All memes and shitty lists aside... What 5 fictional novels do you think are the best ever written? Post your top 5.
>>7433165
Moby-Dick, War and Peace, Hamlet, 1001 Nights, Ulysses
>>7433165
Count of Monte Cristo, Brothers Karamazov, Petersburg, Ulysses, and though i havent finished it, The Recognitions.
>>7433175
kinda wish i would have read moby dick right about now
>>7433347
It's never too late, read it now.
Ulysses; Gravity's Rainbow; Infinite Jest; Book of the New Sun; In Search of Lost Time.
>>7433185
>Petersburg
if you read it in translation and named it your top five then you're a pseud
Fictional novels by definition haven't been written.
>>7433357
you're a lil jealous bitch. the elsworth translation is fantastic.
>>7433165
Ulysses, Don Quixote, The One Thousand and One Nights, The Odyssey and War and Peace.
>>7433365
no, you're just a pseud and probably a freshman in college
>>7433165
Iliad (poem but wgaf), Don Quixote, The Brothers Karamzov, Madame Bovary, Ulysses
Like everyone else here, the most famous and respectable books in literature culture along with a few lesser known just to show I'm above being meme'd
>>7433165
My Top 5 (Right now, subject to change, IMO):
Moby Dick, Blood Meridian, Sandalwood Death, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Dune
Real Top 5:
Moby Dick, The Tale of the Heike, Divine Comedy, Gilgamesh, The Odyssey.
>>7433354
>>7433185
In Search of Lost Time, Karamazov, and Count are also very good.
>>7433366
Perfectly respectable opinion as well.
>>7433369
nah nigga, you a bitch. /discussion
>>7433175
>Fictional novels
>Hamlet
>>7433185
>Count of Monte Cristo
My fellow nigga.
>>7433165
Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Moby Dick, 100 Years of Solitude, The Trial
>>7433416
aye, read that shit in jail, changed me life. testicles grew 10 sizes that day.
>>7433165
IMO you actually need to read a novel before listing it anywhere, so most of these replies doesn't count.
But based on what I've read I would rate as follows;
>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Infinite Meme
>Naked Lunch
>White Noise
>>7433165
>>7433361
>fictional novels
*Gigamesh (not a novel but w/e)
*Pierre Menard, Don Quixote
*Herbert Quain, The God of the Labyrinth
*The Painted Bird
*5 Maccabees
OP clearly meant 'fiction novels,' which is fine, so
*Don Quixote
*The Brothers Karamazov
*Ulysses (I don't think so but it's among the best of what I've read)
*War and Peace
*Bleak House (obviously not but I'm mentioning it anyway)
Don Quixote
Middlemarch
Brothers Karamazov
Wuthering Heights
Finnegans Wake
Novels that I've read?
Ulysses, Anna Karenina, To The Lighthouse, The Man Without Qualities...Wuthering Heights I guess?
Mason and Dixon
Middlemarch (have to have one thing by George Eliot)
Snow Country
Ulysses
The Great Gatsby (I know, I know, but I think it's true)
>>7433512
>*Gigamesh (not a novel but w/e)
>*Pierre Menard, Don Quixote
>*Herbert Quain, The God of the Labyrinth
>*The Painted Bird
>*5 Maccabees
Some of those have been written and are therefore not fictional, the remaining ones which are fictional, haven't been written.
>>7433512
Shit, seeing Gigamesh here really surprised me. Fantastic thing, the whole book actually.
>>7433165
I'd say Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, The Recognitions, Mason & Dixon, and The Tunnel, not say that there aren't other books worthy of being in the top five, though.
>>7434112
I never thought I'd live to see the day where Gilgamesh isn't recognized as a staple of /lit/'s reading list
Truly these are the end of days
>>7434125
Actually, yes. Try looking for a fictional book which is called Gigamesh.
Pro tip: you can
>>7433512
>>7434061
>>7434112
>>7434143
Were you samefagging and then you fucked up?
>>7434180
If the whole book is contained within the novel, then it's not fictional any more, is it?
>>7434180
Okay. The one poster said "Some of these have been written and are therefore not fictional." I assumed he was referring to Gigamesh.
>>7434196
It is a review of a fictional novel, so not a whole novel in there. According to the review, Gigamesh would be 359 page long novel with 847 pages of commentary.
>>7434224
>>7434180
>mfw mentioning Gigamesh et al sparked such discussion
>mfw someone recognized Gigamesh and backed me up
