10 favorite books

[Anonymous No.22851909]

List your 10 favorite books

Other anons give recs or rate

[Anonymous No.22851952]

In no particular order:
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Stand - Stephen King
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Sword & Citadel - Gene Wolfe
Magician - Raymond Feist
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
Seveneves - Neal Stephenson

[Anonymous No.22852166]

I'll give my top 36

[Anonymous No.22852178]

>>22852166
oh no. oh no no no no.

[Anonymous No.22852704]

Ovid: Metamorphoses
Jung: Collected Works
Thucydides
Freud: Interpretation of Dreams
Frazer: The Golden Bough
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Spengler: The Decline of the West
Rimbaud
Twain: Joan of Arc
Lincoln: Selected Writings and Speeches

[Anonymous No.22852722]

Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
Blood Meridian
Moby Dick
Crime and Punishment
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Bible
Plato's Republic
Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.22852759]

Not in order.
Tinta roja/ Red ink - Alberto Fuget
Cujo - Stephen King
The talisman - Stephen king; Peter Straub
It - Stephen King, yeah i am Stephen King fan,
Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
Hannibal - Thomas Harris
The perfume - Patrick Suskind
Animal farm - George Orwell
Niebla/ Mist - Miguel de Unamuno
Dune - Frank Herbert

[Anonymous No.22852761]

>>22851952
>Watership Down - Richard Adams
Nice
>>22852704
>Twain: Joan of Arc
Based

[Anonymous No.22852769]

Since I suppose poetry anthologies not compiled by the author nor the Bible count:

Moby-Dick
Paradise Lost
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
The Faerie Queene
Vala, or the Four Zoas
Faust
Les Chants de Maldoror
Hamlet
Ulysses
Don Quixote

(Yes, I'm well this is mostly /lit/core, but it's mostly poetry and the scriptures that I read)

[Anonymous No.22852779]

>>22851909
Since I suppose poetry anthologies not compiled by the author nor the Bible count:

Moby-Dick
Paradise Lost
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
The Faerie Queene
Vala, or the Four Zoas
Faust
Les Chants de Maldoror
Hamlet
Ulysses
Don Quixote

(Yes, I'm well aware this is mostly /lit/core, but it's mostly poetry and the scriptures that I read)

[Anonymous No.22852825]

>>22851909

>Letters of Van Gogh
>Henry Miller in general
>DH Lawrence in general
>Leaves of Grass by Whitman
>Essays and Journals by Emerson and Thoreau
>Autobiographies of Cellini and Casanova
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
>Essays by Montaigne
>Tao Te Ching

A slew of others can make the last couple spots depending on my mood: Rabelais, Siddhartha by Hesse, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, I Ching, Rexroth’s Chinese translations, Lautreamont, Gogol, The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann, Sentimental Education by Flaubert, A Glastonbury Romance by Powys, Boccaccio, Kafka, Hemingway, Germinal by Zola, Greek Tragedians, Plutarch, Rilke, USA Trilogy by Dos Passos, Proust, Gerard de Nerval….lots of shit I love, always want to give a shout out to a bunch

Some stuff I read recently that I feel will become favorites: William Blake, The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen, The Arabian Nights, Jung, Edmund Wilson, Henry James, Seneca, Lichtenberg, Joubert, Robert Burton…

There is so much good stuff out there. Blows my mind how some people don’t like reading

[Anonymous No.22852924]

>>22851909
Red Rising series - Pierce Brown (far and above my favorite)
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
1984 - George Orwell
Sun Eater series - Christopher Ruocchio

idk what else. I don't keep a list of things I've read, so there's probably books I quite liked that I'm just not remembering right now

[Anonymous No.22852929]

>>22852779
Only like two of those books are /lit/core. Nice list.

[Anonymous No.22852931]

>>22852825
>Henry Miller
BASED
>Henry James
cringe

[Anonymous No.22852932]

>>22852924
>The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
redpill me on this

[Anonymous No.22852937]

>>22852932
Old Man's War but not shit

[Anonymous No.22852944]

>>22851909
1. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (transl. Red Pine)
2. The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
3. The Peregrine by JA Baker
4. Early Buddhist Discourses (transl. John J. Holder)
5. Biocivilizations by Predrag B. Slijepcevic
6. Metaphysics of Technology by David Skrbina
7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
8. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (ill. Inga Moore)
9. The Best of Poe
10. The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabiński (transl. Mroslaw Lipinski)

[Anonymous No.22853047]

>>22852722
I've nothing to recommend as you've already read everything worth reading. A tip of the cap to you, sir.

[Anonymous No.22853054]

>>22853047
lol newfags are funny

[Anonymous No.22853095]

>>22851909
Here’s my favorite books

[Anonymous No.22853171]

>>22851909
Watership Down
River of Doubt
The complete Illustrated World Guide to Freshwater fish & River Creatures
The Sting of the Wild
The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
Youth- Joseph Conrad
Field Guide to the Birds of North America.
Why Liberalism Failed.
Fifty States Every Question Answered
The Conservative Reformation-Krauth

[Anonymous No.22853184]

>>22852932
cool sci-fi book about coming home from Vietnam and finding your home an alien country full of hippie communist degenerates

[Anonymous No.22853186]

>>22851952
Lonesome Dove
>>22852704
Plutarchs Lives
>>22852722
Sot Weed Factor
>>22852759
The Darkness That Comes Before
>>22852825
Gravity and Grace
>>22852924
Solaris
>>22852944
Tolstoy translated by Constance Garnett
>>22853095
Train Dreams

The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The Silmarillion
Tao Te Ching (t. Addis and Lombardo)
Dhammapada (t. Juan Mascaro)
Moby Dick
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand
Fractal Geometry of Nature
A Book of Luminous Things
Conan
Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.22853187]

Winnie the Pooh
Alice in Wonderland
The Phantom Tollbooth
Peter Rabbit
Peter Pan
The Little Prince
The Wizard of Oz
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Wind in the Willows
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

[Anonymous No.22853195]

>>22853187
The Little Grey Men
Krabat
Treasure Island

[Anonymous No.22853209]

Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Lolita - Nabokov
Notes from UNderground - Dostoevsky
Stoner - Williams
The Time Machine - HG Wells
A Storm of swords - GRRM
Moby Dick - Melville
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Human Stain - Roth

[Anonymous No.22853253]

Faust - Goethe
Don Quijote - Cervantes
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wittgenstein
KJV - God
Lolita - Nabokov
Divine Comedy - Dante
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
Crime & Punishment - Dostoevskyq

I don't read much and would rather go with something I know I'll like

[Anonymous No.22853268]

>>22851909
1. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
2. "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
4. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
5. "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
6. "Queenie" by Candice Carty-Williams
7. "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones
8. "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
9. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
10. "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[Anonymous No.22853369]

is Moby Dick actually good or is it /lit/ snobbery because it's a difficult read (no idea if that's true) or something? how interesting can a gay ass story about a whale be?

[Anonymous No.22853375]

>>22853268
Kindred by Octavia Butler
>>22853369
It's great.

[Anonymous No.22853599]

>>22853187
All children's books? How come?

[Anonymous No.22853606]

>>22853268
Oh, c'mon! What a contrived list - embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.22853611]

>>22853606
Sorry, you got me, here is my actual list.

1. "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
2. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon
4. "Ulysses" by James Joyce
5. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
6. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
7. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
8. "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy
9. "1984" by George Orwell
10. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

[Anonymous No.22853640]

Tarka the Otter
Lonesome Dove
The Third Policeman
The Snow Leopard
The Rainbow
The Red and the Black
The Devils
King Lear
A House for Mr. Biswas
The Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.22853802]

>>22853611
Equally contrived, but at least /lit/ prescribed - with a little of the usual grit omitted, I noticed.

[Anonymous No.22853809]

>>22853640
I think you mean,

THE Tarka THE Otter
THE Lonesome Dove
THE
THE
THE
THE
THE King Lear
THE A House for Mr. Biswas
THE

THE!

[Anonymous No.22854138]

The Iliad
The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare (could be many of them individually)

Don Quijote
The Recognitions
Dubliners
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Blood Meridian

The World as Will and Representation
Being & Time

[Anonymous No.22854456]

Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry
That Rascal, Fridolin - Hans Fallada
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
The life and extraordinary adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin - Vladimir Voinovich
Comet in Moominland - Tove Jansson
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Baal - Robert McCammon

no order, to lazy to pick more

[Anonymous No.22854887]

>>22853171
The Founding Fish, John McPhee
Victory, Joseph Conrad

[Anonymous No.22854906]

>>22854138
Faulkner, The Hamlet
Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
(Tailor-made for the holidays:
West, The Day of the Locust)

[Anonymous No.22854913]

1. Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

2. Never Finished by David Goggins

3. think and get rich by Napoleon Hill

4. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

5. Zero to One by Peter Thiel

6. The Intelligent Investor

7. Thinking Strategically

8. Algorithms to live by

9. Pathologic basis of diseases by Robbins and Vitran

10. Principles of Internal Medicine by Harrison

[Anonymous No.22854950]

The Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump
Collected Writings by Sir Thomas Browne
Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo
Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

[Anonymous No.22854985]

> Notes from a Dead House Dostoevsky
> Othello Shakespeare
> Iliad Homer
> Nostromo Conrad
> Journey to the end of the Night Céline
> Alexander’s Campaigns Arrian
> Short Stories Gogol
> Bel Ami Maupassant
> Autobiography Cellini
> Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde

[Anonymous No.22854991]

>>22854950
Venusberg, Powell
Holy Living and Holy Dying, Jeremy Taylor

[Anonymous No.22855006]

>>22854985
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (the most 'holidayesque' Shakespeare play)
Danube, Claudio Magris

[Anonymous No.22855024]

Brothers karamazov
Ningen shikkaku
Savage detectives (yet to read 2666)
Love in the time of cholera (and marquez in general)
Late-period Nietzsche
Combray
Montaigne essays
Shakespeare tragedies
Everything else just blends in to this gray slop in my mind

[Anonymous No.22855049]

>>22855024
>gray slop
Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire
Hoffmann, Tales

[Anonymous No.22855128]

Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Demons
Sanctuary
Franny and Zooey
The Elementary Particles
Serotonin
The Brothers Karamazov
Sometimes a Great Notion
Dead Souls

[Anonymous No.22855134]

>>22855128
>Sometimes a Great Notion
Based

[Anonymous No.22855529]

>>22854913
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy
Kenneth Burke, Counter Statement

[Anonymous No.22855560]

>>22855128
The Beautiful and the Damned, Fitzgerald
A Scandal in Bohemia, Conan Doyle
....

[Anonymous No.22855610]

>>22855560
The Beautiful and Damned is the only Fitzgerald novel I haven't read yet.

[Anonymous No.22855664]

Thank you guys for expanding my reading list of 2024.

Here's my latest list:

Maxim Gorky - My Childhood
Hans Fallada - Every Man Dies Alone
Robert Schneider - Brother of Sleep
Édouard Levé - Suicide
David Deida - The Way of the Superior Man
Michael Turner - The Pornographer's Poem
Walter Moers - The 13.5 Lives Of Captain Bluebear
Henri Charrière - Papillon
Henry Miller - The Rosy Crucifixion
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

[Anonymous No.22855677]

Unordered list, I'd be happy for recommendations:

Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Eco - Focault's Pendulum
Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Penrose - Road to Reality (does this count)?
Melville - Moby Dick
Huxley - Brave New World (it's not a dystopia!)
Göthe - Faust
Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach

[Anonymous No.22855728]

>>22855677
>Huxley
But have you read Helgoland? And you might like Left Hand of Darkness

[Anonymous No.22855790]

Anyone above a 7 is an intellectual. 5 is average. If you are under the age of 33 and scored beneath a 7, then you should give up all intellectual aspirations.
>>22851952
5/10
>>22852166
2/10
>>22852704
5/10
>>22852722
2/10
>>22852759
5/10
>>22852779
8/10
>>22852825
8/10
>>22852924
4/10
>>22852944
7.75/10
>>22853171
7.25/10
>>22853186
7/10
>>22853187
5/10
>>22853209
2/10
>>22853253
6/10
>>22853268
1/10
>>22853611
3.75/10
>>22853640
6.5/10
>>22854138
6.75/10
>>22854456
3/10
>>22854913
1/10
>>22854950
3/10
>>22854985
6.99/10
>>22855024
Doesn't count.
>>22855128
1/10
>>22855664
7.11/10
>>22855677
5.68/10

[Anonymous No.22855795]

>>22855790
>under
I meant to say over*.

[Anonymous No.22855803]

>>22855790
4.86/10

[Anonymous No.22855833]

>>22852779
>Les Chants de Maldoror
Recently picked this up in a charity shop fundraising for heart disease, what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.22856000]

>>22855790
>intellectual aspirations.
What is that? Is that something that could help you to get (You)s on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.22856029]

>>22855128
You should try reading Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.22856050]

>>22855833
Nta but it will leave an impression. I read it about 8 months ago and wasn’t sure if I liked it but it stuck with me. I read it a couple times since then and I’m still unsure what to make of it, I think the key is in Poesies, but I like it. It’s surreal and weird with some bizarre but sometimes profound passages. It’s a shame we never got the reverse side of Maldorer as I think that book would have acted as a night and day type dynamic and shed light. Lautreamont was a talent who died way too young. Given what we know about Lautreamont, Maldorer clearly isn’t his true feelings, but what he was trying to do is unclear as is the function of the book. Blanchot wrote an essay on him that I eventually want to read

[Anonymous No.22856056]

>>22852166
heh..not bad

[Anonymous No.22856100]

>>22855610
There's a kind of story or chronologically dependent 'theme' in your list (look at it, again). Was that intentional?

[Anonymous No.22856374]

>>22852722
The Ambassadors
The Magic Mountain
Fathers and Sons
A House for Mr. Biswas
Imperium

[Anonymous No.22856378]

>>22853268
Go tell it on the mountain

[Anonymous No.22856931]

In a random order
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson
Brave New World -Aldous Huxley
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Fathers & Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Democracy The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
For A New Liberty - Murrary Rothbard

[Anonymous No.22856995]

>>22852929
is don quixote litcore?

[Anonymous No.22857189]

In Search of Lost Time
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Sound and the Fury
Good Soldier Svejk
Conversation in the Cathedral
The Sleepwalkers
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Dog Years
War and Peace
Pedro Paramo

[Anonymous No.22857204]

>>22855790
Giving medical texts a 1 shows how much illiterate you are. Pathologic basis of diseases , and Principles of Internal medicine require intellect which you lack faggot

[Anonymous No.22857256]

>>22857204
0.5/10

[Anonymous No.22857547]

Dune
Bible
Perfume
Titus Andronicus
Blood Meridian
The Hour of the Dragon
Septem Sermones ad Mortuos
Frankenstein
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Prince

[Anonymous No.22858945]

>>22855728
>Helgoland
Nope, haven't read it. Would you recommend it?
>Left Hand if Darkness
Synopsis sounds good. I'll buy a cheap copy and report back. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.22858982]

A gentle creature, Dostoevsky
The death of Ivan Iliych, Tolstoy
The kiss and other short stories, Chekhov
Jakob von Gunten, Walser
Diary of a country priest, Bernanos
The invention of Morel, Bioy Casares
Fictions, Borges
A man asleep, Perec
The loser, Bernhard
Nobody nothing never, Saer

[Anonymous No.22859184]

>>22853186
>Addis and Lombardo
>Mascaro

Nice. Those are my favorites for those respective books. It’s a shame that Mascaro didn’t get a chance to do a full Upanishads. His slim version is still probably my favorite even though it is greatly abridged

[Anonymous No.22860039]

Bimp

[Anonymous No.22860248]

The Wild Ass’ Skin- Balzac
Sometimes a Great Notion- Kesey
The Return of the Native- Hardy
Sons and Lovers- Lawrence
Satires- Juvenal
Manhattan Transfer- Dos Passos
The Golden Ass- Apuleius
Prejudices- Mencken
Ancient Evenings- Mailer
The Story of Art- Gombrich

[Anonymous No.22860260]

>>22855790
Why is a dick measurer in every of these threads?

[Anonymous No.22860266]

>>22855790
>>>22853171
>7.25/10
Very intellectual, bro.

[Anonymous No.22860269]

>>22851909
1. On The Origin Of Language - Johann Herder

2. Civilization And It’s Discontents - Sigmund Freud

3. Meister Eckharts Sermons - Meister Eckhart

4. Ancient Rhetoric - Thomas Habinek

5. Political Demonology - Richard Faber

6. Naturalism And Religion - Rudolf Otto

7. Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich

8. Community And Society - Ferdinand Tonnies

9. Concept Of The Political - Carl Schmitt

10. Revolt Of The Masses - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

[Anonymous No.22860336]

>>22853268
These Bones are not My Child

[Anonymous No.22860551]

Ubik or Scanner Darkly - PKD
I, Robot - Asimov
The Man Who Fell to Earth - Trevis
The Shadow Out of Time - Lovecraft
East of Eden or Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
A random assortment of Kafka I read in a depressed stupor when I'd been drinking too much.
Notes from the underground, waiting for my order of other novels to come in the mail.
Tracking all tags of oy vey spray painted across my city for a week by some rouge anti Semitic lunatic back in 2018.

[Anonymous No.22860561]

>>22852722
5/10
>>22852825
6/10
>>22853187
10/10 (you’re biblical and illuminated)
>>22853253
8/10
>>22856931
10/10 (you understand economics very well and also your novel taste is good)
>>22860269
7/10

[Anonymous No.22861172]

>>22851909
I only read mysteries and sexual thrillers

[Anonymous No.22861488]

>>22860260
Ultimately, what these kinds of people do is to imply their own dicks were the longest and most beautiful. Compensation, that is.

[Anonymous No.22861516]

How It Is- Beckett
Second Skin- Hawkes
Mason & Dixon- Pynchon
The Golden Bough- Frazer
The Tale of Genji- Shikibu
J R- Gaddis
Ulysses- Joyce
Labyrinths- Borges
The Magic Mountain- Mann
The Decline of the West- Spengler

>>22851952
VALIS

>>22855128
The Foundation Pit, you miserable bastard

>>22856931
Rules for Radicals

>>22857189
Petersburg

[Anonymous No.22861544]

>>22861516
Poser.

[Anonymous No.22861552]

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled
Dezső Kosztolányi - Skylark
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
László Krasznahorkai - Satantango
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies
Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
Tarjei Vesaas - The Ice Palace
Ivy Compton-Burnett - Manservant and Maidservant
Samanta Schweblin - Fever Dream

[Anonymous No.22861554]

• Alchian & Allen, Exchange & Production.
• Singer, The Brothers Ashkenazi.
• Adshead, China in World History.
• Gat, War in Human Civilization.
• Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
• Iarwain et al., Project Lawful.
• Lynch & Walsh, Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits.
• Roughgarden, Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory.
• Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism.
• Venkatesh, The Theory of Probability.

[Anonymous No.22861556]

>>22851909
I only like writers with an “m’ in their first or last name

[Anonymous No.22862610]

>>22851909

In no particular order.

I. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
II. Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie
III. O. Henry - Cabbages and Kings
IV. Mayne Reid - The Headless Horseman
V. Theodore Dreiser - The Financier
VI. Vladimir Lenin - Materialism and Empirio-criticism
VII. Stendhal - The Red and the Black
VIII. Alexandre Dumas (père) - Ascanio
IX. Louis Boussenard - Les voleurs de diamants
X. Prosper Mérimée - Mateo Falcone

[Anonymous No.22862634]

>>22862610
>Dreiser

He’s an interesting writer. Back when he was active he was pretty influential. Now?…pretty much unknown. It’s fascinating how history treats some writers. Some go from unknowns to all time greats, some, like Dreiser and Tarkington, fade into obscurity

[Anonymous No.22863353]

>>22862610
Mateo's about as hard a short story as I've ever read; if you haven't yet, read Merimée's short novel Colomba, or even Carmen. One of the best authors /lit/ ignores almost completely.
Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra

[Anonymous No.22863384]

>>22861554
Learned Hand: the Man and the Judge, Gerald Gunther
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, SJG

[Anonymous No.22863397]

>>22863384
> SJG
> What Prominent Biologists Think of Stephen Jay Gould

[Anonymous No.22863401]

Stoner - Williams
Narcissus and Goldmund - Hesse
Hunger - Hamsun
Hard to Be a God - Strugatsky
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzche
A Portrait of the Artist as a Weee lad - Joyce
The Castle - Kafka
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
A Balcony in the Forest - Gracq

okay, that's 12 but I can't reduce it any further without feeling sad. Please recommend me something great, Ill purchase on my bday

[Anonymous No.22863406]

>>22860248
Art and Illusion, Gombrich
Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne

[Anonymous No.22863417]

>>22863397
Biologists loathe him because he preferred his Historian buddies to them, and let it be known loud and clear at conferences, etc.: that's his legacy.
I was only apprehensive about making that rec because the book's both exceptionally long and involved.

[Anonymous No.22863418]

>>22863401
The Tartar Steppe
Pedro Paramo
Mysteries
Look Homeward, Angel

[Anonymous No.22863429]

>>22858982
Exercises in Style
Winesburg, Ohio

[Anonymous No.22863435]

>>22863417
An exceptionally tedious exercise in midwittery. It hasn't the clarity that an actual truth possesses. Compare to John Maynard Smith's Evolution and the Theory of Games (1982).

[Anonymous No.22863439]

>>22852779
Illuminations
Finnegans Wake
At Swim Two-Bird
Dante

[Anonymous No.22863449]

The Castle
The Man Without Qualities
Notebook Trilogy
The Melancholy of Resistance
Petersburg
Gormenghast
The Other Side(Kubin)
The Brothers Karamazov
2666
Infinite Jest

>>22855677

Against the Day by Pynchon
>>22863418
>>22863401

Fosse's Septology since you like Hamsun

>>22861552

I feel like you'd really dig the works of Ann Quin if you're into bizarre or experimental stuff

>>22861516

USA trilogy?

[Anonymous No.22863451]

>>22853186
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
The Notebooks of Joubert
The Book of Changes

[Anonymous No.22863457]

>>22855677
> Eco - Focault's Pendulum
> Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
> Penrose - Road to Reality

Michael Flynn, Eifeilheim.

[Andreyev No.22863463]

>>22851909

Visions by Leonid Andreyev
Dostoyevsky's "The Demons"
Camus' play adaptation of "the Demons" by Dostoyevsky
"Fathers and Sons" by Turgenev
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" by Poe
"A Hero of our Time" by Lermontov
"Lolita"

[Anonymous No.22863466]

>>22853640
Warlock
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Dead Souls
Niels Lyhne

I like a lot of books on your list

[Anonymous No.22863467]

>>22863435
Well? He was dying, and wanted to set his own house in order. If he's a 'midwit,' so be it. His own take on his scientific colleagues was that they were- by and large- mono-dimensional cultural vulgarians.

[Anonymous No.22863470]

>>22863418
>Look Homeward, Angel
thanks anon, something new for the back log

have you read The Opposing Shore by chance since you recommended Tartar Steppe (which I have sitting on my shelf, could be my next read). Im curious which people prefer given similarities.

mysteries is amazing btw, and pedro paramo is also terrific. hard to pick one hamsun novel for a top 10.

[Anonymous No.22863479]

>>22855128
The Rings of Saturn
Sons and Lovers
The Dharma Bums

[Andreyev No.22863482]

>>22855128

Based Russia enjoyer

[Anonymous No.22863528]

>>22863466
Thanks anon
I have read Warlock and Dead Souls and enjoyed them both
Big Sur and the Oranges is in my to read pile. I did enjoy Black Spring and Tropic of Cancer

[Anonymous No.22863529]

>>22863470
>The Opposing Shore

Yeah I’ve read it and I didn’t care for it too much but it might be a translation issue. Maybe it was intentional but it was kind of a tough read word wise. Maybe that was the point because it gave the setting an alien like atmosphere and landscape. I do want to reread it at some point because it was a long time ago and I can appreciate much more than I could then and I’ve become a “better” reader. I found large parts of the book to be a slog. I think The Tartar Steppe is way better. They are similar in generalities but differ in particulars. The Tartar Steppe is a much more haunting and impactful book IMO. Most can see where it’s going at a certain point but that kind of adds to the dread. Despite that, I hesitate to call it a depressing book. It’s all how you look at it

[Anonymous No.22863595]

>>22863528
BSATOOHB is much more mellow, laid back, and thematically different but I think you’ll like it. Miller seems to have 3 phases in his life: his younger American days where he built up what Nietzsche called nausea, his Paris days where he decided to follow his dream of becoming a writer and leaving all behind and the struggles included, and his older years where he could reflect on his life and feel content. The Paris years were the pivotal period in his life and he learned and experienced a lot. Big Sur is in his older years. He is living in a beautiful isolated region with a tight knit by wide spread community. He reflects on the difference between that kind of living and modern America living, and why art is so important to him, and how he sees the world. Miller almost comes across as a sage or monk. It is very peaceful and inspiring reading. The second part of the book involves a friend who is an astrologer who’s down on his luck coming to live with him in Big Sur. The astrologer is the exact opposite type of person as Miller and the reader gets to see a black and white contrast. It’s always one of those books that centers me when I’m feeling off. I hope you enjoy it

[Anonymous No.22865194]

>>22863529
Thanks anon, great explanation. Got opposing shore for Christmas since I loved a balcony in the forest. It’s a very pleasant, peaceful read with a terrific finish. If you wanna give gracq another shot I highly recommend it, one of my favorite war novels.

[Anonymous No.22865546]

>>22851909
In no particular order:
- The great wall of China by kafka
-Dracula by Stoker
- The time machine by Wells
- Edgar Allan Poe's terror stories
-At the mountains of madness
- The lord of the rings
- I am a cat by Soseki
- The flowers of evil by Baudelaire
- No longer Human
- Grimm's fables

[Anonymous No.22865640]

Ulysses - James Joyce
Les Chants de Maldoror - Lautreamont
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Trial / The Castle - Kafka
Emily Dickinson
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pfirsig
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Kaputt - Malapart
Voyage au Bout de la Nuit - Celine

[Anonymous No.22865677]

As they come to mind:
>The Idiot
>War and Peace
>Infinite Jest
>Mason & Dixon
>Hunger
>Stella Maris
>A Farewell to Arms
>The Road to Reality
>East of Eden

[Anonymous No.22865934]

>>22851909
Boomp

[Anonymous No.22865974]

Hainish Cycle - Ursula Le Guin
Unique and its Property - Max Stirner
Cyclonopedia - Reza Negarestani
Dune - Frank Herbert
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
Zhuangzi
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze & Guattari
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson

i also really liked the invisible man by ellison but i dont remember it very well so im not sure it counts anymore. generally if i read fiction i like it to be something i can read before bed to wind down from the day, but i intend to tackle Joyce and other 'big' authors in earnest in 2024. recommendations anyone? a cosmic horror scifi sorta thing would be nice

[Anonymous No.22865985]

>>22852166
impressive. very nice.

[Anonymous No.22866016]

zorba the greek
the brothers karamazov
east of eden
god's pauper
anna karenina
bible
paradise lost
steppenwolf
the remains of the day
tolstoy's short stories

[Anonymous No.22866075]

Glamorama
The Western Lands
Neuromancer
Underworld
The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass
The Pale King
Disgrace
The Maltese Falcon
Gravity's Rainbow
The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements

[Anonymous No.22866256]

>>22866075

Storm of Steel or The Rdetzsky March

>>22865974

The Night Land or The Book of New Sun

[Anonymous No.22866273]

>>22851909
After the Bible:

Laurus
Mason & Dixon
Tao Te Ching
Invisible Cities
Poems of Ezra Pound
Iliad
The Book of Tea
El Hacedor
Pnin
Urn Burial

[Anonymous No.22866301]

>>22854138
Redpill me on The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

[Anonymous No.22866316]

>>22857189
Is The Good Soldier Svejk worth it for me if I loved Catch-22, or do you think you love it based on your personality and it's not necessarily worth the time investment for others?

[Anonymous No.22866319]

>>22858982
Is Diary of a Country Priest pro-religion?

[Anonymous No.22866329]

>>22861552
How does The Unconsoled stack up to other 'surreal' reads like Kafka, Walser, or Invitation to a Beheading?

[Anonymous No.22866331]

>>22852166
Go Yanks

[Anonymous No.22866365]

>>22866319
Yes. I aw the movie directed by Robert Bresson.

[Anonymous No.22866392]

dubliners
mein kampf
120 days of sodome
faust
le petit prince
one no one and 100000
a la recherche du temps perdu
sakhalin's island
we
the myth of the 20th century

[Anonymous No.22866568]

>>22866365
Sounds cool -- I'll look into it, thanks for sharing

[Anonymous No.22868190]

>>22866316
It's absolutely worth it, I liked Catch-22 as well but in my opinion Svejk is just superior on all levels. It's such a masterpiece, I can open it on any random page and laugh out loud a few times.

[Anonymous No.22868194]

>>22866316
Reading TGSS currently and it's a riot hahha. It's a great, great work.

[Andreyev No.22868199]

>>22866392

Hey man! Let me know if you need a therapist. I'd love to put you in touch with someone.

[Anonymous No.22868208]

Sufferings in Africa
Mice and Men
Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies
Jane Eyre
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Candide
Animal Farm
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

[Anonymous No.22868297]

>>22853369
Its average. Not hard to read at all just long. War and Peace is long but better if you just want to be able to say you read a long book.
Only Americans jack off to Moby Dick or Gatsby both are terrible but all Americans have so they get hyped

[Anonymous No.22869027]

Recommendations are appreciated.

The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Kokoro - Soseki
The Death of Ivan Illych - Tolstoy
Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
Brave New World - Huxley
The Day Lasts More Than 100 Years - Chingiz Aitmatov
Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
Good Ol’ Neon- DFW
The Doll - Boleslaw Prus
A Clean Well Lighted Place - Hemingway

I know some of them are short stories and not books.

[Anonymous No.22869628]

>>22869027
Have you read any Pynchon? He's often compared with DFW and has heavy comic and schizo elements like Notes from Underground. Also, fill me in on The Day Lasts More Than 100 Years--I've seen great ratings, but what's the specific appeal?
>>22868190
>>22868194
High praise! I've now noted it down with more interest.