/lit/ - Literature

>>13971255
0

>>13971259
Too busy with the girls chad?

>>13971255
32

>>13971255
1

>>13971255
1/2

>>13971255
1 book for fun. I can't remember whether I really read my books for university or not. Goes to show how whack it is.

Counting out loud:
1
2
3
4 in total

24 but more short books than usual

Do doujins and manga count as books

>>13971533
They count as three fifths of a book

9 or 10

>>13971543
Each chapter or volume is a book right
I read more books than everyone here combined

>>13971551
>Each chapter or volume is a book right
Wrong

>>13971551
so lets say read 10,000 chapters of manga this year, and 300,000 words of light novels how many books is that?

Either/Or, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, The Elementary Particles, Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How, Philosophical Fragments, CISSP Study Guide by Conrad et al., currently reading Concluding Unscientific Fragments. Guess that makes 7. A number of these are fairly long or dense, and I've written about 120k words of my book this year as well, so I'm happy at the end of the day.

>>13971255
3 in the past month and a half, starting on my 4th. 5 if you count the text books I had to read for my master's course work this summer. I'm working as a substitute teacher atm and I basically get paid to read only taking short breaks to yell at kids or walk around to room to make sure they're on task.

>>13971255
I'm on my 19th now. 20 was my goal for the year, but since I'm so close, I'm going to aim for around 24.

It's all about that daily page count homies. If you can get a few chapters in each day, you start flying through books. My general aim is around 50 pages a day, but I didn't start that way. You get exponentially faster over time.

Read half of one book and half of another. So technically 1 book.

>>13971255
19

>>13971255
1984, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Fellowship of the Ring, The War of the Worlds and now I'm starting Trojan Horse.

>>13971673
i hate it when english majors use the word "exponentially" like this, like, honey, the rate of increase of your speed is not proportional to your speed itself, there's no e^x here, just use a different word, "way faster," "much faster," anything, please, i'm begging you

10 but a few long ones, almost done 11

>>13971571
0

>>13971255
16 fairly large books

I think 24 but that's counting Shakespeare plays and a few novellas. On the other hand it's also counting Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow which took like a month each.

I'm guessing about 16 which is pretty good for me so far. Most were rather large non fiction books. I wish I was able to read faster.

>>13971255
~90
been a productive year

>>13972566
What did you produce?

>>13971380
Chinked out? On a SATURDAY night??

>>13972568
a 413 page manuscript about ecstatic experiences and the metaphysics of humor

I'm not some faggot who counts how many books he reads

>>13972584

>>13971255
32. Behind schedule. Gotta put my shit together

>>13972636
How many you aiming for this year?

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I deleted my reaction image folder

currently at 47. was aiming to read a book a week this year so i'll pass my goal of 52 easily. hoping to keep this habit up. started the year with infinite jest, might bookend it with mason & dixon, i feel i deserve another tome, at least once i've hit 52.

>>13971255
I planned on reading 12, one for each month, however I had Pneumonia and was in the hospital from mid February to early June.
I read a lot in the hospital, probably at least 30 books, I couldn't handle television, the sound and movement gave me a headache. Since leaving hospital I've read 2 books. The first being "Crusade in Europe" by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, it's signed and belonged to my great-uncle. The second being "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution" by David Nichols, I have an interest in American presidents due to being a relatively close relative of Calvin Coolidge and I am connected James Garfield, Bush 1 and Bush 2 via our Mayflower forefathers.

>>13972809
*connected to

>>13971255
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>>13972812
list them all

>>13971255
I started reading this June
I started with a brave new world. Was so fucking hard to understand the beginning that I had to use an audiobook and also read the book at the same time.
Then I moved on to The painted bird. Was way easier. I thought it was kinda gross
Then I read The Gambler, was real fun. Got into it.
Then I thought I'd read some non fictional stuff related to what I'm studying. So I read How to lie with Statistics, quite a fun humoured book on how to rip people off. Then I read Economics in one lesson, great book. I started four books recently that I havent finished yet. 1. Thinking as a science. 2. A splendid exchange: How trade shaped our world. 3. Economic analysis, moral Philosophy and public policy. 4. Integrity: Doing the right thing for the right reasons.

Finished 5
Currently reading 4

>>13971255
This is my list:
09/01/19: Las Muecas del Miedo (Enrique Medina) (Futakotamagawa)

12/01/19: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman) (Sakurashimmachi)

02/02/19: The Terror (Dan Simmons) (Sakurashimmachi)

06/02/19: Deuda de Honor (Enrique Medina) (Sakurashimmachi)

15/02/19: Surprised by Joy (C.S. Lewis) (Sakurashimmachi)

24/02/19: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) (Sakurashimmachi)

05/03/19: The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) (Futakotamagawa)

22/03/19: Dracula (Bram Stoker) (Sakurashimmachi)

04/04/19: The Monk (Matthew Lewis) (Sakurashimmachi)

11/04/19: Star Wars Red Harvest (Joe Schreiber) (Akihabara)

26/04/19: The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole) (Sakurashimmachi)

25/05/19: The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Sakurashimmachi)

11/06/19: The Fall of Gondolin (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Futakotamagawa)

30/06/19: Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Edogawa Rampo) (Sakurashimmachi)

07/07/19: The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Sakurashimmachi)

21/07/19: Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Sakurashimmachi)

01/08/19: Lost Worlds (C.A. Smith) (Sakurashimmachi)

07/08/19: The Last Man (Mary Shelley) (Sakurashimmachi)

15/09/19: Tales from the Perilous Realm (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Futakotamagawa)

30/09/19: J.R.R. Tolkien a biography (Humphrey Carpenter) (Sakurashimmachi)

07/10/19: Classic Locked-Room Mysteries (edit. David Stuart Davies) (Komazawa-daigaku)

09/10/19: A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) (Sakurashimmachi)

I'm currently reading The King In Yellow and Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James.

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started reading on October 2018. a year later I have read 97 books.(76 on 2019).
if I had to pick the best books thus far (chronologically):
>the catcher in the rye
>siddhartha
>steppenwolf
>C&P
>death of ivan ilych
>bros karamazov
>iliad
>idiot
>v
>anna karenina
>frankenstein
>as I lay dying
>the waves
>divine comedy
>blood meridian
>republic
>crying of lot 49
>white noise
>portrait of an artist
>invisible cities
>Moby Dick as #1
>pale fire
>to the lighthouse
>ficciones
>odyssey
>nine stories by salinger

currently reading suttree and sound and the fury(love them both). i think GR's going to be my 100th.

32 because I wanted to and about 5 textbooks because I had to

>>13972923
>he read them all in English
Cringe

>>13972951
Try again. I ve read the greek in greek. Do I have to list odyssey as Οδυσσεια?

>>13971255
Around 5, but i've been extremely busy with school work/work and the book i'm reading right now(Lolita) is requiring me to take my time to full appreciate it, no regrets though its really good. Have started using some of the cheesy lines when I txt my gf.

I have no idea

Middlemarch
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
The Farm in the Green Mountains
Puritan Village
The Puritan Dilemna
A Good School
Old School
The Morning Watch
Tender is the Night
Prince of Darkness and Other Stories by J. F. Powers
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories
O Pioneers
Gilead
A Coffin for King Charles
Red Cavalry
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Faustus
My Friend Walter Benjamin by Gersom Scholem
Go to the Widow-Maker
In Hazard
A Time of Gifts
Woodcutters
A Warning to the Curious and Other Stories

>>13971255
I started 3 books in January, and never finished a single chapter. I have been riding that high ever since.

>75
I bet none of you actually read you just browse here

Probably about 40/50, but I'm a fast reader and don't necessarily read cover-to-cover when it comes to philosophical texts

>>13972584
a literal chad

yeeey I've completed the challenge already!

Zero
But I started and dropped like 30 or 40

A bunch of lightweights here

Let's try this again

0. fUCK books.

8

35ish give or take a few

>>13972581
Link it please

>>13973148
Based gigachad

>>13972887
How do you read so fast anon?

12 so far:
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Complete Stories - Evelyn Waugh
A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
The Nature of a Crime - Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
American Kingpin - Nick Bilton
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
The Midlander - Booth Tarkington
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne

>>13973612
>reading fast
No, not at all. I'm a spanish native speaker so I can't read books in english very fast, besides between work and playing videogames (I think I finished 30 single player games this year, or more) I don't have much time to read.

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>>13971255
41, brainlet tier, read 20 or so books from January to March then just dropped off

>The Savage Detectives
>Ficciones
>The Magus
>Submission
>Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
>Hunger
>The Kindly Ones
>Petersburg
>War and Peace
>Roadside Picnic
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Heart of Darkness
>The Death of Ivan Ilyich
>Wuthering Heights
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Anna Karenina
>The Red and the Black
>Moby Dick

I’ve read about 2/3rds of the way in of a dozen or so books.

>>13971255
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Ficciones
The Man Without Qualities
By Night in Chile
The Red and the Black
Kokoro
Brave New World
The Old Man and the Sea
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
Book of Disquiet
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

want to read about Tarot, any rec? Tarot rider

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>>13971937
this guy gets it. Fuck "exponentially" users.

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It could be better, but it could also be way worse
Still not an excuse, however

>>13972973
How was "Berlin Alexanderplatz"? Can I also hear your thoughts on "Doctor Faustus"?

>>13973621
Thoughts on "Vanity Fair", "A House of Gentlefolk", "The Loved One" and "Tristram Shandy"?

>>13974682
Thoughts on "The Magus", "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", "War and Peace", "Roadside Picnic", "The Red and the Black" and "Moby Dick"?

>>13974940
Thoughts on "Kokoro" and "By Night in Chile"?

>>13971255
9, how does it feel to be inferior to me anon?

>>13972584
t. read 3 books this year

>>13971255
almost done

>>13971255
29

>>13971255
7, most of which over the summer. None since school started.

>>13971937
Autism

>>13973032
These all look like books preteens read? Are these books written and marketed to preteens, anon? Are you reading children's books, anon?

>>13971255
7, haven't read in two months though

>>13976113
Berlin Alexanderplatz reminded me a little of Dos Passos’s USA trilogy. He used a similar collage style at times where billboards and newspaper headlines make appearances and provide some context. The story itself is pretty simple, a petty thief tries to go straight, falls in love and has his heart broken. The backdrop is very much a part of it and it’s a pretty intense backdrop.
I was expecting it to be more political. The brownshirts and Rosa Luxembourg are both involved but Stirner is really the only one whose ideas are discussed. (Franz briefly abandons his old Spartacist friends to sell newspapers for the Nazis but only because he likes the Nazi’s songs better). It wasn’t quite what I expected but I still enjoyed it. More modernist than realist though.

>>13976452
which 7, and why haven't you read in two months?

>>13976113
Doctor Faustus I enjoyed immensely but I probably missed a lot because I’m completely ignorant about music theory and a dilettante when it comes to the history of classical music. Still there was a lot to enjoy regarding German history and theology and the Faustian myth. Definitely some references to Nietszche both biographically and philosophically. I want to read The Magic Mountain before the year ends.

>>13976459
dune, crime and punishment, broom of the system, slaughterhouse 5, the old man and the sea, the sun also rises, suttree, so you've been publicly shamed, the trial and the lord of the rings. I guess it was actually 10.

I haven't been reading due to drug abuse problems. I go through cycles like this pretty consistently where I read and then lose all motivation to.

>>13976593
That's a solid list of books, I'm sorry to hear about your drug abuse problem. Which drug in question?

>>13976458
>>13976476
Thanks for the response, your impressions were interesting to read. I haven't read "Doctor Faustus" yet, but I have read "The Magic Mountain" and it's one of my absolute favorites. It does drag on in a few places, but it's still an amazing book and also extremely comfy.
I'll get to "Doctor Faustus" eventually, but before that the Mann that I want to read is "Buddenbrooks".
"Berlin Alexanderplatz" always struck me like something similar to "Ulysses" for some reason. I'm glad that it's not that political since I'm a pleb when it comes to politics (although it doesn't cost me anything to read at least the wikipedia articles of some important political events that appear in some work).

65 (some are graphic novels and novellas)

>>13976476
>>13976610
By the way, I forgot to ask about your thoughts on "Middlemarch" and "Tender is the Night".
Also, what are some of the books that you've read this year that you would recommend me (single out only a few, say, three or four)?

>>13976598
OxyContin, marijuana and rarely alcohol. I have a depressive personality and I self medicate quite a lot. I'll go months off it and during that time I'll read/write a lot and then I inevitably relapse and all the motivation's gone.

>>13976619
Damn, that sounds like shit. Have you tried combating your depression without drugs?

>>13976628
I was clean for 6 months this year and then eventually quit sometime in august.

I'm currently in a physics degree and I'm finding it truly difficult to balance it with my studies so I'll have to quit pretty soon. Maybe I'll try an ssri again, but those have never really helped in the past.

>>13976648
There's a lot of different antidepressants, you could experiment with some others. A shame about SSRIs not having much effect, they're the best out of the bunch when it comes to how safe and effective they are.

>>13976653
I tried lexapro for a while and I found it only gave me insomnia. Playing music and running have been the only things that ever really helped with it.

>>13976668
There's a few other SSRIs so you could try with one of those. How long did you take Lexapro? It takes anywhere from around 2 to 4 weeks for SSRIs to take effect.
>Playing music and running have been the only things that ever really helped with it
The reasons for depression vary from person to person and it sounds to me like yours isn't as "material" as someone else's in a sense that some people get depression from clear material causes (problems with neural receptors etc) yet others have some other problems which induce the depression.

>>13976685
I took it for 3 months. I'm pretty sure it's a neurological problem as I've had it since my early teens and I'm currently 23. I assume that's what you meant by "material". I'm pretty sure it's a serotonin deficiency because it's mainly an energy/motivation issue without any clear cause for it. Even when I was 15 I remember it being a true struggle to get out of bed.

>>13976707
My bad then, it looked to me like the cause wasn't really "material" since running and music (stuff that aren't drugs) have more of an effect.
I'm guessing you're eating food that's rich in tryptophan and taking supplements?
Also, is your family supportive or?

>>13976616
I enjoyed Middlemarch. Mainly the humor of it (mostly about wealthy out of touch gentry meddling incompetently in politics and greedy relatives squabbling over a dead miser’s will. The main heroine is a little too good to be true (though admittedly she does have the flaw of stubborn unwillingness to see how much of a dud her husband is) and the ne’er do well son is converted a little too easily by the love of a good woman into a stable upright young husband but I suppose that’s too be expected of the time the novel was written. Definitely worth the effort. A fairly quick read despite the length.

>>13976616
Tender is the Night was beautiful in passages. Witty and funny in others. The psychiatry scenes didnt always age well, knowing what we know about schizophrenia today compared to in the 1930’s
Then disintegration of a once loving marriage parts definitely rang true. A beautifully written book but a sad one.

>>13976731
I found the book to be pretty redpilled if you ask me.

>>13976616
My recs would be
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
And
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel

I’ve started a bunch but never found the motivation to finish them. I think the only one I can say I read to completion was Invisible Cities a few times. I am reading Dracula just in time for halloween though, like a real normalfag

>>13976721
I'm taking an omega 3 supplement and that's about it. And yes my family is supportive, I've only recently gone back to school and they've been great with helping me do that.

It's mainly just an energy issue for me, I feel tired all of the time and the depressive thoughts stem from what that causes in my life. I also tend to alienate myself as I just don't have the energy to deal with people.

>>13976742
Keep going at it, finish with the physics degree and find some stable job. Use the money to support yourself. I'm sure writing helps you to an extent and reading is good as well. Did you try branching out and checking out some other medium, for example movies?

>>13976737
If you've never read frankenstein I found it much more entertaining than dracula. The first 4 chapters of dracula are pretty fantastic though.

I'm going to read the king in yellow(the good stories) this october to see if the hype is real.

>>13976724
>>13976731
>>13976736
Thank you, Anon.

other than top 100 stuff
>Zinky Boys
>The Twelve Caesars
>The Good Soldier Svejk
>Flim Flam
>Flatland
>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
>Kafka on the Shore

>>13976759
>other than top 100 stuff
I want to see those as well, Anon.
>Svejk
Did you enjoy it? I absolutely loved it.
>Kafka on the Shore
Always looked like a really normie book to me, is it actually good? Keep in mind I disliked Hard-Boiled Wonderland and South of the Border, those are the only two of Murakami's works that I've read.

>>13976751
I enjoy all art, I love watching movies and I listen to a lot of music, I've even gone down the rabbit hole of painting. I've been writing some short stories/poems since the start of the year and I've been really enjoying that. When I write I read because I like the inspiration. I've been playing piano since I was 12 and that was my first passion and now writing is becoming my 2nd.

My plan is to pick up some coding along with my degree and then to get a decent paying job and maybe work remotely eventually. I just want a remote job so I can work on my passion projects and not feel like I have to perform for people and keep my energy up.

>>13976785
All of what you typed sounds excellent, I wish you all the best. We're all going to make it, brother.

>>13976791
Thank you, I appreciate you taking an interest.

>>13976752
I haven’t read frankenstein either, thanks for the recommendation

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>>13976771
I remember loving Svejk when I read it. I found a good chunk of Kafka on the Shore pretty nice and comfy but I was indifferent to the rest. It was my first Murakami and I went in blind. It definitely kept me engaged the whole way through though
My other stuff was
>Brave New World
>Sailor Who Fell from Grace
>Slaughterhouse Five
>Wuthering Heights
>TS Eliot
>Metamorphosis
>Whatever
>Roadside Picnic
>Heart of Darkness

>>13976846
Good stuff, anon.

>>13976846
what would you recommend as a first murakami?

How did you like slaughterhouse 5 btw? I read it for the first time this year and was somewhat underwhelmed. I also remember reading brave new world in my teens and loving it, especially the ending.

>>13976129
>Kokoro
dark and slow but beautiful, there’s one single line that I found devastating. Such a shift in tone by just using 4 or 5 words. It’s japanese so it feels very contemplative, kinda like a darker Ozu movie.
>By Night in Chile
Great. Stylish and the prose is very visual. It’s basically 80 pages of a fever dream but it doesn’t get boring nor repetitive. It actually made me buy more books by Bolaño that are in my backlog atm.

Against the Day
Five books of Pynchon criticism
JR
Tale of Two Cities
The Buried Giant
The White Book
Society of the Spectacle
Being and Time
Being and Nothingness

ARE YOU IMPRESSED?!?

I've had to read a lot of books for school this year, but also a variety of other works just for fun.

>Watership Down
>Catcher in the Rye
>Things Fall Apart
>Divine Comedy
>Milk and Honey
>1984
>First Critique and Reason
>Walden and Civil Disobedience
>The Five People You Meet in Heaven
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>One Thousand White Women
>Emily Dickinson's Collected Works
>I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
>Assorted Love Poetry
>Romeo and Juliet
>Love Letters of Great Men

There are a lot of lists of classical literature that I've found in this thread, but honestly my preference, while I do enjoy classical literature a great deal, is simply something that is thought provoking and contains symbolism that is satirical of society. Poetry seems to contain this more than many books that you could read.

>>13976869
What I meant was that Kafka on the Shore was the first and only Murakami I've read so I can't give a good recommendation. I thought Slaughterhouse 5 was great as a comedy

>>13976964
I loved the satire in it. I just didn't enjoy the out of sequence narrative even though I understood it's point and I wasn't really emotionally invested in any of it. Some of the descriptions towards the end were pretty great though.

>>13976951
Unironically yes

>>13976869
kafka on the shore is the best book to start to reading murakami desu.

>>13971255
about 20, i'm getting slow these last few weeks

I'm illiterate so I'm making my way through my first book ever this year.

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Some of my favourites:
>Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
>Bruno Schulz - The Street of Crocodiles
>George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
>Owen Marshall - The Divided World
>Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
>Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five

>>13971255

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>>13978535
>Decline and Fall
Based. Just finished it today and I absolutely loved it.
Can you post all of the books that you've read?

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>>13971278
>>13971259

You can't read with all the brain fog fucking girls all day.

>>13971380
gook

>>13971533
>>13971543
>>13971551

Doujin is porn. Manga is for escapists. Grow up.

>>13972581
>ecstatic experiences
So on SOL or Lit.?

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(not counting university assigned ones)

>>13971255
In the last year I’ve read maybe like 13-14 books

Good to hear you recovered from your disease, anon.

>>13973032
i agree with other guy your books are shit

-Enquiry concerning human understanding
-A Genealogy of Morals
-Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals
-Lust by Simon Blackburn
-Symposium
-Euthyphro
-Meditations on First Philosophy (reread)
-A Tale of Two Cities
-The Age of Innocence
Still in the process of getting through the odyssey, but ischool swallows up most of my time.

>>13979165
Not many books, but quality is more important than quantity. You're doing great, anon.
>A Tale of Two Cities
Thoughts? I've read "Great Expectations" this year and loved it.

>>13979174
It made me cry. I thought it was slow at first, but it picked up in the latter half to the point where I couldn't stop reading. If you haven't read it yet, I strongly recommend it.
What do you think of Great Expectations? I vaguely remember trying to read it when I was younger, but it was beyond my comprehension at the time.

>>13979195
Damn, I'll definitely have to check it out soon.
>What do you think of Great Expectations?
It's a fantastic book. The characters really come to life, Dickens really knows how to write them. There are also a lot of excellent scenes and the book was an easy read even if it's long. The only flaw is that there aren't many scenes showcasing the life in London, but I guess that's to be expected since the book is primarily a bildungsroman.
>it was beyond my comprehension at the time
You'll definitely comprehend it this time around, it's not a really complex book, honestly.

Around 15

>>13971255
10

>>13978983
>Manga is for escapists.
Go read Girls Last Tour and tell me that's an escapist reality, faggot. I can think of a couple handfuls of manga that are more /lit/ than any of the shit you've read

>>13980003
based weeb

Ulysses by James Joyce
The Castle by Franz Kafka
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
The Egg by Michael Gira
Mercier et Camier by Samuel Beckett
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Amerika by Franz Kafka
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
The Centaur by John Updike
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Kokoro by Natsuke Soseki
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Ironweed by William Kennedy
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G Ballard
Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan
Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
Light in August by William Faulkner
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
L’Ecume Des Jours by Boris Vian
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
A Death In The Family by James Agee
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Tender is the Night by F.Scott.Fitzgerald
Silas Marner by George Eliot

52. Ranked in order of best to worse.

>>13982357
>no Calvino
Why'd you waste so much time this year anon?

>>13971255
13, but 2 were rereads.

>>13971937
Thanks for your service

>>13976263
>>13979076
how do you get baited by that something that low effort

>>13982357
cringe

>>13971937
>exaggeration
>No, it couldn't be! Only I'm allowed to exaggerate!

40

i haven't read a book since high school. i'm 24.

10 I think

>>13971255
52
Already have a fresh stack of 12 more, plowing through it
>t. NEET

39 so far

yikes

>>13983929
forgot my >tfw

6

1½

>>13971255
how best should i read hamlet? how to make the most of it? first shakespeare read since it wasn't taught in my school

>>13984028
Shakespeare is really meant to be watched desu. Find a good stage production and watch that

72, including Shakespeare's plays

>>13971255
16

>>13984035
any special recs?

24

>>13984071
the only good "filmed stage production" i know of is the one with david tennant-
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1449175/

the best film version i know of is this one
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058126/

the laurence olivier version is supposed to be good as well
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040416/

i've only heard derek jacobi on audio books but he is supposed to be quite good as well
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080835/

hope this helps

>>13982357
Imagine putting Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance over As I Lay Dying

Are you a recently divorced 30-something woman turned lesbian?

>>13984152
that helps a lot. thank you, my friend.

are you a big Hamlet fan?

11 off the top of my head, might be forgetting a few.

>>13984154
I personally prefer Macbeth but Hamlet is definely a masterpiece

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Under the Volcano
Invisible Cities
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
Moby Dick
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Fooled by Randomness
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Steppenwolf
The Fall
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Waiting for Godot
Letters from a Stoic
The Sound and the Fury
The End of the Affair
The Black Swan
A Long Day's Evening
Storm of Steel
The Magus
The Crossing
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Disgrace
The Revolt of the Masses
Snow Country
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Blow-Up and Other Stories
Blindness
Of Human Bondage
Memoirs of Hadrian
Nine Stories
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Savage Detectives
Pedro Páramo
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
Confessions of a Mask
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Zero to One
Doctor Faustus
The Remains of the Day
Nausea

Top 5 would be Of Human Bondage, Memoirs of Hadrian, The Crossing, Storm of Steel and The Remains of the Day. Didn't like The Savage Detectives, Pedro Páramo and End of the Affair at all.
Recommend me what to read next please.

>>13971937
based

>>13972887
why do you write tokyo station names near the books you've read ? have you read them entirely there ? I don't understand

>>13976832
This is my post and no one bothered replying to it or responding to it. :3

I am extremely pissed.

>>13984827
Those are neighborhoods, I live in Sakurashimmachi. Date, author's name and where I was when I finished it are relevant information. By the way, I should add this one to the list:

13/10/19: The King In Yellow (Robert W. Chambers) (Futakotamagawa)

>>13971255
3

>>13971673
>>13971937
i'm kinda okay with this use, "exponentially" applied to increase instead of "accelerating" or something (even though its still kind of retarded). what triggers my autism, though, is when people apply "exponentially" to a mere comparison.
>if we don't act now, we will see exponentially more hate crimes next year.
ya ok, opinion dismissed.

>>13984876
come to think of it "increasingly" is almost always i viable and better alternative to "exponentially" when applied to increases.
>u will get exponentially better
>u will get increasingly better

>>13973108
what website?

>>13984839
should have added a picture next time :3c

>>13971255
Do scientific books count?

>>13971255
Was supposed to read at least 10 this year, it's October and I'm 6 books behind schedule

At least 21:


Waking Up

Anthem

Man's Search for Meaning

His Dark Materials

Off to Be the Wizard

What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Starship Troopers

Shōgun

Ender's Game

Atlas Shrugged

The Godfather

2001: A Space Odyssey

Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Who Moved My Cheese?

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Mastery

On Guerrilla Warfare

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>>13985864
goodreads

>>13973148
based and redpilled

>>13987206
based

4, including 2 fiction volumes

>>13972951
>he read them all in English
>Cringe
Imagine when I read in Spanish