Christmas is coming /lit/ what books are your list?
on mine:
>Ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
>American Psycho
>Fear and loathing in las vegas
>The crying of lot 49
If I give my mother specific titles she will buy "similar" so that it will be a surprise, if the book is about ww2 she will get me bill o'reilleys book on hitler. If I get her lists of award winners or something she will buy me books by female authors or classics that ive already read.
Ive told everyone never to buy me books anymore.
I've read them all but Miruna, but they're all ones I'd like to own too.
>>7434204
the ultimate guide is so good. so good. you'll have a happy new year with that one. on my list is Fengshen Yanyi and the Sorcerer's Revolt.
>My Struggle Book 4
>Junger books
>Nabokov books
>Proust
>Bloom
>way more shit
trying to dive deeper into lit so i asked for
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Stranger
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Pynchon - V.
DeLillo - White Noise
Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
Joyce - Dubliners
Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Hesse - Siddhartha
DFW - Cuisinart Electric Kettle
Giving:
>Dubliners to brother
>The Handmaid's Tale to feminist sister
>Flowers for Algernon to sister that's 'dumb' but not actually dumb
>Childhood's End to sister who's atheistic but interested in religion
>>7434252
very similar list. I have some Hemmingway on mine, and some russian lit as well.
Self - Umbrella
Heidegger - Being and time
Saer - The witness
Saer - Las nubes (in english it would be Clouds I guess)
Michaux - Un barbare en Asie
Eliot - Middlemarch (not completely sure if I will get this one)
giving:
Frank Whitford - Bauhaus
Bachmann - Essays
Aichinger - short stories and poems collection
Di Benedetto - El silenciero
Grimm's fairy tales
Some random horror book that takes place at my uni
Frogs by Mo Yan
>>7434204
I prefer to try and get public domain books, free pdfs, and library books, but a couple that I would actually consider buying for a hard copy would be:
>For Whom The Bell Tolls
>Gravity's Rainbow
>War Reporting For Cowards
>White Noise
>Composer Biographies. (Bartok maybe)
>>7434204
I'm looking forward to getting The Tunnel and The Lime Twig.
>2666 - Bolano
>Descartes - Collected works
>>7434204
>The Word as Will and representation
>Storm of Steel
>Myth of Sisyphus
>Bhagavad Gita
pls santa
>>7434787
you don't even know what the fengshen yanyi is, you uncultured swine.
>>7434204
S-santa is that you?
>>7434420
>bartok
Any good biography of him? I like his string quartets but don't know much else and would like to read about him before delving into his work more.
Complete works of willy shakespeare
Any edition
>>7434204
>Decameron
>Il Principe
I don't know why, but I feel like I should re-read them decently this time.
>tfw you will never own Bibliothèque de la Pléiade editions of all of your favorite French authors
>you will never fill your shelves with quality hardcovers of Montaigne, Flaubert, or Proust
I also fantasize about that bilingual edition of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, but again, that's a fantasy.
Anyway, I bought some books for my family the other day. I'm giving If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino to my sister. Thinking of giving my dad something from nineteenth-century Russia--he's big on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, but has barely read any of their predecessors.
>>7434204
A beautiful hardcover 4 volume edition of the Siva Purana.
>>7437568
all the pushkin and gogol
>>7434204
Have you just started reading today or something?
>>7439519
Post Office by Charles Bukowski. It's a fun novel, and one of his best works.
bump...
>Augustus by John Williams
>The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
>The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
>To Each his Own by Leonardo Sciascia
