The Alternate /lit/ Top 100

[Anonymous No.22925952]

Have you ever wondered what the annual /lit/ Top 100 would look like without the same group of books every year? It's something I wonder about every year. So in opposition of ten top 100 charts made, I want to find out what it would look like. So I have created a blacklist of books which have made the chart for five years or more.

https://forms.gle/QHwpdL8wRFpup1xK7

Using the link, vote for your top ten favorite books excluding the books on the included blacklist. No sign-in is required. Each book listed must be a different title. Duplicate ballots will not be counted.

[Anonymous No.22925958]

Take a break from /lit/, dude.

[Anonymous No.22925961]

This could be fun. I hope it catches on

[Anonymous No.22925970]

I applaud you doing this and also I offer you my condolences. I hope I'm wrong, but I believe this to be a doomed endeavor for a simple reason. You assume there would be books that replace those on the blacklist. I don't think there will be. Instead, there just won't be really any votes. Most of the books as is receive very few votes. The purpose of these top charts each year is to affirm the tastes of those who try to rig it most and nothing else. It's a game, not something serious, aside from trying to manufacture authority and legitimacy. The chart says so, it must be right. It's propaganda at best. As such, these same people wouldn't have any interest where their preferred books are excluded. Then there's also the matter of timing. You may think that the momentum will keep going for this, but again I don't think so. It will probably be seen to lack legitimacy, people won't want to do it again too soon, it will be seen to invalidate their prior choices, and so on. Asking for 10 is a lot as well after the exclusions unfortunately, tactical voting concerns aside. Regardless, I wish you the best of luck and hope to be proven entirely wrong about everything.

[Anonymous No.22925971]

>>22925952
This is actually a great idea. Books that have made the list 5 times or more should just be considered /lit/ canon; it'd be good to see some others that are also worth reading. I will participate and hope that others do as well.

[Anonymous No.22925972]

>>22925952
Why not just do a top 100 writers? It would be different enough but still relatable and interesting without the weird bitter tone this gives off.

[Anonymous No.22925989]

Submitted.

[Anonymous No.22925990]

>>22925952
submitted

[Anonymous No.22925994]

>>22925989
>Aeschylus - Orestaia
>Ishiguro - The Unconsoled
>Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
>Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
>Whitman - Leaves of Grass
>Twain - Huckleberry Fin
>O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
>Herodotus - Histories
>Wright - The Branch Will Not Break

[Anonymous No.22925995]

>>22925958
I actually haven't been here in nine months.

>>22925970
I'm not taking it that seriously. I'm just curious. Anyways, anons don't have to use all ten slots, but also I think if you can't think of ten books you enjoy you may need to read more.

>>22925971
My thoughts exactly. But the odds of me doing this again in a year are very very slim. I just thought of it today and thought it'd be fun.

>>22925972
I don't think that's a bad idea. But there's no bitterness meant by this, I'm just curious what people read around here besides Dostoevsky and Homer.

[Anonymous No.22926018]

>>22925952
You made me vote for women and negroes OP but I suppose they need their time in the sun too

[Anonymous No.22926249]

>>22925952
Good idea.

[Anonymous No.22926261]

>>22925952
Submitted

[Anonymous No.22926266]

>>22925952
When do you plan to finish this, OP?

[Anonymous No.22926270]

>>22925952
>Have you ever wondered what the annual /lit/ Top 100 would look like without the same group of books every year?
no, not even once.

[Anonymous No.22926284]

>>22925952
>Have you ever wondered what the annual /lit/ Top 100 would look like without the same group of books every year?
Yes, more than on one ocassion, actually.

[Anonymous No.22926291]

based idea, youre doing gods work OP

[Anonymous No.22926300]

>>22925952
Submitted

[Anonymous No.22926326]

>>22925952
But The Bible is always on the list (top 5) since the last few years.
>checks other entries
Ok, low effort. Bye.

[Anonymous No.22926329]

>>22926326
Fucking hell. I'm such a moron .

[Anonymous No.22926359]

Submitted.
>Guimarães Rosa - The devil to pay in the backlands
>Machado de Assis - Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
>Plotinus - Enneads
>Camões - The Lusiads
>Andrei Bely - Petersburg
>Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil
>Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
>McCarthy - Suttree
>Thucydides - Peloponnesian War
>Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit

[Anonymous No.22926373]

Submitted desu

Tarka the Otter
The Sea Wolf
The Rainbow
The Snow Leopard
The Third Policeman
Lonesome Dove
Revolutionary Road
A Handful of Dust
Look Homeward Angel
A Time of Gifts

Would have added but ran out of slots

A House for Mr. Biswas
Henry IV part one
The Iceman Cometh
Solo Faces
The Feast of the Goat
The Dharma Bums
Trainspotting

[Anonymous No.22926392]

>>22926359
>Guimarães Rosa - The devil to pay in the backlands
When the fuck is the new translation coming out? That Australian is taking too long!

[Anonymous No.22926482]

>>22926392
Hopefully soon, and hopefully it's good. We've only to gain if it gets a bit more popular. It's a great, masterfully written book, by far my favorite from Brazil.
Here's the start of the novel in the new translation. I thought it was pretty good, to be honest. Hopefully it holds up throughout.
Nonought. Shots you heard weren’t a shootout, God be. I was training sights on trees in the backyard, at the bottom of the creek. Keeps my aim good. Do it every day, I enjoy it; have since the tendrest age. Anyhow, folks came a calling. Bout a calf: white one, strayling, eyes like no thing ever seen and a dog’s mask. They told me; I didn’t want to see. Seems it was defective from birth, lips curled back, and looked to be laughing, person-like. Human face, hound face: they decided—it was the devil. Oafenine bunch. They killed it. Nought a clue bout the owner. They came to beg my guns, I let em. I’m not superstitious. You got a way of laughing, sir… Look: when shots are for real, first the dogs set up barking that instant—then you go see if anyone’s dead. Don’t mind, sir, this is the sertão. Some reckon it in’t: the backlands are further off, they say, the campos-gerais inside and out, back-o-beyond, high plains, far side of the Urucúia. Lottarot. To folks in Corinto and Curvelo, in’t this here the sertão? Ah, and that’s not all! The sertão makes itself known: it’s where pastures have no fences, they say; where a man can go fifteen, twenty miles without coming to a single house; where outlaws live out their hallelujah, in the yonder beyond the law. The Urucúia comes from the highlands in the west. But nowadays, all long the riverrun, there’s everything — walloping great farms, lushlands bordering banks, the floodplains; crops that go from wood to wood, thickset trees, even some virgin forest. All round is Minas Gerais. These gerais have no bounds. Anyway, you know how it is, sir, to each his own: cows or kine, depends on your eyen… The backlands are everywhere.

[Anonymous No.22926602]

Very nice

[Anonymous No.22926615]

>>22925972
I think this is a much better idea. It is less about seeing individual works, and more about understanding bodies of work,
or bodies of work and the way writers live as so-called Socratic tasks.

[Anonymous No.22926646]

Based OP

[Anonymous No.22926656]

>>22925994
>chinkguro twice
You’re a woman

[Anonymous No.22926766]

Submitted:

History of a Pleasure Seeker - Richard Mason
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thorton Wilder
The Underpainter - Jane Urquhart
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller Jr.
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
On the Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
What's Bred in the Bone - Robertson Davies

I would have added the following, if I was given more space:

Song of Roland - Anonymous
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Letham
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Sun & Steel - Yukio Mishima

[Anonymous No.22927012]

>>22926766
Ah, I should have added 'Things Fall Apart'!

[Anonymous No.22927185]

>>22926656
(1) He is English, not Japanese.
(2) He's a great author. Unconsoled is a better book but Remains is essentially flawless. I want to see him back on one of our lists.
(3) Go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.22927316]

>>22927185
I will never understand the urge that anons experience to insult one another with ad hominems over the books they read. They treat reading like sports.

[Anonymous No.22927325]

>>22927185
Never Let Me Go is all these people have probably heard of/read by Ishiguro and based their opinion upon.

[Anonymous No.22927335]

>>22927185
> (1) He is English, not Japanese
Born in Japan to two Japanese parents. That’s as Japanese as you can get.

[Anonymous No.22927343]

>>22927335
Grew up in England, went to English schools and unis. Teenage job was as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother. Despite his ethnicity Ishiguro is as English as you can get.

[Anonymous No.22927361]

>>22927343
Uh oh, but the nigger that was born in England, lived his whole life in England, and speaks English is a filthy immigrant.

[Anonymous No.22927369]

>>22927343
>Despite the most important thing he’s as English as you can get!
lol lmao even
Europoors deserve to be replaced. You’re all worthless cucks.

[Anonymous No.22927374]

>>22927361
You racial essentialist are so tiring. I am glad that I can wake up each morning not being you and being terrified of the black/brown/yellow bogeyman. Good luck to you anon.

[Anonymous No.22927387]

>A Hero of Our Time has been in the top 100 5 times
>Didnt make it this year

why did you let me down, lermontovbros?

[Anonymous No.22927632]

Jon Fosse - Septology / Aliss at the Fire
Breece D'J Pancake - Stories
Gerard de Nerval - Sylvie
Peter Straub - Ghost Story
and a few others
Don't let me down /lit/.
>>22926766
>Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
Based

[Anonymous No.22927641]

>>22925952
this could be an interesting experiment.
i'll bite, i want to see what /lit/'s minor classics are.
>Barth - Giles Goat-Boy
>Eliot - Middlemarch
>Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
>McElroy - Lookout Cartridge
>Ovid - Metamorphoses
>>22925994
>>22926373
>>22926766
nice picks.

[Anonymous No.22927646]

>>22927641
>Ovid - Metamorphoses
I just realized that Metamorphoses never makes it on any charts. I wonder why that is?

[Anonymous No.22927652]

>>22926359
Holy fucking based

[Anonymous No.22927678]

>>22925952
You used a colon instead of a semicolon :DD

[Anonymous No.22927687]

>>22927678
I'm sure you will go far in life with your keen eye and generous, collaborative personality.

[Anonymous No.22927689]

>>22927678
OP BTFO

[Anonymous No.22927704]

>>22927185
Woman writer for woman readers. Never met anyone with good taste that elevated this middlebrow writer into the high

[Anonymous No.22927709]

>>22927704
You clearly haven't read either of his books that were posted in anon's submission.

[Anonymous No.22927734]

>>22927709
No, I am not a homosexual and I actually have good taste in literature. I bet you love Alan Holinghurst

[Anonymous No.22927764]

>>22927734
Have never heard of him or read anything by him.

[Anonymous No.22927768]

>>22927764
Right up your alley if you like Ishiguro

[Anonymous No.22928185]

>>22927646
Do Greek works apart from Homer ever make it on charts?

[Anonymous No.22928255]

>>22928185
Plato's Republic and Xenophon's Anabasis made it in this year's top 100, brother in christ. The former actually made it several appearances.
In previous years I'm sure I've seen Oresteia, and likely Herodotus' Histories but not sure on this one.

[Anonymous No.22928378]

>>22925952
i've only read books from that list + nonfiction

[Anonymous No.22928385]

>>22928255
neither anabasis should have made it

[Anonymous No.22928392]

>Enneads
>The Anatomy of Melancholy
>Flatland
>Tsurezuregusa or Essays in Idleness
>Gulliver's Travels
>The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
>Orestia
>The Rings of Saturn
>Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
>Untimely Meditations

[Anonymous No.22928501]

>>22925952
Of love and other demons - García Márquez
Death with Interruptions - José Saramago
The Aleph - Borges
The Plague - Camus

[Anonymous No.22929038]

>>22926482
I'm liking this a lot. Sounds like Tom Waits.

[Anonymous No.22929042]

>>22927678
Ah fuck, you're right. Thanks, hombre. I'll be more careful.

[Anonymous No.22929122]

>>22925952
Can't believe the Canterbury Tales is still ignored even though I come back to shill it twice a year.

[Anonymous No.22929134]

>>22925952
I'll submit to this tomorrow, but wasn't someone doing one where you could only submit books you had read in the last year?

[Anonymous No.22929432]

>>22929134
Are you talking about this?
>>22911475

[Anonymous No.22929460]

>>22926482
>>22929038
Nice. I hope it's out this year.

[Anonymous No.22929538]

>>22925952
Surprised Junger isn't on the list, I think he's been on enough charts and discussed often enough on the board to be considered canon. Regardless, I think it's an excellent idea OP! Interested to see what the results are.

Anyway, my list:
>Gormenghast trilogy
>A Canticle for Leibowitz
>The Man who was Thursday
>Augustus
>The World of Yesterday
>The War of the Worlds
>Roadside Picnic
>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

[Anonymous No.22929627]

>>22928392
lovely stuff, lots of overlap with my choices (enneads, anatomy, orestia, rings of saturn)

[Anonymous No.22929825]

Based. But maybe a top 10 would be enough, idk

[Anonymous No.22929945]

>>22929627

[Anonymous No.22930007]

>>22929538
I hope you fall into a pit somewhere break both legs and slowly starve without being found.

[Anonymous No.22930120]

>>22929627
>>22928392
You ever read Euripides?

[Anonymous No.22930128]

>>22930120
yes but it's been several years. i don't revist euripides like i do aeschylus

[Anonymous No.22930160]

>>22930128
You should. Especially The Bacchae and Women of Troy.

[Anonymous No.22931302]

>>22925952
Submitted.

>The Flounder - Grass
>Fathers & Crows - Vollmann
>The Tower - Yeats
>The Canterbury Tales
>Oblomov
>The Wateland
>Cane - Jean Toomer
>The Last of Mr. Norris/Mr. Norris Changes Trains - Isherwood
>Spring and All by William carlos williams
>on photography by Susan sontag

[Anonymous No.22931307]

>>22925952
when will the results be published?

[Anonymous No.22931353]

>>22930160
I’m the guy who posted the list and I like Hippolytus.
>>22931302
>on photography by Susan sontag
Why not Barth’s Camera Lucida?

[Anonymous No.22931636]

just voted, OP
hope any of my books get more than one vote

[Anonymous No.22932611]

>>22931353
>Why not Barth’s Camera Lucida?
A couple reasons:
1) Only ten slots
2) I've never read the whole thing
3) Of what I have read, I found Sontag's essays more enlightening overrall

[Anonymous No.22932636]

>>22925952
>Van Gogh’s letters
>The Rainbow by Lawrence
>Sons and Lovers by Lawrence
>The Colossus of Maroussi by Miller
>Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Miller
>Leaves of Grass by Whitman
>Essays and Journals by Emerson
>Cellini’s autobiography
>Casanova’s autobiography
>Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann

[Anonymous No.22933294]

bump

[Anonymous No.22933834]

>>22932636
>Casanova’s autobiography
>Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
Oh, I gotta get these and read them.

[Anonymous No.22933838]

>>22932636
Kill yourself, you attention-seeking faggot

[Anonymous No.22933842]

>>22932611
Sontag is a retard.

[Anonymous No.22933844]

>>22932636
>>22933834
>Casanova
Damn. I have terrible reading comprehension. I saw Cellini, and read Casanova as Canova. I was excited to know that Canova had an autobiography. He does not.

[Anonymous No.22933886]

>>22929538
I was surprised as well. Ernst fought in ww1 and 2 for germany.

If anyone is reeling with the toil of being a tiny person against a monumental global Goliath, his book The Forest Passage is for you!

[Anonymous No.22934093]

>>22933842
That's unconvincing. Did you get filtered?

[Anonymous No.22934097]

>>22934093
Nope. I am simply not a limp-wristed dyel. Maybe go back to r/redscarepod

[Anonymous No.22934217]

>>22934097
What are you talking about? Do you hear yourself?

[Anonymous No.22934258]

>>22934217
You write like a fag.

[Anonymous No.22934509]

>>22925972
good idea, last one was in 2015

[Anonymous No.22934699]

>>22925952
Submitted
>William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
>George Bataille - Literature and Evil
>Henry Miller - The Colossus of Maroussi
>William Shakespeare - The Tempest
>Strugatsky bros - Roadside Picnic
>Philip K. Dick - VALIS
>Alfred North Whitehead - Process and Reality
>Ezra Pound - The Cantos
>Ovid - Metamorphoses
>Plato - Symposium

[Anonymous No.22934739]

>>22934699
Very interesting list.
>George Bataille - Literature and Evil
What's this?

[Anonymous No.22934862]

>>22925952
For me? it's:
>Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
>La Sainte Face by Elie Faure
>On Heroes by Thomas Carlyle

[Anonymous No.22934983]

>>22934739
Basically an essay about what is the role of literature. He goes into the works of various authors like Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Kafka, Blake, Michelet, De Sade, Proust, Genet, and analyses the aspect of evil on those works and develops a dialectic on hypermorality.

[Anonymous No.22934984]

>>22925952
Paolini - Eragon
Peake - Titus groan
Moers - Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
Sperber -like a tear in the ocean
Zola - Germinal
Kling - Die kängeru chroniken
Heyerdahl - kon-tiki
Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
Fromm - the Art of loving
Doyle - the White company

[Anonymous No.22934999]

>>22934983
>about what is the role of literature
Would it be possible to summarise in a word what this is for Bataille? I don't really know what hypermorality means.

[Anonymous No.22935149]

>>22934983
Retard

[Anonymous No.22935202]

>>22934999
He starts the book with the claim that
>Literature is either the essential or nothing.
And that the form of evil, which it expresses, has a sovereign value for humanity. So in a sense literature is the vehicle to analyze and study evil.
>hypermorality
It's kinda hard for me to put it to words but I guess you could summarize it with the trolley problem taken to the extreme.
Should tyranny be permitted if it leads to a golden path of awakening?

[Anonymous No.22935204]

>>22935202
>nothing
it's this

[Anonymous No.22935213]

>>22925952
First of all, thank you anon, you're doing the lord's work
Second, this alt top will be hella fun, I hope a lot of people cast their votes
Don't listen to this twat: >>22925970
p.s
this is my top, feel free to comment ;)
TOP ALT 10 BOOKS JAN 2024:

de Montaigne - Essays
Bolaño - The Savage Detectives
de Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater
Kristof - The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
Laiseca - Los Sorias
Forn - Yo recordaré por ustedes
Siruela - Libros, secretos
Vernant - The Universe, the Gods, and Men
Steiner - At the New Yorker
Poe - Complete Stories and Poems

[Anonymous No.22935225]

>>22935213
>Kristof - The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
I'm surprised this isn't ranked higher or talked about very much on here besides a few Itoi fans. That book is fucking heavy.

[Anonymous No.22935234]

>>22925994
>>22926359
>>22926373
>>22926766
>>22927641
>>22928392
>>22929538
>>22931302
>>22932636
>>22934699
>>22935213
BASED

[Anonymous No.22935240]

>>22935225
Thar book is unbelievable well writen and packs so many heavy moments... sheeesh
made me tear up a couple times on the bus
Recommended book

[Anonymous No.22935243]

>>22935213
Is Los Sorias that good?

[Anonymous No.22935248]

>>22935240
It made me drop out of college. I mean some other stuff was going on at the time but reading it really put me out of the mood for it entirely. I think I read all 3 in two sittings.

>>22935243
anon has some pretty good taste and it's been on my radar for a while, you'll like it if you're into a certain kind of literature.

[Anonymous No.22935261]

>>22935213
CHADPOSTER has blessed this post.
Great taste anon.

[Anonymous No.22935271]

>>22935213
Absolutely boring taste. About what I expected from a TrueLit loser

[Anonymous No.22935273]

>>22935202
Sounds like a completely misguided hyperbole of Faustian thinking. Art isn't necessarily the exploration of novel possibilities, and the dichotomy he sets up is totally false.

[Anonymous No.22935305]

>>22935273
I'm not really versed in his work like anon is but I've spent time enough time with neofreudean occult perverts to blindly shitpost and be right and I think I can say that the hypermorality is what drives a work and this essentialization of evil is apparent in works insofar as there is conflict or consequence. Even the absence points towards it and essentializes it in some capacity. I've found that engaging in this kind of philosophy is like stabbing someone while you're both laughing about it, it's a perfectly logical proposition to those engaging in it.

[Anonymous No.22935387]

>>22928185
I don't know for sure whether you were implying this implication, but I wanted to clarify that Metamorphoses is a Latin work.

[Anonymous No.22935473]

>>22935273
Ngl the book is highly subversive, kinda comes with the job of rationalizing and defending evil. The interesting part is that literature is on the center of the analysis and like >>22935305 said evil is the underlying force of tribulation seen in most greats works, our attraction to them and what that says about us.
I wouldn't want to hang around with people that cherish this book as philosophy but any aspiring author should read it.

[Anonymous No.22935554]

>>22925970
>>22935271

[Anonymous No.22935580]

>>22935473
His very heterodox take on that kind of phenomenology of mysticism is proving more and more useful and I may end up reading him this year. It's a philosophy that's lived in the sense that things are sensed. At least it acknowledges evil, but I'm slightly wary of a guy who wanted his own head cut off to inaugurate an occult order.

[Anonymous No.22935915]

>>22935234
positivity-maxxing

[Anonymous No.22936043]

>>22935213
Forn - Yo recordaré por ustedes
Great book, hope it gets a translation soon
His short texts are filled with MAGIC

[Anonymous No.22936097]

>>22925952
This list is gonna ROCK
thx anon

[Anonymous No.22936172]

Finally an anon realized the problem of /lit/‘s top 100 and take an action. Gj.

[Anonymous No.22936268]

>>22936172
The voting issue has long been known, the second choices having like 3-5 votes each compared to 40 for winners is the real problem. This doesn't quite solve it but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing. A better solution for an Alt list would ironically be what killed the Hugos. That kind of party based bidding and group voting works well when you have a billion candidates and no one has heard of half of them.

[Anonymous No.22936275]

>>22936172
>>22936268
Realistically this won't work either. OP will get a list maybe 20 books with 2 votes, and 200 with 1 vote each. Probably need to treat the submissions and nominations and do a big bracket or poll.

[Anonymous No.22936438]

>>22926373
We have really similar taste. I’ll have to check out some of the other books on your list

[Anonymous No.22936608]

>>22925952
Great Expectations- Dickens
Nostromo- Conrad
Victory- Conrad
Sometimes a Great Notion- Kesey
Cain- Byron
Mysteries- Hamsun
The Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
Decameron- Boccaccio
Buddenbrooks- Mann
In Our Time- Hemingway

[Anonymous No.22936631]

>>22925952
Great idea, anon. Good work. Try not to be too vulgar, anons. Please...

[Anonymous No.22936638]

>>22926656
>a woman
If you aren't blown away by Remains of the Day, I think you're just lacking in character. It's easily one of the greatest masterpieces of the last 50 years.

[Anonymous No.22936654]

>Chaucer - Romance of the Rose
>Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
>Aeschylus - Agamemnon
>Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound
>Plato - Republic
>Plato - Meno
>Tolkien - The Silmarillion
>Jack London - Call of the Wild
>Richard Adams - Watership Down

It's not a great list, I know, but I'm not as well read as some of you.

[Anonymous No.22936655]

>>22936654
Forgot one:

>Sacher-Masoch - Venus in Furs
(for being the funniest book I've ever read)

[Anonymous No.22937176]

I BUMP

[Anonymous No.22937186]

>>22936638
Lmaoooo womanly response with womanly “acerbic” “wit”

[Anonymous No.22937260]

>>22936608
nice

[Anonymous No.22937315]

>>22936275
OP here, so far, that hasn't been the case. The list is actually forming quite nicely. True there are a lot of books with only 2 votes, but then, less than 90 people have actually voted.

[Anonymous No.22937323]

>>22937315
When can we expect to see results by?

[Anonymous No.22937336]

>>22937323
I figured I'd just post it after this thread dies. I'd like to have at least 100 anons' votes in before I publish it though.

[Anonymous No.22937633]

>>22937336
Kek this thread will be dead by tomorrow. Idk why I even filled that form. It was way too long.

[Anonymous No.22937655]

the actual list

[Anonymous No.22937713]

Gabriel Scott - The Source, or the Letter about Mark the Fisherman
Kjell Askildsen - Thomas F's Last Notes to the Public
Herodotus - History
Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke
Ivo Andric - The Bridge on the Drina
Jon Fosse - Trilogy
Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Knausgård - My Struggle
Wisława Szymborska - View with a Grain of Sand
Hjalmar Söderberg - Doktor Glas

[Anonymous No.22937940]

>>22936654
The unusual one of this list is Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose, considering it was only a fragmentary translation and is not a popular book now at all. Strange choice considering you could’ve picked Canterbury Tales or Troilus and Criseyde, why is that your favourite?

[Anonymous No.22938256]

>>22925952
Honestly, we should really rank each author's own work seperately rather than do a top 100. It would be a more rich experience.

[Anonymouṡ No.22938463]

>>22925952
I appreciate this effort but the "official" list is so silly I don't think it can really be redeemed. Anyway, for what it's worth, I think the two main issues are:

1) You should be trying to narrow the field, not broaden it. Picking only 100 works is impossible as it is. So including non-fiction is crazy. Have a separate list for that if you want.

2) The list is very biased towards novels. I gave ten poets to try to redress the balance a bit. (That said, there are many major novelists overlooked. Just from the Anglosphere there's Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Twain, Lawrence, for example.)

[Anonymous No.22938770]

>>22937940
I don't know. Maybe because it was the first Chaucer work I read. I just like it alot.

[Anonymous No.22938774]

>>22937186
Pseudo-masculine response typical of underdeveloped or young men.

[Anonymous No.22939054]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas needs to be added

[Anonymous No.22940225]

bumping for 100 contributors

[Anonymous No.22940419]

>>22925952
Where’s the sheet?

[Anonymous No.22941020]

>>22925952
to the lighthouse is one of the worst books ive ever read
women ruined literature

[Anonymous No.22941165]

>>22941020
woolf was a fucking whore, she and her stupid clique did led so many crusades against other writers over petty shit.

[Anonymous No.22941627]

Zhuangzi
Cyclonopedia
Hainish Cycle
Snowcrash
Alamut
Unique and its Property
Eumeswil
Anti-Oedipus
Leviathan
The Quran

[Anonymous No.22942322]

>>22925995
"I actually haven't been here in nine months."

Plz anon, just go touch grass

[Anonymous No.22942331]

>>22925952
Op is the biggest faggot ever. Where’s the fucking CHART?

[Anonymous No.22942826]

>>22925952
Submitted!
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Ulysses
Thanks in advance anon!

[Anonymous No.22942829]

>>22942826
Those are blacklisted.

[Anonymous No.22943154]

>>22925952

I did

Mishima's Sun & Steel
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
Mary Oliver's Leaf & The Cloud
Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories

I'm pretty new to reading but these have been my "alternate" favorites

[Anonymous No.22943259]

>>22925952
same problem as the first list. Most of these books are never mentioned here and its difficult to believe that contemporary /lit/ anons have read any of these books.

"its phony" - Holden Caulfield

[Anonymous No.22943295]

>>22927335
>>22927369
Would you call Hikaru Nakamura Japanese or American?

[Anonymous No.22943315]

>>22943259
>I’m a retarde, therefore, everyone also must also be a retard

[Anonymous No.22943590]

>>22943295
He's a Japanese American--albeit a fully Americanized one.

[Anonymous No.22943600]

>>22943295
>>22943590
But American-ness is also different, as the only Native Americans are the tribes which were largely genocided. Besides them, there are only American whites and American blacks which are both non-natives, and not of a pure ethnic background in either case.

[Anonymous No.22943608]

>>22925995
>I actually haven't been here in nine minutes.
Fixed.

[Anonymous No.22943611]

>>22943259
Projection. No one is constantly making threads about their favorites unless they’re an autist. Many will reply to threads though. Problem is those threads are rarely made or are infested with anons for the wrong reasons and not worth bothering with

[Anonymous No.22943612]

>>22943295
His mother is American and of European descent, so not the same as Ishiguro.

[Anonymous No.22943631]

>>22943259
I've read a good deal of them, and even of the ones I haven't read, I've still read material by the mentioned author in many cases.

[Anonymous No.22943694]

>>22943600
Native Americans are just bleached Chinamen

[Anonymous No.22943713]

>>22943694
Lol, no.

[Anonymous No.22944939]

>>22936608
I filled out the questionnaire, but didn't post my list. I did include Conrad's Victory, however, which I think is a massively underrated book. A few others on mine are West's Day of the Locust and Flaubert's Sentimental Education

[Anonymous No.22945757]

>>22937633
>Kek this thread will be dead by tomorrow.
Still here!
>It was way too long.
If you can't think of ten books you like, then you need to read more.

[Anonymous No.22945765]

>>22945757
You have shit taste, so it doesn’t really matter what you have to say.

[Anonymous No.22945944]

>>22938463
>2) The list is very biased towards novels. I gave ten poets to try to redress the balance a bit. (That said, there are many major novelists overlooked. Just from the Anglosphere there's Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Twain, Lawrence, for example.)
I don't disagree with you that many great authors are overlooked. But the list is meant to reflect /lit/'s taste, not the greatest works of all time in some objective sense. So if you don't see those authors on the lists, that simply means /lit/ does not read or like them.

[Anonymous No.22946074]

>>22944939
Conrad seems to have suffered by HoD overshadowing everything. It’s a great novella but it’s become too popular in mainstream and academic consciousness so its reputation overshadows both the book itself and the rest of his oeuvre. I’ve read like 5-6 of his books and everything is really good. Sucks that much of it is being forgotten. The first 100 pages of Nostromo are a massive filter but the rest of the book had to have been one of the more engrossing reads I’ve had. Lord Jim, Victory, The Secret Agent, The Secret Sharer, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness were all great as well. I’m going to reread Victory as soon as I’m done the book I’m reading now, and I’m also planning to read The Shadow Line, and Typhoon soon. Under Western Eyes will hopefully be within the year. A great author with a high floor, everything I’ve read has at least been good

[Anonymous No.22946114]

Chart when? Sheet when?

[Anonymous No.22946116]

>Hesiod - Works and Days
>Plato - Apology
>Quran
>Guanzhong - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
>Montaigne - Essays
>Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
>Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio
>Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
>Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
>Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition

[Anonymous No.22946131]

>>22946116
>Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition
Based, but you're still a nerd.

[Anonymous No.22946137]

>>22946131
>>22946116
>YOU MUST CAPITALIZE BLACK BUT NOT WHITE BECAUSE FLOYD OD’D IN 2020!!
Some manual

[Anonymous No.22946173]

>>22946137

[Anonymous No.22946178]

where's the list?

[Anonymous No.22946696]

>>22946114
>>22946178
Unfortunately it was just a datamining thread for a project I'm working on. Thanks for playing guys. Better luck next time.

[Anonymous No.22946740]

>>22925952
I submitted my ten. God speed, anon.

[Anonymous No.22947192]

Dont need a fancy chart. Just the spreadsheet will do. Anytime now...

[Anonymous No.22947272]

>>22946116
Throw out:
Quran, obviously, and swap Works and Days for Theogony. Drop the Manual of Style, and the rest is at least tolerable. Points for Apology, RotTK, and your Murakami choice.

[Anonymous No.22947275]

>>22945765
He beat you, anon. Just have the stones to admit defeat.

[Anonymous No.22947563]

>>22946696
if this is true, op is a faggot. like always.

[Anonymous No.22947583]

>>22946696
wtf

[Anonymous No.22947605]

>>22946696
kek based

[Anonymous No.22948569]

>>22946696
Motherfucker!

[Anonymous No.22948734]

>>22946696
If you're really OP, I'm going to cry...I wanted that list.

[Anonymous No.22948781]

My number 1 vote for the best book of all time is The Origins of Woke, by Richard Hanania

[Anonymous No.22949071]

>>22946696
Let's not just assume this is OP, who, to answer all the questions of when the list would arrive, said that he was planning to produce it after the thread had died. In other words, if you're posting in this thread, not yet.

[Anonymous No.22949314]

>>22942331
>>22946114
>>22946178
>>22947192
As I said already, I will post the chart when the thread dies (aka when the poll closes).

[Anonymous No.22949410]

I really enjoyed I, Claudius, which I don’t think has gotten much attention on the Top 100

[Anonymous No.22950652]

>>22949314
Thank you again anon, you are doing God's work, and it's going to be terrific to have a list of 'lesser known' /lit/ books that aren't dominated by the same 60-70 books we see every year.

Also, will say that >>22947192 is also not wrong if the actual chart is a pain to put together. Regardless of the chart, it's nice to have the submission data shared for us to look through as well.