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Suggest some good books for my /lit/

some of your favourites, maybe just really good ones.

>> No.7984229

I love The Call of the Wild and White Fang, I think they're best read together.

>> No.7984321

Some of my all-time favs

Easy/quick reads:

My Ántonia - Cather
The Age of Innocence - Wharton
Smith of Wootton Major - Tolkien
Anthem - Rand
If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino

Long/hard reads:

Mason & Dixon - Pinecone
Le Morte d'Arthur - Malory
Middlemarch - Eliot

Poetry:

Transformations - Sexton
Assorted poems by C. Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson

Obscure stuff that'll make you feel smart:

The Red Lily - France
Daughter of the elm - Hall

>> No.7984345

>>7984321
>My Ántonia - Cather
I love that book. Straightforward, yet beautifully written.

>> No.7984360

>>7984321
>>7984345
My Antonia may be the comfiest book in the world.

>tfw you will never marry antonia and have 12 children with her on the lone prairie

>> No.7986351

>>7984345
>>7984360
It's a must-read. It deserves to be in any curriculum or starter kit.

I've never seen him mentioned here, so I'd also recommend Kevin Brockmeier. I've read The Brief History of the Dead and The View from the Seventh Layer and both were good.

>> No.7986366

vurt
City of god lins
the virgin suicides
the once and future king
on a winter's night a traveler

>> No.7986634

for those that are fond of drugs/travelling/prose
On the Road - Kerouac
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Howl - Ginsberg
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

>> No.7986761

>>7984193
In Search of Lost Time
Goethe's Faust
Autobiography of Red
Jesus' Son
Crying of Lot 49
Fictions
Petersburg
(Salammbo is also pretty cool.)

>> No.7986777

The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

The Iliad, The Odyssey by Homer

The three Theban plays (Oedipus trilogy) by Sophocles

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Fathers and Sons, Mumu, The Torrents of Spring by Turgenev

The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway

Huck Finn by Twain