>>25028030
What is your age anon?

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I only have 10 favorites. The rest is trash.

>>25028044
How is hellbound? Is it good?

I've never read a book, what should I read ?

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>>25028016
I only did one book per author which makes it actually quite a small list

>>25028063
Start with greek tragedies

>>25028082
already read a few

>>25028062
If you liked the first original Hellraiser movie, you'll like it since it is what the movie is based on. It isn't 1:1, but it's close. For example Butterball is the lead cenobite, Pinhead is quite feminine, and how Frank leaves his "mark" in the world to revive isn't his blood, but where he cums when the cenobites visit him.. I like it. I cannot say the same with Hellraiser: The Toll (which is completely stupid) and The Scarlet Gospels (which is decent) though.

>>25028073
Eye of Aragon.

>>25028100
Sorry >>25028073, meant to quote >>25028063

>>25028098
Then read Marlowe, Kyd, Webster

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>>25028016
i could do it using only literature, only genre or only popular fiction but i cba

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>>25028016 (OP)
Stuck to one book per author, probably would have gotten a little silly otherwise.

Germinal is great, almost made my list. The big scene when the mine floods is probably the best action scene I have ever read. Probably should have some Lawrence on mine but I am not sure I can call him a favorite.

why are pseuds so obsessed with dostoevsky

>>25028142
>gertrude stein
alright fruitcake
>>25028149
>two mentions of dostoevsky in this thread
you're clearly the one obsessed

>>25028149
Most people don't read that many books, and the ones they read are mostly from other toplists and recommendations. Every personal list longer than top 5 is a pseud larp. That said, OP had a single Dosto listed, so >>25028152 has a point. Although writing his name in Russian is peak larper retardation.

>>25028134
Quite a lot of French. I envy you anon.
>>25028142
What is Pedro about? Keep seeing it very frequently.

>>25028163
nah all of those were read in translation

>>25028161
The website only gives the name in Russian, I could not change it.
>obsession
Yes, can be. But he is good so it equals out.

>>25028134
Nice to see some love for The Sheltering Sky. Did you ever read Let it Come Down? some of the most amazing building of tension I have ever seen, half the book is just building tension to a manic level. No where near as good as The Sheltering Sky but good and the tension he builds is unlike anything I have ever read. I really wish it had some reread value but it doesn't, it will never be anywhere near as good as that first time. Still need to read The Spider's House, it is on the shelf in wait for when ever I get around to it.
>>25028152
Whats wrong with Stein?
>>25028163
I find Pedro Paramo a difficult book to discuss without spoiling it, there are some major aspects to it which are best discovered as you read it and I just can't figure out how to talk around them. It is the book that started the whole magical realism thing and quite different than most of the movement. It is a short read, takes a couple a few hours, I would just dive in and read it if you are starting to get curious.

>>25028187
>Did you ever read Let it Come Down?
i primarily added it because i watched the film adaptation-bertolucci directed it and vittorio storaro lensed it. more interested in the anticolonialist vibe of the whole thing than what you described-an antidote to a passage to india type stuff
>Whats wrong with Stein?
feminist dyke

>>25028167
>The website only gives the name in Russian, I could not change it.
I concede.
Been seeing a lot of Dosto hater posts recently.

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I couldn't do top 25 even if I wanted to

Top row is top 5 personal favs, bottom row is top 5 roosky novels (my special interest)
Could easily replace ROTD with Frankenstein or J R by Gaddis
>>25028073
I like your list

>>25028252
The film is terrible and completely misses what sets Bowles apart, he is not colonialist or anti-colonialist in his writing, he is impartial and that allowed him to provide a more accurate view of the place and time, this is a hallmark of all of his writing. The story is told from the perspective of Port and Kit who have no idea what is and is not a result of colonialism, it is all alien to them and the reader shares in their ignorance because all we have is their perspective. It is all considerably more complex than "colonialism bad" and that is what Bowles gives us, the complexity of it all including the complexity of life outside of Africa.

Stein's writing is not feminist, she has a few works that sort of can be used for feminist agendas but not really. The feminists will always win as long as retards let others decide what things are for them; feminists say it is feminist so you will not read it, there was a movie made from it so you will pretend to have read it. Talking about things you know nothing about while being confident in your ignorance is stupidity in the most literal sense.

Including books you did not read but watched the movie of is especially pathetic considering the brag you tacked on.

>>25028334
>The story is told from the perspective of Port and Kit who have no idea what is and is not a result of colonialism, it is all alien to them and the reader shares in their ignorance
DURRRR THAT'S WHAT COLONIALISM IS, DUMBASS.
>It is all considerably more complex than "colonialism bad" and that is what Bowles gives us, the complexity of it all including the complexity of life outside of Africa.
the book where a bunch of dumb wh*toids get owned because they have a cartoonish understanding of the world outside their cracker countries is "complex", apparently. yeah you're right they get killed by "complexity" and not because they're dumb crackers
>Stein's writing is not feminist, she has a few works that sort of can be used for feminist agendas but not really.
she IS a feminist dyke
>Including books you did not read but watched the movie of is especially pathetic considering the brag you tacked on.
i did read it, dumbo. that's your misinterpretation of what i posted because you're functionally illiterate. i primarily added it because i watched the film adaptation, which was haunting and beautiful and ends with crackers getting killed and i also added it because i read it. there we go.

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Fluent in English, French, Russian, German (native) btw

>>25028346
Lol you're brown

>>25028353
no shit, cracker. how did you read my list and not get that

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>>25028016
Didn’t include any authors more than once or I’d have a couple more Tolstoy and Cather novels
>>25028142
Dandelion wine is a great book

>two chinua achebe books
>native son
>invisible man
>is this guy brown???
this is the level of analysis we can expect from gertrude stein fans

>>25028346
I think I gave you too much credit, I apologize. No need to do all that pesky thinking, work smart, not hard, right?
>>25028367
I have written enough in this thread to give even retards enough to be able to identify me through my writing, and yet you failed.

>>25028382
>No need to do all that pesky thinking, work smart, not hard, right?
saying everything is "complex" or "nuanced" is not in fact thinking. of course someone who manages to read the sheltering sky as a tragic tale of two complex and nuanced human individuals instead of two dumb crackers wouldn't get that though
>I have written enough in this thread to give even retards enough to be able to identify me through my writing, and yet you failed.
you have essentially the same attitude. i'd be more impressed with you if you had the guts to call me brown

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>>25028016
Here's my top 100 from a year and a half ago or so. Still roughly accurate though some would drop off and the order would change (especially once you get past 30 or so) if I were to redo it.

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>>25028016
This was rough. Top 15 was easy enough, but filling in the rest of the chart took a while.
Also, the book finder on the website is shit. Awful covers, and it didn't even have Blood Meridian for some reason.

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>>25028399
fukken saved

>>25028403
Yeah half of mine I had to custom add in the books, pain in the ass. Quite enjoy the top 15

>>25028390
Where did I say The Sheltering Sky was about Port and Kit? I said it was about the time and place and through the perspective of Port and Kit. Our understanding of the time and place is limited by our understanding of Port and Kit so it is about them in a way, but they are not the point. This is the sort of thing that really makes it sound like you never read it, the film misses all of this stuff since it loses 99% of what is offered by the narrator and reduces the novel to simplistic anti-colonialism. In general this calls into question your comprehension, you completely missed what I said despite my being rather direct about it.

Why do you think it requires guts to anonymously call someone brown or any other color? What if I called you Pantone 462? how would that affect your impression of me?

>>25028490
> I said it was about the time and place and through the perspective of Port and Kit. Our understanding of the time and place is limited by our understanding of Port and Kit so it is about them in a way, but they are not the point.
i mean you have to be ignorant of the genre that the sheltering sky subverts to have your perspective and you have to completely ignore the plot to suggest that it's about "the time and place". if it is about the time and the place, then it's spectacularly ineffective. if it is about the perspective, then it is about the subversion of these orientalist, colonialist novels like a passage to india. if anything it's about the collapse of empire that was going on at the time. you have to be american or german or something to get this and to view it as a purely formalist work about two characters and about the nature of perspective.
>Why do you think it requires guts to anonymously call someone brown or any other color?
did you think he was literally commenting on the colour of my skin in a non-racial, matter of fact way? my point is overt racism is more respectable, as it takes courage to do, and is easier to confront. your cowardly "nuance" and "complexity"£ is exactly why white supremacy continues to prosper

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no particular order

>>25028350
I kneel, polyglot-anon

>>25028510
big ups for white jazz and nightwood

>>25028356
Fellow Yeats enjoyer.
>>25028399
>Oxford English Dictionary
Is this a joke?

>>25028508
You are still talking about the movie and not the book. It is difficult to believe you read it.

I never considered your race and don't particularly care about the race of anonymous people because anonymous. It is all rather tiresome especially when anonymous, limp power struggles where there is no power to gain.
>>25028510
The memes have made it impossible for me to take The Dwarf seriously but your chart makes me feel a bit better about it. Solid list overall.

>>25028612
>You are still talking about the movie and not the book.
oh was the film released in 1949? if you want to completely ignore any subtext or context and just completely dismiss the idea that the sheltering sky has anything to say about decolonisation, you're welcome to do so. you're welcome to have a shallow, surface-level understanding of it
>I never considered your race and don't particularly care about the race of anonymous people because anonymous. It is all rather tiresome especially when anonymous, limp power struggles where there is no power to gain.
yeah because you're a racist. erasing race, not thinking about race, is racist. woke didn't invent this shit, it defanged it. you crackers will APOLOGISE for colonialism.

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alas, I still struggle to advance my taste beyond standard /lit/core

>>25028635
I never said it had nothing to say about decolonization, I said it was not anti or pro colonialism. You have terrible comprehension.

Refusing to get involved in meaningless anonymous arguments is not erasing race. Also, I am not white and my ancestors had nothing to do with colonialism other than being colonized. Rather racist of you to reduce everything to white vs black.

>>25028668
>Ayn rand
Ewwww

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>have best taste in thread
feels good man

>>25028669
>I said it was not anti or pro colonialism.
how can it be neither anti or pro colonialism and have something to say about decoloniSation? you're dismissing what i'm saying, which is about decoloniSation which is different from colonialism as a whole btw. i'm not referring to your text from 30 minutes ago. if you don't understand that most communication is implicit rather than explicit then that would explain your bizarre, neutral "it-takes-no-sides" reading of the sheltering sky.
>Refusing to get involved in meaningless anonymous arguments is not erasing race.
well then it's a good thing that's not what i said or implied. i said you were "not thinking about race" in response to you saying "i never considered your race", which is erasing race from a discussion about the colour of my skin, which i find ludicrous.
>Also, I am not white and my ancestors had nothing to do with colonialism other than being colonized.
an indian who hasn't read a passage to india? how absurd

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keeping it to ten.
chronological order.
stemfag btw

>>25028073
++child of god
>>25028668
advice on where to start with blake?

>>25028711
I already explained how it avoids weighing in on colonialism. I dismissed what you said because you are talking about the movie and not the book. I never said it had anything to do with decolonization either, you said I that I implied that so I corrected you and repeated what I did say. You have yet to say one thing which demonstrates having read the book.

Our discussion was never about the color of your skin, you dragged that in after another anon baited you and it is probably an attempt to shift the conversation off the book you did not read.

Wrong sort of Indian but I have read A Passage to India.

>>25028850
>I already explained how it avoids weighing in on colonialism.
you explained that there is no explicit condemnation of colonialism, which was not my point.
>I never said it had nothing to say about decolonization
>I never said it had anything to do with decolonization either
yeah, isn't that the story of your life. you're abusing the fact that most communication is implicit to get me to try to say something of substance and then going THAT'S NOT TRUE! THAT'S NOT TRUE EITHER! NOTHING IS TRUE! besides, if you think there's nothing on decolonization in a book about post colonial north africa then you're beneath contempt
>You have yet to say one thing which demonstrates having read the book.
> the book you did not read.
and how am i supposed to do that when i'm arguing with someone who, if he has read the book, clearly didn't get it.
>Our discussion was never about the color of your skin
i can quote you ITT going on about how brown my skin is, so that's ridiculous.
>Wrong sort of Indian but I have read A Passage to India.
nigga you weren't colonised, someone slaughtering your buffalo and selling you firewater for farmland isn't colonialism. get outta town. and if you have read a passage to india and can't read the sheltering sky as a rebuke to that genre of fiction then clearly reading is not for you and is presumably just a formalist exercise, a kind of spiritual experience like smoking um peace pipe and communing with the spirit of the buffalo

>>25028749
Blake is conveniently best read in chronological order

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Glad to see one of these threads, but I'm lazy and will use the top 9 that I have

>>25028142
>exercises in style
holy fucking based
any other oulipo you'd recommend? i've read perec's "life, a user's manual" as well

>>25028313
i should read peterburg, i've been curious ever since i've read nabokov's high praise of it
chekhov is very good, but why not include an edition featuring all of his short stories? or do you really prefer the selection from "selected stories" over the entire ouvre?

>>25028399
major props for making a top 100
i'm interested in some of these, so i'll think of the image like a good rec chart

>>25028403
>another saragossa anon
my brother from another mother
i hope you've watched the movie adaptation

>>25028904
>but why not include an edition featuring all of his short stories?
I like all of Chekhov more or less. I just picked the first one that popped up because the site didn't have a complete works option and I am too lazy to upload one

Definitely check out Petersburg. Its great. You can also check out Petty Demon by Sologub if you want something more foundational to the Russian symbolist movement.

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Here. Still reading Moby Dick but its already among my favorites

>the same generic crap on everyone's lists
Do any of you literally read any book outside what is always the beginner tier shit?

>>25029112
Then enlighten us with your contrarian taste, or just shut the fuck up.

>>25029112
I never post in these threads because I have a few that I never see on other people's lists that would instantly identify me on other websites where I use my real name. Same for /tv/ and /mu/.

>>25029112
Err no chud. I read what everyone else is reading, I dont want to be a lonely queer like you. Dattebayo

>>25029120
>contrarian taste
Any fucking book outside the generic beginner tier trash. I do read those, but I go outside them as well unlike almost all of these lists and they always tend to be better. My favorites were always random picks. One of the literal random ones that I enjoyed more was The Bookshop Ladies: a stupid chick lit novel.

>>25029124
jfc, my favorites are on my GoodReads. I have to be identified on /lit/.

>>25029132
>I dont want to be a lonely queer like you
Yet you still are.

>>25029134
I see plenty of charts with unique picks.

>>25029141
Which is always coupled with mostly generic crap.

>>25029144
So you first said
> Do any of you literally read any book outside what is always the beginner tier shit?
After conceding that there are charts with unique picks you're just mad that there's *any* canon picks. Get over yourself. You sound insecure that no one reads romance garbage like you.

>>25029151
They're not really unique picks. They're all the same. You sound like you are unable to read anything outside the norm.

>romance
Wow, I picked up one random romance novel! So therefore all I read is romance novels. Nice logic, dumbass.

>>25029155
Let's hear your thoughts on De Avonden and Le voyeur, just two name two worn out books that apparently get endlessly repeated on here.

>>25029165
Let's hear your thoughts on not picking generic shit.

>>25029167
Hahaha you're so insecure about having shit taste

>>25029168
Haha you're so insecure about being an NPC.

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>>25029169
lmfao

>>25029170
yes, and? It's different, unlike the NPC picks you have.

he even went into another thread to whine about anons not picking romance slop, holy insecurity
>>25029161
>>25029166

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>>25029178
Literally you.

>>25029179
You're so unique for reading the same romance slop 1 billion other fat single women read :^)

>>25029155
Different anon here. Any sleepers that you don't see often? I'm adding books to my read list

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>>25029180
You are so unique for read the same generic crap that every NPC praises.

>Oh no! Someone read one (1, uno) book different from our generic stuff!!!!!!!
Yeah, and it was decent. Unlike you who cannot go against the grain.

>>25029182
Thanks for asking:

In Italy for Love
Stuck in Paradise with You
Marry Me...Maybe?
Don't You Want Me, Baby?

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>>25029186
>being this mad you have to imitate a poster for reading only one (1) single chick lit novel and liking it

>>25029190
share what you read and fuck off with your whining retard

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>>25028016
I’ll give you a top 10

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>>25029229
Fine
>inb4 NPC's hate on fantasy

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>>25028044
I did a top 10, but it changes frequently

>>25028535
>>Oxford English Dictionary
>Is this a joke?
No, not a joke. The OED is amazing. Full etymologies of every word along with the first use of them in writing. Very useful reference, especially if you're a writer, and also enjoyable to read on it's own.

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>>25028016
It's mostly an overview of the literature that's influenced my thinking.

>>25029854
>harry potter
Has this influenced you to hate trans women?

>>25028073
I liked this one, any recommebdations on Victor Pelevin seems interesting, surprised he is not discussed more on this board

>>25030200
I literally have only read that book (finished the other week) and it blew me away. People have recommended Homo Zapiens/Generation P and Omon Ra. I have copies of both of them which I will read so I'd say try them.

But yeah I agreed I don't understand why he isn't talked about it on here more

>>25030213
I will try Chapayev and Pustota and Omon ra He seems like a really good contemporary writer of russian literature in post soviet times, something I have been looking for, thanks.

>>25029170
this one honestly is great. Reminds me of Virginia Woolf at times. If you don't have it, buy it. If you don't understand it then, as Faith Hogan famously replied to those still struggling after their 3rd read, "Read it four times."

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Had to add Behead All Satans manually

>>25028403
the fuck is wrong with this toplist site?
writing authors names in other alphabets is one thing, but why is Saragossa Manuscript title written in german of all languages? it's literally a book written in french by a polack, published first in russia and set in spain, how can you fuck up this badly to not use any more fitting language?

>>25029112
>>25029179
>>25029183
it turns out that popular things tend to be good. who knew

>>25029255
Fellow Bluebeard enjoyer. Truly great

my god there are so many jordan peterson tourists here

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>>25028016

>>25030430
not bad for someone who just started reading last year

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Check out my European Elitist-tier taste

>>25032442
>gombrowicz
based

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>>25033039
>lowry - under the volcano
Holy based, although in my own top 25 it's dead last, still a phenomenal book.

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I wanted to reply to everyone but whatever I do I get "your message is spam." How do we get around that? I wanna recommend books!

>>25033349
Fellow Tale of Genji enjoyer

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>>25028016
here's my top 5 (of the moment)
Karamazov Brothers, Hunger or Dead souls could easily get on the list

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>>25033162
based. Did you find that Paradise Lost required much preliminary reading to comprehend it?

>>25033520
If you like Hunger I highly recommend Hamsun's novellas. Victoria, Pan, Under the Autumn Star are all great.

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>>25028510
great selections

>>25033560
I mean it wasnt too hard to follow since I've been familiar with biblical stories most of my life. I know people say to read dante but I wouldn't say it is necessary

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Reading should be fun.

>>25028044
Nod is one of the worst books I've read all the way through. An interesting premise that quickly descends into post-apocolypse slop.

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here goes:
>>25028016
>Morrison
Can anyone else weigh in on ol' Toni? On the fence about giving her a shot. Good taste overall, OP.

>>25028073
>>25028313
Are you guys gay? If you're not, what do you like so much about Confessions of a Mask?

>>25028134
gonna rec Of Human Bondage; you also might like Saul Bellow.

>>25028142
Great taste anon, though I hated Steps and it pains me to see it share a row with my beloved Hawkes.
I recommend Ehle's "The Land Breakers."

>>25028350
Have you read any (John) Barth? Check out The Sot-Weed Factor if not. Impressive list. I wish my Russki had ever been good enough to read Bely in the original.

pics unrelated

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>>25028356
Interesting mix. Do you like Robert Graves?

>>25028403
Another solid chart. I rec Sarajevo, Marlboro.

>>25028510
I'll have to save this one; most of those I've read are excellent so those that are unfamiliar are probably up my alley.
Nice to see some love for The Cannibal.

>>25028668
>Gardner- Fat City

>>25028679
>Frogs
Based. So based..

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>>25028749
So you're fond of the American men; how about the women? Give Flannery O'Connor a shot; if you've read her already, try Mary Lee Settle.

>>25028904
>i should read peterburg
It's right in your wheelhouse! And I was about to rec Dictionary of the Khazars before seeing it on the chart lol. Try Giles Goat-Boy or another big structure-heavy US pomo novel if you haven't.

>>25029098
consider Vonnegut (easy) or Flann O'Brien (harder), both are fun.

>>25029255
read Algren's "The Man With The Golden Arm", you'll dig it

>>25029854
then there's this nigga...
have you read Mimesis?

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>>25030430
recs:
>Guenon- Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
>Zimmer- The King and the Corpse

>>25032442
>American Psycho
have you read Fight Club? Better than I thought it would be.

>>25033039
>Calvino- Invisible Cities

>>25033162
>Zamyatin- We

>>25033399
It really is magnificent isn't it. Do you have any advice regarding translations or supplemental reading? I've read it once and I think I'll at least read The World of the Shining Prince before or during the reread (in another translation). I'd love to read Genji Days but it's not cheap.

>>25033889
>Morrison
nta but I love her prose. elegant while reasonably frugal. the paranoia lurking in the corners of everything she writes gives you a sense at times that you're reading horror but the monster just hasn't been revealed yet, only it's been there in plain sight the entire time.

>>25033889
>OH MY BUDDHA!!
I would buy that unironically.
I just know this cunt has been serving the most scum-of-the-earth aussie bogan tourists. sad, that.

>>25033889
>Are you guys gay?
yes
>what do you like so much about Confessions of a Mask?
im one of the self loathing homosexuals

>>25028063
Umineko no naku koro ni

>>25033889
Morrison is unique in her writing. She is not like woke writers, she does not write on the face politics. Her prose sometimes feels gothic. She is good (atleast I find her good)

>>25033349
Jannys are fags, the best move is to just divide your replies into 2 or 3 so you don’t get the spam message

>>25032442
>celine first, lowry last
>>25033623
>lowry first, celine last
Heh

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In no particular order

>>25028679
>Phillip K. Dick
LMAO

>>25029124
You give yourself too much importance.

A strange number of Under the Volcano appreciators in this thread compared to the /lit/ general population.

>>25035305
>all these Ulysses
You all can't be serious with this hack.

>>25035317
It's a great book. Personally I don't care as much for novelists as writers of sentences. Which is why Lutz made it in. Ulysses is great for random pick-up and reading any random chapter. (for the most part; never reading aeolus again)

>>25035248
no, I'm just very fucking paranoid. I've been around communities of doxxers before. you don't need to be important, you just have to catch one on a bad day and say/do something he disagrees with. no fucking thanks.

>>25035278
This thread has the minimum requirement of going to a website and typing your favorites 25 times, clicking on them, and saving the completed chart. That's too complicated and time-wasting for the average /lit/ cretin.

>>25035278
>>25035677
Under the Volcano is extremely popular. probably on reddit and tiktok too. its not niche you pseuds.

>>25035685
I'm not saying it's obscure, but I also don't see it discussed here much, and I've never seen it on the top 100 lists. So I was surprised to see it on so many anons top 25s.

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>>25035798
Under the Volcano only has 26k ratings on Goodreads, that's pretty middle of the road for literary fiction compared to similar authors like Pynchon, IJ, John Fowles, etc.

>>25035921
What is Satantango like? I'm suspicious of how suddenly it blew up, it just started appearing everywhere

>>25036201
Satantango has been big since 1994 with the Bela Tarr film coming out

>>25036201
It's because he won the Nobel.

>>25036201
Very dense and sometimes hard to follow, I remember a review comparing the prose in this to waddling waist deep in mud and I think the comparison is apt, but completely unique at the same time. It used to be somewhat talked about here back in the day but I guess it blew up again after he won the nobel.

>>25036201
Krasnahorkai just won the Noble and Tarr, who made the film adaptation, has just died a few weeks ago. He's been mentioned here on and off for years, primarily because a lot of anons hate his long ass sentences, while others enjoy the style. I think he's one of the few writers alive who are worth to read.

>>25037170
>All those japs and Dostoy
Just transition already.

>>25037300
What crawled up your ass?

99% is just head up their ass pretentious shit. No taste, just autistic follow the leader ”smarter than thou” picks that aren’t even good reads.

>>25037603
Found the fantasyslop fag.

>>25037603
Whoever smelt it, delt it

>>25037603
You only get to say this if you've actually read those books yourself.
Have you read them yourself?

>>25033889
>Are you guys gay?
Sort of. I'm bisexual so I like the description of emerging homosexuality as Mishima describes it even though what kind of guys I find attractive are completely different to the kind Mishima does

>>25036201

I'm currently reading it - like other anons said, it's surprisingly dense, the prose (especially the in-line dialogue, often in parentheses) is idiosyncratic, and the structure makes for a bit of a perspectival puzzle. Incredibly bleak, dancing just on the cusp of magical realism, or at least absurdity, at times. I was finding it quite funny in places, but then I got to chapter 5: Unraveling and it punched me right in the gut. I'd definitely recommend it, I haven't read anything quite like it before.

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Here are mine for Fiction.

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Ten seems a more reasonable number. These are (some of) the ones I have read multiple times and/or will reread once enough time passes. I suppose that counts as "favorites".

>>25038288
>one of my favorite books of all time is the reader's guide for another book
you cannot be serious

>>25038399
I think that anon searched for Gravity's Rainbow and liked that cover and didn't notice it wasn't the actual book.

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>>25038288
And then Non-Fiction.
>>25038399
>>25038409
I’m a phone posting retard and didn’t look at the tiny font on my phone.

In no particular order. Mix of what I always return to and what has influenced my thinking the most, along with some novels.

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>>25038105
My picks
>>25033720

>>25028142
Atd as fav Pynchon? Interesting, what exactly do you see in it that's better than v., gr or md (no spoilers for md or it pls)

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>>25028016
This is my top 100 fiction books. Creating a chart with images would take me a long time, so I'm just posting this list that I already have from 2025.

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>>25028016
Every chart in this thread is 100x more interesting than any dumbass /lit/ essentials chart. What the fuck? Why dont we do these more often?

>>25039225
Appreciated
>>25039234
Truth, Mine looks pale in comparison.

>>25038434
Ah a fellow Eiseley lover, his memoir is probably his best work imo thoufg

>>25028904
>any other oulipo you'd recommend?
It is pretty much Perec, Calvino and Queneau and most of Queneau is not Oulipo. Everything else I have read of the movement seems variations of those three and forgettable. The main three are solid. There is also a bunch of Oulipo poetry but I never dug into it.
>>25033889
>The Land Breakers
Ehle does not wrong but also does nothing right, enjoyable enough of a story but that is all he offers.
>>25038619
>V.
I do love it but it is kind of a mess, fair amount of stuff which serves no purpose and contradictions. Structure is great and building the novel around a character's stream of conscious while they read is kind of hilarious. It also has a humanity that is lacking in his next few works. I love it but it has lots of problems.
>GR
Structure and its complexity are an illusion, once you figure out how it works it loses something. Amazing narrative voice and language and he never comes close to the narrator of GR in his later work. Humanity is mostly used for contrast, it works in context but lacks something. I love it but seeing through the illusion leaves it lacking.
>M&D
He went too far with the period style and the pastiche, we don't even get the illusion of structure is blunt and simplistic no matter how well it is executed, narrative voice is just as simple and gets tiring. It is interesting and as always we get those moments of unequivocal greatness but overall it is lacking. The human is tacked on at the end, even the clocks are more human than Mason and Dixon are for the bulk of the novel. I don't love this one but I also don't hate it.
>AtD
We get the amazing structure of V. but more refined and more complex, narrator is not quite as good as GR but far more refined and nuanced, pastiche is no longer a blunt tool and intimately tied into the amazing structure, the humor reaches down into the style and is not just jokes and situational comedy, and his command of the language and his style is god like. The characters are undeniably human, we get more than just glimpses of humanity. He builds on everything he did right in his previous novels and I can not find a fault, everything coalesces and ties together, it is perfection.

>>25039424
>we don't even get the illusion of structure is blunt and simplistic no matter how well it is executed,
we don't even get the illusion of struct and the pastiche is blunt and simplistic no matter how well it is executed.

>>25039234
That is because we don't ave these threads often. They quickly turn to shit like everything else on this site if we have them with any regularity.

>>25039234
Far fewer. Large charts will have canon redundancies. What's useful and what people want are off the beaten path neglected selections, even from common authors. These would be more useful limited to 5 or 7, and just one's personal go to re-reads.

>>25033903
Ive largely avoided all of the Hindu dickriders because their culture is so shit.

>>25040108
Truth. Time between repetitions need to be long enough that they are forgotten or it just turns into imitation of the previous threads and trolling.

>>25040466
last time I was on /mu/ there was a tiny handful of guys who forced 3x3 threads every single time one dropped off the board, they would all post their charts and then the thread would die with few others if any adding their own, rinse and repeat. you could practically watch the albums falling off their charts in real time.

>>25028399
>Villette over any other Bronte or Austen work
Absolutely based.

>>25039234
One of the best threads in a while, sure a lot of them have some repetitive books we see in the top 100 charts, but many also have a lot of unique ones, and overall a lot more variety, interesting books I have not seen or heard of and I got a lot of new tips in this thread.

>>25028142
>Bob Honey
Seriously?

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>>25035921
>the setting sun
nice, this one is his best imo, no longer human is kind of overrated (relative to the setting sun)
>>25037170
>the box man
>the ark sakura
nice picks

>>25040933
>dogra magra
i kneel; the film makes me want to learn japanese just to read it (and his other works)

>>25028063
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

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What is some comfy and jolly literature. Everything here seems depressing. I spent my early 20s reading Thomas Bernhard and Samuel Beckett. Had enough of that edgy shit.

>>25028016
I've read a lot of books but haven't particularly enjoyed any enough to call them a favorite or feel any desire to return to them.

>>25044015
Shakespeare's comedies, Rabelais, Sterne, Lewis Carroll, Joyce
Pynchon seems fun on the surface, but he's depressing inside

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That was a fun exercise. Beyond the top ten-fifteen it was really difficult to narrow it down. Thanks for all the recs folks.

>>25044062
Vineland was fun

>>25041481
Damn this nigga really likes Hemingway

>>25044015
Harry Potter.

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I have looked up every book posted here that I didn't already know and I have added these to my backlog. Thanks!

>>25044015
Boccaccio, Decameron.
Aristophanes, any of the plays.

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>>25028142
another kawabata enjoyer fuck yeah brother

>>25048605
Nobody actually likes Finnegans Wake.

>>25048660
I do but it is not a favorite.

>>25049240
You pretend you do maybe.

>>25048660
what if i pick you up tie your hair into pigtails and fuck you you're judging a book by its cover and don't even know it you whimp you're intimidated by something you know NOTHING about you're a coward and soon my personal cumdump fuck you go die

that is a very homosexual post, I think that guy might be gay

>>25050060
Listen, homo, I'm not judging that book by its cover, I'm judging it over its contents

Quite surprised by the number of people who like both Pynchon and genre fiction.

>>25051081
why?

>>25051248
Because genre fiction is low brow.

>>25040788
Seriously.
>>25048605
Beauty and Sadness is the actual Kawabata favorite, not sure why I put Snow Country but probably had a reason in the moment, maybe topsters did not have Beauty and Sadness so I just grabbed another solid Kawabata book, don't remember.

>>25028749
what kind of stem?

>>25051458
Pynchon is genre

>>25052335
long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peZsVcKmMo

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Shoutout to those anons I made a bunch of reading group threads for back in the first few months of 2023 when I was unemployed.

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Yes, I am Evrocentrics.
Yes! I am xenophobic
No, I did not read translations for the European books. (I am not learning oriental tongues, for I am xenophobic)

>>25052616
>wishbone classics
based

>>25044015
A Christmas Carol is the comfiest and jolliest of all.

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This tool is barely usable, extremely small database. Pale Fire should be up towards the top, as should The Trial. Yeats' Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth should also be there somewhere.

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In order of impact on my life and mind

>>25052377
He is a person.

bump

No personality in some of these charts.

>>25057954
where's yours, coward?

>>25057971
>coward
You think you're brave?

>>25057989
still waiting on your chart

>>25058006
Keep waiting bitch boy.

>>25058037
that's what I thought, scared little faggot

>>25058055
Scared? You think you're brave for posting on 4chan? You are a pathetic little boy. I won't post it because I won't do what you tell me and this shit thread doesn't deserve my chart. I'll post it in the next thread, crybaby.

>>25058072
that's okay, we don't need to see your middle school books you mental midget

>>25058076
Because there's plenty of them here, bitch boy.

>>25028149
Fuck off, foid

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>>25028016

>>25062756
>t. Mossad agent