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[Anonymous No.4347739]

hello /lit/ I always had the fantasy of owning a magnific library in a old mension, but I was wondering how I would fill it.

Post any book that you think someone should have in his library

[Anonymous No.4347744]

Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.4347758]

Unless everyone here posts ~100 books per post, you're not getting enough for a good library.

Here's a nice list from an old /lit/ roll n' read game:

http://pastebin.com/B1qjKVPL

I'll copy them into the thread too.

[Anonymous No.4347760]

>>4347758
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Hopscoth by Julio Cortazar
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
Autumn in Peking by Boris Vian
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
La Bas by J.K. Husymans
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Hav by Jan Morris
The Empty Canvas by Alberto Moravia
Maldoror by Comte de Lautremont
Ice by Anna Kavan
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
R.U.R. by Karel Capek
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
The Time of Miracles by Borislav Pekic
The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman by Angela Carter
The Ubu Plays by Alfred Jarry
Pan by Knut Hamsun
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
The Collector by John Fowles
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
The Doll by Boleslaw Prus
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist
Locos by Felipe Alfau
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterson
Reader's Block by David Markson
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
Stoner by John Williams
Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini
The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Man Eater of Malgudi by R.K. Narayan
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
L'Infer by Henri Barbusse
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
This Fierce and Beautiful World by Andrei Platonov
Popol Vuh by Anonymous
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
Acts of Passion by Georges Simenon
Bartleby & Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

[Anonymous No.4347761]

>>4347760
Middlemarch by George Elliot
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Recognition by William Gaddis
White Noise by Don DiLillo
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
We by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Maimed by Hermann Ungar
The House of Breath by William Goyen
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
Nadja by Andre Breton
The Melancholy of Resistance by Lazslo Krasznahorkai
Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
Aurelia and Other Writings by Gerard de Nerval
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Sea and the Poison by Shusaku Endo
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Junger
Landscape Painted With Tea by Milorad Pavic
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
El Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Kornel Esti by Dezso Kosztolanyi
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui by Rafael Ferlosio
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
The Complete Works of Urmuz
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco
Motorman by David Ohle
Envy by Yuri Olesha
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
Camel Xiangzi by She Lao
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
Watt by Samuel Beckett
The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madach
Insatiability by Stanislaw Witkiewicz
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
Sunflower by Gyula Krudy
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Scarecrow and Other Anomalies by Oliverio Girondo
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Geza Gardonyi
Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Mulata by Miguel Asturias
Petersburg by Andrey Bely
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Zhang
The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky
Family by Ba Jin
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China by Lu Xun
A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong

[Anonymous No.4347763]

>>4347761
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
The Sea by John Banville
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
A Suitable Boy: A Novel by Vikram Seth
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers by Eça de Queiros
Zadig by Voltaire
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Unknown
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Hunger by Knut Hamsum
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga
Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian
Moscow at the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
The Marquise of O and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
The Song of Roland
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Tenant by Roland Topor
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
The Lost Estate by Alain-Fournier
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Strange Forces by Leopoldo Lugones
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Selected Writing of Henri Michaux
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Nervous People and Other Stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Beach by Alex Garland
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
The Spire by William Golding
Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann
Silence by Shusaku Endo
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
Cassandra by Christa Wolf
The Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso
Dark Spring by Unica Zurn
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz

[Anonymous No.4347767]

>>4347763
A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
To Live by Yu Hua
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
Jejuri by Arun Kolatkar
Japanese Gothic Tales by Kyoka Izumi
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kis
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Selected Stories by Robert Walser
Germinal by Emile Zola
Insel by Mina Loy
Solitaire of Love by Cristina Peri Rossi
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

And then there's Bloom's canon, which most of these works are already a part of.

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

Other than all that, I think a truly "magnific" library would need copious amounts of non-fiction in the subjects the owner finds most interesting. From botany to history to neuroscience to architecture.

[Anonymous No.4347768]

every library needs 1001 nights

[Anonymous No.4347771]

Aesop's Fables

[Anonymous No.4347778]

Against the Day
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
The Once and Future King
The Name of the Rose
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Feast of the Goat
Goethe's Faust
Tale of Genji
Baudolino
Midnight's Children

[Anonymous No.4347786]

Honest answer; I'd say 95% of my library is non fiction, about half science and half art, much in between. Yep, it's for reference and truly entertainment. So what I don't get is filling your house with books of fiction. Do you have a lot of movies? -Many do. But how many times are you going to watch Citizen Kane? A year? A decade?
If I want to revisit a fiction book I'll either rarely buy it from a thrift store or often borrow it from my library. Its utility (not to put too fine a point on it) greatly diminishes if its covers are parallel.

And how many times are you planning on reading Moby Dick again?...

[Anonymous No.4347805]

>>4347786
>95% non-fiction

You love having things spelled out for you that much?

[Anonymous No.4347841]

>>4347739
Honda Civic 2003 owners manual

[Anonymous No.4347887]

>>4347805
I bet you have a small dick.

[Anonymous No.4347898]

>>4347887
>ad dickulem

[Anonymous No.4347907]

>>4347898
>ad addulem

[Anonymous No.4347920]

>>4347907
>intentional logical fallacies

[Anonymous No.4348064]

-rich people picture boo- i mean "fine arts photography books from Taschen"
-subscription and archive of McSweeney's, the Paris Review, bookforum, and Lapham's Quarterly to never read but display on tables and desks
-interior design/graphic design and fashion magazines/new small time magazines like Kinfolk to impress da hipster ladies
-directly ordering from university presses to get overpriced new paperbacks because you're too high maintenance to settle for a used one from amazon
-law related stuff like case studies books and reference books in the front cause people need to be reminded of what i would be doing every single second
-also some "how 2 learn chinese 4 dummies" and Baudelaire in original french cuz ppl need to know that i ain't no monolingual american't
-speaking of culture, i need me some african and moroccan maybe persian inspired art and antiques in this house maybe also a japanese painting of flowers and shit

>not living the true ascetic life by slowing abandoning sentiment of the flesh and digitizing your hobbies and interest- where even buying books from the local indie used book store brings you great displeasure because you know you could have just found the epub file on a private torrent site somewhere

[Anonymous No.4348534]

>>4347758
rolling

[Anonymous No.4348564]

>>4348064
>true ascetic life
>digitizing your hobbies and interests

so somehow having a tablet with books, games, movies, and internet access to more distractions and information than anyone in history has enjoyed is now ascetic.

[Anonymous No.4348584]

It'd be about 10% reference/travel, 20% science nonfiction, 30% humanities nonfiction (including histories), 40% fiction.