297]

>>19920902
> Lolita
Overrated trash
> House of Leaves
YA trash with different typesetting
> American Gods
Ramblings of a schizo, burgers can't write good literature

ngmi

[Anonymous No.19923305]

>>19920527
the capital
the gulag archipelago
the bible

[Anonymous No.19923343]

>>19920527
I havent really read enough to say but here they are anyways:
>Sound and the Fury
>Blood Meridian
>Wuthering Heights

[Anonymous No.19923525]

>>19920541
Everyman's Library edition is really nice

[Anonymous No.19923528]

>>19920527
1.Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
2.Ulysses
3.Les Chants de Maldoror

[Anonymous No.19923681]

>>19923297
>burgers can't write good literature.
Neil Gaiman is English, another pseudo rant.

[Anonymous No.19923691]

>>19920547
You have to go back

[Anonymous No.19923790]

Kazantzakis - the odyssey
Goethe - faust
Shakespeare - henriad

[Anonymous No.19924425]

>>19920886
You're a faggot. I don't want to know your opinion.

[Anonymous No.19924449]

>>19920527
1. War and Peace
2. Steppenwolf
3. 1984

[Anonymous No.19924465]

>>19920527
>Ulysses by James Joyce
>Crow by Ted Hughes
>Possession: A Romance by A.S Byatt

Runner Ups:
>Waterland by Graham Swift
>The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
>The Tower by W.B Yeats
>Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
>The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
>Hamlet by William Shakespeare
>Endgame by Samuel Beckett
>Dubliners by James Joyce
>60 Stories by Donald Barthelme
>The Canterbury Tale by Geoffery Chaucer
>The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

[Anonymous No.19924469]

>>19920532
>Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
so pissed I got memed to this book and it is literally JUST about drugs. his entire religion is fucking drugs and that's literally all it is

[Anonymous No.19924471]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Moby Dick
Rifles for Watie

[Anonymous No.19924552]

>>19924469
I personally didn't read it for any personal enlightenment, I just thought it was an interesting and unique book.

[Anonymous No.19924830]

>>19920640
Jorjani?

[Anonymous No.19924870]

>>19920527
chess story, zweig (got me into reading)
stoner
blood meridian

i havent read many books at all tho. i imagine i'll like suttree a fuckload when i get around to it

[Anonymous No.19924928]

>>19920527
anna karenina
JR
David Copperfield

[Anonymous No.19925293]

>>19920527

1) Iliad by Homer
2) Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
3) Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

[Anonymous No.19925369]

>>19920886
If you didn't already know I'm sorry to inform you that you almost definitely have autism

[Anonymous No.19925910]

>>19925293
Ive reread Julius Ceasar 5 times in the last two weeks. I’m getting worried for myself. That and King Lear I can reread infinitely

[Anonymous No.19926749]

In Search Of Lost Time
The Man Without Qualities
Dog Years

[Anonymous No.19926952]

>>19920527
The Trial
Iliad
Of Mice and Men

[Anonymous No.19927475]

Absalom, Absalom!
The Time of the Hero
Sentimental Education

[Anonymous No.19928078]

vesaas - the ice palace
kosztolanyi - skylark
ishiguro - the unconsoled

[Anonymous No.19928105]

Middlemarch - Eliot
Dubliners (esp A Little Cloud) - Joyce
The Tunnel - Gass

[Anonymous No.19928411]

City of God - St. Augustine
Republic - Plato
Demons - Dostoyevsky
Holy Bible
The Way of a Pilgrim - Anonymous
On the Incarnation - St. Athanasius
Cyrus the Great Art of Leadership - Xenophon/Larry Hedrick
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.19928444]

Suttree
East of Eden
The Things They Carried

[Anonymous No.19929068]

>>19920527
Don Quixote
TBK
War and Peace

[Anonymous No.19929126]

>>19928078
>ishiguro - the unconsoled
sell me this one

[Anonymous No.19929156]

>>19920527
Dostoy: Demons
Marquez: years of solitude
Cormac: blood meridian

[Anonymous No.19929460]

>>19923528
We would be friends I can tell, even if I've not read those books.....

[Anonymous No.19929464]

>>19925910
You're a based kinda guy. Not Hamlet? I'm planning on spending a few months with Shakespeare, reread the few plays I know, read those I don't

[Anonymous No.19929488]

>The Iliad
>Tropic of Cancer
>Black Hawk Down
Any recs? I’m a zoomer new to this reading thing.

[Anonymous No.19929494]

>>19920541
>>19920545

easton press

[Anonymous No.19929519]

>>19921633
>>19922214
Link to english version?

[Anonymous No.19929730]

bump

[Anonymous No.19929748]

>>19929488
hell in a very small place

[Anonymous No.19929828]

>>19924449
>2. Steppenwolf
>3. 1984
Why? They're great, but what makes either of them deserving of their placement?

[Anonymous No.19929856]

>>19929730
Thanks anon I’ll look into it. Do you know any good personal accounts written by soldiers who fought in modern conflicts? I read Chickenhawk a while back and it was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.19929862]

>>19929748
>>19929856
Fugg

[Anonymous No.19929890]

>>19920527
1. HPMOR
2. The Dark Forest
3. Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.19929962]

>>19920527
i dont really have a top three but my favorite is definitely something by thomas bernhard, probably woodcutters. i love basically anything in this style (kafka, beckett, krasznahorkai, etc.)

>>19920591
>>19923305
kind of tryhard to list these as your three "favorite" books if i'm being honest

>>19922220
nice

>>19920890
>speedboat
nice
>it is just a game, socializing. Pick the three books which have been on your mind the most recently and call it good. You are not committed to them for life or even for the next breath, and for fucks sake this is anonymous, be retarded and have fun, join in for once in your life.
lmao

>>19920953
>winesburg ohio
>the third policeman
cool

>>19924870
>suttree
yeah it's amazing. probably my favorite mccarthy and i've read almost all of his stuff

[Anonymous No.19930067]

>>19922220
I really loved Jakob von Gunten. I also read Schoolboy Diaries by Walser and the first section is very much like Jakob, so read that too if you haven't already.

[Anonymous No.19930079]

>>19920527
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey
Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish
Richard Preston - The Hot Zone

Unfortunately, my top three doesn't necessarily portray my love for the classics but c'est la vie

[Anonymous No.19930094]

>>19929488
the painted bird
storm of steel

[Anonymous No.19930417]

>Complete Works of Vergil
>All Things Are Possible by Lev Shestov
>The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
>>19926952
nice
>>19923528
>Maldoror
based

[Anonymous No.19930441]

>>19930417
>All Things Are Possible by Lev Shestov
QRD?

[Anonymous No.19930445]

The Iliad
Crime and Punishment
Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.19930500]

>>19929962
>speedboat
Probably the only one of those that really has a chance at being a favorite proper, the other two I am most likely still just gushing over. I really love Speedboat.

[Anonymous No.19931347]

>>19920527
Confederacy of dunces
King solomon’s mines
The monk

[Anonymous No.19931657]

>>19930441
Shestov's rejection of rationalism and logocentrism, viewing the world not as being bound by any one understandable system but instead as a completely uncertain world. To avoid the despair caused by this uncertainty, Shestov posits that, quite literally, all things are possible. Here's one of my favorite sections:
>The possibilities which open out before mankind are sufficiently limited. It is impossible to see everything, impossible to know everything, impossible to rise too high above the earth, impossible to penetrate too deeply down. What has been is hidden away, what will be we cannot anticipate, and we know for certain that we shall never grow wings. Regularity, immutably regular succession of phenomena puts a term to our efforts, drives us into a regular, narrow, hard-beaten road of everyday life. But even on this road we may not wander from side to side. We must watch our feet, consider each step, since the moment we are off our guard disaster is upon us. Another life is conceivable, however: life in which the word disaster does not exist, where responsibility for one's actions, even if it be not completely abolished, at least has not such a deadly and accidental weight, and where, on the other hand, there is no "regularity," but rather an infinite number of possibilities. In such a life the sense of fear—most disgraceful to us—disappears. There the virtues are not the same as ours. Fearlessness in face of danger, liberality, even lavishness are considered virtues with us, but they are respected without any grounds. Socrates was quite right when he argued that not all courage, but only the courage which measures beforehand the risks and the chances of victory, is fully justifiable. To the same extent those economical, careful people who condemn lavishness are in the right. Fearlessness and lavishness do not suit mortal men, rather it becomes them to tremble and to count every penny, seeing what a state of poverty and impotence they exist in. That is why these two virtues are so rarely met with, and when they are met, why they arouse such superstitious reverence in the crowd. "This man fears nothing and spares nothing: he is probably not a man, but a demi-god, perhaps even a god." Socrates did not believe in gods, so he wanted to justify virtue by reason. Kant also did not believe in God, and therefore he derived his morals from "Law." But if there is God, and all men are the children of God, then we should be afraid of nothing and spare nothing. And then the man who madly dissipates his own life and fortunes, and the lives and fortunes of others, is more right than the calculating philosophers who vainly seek to regulate mankind on earth.

[Anonymous No.19931673]

>>19920527
Huck Finn
Anna Karenina
Just So Stories

[Anonymous No.19931689]

>>19931657
Thank you for that!

[Anonymous No.19931692]

>>19920527
1. Moravagine
2. At Swim-Two-Birds
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy
No order
I like comedies :)

[Anonymous No.19931726]

>>19920527
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
No Longer Human
Child of God

I only started reading last year after never reading after highschool almost a decade ago. I'm enjoying myself :)

[Anonymous No.19931740]

>>19929464
I’ve warmed to Hamlet. I find that it takes me 2-3 times before you can begin to appreciate Shakespeare and I’m at the 3 time mark. I think my biggest issue is separating it from its popularity. Also I don’t like Hamlet, himself.

I just got the Pelican. So I’m planning on a deep dive. I used to respect Shakespeare, but find him unenjoyable. I decided to give him another shot and realized my appreciation rose tremendously once I had read through once and understood the characters, plot and themes. Mark Antony’s speech is one of the greatest things I’ve ever read. It has inspired me to start using “hath”, “thee” and “thy” in everyday use

[Anonymous No.19931756]

>>19929828
Not him but Steppenwolf has probably changed more young men’s lives for the better than any book written after the 18th century

[Anonymous No.19931838]

>>19920527
Book of the New Sun
Laurus
A Canticle for Leibowitz

[Anonymous No.19931845]

>>19931657
Thanks for this anon you’ve piqued my interest. I’ve been wanting to dive into existentialism, where should I start? I read The Stranger recently and I liked it desu.

[Anonymous No.19931862]

>>19931756
How lol?
>dont take life seriously hurr durr
Just saved you a couple hours of reading.

[Anonymous No.19931867]

>>19931862
You didn’t read the book or misunderstood it

[Anonymous No.19931875]

>>19931862
He's right though

[Anonymous No.19931957]

>>19920527
The life and death of Socrates
Lolita
Notes from Underground

[Anonymous No.19932021]

Hyperion
Cryptonomicon
Blindsight

[Anonymous No.19932138]

>>19932021

Based.

Hyperion
Seneca's Letter's to Lucilius
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.19932193]

>>19931862
Kek. That explains Boomer, Slackers and Millenials quite well.

[Anonymous No.19932195]

>>19920527
>World Hypotheses
>Gödel, Escher, Bach
>Holy Bible

[Anonymous No.19932495]

>>19932195
what is the best geb chapter

[Anonymous No.19933159]

>>19931845
Not the anon you replied to but try The Plague by Camus, it's his best work imo. Also Existentialism is a Humanism by Sartre and the Ethics of Ambiguity by Beauvoir.

Or just read Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, the 20th century existentialists looked up to both of them but could never get close to their level.

[Anonymous No.19933451]

>>19933159
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.19933472]

>>19925369
No, I don't.

[Anonymous No.19933695]

>>19933472
You do

[Anonymous No.19933699]

>>19932195
Vapid incarnate

[Anonymous No.19933718]

>>19920527
1. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (if have to pick one play, hamlet)
2. Moby Dick
3. The Grapes of Wrath

[Anonymous No.19933726]

>>19920541
You gotta go vintage for a decent TBK hardback, I recommend Modern Library or Dent & Sons

[Anonymous No.19934355]

>>19920591
>tao te ching shit talking word people's masturbatory castles
>includes a masturbatory word castle book

[Anonymous No.19935024]

>>19923681
No he's not, he's Jewish.

[Anonymous No.19935388]

>>19932495
Can't really say, it's one of those books you have to read a few times to try to retain as much as you can. You learn something new from it each time

>>19933699
Fair enough, but I'm curious to see your picks.

[Anonymous No.19935473]

>>19923297
>>Lolita
>Overrated trash
ngmi

[Anonymous No.19935623]

>>19920541
everymans library edition is on nice paper and not expensive

[Anonymous No.19936052]

>>19935024
>Unable to distingush between nationality and ethnic background.

[Anonymous No.19936416]

>>19929828
Steppenwolf is a masterpiece which tackles the timeless issue of an individual man's struggle to subdue his tendencies deemed unacceptable to wider society in the context of a civilized environment. He ultimately finds a group of people who open up a world worthy of living in and counteracts his everyday life which was driving him towards suicide. All of this may sound trite or cliche, or, to a particularly jaded individual, even cringe. Yet the manner in which it is portrayed and dealt with is stunning in it's aptitude, cutting in it's poignancy, and leaves a lasting impact, perhaps most of all on those it is directly written to... "Madmen only".

1984 is a novel which you almost certainly already know a great deal about due to it's immense contributions to both political conceptualizing and the very language we use regarding politics and authoritarianism. Yet the real meat of the story is in it's horror elements. When one truly grapples with the climax of the novel, there is no other topic which could possibly illicit more dread: the absolute and total control over objective truth itself by malevolent forces. Those who naysay it as a novel clearly missed out, or gave in to a hipster inclination to hate anything that becomes too popular. Either it filters you as incapable of conceptualizing the horror it presents, or it filters you as an absolute pseud who refuse to appreciate a masterpiece just because it has a wide readership.