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Not really looking for anything too specific, just some works that capture the zeitgeist of the board.

>> No.20909869

U

>> No.20909882
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20909882

Read this to understand the life of the average /lit/poster

>> No.20909883

https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki//lit/_Top_100_Lists

>> No.20909889

>>20909847
Unironically the five (six?) meme books /lit/ has collaboratively written
Also the book I am currently writing—less a "book" and more a kind of index or map through which you can read this board's culture. It's not done though so you'll have to wait for that one>>20909847

>> No.20909932

>>20909847
Look at the sticky.

>> No.20909999

>>20909932
I wish to see if anyone has any recommendations beyond the top 100 lists as I've already read a large portion of them.

>> No.20910008

>>20909999
I always recommend Hunter Thompson's first collection of letters called Proud Highway but no one ever takes it up. That's my recommendation to you.

>> No.20910017

>>20909847
Houellebecq

>> No.20910082

>>20910008
Thank you, I'll check it out

>> No.20910103

>>20909889
"read these books that im not gonna mention" you gigantic faggot nigger, what are you talking about?

>> No.20910550

>>20909999
nice numbers

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20910571

Call of the Crocodile is the most famous book from this place. So that. Other than CotC there’s the greeks.

>> No.20910582

>>20909889
>6 meme books

Call of the Crocodile
Call of the Arcade
Call of the Kappa
Waldun

I can only think of 4. What else?

>> No.20910591

>>20910582
>>20910103
No, nigger
>The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra (2014)
>Hypersphere (2015)
>L’anomie: un Roman Existentialiste (2018)
>Coronameron (2020),
and
>The Annotated Moby-Dick (2021)
although technically Moby-Dick doesn't count. This also doesn't include the two sequels to TLOTIAT

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20910592

>>20909932
Eh the sticky just has Reddit suggestions.

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>>20910591
Also this. Moby dick is unironically one of the most mentioned because it’s one of the all time best.

>> No.20910596

>>20910593
Saving these kek. Please more Gardner photoshops.

>> No.20911337

>>20910591
Have any of these been done up in EPUB? I can only manage to find the standard PDF copies and I don't want to have to feed them through the paper shredder that is Calibre's conversion software.

>> No.20911396

>>20909847
OP reads books to fit in rather than just to read