what are your five favorite books?

[Anonymous No.23081313]

display your eclectic taste.

[Anonymous No.23081321]

infinite jest
phenomonology of spirit
either/or (kierkegaard)
&amp 9
king lear

[Anonymous No.23081382]

>>23081313
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
The Problems of Philosophy
On the Nature of the Universe
The Age of Reason

[Anonymous No.23081392]

>>23081313
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
The Problems of Philosophy
On the Nature of the Universe
The Age of Reason
Midnight's Children

[Anonymous No.23081433]

In Search for Lost Time
Being and Time
Blood Meridian
The Man Without Qualities
Atlas Shrugged

[Anonymous No.23081451]

Uhhhh
All Things Are Possible (Shestov)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake)
Any collection of Presocratic fragments
Les Chants de Maldoror (Lautreamont)
Dead Souls or The Government Inspector (Gogol)

[Anonymous No.23081452]

>>23081313
The God Delusion
Bill Nye's Great Big World of Science
The Fault in our Stars
To Kill a Mockingbird
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.23081454]

>>23081451
Extremely based

[Anonymous No.23081457]

>>23081313
Hero of Our Time (Lermontov)
Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
Confessions of a Mask (Mishima)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Odyssey (Homer)

[Anonymous No.23081461]

>>23081452
Peak reddit taste. Nice b8.

[Anonymous No.23081463]

>>23081313
Gods and Legionnaires
The Electric Church
The Windup Girl
The Hundred
Gypsy Rizka. (Yeah yeah technically a kids book but its the only other one I could come up with)

[Anonymous No.23081488]

>>23081313
The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years
A Confederacy Of Dunces
A Canticle For Leibowitz
Meditations
Works And Days

[Anonymous No.23081496]

The Histories
Sayings of Spartan Women
Heimskringla
Any give Conan Story
The Shadow Over Innsmouth

[Anonymous No.23081532]

>>23081496
>The Histories
Get this beautiful copy if you can, it's printed like a whole textbook with annotations, illustrations, and everything. You can get them secondhand for well under $20 if you shop around

[Anonymous No.23081544]

This is my top books list

[Anonymous No.23081545]

>>23081532
I love landmark series,debated on getting that copy. If I can find the deal that you mention, them with your recommendation it must be done.

[Anonymous No.23081547]

>>23081452
gold

[Anonymous No.23081553]

>>23081545
I found one for $15 at a local used bookstore with only a little dinging around the edges

[Anonymous No.23081560]

>>23081313
Shogun
Blood Meridian
Lonesome Dove
King Solomon's Mines
Shout at the Devil

[Anonymous No.23081564]

>>23081496
>Any given Conan story
I personally put short stories in a different category from novels, which is the only reason Robert E. Howard isn't in my top five novels list. Still, great stuff.

[Anonymous No.23081604]

>>23081560
Shogun's pretty based. My dad loves that book.

[Anonymous No.23081609]

I have read less than 5 books
>return of the king
>desert solitaire
>holy bible old testament
>...
>

[Anonymous No.23081620]

>>23081604
James Clavell is indeed a based author. I'd also include Wilbur Smith and Bernard Cornwell for a solid triumvirate of great authors.

[Anonymous No.23081623]

Moby Dick
Ulysses
Almanac of the Dead
Beloved
King Lear

[Anonymous No.23081629]

>>23081609
Most honest /lit/ poster

[Anonymous No.23081673]

>>23081451
The marriage of heaven and hell is hardly a book but I listed it as a book too to make it seem like I’d read more books last year lol

[Anonymous No.23081686]

>>23081609
that's like three books more than lit's average

[Anonymous No.23081687]

>>23081609
Favorite OT book? Ecclesiastes

[Anonymous No.23081702]

>>23081313
Enders Shadow - Card
A Confederacy of Dunces -Toole
Cats Cradle - Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Rowling

[Anonymous No.23081704]

>>23081313
In no order:
The Rings of Saturn
Lolita
Absalom, Absalom!
The Master and Margarita
A Canticle for Leibowitz

open to recs

[Anonymous No.23081705]

>>23081313
Foucaults Pendulum
Storm of Steel
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Moby Dick
The Glass Bead Game

[Anonymous No.23081746]

>>23081704
I have wanted to do Sebald forever but can’t decide whether to do Rings of Saturn or Austerlitz first

[Anonymous No.23081783]

Unique and it’s Property
Cyclonopedia
Hainish Cycle (specifically LHoD)
Snowcrash
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan

[Anonymous No.23081850]

>>23081313
Eclipse
Goblet of Fire
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Rebel Hawke

[Anonymous No.23081878]

Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg)
Juliette (Marquis de Sade)
Sabbath's Theater (Phillip Roth)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
The Tunnel (William Gass)

[Anonymous No.23081943]

>>23081850
Oh you said five instead of four.
Initiates of the Flame

[Anonymous No.23081966]

>>23081313
Do long ass poems count or do I have to pick prose?

[Anonymous No.23081983]

>>23081746
I haven't read Austerlitz yet but I've read Rings of Saturn twice. Make of that what you will.

[OP No.23081990]

>>23081966
anything goes.

[Anonymous No.23082003]

KJV
Les Mis
Heart of Darkness
Moby Dick
Churchill's WW2

[Anonymous No.23082034]

>>23081313
Epic of Gilgamesh
Alice in Wonderland
Tao The Ching
Lord of the Rings
The Bible

[Anonymous No.23082072]

>>23081313
Murder on The Orient Express
Angels and Demons (yes, fuck you)
Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Case of the Sulky Girl
Nick Carter: Butcher of Belgrade

[Anonymous No.23082091]

>>23081433
Two books on your list you have only read volume 1 of, so you just mention Books 1 and 1 respectively

[Anonymous No.23082204]

Saga of Laxadarl
Vanity Fair
On the Beach
Bridge on the Drina
A Soldier in the Great War

[Anonymous No.23082210]

>>23082003
Les Mis I'd leave out but otherwise based. Reading Churchill's WW2 now.

[Anonymous No.23082236]

>>23081990
The faerie queene
Canterbury tales
Kagerō nikki
The pillow book
The sound and the fury

[Anonymous No.23082237]

Gravitys Rainbow
Mason & Dixon
Ulysses
JR
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.23082261]

Inland
The Castle
Blood meridian
El Aleph
Pale Fire

[Anonymous No.23082760]

Pan (Hamsun)
Spring Snow (Mishima)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (Kazantzakis)
Centuries Of Meditation (Traherne)
KJB
>Bonus: Shōbōgenzō (Dōgen)

[Anonymous No.23082794]

>>23081452
Bill Nye on any top five list is a capital offense (let alone side by side with Dawkins). There will soon be a knock on your door. It is the hangman. You're better off not resisting, but feel free to enliven his day.

[Anonymous No.23082872]

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Moby Dick
3. Blood Meridian
4. Hamlet
5. Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.23082920]

>>23081313
dune (frank herbert)
dune messiah (frank herbert)
god emperor of dune (frank herbert)
children of dune (frank herbert)
heretics of dune (frank herbert)

honorable mention goes to:
chapterhouse:dune

[Anonymous No.23082981]

The Book of the New Sun
Moby-Dick
The Lord of the Rings
The Divine Comedy
The Aleph and Other Stories (translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni)

[Anonymous No.23083010]

In no particular order: Don Quixote, On the Death of Peregrinus, In Search of Lost Time, Agua Viva, Story of the Eye

[Anonymous No.23083026]

>>23081313
The Confidence-Man
Montainge's Essays
The Bible
The Annals of Tacitus
Macbeth

[Anonymous No.23083031]

>>23081452
McCarthy became reddit lol

[Anonymous No.23083076]

Moby dick
Shogun
2666
Killing commendatore
Any collection of Dazai, but 思い出 was the best story

[Anonymous No.23083135]

>>23081488
>The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years
woah I just heard about that book the other day, le synchronicity! Can you give a qrd what's good about it?

[Anonymous No.23083138]

>>23081452
My Infraborean nigga.

[Anonymous No.23083147]

Iliad
Odyssey
Work and days
Aeneid
Uhh fuck
Metamorphoses

[Anonymous No.23083157]

Notes from the underground
Faust
Sartor resartus
Master and Margarita
Gelsomino in the country of liars (Yes, it's a children's book)