Post your favourite 10 books ever. If you can.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.3108354]

This is in no particular order, and with no reasons given, although I'll give reasons if asked for certain books.

1. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
3. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
4. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
5. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
6. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
7. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
8. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
9. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
10. The Wastelands - Stephen King

[Anonymous No.3108357]

no Franny and Zooey?

[Anonymous No.3108359]

toasting in a sunhawk bread

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.3108363]

>>3108357

I think that's the first first honourable mention. Oh God. Why is making these stoopid lists so hard?

[Anonymous No.3108383]

1. 100 years of solitude - Gabo
2. His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
3. ermm-fuck why is this so hard

[Anonymous No.3108388]

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Infinite Jest
3. Mason & Dixon
4. Moby-Dick
5. Crime and Punishment
6. Under the Volcano
7. Dubliners
8. White Noise
9. Confessions of a Mask
10. The Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.3108399]

>ITT : POST OLD BOOKS

not that's there is anything wrong with that

[Anonymous No.3108397]

1. Ulysses
2. Gravity's Rainbow
3. A Storm of Swords
4. Lolita
5. A Dance with Dragons
6. Infinite Jest
7. A Game of Thrones
8. A Clash of Kings
9. Fear and Loathing
10. A Feast for Crows

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.3108403]

>>3108397
Maybe I've been on this board too long, but I can't tell if that's a joke or serious list. I just can't tell anymore.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.3108408]

>>3108399

Who's posting old books? Almost all new and very new books.

[Anonymous No.3108420]

>>3108397

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.3108481]

So, who else? Doesn't matter if it's all one genre, or all one time period. Don't post if it's all one author though, otherwise people will be sad. Real sad.

[Anonymous No.3108484]

The Master and Margarita
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Sun Also Rises
The Plague
Lolita
The Tale of Genji
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
100 Years of Solitude
Nadja
Mason and Dixon

Deliberately avoided poetry for the sake of making the list easier

[Anonymous No.3108497]

American Psycho - Bet Easton Ellis

[Anonymous No.3108502]

I don't want to make them 1, 2, 3 so ill write them all in a line.
cat's cradle; green mile; black bible - la vey; name of the rose; prince - macchiaveli; divine comedy; to kill a mocking bird; the godfather; the hobbit, harry potter first 4 books.

[Anonymous No.3108510]

Absalom, Absalom!
Winesburg, Ohio
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Sound and the FUry
Hamlet
Waiting for Godot
Mother Night
Franny and Zooey
V.
The Brothers Karamazov

>inb4 boring /lit/core list
i know, i haven't read anything obscure so the best of the 'classics' i've read are my favorite

[Anonymous No.3108518]

1. Infinite Jest
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. Sophie's Choice
4. Gravity's Rainbow
5. Slaughterhouse-5
6. Pride and Prejudice
7. The Pale King
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. The Castle

[Anonymous No.3108519]

>>3108502
i want to make a notice about harrypotter.
I've read the first 4 book's a few times each, it was a great adventure for my mind by that time. Then everybody had to wait for the fifth book. Time passed, before the book got released i had a chance to read some leaked version of it. I've read the first 40-60 pages and i was like wtf he dodged again. I think after 5th book i kind of grew up out of this and just saw all that dodged there dodged where. Sad for me i couldnt enjoy it anymore like in the old day's. It's like reading the news headline and already knowing what it all can be about.

[Anonymous No.3108521]

>>3108510
the classics are classics for a reason. no need to apologise for your taste.

[Anonymous No.3108527]

>>3108388
>>3108518
>those top twos

bestfriends 4 ever?

[Anonymous No.3108538]

>>3108519
The 5th onward were generally worse books, you can tell Rowling got given a lot more freedom by the editor and it shows

[Anonymous No.3108541]

>>3108518
Hello homosexual/woman.

[Anonymous No.3108558]

>>3108541
What tipped you off? It was Sophie's Choice, wasn't it?

[Anonymous No.3108560]

>>3108484
>Master and Margarita

I love you, man.

[Anonymous No.3108561]

>>3108541

The former. I guess you're basing your assumption off of the Styron, Austen, and Wilde.

[Anonymous No.3108571]

The Master and Margarita
A Farewell to Arms
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Song of Solomon
The Bluest Eye
Slaughterhouse-Five
Bluebeard
As You Like It
The Lost World
The Hound of The Baskervilles

[Anonymous No.3108573]

>>3108560
Bulgakov's my favourite author by some way, I would have included Black Snow as well but I wanted 10 different authors.

[Anonymous No.3108587]

>>3108573
He's great. I'm about half-way through The Master and Margarita, it's my first Bulgakov, and I fucking love it.

[Anonymous No.3108613]

yall niggas need to develop taste. until then... dont post lists.
if you are still catching up with the classics, picking stuff from famous GOAT-lists. it's necessary, but dont pretend that it had such an impact on you.

[Anonymous No.3108627]

>>3108613
>implying anyone outside of the most well read literary critics has read every literary classic

[Anonymous No.3108635]

1.White noise-Delillo
2.Mosquito coast-Theroux
3.Homo Faber- Frisch
4.The Gambler- Dostoyevsku
5.Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
6.Arch of Triumph- Remarque
7.Never let me go- Ishiguro
8.To have and have not- Hemingwey
9.How to be good- Hornby
10.Veronika Decides to Die- Coelho

I am not that big of a reader. I started reading seriously about two years ago (seriously means at least 1 book a month). So I guess most of the books I've read are plebeian and "entry level" as fuck.So judge me if you will.I also enjoy my native literature and some books deserved to be on the top, but none of you have probably heard of those books because it is Latvian.

[Anonymous No.3108778]

It won't be enough for him until the entire first page is all Sunhawk threads.

[Anonymous No.3108820]

>essentialism
lolno

[Anonymous No.3108835]

>>3108778
what is sunhawk?

[Anonymous No.3108840]

>>3108613
You're claiming that classics are not impactful? Wat?

[Anonymous No.3108851]

>>3108778
It's all he has, man. No job, no gf. Let him have this.

[Anonymous No.3108854]

1. Les Miserables
2. War and Peace
3. The Decameron
4. Paradise Lost
5. Othello
6. A Tale of Two Cities
7. The Divine Comedy
8. The Canzoni (Giacomo Leopardi)
9. Thus Spake Zarathustra
10. Vanity Fair

[Anonymous No.3108863]

>>3108363
Then don't do them.


Oh but then you'd have nothing to post, listening only to those thoughts that keep telling you what a failure you are.

[Anonymous No.3108871]

>>3108840
yes. it's the same in every artform.

[Anonymous No.3108872]

>>3108854
1. The Bible
2. The Iliad
3. The Odyssey
4. Hamlet
5. The Canterbury Tales
6. The Republic
7. The Koran
8. Beowulf
9. The Aeneid
10. Oedipus Rex

[Anonymous No.3108876]

>>3108872

Pretty solid list there, I'm liking the feel of it.

[Anonymous No.3108923]

The Plague - Camus
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catch-22 - Heller
Petersburg - Andrei Bely
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
Confederacy of Dunes - John Kennedy Toole
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
If on A Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino
Cannery Row - Steinbeck
Rabbit, Run - Updike

In that order

[Anonymous No.3108969]

The Bible
The Koran
Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Divine Comedy
A Tale of Two Cities
Black beauty
Atlas shrugged
Twilight

captcha: dedcosi ironical

[Anonymous No.3108980]

Why is everyone putting the Bible and the Qur'an? They're trash in both content and literary quality.

Perhaps the King James version has some English literary merit, but the source material is repetitive Semitic nonsense. The Qur'an is painful to read.

[Anonymous No.3108984]

>>3108980
Your post is painful to read.

[Anonymous No.3108992]

>>3108388
gentlemen, /lit/ has gained sentience

[Anonymous No.3109004]

>>3108992
anyways

Les Miserables - guess
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka - Nikolai Gogol
Europe Central - William Vollmann
Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski (i can feel the asspain growing inside you)
Cities of the Red Night - William S. Burroughs

[Anonymous No.3109014]

>>3108984
Nice reasoned argument there.

I'm honestly interested why people think they are 'good' books; both are books which people - of a sane mind - never choose to read, but are very often forced to read.

If we leave alone the cultural devastation which the books have brought upon us, as stand-alone literary works, they are

1. repetitive; Semitic languages have a hard time with subordinate sentences, so the writing is disjointed and perplexingly repetitive.

2. inconsistent; although the repetitiveness should given the writing plenty of time to 'get it right', everyone knows how contradictory both works are.

3. boring; they have the opportunity to turn perhaps the most interesting subjects into a tortuous bore. Indeed, the apocryphal Gospel of Mary is much more interesting, but the Fathers left this out.

I will recommend the King James version to anyone, but it cannot be a 'great book', it's a 'great translation' only.

[Anonymous No.3109050]

>>3109004
you are now aware that you are mentioning a short story in a favorite books list

[Anonymous No.3109062]

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Cannery Row
Savage Detectives
Infinite Jest
Music for Chameleons
Flyboy Action Figure comes with Gasmask
Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby
Life: A Users Manual
The Remains of the Day

Not in order, no repeated authors.

[Anonymous No.3109065]

>>3109050
The Metamorphosis has been published as a book many times.
Your move, motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.3109082]

>>3109065
if you can finish it within an hour
it's not a book

[Anonymous No.3109100]

>>3109082
I believe you're thinking of what's called a "novel"

[Anonymous No.3109104]

>>3109100
are you trying to go full derrida on me?

[Anonymous No.3109108]

Hey. How do you post emoticons?

[Anonymous No.3109120]

>>3109104
I don't even know who that is, aside from being a French writer that philosophy undergraduates like.

All I'm doing is letting you know how you're irrevocably and embarrassingly WRONG

[Anonymous No.3109126]

Short stories count too right?
1:Night Watch (Trilogy & First book)
2:On War by Carl Von Clausewitz
3:The Dreams in the Witch House by H.P. Lovecraft
4:Pickman's Model by H.P Lovecraft
5:The Colour out of Space by H.P Lovecraft
6: The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels.
7:All the Devils are Here by B. McLean
8. Dexter Series.
9. The Time Machine by H.G Wells
10. ??? by ????
Rate me /lit/

[Anonymous No.3109131]

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway
The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
Endgame - Samuel Beckett
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Crime and Punsihment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Black Spring - Henry Miller
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game - William Kennedy
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson

[Anonymous No.3109134]

>>3109126
let me change that,
10: Roadside pick-nick.

[Anonymous No.3109160]

by books i'm assuming you don't mean simply novels, so i'm including anything that can be considered a "book".

Beckett - Murphy
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy
Debord - Society of The Spectacle
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49

[Anonymous No.3109162]

>>3109120
>language games

[Anonymous No.3109173]

>>3109162
Bitch, the word 'book' and the word 'novel' have two entirely different meanings.
This isn't a motherfucking game, son. Get that greentext shit outta here.

[Anonymous No.3109204]

Haynes Manual BMW 3 series and Z4
The Golfer's Mind
I Love You But I'm Not in Love with You
High Fidelity
Geoff Hamilton's Practical Gardening
Reader's Digest Repair Manual
The Knack
A Shed of One's Own
Midlife Manual
The Eat-Clean Diet for Men

[Anonymous No.3109208]

>>3109173
>Bitch, the word 'book' and the word 'novel' have two entirely different meanings.
In one language game, yes, in another no.
>This isn't a motherfucking game
It can be, it also couldn't be depending on ho we choose to use "game".

[Anonymous No.3109510]

Steppenwolf - Hesse
Thus spoke zarathustra - Nietzsche
Calicalabozo - Andres caicedo
Lolita - Nabokov
Getting even - Woody Allen
Sobre Heroes y Tumbas - Sabato
Don Quixote - Cervantes
El otoño del patriarca - Gabo
The unbeareable lightness of being - Kundera
Cien años de soledad - Gabo
El arbol de la ciencia - Baroja
The catcher in the rye
Demon haunted world-sagan

[Anonymous No.3109632]

Absalom, Absalom!
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Hamlet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Crying of Lot 49
Dubliners
Heart of Darkness
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Great Gatsby
Catch-22

[Anonymous No.3109800]

>>3108521

I'm not apologizing. I just get sick of the 'boring list' response

[Anonymous No.3109805]

>>3108872
lol'd at this one

[Franz !!8ZELb56UWUx No.3109811]

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Anonymous No.3109815]

So who's working on the /lit/core top 10 popularity chart?

[Anonymous No.3110491]

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. American Psycho
3. I Am Legend
4. Naked Lunch
5. Dracula
6. 1984
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. Crooked Little Vein
9. The Road
10. The Shining

[Sol !!TGCJd3pnCyU No.3110513]

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Hamlet by Willy Shakes
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

That's all I got

Not a book, but my favorite short story is by far Asimov's "The Last Question".

[Anonymous No.3110519]

1. Le rouge et le noir
2. War and Peace
3. Dostoevski's "White Nights
4. Flaubert's trois contes
5. Rousseau's Confessions
6. Hesse's Steppenwolf
7. La Rochefoucauld's Maximes
8. Rabelais' Gargantua & Pantagruel
9. Moliere's Misanthrope
10. Chekhov's An Artist's Story.

[Anonymous No.3110745]

The Lost Symbol

[Anonymous No.3110754]

>>3110513

>Breakfast of Champions

Glad someone else can see that this is his best.

[Anonymous No.3111312]

H-here I go guys
1. Madame Bovary
2. Swann's Way
3. The Sun Also Rises
4. The Great Gatsby
5. The Sound and the Fury
6. Crime & Punishment
7. Paradise Lost
8. Heart of Darkness
9. Catcher in the Rye
10. The Bridge on the Drina

[Anonymous No.3111336]

1- Brothers Karamazov - Dostoïevski
2- Candide - Voltaire
3- Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes- Balzac
4- The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
5- Short stories - Richard Matheson
6- King Lear - Shakespeare
7- The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
8- Arabian Nights - Anonymous
9- Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift
10- Dracula - Bram Stoker

[Anonymous No.3111364]

House of the Seven Gables- Hawthorne
All the Pretty Horses- McCarthy
On the Road- Kerouac
Dharma Bums- Kerouac
Oliver Twist- Dickens
Leaving Tangier- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Heart of Darkness- Conrad
The Sound and the Fury & Light in August -Faulkner
Huck Finn- Twain

[Anonymous No.3111371]

1. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
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.
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all the rest.

[Anonymous No.3111380]

>>3108354


1. Lie Down in Darkness [William Styron]
2. The Brothers Karamazov [Fyodor Dostoevsky]
3. Anna Karenina [Leo Tolstoy]
4. Demons [Fyodor Dostoevsky]
5. Absalom, Absalom! [William Faulkner]
6. War and Peace [Leo Tolstoy]
7. The Leopard [Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]
8. Mrs. Dalloway [Virginia Woolf]
9. Lolita [Vladimir Nabokov]
10. Blood Meridian [Cormac McCarthy]

pretty mainstream but whatever

also OP Freedom is one of my least favorite books of all time, would be interested in what made you like it so much

[Anonymous No.3111385]

>>3111371

I still don't get why people around here are so into Nabokov - I was never all that impressed with him

[Anonymous No.3111393]

>>3108872
>>3108969

>Koran
>Ko

[Anonymous No.3111403]

>>3111393
oh wow look how hard this was to find

[Anonymous No.3111409]

The Dream Songs - John Berryman
Poems - W.B. Yeats
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
Collected Poems - John Ashbery
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams (haters gonna hate)
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Selected Poems - Dylan Thomas

[Anonymous No.3111507]

>>3111385
Only Lolita was good, because it felt like it was literature, for the sake of literature, while also having a plot. The other books are less anal-retentive. Less "perfected" and beautiful.

[Anonymous No.3111533]

Infinite jest - David Foster wallace
Joyfull Science - Nietzsche
Human condition - Arendt
Republic - plato
Valis - PK Dick
Mistakes were made - Carol Tavris
Brave new world - Huxley
1984
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
weaveworld - clive barker