/chart/

[Anonymous No.18534202]

post your ten favorite books
rate, rec and hate on others
https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org/

[Anonymous No.18534724]

I don't like how it starts with introduction to hindu doctrine
should start with crisis of the modern world desu

[Anonymous No.18534769]

>>18534202
how do you set it for books?

[Anonymous No.18534834]

>>18534769
>https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org/
you set it for movies and then use custom URLs

[Anonymous No.18535109]

>>18534769
>open image url of teh book cover you want
>paste it into the search field
>drag to the position you want it to be
>also there's an option to show book titltes if you want to use that you can include the name of the book and the author

[Anonymous No.18535170]

>>18534202
I'm still relatively new to reading and I'm mostly reading the Greeks and some Romans before moving on to much else. Read all of the Bible and Apocrypha/Deuterocanon. Genuinely a life-changing book

[Anonymous No.18535246]

>>18534202
I wanted to add Naked Lunch to mine but it was already too big, but Junky is solid, although a bit challenging.

>Junky
>Houellebecq
>Bukowski
meh

>Dosto
>Dante
>Maldoror
good

Result: Bukowski-Chic/10

>>18535170
A solid extract from someone who's reading "all we are supposed to read" in order, but don't forget to read books you genuinely enjoy. A taste for Dosto has been developed, which is always a good thing.

[Anonymous No.18535397]

I don't think I have the most sophisticated taste but I generally focus on characters more than plot. And I prefer reading books with hot girls in them so if I could expand it a bit more I might add more Austen or madame Bovary.

[Anonymous No.18535488]

Undergrad lit student looking chart for an undergrad lit student

[Anonymous No.18535523]

>>18535397
This looks like a list of books one is made to read in school. But Wuthering Heights+, As I Lay Dying+

>>18535488
Based Against Nature
Kino Labyrinths

Everything else painfully average


Also rate others you self-serving chimps

[Anonymous No.18535629]

Only found the music/movies section of that site so here's everything I've put in my all times list on goodreads

[Anonymous No.18535641]

>>18534202

>>18535629
Ollie is that you?

[Anonymous No.18535644]

>>18535246
No worries, I genuinely enjoy most of "all we are supposed to read" and in fact read those books because I think I'll enjoy them. Haven't read any of what you've listed yet, but you've seemed to develop a taste for modern and postmodern stuff, which I respect

>>18535397
Good taste, even if reading expressly for hot girl characters seems kinda shallow

>>18535488
>Oresteia
>Notes From Undeground
Nice

[Anonymous No.18535651]

>>18535644
Oresteia and Notes almost made it onto mine but CnP is more meaty.

[Anonymous No.18535695]

>>18535641
>Nabokov
>Melville
That Kino Prose

>Crime and Punishment
>Hamlet
>Faulker
Nice

[Anonymous No.18535898]

>>18535109
How do I delete a pic?

[Anonymous No.18535956]

>>18535898
just put another one on top

[Anonymous No.18536020]

inb4>memetrilogy

>>18535641
macbeth is my favorite shakespeare play too. I just picked up flannery o'connor's complete works today.

[Anonymous No.18536081]

>>18535956
What if I don't want to add another one?

[Anonymous No.18536089]

>>18534202

[Anonymous No.18536102]

>>18536020
>Spinoza
>Don Delilo
BASED

>GR
>Ulysses
/lit/ was here

[Anonymous No.18536166]

>>18534202
Very cool idea op, I hope this becomes a trend. Also nice favs.
>>18535170
Very nice.
>>18535246
Based Bulgakov enjoyer. I loved him so much when I was younger but I think literally everything went over my head and I just enjoyed it for the magical realism. Also heart of a dog is underappreciated. Really great and consistent taste desu.
>>18535488
I still gotta read The Waves. Would you say it's better than To the Lighthouse?
>>18535641
Based Titus Groan.
>>18536020
Honestly, lit shouldn't be something you should feel the need to posture about. You like what you like and so be it. Frankenstein is really good though.

[Anonymous No.18536220]

>>18536166
>Lolita
>Moby Dick
A true appreciator of P R O S E

>One Hundred Years of Solitute
Wish to see more of this around these parts, Gabriel García Márquez is very underappreciated around here

>War and Peace
>Ulysses
A list chock-full of potent classics

[Anonymous No.18536238]

>>18536081
>make the chart bigger
>put it near the bottom
>make it smaller again
>it's gone

[Anonymous No.18536258]

>>18534202
Basiert! Das meiste davon will ich noch lesen.

[Anonymous No.18536476]

I've only really just got into reading "serious" books.

[Anonymous No.18536511]

>>18536476
>Lunar Park
Really fucking based. I don't even like it, but these late Bret Easton Ellis novels are really shat on or ignored by most

>Bolaño's 2666
great stuff

[Anonymous No.18536519]

>>18536166
I haven’t read to the lighthouse yet unfortunately, but my friend who recommended the waves to me preferred it, they said it was harder to follow but more beautiful

[Anonymous No.18536559]

>>18536476
Go back and set the chart to movies.

[Anonymous No.18536616]

good to see Wuthering Heights above

[Anonymous No.18536640]

>>18536616
>Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Twice in the thread, very nice and very based.

[Anonymous No.18536757]

Bump

[Anonymous No.18536829]

>>18536089
Correct version.

[Anonymous No.18536837]

Why is there no fun allowed on lit?

[Anonymous No.18536877]

>>18534724
Disagree
Introduction opens you up to Guenon's main focus in his text whereas crisis is just a small part

[Anonymous No.18536967]

tried to add one of every genre I read.

[Anonymous No.18536977]

>>18536837
You really succeeded in finding the ugliest cover of "Woman in the dunes" ever, good for you.

[Anonymous No.18537153]

[Anonymous No.18537173]

>>18534202
Based for choosing the idiot over any other dostevesky. I enjoyed Junky but feel like I missed something

[Anonymous No.18537177]

>>18536476
Based

[Anonymous No.18537231]

>>18534202

[Anonymous No.18537269]

>>18537153
What’s so good about Hyperion

[Anonymous No.18537337]

What are the best Plato dialogues to read to get a cursory understanding of him?

[Anonymous No.18537454]

Complete my list please I'm a newfag.

[Anonymous No.18537473]

>>18537454
Paradise Lost
Name of the Rose
The Pit and the Pendulum
The DaVinci Code
the last one will make them S E E T H E

[Anonymous No.18537474]

>>18537337
Why is a painting of Heraclitus on the cover

[Anonymous No.18537526]

>>18537473
Thanks, Paradis Lost and Name of the Rose were on my backlog.
I didn't know The Pit and the Pendulum but it looks interesting.
I enjoyed DaVinci Code

[Anonymous No.18537544]

[Anonymous No.18537551]

>>18534202
Read Knut Hamsun
>>18535170
Read a bit of Sappho, Callimachus and Catullus instead of just exhausting the epics.
>>18535488
Read Knut Hamsun
>>18536967
Good
>>18537153
Cool stuff, great book on Heraclitus.
>>18537231
Cool, I love Rings of Saturn and Tartar Steppe. Invisible Cities was a big book for me. Check Francis Ponge.

[Anonymous No.18537564]

Over the last few years I have learned that “the classics” really are the best novels.

>>18534202
You are the first person I am aware of who favors The Idiot over Dostoevsky’s other major works
>>18535170
That’s a pretty good list anon. You are already miles ahead of most people
>>18535246
Pretty good list. Redpill me on Flann O’Brien. What’s his work like?>>18535397
Very good taste sir
>>18535488
Nice list, what is Huysmans all about? I have never read him
>>18535641
Nice. Is Titus Groan that good?>>18536020
Good taste except for White Noise. Shit book
>>18536089
Is that you Adolf?
>>18536166
Another good list
>>18536476
I just read Platform a few weeks ago. Seriously a great novel. The social commentary is spot on
>>18536616
And the award for most unique selections goes to...
>>18536829
Uncle Adolf, again?
>>18536837
Can’t comment

[Anonymous No.18537599]

>>18535170
Super based actually

[Anonymous No.18537723]

>>18535170
>>18536089
>>18537153
>>18537231
very nice

[Anonymous No.18537775]

>>18537474
I don’t know

[Anonymous No.18537783]

>>18537723
But anon, where's the Wagner? You can't have Sophocles and Nietzsche without Wagner.

[Anonymous No.18537791]

>>18537783
true, but simply reading Wagner is like one third of the entire experience.

[Anonymous No.18538338]

>>18535170
++Odyssey
++Iliad
++Metamorphosis
++Notes from the Underground
read Dialectic of Enlightenment it has a quite interesting analysis on Homers Odyssey
>>18535246
+Doctor Faustus
+Master and Margarita
>>18535397
nothing really bad on here but nothing great either gives a school literature kinda vibe
>>18535488
++Notes from the Underground
++The Idiot
++Nausea
>>18535629
I really hope this is bait
>>18535641
++Crime and Punishment
++Lolita
+The Sound of the Fury
+Moby Dick
>>18536020
++Lolita
++Crime and Punishment
+Beyond Good an Evil
+Frankenstein
>>18536089
umm ok.. love wagner but this just seems quite obsessed.
maybe check out Philosophy of new music and listen to some Schönberg or
Nørgård
>>18536166
++Lolita
++Divine Comedy
++The Idiot
++War and Peace
+Anna Karenina
+Moby Dick
>>18536476
++Lolita
++Platform
>>18536616
++The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a justified sinner
nice to see some lesser known art at least less critically acclaimed stuff
>>18536829
is this >>18536089 again? what's up with all the wagnerposting?
>>18536837
>Harry Potter read another book
+Old Man and the Sea
+Dune
+Norwegian Woods
+Brave New World
young adult/10
>>18536967
++Lolita
+Der Deutsche Wald
>>18537153
++Maldoror Chants
++Divine Comedy
pretty based also good cover choices
>>18537231
++Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
>>18537454
++The Brothers Karamazov
++The Devine Comedy
++Master and Margarita
++Crime and Punishment
Classic but I like your taste
>>18537544
++Master and Margarita
>>18537551
heaven't read any of those but sound interesting which one of those would you advice the most?
>>18537564
++Don Quixote
++Brother Karamazov
++Lolita
++The Magic Mountain
++Crime and Punishment
+Anna Karenina
maybe the most based so far especially for including Cervantes

Overall almost no bad charts in this thread. Good job everyoneyou most of you have great taste! The amount of Lolita in this thread is kinda disturbing though I'm just not gonna read to much into this

[Anonymous No.18538379]

>>18535170
++Odyssey
++Iliad
++Metamorphosis
++Notes from the Underground
read Dialectic of Enlightenment it has a quite interesting analysis on Homers Odyssey
>>18535246
+Doctor Faustus
+Master and Margarita
>>18535397
nothing really bad on here but nothing great either gives a school literature kinda vibe
>>18535488
++Notes from the Underground
++The Idiot
++Nausea
>>18535629
I really hope this is bait
>>18535641
++Crime and Punishment
++Lolita
+The Sound of the Fury
+Moby Dick
>>18536020
++Lolita
++Crime and Punishment
+Beyond Good an Evil
+Frankenstein
>>18536089
umm ok.. love wagner but this just seems quite obsessed.
maybe check out Philosophy of new music and listen to some Schönberg or
Nørgård
>>18536166
++Lolita
++Divine Comedy
++The Idiot
++War and Peace
+Anna Karenina
+Moby Dick
>>18536476
++Lolita
++Platform
>>18536616
++The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a justified sinner
nice to see some lesser known art at least less critically acclaimed stuff
>>18536829
is this >>18536089 again? what's up with all the wagnerposting?
>>18536837
>Harry Potter
ok I'm just gonna ignore this
+Old Man and the Sea
+Dune
+Norwegian Woods
+Brave New World
young adult/10
>>18536967
++Lolita
+Der Deutsche Wald
>>18537153
++Maldoror Chants
++Divine Comedy
pretty based also good cover choices
>>18537231
++Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
>>18537454
++The Brothers Karamazov
++The Devine Comedy
++Master and Margarita
++Crime and Punishment
Classic but I like your taste
>>18537544
++Master and Margarita
>>18537551
heaven't read any of those but sound interesting which one of those would you advice the most?
>>18537564
++Don Quixote
++Brother Karamazov
++Lolita
++The Magic Mountain
++Crime and Punishment
+Anna Karenina
maybe the most based so far especially for including Cervantes

Overall almost no bad charts in this thread. Good job everyoney most of you have great taste! The only criticism I might have is the redundancy between charts. the homogenity is more of a meta criticism though tastewise it's still very good. The amount of Lolita in this thread is kinda disturbing though I'm just not gonna read to much into this

[Anonymous No.18538560]

>>18536616
>The Guide
I've been considering reading this. Love that cover though

[Anonymous No.18538646]

>>18534202
I haven't read more than 10 books

[Anonymous No.18538773]

[Anonymous No.18538789]

19 years old, just started reading again. Any recs?

[Anonymous No.18538942]

I like the 20th century.
>>18538789
Dubliners, Montaigne, Herodotus, Growth of the Soil.

[Anonymous No.18538960]

>>18538789
If you haven't, read Wilde's essays, plays, tales, etc.
>>18538773
Walter Lippmann - Public Opinion
>>18538379
José Ortega y Gasset - The Revolt of the Masses. Read more fiction tho, don't you ever get tired of dry non-fiction?
>>18537564
D.H. Lawrence - The Man Who Died
>>18537551
Arthur Rimbaud - Illuminations
>>18537544
Baldomero Lillo - Subterra or Subsole

Sadly I don't have reccs for everyone, but I loved most of the charts here. I'd appreciate any books that you guys think will fit with my chart.

[Anonymous No.18538972]

>>18538960
Based Simon Hanselmann. Met him a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.18538988]

>>18538960
>Walter Lippmann - Public Opinion
Thanks for reminding me of it. I am aware of it but haven't gotten around to it, will add it to my shortlist

[Anonymous No.18539021]

Reading is kinda gay though

[Anonymous No.18539186]

>>18537564
A rebours is the only huysmans I’ve read, but it’s the quintessential decadent novel and I thought it gave an interesting look into artificiality and the beginning of modernism

[Anonymous No.18539533]

bump

[Anonymous No.18539693]

>>18538942
>>18538960
Thanks, I’ve heard of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ and I remember reading a short story of a statue who asked a bird to strip him of precious stones to feed the poor, but I’ll look into Wilde some more. He was a very eccentric character.

[Anonymous No.18539797]

>>18539693
Oh yeah, his tales, although written for his children iirc, are still beautiful, so don't pass on them, anon.

[Anonymous No.18539888]

[Anonymous No.18539905]

>>18538789
CS Lewis's christianity box set.
The Sorrows of Satan

[Anonymous No.18540045]

I only put in narrative works and didn't count the Bible because that wouldn't be fair.
Wasn't sure what to put for Dostoevsky, I really can't decide which one of his books is my favorite, a real toss up between Notes, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. I have a feeling brothers is going to end up being my favorite but I'm saving that for later in life.

>>18538646
Are those ten books your favorites?

>>18537564
Nice

>>18538942
Pretty cool, Martian Chronicles was a lot better than I was expecting, though a few stories were retarded.

>>18539021
Mostly good books. You're kinda gay though

>>18537231
I haven't read any of these but they look based.

[Anonymous No.18540128]

>>18540045
Seems like The Idiot is Dosto's fav in /lit/. Huh, I was expecting Brothers K to be THE one.

[Anonymous No.18540150]

Im a new fag, started to read two months ago, recommend me stuff

[Anonymous No.18540169]

>>18535641
All the kings men and Titus Groan—- are you me?

[Anonymous No.18540194]

>>18540150
If you liked Gatsby, make sure to read Tender is the Night, which is as good (if not better) than it. It's sadder too, if you´re in the mood.

[Anonymous No.18540215]

I thought everyone hated the idiot on here what gives

[Anonymous No.18540515]

I know Watchmen and Sandman are debatable, but fuck it. They are great literary works.

[Anonymous No.18540534]

>>18535246
The Hogg pick is extremely based.

[Anonymous No.18540565]

The Sound and the Fury
War and Peace
The Name of the Rose
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
The Red and the Black
Blood Meridian
The Third Policeman
Doctor Faustus
Sons and Lovers

[Anonymous No.18540577]

>>18540565
>>18540515
Give reccs to previous posts, you niggeros.

[Anonymous No.18540884]

Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.18540917]

>>18540884
Lucky Jim and Lord Jim

[Anonymous No.18540931]

>>18535246
What did you like about Savage Detectives anon? Genuine question

[Anonymous No.18540983]

>>18540150
>>18540515
>>18540577

My bad. I've read half of the books you listed. Great taste.
You should check out The Wild Duck, by Ibsen. It's a good one. I also think you might like Slaughterhouse 5, although it's a bit more comedic than your picks.

[Anonymous No.18541088]

>>18540884
Ada (or Ador) and Child of God

[Anonymous No.18541254]

I just chose some of my most recent 5 stars on goodreads. Most top /lit/ books I read ended up only being 3 or 4 star to me anyway.

[Anonymous No.18541272]

>>18541254
Just realized these lists for peeps were mainly novels. Sorry for going off theme if that was a thing

[Anonymous No.18541847]

>>18537564
>Flann O’Brien. What’s his work like?
He's like a much more accessible Samuel Beckett, a bit of a Tom Stoppard kind of guy, whose work is more funny than depressive like Beckett's.

Fantastic choices for Bros. Karamazov, 2666 and The Magic Mountain anon

[Anonymous No.18541858]

>>18540931
I just like to get lost into really confusing novels full of wacky yet believable shenanigans

[Anonymous No.18542049]

rate me

[Anonymous No.18542051]

>>18542049
I have only read Blood Meridian out of your list so just based off that I’d say you’re good

[Anonymous No.18542055]

>>18535246
Beyond pretentious

[Anonymous No.18542066]

>>18536837
Probably the only person ITT who has actually read all of the books he posted from start to finish.

[Anonymous No.18542081]

Recs? I haven't really read much, but I was able to avoid putting anything from HS in.

>>18540884
Agree with the other anon's rec of Ada or Ardor

[Anonymous No.18542085]

>>18542066
based retard

[Anonymous No.18542109]

>>18542055
>Mikhail Bulgakov
>CS Lewis
Tremendously accessible for "high" literature

>Thomas Pynchon's V.
>Flann O'Brien
Also pretty accessible and entertaining as far as experimental literature goes

>James Hogg
It's just old

Are you sure you're just not illiterate, anon?

[Anonymous No.18542127]

>>18540884
If you like Disgrace you should check Marabou Stork Nighmares by Irvine Welsh (author of Trainspotting)

If you like Cat's Cradle you should try Thomas Pynchon

If you like Blood Meridian you should try My Idea of Fun by Will Self (very polarizing)

[Anonymous No.18542156]

>>18535170
Based

[Anonymous No.18542172]

>>18541858
I liked the shenanigans but I guess I was waiting for a payoff that never came. Also some POV were annoying, holy shit

[Anonymous No.18542290]

>>18542172
Anon, you're supposed to be the Savage Detective yourself and piece together what is what in the novel, to find that payoff.

[Anonymous No.18542363]

>>18542290
I tried but anons didn't wanna discuss the book with me :(
At first I thought it was going to have me look for Garcia Madero and his poems the same way the real visceralists were looking for Cesárea Tinajero. And there was a small hint of that at the end I guess.
What was your payoff anon? What did you "detect"?

[Anonymous No.18542422]

>>18542363
>What was your payoff anon?
Mostly just the entertaining events themselves, piecing it together Infinite Jest style and trying to make sense out of it as an entertaining little experiment, like a child with a toy, but this experience is hardly going to be fulfilling for everyone.

[Anonymous No.18542487]

>>18542422
I guess I wanted the pieces to come together more neatly in the end. I just felt like there was stuff missing and that I wouldn't get anything more of the book if I actually went looking. No background details, no reveal, no reason for the interview format, no reason people don't talk about Madero, for "two vicerrealists left in Mexico", jackshit behind the window.

[Anonymous No.18542510]

Recommend me some books, I don't read much. My favorite is No Longer Human by Dazai, also liked The Setting Sun. Liked the Metamorphosis and Kokoro by Soseki. Some books like those please, also some mythology books, I read Norse Mythology by Gaiman and like it

[Anonymous No.18542593]

>>18540128
These threads always have weird picks. Pretty sure TBK is still /lit/'s favourite.

[Anonymous No.18542606]

>>18540515
It is not Sandman and Watchmen that are outrageous desu; The outrageous one is fucking American Gods. Why?

[Anonymous No.18542644]

>>18542510
Poetic Edda

[Anonymous No.18542792]

>>18542510
Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima

[Anonymous No.18542824]

>>18542510
definitely pic related. Dark and poignant allegorical fairytales from 20th century Japan. Talking animals wearing clothes, that kind of thing. Many of the tales are allegories for the modernization of Japan.

[Anonymous No.18542830]

>>18537231
Blessed TROS

[Anonymous No.18542854]

[Anonymous No.18542857]

>>18542606
Neil Gay-Man is certified dumb.
>>18542081
some of these are also high school tier but: A Clockwork Orange, Breakfast of Champions, Dubliners, The Trial, The Magic Mountain, The Sound and the Fury, A Confederacy of Dunces, Stoner.

[Anonymous No.18542863]

>>18542854
110 posts before this meme faggotry got posted, we outdid ourselves this time.

[Anonymous No.18543018]

I can't believe I haven't seen any of ya boy Hunter's books in here.

[Anonymous No.18543054]

>>18534202
18 year old adhd retard, looking for novellas that don't feel prosaic and lackluster

[Anonymous No.18543102]

>>18543054
I love that Feynman book, and Le Parfum is just great

[Anonymous No.18543106]

The Good Soldier Svejk
War and Peace
The Man Without Qualities
Conversation in the Cathedral
Tristram Shandy
In Search of Lost Time
The Sound and the Fury
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Sleepwalkers
Doctor Faustus

[Anonymous No.18543151]

>>18543102
based, the Feynman book holds a special place in my heart. I'd read it on the bus and it was peak comfy.

[Anonymous No.18543166]

>>18543054
The Wasp Factory

[Anonymous No.18543199]

>>18534202
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13720247.Abhijit_Naskar

[Anonymous No.18543382]

>>18543054
Goosebumps kek based.
Try the Mysterious Stranger, HG Wells (maaaybe?), Herman Hesse, JD Salinger.

[Anonymous No.18543394]

>>18543382
Somehow I overlooked the Hesse. Oh well check out his other stuff if you haven't lol.
I recommend just generally the russians short stories and novellas, Gogol, Chekhov, Dostoevsky.

[Anonymous No.18543402]

>>18542854
Unfathomably based.

[Anonymous No.18543454]

>>18538960
you might like the Ginger Man by j.p. donleavy

[Anonymous No.18543602]

[Anonymous No.18543612]

>>18534202
Jude the Obscure
Sons and Lovers
Everlasting Man
David Copperfield
Crime and Punishment
Gerard Manley Hopkins Collected Poems
Anatomy of Melancholy
Pilgrim's Progress
The Power and the Glory
Geoffrey Hill's Collected Poems

[Anonymous No.18544279]

>>18537337
That's not how you use cursory. You mean crude

[Anonymous No.18544409]

>>18544279
Can’t you use cursory to mean basic or superficial? I’ve heard people say cursory understanding before. In any case, any reccs?

[Anonymous No.18544421]

>>18544409
You were right, he was wrong.

[Anonymous No.18544463]

>>18544421
Yeah I shoulda never ever took her home

[Anonymous No.18544623]

[Anonymous No.18545040]

>>18543454
Finally a recc. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.18545140]

>>18537153
If you're the guy who posted pic related, what are some of you other favorites? The only guys I've been affected by in the past year are Bernhard (read all of his stuff at this point), bits and pieces of Vollmann (mostly his more humane stuff, some of the weird Pynchonesque stuff), Sadegh Hedayat, Platonov, Joseph Roth, and Danilo Kis. Lautreamont is also up there but I can only read Maldoro like poetry, little chunks interspersed at a time.

[Anonymous No.18545336]

>>18542606
>>18542857

I don't like his politics, but I read the book at a time when I was really fascinated with gods and myths. It was a perfect fit at the time.

[Anonymous No.18545377]

>>18544623
If you like stuff about the japanese you might want to check out "the buddha in the attic" by Julie Otsuka.

[Anonymous No.18546236]

I'm not going to apologise but I do promise I'm starting to read a bit wider than the 20th Century...

[Anonymous No.18546261]

House of Leaves
No Longer Human
Blood Meridian
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the sea
The Stranger
Less Than Zero
Perfume: The story of a Murderer
Watchmen
Justine: Philosophy in the bedroom and other writings
Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges

[Anonymous No.18547025]

bump

[Anonymous No.18547063]

Already had this chart made, so here it goes

[Anonymous No.18547082]

keep this bullshit on /mu/

[Anonymous No.18547178]

[Anonymous No.18547249]

>>18547063
Have you ever taken a look to other spanish translations of the Illiad and such?

[Anonymous No.18547465]

>>18542510
Recommend more please

[Anonymous No.18547554]

>>18535488
Do they teach Huymans in Uni outside of France? Cool if true

[Anonymous No.18547693]

>>18547554
Sartre's La Nausee mentions Huysmans' Against Nature, I guess that's where they got it from. I highly doubt American universities touch on Huysmans at all to be honest...

[Anonymous No.18547776]

>>18545377
looks interesting, thanks anon i'll check it out

[Anonymous No.18547853]

Im just graduating high school and my top ten reek of that.

>>18535246
>>18537454
>>18537544
Im just about to start The Master and Margarita, hope I like it

>>18536020
based and spinozapilled

>>18536837
I know right, my list is pretty boring but Hitchhikers Guide is a joy to read

>>18538773
>>18538789
I just finished American Psycho. I was tempted to put it on here for the last 100 pages alone but the begining of it is a little slow in my opinion.

>>18539021
I want to read the Goshawk, it inspired one of the books in my top ten.

[Anonymous No.18547890]

For some reason most of the people here have a list of books that are very similar to each other.

[Anonymous No.18547912]

>>18547890
I think its because most people have at least 1 or 2 of the best 50 or so books of all time and then their own personal taste.

[Anonymous No.18548032]

I'm only 18 and I've only read 40 books in my life

and yes i'm trying to read more

[Anonymous No.18548042]

>>18548032
recs plz

[Anonymous No.18548067]

>>18548032
>ivan ilych
based fellow 18yo

[Anonymous No.18548228]

>>18548032
How the fuck have you read the Bible, the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Stranger as an 18 year old? I was reading nudie mags and comics.

[Anonymous No.18548272]

>>18548228
cause my brother is based! and of those forty, thirty were in quarantine lmao

[Anonymous No.18548283]

>>18535170
Why would you pick young Werther over any other work of Goethe?

[Anonymous No.18548304]

>>18548272
Lucky you! Appreciate your bro

[Anonymous No.18548313]

Haven't read a whole lot, but this is what I have so far

[Anonymous No.18548334]

>>18548042
Could probably look into other anons charts that show similar taste

[Anonymous No.18548546]

>>18548272
Comfy and very lucky. Do you discuss everything you read with him?

[Anonymous No.18548579]

>>18548546
we don't live together, literature is not our favorite subject. and when we talk about books, it's not in a profound way; except when I read spinoza and had to call him for help

however, 90% of what I read he recommended

[Anonymous No.18548659]

Here are my favorite books.

[Anonymous No.18548728]

still a bit new to reading, most of these i had to read in school but have picked up Dostoevsky in my rare spare time

[Anonymous No.18548750]

>>18548313
been meaning to pick up a mishima novel, how is he?

[Anonymous No.18548762]

>>18534202
disgusting pleb

[Anonymous No.18548841]

>>18535170
>actually started with the greeks.
Based

[Anonymous No.18549063]

>>18547249
Yes, I own several translations in fact: that one published by Gredos, the partial one by Alfonso Reyes (first edition), the one published by Alba, and the Bonifaz Nuño one. All of them are great, but I personally prefer the Bonifaz Nuño one because it was the first one I read seriously, because of its use of language and meter (an achievement in itself), and because it has that "epic" sound when one reads it. It's not for everyone tho, and it gets a lot of shit from Academia and outside of it (undeserved criticism imo; it has some flaws, but plebs prefer to resort to strawmans and nitpicking instead of dealing with the translation as such).

[Anonymous No.18549251]

>>18548283
Haven't read anything else by him yet. That said, it left an impression on me that I can't ignore. It's more than just "le ebig incel manifesto". In fact, I'd go as far to say it isn't one at all.

[Anonymous No.18549648]

>>18542510
BUMP

[Anonymous No.18550033]

>>18548750
Gay

[Anonymous No.18550091]

b-b-be gentle anons

[Anonymous No.18550123]

>>18550091
cute uwu

[Anonymous No.18550695]

>>18542510
Never read it, but Stephen Fry made a few books about Greek myths kind of like Gaiman did.
You should also check out the Sandman series. There are plenty of gods and myths in it.

[Anonymous No.18550706]

>>18548750
>>18550033 isn't wrong.
Mishima is pretty hit or miss for most people. I suggest giving The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea a go, if you like that you'll probably like his other work as well.

[Anonymous No.18550844]

>>18550706
I meant "Gay" literally

[Anonymous No.18551123]

>>18550844
That was my point as well

[Anonymous No.18552310]

>>18534202
My 10 favorite books.

[Anonymous No.18553016]

Mine.

[Anonymous No.18553418]

>>18552310
based. Have you read A Little Princess? Better than The Secret Garden imo.