/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.528955]

Hay /lit/

Here is my long list of books I want to read. If you see any that you think are worth the time then please suggest them.

"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond
Entire Work of Edgar Allan Poe
The Play's of William Shakespeare
"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx
"Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli
"The Discourse on the First Ten Books" by Niccolo Machiavelli
"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Republic" by Plato
"Theory of Forms" by Plato
"Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
"How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris
"Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac
"The Iliad" of Homer

[Anonymous No.528960]

Don't read Jane Austen.

[Anonymous No.528958]

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
"The Master and Margarita" by by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Bluebeard" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
"Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins
"White Noise" by Don Delillo########
"Ulysses" by James Joyce
"Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy
"Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond" by Denis Johnson
"Crime And Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Steppenwolf" by Herman Hesse
"The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry" by Christine De Pizan
"The Art of Warfare" by Sun Tzu
"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck******************
"Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes
"The Thin Red Line" by James Jones
"The Politics" by Aristotle
"Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand
"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller
"The Naked and The Dead" by Norman Mailer
"Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Beyond Good and Evil" by Freidrich Nietzsche
"The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
"The Boys of Summer" by Roger Kahn
"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
"A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway#####
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"The Fall" by Albert Camus
"The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

[Anonymous No.528963]

Foucault’s Pendulum" by Umberto Eco
"The Great Railway Bazaar" by Paul Theroux
"Fear and Trembling" by Soren Kierkegaard
"Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose
"Paradise Lost" by John Milton
"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
"The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A River Runs Through It" by Norman F. Maclean
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
"All Quiet on The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarq
"Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans" by Plutarch
"A Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt
"Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry
"The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett
"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"The Histories" by Herodotus
"From Here to Eternity" by James Jones
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig
"Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Notre-Dame de Paris" (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Hugo
"Candide" by Arouet (Voltaire)
"Les Miserables" by Hugo
"Anthem" by Ayn Rand
"1984" by Orwell
"No Exit" by Sartre
"The Plague" by Albert Camus
"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

Yes also if I shouldnt read any of these go ahead and run it by me. Not that I will necessarily listen to interwebz anons.

[Isabelle Huppert !!IRpnwIFOnYO No.528966]

What the fuck is "The Theory of Forms" by Plato. Pretty sure he never wrote a book called that.

[Anonymous No.528969]

catcher in the rye, a separate peace and atlas shrugged suck dick

[Anonymous No.528976]

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[Anonymous No.528981]

>>528955
Try google http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=the+theory+of+forms&btnG=Google+Search&fp=b
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[Anonymous No.528990]

The Prince is meh - nothing your common sense doesn't know already. The Portrait of Dorian Gray is my favourite book, so go for it. And about the Quixote, not worth the read if you don't know Spanish. And please stay away from Vonnegut, you're wasting your time.
I'd recommend adding 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Hemingway.

[Anonymous No.528992]

>>528990
>And please stay away from Vonnegut, you're wasting your time.
don't listen to that

[Isabelle Huppert !!IRpnwIFOnYO No.529000]

>>528981

Uh, yeah. He had a theory of forms (several, actually), but he never wrote a dialogue called The Theory of Forms. Which dialogue is it that you're considering reading?

[Anonymous No.529009]

I see you have White Noise marked out, already, but it really is quite good. I just read it last month, and I liked it a lot.

[Anonymous No.529016]

>>529009
Forgot to mention that. Those are my lazy ass way of marking that I've read them or am reading them.

[Anonymous No.529061]

>>528990
wasting time with vonnegut? are you serious?

[Anonymous No.529111]

>>528990

You mad?

[Anonymous No.529115]

>>528955

>The Play's of William Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.529122]

are fast do you expect to read all of these?

[Anonymous No.529125]

I would work through chronologically until you want something contemporary, and flip flop towards the center.

[Anonymous No.529132]

>>529122
Yea I read fast + I have a lot of spare time. It will take me a long time to get through these, but it'll be worth it.

[Anonymous No.529135]

"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - one of those stories which is so wraped up in modern lore that you will feel like you have already read it

Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond - Enjoy your jew induced white guilt.


(cant go through them all so I will group some )

None of these are worth reading \/

Entire Work of Edgar Allan Poe
The Play's of William Shakespeare
"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx
"Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
"All Quiet on The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarq
"The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett
"1984" by Orwell
You should absoloutly read \/

"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Anonymous No.529149]

>>528960
This.
& Why would you consider reading "Mein Kampf"? It's terrible.

[Anonymous No.529155]

>>529135

>Shakespeare's plays

>not worth reading

[Anonymous No.529163]

>>529135
>don't read poe shakespeare or fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.529186]

>>529155


They aren't. They are plays, see them as such.

>>529163

Gatsby had to be one of the most dull aimless books I had the displeasure of being forced to read.

[Anonymous No.529211]

Gatsby, most definitely.

also, read the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbowksy. You will learn a lot from that book.

[Anonymous No.529222]

>>529186

AGREED.

Minus the last three chapters. Then I was like WAT

[Anonymous No.529224]

Grapes of Wrath is amazing

[Anonymous No.529243]

I don't see the point of having huge reading lists like this one. Why are you worrying now about books that you might not even feel like reading when you get to them a few years from now? Because that's what it'll take you only to get through even half of this list: a few years.

[Anonymous No.529252]

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[Anonymous No.529264]

>>529186

Gatsby is good, it's just more style than substance

[Anonymous No.529283]

>>529243

Not OP, but I have an even larger list. I just like having a small library of books that I've picked out to read. Whenever I am finished reading a few of my books, I check my catalog and see if there is anything I have been wanting to read. That way, I am never in want of a book, because I always have something interesting to read.

[Anonymous No.529290]

OP seems like a faggot that just wants to read these so he will think he's 'well read' or some bullshit, not because he actually wants to read them. Making a huge list like this is moronic. He wont even get through 10% of these.

[Anonymous No.529298]

The days of Renaissance men are over; you won't live long enough to read all the 'important' or 'must-read' books in the world.

You're better off finding books that you think you will enjoy by sampling their style and getting a feel for the plot. Read what you enjoy, fuck pretentious lists or adherence to the classics.

[Anonymous No.529351]

>>529290

OP here. You think that reading this many books is impossible over a lifetime? Of course it is. Will I read them all? Of course not. The farther I read the more my list will vary and change. This is a starter, subject to deletion and addition.

[Anonymous No.529737]

>The Communist Manifesto

This does not count as a book, it'd take you all of twenty minutes to read it. Read it, there's a reason why Marx is considered to be one of the most intelligent and influential people of the 19th century.

>Mein Kampf

Do not read, even mussolini thought it was shit.

>The Play's of William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Macbeath, King Lear.

>Anna Karenina, The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote

Yes, yes, and yes.

[Anonymous No.530013]

I cried during "For Whom the Bell Tolls," but I would also really encourage you to read some Hemingway short stories as well. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (or something like that; I can never spell that name right.)" is a good place to start.

[Anonymous No.530035]

>>529737
Yea from what I've heard Mein Kampf is just a lot of rambling and pseudo-historical shit excuses for racial purity theories etc..

[Anonymous No.530058]

>>529737
Marx was an intelligent, influential person because he misinterpreted Hegel and led to a worldwide philosophical misunderstanding of him until just recently. Oh wait, no the other one. He was a blithering idiot.

[Anonymous No.530063]

>>530058

I think that no matter if you interpret him to be a blithering idiot or an intellectual who was on to something, reading Marx is an essential.

[Anonymous No.530459]

You can skip the Crane, Hitler, Machiavelli, Vonnegut, Smith, Morris, and Kerouac. As far as Marx goes, you'd be better served by reading the section on commodity fetishism from Capital, which is both relatively approachable and a damn sight more characteristic of what Marx is like.

[Anonymous No.530510]

Nice list OP. I'm also making an effort to read as much of the classics as I can. Some of those on your list look rather torturous to read though. Don Quixote, The Divine Comedy and Ulysses come to mind. If you are going to torture yourself at least read Plato or Homer. Those will at least be worthwhile.

[GL Pretentious Hipster !!uIkcv+zTDkg No.530516]

>>528955
>"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Fuck yeah!

[Anonymous No.530532]

"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Entire Work of Edgar Allan Poe
"Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"Paradise Lost" by John Milton
"The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Start with these ^^^^

[Anonymous No.530533]

>>528955
Drop Mein Kampf, its shit writing.
Skip Manifesto, read Critique of the Gotha Programme and Wages Price and Profit (all of Marx is online for free at marxists.org, unless you're a hard core Marx scholar)

You're missing Hume or Locke. Think about substituting A plan of English Commerce by Defoe for Wealth of the Nations.

[Anonymous No.530562]

What is the point I should focus on if I were reading the Quixote?

[Anonymous No.531215]

>>530058

Marxist here, hegel wuz shit

[Anonymous No.531273]

To all the haters, a determined reader could work his way through this list in a year or two.

[Anonymous No.531289]

>>531215

How the fuck can you say that when Marxism is essentially a materialist Hegelianism?

Idiot.

[Anonymous No.531290]

"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri 10/10
"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10/10
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen 3/10
"Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane 7/10
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond (never read)
Entire Work of Edgar Allan Poe 7/10 (as the entire work, but as individuals, 9/10)
The Play's of William Shakespeare 10/10
"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx 2/10
"Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler 5/10
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald 10/10
"The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli 6/10
"The Discourse on the First Ten Books" by Niccolo Machiavelli (never read)
"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut (NR)
"The Republic" by Plato 6/10
"Theory of Forms" by Plato (NR)
"Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (NR, crime and punishment and other works are a 10/10)
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger 2/10
"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith (NR)
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway 9/10
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde 4/10
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (NR)
"How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (NR)
"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris (NR)
"Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac (NR)
"The Iliad" of Homer 7/10

[Anonymous No.531292]

>>528969

[Anonymous No.531293]

>>531290
>"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde 4/10

[Anonymous No.531295]

>>531290
>"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger 2/10

oh, yeah I'm on the Internet.

[Anonymous No.531298]

Foucault’s Pendulum" by Umberto Eco (NR, but i hate umberto eco)
"The Great Railway Bazaar" by Paul Theroux (NR)
"Fear and Trembling" by Soren Kierkegaard 7/10
"Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose (NR)
"Paradise Lost" by John Milton 10/10
"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck (NR)
"The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 10/10
"A River Runs Through It" by Norman F. Maclean (NR)
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells 8/10
The Autobiography of Malcolm X 0/10
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas NR
"All Quiet on The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarq NR
"Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans" by Plutarch 4/10
"A Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt NR
"Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry NR
"The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett NR
"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara NR
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin NR
"The Histories" by Herodotus NR
"From Here to Eternity" by James Jones (enough with the 'movie books')
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig NR
"Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson NR
"Notre-Dame de Paris" (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Hugo 7/10
"Candide" by Arouet (Voltaire) 6/10
"Les Miserables" by Hugo 6/10
"Anthem" by Ayn Rand 4/10
"1984" by Orwell 7/10
"No Exit" by Sartre 3/10
"The Plague" by Albert Camus 9/10
"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy NR (too big)
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy 10/10

[Anonymous No.531301]

if someone thinks that oscar wilde is a great writer, you are a huge faggot

if you think that catcher in the rye is a great book, you are a moron that couldn't even get through school and think you are somehow special

just like this

[Anonymous No.531307]

>>531301
>OMG OMG OSCAR WILDE IS GAY, CATCH IN THE RYE SUCKS

[Marxiest-Lenenist Poster !!Jw9vCY0FrWs No.531308]

>>531289

Actually, unlike the idealist Hegel, Marx's philosophy is something worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.531312]

>>531307

yes, i just said that
you have a great talent to notice the obvious