>>7533990
>Mason & Dixon
>Three Books of Occult Philosophy
>Being and Time
>History of Madness
>2666
>Suttree
>Cloud Atlas
>The Magus
>Against the Day
>The Pale King
>The Beetle Leg
>Cow country
>Cannonball
>JR
I'm going to die before I finish this.

>>7533990
I'd say go for dune first. And lord of chaos the black metal book? If so then that one next, so it will get you craving lord of the rings/silmarillion.

>>7533990
The Divine Comedy first. It'll help with some of the rest.

My main backlog shelf is

Underworld
Voices from Chernobyl
Ulysses
Against the Day
Mason & Dixon
Infinite Jest
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
Kafka on the Shore
Never Let Me Go
Lolita
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Look Homeward, Angel
Geek Love
Kiergkegaard's Spiritual Writings
Anna Karenina
If on a winter's night a traveler
Suite Française
Ubik

Any ideas on what I should start with?I've already read a bunch of Pynchon so those two aren't urgent.

>>7534043
The Tunnel by Gass

>>7533990
>Pale Fire
>Infinite Jest
>Skinny Legs and All
>The Book of Disquiet
>Americana
>Libra
>Underworld
>The Dead Father
>The Savage Detectives
>Sailing Alone Around the World
>Voices from Chernobyl
>News from the Empire
>Nausea
>Gilead
>Home
>The Sound and the Fury
>The Magus
>Freedom
>On the Road
>Love in the Time of Cholera
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Against the Day
>Vineland
>Woodcutters
>More Die of Heartbreak
>Humboldt's Gift
>The Sea, The Sea
>A Long Day's Journey into Night
>Skylight
>Austerlitz

why the fuck do I keep buying books, I have so much shit on my shelf to read

>>7534043
Another shelf:

Empire Falls
Bridge of Sighs
Norwegian Wood
Love in the Time of Cholera
Complete Tales and Poems of Poe
I, Claudius
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Optimist's Daughter
The Remains of the Day
The Reivers
The Unvanquished
Absalom, Absalom!
A Man for All Seasons
Invisible Man
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
The Road
Blood Meridian
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Devil in the White City
Girl, Interrupted
Song of Solomon
Corelli's Mandolin
The Plot Against America
You Can't Go Home Again
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Profiles in Courage
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Bell Jar
Brave New World

>>7534113
I read Brave New World a few weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm not going to list my entire backlog, because it's huge, but the next few books I'm going to get to in no particular order are

Crime and Punishment
VALIS
Ringworld
Winston Churchill's complete History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Gravity's Rainbow
Moby Dick
Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune
Plato's Republic
The Great Train Robbery
Three Hearts and Three Lions
The Abridged Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Soviet Science Fiction collection
The Stars My Destination
etc

Why is the Silmarillion so boring? I read the first like 50 pages and couldn't get into it.

Right now:
>Neuromancer
>Consider Phlebas
>Mistborn book #1
>Red Rising

Just getting back into reading before diving into lit classics.

>>7534340
Is there something you can point as "this is why I lost interest"?

>the western canon

>almost no mentions of non-fiction in the backlog thread

What gives, /lit/?

Anyway:
Diodorus Siculus (reading now)
Appian
Caesar
Dionysius
Tacitus
Suetonius
Dio Cassius
Plutarch
Strabo (maybe)
Pausanias

Hoping to knock out lots of primary source Roman history, a few secondary sources (e.g., Gibbon, Asprey, Holland), and finally move on from Rome, maybe jump ahead to the crusades or Napoleon, or maybe jump back to knock out Greek drama to prep for Shakespeare.

>>7534389
>he fell for the non fiction meme

top kek

>>7534391
>never reading about the historical origins and influences of the fiction you read

you fucked up

>>7534412
>he fell for the reading meme

>>7534043
Ubik
Lolita
Never Let Me Go
Kafka on the Shore
If on a winter's night a traveler