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I want to find some books to read at work, but I don’t want to just go from a list off the first page of google suggesting the same 100 books everyone reads. I want to read something worthwhile.

Any genre or topic is okay.

>> No.13998010

>>13998000
Moll Flanders

>> No.13998014

>>13998000
Gregorius by Hartmann von Aue

>> No.13998016

>>13998000
>I want to read something worthwhile.
>I don’t want to just go from a list off the first page of google suggesting the same 100 books everyone reads.
I don't get it.

>> No.13998017

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. It's really good so far, I'm about 40 pages in. If you like that read blood meridian

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What do you even like?
Here. Random from my covers folder. A great book. Who knows what you’ll think of it.

>> No.13998044

>>13998000
read canonical works.

>> No.13998051

>>13998000
The master and the margerita

>> No.13998066

>>13998000
Usually the books "everyone reads" have some merit (especially if you ignore anything written after 1950 or so). If you're worried about a book being "pretentious" you already failed, read what interests you, regardless of what other people might think.

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I dunno, maybe this. It is a book about the JQ from the Jewish side, very interesting! There are always two sides to a story after all! It is in the public domain and avaikable online for free.

>> No.13998080

Well, what books have you enjoyed?

>> No.13998094

The Western canon

>> No.13998139

>>13998000
>non-pretentious book recommendations
Do you know where you are?

>> No.13998176

What are you interested in reading about?

Your questions is too vague, there are books about every subject so consider your interests and read something pertaining to that.

>> No.13998247

Pick up Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I also recommend Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle and American Gods by Neil Gaiman. They're all easy, non-pretentious reads

>> No.13998323

>>13998000
start with the greeks

>> No.13998330

>>13998094
Mr Bloom...

>> No.13998367

>>13998000
Maldoror by Comte de lautreamont
L ducasse

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>>13998000
The Song of Roland.

It speaks about human flaws and he consequences, even tho loyality and bravery have been invested, the ego stil might win and destroy everything.

>> No.13998391

>>13998247
Those are themost basic bitch pretentious books you could have picked. Jesus fucking Christ, /lit/, get your shit together.

>> No.13998404

>>13998000
we get it, you want to read one 'obscure' book that you can namedrop because you're a normalfag hipster with no real interest in literature.

>> No.13998549

>>13998000
>go to public library
>walk down random aisle
>pick out random book
>found book that "not everyone reads" unless you have shit luck
win bigly

>> No.13999301

>>13998391
>American Gods
>Kafka on the Shore
>Wolf in White Van
>Pretentious
???

>> No.13999320

>>13998000
Read grr martin's books unironically