[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 7 KB, 175x288, imgres.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8695888 No.8695888 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Post your favorite book that you read this year

>> No.8695891

my diary desu

>> No.8695894

>>8695888
Bob Dylan's diary desu

>> No.8695895

Riddley Walker

>> No.8695899
File: 26 KB, 318x462, 13618431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8695899

Was significant pleased with this book.

>> No.8695900

>>8695888
Mrs. Dalloway
Crime and Punishment

>> No.8695943
File: 25 KB, 335x525, 7386466.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8695943

My holy one.

>> No.8695970

Without any doubt, "London for Immigrant suckers"

>> No.8696123

Orlando or Dubliners, can't decide

>> No.8696295

>>8696123
you liked dubliners better

>> No.8696302

Absalom, Absalom was really great to me.

>>8695888
Franny and Zooey is such a comfy, nostalgic read, is there anything like it?

>> No.8696332

fukin stoner

>> No.8696341

>>8696332
Wat?

>>8696302
It is indeed comfy.

>> No.8696353

>>8696341
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=stoner%20john%20williams

>> No.8696589

>>8696295
As a coherent whole I think I might have enjoyed Orlando slightly more but some of the individual stories in Dubliners are definitely the best I've ever read

>> No.8698248

>>8695888
Dr. Faustus by Mann

>> No.8698555
File: 1.34 MB, 1280x720, 548128568554512.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8698555

>>8698248
I came upon an Everyman's Library hardcover edition of this book a couple of weeks ago, and it has been sitting in my to-read pile ever since; is it really that good?

>> No.8698745
File: 111 KB, 640x960, jerusalem_moore.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8698745

>> No.8698775
File: 41 KB, 333x499, 51v-zo8SXkL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8698775

>> No.8698778
File: 14 KB, 160x255, season.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8698778

>> No.8698837

>>8698555
yes. my personal favorite of his work

>> No.8698875

Gravity's Rainbow, going away.

>> No.8698927

The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque

>> No.8698940
File: 71 KB, 313x500, 61WBpO79uLL[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8698940

Pretty good. Easy read, too.

>> No.8698947

>>8698940
This is on my list. I read Stoner over the summer and loved it.

>> No.8698969
File: 8 KB, 189x267, download.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8698969

Got me on the path to becoming a /lit/izen

>> No.8698975

>>8698969
there is no point to bait /lit/

>> No.8698977
File: 317 KB, 739x985, 5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8698977

>tfw you recognize what is happening on the cover after reading the book.

>> No.8698978

>>8698975
Yeah, I understand that it's bait, but I genuinely enjoyed this book. Oh well.

>> No.8698991

>>8698978
you are regressing my boy

>> No.8700359
File: 61 KB, 783x778, !Dur.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8700359

>>8698745

>> No.8700382

>>8698969

I would say it was one of the first novels I read that wasn't required for school and didn't have dragons or rocketships in it

>> No.8700544
File: 20 KB, 400x588, 003k.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8700544

>>8698977
Worth the read anon? Is this crazy experimental Arno Schmidt or just normal experimental Arno Schmidt?

>> No.8700589

>>8700544
It's not that experimental, it's probably his easiest to read/enjoy without being too erudite.

>> No.8701734

>>8695888
Bump

>> No.8701806
File: 48 KB, 325x499, jm coetzee.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8701806

>> No.8701818 [DELETED] 

>>8698775

That's the best book you read all year? Did you really like it, or was it a bad year for you? I liked the Bell Jar quite a bit, it definitely didn't stand out as brilliant though - Plath's talent is undeniably her poetry.

Here's my favourite book for the year so far, unsure of how widely read Jennings is, it's pretty hard to find her books even in Australia. Would definitely reccomend this to anybody though, it's quite brief, sort of a collection of prose-poetry sketches that are loosely connected in theme. It's about the married life of a woman in rural NSW. Very evocative.

>> No.8701820
File: 22 KB, 257x400, kate jennings.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8701820

>>8698775

That's the best book you read all year? Did you really like it, or was it a bad year for you? I liked the Bell Jar quite a bit, it definitely didn't stand out as brilliant though - Plath's talent is undeniably her poetry.

Here's my favourite book for the year so far, unsure of how widely read Jennings is, it's pretty hard to find her books even in Australia. Would definitely reccomend this to anybody though, it's quite brief, sort of a collection of prose-poetry sketches that are loosely connected in theme. It's about the married life of a woman in rural NSW. Very evocative.

>> No.8701831

American Psycho

>> No.8701834

>>8698977
did they really translate "Gelehrter" as "egghead"? lmao desu senpai

>> No.8701843

>>8698778
looks nice, what is it about?

>> No.8701850
File: 1.11 MB, 1028x1515, Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8701850

I've read 10 or 12 books this year, so it's a bit difficult to choose, but I probably enjoyed pic related the most.

>> No.8702423

>>8700359
You haven't even read it

>> No.8702434

>>8695888
didn't read any

>> No.8702914

>>8698555
yes, absolutely

>> No.8702919
File: 97 KB, 714x1080, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8702919

>>8695888

Because muh white trash bluecollar roots

>> No.8704091

>>8702919

What are some other white trash books? I'm the Australian equivalent of white trash and hillbilly apalachia culture stuff gets me goin'

So far I know Breece DJ Pancake

>> No.8704383

>>8704091
not him, but maybe some Richard Brautigan?

>> No.8704401

La Vie de Bohème
by Henri Murger