Book Recommendations Thread

[Anonymous No.20404897]

Describe what kind of a book you want to read and other anons recommend!

I want to read a book where main character is depressive, suicidal, anxious, explaining his life difficulties and complaining . I've read Houellebecq and I need more.

[Anonymous No.20404911]

>>20404897
catcher in the rye

[Anonymous No.20404917]

>>20404897
Notes From The Underground

[Anonymous No.20404923]

>>20404897
>I want to read a book where main character is depressive, suicidal, anxious, explaining his life difficulties and complaining
every mass shooter manifesto

[Anonymous No.20405074]

>>20404897
Stop being a resentful little faggot and live in accordance with Nature. Read Marcus Aurelius.

[Anonymous No.20405100]

>>20404897
The books that I’m reading now.

[Anonymous No.20405273]

>>20404897
No longer Human
Notes from the Underground
Grotesque

[Anonymous No.20405329]

I've got too many books to-read piled up in my gaff, but here's what I'm most interested in reading next, I just can't decide which one:

Death on the Installment Plan - Céline
A Glastonbury Romance - Powys
You Bright and Risen Angels - Vollman
Bleak House - Dickens
Pierre - Melville
The Makioka Sisters - Tanizaki
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Tom Jones - Fielding
The Sot-Weed Factor - Barth
Hopscotch - Cortazar
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Döblin
J R - Gaddis
Solaris - Lem
Tristram Shandy - Sterne

Wot u saying brevs?

[Anonymous No.20405339]

>>20404897
>I want to read a book where main character is depressive, suicidal, anxious, explaining his life difficulties and complaining . I've read Houellebecq and I need more.
Book of the New Sun

[Anonymous No.20405349]

>>20405329
>Wot u saying brevs?
You need a better reading list.

[Anonymous No.20405372]

Alright, i've got two

1) Im nostalgic for the the magic mountain. A slow contemplative novel about death and illness, ideally set in a sanatorium of some sort.

2) a good history of the Austrian empire

[Anonymous No.20405378]

>>20405329
I read A Glastonbury Romance this time last year, it was the best reading experience of my life. Will re-read next year.

[Anonymous No.20405388]

>>20405372
>Im nostalgic for the the magic mountain. A slow contemplative novel about death and illness, ideally set in a sanatorium of some sort.
Laurus

[Anonymous No.20405399]

I'm just wondering if there are any contemporary fiction authors who aren't woke douches adding that crap into their writing. I like scifi and speculative fiction. Blake Couch seems to be one of the few. I'm tired of getting about 40% into a novel and then the author goes balls to the wall with a character itself having 5 genders or some other leftist shit, probably out of fear of getting canceled by the publishing houses.

[ἐντελής No.20405402]

>>20404897
Knut Hamsun's Hunger.

[Anonymous No.20405405]

>>20405399
Blake Crouch*

[Anonymous No.20405407]

>>20404897
>I want to read...
... a story with a genius who isn't a sperg. Think James Bond, but with a steady level of realism in the plot.

[Anonymous No.20405409]

>>20405399
You can easily bypass this bullshit by not reading books written after 1945. The quality in general of the things you read will exponentially improve as well.

[Anonymous No.20405430]

>>20405409
I'm just going to do this then. My TBR list is pretty clear at this point except for some field guides so I get to start over.

[Anonymous No.20405663]

>>20405402
Second this

[Anonymous No.20405696]

I will definitely buy Notes from the Underground. I decided for Wilks translation.
>>20405402
>>20405663
I've already read it.

[Anonymous No.20405717]

Recs for books that me feel happy? I just want to be glad when reading

[Anonymous No.20405746]

>>20404897
Try "Himizu"
It's a manga, but it's well-written. I know you guys like it when your books don't have pictures and that's alright.
If you can't look past a superficial flaw such as the medium to read a good story, just don't read it.

[Anonymous No.20406049]

Bump

[Anonymous No.20406084]

What's the literary equivalent of Goodnight Punpun

[Anonymous No.20406114]

>>20404897
BOTNS but without all of wolfe's sex autism

[Anonymous No.20406241]

>>20406114
Filtered. Smaller scale but Vodolazkins's Laurus is kinda similar, though less fantastical.

[Anonymous No.20406413]

I'm in the market for

A very unassuming and normal story at a surface level told through either a potent quantity of philosophical contents and/or a particularly lavish or unique style.

or

Fiction with style and/or themes that feel very contemporary

or

Any book that is very fun to read

[Anonymous No.20406427]

>>20406084
No Longer Human

[Anonymous No.20406511]

>>20406413
You've probably already read it but stoner is great for your first ask.

[Anonymous No.20406583]

>>20406511
Actually I have but I agree that it's a good recc

[Anonymous No.20406609]

>>20404897
I want a story that explores the extremes of emotion by way of religion

[Anonymous No.20406618]

>>20405372
The Man Without Qualities

[Anonymous No.20406621]

>>20406609
The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.20406622]

>>20404897
A novel about a 27 yo man who overcomes his post covid fall into inactivity

[Anonymous No.20406624]

>>20404897
I want a horror book where the villain / monster / whatever has a dark toxic, erotic chemistry/dynamic with another character

[Anonymous No.20406629]

To put it simple: something similar to Raymond Carver short stories.

[Anonymous No.20406645]

>>20406624
Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

[Anonymous No.20406652]

>>20404897
I want a book that is similar to Orwell's style but about different politics

[Anonymous No.20406657]

>>20406624
The Wizard Knight

[Anonymous No.20406660]

>>20406629
Mr President by Asturias

[Anonymous No.20406970]

>>20406645
>>20406657
these looks neat! Please keep the recs coming

[Anonymous No.20407017]

>>20404897
I want to read a prosey lovecraftian romance story set in a vast, mystical wood with the aesthetic of Over the Garden Wall.

[Anonymous No.20407253]

>>20406660
Was meant for >>20406652

[Anonymous No.20407303]

>>20404897
My diary, senpai

[Anonymous No.20408355]

any books about social anxiety?

[Anonymous No.20408376]

>>20407017
I’ll read this too.

I want a genuinely funny book that does not rely on wordplay or references. In other words, something that is funny as a narrative and not because fictional animals are named after puns or the wicked witch is actually good (although I would read something like the latter, even though it sounds like an outline for a bad isekai).

[Anonymous No.20408388]

I want a book set in a historical or pre-historical environment (fantasy is okay too). With lots of descriptive violence and action scenes. Preferably sword fighting rather than gun fighting (although I'd make exceptions for Westerns or other similar settings) I just want something with grisly exciting violent action and fight scenes that make my heart pound and make me say "oh fuck."

Examples of what I'm looking for that I've already read;
Shogun
Gai-Jin
Gates of Fire
Conan The Barbarian
Blood Meridian (and other McCarthy books)

[Anonymous No.20408402]

>>20408388
Iliad

[Anonymous No.20408412]

I'm looking for a novel in which the main character gradually improves himself through hard work and persistence. Something like Siddartha or Martin Eden.

[Anonymous No.20408452]

>>20404897
>I want to read a book where main character is depressive, suicidal, anxious, explaining his life difficulties and complaining
why? I want a book where the main character is a schizophrenic gigachad that isnt moby dick because ive already read it

[Anonymous No.20408478]

>>20408376
Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, very detached dark comedy centered around a Candide-esque protagonist

[Anonymous No.20408488]

>>20408478
Downloaded and I’ll check it out tomorrow. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.20408499]

>>20404897
>I want to read a book where main character is depressive, suicidal, anxious, explaining his life difficulties and complaining . I've read Houellebecq and I need more.

[Anonymous No.20409231]

A book that is similar to the film Taxi Driver is what I'm after, boys.

[Anonymous No.20409277]

>>20405399
Tom McCarthy, Rick Moody, and Patrick Roesle are all leftists and contemporary but not by any means pozzed.

[Anonymous No.20409284]

>>20405407
Red and Black by Stendhal
>>20406413
John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse
>>20406609
>>20406621
Seconded. I'd pair it with Master and Margarita or Dead Souls.
>>20408355
Notes from the Undeground maybe

[Anonymous No.20409317]

What is the go-to book on... anti-female revolution?

[Anonymous No.20409697]

>>20409231
The novelisation

[Anonymous No.20410090]

>>20406413
my struggle by knausgård for all of those

[Anonymous No.20410825]

I want a book that feature a love or companion story with a cute loli

[Anonymous No.20410940]

>>20404897
Book of Disquiet for sure

[Anonymous No.20410942]

>>20410825
Lolita

[Anonymous No.20411016]

>>20404897
>I want to read a book where main character is depressive, suicidal, anxious, explaining his life difficulties and complaining
just look in the mirror dude

[Anonymous No.20411051]

>>20408412
Technically this fits that bill.

[Anonymous No.20411070]

>>20408412
growth of the soil

[Anonymous No.20411304]

>>20411070
The title is actually markens grøde, and it translates to [the] earthworms porridge

[Anonymous No.20411322]

>>20404897
Something that will make me depressed/insane for a period of time. A new personality

[Anonymous No.20411326]

>>20405399
F Gardner

[Anonymous No.20411358]

>>20411070
I've read this, but yeah this is very much in the vein of what I'm looking for. Also The Good Earth (which I've also read). Robinson Crusoe would be another one I've read that's like this.

[Anonymous No.20411433]

>>20411304
HAHAHAHA retard

[Anonymous No.20411463]

>>20411304
faen kis

[Anonymous No.20411468]

>>20411433
Wha?

[Anonymous No.20411472]

Lost illusions by Honoré de Balzac.

[Anonymous No.20411591]

>>20404897
>I want to read a book where main character is depressive, suicidal, anxious, explaining his life difficulties and complaining .
I want the opposite.
Hit em up with some whitepill books anons. Fiction or non-fiction.
>>20408388
Saxon series by bernard cornwell but it gets old really fast.
Conqueror and Emperor series by conn iggulden though they are more about politics and history, still some good action scenes and good if you like reading about the formations and tactics.
Tyrant series by Christian Cameron, about the diadochi wars.
The Assyrian by Nicholas Guild.
Eskkar Saga Sam Barone.
The Hittite by Ben Bova. A unique perspective on the siege of troy.
Thrice named man by Hector Miller, i haven't read it but my mom says it was ok.
My mom said Count Belisarius was good too.
There was two duologies that i can't remember the name of that were really good. One was about Hammurabi and one was about a Greek soldier turned priest. I'll let you know if i remember them.
None of these books will compare to classics. Basically violence/history porn to be honest but better than tv.

[Anonymous No.20411645]

>>20404897
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike

[Anonymous No.20411680]

What to read next?
Fear And loathing Thompson
A sport and a pastime salter
Bel Ami guy de Maupassant
Money Martin Amis
Hero of our time
Storm of steel
Colossus of Maroussi
Dante’s Inferno
Hamlet
Farewell to arms
Blood And Champagne
Narcissus and Goldmund
The sovereign individual
Invisible Man
Endgame Beckett
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Myth of Sisyphus
Nausea Sartre

[Anonymous No.20411736]

>>20404897
I’d like a well written escapist fantasy book/series. Not something subversive or with multiple perspectives like GOT. Just a story about a hero with a destiny or something that goes on fun adventures with friends and some kind of love interest. I’m fine if it’s more directed at a ya crowd but doesn’t have to be I guess. I don’t mind it having a darker tone but I’d just like it to be fun with some cliches in it.

[Anonymous No.20411749]

>>20404897
Lot about paranoid schizos involved in vast conspiracies? Like imagine Eyes Wide Shut but with the mc from Taxi Driver.

[Anonymous No.20411756]

>>20404897
Books about lonely people living in cities (like the movie Lost in Translation) but not by an asian author

[Anonymous No.20412242]

Bump

[Anonymous No.20412279]

>>20411680
I shill The Colossus Of Maroussi every chance I get, so I recommend that. Criminally under read

[Anonymous No.20413420]

What to read next?
The Aeneid
Inherent Vice
Sand County Almanac
Anna Karenina
Frankenstein

[Anonymous No.20413534]

>>20404897
Hi. Offboarder here. Not really looking for a recommendation, but need help tracking down a book that I remember some details about and have never been able to track down. Figured I'd post the details here and see if anyone recognizes it instead of making a whole thread about it. If no one recognizes it then I guess you can give me recommendations on similar stuff, because I clearly liked the premise enough for it to stick with me all these years later.

>Read some time between 2012 and 2014. No idea if the book was new or older than that.
>Would probably be listed as a young adults novel. Found in a school library.
>The book starts out seeming like it's in a fantasy setting. Characters talk about magic and the like.
>Later revealed that the setting is actually a failed human space colony. Some disaster occurred that basically knocked the colonists back to the dark ages.
>What the characters refer to as magic is actually ancient technology still around from when the planet was being colonized ages ago.
>Planet has multiple moons, most of which are revealed to be artificial and part of the colonization efforts.
>I believe the characters meet with an old AI that was suppose to oversee the colonization efforts later in the novel.
>There's some sort of corruption spreading across the planet. No recollection of what it actually is though.
>Main characters are an older guy and some young guy who's his apprentice or something like that. I think they meet up with some chick from a city later.
>Don't remember any character names or anything beyond that.
>I feel like I recall the book being a part of a series, but that could be incorrect.

Ring any bells for anyone?

[Anonymous No.20413579]

>>20413420
Try reading Family Happiness before you read Anna Karenina. It's like a miniature version, so if you don't like it, you probably won't like Anna Karenina.

[Anonymous No.20414165]

>>20411736
unironically just read don quixote

[Anonymous No.20415409]

[Anonymous No.20415654]

Any books from the POV of a person that gets infected by something alien/supernatural and describes the changes they are experiencing.

[Anonymous No.20415668]

Books where the villain achieves his/her objective pls

[Anonymous No.20415675]

>>20415668
The gospel of Paul

[Anonymous No.20416302]

Want to read a book about people from the past having to live in modern day.