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ITT: Your favorite books

Others rate/judge & recommend books an Anon might like

>> No.5161736

I already know everything.

Go away.

>> No.5161745

The beautiful and damned -Fitzgerald

I enjoyed it more than Gatsby. Beautiful prose throughout.

>> No.5161826

Ulysses
Nine Stories
Lolita
The Trial

>> No.5161999

>>5161745
You should read the Collected Stories of F Scott. Get the one from B&N, its only $10 and is a combo of both his short story collections.

>>5161826
You read something not modernist. Expand your horizons and read something not dished out on here. I recommend The Last Picture Show.

My faves:

Anything by Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick
anything by Raymond Carver
Anna Karenina

In case you can't tell I like big, moody, biblical tales.

>> No.5162026

La Vie mode d'emploi

>> No.5162161
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5162161

I made this a while ago for a top five thread. One day I'll make a top ten chart too. I also really liked the Aubrey/Maturin series, I've read all of Hemingway and Fitzgerald's novels, I quite enjoyed the Collector by John Fowles (fapfapfap) but have repeatedly failed to get through the Magus, have read all of Eugenides three books, read most of J.M. Coetzee, and have a soft spot for SF.

Any recs?

>> No.5162170

>>5161745

An Appointment in Samara - John O'Hara
The Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos

>> No.5162195

Moby Dick
Les Miserables
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Elephant Keeper
Number9Dream
Cloud Atlas
The Catcher in the Rye
Quo Vadis
Infinite Jest
Freedom
The Garden of Eden
A Movable Feast
The Sound and the Fury
Out Backward / In God's Own Country
Collected Short Stories of Hemingway (that count?)
Watership Down
Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Beach


I like lots of books. Favorites are hard.

>> No.5162200

>>5162195
East of Eden

>> No.5162210

>>5162200

Already read it. I'm now feeling bad that I didn't list Of Mice and Men in my list. That's my favorite Steinbeck. I want to add Life and Times of Michael K (Coetzee) to my list, too. I'll think of more and feel guilty as I remember them.

>> No.5162212

>>5161735
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
9 Stories
Dubliners
The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
Crime and Punishment

>> No.5162223

>>5162210

O fuck, The Reader was really good, too. The one they made a movie out of? I never saw the movie, but I picked up the book and it was amazing. You should read it, anons abroad. It was great. And Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road. And The Devil's Own Work, which I recommended to someone earlier today; it's a taut, beautifully written novella about an enigmatic author (story is told from friend's point of view) who becomes world renown, but not before selling his soul to something quite like a demon, which slowly possesses him until it consumes him entirely. It has one of those fancy vintage paperback editions, so you know it's hot shit. And it is.

>> No.5162225

>>5162210
read The Grapes of Wrath?

>> No.5162340

Trinity
River God
Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Hobbit

Come at me.

>> No.5163748

Wild Punch by Creston Lea
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Franny and Zooey by Salinger

Anybody read these? Any recs for me?