10 Favorite Books

[Anonymous No.22419010]

It’s that time again. Time to separate the men from the boys; what are your 10 favorite books?

[Anonymous No.22419043]

odyssey
illiad
the oresteia
why i am so clever
faust
bronze age mindset
the sovereign individual


the rest i dont like as much

[Anonymous No.22419057]

>>22419010
A. Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
V. Nabokov - Lolita
Apuleius - Metamorphoses
I. Nemirovsky - Dogs and Wolves
Y. Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
L-F. Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
N. Hawthorn - The Scarlet Letter
M. Tournier - Friday, or, The Other Island
M. Duras - The Lover
E. Jünger - Storm of Steel

[Anonymous No.22419059]

Real Ultimate Power
Anything Warhammer
Uhhh
I need to read more I guess

[Anonymous No.22419063]

Moby Dick
Blood Meridian
Absalom, Absalom
East of Eden
The Great Gatsby
Lonesome Dove
Rabbit Run
Revolutionary Road
Invisible Man
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[Anonymous No.22419067]

>>22419010
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[Anonymous No.22419073]

>>22419010
Indubitably, the ritualistic exercise of assembling a literary pantheon emerges once more. I shall, in a manner befitting the occasion, proffer a selection that traverses the dimensions of thought, narrative, and insight:

1. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
2. "Ulysses" by James Joyce
3. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
4. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
5. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
7. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
9. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This compendium, a symphony of prose and profound contemplation, reflects my discerning disposition towards the literary realm. However, let it be known that preferences may vary among individuals, and this enumeration is but an exercise in opining rather than a definitive proclamation of literary worth.

[Anonymous No.22419084]

>>22419010
>>22419057

Adding the Bible to my list, especially Exodus, Kohelet, the books of Job, Ruth and Jonas, but does not count as 'literature' to my eyes.

[Anonymous No.22419089]

Moby Dick
The Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina
The Red and the Black
Sons and Lovers
The Name of the Rose
The Third Policeman
2666
Runaway Horses
A House for Mr. Biswas

[Anonymous No.22419093]

>tfw I've read every book posted so far

[Anonymous No.22419262]

>>22419010
Too hard to limit it to ten and I’ll throw in some newer reads as well

>Henry Miller in general (especially Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, The Colossus of Maroussi, Tropic of Cancer, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, and some essays)
>DH Lawrence in general (especially The Rainbow, Sons and Lovers, a bunch of short stories, and some essays)
>Nietzsche in general
>Van Gogh’s letters
>Cellini’s autobiography
>Casanova’s autobiography
>Emerson’s essays
>Montaigne’s essays
>Decameron by Boccaccio
>Gargantuan and Pantagruel by Rabelais
>Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
>Leaves of Grass by Whitman
>Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
>I Ching
>Tao Te Ching
>classic Chinese poetry
>Siddhartha by Hesse
>Bhagavad Gita
>Dhamapada
>The Dharma Bums by Kerouac
>Hemingway’s Collected Stories
>The Waste Books by Lichtenberg
>Maxims by La Rochefoucauld
>Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey
>Gogol in general
>Stendhal in general
>In Search of Lost Time by Proust
>Edmund Wilson in general
>The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
>Mysteries by Hamsun
>Kafka in general
>Rilke in general
>Gerard de Nerval in general
>Plutarch in general

[Anonymous No.22419331]

>>22419067
decimal system bros, our response?

[Anonymous No.22419406]

>>22419010
A Voyage to Arcuturus David Lindsay
Trafalga Angelica Gorodischer
Naked Lunch & Junky William S. Burroughs
Complete Works of Sarah Kane
Slaughterhouse 5
A Clockwork Orange
Blood and Guts in Highschool Kathy Acker

[Anonymous No.22420175]

>>22419073
Nice shorts, my dear anon.
Could you please pull them down so that I may gently and lovingly give you intense oral pleasure with my luscious lips.

[Anonymous No.22420184]

>>22419073
How can write like you? Your literary craft has had me bedazzled. If possible, please share some pearls of great wisdom of yours acquired throughout the years, and impart me that the ways to emulate this noble diction of yours.

[Anonymous No.22420186]

>>22419093
L A R P
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[Anonymous No.22420195]

In no particular order:
Confessions - St. Augustine
Platero and I - Juan Ramon Jimenez
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Poems of Paul Celan - Paul Celan (Trans. Michael Hamburger)
The Poems Of - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air - Soren Kierkegaard
The Bible
Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Republic - Plato
Grass and Tree Cairn - Santoka Taneda

[Anonymous No.22420214]

>>22419262
Now THIS is a quality list.

[Anonymous No.22420517]

>>22419010
Bible
Revolt Of The Masses
Concept Of The Political
Civilization And It’s Discontents
Understanding Media
On Sense And Reference
On The Origin Of Language
Tao Te Ching
Politics
The Prince

I am huge into language and how it shapes history and law

[Anonymous No.22420576]

>>22419063
>Lonesome Dove
What's the QRD on this one

[Anonymous No.22420593]

>>22420576
Nta but great book. A type of deconstructed western. A couple of older cowboys go on one last cattle drive. Lots of memorable characters and you feel like you’re right there on the trip with them. Some scenes will hit you hard. It is one of the few books where not many people have a negative opinion of it. Oh yeah, you’ll never be able to think of carrots the same… It’s a long book but easy read

[Anonymous No.22420608]

>>22420593
To add an aside to my post, this got me thinking that all the best westerns are a deconstruction of some type. The genre lends itself well to that. A straight western would be terribly cheesy. I’d argue that the modern western is always a deconstruction of the genre

[Anonymous No.22420614]

>>22419010
Ulysses
Don Quixote
Hamlet
Moby-Dick
Illiad
Odyssey
Gargantua & Pantagruel
Faust
In Search of Lost Time
A Doll's House

[Anonymous No.22420625]

>>22420614
>Ibsen

His popularity has suffered greatly as the years have progressed. Read about most early 20th century writers and he was a major influence, like Joyce for example. All in all a generic list that could read as a greatest books ever list but they are all good, so I can’t really throw shade

[Anonymous No.22420650]

>>22419010
Philip K. Dick – Valis
Michel Houellebecq – Atomised
Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Journey to the End of the Night
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky – Demons
Albert Camus – The Stranger
Charles Bukowski – Post Office
Antony Beevor – Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Stanisław Igancy Witkiewicz – Insatiability
Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
Uriel Waldo Cutler – Stories of King Arthur and His Knights

[Anonymous No.22420659]

>>22420650
I feel like I can tell a lot from your list

[Anonymous No.22420699]

>>22420659
I have a soft spot for down-and-out stories, sprinkled with a tad of philosophy, history or s.f.

[Anonymous No.22420749]

>>22420650
>Philip K. Dick – Valis
>Michel Houellebecq – Atomised
>Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Journey to the End of the Night
>Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky – Demons
>Albert Camus – The Stranger
holy reddit

[Anonymous No.22420778]

>>22420749
You are reddit, my newfriend.

[Anonymous No.22420782]

>>22419262
>especially
>lists half the writer's work

[Anonymous No.22420785]

>>22420749
>Céline
>reddit
lol

[Anonymous No.22420854]

1. My book (yet-to-be-released)
2-10. The sequels to my book (yet-to-be-written)

[Anonymous No.22420881]

>>22419010
Not in a particular oder of preference:
Dostoevskij- The Brothers Karamazov
Kafka- The Process
Nabokov-Lolita
Melville-Moby Dick
Homer-Iliad
Joyce-Dubliners
London-The Call of the Wild
Tolstoj-Anna Karenina
Céline-Journey to the End of the Night
Hesse-Steppenwolf