Name your top ten essentials books.

[Anonymous No.22652147]

[Anonymous No.22652160]

>>22652147
The City of Dreaming Books (Moers)
Nobodaddy's Children (Schmidt)
Krabat or the Metamorphosis of the World (Brezan)
Felidae (Pirincci)
The Tartar Steppe (Buzzati)
The Waves (Woolf)
Lesabendio (Scheerbart)
Little Morgue (Benn)
The Mirror in the Mirror (Ende)
Ficciones (Borges)

[Anonymous No.22652169]

>>22652147
Like favorites?

[Anonymous No.22652178]

Harry Potter 1
Harry Potter 2
Harry Potter 3
Harry Potter 4
Harry Potter 5
Harry Potter 6
Harry Potter 7
The Lord of the Rings 1
The Lord of the Rings 2
The Lord of the Rings 3

[Anonymous No.22652207]

>>22652147
The Book of Disquiet
Fathers and Sons
The Makioka Sisters
The collected works of Sherwood Anderson
The Brothers Karamazov
The Magic Mountain
Storm of Steel
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Moby Dick
Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.22652225]

>>22652147
Genesis
1 Kings
2 Kings
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Ezekiel
Daniel
Matthew
Acts
Titus

[Anonymous No.22652234]

>>22652147
I will name only one because I value quality over quantity.

[Anonymous No.22652251]

>>22652234
>names 80 books

[Anonymous No.22652280]

>>22652234
>>22652251
lmao

[Anonymous No.22652288]

I wish there was a /rel/ containment board.

[Anonymous No.22652309]

>>22652147
Can’t limit it till 10 but I’ll do 10 groupings

>Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
>Henry Miller in general
>DH Lawrence in general
>essays by Montaigne, Emerson, Thoreau
>Complete Poetry and Prose Library of America edition by Walt Whitman
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
>The East- I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Classical Chinese poetry, Bhagavad Gita, Dhammapada, Upanishads, Japanese poetry
>autobiographies by Cellini and Casanova
>pick 2 of the following: The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Siddhartha by Hesse, The Prophet by Gibran, USA Trilogy by Dos Passos, Rabelais, Decameron by Boccaccio, essays by Edmund Wilson, Paris Spleen by Baudelaire, Seneca’s writings, Plutarch’s writings, Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke, Hemingway in general but especially his short stories, Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey, Lichtenberg, La Rochefoucauld, Joseph Joubert, Gogol in general, Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann, Germinal by Zola, A Glastonbury Romance by Powys, The Dharma Bums by Kerouac, Proust, Mysteries by Hamsun

Too many books I like and my favorites at the latter end change frequently depending on how I feel and I don’t want to exclude any. I’m forgetting a few too

[Anonymous No.22652312]

>>22652288
fortunately for you there's an atheism containment site, it's called reddit

[Anonymous No.22652318]

>>22652288
Da boble mentioning is tame compared to endless pseud convos about german philosophers

[Anonymous No.22652319]

>>22652318
I agree that these anons are terrible as well.

[Anonymous No.22652336]

>>22652318
>>22652319
you need to be 18 to post here

[Anonymous No.22652340]

>>22652336
Not an argument

[Anonymous No.22652365]

>>22652340
and what is your argument?

[Anonymous No.22652377]

>>22652365
I will reiterate for you. My statement is da boble posting is less annoying than eternal pseud takes on german philosophers. We need a /phil/ containment board more than /rel/ one.

[Anonymous No.22652383]

>>22652377
We need both. End of discussion

[Anonymous No.22652399]

>>22652383
Lol never said we didn't, just that one is way more prevalent and annoying than the other.

[Anonymous No.22652403]

>>22652399
what do you contribute besides your bitching?

[Anonymous No.22652414]

>>22652403
Lol you could've just said "I feel attacked please stop attacking my pseud takes about bald germans". Clear as day

[Anonymous No.22652486]

>>22652399
They are both terrible and cancerous to me,

[Anonymous No.22652503]

>>22652147
I don't read

[Anonymous No.22652564]

>>22652288
>tips fedora

[Anonymous No.22652592]

Kafka - Amerika
Chandler - Farewell My Lovely
Walser - Jakob von Gunten
Conrad - Lord Jim
DH Lawrence - The Rainbow
Beckett - Watt
Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy
Tao Lin - Taipei (no really)
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March

[Anonymous No.22652851]

>>22652147
I take it you mean essential for my personality.
Brave New World (don't preassume that it's a dystopia, it's not)
Gödel Escher Bach (thinking with self-reference)
Focault's Pendulum (research everything you don't know, absolutely worth it, understand how Europe came to be what it is now)
Lord of the Rings (peak comfy)
The Count of Monte Cristo (for inspiration to become educated)
Range (how to learn and become a modern renaissance man)
Road to Reality (for a geometrical understanding of maths)
Cryptonomicon (for understanding how tech companies think)
Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (be prepared for the next/current tech revolution)
Faust

[Anonymous No.22654456]

>>22652147
Poetic Form and Meter (Fussell)
Theory of Harmony (Schoenberg)
The Jazz Theory Book (Levine)
Film as a Subversive Art (Vogel)
The Higher Arithmetic: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (Davenport)
Foundations of Quantum Theory (Landsman)
Handbook of Mathematical Logic (Barwise, et al.)
The Lambda Calculus: Its Syntax and Semantics (Barendregt)
Éléments de géométrie algébrique (Grothendieck)
The Monadology (Leibniz)

[Anonymous No.22654470]

>>22652147
Qur'an
Jami' Tirmidhi
Reign of Quantity
Open Letter - Moldbug
Against Method - Feyerabend
Fragments - Heraclitus
Muqaddima - Ibn Khaldun
The Two Theses of Dr. Ali Ataie
Introduction to Hadith Methodology - Ibn Al-Salah
Poetry of Ezra Pound

[Anonymous No.22654602]

>>22652851
Excellent set of books, Anon - just as my reading list ran dry. I will (re)read all of these.