/lit/ Popular Books Poll Results

[Anonymous No.6599794]

1.The Holy Bible
2.Infinite Jest
3.Moby Dick
4.Lolita
5.Blood Meridian
6.Ulysses
7.Gravity's Rainbow
8.The Stranger
9.The Brothers Karamazov
10.Crime and Punishment
11.Stoner
12.The Trial
13.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
14.The Metamorphosis
15.The Catcher in the Rye
16.Don Quixote
17.Naked Lunch
18.Los Ficciones
19.The Divine Comedy
20.One Hundred Years of Solitude
21.Catch-22
22.2666
23.Dubliners
24.Siddhartha
25.The Sound and the Fury
26.V.
27.Summa Theologica
28.Notes from the Underground
29.Heart of Darkness
30.Journey to the End of the Night
31.Steppenwolf
32.Oedipus Rex
33.The Odyssey
34.As I Lay Dying
35.Pale Fire
36.Hamlet
37.The Iliad
38.Anna Karenina
39.East of Eden
40.White Noise
41.The Idiot
42.The Great Gatsby
43.The Republic
44.Paradise Lost
45.Confessions of Saint Augustine
46.The Old Man and the Sea
47.In Search Of Lost Time
48.Finnegans Wake
49.The Book of the New Sun
50.The Grapes of Wrath
51.Slaughterhouse-Five
52.Candide
53.Suttree
54.The Crying of Lot 49
55.Brave New World
56.A Confederacy of Dunces
57.War and Peace
58.Invisible Cities
59.The Sun Also Rises
60.The Picture of Dorian Gray
61.The Count of Monte Cristo
62.The Road
63.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
64.To The Lighthouse
65.Underworld
66.The Pale King
67.If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
68.Solaris
69.The Castle
70.Dead Souls
71.Fear and Trembling
72.The Savage Detectives
73.Thus Spoke Zarathustra
74.No Longer Human
75.Being and Time
76.Macbeth
77.Das Kapital
78.1984
79.The Hobbit
80.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
81.American Psycho
82.Confessions of a Mask
83.Tai Pei
84.Absalom, Absalom!
85.All Quiet On The Western Front
86.On the Road
87.Tess of the D'urbervilles
88.A Farewell to Arms
89.Frankenstein
90.The Leopard
91.To Kill A Mockingbird
92.A Clockwork Orange
93.Faust
94.Ham on Rye
95.Under The Volcano
96.Metamorphoses
97.Wuthering Heights
98.Dune
99.Beyond Good and Evil
100.Leaves of Grass

[Anonymous No.6599806]

Why are there plays on the list?

[Anonymous No.6599816]

>>6599794
>1.The Holy Bible
Fug yeah, I helped make that possible.

[Anonymous No.6599817]

>>6599806
32.Oedipus Rex
36.Hamlet
76.Macbeth


Also someone make the image for all to spam it when someone asks for recs.

[Anonymous No.6599829]

>>6599794
>49.The Book of the New Sun

Which one of you faggots kept posting the book multiple times?

[Anonymous No.6599830]

Thanks Aaron

[Anonymous No.6599832]

>>6599806

You read the play in book form.

[Anonymous No.6599835]

>>6599817
Why, not what.

[Anonymous No.6599837]

>>6599830
Hawt

[Anonymous No.6599841]

>>6599794
Better than the last one
Still plebeian
>>6599817
On it

[Anonymous No.6599844]

how does it compare to leddits?

http://www.reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/c0udvs9

[Anonymous No.6599845]

>>6599794

Are there any info about how many points each book got?

[Anonymous No.6599850]

Can we manually replace the pleb shit like The Stranger?

[Anonymous No.6599852]

Surprised that Woolf and Tolstoy didn't get more love.

[Anonymous No.6599853]

>>6599794
>>6599835
Misread.
Don't know about you but I've read those in book form.

[Anonymous No.6599859]

>>6599816
>The Bible.
No discernible talent.

[Anonymous No.6599862]

I have read 50 of these and 51 of the old list, therefore the old list was better and new /lit/ is fucking bullshit

[Anonymous No.6599866]

>>6599844
Stopped reading at #1 tbh

[Anonymous No.6599870]

>>6599845
The Holy Bible 132
Infinite Jest 128
Moby Dick 94
Lolita 87
Blood Meridian 78
Ulysses 74
Gravity's Rainbow 67
The Stranger 66
The Brothers Karamazov 61
Crime and Punishment 58
Stoner 41
The Trial 36
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 35
The Metamorphosis 34
The Catcher in the Rye 34
Don Quixote 33
Naked Lunch 32
Los Ficciones 32
The Divine Comedy 29
One Hundred Years of Solitude 28
Catch-22 28
2666 27
Dubliners 26
Siddhartha 25
The Sound and the Fury 24
V. 23
Summa Theologica 22
Notes from the Underground 20
Heart of Darkness 20
Journey to the End of the Night 20
Steppenwolf 20
20
The Odyssey 20

Something like this so not too much. 2 votes were enough to get you in, 6 votes for top 50.

[Anonymous No.6599871]

infinite jest as number two holy shit lit actually is meme shit

[Anonymous No.6599874]

>>6599845
>Are there any info about how many points each book got?

Also "Is there"

[Anonymous No.6599875]

>>6599859
Psalms is beautiful, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6599889]

>>6599875
are

[Anonymous No.6599897]

>ham on rye
>the great gatsby
>wuthering heights
>the stranger
>1984
>das kapital
>the catcher in the rye
>naked lunch
oo i m laffin

[Anonymous No.6599913]

>>6599794
>no rushdie

[Anonymous No.6599928]

>>6599870
How did you decide on the ones that drew at 2 points?

[Anonymous No.6599929]

>>6599897
Literaly 2 votes were enough to get you in, there aren't that many people who read different books here.

[Anonymous No.6599935]

>tfw I helped Being and Time find its way into this

[Anonymous No.6599944]

the waves definitely had more points than that. i remember searching the spreadsheet to see if anyone else had voted for it

[Anonymous No.6599948]

>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I thought no one on /lit/ read Kesey anymore

[Anonymous No.6599950]

>>6599870
>>6599874
>2 votes were enough to get you in
Doesn't seem right. I had a look at the form the other day and I'm pretty sure more than 2 people voted for eg J R as well as some other books. Also can't imagine so few got to 3 or even 4 points.

[Anonymous No.6599952]

>>6599944
3 votes for it

[Anonymous No.6599962]

>>6599952
were they all only one point? i thought i'd allocated it two

[Anonymous No.6599969]

Can we have round 2 where we vote again for the lower 50 with top 50 books disqualified? I think this would get better results

[Anonymous No.6599982]

>>6599969
diy m8
>>6599962
I'm not OP, just helped a bit with it. It's on the list, does it make so much difference?

[Anonymous No.6599987]

>>6599969
This. Run offs.

[Anonymous No.6599989]

>>6599982
>It's on the list, does it make so much difference?
no it isn't, hence my confusion

[Anonymous No.6599995]

>>6599950
>>6599982
Also didn't Mason & Dixon have at least 3-4 votes? It's not even on the list.

[Anonymous No.6599999]

>>6599844
kek dat overlap.

[Anonymous No.6600002]

>>6599794
where is stirner?

at some point near the end of your poll, the ego and its own had more than tai pei (#83), paradise lost (#44), and american psycho (#81).

[Anonymous No.6600003]

>>6599874
I put 3 points on tess of the durbervilles and saw someone else had voted for it too so where is it

[Anonymous No.6600008]

>>6599794
>people are still on DFW's nuts

jfc

[Anonymous No.6600016]

>>6599995
>>6599989
OP did all this basically by hand and ctrl+f so there may have been mistakes.
Still I think he did a bretty gud job, better list than the 1st, at least no Harry Potter. We are slowly getting somewhere.

[Anonymous No.6600023]

>>6600016
he miscounted the votes, so no, he didn't do a good job.

[Anonymous No.6600024]

>on the road
triggered

[Anonymous No.6600031]

>>6599870
now i know that op manually filtered some books, since the ego and its own had 12 points two days ago

what other books are missing?

[Anonymous No.6600036]

>>6600031
The Fault In Our Stars

[Anonymous No.6600042]

Daily reminder that the board that you go to for literary discussion values Siddhartha more than any play by Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.6600046]

>>6599969
Seconding this

[Anonymous No.6600051]

Aaron D more like Aaron shitpoll

[Anonymous No.6600053]

>>6600042
IJ is second and 7/10 in the top 10 are in English.

[Anonymous No.6600062]

>Catcher in the RYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>above Don Quijote

[Anonymous No.6600077]

>>6600036
wow, not that i care for john green, but i'm completely disregarding this bullshit poll

[Anonymous No.6600095]

>>6600077
Sure thing m8

[Anonymous No.6600099]

>>6599794
I used my top 3 points on The Recognitions which means that nobody else voted for it at all. You guys should seriously read it. It's incredible.

[Anonymous No.6600104]

>>6600062
Idk I've read both in high school so I don't particulary like either.

[Anonymous No.6600108]

>>6600053
english is the best literary language.

shakespeare and the kjb alone proves that.

[Anonymous No.6600111]

>>6600099
This list represents not only what people like but what they read a lot, which is why popular american books are so numerous.

[Anonymous No.6600115]

>>6600099
>nobody else voted for it at all
Or Aaaron D censured it since he's a fascist cuck

[Anonymous No.6600122]

>>6600108
English is the best literary language if you don't read much outside of it.

[Anonymous No.6600129]

Why are some books missing?

[Anonymous No.6600135]

>>6600129
because the op is shit

[Anonymous No.6600136]

>>6600104
I've read both in high school as well but I can appreciate them anyway.

[Anonymous No.6600140]

>>6600042
I thought we were only voting for novels and novellas.

[Anonymous No.6600141]

>>6599870
>The Holy Bible
>Infinite Jest
>Moby Dick
>Lolita
>Blood Meridian

>Better tha Ulysses and GR

[Anonymous No.6600144]

>>6600136
I like them, just not enough to put them in my top 5 or even top 10

[Anonymous No.6600148]

>>6599830
the face of a totalitarian censure

[Anonymous No.6600155]

>1. The Holy Bible
>2. Infinite Jest

So /lit/ now has more neckbeards than hipsters?

[Anonymous No.6600167]

>>6600129
OP "did it manually" = basically ignored titles he didn't recognize

[Anonymous No.6600170]

>>6600155
>m-maybe I can move the fedora stereotypes to the christians
Nice try bb

[Anonymous No.6600173]

>>6600155
How is the bible neckbeard? neckbeards literally hate the bible. Havent you seen the memes?

[Anonymous No.6600185]

What a cesspit of faggotry this place has become.

[Anonymous No.6600192]

>>6600155
>3. Moby-Dick
>4. Lolita
So /lit/ now has more homos than pedos?
>5. Blood Meridian
>6. UIlysses
So /lit/ now has more gore fetishists than cuck fetishists?
>7. Gravity's Rainbow
>8. The Stranger
So /lit/ now likes uppers better than downers?

We could do this all day man

>9. The Brothers Karamazov
>10. Crime and Punishment
ah fuck

[Anonymous No.6600205]

>>6600185
It's always been bro

[Anonymous No.6600247]

>>6599794
>no The Man Without Qualities
Fuck you Aaron your fascist.
At least you tried and blow it.

[Anonymous No.6600308]

How's that image coming anon who was going to make it?

[Anonymous No.6600546]

>>6599889
No, is

[Anonymous No.6600727]

Are we ignoring the fact that finnegans wake got 48th?
Above candide, Dorian grey, war and peace...

[Anonymous No.6600740]

>>6600727
Are we ignoring that this is an anonymus anime boad for 20 yo autists who here some of read?

[Anonymous No.6600749]

Can we please attribute all the Infinite Jest votes to Hamlet

[Anonymous No.6600760]

>5.Blood Meridian

Holy fucking fuck. I'm leaving this board forever.

[G 0 D B L 3 ß !zR/LhJxu0Q No.6600767]

>>6599935
You're doing Being's work brother

[Anonymous No.6600777]

>>6600760
more like blood memidian amirite?

but seriously Aaron D are you trying to make all the patricians hate this board and you manipulated the results to make them extra pleb?

[Anonymous No.6600781]

>>6599889
Psalms is the name of a single book in the Bible, he wasn't referring to psalms as an improper noun. So it would be "is". This is like, elementary school grammar plus a very rudimentary knowledge of The Bible. Did you go to school in Nevada or something?

[Anonymous No.6600788]

>>6600155
>fedoras
>liking the Bible

pick one

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6601147]

>>6600788
The fedora tippers are Christians pretending to be atheists

[Anonymous No.6601152]

>>6601150

[Anonymous No.6601157]

[Anonymous No.6601184]

>>6601157
>not allowing the bible it's proper place

why you gotta be like that man

we voted for it man

[Anonymous No.6601195]

>>6601157
Also you fucked up. There's nothing under 74 and American Psycho is missing and in between the numbers are behind.

[Anonymous No.6601219]

>>6601184
whoops
>>6601195
lol fuck. american psycho is shit anyway. i'm not fixing that.

[Anonymous No.6601225]

>>6601219
OP here, holy shit dude, top tier infographic

Mods please pin

[Anonymous No.6601257]

>>6601219
>dat Wordsworth C&P
nice

[Anonymous No.6601260]

>>6601219
>>6601219
You fucked uo 75-81 retard

[Anonymous No.6601270]

[Anonymous No.6601271]

>tfw Justine didn't make the list
monarchist scum all of you

[Anonymous No.6601311]

http://strawpoll.me/4473570

Here are the top 30, lets try a poll where you can't spam. Multiple choices are allowed but try to only pick your top 5 or whatever

[Anonymous No.6601338]

>>6601311
You should do this with the last 30.

[Anonymous No.6601347]

>>6601311
you shouldn't have let le stranger be an option.

[Anonymous No.6601407]

>>6601311
i voted for every option except the bible

[Anonymous No.6601432]

>>6601311
starting to get some numbers and already its differing heavily from the OP poll.

[Anonymous No.6601459]

>>6601219
>>6599794

Glad to see the men of faith come together. I hope they voted for the KJ bible

[Anonymous No.6601521]

There must be a better way to do this poll. Is there any sites that don't allow multiple votes from the same IP? The OPs poll shows a general idea of our favorite books but I doubt its credibility when it comes to a ranking. One person doing the poll just 10 times is enough to have added 25 points to a certain book which alone would make it to the top 25.

[Anonymous No.6601658]

>>6601311
Well who'd have guessed, now that the christposters can't spam or tip triple the KJB is suddenly back in its place.

That, plus OP manually plebbed up the results to boot. As nice as the graphics are >>6601219 , I'm going to pass on this one.

[Anonymous No.6601664]

>>6601311
>all these divine comedy bros
feels good

[Anonymous No.6601812]

>>6601219
>4/5 books I voted for are up there

[Anonymous No.6601819]

>>6600192
underrated post

[Anonymous No.6601844]

>>6599794
Of all that falls ahead of The Brothers Karamazov, I have only read The Stranger and Lolita and to consider either as superior to the edifying masterpiece is an insult of a magnitude greater than any I have known in my entire life. I will attribute its being at number 9 to the only possible explanation: not enough of you who have voted read the novel and so I take this opportunity to recommend it to you who have not read it so you may reconsider your answers for future polls.

[Anonymous No.6601848]

>>6601812
Pynchon would probably be very happy that he's become a /lit/ meme actually

[mini eggs No.6601850]

Predictable and plebian

[mini eggs No.6601854]

>>6599794
>Das Kapital
>Both of Kafka's worst works
>Camus' worst work
>Four Dostoevsky (maybe more, I stopped after I seen the fourth)
>High school curriculum
Fear and Trembling, nice.

[Anonymous No.6601869]

>>6601854
>Fear and Trembling, nice.
This is the next book I want to read, but I have come across posts that suggest Kierkegaard should be read after a long list of other philosophers. Do you think someone with exposure to few philosophers would be lost reading Fear and Trembling?

[Anonymous No.6601871]

>>6601311
This is concerning.
We seem to need desperately need
A repolling.

[Anonymous No.6601877]

>>6601844
So of the 8 works ahead of it...you've read two...and you're chastising other people for not reading enough.

[mini eggs No.6601880]

>>6601869
The main gripe with Kierkegaard is you can't read one work and be like "Kierkegaard's a dope dude that thinks X because Y and so-and-so other philosopher is shit because Z."
It matters, but not much, maybe during his aesthetic and ethical stages. If you're not intimate with the Socratics, I would do that first.
Baby's first steps, read Diary of a Seducer.

[Anonymous No.6601896]

>>6601664
56 people, thats something,

Its 19th on OPs poll

[Anonymous No.6601907]

>>6601877
I read plenty, it's only that the others that fall ahead, not counting the two I mentioned, don't appeal as other books I have decided to read first. They seem more like memes than anything else (excluding The Bible of course).

[mini eggs No.6601916]

>>6601907
filtered

[Anonymous No.6601925]

>>6599794
the two biggest meme books got top place, who would have thought.

[Anonymous No.6602105]

>>6599794
>1.The Holy Bible

[Anonymous No.6602134]

When was this poll conducted?

[Anonymous No.6602143]

>>6602134
Yesterday or the day before.

[Anonymous No.6602516]

>>6602105
When did this meme become the exact opposite of what it was intended to be?

[Anonymous No.6602551]

>>6601658
Yea the bible is the thing wrong with this, not tai pei or infinite meme or stranger or 1984 or other high school memes.

[Anonymous No.6602565]

>>6602134
I hope that we can redo this shit, infinite meme and stranger and other high school lit was thrown in by cucks.

[Anonymous No.6602583]

>4/5 of my votes in the top 10

We did it bros.

[Anonymous No.6602587]

>>6602516
It didn't. A few tryhard atheists on /lit/ do this. You can tell it's mostly tumblrfaggots because no other board on 4chan misuses it.

[Anonymous No.6602623]

>>6602587
I'm convinced that 90% of the christposting is just /pol/ bleed-over. How much of a contrarian fuck must one be to convert to Catholicism just because Reddit is kinda gay? Before /pol/ and /mu/ colonised /lit/ we were a lot less conservative and contrarian around here.

[Anonymous No.6602632]

>>6602623
Times change but yes I too can recognise the /pol/ infection. Possibly because they learnt that we were the most educated and diverse board, so they decided to shit it up. That being said, at least no Ayn Rand made it on the list.

[Anonymous No.6602635]

>>6602623
How retarded must one be to think people convert for reddit and aren't genuine about it?

[Anonymous No.6602679]

>The Holy Bible
>Summa Theologica
>Confessions
>Capitol

Well dank'd newfag
>>6599806
shit list overall tbh

[Anonymous No.6602697]

>>6602623
/lit/ still isn't that conservative, i'd say the core of /lit/ posters have remained the same.

[Anonymous No.6602815]

>>6601311
>no ulysses

[Anonymous No.6602911]

>>6602635
This time one year ago Christians on /lit/ were a tiny minority. Either that handful of faggots rigged the poll, a bunch of Christians emigrated here from somewhere (i.e. /pol/), or people are actually identifying as Christians now out of pure memery. Either way it's a sad state of affairs.

[Anonymous No.6602925]

>>6602911
Or they think that the bible is a good book?
Christians are still a minority.
/pol/ didn't change this board, it was a thing only for a while.
Catholics are more inclined towards reading and some have come here in the course of the year.

[Anonymous No.6602929]

>>6602911
>handful of faggots rigged the poll
This is the correct answer. Many other boards have their circle of shitposting faggots congregating on IRC, so I guess it's about time /lit/ got one too.

[Anonymous No.6603325]

Any of you niggers read Homer's Odyessy? How quickly could you read it if you had to? One sitting? How many hours?

[Anonymous No.6603944]

>>6603325
probably somewhere around 4-6 hours for the full book maybe

[Anonymous No.6604011]

>>6603325
>>6603944
I'd say more like 8-12 hours. 24 books of ~400 lines each and if you're going too much faster than a half hour a book you're either a crazy good speedreader or you're not paying any attention to what's happening

[Anonymous No.6604230]

>>6601311
even worse

[Anonymous No.6604262]

>>6602911
>handful of faggots rigged the poll
If you really had any doubts just have a look at >>6601311
>http://strawpoll.me/4473570

[Anonymous No.6604284]

>>6599794
Leaves of Grass is 100,
Come On!

[Anonymous No.6604307]

>>6599794
you're telling me the canterbury tales didn't even make the list?

[Anonymous No.6604313]

>>6602587
>s-stop misusing the meme!

[Anonymous No.6604383]

>>6602587
you clearly haven't visited /mu/ lately..

[Anonymous No.6604656]

>>6604262
I know the guy who rigged this one btw.

[Anonymous No.6605560]

>>6599806
Why not? "Book" doesn't equal "novel".

[Anonymous No.6605622]

>>6602911
>Implying you have to be a Christian to recognise the literary value of the Bible