Your top 3 books off all time

[Anonymous No.5069824]

Keep it clean /lit/

[Anonymous No.5069830]

>having a "top" anything
>not turbo pleb

bitch please

[Anonymous No.5069833]

Personally, probably:

1.) The Fall by Camus
2.) The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
3.) V. by Pynchon

[Anonymous No.5069845]

Twilight
Fifty Shades of Gray
Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.5069850]

dem three twilight books <3<3<3

[Anonymous No.5069862]

>>5069830
seconding this

[Anonymous No.5069869]

>>5069845
>>5069850

[Anonymous No.5069904]

Catcher in the Rye
Storm of Swords
Lord of Flies

[Anonymous No.5069924]

Absalom, Absalom
To the Lighthouse
As I Lay Dying

[Anonymous No.5069940]

>>5069924
Good man.

Absalom, Absalom!
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Brothers K

[Anonymous No.5069963]

Don Quixote
Brothers Karamazov
Ficciones

[Anonymous No.5069991]

>>5069924
>>5069940
I love you both

Abosalom, Abosalom!
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Anonymous No.5069998]

The God Delusion
The Selfish Gene
The Moral Landscape

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5070005]

>>5069998
10/10 quality taste

[Anonymous No.5070010]

1. Crime and Punishment
2. No Longer Human
3. The Catcher in the Rye

I'm new to /lit/, so please no hate.

[Anonymous No.5070011]

>>5069991
>>5069940
Thanks guys :)

[Anonymous No.5070013]

>>5070010
faggot

[Anonymous No.5070018]

>>5070013
I said "please".

[Anonymous No.5070022]

The Magus, John Fowles
Ficciones, Borges
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Tommy Stoppard

In no particular order.

[Anonymous No.5070023]

The Savage Detectives
Train Dreams
The Crossing

[Anonymous No.5070026]

1. The Long Walk
2. Flowers for Algernon
3. To Kill a Mockingbird

[Anonymous No.5070050]

No particular order:

Narcissus and Goldmund
The Screwtape Letters
Sirens of Titan

p.s. this list is actually quite arbitrary. If you ask me again tomorrow, I might give you three different books.

[Anonymous No.5070065]

les chants des maldoror
the elementary particles/atomised
tomb for 500,000 soldiers

leedgy/10

don't get all of the faulkner praise itt either, he was always an incredibly boring read for me

[Anonymous No.5070074]

>>5069850
Seconding this

[Anonymous No.5070085]

>>5070023
> The Crossing

Nothing could have prepared me for what the end of part one was going to do to me.

[Anonymous No.5070091]

The Sound and the Fury
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.5070098]

The Trial
Snow Country
Mason & Dixon

[Anonymous No.5070102]

>>5069824
The Recognitions
Malone Dies
To The Lighthouse

[Anonymous No.5070112]

A True Novel
All Quiet on the Western Front
Beware of Pity

[Anonymous No.5070122]

>>5070085
The actual ending, with Billy sobbing in the middle of the road, is what destroyed me.

[Anonymous No.5070123]

Beyond Good & Evil
Simulation and Simulacra
Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.5070128]

The Count of Monte Cristo
Moby Dick
The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.5070141]

Nathanael West - Day of the Locust
Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves
Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Message

[Anonymous No.5070171]

Iron heel
Don Juan
Picture of Dorian Gray

[Anonymous No.5070180]

>>5070112
don't see Stefan Zweig mentioned here much. also the film version of all quiet is one of my fave war movies. I've not heard of a true novel.

my list
Don Quixote
The Silent Cry
Wise Blood

[Anonymous No.5070198]

>>5069824
1.mein kampf
2.lolita
3.infinite jest

[Anonymous No.5070273]

>>5069824
1. Kim
2. Invisible Cities
3. The Jungle Books

I really need to start keeping a list of books i've read

[Anonymous No.5070276]

>>5070123
>Simulation and Simulacra
pretentious wanker detected

[Anonymous No.5070279]

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima

[Wanker !JkdDEDcMzM No.5070298]

1. The Coran
2. Koran
3. Holy Qu'ran

[Anonymous No.5070336]

1. Insatiability
2. White Fang
3. Mad wolf (Atsiz)

[Anonymous No.5070358]

The sound and the fury
Moby dick
.....umm... I can't think of any other books that I consider great.. But I don't read a lot

[Anonymous No.5070421]

>thinly veiled recommendation thread #1093490231

>>>/r/

[Anonymous No.5070433]

The Good Earth
1984
The Planisphere

[Anonymous No.5070443]

>>5070180
Not the anon you're replying to but have you read Zweig's Schachnovelle? Best short story that was ever written.

[Anonymous No.5070498]

>>5070443
It'c certainly the most exciting shortstory I have ever read. Reading it made me almost feverish with expectation.

[Anonymous No.5070515]

>>5070102
I kind of gave up on Malone dies at some point, after the narrator goes on and on about his room, and the way he uses his stick to push shit around. Does it get better at some point?

[Anonymous No.5070524]

>>5070358
If you haven't already, you should read some Cormac McCarthy.

[Anonymous No.5070597]

mrs. dalloway
invisible cities
dubliners

[Anonymous No.5070602]

infinite jest
east of eden
four quartets

[Anonymous No.5071001]

Infinite Jest
Ulysses
Das Kapital vol 1

[Anonymous No.5071011]

Europe Central
Gravity's Raibow
Underworld or Tree of Smoke or 2666

[Anonymous No.5071236]

Picture of Dorian Gray
Lolita
Sirens of Titan

[Anonymous No.5071259]

Brideshead Revisited
Babylon Revisited
100 Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.5071273]

Cat's Cradle
Watership Down
The Crying of Lot 49

[Anonymous No.5071446]

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Monk
The Witch of Ravensworth

[Anonymous No.5071468]

-Shadow and Claw
-Sword and Citadel
-The Urth of the New Sun

[Anonymous No.5071525]

Flowers for Algernon
Battle Royale
Fahrenheit 451

[Anonymous No.5071697]

you guys must have read fuck all books to be able to make a top 3

fucking newfags/plebs/ please leave
and get some taste and maybe some braincells while youre at it

[Anonymous No.5071713]

Lolita
One hundrer years of solitude
Wuthering Heights

[Anonymous No.5071765]

1. Notes from Underground
2. The Stranger
3. Animal Farm

I have just gotten into reading and have a huge list so I'm sure this is subject to change.

[Anonymous No.5071770]

>>5071765
All novellas... I'll swap Animal Farm with Crime and Punishment lol

[Anonymous No.5071785]

catch-22
a separate peace
jim the boy

[Anonymous No.5071790]

>>5071697
favorite = / = best

[Anonymous No.5071815]

The Corrections
Notes from Underground
V.

>>5069833
Did you really think The Fall was that good? I've only read The Stranger and The Fall by Camus, but I've heard the Plague is his main/best/magnum opus piece and I didn't think The Fall was particularly noteworthy except for the part where he talks about Jesus, hold on wait let me quote it I dont remember it for some reason...okay here it is "[Jesus] knew he was not altogether innocent...He was at the source, after all: He must have heard of the Slaughter of the Innocents. Why did they die if not because of him? That's the only part that really made me think.

[Anonymous No.5071866]

>>5071790
thats not the argument here you feeble minded philistine

[Anonymous No.5071922]

>>5071815
I'm not who you asked but I thought the fall was excellent. I found it instinctive and easy to identify with a lot of the scenarios that clamence recounted so clamence's reveal at the end was particularly staggering and stimulating. I think it's the best composed of his books as well. good pacing and, at the very least, interesting in concept

[Anonymous No.5071931]

>>5070010

Much love for No Longer Human

[Anonymous No.5072184]

screw you, i post as many as i want

>la batalla del calentamiento
>the magicians
>this book is full of spiders
>a series of unfortunate events
>el aleph
>orlando
>his dark materials
>codex
>there is one more im missing and is going to bether me all night

[Anonymous No.5072190]

>>5070010
>Crime and Punishment
That book really is amazing.

[Anonymous No.5072316]

Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Ulysses

[Anonymous No.5072329]

two against one - frederick barthelme
the moviegoer - walker percy
and for some reason
remains of the day - kazuo ishiguro

[Anonymous No.5072337]

>>5072316
But seriously:

The Rings of Saturn : W.G. Sebald
Stoner : John Williams
Tamarisk Row : Gerald Murnane

[Anonymous No.5072833]

>>5070171
>Don Juan
by who ?

[Anonymous No.5072905]

Voyage au bout de la nuit - LF Celine
L'oeuvre au noir - M Yourcenar
Der Zauberberg - T Mann

[Anonymous No.5074563]

>>5071713
>Wuthering Heights
My fucking nigga

[Anonymous No.5074595]

>>5069924
>>5069940
>>5069991
I love all three of you.

Absalom, Absalom!
The Possessed
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

[Anonymous No.5074612]

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
The Illustrated Bhagavad Gita by Ranchor Prime

[Anonymous No.5074630]

>>5074612
> trout fishing

I read it as throat fisting

[Anonymous No.5074648]

>>5071790
I'll never understand this mentality.

[Anonymous No.5074658]

>>5072329
>the moviegoer - walker percy
Malick was supposedly making this with Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts (?!) many years ago, after Thin Red Line

[Anonymous No.5074673]

the baroque cycle
lolita
IJ
portrait of the artist as a young man
la vida es sueno (do plays count?)
illuminatus!
the satanic verses

[Anonymous No.5074718]

The Republic By Plato

1984 by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.5074802]

>>5069824

Catcher in the Rye.
I read it by candle light in the basement one hot summer during a 3 day blackout when I was 13. My brother had given it to me and when he killed himself 15 years later he had a copy of it by his bed with the bookmark halfway through. I've never re-read it. I can't for a lot of reasons. I've read stuff like 9 Stories in the last year or two though and I still think Salinger is great.

Stoner.
I feel like people are going to start turning on this one soon because of how popular it's gotten. They'll probably use similar critiques they use on Holden and aim them right at Stoner himself. "Oh he's so impotent he's such a bitch blah blah blah." Because apparently everyone makes six figures and is having a totally awesome time all the time. Fuckers. I don't know. It's the only book I've read in a long ass time that made me feel so deeply.

The Plague.
I read this when I was going through nursing school which was super fucking stressful. And right about the time my grandpa died from Alzheimer's in winter 2011 which sucked too. I liked the more stoic and optimistic tone this book seemed to have from the slightly more cerebral feel of Camus' other stuff. Even when everything is going to shit and people keep dying the way the doctor keeps going through the motions and they all diligently take care of the bodies and keep holding on. Fuck man, it honestly brings to my eyes,

[Anonymous No.5074818]

>>5069924
>Absalom
>>5069940
>>5069991
>>5074595

Holy shit I gotta read Absalom, Absalom! apprently. I loved The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. I ordered The Unvanquished to get my next fix. I heard Absalom was his hardest novel in a bad way so I'm reluctant but fuck it. I'll read that next. Maybe A Light in August too.

[Anonymous No.5074828]

1. Infinite Jest
2. The Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
3. Le Médecin de campagne

[Anonymous No.5075498]

an introduction to zen buddhism
nausea
the dharma bums

any recs?

[Anonymous No.5075649]

1. Siddhartha
2. Brave New World
3. The Sun Also Rises

Any recs? Pretty new into literature, all the stuff I read was for AP English but I genuinely enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.5075710]

>>5069824
>Siddhartha
>On the Road
>Cat's Cradle
Honorable mentions; Pillars of the Earth, The Drifters, Life of Pi, Ender's Game, Grapes of Wrath, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Be Here Now

[Anonymous No.5075792]

>>5075498
dhammapada

[Anonymous No.5075794]

>>5075710
ohboyherewegoagain
underageband

[Anonymous No.5075808]

>>5075794
19 bruh

[Anonymous No.5075818]

>>5069824
As I Lay Dying
Dante's Inferno
Human, All Too Human

Off the top of my head, I've probably got stronger feelings for others but its hard to recall.

[Anonymous No.5075826]

Personal Favourites:
-Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
-Lolita
-Demons

[Anonymous No.5075857]

>>5069991
>I don't know how to spell the name of my favorite book

[Anonymous No.5075875]

Big Dick, Little Butthole
Dante's Paradiso
Rape Party on the Sunset Strip

[Anonymous No.5075889]

>>5069824
Rayuela
Portrait of Dorian Grey
The Little Prince

[Anonymous No.5075900]

The Brothers Karamazov
A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man
Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.5075903]

>>5069824
>The Holy Bible
>Moby Dick
>Watership Down

[Anonymous No.5075933]

Lie Down in Darkness
Anna Karenina
The Leopard

[Anonymous No.5075940]

norwegian wood
fences
the stranger

[Anonymous No.5077851]

Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

[Anonymous No.5077916]

>>5069824
The Hobbit
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Look Homeward, Angel

[Anonymous No.5077936]

The Brother's Karamazov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Waves

[Anonymous No.5078220]

1) The lord of the Rings
2) 1984
3) Lolita

[Anonymous No.5078234]

>>5077851
kek'd

[Anonymous No.5078315]

>>5075903
>>5075710
>>5072184
>quoting