The Alternate /lit/ Top 100

[Anonymous No.22951862]

Here's the chart ya filthy animals.

[Anonymous No.22951865]

>>22951862
I LOVE YOU ANON
THANKS

[Anonymous No.22951868]

>>22951862
Great work anon
Can you include the ranking position and the number of votes under each book please?

[Anonymous No.22951869]

>>22951862
Grim.

[Anonymous No.22951878]

>>22951868
No.

but i'll drop a link for the sheet

[Anonymous No.22951879]

>>22951862
Holy kino. Do you have the sheet? Just configure it so only you can edit it.

[Anonymous No.22951883]

>>22951862
RIGHT WING BASICS
catbox links expire 1/17 about 4am
1 page index 60k
https://litter.catbox.moe/j5xtsf.pdf
zip file 344mb
https://litter.catbox.moe/ayfduv.zip
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another chart

[Anonymous No.22951884]

>>22951883
ligma

[Anonymous No.22951898]

>>22951878
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BERqUB0PQuIm_MpXny1znVHHo54qnC5MNxaGTrD60sA/edit?usp=sharing

[Anonymous No.22951899]

>>22951862
Thank you anon! Could you share a link to the spreadsheet as well? Really appreciate you taking the initiative to do this and then following through! Today, OP was truly not a fag.

[Anonymous No.22951902]

>>22951884
lick your own balls you sniveling little /lit/ faggot
>kek

[Anonymous No.22951903]

>>22951898
Absolutely based. God bless you anon.

[Anonymous No.22951913]

>>22951898
Nice. Do you have the poll sheet? You know with all the answers?

[Anonymous No.22951925]

>>22951862
Good job anon, thanks for doing this!

[Anonymous No.22951936]

>>22951862
Cellini
Van Gogh’s letters
Tao Te Ching
Conversations with Goethe
Decameron

I’m happy even though I am probably the only voter for some of them lol

[Anonymous No.22951939]

>>22951862
What makes it alternate?

[Anonymous No.22951943]

>>22951939
You couldn’t vote for usual suspects (books with 5+ appearances in annual charts)

[Anonymous No.22951965]

>>22951943
Ah, I see. Thanks for informing me.

[Anonymous No.22951968]

>>22951936
Forgot Whitman too

[Anonymous No.22952066]

Thanks OP!

[Anonymous No.22952156]

>kuran
kys faggot mudslime

[Anonymous No.22952160]

>>22951898
I think that includes just about every book I’ve ever seen recommended here. Some of the 1 vote picks are kino.
Also I can’t believe no one besides me voted for Flatland.

[Anonymous No.22952172]

>>22952156
seethe jew

[Anonymous No.22952180]

>>22952156
If it makes you feel better it's only on this list because it didn't make the top 100 list consistently

In any case I never rank religious works in this sort of thing. They all transcend other works, it isn't fair to rank them

[Anonymous No.22952182]

I'm sad none of Pynchon's lesser works didn't make it. I would've thought Vineland or maybe even Inherent Vice would've had a chance.

[Anonymous No.22952265]

>>22951898
>the sickness unto death
>4 votes
surely didn't expect that, is it that much better than fear and trembling?

[Anonymous No.22952273]

>>22952182
Pynchon hasn’t been popular here in like 4 years

[Anonymous No.22952276]

>>22952273
I saw the drop in GR this year. Was it even top 25? And then only one of his other books made it when I know he used to get four.

[Anonymous No.22952290]

>>22952276
The whole postmodern/maximalist crowd is pretty much gone

[Anonymous No.22952310]

>>22951862
>>22951898
Nice work, thanks anon. Now I have to make a list of things to read from this...

[Anonymous No.22952350]

>>22952290
I wonder why. Out of vogue? It does seem autofiction/“trauma porn” is the prevailing trend of contemporary literary fiction.

[Anonymous No.22952352]

>>22952350
Just a different demographic here now

[Anonymous No.22952354]

>>22952352
Oh, you meant posters here. I thought you were referring to lit fic as a whole. Got it.

[Anonymous No.22952356]

>>22952350
>>22952352
And to add on, fiction isn’t that popular here now. Most days you can scroll through the catalog and there won’t be too many threads about an individual fiction book or writer

[Anonymous No.22952360]

>not a single one of my picks even made the alternative top 100
>>22952350
They grew up

[Anonymous No.22952430]

>>22951862
This list is so shit

[Anonymous No.22952441]

>>22952273
Good. I like his books just fine but for some reason he and Wallace tended to develop a cult of fanboys who seemed more interested in the private lives of those authors as well as using those books as some kind of signifier for their own intelligence rather than engaging in literature.

[Anonymous No.22952466]

>>22952441
To be fair they’re both interesting individuals. The life is pretty important too.

[Anonymous No.22952474]

>>22952466
Nah

[Anonymous No.22952485]

>>22952441
It got near celeb-gossip levels at time. There’s still one weird pynchon poster who seems to know every detail of his life but can’t reply to any questions concerning analysis of his books.

[Anonymous No.22952493]

>>22952441
That’s why they were known as two of the three meme writers. A lot of their fanboys knew their stuff but they could be absolutely insufferable. They dominated the board but somehow I feel it was still a better time

[Anonymous No.22952604]

>>22952493
Their popularity coincided with the influx of redditors during the election days which made them doubly insufferable. Our lists are now looking more a development of this board's pre 2015 tastes which is overall good.

[Anonymous No.22952636]

>>22951862
What the fuck is up with the names on the right?
>Margaret R. B. Shaw - The Charterhouse of Parma
>Roy Thomas - The Ring of the Nibelung
Why would you use translators' names?

[Anonymous No.22952638]

>>22952636
Some of those image grids do that when you search and drop a book down for some reason

[Anonymous No.22952650]

>>22951862
Somebody post it on TrueLit, let's get their reaction...

[Anonymous No.22952664]

>>22951862
>Pedro Paramo is #2
Uh-oh! The pseuds who don't know who Rulfo is from the previous chart aren't gonna like this...

[Anonymous No.22952672]

>>22952664
If you don’t know a single writer on this chart or the yearly one, a nigga need to lurk more

[Anonymous No.22952693]

>>22952672
Agreed. The threads about the previous chart were embarrassing at times.

[Anonymous No.22952706]

>>22952636
He uses original titles for some but English titles for others. For a book he includes the publisher in parenthesis. For another he tells you it’s “1/3”. Very strange approach

[Anonymous No.22952709]

Alexander was robbed!

[Anonymous No.22952716]

[Anonymous No.22952911]

>>22951862
You should have included the votes. Good otherwise.

[Anonymous No.22952926]

>>22951862
Thank you

[Anonymous No.22952934]

>>22952172
>Jews, christians and muslims thinking they're different from each other.

Kek

[Anonymous No.22952937]

>>22952350
/lit/ is simply debatebro-teenagers and people that want to pretend they're trad or cath or something. Why would an actual reader enjoy spending time and posting here?

[Anonymous No.22953067]

>>22951862
Very happy to see that my favorite otter finally made the list.

[Anonymous No.22953128]

>>22951862
Kinda based ngl

[Anonymous No.22953145]

Image design (topsters?) sucks, but thanks op

[Anonymous No.22953161]

>none of my selections made it into the chart
;-,

[Anonymous No.22953169]

>>22951862
fucking hell this is patrician

[Anonymous No.22953588]

>>22952934
Do you also think that Latin and Germanic languages are the same?

[Anonymous No.22953593]

>>22951936
Shut the fuck up, you attention-seeking faggot. Worse than a fucking woman

[Anonymous No.22954248]

>>22953145
I'm a lazy guy.

[Anonymous No.22954303]

>>22951898
How did you decide which 2-vote books to leave off the list?

[Anonymous No.22954384]

>>22953593
lol

[Anonymous No.22954395]

Pretentious bunch of slop. All these works in translation. I imagine if one were to read every book on this list, he would gain nothing but an insatiable desire for cock.

[Anonymous No.22954440]

>>22954395
Pretending to hate all of these is just as obnoxious and performative as pretending to love all of them.

[Anonymous No.22954624]

>>22951862
I've read four and seen four additional movie adaptations.
Am IGMI?

[Anonymous No.22955068]

>>22954395
Stfu

[Anonymous No.22956515]

>>22954303
Bump for this question

[Anonymous No.22956971]

>>22954303
random number generator

>>22954395
just because you can only speak one language doesn't mean everyone else here does

[Anonymous No.22957012]

This is a nice idea but I have one concern about it.
Did the books on the lower part of the list have all one vote each? If so, I'd imagine there were lots of books with one vote but that were left out.
If so, how was it decided which would make it?

[Anonymous No.22957163]

I should've voted when I saw this was getting made. Atleast some of my favorite books are in here. A good list I could use too for recommendations.

[Anonymous No.22957177]

pedro páramo, the republic and the ring of nibelung are three I'm sure is on the 2023 traditional top list.

[Anonymous No.22957567]

thanks for the recs bros :) - and OP thanks for keeping most titles untranslated

[Anonymous No.22957576]

>>22957177
They have appeared before but not more than 5 times, which was the condition of the blacklist.

[Anonymous No.22957908]

>>22957012
1-71 received 3 votes or more. The main problem is that there were 112 books that got 2 votes, and OP apparently randomly selected 29 of them to make the list.

[Anonymous No.22957914]

Thinking a bit more about this, while I like the idea a lot, and participated, there are issues with running a separate poll shortly after our annual one.

I think it probably makes sense to use the data from the normal, annual poll to create 2 lists: (1) our normal top 100, and (2) an alternative top 100 where books that have already been canonized by being included on 5 or more prior top 100s are excluded (or maybe even just a separate chart for 101-150 or something).

Something to think about when December rolls around at any rate.

[Anonymous No.22958149]

>>22951862
is nostromo good? i like heart of darkness

[Anonymous No.22959223]

>>22954395
Jokes on u, i had that long before i could read

[Anonymous No.22960109]

Thank you OP

[Anonymous No.22961421]

bumperino

[Anonymous No.22961686]

Speaking of, where's Bookie's read in '23 chart?

[Anonymous No.22961695]

>>22953588
If you follow the laws of a bronze age desert cult, you're insane : )

[Anonymous No.22962678]

>>22951862
Every single work I picked made it on the list. Incredible.