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ITT: We post our five favorite reads and /lit/ recommends more based on them.

>> No.3810303

>>3810290
Nice cat

>> No.3810304
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3810304

I liked:

Scientology books
Joyce Carol Oates' books
Where teh Red Fern Grows
Lizard Music
The Phantom Tollboof

>> No.3810306
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Nine Stories
Woman in the Dunes
Coin locker Babies
Mother Night
after the quake

>> No.3810313

>>3810306
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4206268-capsguy?shelf=japan

Since you're into jap lit, there you go

>> No.3810319

Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Crime and Punishment
The Trial
Rousseau's Confessions
Lolita
Steppenwolf

>> No.3810330

>>3810304

This face of a demonic entity arising from nowhere on the screen for a few seconds in several moments of the film was one idea of genius from the director of The Exorcist.

>> No.3810331

The Ender/Ender's Shadow series(Children of the Mind in particular)
His Dark Materials
The White Forest
Neverwhere
The First Law
Sirantha Jax

>> No.3810342

/lit/ seems to have problems counting to five

>> No.3810343

>>3810319
Sologub's The Petty Demon

>> No.3810345

>>3810319
Ivan Ilyich
>good man

>> No.3810348

Lolita
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
The Secret History
Madeleine is Sleeping
Edgar Allan Poe

>> No.3810361

>>3810343

Thank you! This looks incredibly intriguing.

>> No.3810372

>>3810361
Good stuff

>> No.3810469

>>3810372
Thanks

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3810479

Need recs

>> No.3810480

Celine
Bolano
Marquis de Sade
Bataille
Dostoevsky

>> No.3810485

>>3810480
Thread was aimed at specific titles, some authors wrote pretty varied stuff that may be hard to recommend based on

>> No.3810492

>>3810485
somebody better spank my ass, then.

>> No.3810526

>>3810479
1. Read her poetry if you haven't already.
2. Ted Hughes
3. Robert Lowell
4. W. D. Snodgrass
5. Jorie Graham

>> No.3810557

Jimbo: A Fantasy
Midnight Tides
The Sky is Falling

>> No.3810574

I have never enjoyed a book that I have read. I only read because it is what smart people do.

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>>3810574
that's sad

>> No.3810584

any french niggas on here
Les Faux Monnayeurs
L'immoraliste
L'amant
dat Rimbaud everything
and i will throw in The sailor someting something the sea which is japanese

>> No.3810613

Cat's Cradle & Slaughterhouse-Five
Brave New World
The Stranger
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22

>> No.3810617

>>3810579
I thought it was beautiful

>> No.3810620

>>3810304
>>3810330
Scariest shit of the movie. Please don't post this again.

>> No.3810621

>>3810342
>math

>> No.3810631

>>3810621
Heh

>> No.3810730

More

>> No.3811069

Under the Volcano
The Sound of the Mountain
The Book of Disquiet
Satantango
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

>> No.3811083 [DELETED] 

>>3810617
Why?

>> No.3811086
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>>3810479

>> No.3811112

Nostromo
Catch-22
The Sun Also Rises
Gatsby
Crime and Punishment

>> No.3811153

>>3810290
Arsène Lupin stories
Historical novels from Mary Renault
The Lost World - Crichton
The City of Thieves - Benioff
Rant
Stargate
Smoke Screen - Sabbag
Joan of Arc - Twain

>> No.3811574

>>3810613
>>3811112

The Good Soldier Švejk - inspired Catch 22.

>> No.3811618

Ulysses
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Finnegans Wake
The cat and the devil

>> No.3811631

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Long Walk
Hatchet/Brian's Winter
A Storm of Swords
Ender's Game

>> No.3811633

>>3810584
>L'immoraliste

You would probably love L'abbe C by Bataille.

>> No.3811635

>>3810613

The Island of Dr. Moreau, monsieur.

>> No.3811641

>>3810331
Ready Player One

>> No.3811646

1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. The Story of an African Farm
3. Germinal
4. Midnight's Children
5. Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart
5. Jane Eyre

>> No.3811649

>Fahrenheit 451
>Gatsby
>Catch-22
>The Gizmonauts
>Alex Rider series
>Halo series

>> No.3811676

The Late Mattia Pascal
Crime and Punishment
Lolita
The Trial
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.3811712

The Elementary Particles
The Dice Man
The Plague
Infinite Jest
Correction

>> No.3811742

On The Road
Fight Club
Trainspotting
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha

>> No.3811747

>>3811712
dat taste

>> No.3811772

>>3811649
>Fahrenheit 451
ma nigga

>> No.3811777

>>3811712
The Third Policeman
Exercises in Style

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>>3811742
>>3810613

>> No.3811783

>>3811781
but what if you honestly like one of those books?

>> No.3811787

>>3811783
no one on /lit/ likes books

>> No.3811789

>>3811787
I like books...

>> No.3811819

>>3811781
I thought "try hard" was a derogatory term, and yet here someone put together this lovely graphic of nice books. is this some kind of double bind?

>> No.3811839 [DELETED] 

>>3811783
Just because they are commonly name-dropped by tryhards, it doesn't follow that all people who name-drop them are tryhards.

>> No.3811846

>>3811819
see
>>3811839

>> No.3811867

>>3810319

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

>> No.3811925

2001: A Space Odyssey
Das Parfum
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (all)
House of The Scorpion
Chuck Palahniuk (all)

>> No.3812383

Lolita
American Psycho
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Invisible Monsters
Filth
Let The Right One In
and pretty much all of Isaac Asimov's short stories

Don't hate me for being pleb, help me not be pleb

>> No.3812424

>>3810319

>>3811641
SOMEONE ELSE HAS READ THIS?!?

>> No.3812431

>>3811925

Some juvenile shit I guess. Keep on being a tool.

>> No.3812444

>>3812383

These are all great book. I don't have any non-pleb recs for you, though.

>> No.3812460

Lolita
The Crying of Lot 49
The Savage Detectives
Franny & Zooey
Catch-22

>> No.3812467

A Game of Thrones
Atlas Shrugged
50 Shades of Grey
The Da Vinci Code
Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.3812476

>>3811649
>Alex Rider Series

Lold

>> No.3812478

>>3811646
>>3812467

is it some kind of /lit/ inside joke to put gravity's rainbow next to books that aren't similar to gravity's rainbow?

>> No.3812483

>>3812478
Considering that 50 Shades and Atlas Shrugged are on the list, yes

>> No.3812504

1. Blood Meridian
2. White Noise
3. Lolita
4. Gravity's Rainbow
5. The Metamorphosis

>> No.3812598

Tao Te Ching
The First Law series
Everything by China Mieville
The Dresden Files
The Sprawl Trilogy