/lit/ - Literature

The Greeks.

>Hell's Angels
>JP II autobiography
>Ward 6
>Dune no. 1
>Revenge of the Lawn
>Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
>Harassment Architecture (probably not)
>

>>14474075
I'm not super familiar with most on this list, but the first book in the Dune series was a very fun read

>>14473976
lol you could read the art of war literally in less than an hour remove that from the list

>>14473976
i dont know precisely yet. currently reading the idiot. after that the brothers karamazov. then im not sure. probably something from dostoevsky again. definitely wanna read art of war some time also >>14473994

>>14474120
Listen, I'm kinda stupid, so reading takes a while for me

Mostly modern and contemporary Italian literature. Also some Russians, possibly War and Peace

>>14473976
The Bible, the Quran, all of Joyce’s stuff, some McCarthy maybe...

These plus all of Shakespeare are my main goals for this year.

>>14474186
Oh and LOTR too.

>>14474192
LOTR is fantastic, very long enjoyable read (the Hobbitt is also very good, bit more centered towards a younger audience tho, makes for a good story to read to kids however)

>>14474206
Yeah, I read the Hobbit last in fourth grade. I loved it and after I read it I started writing notes to myself and to one of my friends in the runic script from it. I might read it when I'm done with Infinite Jest since I'll want something short and simple.

mostly I want to read gothic horror I have already started with lovecraft and I will carry on with Poen and Lord Dunsany, when I finish that like 14474186 I'd like to read war and peace

>>14473976
Cringe

>>14473994
Cringe

>>14474075
Cringe

>>14474121
Cringe

>>14474170
Cringe

>>14474186
About half based

>>14474263
Which half?

>>14473976
Lolita
Mason and Dixon
Going to get started with Plato's early dialogues at least
VALIS
The Book of Disquiet

Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City
The Turner Diaries
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Art of War
The Shadow of What Was Lost

>>14474263
post yours then

>Stoner
>Les Miserables
>Crime and Punishment
>V and/or Gravity's Rainbow
>Moby Dick
>Complete works of John Keats

>>14474322
I’m not cringe enough to do that.

>>14473976
>tfw so many books i want to read
like. a hundred each year for the next 5 years and i might approach completion.
>>14474186
>hey, shopkeep. give me all your doorstopers please
>much obliged m8

>Jonathan Clements - Anime: A History
>Homer - Iliad
>Dostoevsky - Demons
>Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human (For the third time)
>Marx-Engels - The Communist Manifesto

>>14473976
Tranny
>>14474075
Based
>>14474186
Based
>>14474302
Cringe
>>14474335
Based
>>14474392
Kill yourself

>>14473976
I'll finally start with the greeks.

>>14474392
yikes and yikes.

these are my next 9 reads

>J.D Salinger - Nine Stories
>Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto - Welcome to the NHK
>Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
>Gaiman & Pratchett - Good Omens

>>14473976
The fall of troy - Smyrnaeus
Thucydides
The silmarillion
The conquering sword of Conan
Foundation and empire
Sir gaiwayn and the green knight
History of the kings of Britain
Moon is a harsh mistress
The Forever peace
War as I knew it - George Patton
There's more I wanna read but these are just a few

>>14473976
Bible (KJV)
A Body of Divinity
Institutes of the Christian Religion

>>14474667
based

>>14474230
read The Monk by Matthew Lewis

>>14474841
>Bible (KJV)
That should go without saying

1491 and 1493 by Charles C. Mann
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
Stories and remaining novels by Raymond Chandler
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

>>14474263
how are they supposed to know it's cringe if they haven't read it? are you admitting you're a pseud, anon?

>>14473976
What I'm starting with for the month. Already finished the Hobbit, currently 300 pages into LOTR, then moving on to JAHB.

>>14474263
Cringe

>>14473976
Started off the year with Gravitys Rainbow, I'm done with part 1 and liking it so far, I'm looping back cause I read Mason & Dixon last year and loved it.
Others I have planned are:

You Bright And Risen Angels - William Vollmann

Whatever Borges fiction I haven't read (only read Aleph+The Maker collections)

JR - William Gaddis

Cities of the Plain - Corncob (heard it's just okay but it's the only one I haven't read yet so it's entirely for completion purposes)

Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo

100 Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner

My Struggle Book 1- Karl Ove Knausgärd, wanna give it a chance to see if I give a shit enough to continue on with it.

Concrete Island - JG Ballard

I'd like to give Against The Day or The Recognitions a go this year but I don't know if I'll get around to it till even next year, it'll come down to how long I spend on other big works and if I feel like taking breathers with some lighter reads in between

>>14474572
Underworld was my last book of 2019, spent December going through it and I thought it was fantastic. It goes for branching and interlocking threads of narrative that tangent out in wildly different directions, occasionally converging through time and happenstance rather than a single, tight plot and not everyone's into that, but if you're into bomb ass prose you're gonna have a fun time with it

Angela’s Ashes
Don Quixote
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Tartar Steppe
The Idiot
Hunger
Growth of the Soil
Dead Souls
Bleak House
and others will be added

+ various nonfiction

going for 52 this year, which will be a challenge, especially with a number of these being longer works

I just started Shogun by James Clavell, but historically I'm not much of a reader and also a bit of a dumb dumb so it could very well take me all year. Pretty good so far though. This is actually my first time browsing /lit/ so if there's an essential reading list I might like to look over, point me in that direction.

>>14474667
the life of Dr Johnson is highly entertaining and enlightening

>>14473976
A few books on Chess
The Peloponnesian War
Mein Kampf
Plato's republic

Will read:
What is Property? - Proudhon
Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin
The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Complete Fiction - Juan José Arreola
Anarchism - Guerin

Plan to read:
Anthology of Pessoa's poetry
The Gass Reader
Pindar's Odes
Complete Sophocles
Complete Aeschylus
Erotism - Bataille

>>14474377
Well I decided that 2020 would be the "Year of the Doorstoppers". And if I finish everything I'll start Gibbon's Decline and Fall :^)

>>14474322
He's not reading anything but shitposts on /lit/.

>>14473976
What kind of absolute faggotry is this? The multitude of books about 200 year old outdated and falsified economic theories aside, the "introduction to Eastern philosophy" books are pseud as fuck. Particularly The Art of War. Surprised you don't have The Prince in there as well.

>>14473976
>finish To the Lighthouse
>God Emperor of Dune
>Song of Solomon
>The Handmaid's Tale
>Hyperion
>Return of the King
>?
trying to read more this year. I also have The Idiot but I feel like my brain is too small for it, maybe I'll give it a shot.

>>14473976
>Finish War & Peace (started in late December)
>Moravagine
>Les Mis
>The Illiad
>The Bell Jar
>The Trial
>Ada, or Ardor

I know it’s not super big brain, but I picked them out because I like them :)

>>14474151
That doesn't make you stupid

>>14476576
fuck its long though

I plan on reading
Lolita - Nabokov
Stoner - John Williams
and Confessions by Saint Augustine
Besides those titles I'm still making a list. Right now I'm just read some dubliners before heading to bed. Tomorrow the titles I just listed should be coming from Amazon.

>>14473976
So far, a lot of Alan Watts

>newfag reader here
the grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
howl and other poems - allen ginsberg
the divine comedy - dante allighieri
the player of games - iain m. banks
trainspotting - irvine welsh
skagboys - irvine welsh
the bald soprano and other plays - eugene ionesco
crime and punishment - fyodor dostoyevsky
cosmopolis - don delillo
the art of war - sun tzu
paradise lost - john milton
the name of the wind - patrick rothfuss
the republic - plato
i, claudius - robert graves
convenience store woman - sayaka murata
seinfeldia - jennifer keishin armstrong
the 120 days of sodom - marquis de sade
the master and margarita - mikhail bulgakov
>currently reading kafka's trial

>>14474120
kys

>the republic
>the major works of lenin

this is what I'm reading for january at least

>>14474113
Nice

Haven't really made a hard plan for the whole year, but these are a few of the books I plan to read (will add others as the year goes on).

>Meditations -- Aurelius
>Entering the Desert -- Williams
>Deep Nutrition -- Shanahan
> The Intelligent Investor -- Graham
> Demons -- Dostoevsky

May put the Republic and 48 Laws of Power on the list as well.

>>14473976
Just a light start

>>14473976

Isn't Marx the guy who invented Marxism that was used by megalomaniacs to kill tens of millions of people in a couple of decades? The gulags, food famines, killing any political dissidents who don't follow the communists, selling weaponry (AK-47s and rocked propelled grenades) to other countries to start revolutions. Of course, Capitalism has done the same thing, I guess. How many people has Capitalism killed?

>>14478233

Also any good books on how to start a business? I don't want to have to read an article that gives you 30 tips on running a business or preserving your wealth. A comprehensive book is much better.

>>14478233
>>14478233 (You)


Also any good books on how to start a business? I don't want to have to read an article that gives you 30 tips on running a business or preserving your wealth. A comprehensive book is much better.

>>14477597
>the major works of lenin
Dont waste your time bro, it's just him autistically whinging about people he doesn't like in the party.

>>14476971
Looks pretty comfy to me, anon

>He's not reading anything but shitposts on /lit/.
Basically this. Feels bad to be hypnotized by frogs and feels and soi
;_;

>>14478252
>>14477597

Yes, thank you Lenin, for giving the world the Communist Empires that have killed millions of people.

>>14478274
His brain was already liquid by the time shit really started going wrong. One of the most overrated individuals in history desu.

>>14478250
>>14478233

Also, I am currently reading The Witcher series, which I started last month in December with The Last Wish and am now on Sword of Destiny; I plan on reading The Witcher novels, although I might not be reading Season of Storms since it was written and published after 2010. I'm also currently reading Death Note, the Black Editions and am on the second book of the series. Will finish Death Note as well. Uzumaki, the Dune series(the original six written by Frank Herbert), Nine Lives: Making the Impossible Possible(still waiting for it to arrive since I ordered it as a used book from Barnes and Noble, I want to read the book after reading Harry Wu's Laogai-The Chinese Gulag last year), The Hobbit followed by the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I'm also planning on buying some of those Dummies book to learn some skills, like learn math skills, resistance training and nutrition and other stuff.

this is the idea anyway

>all these monolinguals
Cringe

>finish 100 Years
>Serotonin
>A Time of Gifts
>The Holy Bible
>Napoleon: A Life
After that I'm not sure, but I want to finish a book in German that isn't assigned reading for once.

>>14473976

Some o theeese, already finished 2 of em

Not a complete list, but these are some of the books I'll be starting this year with:

Augustus, Williams
Suttree, McCarthy
If on a winter's night a traveler, Calvino
Epitaph of a small winner, de Assis
His master's voice, Lem
Demons, Dosto
War of the end of the world, Vargas Llosa
Infante's inferno, Cabrera Infante
etc.

>>14478284
>I only read books about people I endorse

>>14473976
What’s the general consensus on atlas shrugged?

>>14473976

>The Iliad

>The Odyssey

>War And Peace

> Don Quijote

>The Count Of Monte Christo

>>14479880

I tried reading the Communist Manifesto, but have never finished it.

The Odyssey
Don Quixote
The Savage Detectives
Plato's dialogues

>>14479364
You have too many family sagas m8, I count at least 7 in that stack of the one's I've read, try to split them up a bit. Good picks tho

>>14480183
that's my theme for this year

>>14480253
make sure East of Eden happens.