TOP-TEN FAVORITE BOOKS THREAD

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TOP-TEN FAVORITE BOOKS THREAD Anonymous Sat Jun 27 11:28:05 2015 No.6745105 [Reply] [Original]

Post you're top ten most favorite books /lit.

Also, in the same post you can recommend a book to someone else or multiple people based on what list they gave.

Remember to only posts books that you have actually read and not books you want to read or ones that you like the idea of.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 11:30:51 2015 No.6745116 whoops it seems I wrote "you're" instead of "your" which would have been correct in this case.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 11:33:15 2015 No.6745121 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 11:37:26 2015 No.6745134 bumping for potentially learning about cool new books

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 11:41:17 2015 No.6745145 Can a trilogy stand in for one of the books? That's the usual problem I have with these threads.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 11:51:02 2015 No.6745195
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1) Don Quixote - Cervantes
2) War & Peace - Tolstoy
3) 2666 - Bolaño
4) Selected Works of Konrad Bayer - Bayer
5) The Pale King - DFW
6) The Opposing Shore - Gracq
7) Society of the Spectacle - Debord
8) The Soft Machine - Burroughs
9) Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky
10) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- Joyce

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 11:52:36 2015 No.6745207 >>6745145 I don't see why not

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:00:09 2015 No.6745245 bump

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:07:35 2015 No.6745269

Pulp, Bukowski.

Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien.

Grendel, Gardner.

Creation, Vidal.

The Quiet American, Greene.

Journey to the End of the Night, Céline.

Mason & Dixon, Pynchon.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson.

The Seven Who Fled, Prokosch.

Foundation trilogy, Asimov.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:18:40 2015 No.6745313 >>6745269 you might like "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:28:04 2015 No.6745361

The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
Fear - Gabriel Chevallier
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Lydia Davis
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise - Georges Perec
Stoner - John Williams
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (I'm counting it as one book, this is America, I pay taxes and I can do what I want)
Moby Dick - Herman Mellville

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:29:03 2015 No.6745364 >Implying I've even read 10 books this is /lit/, remember?

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:30:07 2015 No.6745369
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No particular order:

Collected Fictions - Borges

The Third Policeman - O'Brien

Pale Fire - Nabokov

Exile and the Kingdom - Camus

Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers

Barney's Version - Richler

Paris Spleen - Baudelaire

2666 - Bolano

Under the Volcano - Lowry

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:39:38 2015 No.6745411 >>6745364 well just post the ones you have read that you really liked anon, what with college and all not everyone has the time to read 10 sprawling post-modern masterpieces

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:43:33 2015 No.6745429 File: 91 KB, 600x800, qt314.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1. Infinite Jest 2. Infinite Jest 3. Infinite Jest 4. Infinite Jest 5. Infinite Jest 6. Infinite Jest 7. Infinite Jest 8. Infinite Jest 9. Infinite Jest 10. Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:45:51 2015 No.6745438 >>6745361 you would probably like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" >>6745369 check out "The Book of Disquiet"

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:48:59 2015 No.6745454 File: 11 KB, 179x281, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6745195 >Society of the Spectacle My man. Situationist threads when?

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 12:55:25 2015 No.6745488

The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
The Price of Glory - Verdun 1916 - Alistair Horne
Gallipoli - Alan Moorehead
The First Iraq War - AJ Barker
The Gardeners of Salonika - Alan Palmer
Infantry Attacks - Erwin Rommel
The Eastern Front 1914-1917 - Norman Stone
The Great War in Africa - Byron Farwell
Passchendaele - Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson
Vimy - Pierre Berton

>tfw autism

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 13:00:21 2015 No.6745510 >>6745411 I've read the hobbit and lord of the rings so that's 4. Plus 50 shades of grey. I won't count books I read for high school.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 13:00:58 2015 No.6745514
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>>6745454

I see it discussed every now and then but I think the reason that it is not talked about more often is that 4chan itself is part of the spectacle. The usual memes and contrarian posts we all use to discuss things are themselves signs that we are letting our behavior be shaped by the spectacle.

The rare threads that discuss the book can sometimes devolve into a boring circlejerk where everyone agrees with the ideas in it while trying to do so in a way that makes themselves seem to be immune to the spectacle. Pretty quickly the threads become kind of pointless. That being said I think the ideas not necessarily in the book but linked to the movement like détournement or dérive are interesting and would be cool to discuss in threads along with other situationist texts besides SOTS.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 13:01:01 2015 No.6745515 The unbearable lightness of being and Stoner are the only two I would call my favourites. I have been struggling with finding any other book that would move me so deeply. Recommendations would be appreciated.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 13:03:56 2015 No.6745527 >>6745510 are you a girl?

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 13:05:26 2015 No.6745533

Franny and Zooey - Salinger

Moby Dick - Melville

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay - Chabon

The Savage Detectives - Bolano

Blood Meridian - McCarthy

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey

Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters! - Salinger

The King in Yellow - Chambers

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 13:10:52 2015 No.6745557 >>6745515 Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 13:14:53 2015 No.6745573 >>6745313 >you might like "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin Thank you. I did; I do. >>6745510 >50 Shades of Gray. Working on that myself, now. >That's four ... Just cite the trilogy as one. I'd call The Hobbit a separate choice though. >>6745527 smooch

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:16:13 2015 No.6746250 bumping

The cats Sat Jun 27 16:26:05 2015 No.6746292

J R - William Gaddis

The Recognitions - William Gaddis

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino

The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S Thompson

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy

I Am a Cat - Natsume Soseki

Collected Fictions - Jorge Lois Borge

Collected Fictions - HP Lovecraft

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:27:19 2015 No.6746297

>>6745105
No particular order, sorry.

Eugene Onegin
Siddhartha
Journey to the end of the night
the Decameron
Odyssey & Iliad
Aeneid
Don Quixote
the Man without Qualities
Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb
the Sickness unto Death (felt like it needed at least one philosophy book)

no bully pls

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:34:06 2015 No.6746325 >>6746297 you might like the works of Thomas Mann

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Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:38:59 2015 No.6746335

Samual Beckett - Molly
Kobo Abe - Woman in the Dunes
W.G. Selbad - the immigrants
Proust - remembrance of things past
Henry James - The Golden bowl
Virginia Woolf - The Waves
Kafka - The Trial
Robert Burton - The anatomy of melancholy
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
William Gass - The Tunnel

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:40:25 2015 No.6746337

Lem - Solaris
Kafka - The Burrow
Camus - The Plague
Zamyatin - We
Mann - Tobias Mindernickel
Kertesz - Fateless
McCarthy - The Road
PDK - Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Adorno - Minima Moralia
Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit

>>6746292
You might like House of Leaves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:42:30 2015 No.6746345 >>6746292 What did you think of Invisible Cities?

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:43:24 2015 No.6746347

>>6745105

I Am A Cat-Natsume Soseki
Journey to the End of the Night-Celine
Petersburg-Andrei Bely
Mason & Dixon-Pynchon
In Search of Lost Time-Proust
The Castle-Franz Kafka
Being and Time-Martine Heidegger
Titus Groan-Meryvyn Peak
Valerie and her Week of wonders-Nezval
Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:45:33 2015 No.6746351 no particular order : Pnin Lolita A hundred years of solitude Three tales The trial The sound and the fury Dubliners A portrait of the artist as a young man The Tartar steppe The Book of Job

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:50:10 2015 No.6746372

Catch-22
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Stranger
Catcher in the Rye
Stoner
The Bell Jar
A Clockwork Orange
To Kill A Mockingbird

I know there's nothing obscure there but I mainly stick with the classics because I've never run in to one I disliked. Any suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:50:56 2015 No.6746376 >>6746372 If you liked Catch-22 you should read Apathy and Other Small Victories. It's a great little read.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:54:15 2015 No.6746389

>>6746376
Thanks. Funny that you mention that, I am almost finished reading it. It's pretty hilarious and right in line with my sense of humor. I've been trying to find more books with these types of humor but aside from Dunces and Apathy I'm having a hard time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:56:00 2015 No.6746392 >>6746389 Then I can't recommend Apathy enough. It's a right in line with Dunces and Catch. It's the funniest book I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:57:14 2015 No.6746397 Gaddis' Recognition Barthelme's 60 Stories Beckett's three novels Joyce's Ulysses Pynch's Gravity's Rainbow Woolf's To the Lighthouse Woolf's The Waves Pynch's Mason & Dixon Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces Woolf's Mrs Dalloway I like Virginia Woolf.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 16:58:42 2015 No.6746404

1. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
2. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
3. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
4. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
5. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
6. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
7. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
8. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.
9. The Stranger
10. A book that's generally considered to be amazing but obscure enough that I will definitely impress people I will never meet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:00:41 2015 No.6746409 >>6746404 Are you insecure about your own taste?

The cats Sat Jun 27 17:03:42 2015 No.6746422

>>6746337
I liked the parts about The Navidson Record a lot and Johnny's early sections. I'm going to read it again skipping his later sections and the entire end of the book and interpret it as him getting lost in the house which actually exists, which I think I will like much better.
>>6746345
I thought it was pretty but read the entire thing stoned in like two hours and think I need to revisit it more attentively.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:05:47 2015 No.6746430 >>6746422 I've only read Invisible Cities twice and I am convinced it is the most beautiful book written.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:09:18 2015 No.6746442 >>6746327 which book is the cover on the bottom left supposed to be for, the one with the floating rock? I've seen it used on multiple different book covers.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:21:25 2015 No.6746497

>The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
>Bluebeard
>Slaughterhouse-Five
>Slapstick
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
>Heart of a Dog
>The Master And Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
>The Castle
Franz Kafka
>Fluke, Or I Know Why The Winged Whale Sings
Christopher Moore
>The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
>The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>Job

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:33:44 2015 No.6746540 >>6746442 Invisible Cities - Calvino

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:39:42 2015 No.6746558 >>6746497 Vonnegut is bad and you should feel bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:44:22 2015 No.6746572 >>6746558 I agree with you but you don't gotta be a jerk about it, save that for the threads specifically about Vonnegut

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:45:20 2015 No.6746575

first ten that come to mind in no particular order

virginia woolf - the waves
kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled
laszlo krasznahorkai - war and war
italo calvino - invisible cities
herman melville - moby dick
richard brautigan - in watermelon sugar
alfred bester - the stars my destination
j a baker - the peregrine
evelyn waugh - brideshead revisited
leo tolstoy - war and peace

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:46:31 2015 No.6746583 >>6746575 >the peregrine nice

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:47:13 2015 No.6746587 >>6746583 isn't it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:48:21 2015 No.6746589 >>6746587 Werner Herzog told me to read it.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:53:18 2015 No.6746602

thomas pynchon - gravity's rainbow
john steinbeck - east of eden
david foster wallace - the pale king
herman melville - moby dick
cormac mccarthy - blood meridian
ernest hemingway - for whom the bell tolls
kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse five
michael chabon - kavalier and clay
jennifer egan - a visit from the goon squad
gabriel garcia marquez - hundred years of solitude

>>6745533
my nigga

>>6745488
first world war is best world war

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:55:25 2015 No.6746606 >>6746602 To include Vonnegut in this list is an insult to the others.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 17:56:53 2015 No.6746611 >>6746558 >>6746606 you need to get over this, man

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Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:00:12 2015 No.6746622

No particular order

Notes from Underground-Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment-Dostoevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilych-Tolstoy
The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
The Trial-Kafka
Fathers and Sons-Turgenev
Rudin-Turgenev
Nineteen Eighty-Four-Orwell
Don Quixote-Cervantes
Lolita-Nabokov

>>	The cats Sat Jun 27 18:03:56 2015 No.6746634 >>6746622 Have you read any Borges?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:06:19 2015 No.6746639 >>6746634 Nope. Do you have any recommendations?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:07:40 2015 No.6746641 >>6746639 ficciones

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:09:49 2015 No.6746651 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT NAKED LUNCH SOMETHING HAPPENED COSMOPOLIS THE GLASS BEAD GAME THE TRIAL THE WASTE LAND THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING PRIDE AND PREJUDICE LORD OF LIGHT

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:10:45 2015 No.6746652 >>6746641 Thanks, friend.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:14:08 2015 No.6746664

>Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs - The Curious George Collective
>I Robot - Asimov
>Madame Bovary - Flaubert
>Pedro Paramo - Rulfo
>The Consumer Society - Baudrillard
>The Politics of Social Ecology- Bookchin
>Demons - Dostoevsky
>While Mortal Sleep - Vonnegut
>Discipline and Punish - Foucault
>Gawain and the Green Knight - Poet

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:14:20 2015 No.6746665 File: 1020 KB, 595x898, please be gentle.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Add Poemas y Antipoemas by Nicanor Parra to make it an even ten

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:14:39 2015 No.6746666 >>6746652 get the everyman's library edition

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:20:41 2015 No.6746692

>>6745105

Hard to pick ten. I tried to cover a spectrum.

1. Moby Dick, Mehlville
2. Little, Big, Crowley
3. Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut
4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Calvino
5. A Christmas Carol, Dickens
6. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Bender
7. Blindness, Saramago
8. Don Quixote, Cervantes
9. Heart of a Dog, Bulgakov
10. Solaris, Lem

If you asked me tomorrow, the list would probably be different, other than Moby Dick, Solaris, and DQ, which will likely always be in my top ten.

Recs?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:23:32 2015 No.6746709 >>6745269 Have you read Asimov's short stories? Most are incredible. And if you like robots, read Chekhov's robot plays, assuming you haven't already.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:25:59 2015 No.6746725 >>6746692 I prefer The Muppet Christmas Carol, but in all seriousness, maybe Blindness by Jose Saramago or Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:28:17 2015 No.6746735 >>6746725 >guy likes blindness >hey, i bet he'd like blindness 10/10 rec

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:35:50 2015 No.6746774 Pls don't make fun of me and recommend me something. The Rum Diary A Farewell to Arms Dispatches The Bell Jar In Cold Blood The Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1 Helter Skelter The Sun Also Rises

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:37:14 2015 No.6746787 >>6746774 it's ok, your taste is interesting. i don't have recommendations, but i don't have scorn either

>>	The cats Sat Jun 27 18:39:28 2015 No.6746802 >>6746774 Kingdom of Fear - Thompson Inherent Vice - Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:39:32 2015 No.6746803 >>6746665 Any recs lads? Looking mainly for stuff in English

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:41:17 2015 No.6746811 Gonna give this a try (ordering is too tough) A Confederacy of Dunces American Psycho Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas The Big Sleep Youth in Revolt The Stranger The Actual White Noise Slaughterhouse Five Last Exit To Brooklyn

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:41:18 2015 No.6746812 >>6746803 eleven kinds of loneliness by richard yates more especially well crafted short stories for you

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:42:09 2015 No.6746817 >>6746802 I have IV but i'll have to give it another shot, couldn't get into it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 18:53:55 2015 No.6746870 >>6746812 Cheers, will check it out

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 19:07:13 2015 No.6746910

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Honestly I don't have 10 books I would consider my favorites, but these five I love. I might consider The Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, or Waiting for Godot as favorites but I don't like them quite as much as the others.
I'm thinking of reading Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Notes from Underground, V., As I Lay Dying, Absalom Absalom!, Pale Fire, Lolita, Death in Venice, Nine Stories by Salinger, or 2666. Which would you guys suggest? I'm open to any others too

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 19:10:10 2015 No.6746919 everyone's so nice to each other in this thread, it makes my tummy warm

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 19:20:57 2015 No.6746974

Love in times of Cholera - Marquez

To the lighthouse - Woolf

LOTR - Tolkien

Le diable au Corps - Raymond Radiguet

Illiad - Homer

All I can think of right now, no special order except for Love in...
Could I get recommendations of depressing books, or novels where people have an emotionally bad time? (I read Disgrace, and crude real life violence is not for me)
>>6746297

Did you watch the lates adaptation of Eugene Onegin? If so, you think ia good?
Can't get myself to read it, not a fan of everyday stories in versE

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 19:30:23 2015 No.6747014 >>6745515 I struggle to think of a book that has bored me more than Stoner. Oh hang on: any modern American literature.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 19:37:50 2015 No.6747042

In as close to order as I can possibly get them:

The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald

Blood Meridian- McCarthy

The Virgin Suicides- Eugenides

The Sound and the Fury- Faulkner

The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger

Slaughterhouse-five- Vonnegut

A Confederacy of Dunces- Toole

White Noise- Delillo

Breakfast of Champions-Vonnegut

To the Lighthouse- Woolf

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 19:38:11 2015 No.6747044 File: 6 KB, 231x205, 1423276318957.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6746919 shut up!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:45:21 2015 No.6747311 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:46:40 2015 No.6747315 >>6747042 Is this b8?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:54:37 2015 No.6747359 >>6746292 Glad Gaddis makes me. About to dive into The Wreck-ignitions, any tips? Read JR last year and absolutely loved every bit of it; still think about it weekly like an unrequited crush

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:07:02 2015 No.6747408

Still criminally unread, but here she is:

J R – William "The Epic Epiglottis" Gaddis
Ficciones – Jorge "The A-mazing" Borges
A Portrait of the Shartist as a Young Mang – James "The Jelqing Gerrymanderer" Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow – Thomas "The Hermemetic Seal" Pynchon
The Polyglots – Willian "The Boisterous Tardy" Gerhardie
Solaris – Stanislaw "Soul Claw" Lem
Lolita – Vladimir "The Pympet Molotov" Nabokov
Silas Marner – George "Donkey Dick" Eliot
To the Lighthouse – Virginia "La Loba's Labia" Woolf
Tinkers – Paul "The Geriatric Pederast" Harding
The Divine Comedy – Dante "Comegetyogurl" Alighieri

that's about 10 I think

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:34:39 2015 No.6747505 The Name of the Rose The Sound and the Fury Moby Dick The Magus Crime and Punishment The Snow Leopard Under the Volcano Pan Blood Meridian Memoirs of Hadrian

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:58:33 2015 No.6747593 >>6746397 Modern as fuck. Have you read any Gass?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:13:41 2015 No.6748118 The Divine Comedy War and Peace Don Quixote Ulysses Hamlet Moby Dick Anna Karenina The Brothers Karamazov In Search of Lost Time King Lear

>>	The cats Sun Jun 28 00:20:36 2015 No.6748140 >>6747359 Just that pretty much everything that happens, everything, is thematically relevant. It's so densely full of impersonation imagery that it's stunning.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:23:30 2015 No.6748154 >>6746397 Excellent taste. I've not, however, read your top two picks. Maybe that'll come next for me after I finish my Joyce journey.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:26:16 2015 No.6748162

1. Borges' Entire
2. Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet
3. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
4. DFW Brief Interview's with Hideous Men
5. Brothers K
6. Chekhov's The Seagull, and a bunch of his short stories
7. Stanislaw Lem Golem XIV (from Imaginary Magnitude)
8. Probably most of Orwell's Writings
9. Yasutaka Tsuisui Salmonella Men on the Planet Porno & The Maid
10. Simon Leys - The Halls of Uselessness

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:30:32 2015 No.6748179

I'm Brazilian, so some of the books I read in PT translation.

Iliad (Odorico Mendes' translation)
Odyssey (same)
Cavalcanti's Rime
Divine Comedy
The Lusiads
King Lear
TS Eliot's Collected Poems
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
The Trial
Grande Sertão (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands)
Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:32:04 2015 No.6748188 >>6748179 I forgot about Borges. I should have placed El Aleph in the place of Infinite Jest.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:39:02 2015 No.6748224 >>6748162 >1. Borges' Entire cheatin ass nigga get a grip

>>	The cats Sun Jun 28 00:40:14 2015 No.6748233 >>6748140 >recognized Bromo-arigato Señor Rogato

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:41:48 2015 No.6748242 >>6748162 >Simon Leys - The Hall of Uselessness Damn, you liked that book a lot more than I did. He's a brilliant scholar, but his voice is just so timid and dry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:56:42 2015 No.6748299 >>6746335 Respond you faggots

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:59:36 2015 No.6748308

>>6748224
I've read the Labyrinths, The Collected Fictions and Selected Non-fictions about 4-5 times already. I've also gone through Professor Borges and his other stuff at least once. If I were to put him up there it would take so many slots.

>>6748242
Really? I think he's one of the most aggressively eloquent essayists out there. He has a way of characterizing a person to make them seem exactly as stupid as they are, just like Orwell. And he also has a way of getting to the exact points of a writer's style or what makes him good. Actually I should also put the essays of Sontag on the same tier as his.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:06:21 2015 No.6748329

crónica de la intervención - juan garcía ponce
cobra - severo sarduy
el obsceno pájaro de la noche - josé donoso
los fantasmas - césar aira
under the volcano - malcolm lowry
the temple of the golden pavilion - yukio mishima
three women - robert musil
the guiltless - hermann broch
le baphomet - pierre klossowski
la pietra lunare - tommaso landolfi

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:10:07 2015 No.6748352 Halo: fall of reach Halo: cryptum Halo: silentium Halo: Contact harvest Halo: Broken Circle The Hobbit Of Mice and Men Daemon and Freedom Into the Looking Glass series Catch-22

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:10:37 2015 No.6748353 >>6748352 Jake

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:12:54 2015 No.6748358
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>Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
>Irvine Welsh- Trainspotting
>James Joyce- Dubliners
>Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
>Martha Gelhorn- Travels with Myself and Another: Five Journeys from Hell
>Jack London- The Call of the Wild
>Iain Banks- The Crow Road
>George Orwell- Down and Out in Paris and London
>Alan Sillitoe- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
>Albert Camus- The Stranger

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:16:32 2015 No.6748369 >>6748352 Oh, I did like the Odyssey and the iliad when I was in high school. If I had to replace a story, i would probably replace Of Mice and Men with it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:56:10 2015 No.6748507 >>6746497 Dont care about anything else but my nigga the Book of Job is literal God-tier.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 02:02:38 2015 No.6748533

>>6748352

>Fall of Reach

That book was actually solid as fuck and chalk full of feels.

I remember one scene vividly of a human ship having to self destruct to cause max damage against the covenant and its from the perspective of a woman being given the order.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 02:05:12 2015 No.6748537

1. The Magician's Land
2. Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of Sorrows epoc)
3. The Magician King
4. The Magicians
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
6. Gentleman Bastards
7. Neverwhere
8. Coldfire Trilogy
9. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
10. Stormlight Archive

Fuck you, I like fantasy.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 02:09:56 2015 No.6748560

Since my "top ten favorite" list is in no particular order, I'll categorize by author. >Roberto Bolano The Savage Detectives 2666 >Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov >James Joyce Ulysses Finnegan's Wake >Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian (tied for 1st) No Country For Old Men >Thomas Pynchon V. Gravity's Rainbow (tied for 1st) >John Fowles The Magus

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 02:10:56 2015 No.6748563 >>6748533 > chalk full

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 02:13:30 2015 No.6748572 >>6746725 > The Bridge of San Luis Rey I'll add it to my list. Thanks, friend. > The Muppet Christmas Carol This is what I actually wanted to put, but I thought /lit/ would bully :^)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 02:14:33 2015 No.6748574 >>6746575 >kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled Holy shit, this is a great book but it's usually completely ignored.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 09:05:43 2015 No.6749552 >>6745195 Which version of Don Quixote do you recommend? I'm very interested.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 11:18:34 2015 No.6749865 >>6749552 Edith Grossman

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 12:54:36 2015 No.6750232 >>6746558 Vonnegut is goat and you're too pleb and sheltered to grasp the amounts of assholes his satire shreks

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 13:02:14 2015 No.6750276 >>6750232 His books are so bad that morons like you are forced to view them as satire out of secondhand embarrassment.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 14:41:45 2015 No.6750651 >>6750276 lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 14:55:54 2015 No.6750717 >>6746974 >Could I get recommendations of depressing books, or novels where people have an emotionally bad time? (I read Disgrace, and crude real life violence is not for me) This isn't me, but I'd like something like that.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 15:21:56 2015 No.6750820

In chronological order:

The Iliad
Paradise Lost
Adonais (or anything by Shelley)
Keats' odes of 1819
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Cathay by Ezra Pound
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
To The Lighthouse (great that loads of people are mentioning it, my constant shilling has paid off)
The Man Without Qualities

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 19:59:49 2015 No.6752140 >>6746351 if you liked The Tartar Steppe then you would probably really enjoy The Opposing Shore

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:06:30 2015 No.6752175 >>6750717 Notes from the Underground

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:07:53 2015 No.6752192 brave new world the trial 1984 dune to kill a mockingbird we crime & punishment stranger in a strange land brothers karamazov the stranger how pleb am i /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:16:26 2015 No.6752244 >>6752192 not that bad BNW, 1984, and To Kill a Mockingbird are all major pleb choices. Dune isn't pleb but it isn't that sophisticated. The Stranger and We are relatively High-brow and Kafka and Dostoevsky are top-tier patrician.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:19:44 2015 No.6752257 >>6752244 judging by the bullcrap you just spouted you seem like a pleb yourself, step your game up before attempting to give advice punk-ass nigger

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:21:41 2015 No.6752268 >>6752244 >dostoevsky >top-tier patrician >not high school pleb fodder

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:22:01 2015 No.6752272 >>6752192 You're pleb. But you're reading. Keep reading.

>>	The cats Sun Jun 28 20:22:49 2015 No.6752275 >>6750820 I've been recommended The Man Without Qualities before. What sort of novel is it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:23:11 2015 No.6752277 >>6748560 >Finnegan's

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:24:33 2015 No.6752284 >>6752192 this isn't really pleb pleb is YA and genre fiction, fantasy, etc

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:25:54 2015 No.6752294 >>6752192 Five stars out of five pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:35:08 2015 No.6752329 >>6752284 >this isn't really pleb New to reading are we? Of course it's fucking pleb. But at least the guy is reading, so he's on his way. Raise your standards you pleb apologist.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:35:24 2015 No.6752331 >>6752284 >all that highschoolcore >unironically listing to kill a mockingbird as a good book Top pleb

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:52:11 2015 No.6752392

>>6750820
For the Iliad try Christopher Logue's War Music. It's not a translation (and not intended to be) and he shifts things about quite a bit but for atmosphere and intensity it is far and away the best version of Homer, translation or retelling, I can imagine in English - on par with Heaney's Beowulf if you've read it.

You'll possibly have already read Woolf's The Waves if you like her enough but if not it should be at the top of your list. It seems most people I've met who really love Woolf end up preferring Waves over Lighthouse or Dalloway.

Villon - Poesies
Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Montaigne - Essays
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Racine - Berenice
Rochefoucauld - Maximes
Sterne - Tristram Shandy
Melville - Moby Dick
Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Buzzati - Tartar Steppe

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:55:46 2015 No.6752400 >>6752392 That list just screams "I try way to hard to affect my intellectualism through book lists"

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 20:59:33 2015 No.6752416 >>6752400 What? That anon's list is hardly intellectual posturing, they're all fine choices. Go fuck yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 21:38:01 2015 No.6752598 >>6746709 not OP, but Asimov's short stories are wonderful and always surprising to some degree. To think he wrote most of them during the 60s...wow

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 21:45:02 2015 No.6752632 >>6752400 >getting triggered by too many classics like a hipster /mu/ kid If anything he's probably more intellectually honest than you are.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 21:54:02 2015 No.6752682

I'm quite shit at doing these, "All Time Favorite" lists. So i'll supply my favorite reads in like, the last 2 or so years.

No order...

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Gass.

Celestial Harmonies, Peter Esterhazy.

The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Satantango, Krasznahorkai.

Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis.

The Magic Kingdom, Stanley Elkin.

Schoolgirl, Dazai.

The Royal Family, Vollmann.

Dark Spring, Unica Zurn.

The Book of Legendary Lands, Eco.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 21:55:09 2015 No.6752686 >>6752331 What the fuck is "highschoolcore"

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 21:57:13 2015 No.6752700 Infinite Jest Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein Dr. Sleep - King Dark Tower series - King Inherent Vice - Pynchon Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Under the Dome - King Can anyone recommend any? I'm picking up the Pale King tomorrow

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 22:06:59 2015 No.6752758 >>6752700 >Can anyone recommend any? Try Kafka's collected short stories.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 22:14:13 2015 No.6752787

>>6752400
Possibly, but if you'd actually read some of these you'd realize how much more consistently linked in irreverent humor and philosophy they are (excluding Racine) than is the usual posturing list. So even if I am faking it I think I deserve credit for doing the research to make some interesting connections that a real person who'd read these and actually enjoyed them might make.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 22:15:49 2015 No.6752801

>>6745105
1) Zhuangzi
2) New Testament
3) Nietzsche Will to Power / late fragments
4) The Diamond Sutra
5) The Lotus Sutra
6) Shinran - Tannisho
7) Hegel - Science of Logic
8) Cervantes - Don Quixote
9) Kafka - Castle
10) Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 22:19:09 2015 No.6752820 >>6752192 Very entry-level, but you're on the right track. Keep reading.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 22:23:55 2015 No.6752835

>>6745105
no order
Embassytown-China Miéville
Osama Van Halen-Michael Muhammad Knight
Gravity's Rainbow
Dhalgren-Delany
Rule of the Bone-Russell Banks
Hadji Murat-Tolstoy
Angels in America
The Word for World is Forest-Le Guin
The Qur'an
Black Sunlight-Dambudzo Marechera

Recommend anything

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 22:28:46 2015 No.6752863

Moby Dick by Melville
East of Eden by Steinbeck
Ceremony by Silko
In Search of Lost Time by Proust
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
A Long Long Way by Barry
Frankenstein by Shelley
In Watermelon Sugar by Brautigan
Mosses from an Old Manse by Hawthorne
Going After Cacciato by O'Brien

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 22:37:39 2015 No.6752914 >>6752835 >Recommend anything 'Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi' - Henry Corbin 'A Time for Everything' - Karl Ove Knausgård 'Tales of the Dervishes' - Idries Shah

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 00:36:17 2015 No.6753457 >>6752686 The books that are read in high school.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 00:40:45 2015 No.6753467 ulysses moby-dick franny and zooey fathers and sons against the grain the clown invisible man VALIS illuminatus! foucaults pendulum i mostly read non-fiction now. can't remember the last novel i read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 00:41:40 2015 No.6753470 I can only think of like four books I've read in the past three years. Not that I haven't read a bunch, but none were that memorable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 01:53:15 2015 No.6753625 >>6745429 I so wish that cover was real

The cats Mon Jun 29 01:53:39 2015 No.6753626

>>6752275

It's about this guy, but he's kind of hard to describe. It's one of those books you just gotta go for, man, really dive into the sea of pulsating pages, throbbing, turgid flaps of wood-pulp, strewn with stains of tattered old things our pups called worms–no, words–delicious little things by the looks of them, soft on the skin and tender to the tongue.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 01:54:29 2015 No.6753628 File: 30 KB, 300x226, 9lI5YRC.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6746292 >Gulliver

>>	The cats Mon Jun 29 01:54:58 2015 No.6753629 >>6752863 Do you find it hard to hide the fact that you're homosexual? I'm cool with it, just curious.

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 02:03:23 2015 No.6753645

Not ordered

1. Lolita - Nabby
2. Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
3. As I Lay Dying - See above
4. Siddharta - Hesse
5. The Legend of Tarzan - Bourroughs
6. Grendel - Gardner
7. The Plague - Camus
8. Paradise Lost - Milton
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
10. Jude the Obscure - Hardy

The cats Mon Jun 29 02:04:05 2015 No.6753648

>>6752801
>notes from the underground
>the

Looks like you've been caught as the pleb you are, red handed! Charade you will be, and forsooth your lying tendrils across the present future's future past like hand-made noodles of Vietnamese origin. Your grotesque use of emboldened inaccuracies–for I can only but assume they are emboldened acts of literary treason–can be beheld no longer by the mentally robust, definitively fit and salubrious, for inanity serves no role int eh court of kings but in the court of law, where principality principally decides right, wrong, some super ambiguous gray zone where we ought to place uncle because, let's be honest, he's not a bad guys, h-he just had a couple of bad marriages that threw him off the beaten path, y'know? I mean the booze, sure, we can all forgive that–and we do! It's just, well, you know, the young girls––anyway! Where were we? Oh yeah, the 'the'! How could you forego such prudence amidst our digital cages in these digital ages? For, remember ye young lad betrothed to foolishness, 'tis the age of digits, manned entirely by fleets donned in nails of the finger, slapping faces with black tablets and surfaces of iridescent luster, for the digital is but a side-effect of our digit overlords who have commanded this poor pre-heated meat sack to type out this perfectly pertinent series of what have you now? Good. And so I bid you a frumpy forenoon.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 02:12:37 2015 No.6753667 >>6753629 Not really. Apparently I've been hiding it from myself, too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 02:23:07 2015 No.6753687 In no particular order: Swann's Way Within a Budding Grove Moment in Peking Lolita Speak, Memory Pnin Titus Groan Gormenghast Growth of the Soil Kokoro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 03:47:50 2015 No.6753837 >>6752682 based

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 03:50:30 2015 No.6753847 hmm interesting how infinite jest was mentioned only like 3 times and the bible (new testament specifically) only once while moby-dick and don quixote were mentioned 10 times.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 03:52:48 2015 No.6753849 >>6753847 But when you say the thread is a poll then Infinite Jest and the Bible magically shoot up to the top. I wonder how that happens....

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 04:41:47 2015 No.6753920

Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
Tolstoy - War and Peace
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch
Milan Kundera - The Joke
Stendhal - The Red and The Black
Hermann Melville - Moby Dick
Fyodor Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov
James Joyce - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 05:32:35 2015 No.6754029

celine - journey to the end of the night
pynchon - v
korzybski - general semantics
madison grant - the rocky mountain goat
hobbes - leviathan
stoddard - re-forging america
barsness - hunter's book of the elk
evola - metaphysics of war
homer - illiad
herbert - dune

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 07:20:59 2015 No.6754318

Onetti, La vida breve
Melville, Moby Dick
Pynchon, M&D
Butor, La modification
Saint-John Perse, Œuvres complètes (if I had to choose one book, it'd be a tie between Anabase and Oiseaux)
Beckett, Complete Short Prose
Villoro, El testigo
Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas
Vallejo, Aparta de mi este caliz
Cervantes, Don Quixote

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 07:51:39 2015 No.6754382

>>6753457
But I'm Russian and read different books in high school. Does that make Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Bulgakov etc. highschoolcore? Let me help you there: no, it doesn't, it's a degenerate label used by despicable cowards who have no other means of evaluating literature.

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 11:15:39 2015 No.6754972
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>>6746709
>>6752598

Yes, I have, and I think they're worth some study as well.

"Time Pussy" is a traditional favorite, proving Asimov had both a violent streak of well hidden obscenity and an utter loathing of felines.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 11:43:53 2015 No.6755098 >>6745515 I read Stoner quite by accident, why is it your favourite? >>6747014 I felt quite the same, although Im sure I must have missed something, what did you glean from the book?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 13:37:04 2015 No.6755724 Blood meridian The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying In Cold Blood The Crying of Lot 49 The Trial Invisible Cities The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea Fear and Trembling A Peoples History of the United States

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 13:56:24 2015 No.6755791

I'm a criminally underread individual, this is my top 5 for now:

The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Das Beil von Wandsbek by Arnold Zweig
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Of Love and Other Demons by Marquez
Cujo by King

Recommend me something less shit than the titles listed above.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 16:17:07 2015 No.6756373 1 infinite jest 2 catch 22 3 the once and future king 4 remains of the day 5 nine stories 6 hamlet 7 dracula 8 the waves 9 speedboat 10 do androids dream of electric sheep i dont know really, its what ive read recently.

The cats Mon Jun 29 16:21:02 2015 No.6756394
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>>6755724
Have you read the ancestors "trilogy" by calvino? It's really great.
>>6755791
>Cujo by king

Pick up Lovecraft. Start anywhere, search warosu if you are a whiner who is only gonna read two stories.

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 16:46:02 2015 No.6756515

pretty much ripped this from my goodreads profile. any series I'll pick my fav book:

1 The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials)- Philip Pullman
2 Endgame (Doom quartet) - Brad Linaweaver and Dafydd ab Hugh )
3 Redwall - Brian Jacques
4 Dream Quest of Unknown Kadeth - Lovecraft
5 The Seventh Gate (Death Gate cycle) - Hickman and Weis
6 Sphere - Michael Crichton
7 Storm of Swords (A Song of Plebs and Fire)
- George RR Martin
8 Naked Lunch - crazy white guy
9 The Last Universe - William Sleator
10 A Fabulous Creature - Zilpha Keatley Snyder

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 16:55:48 2015 No.6756561 >>6756515 jesus christ

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 21:01:27 2015 No.6757599 >>6756515 Please tell me that you are under the age of 20

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 21:15:32 2015 No.6757658 No order No Country for Old Men Necronomicon 20000 Leagues Iliad The Divine Comedy Moby Dick Lord of the Flies House of Leaves The Invisible Man And my most pleb choice: The Outsiders It was babies first book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 21:23:54 2015 No.6757688 1) Mason & Dixon 2) The Bell Jar 3) Dubliners 4) Dune 5) Siddhartha 6) Neuromancer 7) Blood Meridian 8) Altered States 9) Bleeding Edge 10) Catch - 22

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 23:40:55 2015 No.6758218 File: 99 KB, 500x375, Tiny Grass.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] V. Blood Meridian The Grapes of Wrath Wuthering Heights The Things They Carried Dubliners Brave New World Main Street Mrs. Dalloway Fahrenheit 451

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 04:04:52 2015 No.6758984 >>6748299 Krasznahorkai. It's Molloy not Molly you dork

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 04:06:30 2015 No.6758989 >>6752400 It just screams "I'm French" to me. Your post screams "I'm insecure when people show me that something exists outside my restricted field" though

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 08:25:03 2015 No.6759543

>>6745105
Quatre-vingt Treize - Victor Hugo
Bel Ami - Guy de Maupassant
ars amandis - Ovide
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New world - Aldous Huxley
Killer Koala - Kenneth Cook
L'homme qui rit - Victor Hugo
Dune - Frank Herbert
Messieurs les enfants - Daniel Pennac
Les Maréchaux soviétiques parlent - some random propaganda bureau of USSR

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 08:45:47 2015 No.6759600 Book of the New Sun The Brothers Karamazov Anna Karenina Chekov Collected Stories Stoner A Scaner Darkly Silmarillion The Gambler The Divine Comedy The Republic Sickness Onto Death

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 08:57:38 2015 No.6759626 >>6748533 Preach Fall of Reach is so based. It sparked the /lit/ flame for me when I was 11 years old. Then I reread it recently, enjoyed even more. I strongly recommend to non-halo fans alike.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 14:58:56 2015 No.6761003 Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square Just so stories - Rudyard Kipling American Psycho - Bret Ellis (although i actually hate it) Colours of infamy - Albert Cossery The Illustrated man - Ray Bradbury A dogs Heart - mikhel bulgakov however you spell it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 15:01:45 2015 No.6761015 >>6759543 looks like nobody's told you french lit is pleb tier

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 17:01:11 2015 No.6761494

Don Quixote
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Count of Monte Cristo
Cannery Row
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Brothers Karamazov
Dubliners
The Sound and the Fury
In Our Time
Gulliver's Travels

Guilty pleasure: the Moomin books

Would appreciate some recs

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 17:53:10 2015 No.6761745 >>6761494 Either of Tolstoy's big 2 if you haven't read them

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 22:08:51 2015 No.6762451

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pinecone
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Infinite Jest - DFW
The Broom of the System - DFW
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - PKD
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
Catch-22 - Heller
Gravity's Rainbow - Pinecone

I would love some recommendations. I've been engulfed in science fiction for so long. I'm trying to branch out a bit.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 22:57:19 2015 No.6762590
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>>6762451
>>6762451
You should try some Gaddis. My favorite is a Frolic of His Own, or JR if you want a headache/challenge.
V.- Thomas Pynchon
Journey To the End of the Night- Ferdinand Celine
Sirens of Titan-Kurt Vonnegut
Ariel-Sylvia Plath
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch- Philip K Dick
2666-Roberto Bolano
Wild Sheep Chase- Haruki Murakami
Cities of the Interior (or if I have to pick one volume A Spy in the House of Love)-Anais Nin
Babbitt-Sinclair Lewis
Queer-William S. Burroughs

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:22:28 2015 No.6762651 >>6746817 I was not that into it either to be honest, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:26:59 2015 No.6762665 >>6762651 Yep, I'm gonna add to this. Loved a lot of Pynchon's works but this just was not very good, and if you couldn't get into it 30 pages in you will never get into it. It's not that good of a book. Not a terrible book, but not really that great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:41:59 2015 No.6762719 Anti-Oedipus 120 Days of Sodom Venus in Furs Phenomenology of Spirit Ecce Homo Crime & Punishment The Holy Bible The Confessions of an English Opium Eater Hamlet Herzog >>6745269 >Pulp yes

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:43:47 2015 No.6762728 >>6762665 It was the first and only Pynchon book I've read. Please tell me his other works are better

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:52:39 2015 No.6762749

Not perfectly in order but:

Don Quixote-Miguel de Cervantes
The Tempest-William Shakespeare
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler-Italo Calvino
Foundation and Empire-Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation-Isaac Asimov
Keep the Aspidistra Flying-George Orwell
Foundation-Isaac Asimov
Homage to Catalonia-George Orwell
The Portrait of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 00:10:34 2015 No.6762788 >>6761494 Cervantes wrote some short stories if you can find good translations or know archaic Spanish

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 00:31:39 2015 No.6762830

>>6745105
Oh man. Here we go
1. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino
2. Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
3. Sons and Lovers - Lawrence
4. V - Pynchon
5. Petersburg - Bely
6. 10th of December - Saunders
7. Invisible Cities - Calvino
8. Paradise Lost - Milton
9. The Tunnel - Sábato
10. Perdido Street Station - Miéville

I usually lie in these threads but this is honestly it. No shame, Kav and Clay is number 11.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 03:40:22 2015 No.6763306 >>6746910 Given what you have read and what I have read I would suggest: Notes from Underground As I lay Dying Moby Dick (read Bartleby first) After you read Moby Dick, read Blood Meridian.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 03:43:04 2015 No.6763313 >>6746774 Read some Henry Miller and James Salter Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn A Sport and a Pastime

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 08:31:59 2015 No.6763951

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Stranger - Camus
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Siddhartha - Hesse
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Dick
Taipei - Lin
Waiting For Godot - Beckett
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino
The Shadow of the Torturer - Wolfe

I don't read much.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 17:21:50 2015 No.6765652 Bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 17:33:18 2015 No.6765694 Chekhovs Short Stories Lem - Fables for Robots Lem - Solaris Strugatzki - The Waves Extinguish the Wind Trozki - War and Peace Zamyatin - We Sartre - Nausea Camus - The Fall Bradbury - Something Wicked this Way Comes Palahniuk - Fight Club

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 18:04:10 2015 No.6765823 >>6763951 You might like Knut Hamson

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 22:25:55 2015 No.6766935 >>6765823 Thanks anon, this seems spot-on for me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 22:43:02 2015 No.6767007 No particular order Maugham - The Moon and Sixpense Wallace - Infinite Jest Twain - Huck Finn Beckett - Murphy Pynchon - V. Williams - Augustus Mcewan - Amsterdam Houllebecq - Whatever Faulkner - Light in August Twain - Tom Sawyer

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 00:10:32 2015 No.6767267 The Prince Don Quixote Lord of the Rings War and Peace The Memoir of Cleopatra Freedom and Necessity Atlas Shrugged A Brief History of Time Midnight at the Well of Souls Candide The Divine Comedy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:29:34 2015 No.6767510 >>6752801 I like the ones I've read, but >Tannisho I'm curious as to why you chose this one. It's very interesting but it feels out of place on a top ten

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:34:55 2015 No.6767518 >>6746397 Have you read Overnight To Many Distant Cities? It's by Barthelme and it's pretty good although I wouldn't call it great. What did you think of 60 Stories?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:36:12 2015 No.6767525 >>6746497 Have you read Breakfast of Champions or Sirens of Titan? They're my favorite Vonnegut books along with Slapstick.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:43:39 2015 No.6767538 >The Book of Pleasure >Thus Spake Zarathustra >A Season In Hell >VALIS >Taipei >Swann's Way >The Diamond Sutra >The Magickal Revival >Thundersqueak

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:53:59 2015 No.6767561

No order; deciding on what to list is hard enough without trying to rank them against each other.

Pale Fire - Nabokov
The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Infinite Jest - DFW (no but seriously)
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Ubik - Philip K. Dick

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 02:01:46 2015 No.6767588 I haven't read enough books to have ten of them so special to me that I can call them my ten favourite books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 02:35:13 2015 No.6767682 >>6752835 cool picks. If you haven't read Margaret Atwood's scifi, you'd probably like it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 02:49:07 2015 No.6767731 Beloved The Crying of Lot 49 Kafka on the Shore The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Orlando Dance Dance Revolution The Left Hand of Darkness Beowulf If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 06:08:08 2015 No.6768119

Henry Miller - Sexus
Natsume Soseki - Sanshiro, Sorekara, The Gate
Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
Mikhail Lermontov - Hero of Our Time
Yasunari Kawabata - The Lake
Kobo Abe - Woman in the Dunes
Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
And last but not least. It might be a little bit poignant to mention this book here.. but still. Since it's a list of my favourites.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto - Welcome to the N.H.K.

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 08:18:22 2015 No.6768436

The Legend of Ages - Hugo
Barbarians Poems - Leconte De Lisle
Satires - Boileau
Storm of Steel - Jünger
Horace - Corneille
The Regrets - du Bellay
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
A Hero of our Time - Lermontov
Selected Poetry - Mallarmé

>>6752392
You might want to read Rotrou (Antigone, Le Véritable Saint Genest) and Quinault (Bellerophon, Proserpine). Les Provinciales by Pascal is good too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 10:31:23 2015 No.6768741 >>6767588 You will get there someday anon, just keep reading

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 11:38:50 2015 No.6768897 >tfw you make a thread that lasts 3 or 4 days Feelsgoodman.jpg

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 11:58:01 2015 No.6768959 >>6746327 >Absalom, Absalom! >Mason & Dixon This nigga knows what's up.

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:00:17 2015 No.6768974

Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
Labyrinths/Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Ulysses by James Joyce
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:04:21 2015 No.6768991

Solaris - Lem
The Cyberiad - Lem
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
Tortilla Flat - Steinbeck
Cry, The Beloved Country - Paton
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
Catch-22 - Heller
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Labyrinths - Borges (Yes, I know it's a compilation, but it's a damn good compilation)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:08:44 2015 No.6769006 >>6768974 What else do you like Anon?

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:10:59 2015 No.6769016

>>6769006
here's 10 more:
Aurélia by Gérard de Nerval
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysman
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:13:35 2015 No.6769023 >>6769016 Thanks. I've just added a few to my reading lists.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 19:02:24 2015 No.6770612 bump

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