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Last week I asked /lit/ to help me compose a list of must read books. The thread received over 200 replies (with a lot of arguing about hipsterism), with about 300 nominations. I tallied these up and here have the top then books, as chosen by /lit/. Yes they are quite biased toward this board, as you can see these are the books you get ten threads a day about, but I think it's a decent catalog.

I'll post the rest soon.

>> No.745385

Minus that book in the top right

>> No.745384

These were close but didn't make the list. (Joint 11th/12th).

Moby Dick
The Metamorphosis
The Odyssey
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Trial

>> No.745386

Catcher in the Rye: generic I READ IT FOR HIGH SCHOOL entry
Pynchon is a current fashion trend
Atlas Shrugged is a particularly obnoxious meme and you included because you're either incredibly stupid, or trolling

>> No.745389

These make up the top 30.

Gilgamesh
Infinite Jest
100 years of Solitude
A Brief History of Time
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
Freakonomics
Harry Potter
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kafka on the Shore
The Bell Jar
The Cherry Orchard
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Demon-Haunted World
The Fountainhead

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745392

>>745386

u mad cuz ayn made the list?

Whether you believe objectivism is bullshit or not, it is still an important and very popular book. It's definitely not a meme.

Pic related.

>> No.745394

>>745386

>Pynchon is a current fashion trend

But Pynchon has been around and awesome for years.

>> No.745397

This is not a completely terrible list.

>> No.745410

Next five:

Naked Lunch
The Invisible Man
The Lord of the Rings
The Old Man and the Sea

>> No.745423

45

Brave New World
Don Juan
Hamlet
Iliad
Invisible Cities
Of Mice and Men
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Castle
The Divine Comedy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>> No.745430

And that's 50, all for now.

Cat's Cradle
Faust
The Stranger
Pale Fire
A Brief History of Time

>> No.745444

Seems like a pretty good list, but some of the books verge on "essential reading...to be pretentious."

>> No.745450

Are you fags still trying to push your faggy Objectivist bullshit onto people?

0/10

>> No.745456

too many "teen" books.
If a survey was possible by education level or even age the output be better.

>> No.745501

>>745456

>implying /lit/'s average age is above 17

>> No.745529

>>745392

I don't get this at all.

>> No.745533

Look on the bright side, you may objectivist garbage on the list, but at least there's no Hubbard.

>> No.745539

i'm 100% behind having (one at least) rand be required reading to post here.
so many blind trolls who have no idea what they are talking about. form your own opinions bros!

>>745384
no excuse for rand bumping melville or harper lee though.

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745546

Dammit, fellas, Ahab is fucking disappoint. Catcher in the Rye and Atlas Shrugged over Moby-Dick?

>> No.745548

So much failure in this thread.

>> No.745557

>>745546
Watching an old cat take a shit is more interesting than reading Moby Dick

>> No.745583

>>745546
It's a potboiler! He wrote it just to make money so it has long, rambling, and unnecessary chapters. If I want Melville I'll read Bartleby the Scrivener.