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These are the results of this month's poll after a total 67 submitted ballots and 198 individual books nominated.
The turn-out of voters this month was considerably smaller this month than last month, but I hope to see more of you next month.
In case you didn't see in the last thread, thanks to the ideas of fellow anon, I've changed the way in which I present the results. Now, one half of the chart is dedicated to those works most read by /lit/ this past month, the other half is dedicated to creating a showcase of randomly-selected unique and underrated works which anons submitted in their ballots. This change was made to diversify the results in order to prevent them from being bland, while still presenting what /lit/ reads on a month-to-month basis.

Most-Read:
1. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
2. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
3. The Magus - John Fowles
4. No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
5. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
6. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
7. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
8. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Honorable Mentions:
1. Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
2. Contos - Eca de Queiroz
3. The Adventures of Kornel Esti - Dezso Kosztolyani
4. Trois chambres a Manhattan - George Simenon
5. The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
6. The Golem - Gustav Meyrink
7. The Personal Recollections of Joan d'Arc - Mark Twain
8. Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll - Nick Tosches

Thank you to everyone who participated, I hope to see you next month.

>> No.17714789

Nice chart

>> No.17715100

>>17714772
Nice work, see you next month.

>> No.17715110

>>17714772
The Golem is a strange book. It’s funny to see other people on /lit/ reading that.

>> No.17716022

>>17714789
>>17715100
Thanks anons.

>> No.17716078

Badass been tracking these since december. Hope to see them for months to come

>> No.17716121

>>17714772
so what's going to happen at the end of the year? are you going to compile them all in fine little jpeg?

>> No.17716131

>>17714772
Had no idea demons was so popular this month. Currently reading it myself

>> No.17716332

>>17714772
Ok, this is based
>New York Trilogy
>Kornel Esti
>The Magus
>The Golem
>George Simenon
Plus one of my books made the list. I have to say I was initially opposed to this because it seemed pointless. What are the odds people on 4chan would read the same book in a month and vote in the poll? But with this new format, I'm behind it.

>> No.17716437

Nice work man

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>>17714772
>Magus
Where are my Fowlesbros at?!

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>>17716078
>>17716437
Thanks anons, that means a lot. I thought it'd be a neat project to track how /lit/'s tastes change over time.

>>17716121
I haven't really figured that out yet. I thought about compiling the results, but I'm not really sure how to do that, I mean I don't really have the technological knowledge to do that. I also thought about doing a distinct year-end poll where everyone votes on their five favorites over the past entire year, but I'm not really sure what I'm going to do yet honestly. I'm open to suggestions or advice.

>>17716332
Well, last month there were evidently a lot of people reading the same stuff, but you're mostly right, which is why I tried this new format. I'm glad you like it.

>>17716492
I bought a copy of my own a couple months back after I saw a lot of anons talking about it. I can't say I'm a big fan of the cover art, but it was six bucks all the same and I'm not going to spend a lot of time staring at it anyway.

>> No.17716955

>>17716492
Is that a Magus first edition or a later printing? Definitely looks to be one from before the 1977 revised edition though. I hate it when authors revise an already-published novel, so after reading the revised version (anything printed from 1977 onwards will be the revised one), I found a 1967 hardback reprint for cheap.

>> No.17717189

>>17716955
I think it's a first edition.

>> No.17717333

>>17717189
If so, then even with the dust jacket in crappy condition it could still be worth a couple of hundred.

The edition of Daniel Martin on the shelf is the British first edition, but that's not as valuable.

>> No.17717395

>>17717333
Nice, because I paid 800 yen for that book. I love that bookstore because if the book isn't a super rare nonfiction, they just toss it into one of the boxes they have in front of the store.

>> No.17717470

>>17717395
A well-stocked but clueless second-hand bookshop is my dream. Unfortunately the bookstores near me obviously check, as they mark '1st ed' beside the price on first edition books, even when they're low-cost ones that aren't in high demand.

>> No.17717512

>>17714772
Nooo! wheres my Tolstoy. Where's the Death of Ivan Ilyich!

>> No.17718838

cool stuff, better than expected

>> No.17719532

So glad The Magus and NY trylogy are on the chart.

>> No.17719953

>>17714772
high school req reading ass literature forum

>> No.17720120

>>17719953
I bet you There ain't a high school in the country teaching the magus or east or eden