https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/3wpikx/best_books_youve_read_during_2015/
This is /r/books laughable list of favorite books read during 2015.
So, what laughable list of favorite books has /lit/ read in 2015?
I'll start.
2666
Underworld
That's all I've read.
>reads meme shit
>calls others laughable
laughable
>I agree on Kafka on the Shore, definitely a book I am going to need to read one or two more times to get. Still a great a book though.
I've never been on this site and don't think I plan on ever going on it again
>>7459270
>willingly comes into a thread he doesn't want to be part of
>ad hominem
laughable
you read part of the /lit/ starter kit and feel proud? congratulations i guess.
>>7459290
>using the ad hominem meme
fucking laughable. all of you plebs are the same.
>>7459301
>>Pale Fire
>>Fear and Trembling
>>The Cambridge Companion to Joyce
>>On the Shortness of Life
>>Euripides' plays
All shit
>Pale Fire
xD oh god Nabakov is the most unbelievable fucking hack.
>On the Shortness of Life
Philosophy is for gullible fucks who want no factual basis for hypothesis.
>>7459255
>italic That.
op your image is reddit humor at its best i suggest you stay there and never read based bolaño again ok
My top 5 for what I've read this year was
>Time of the hero
>2666
>Hundred years of solitude
>Savage Detectives
>No longer human
No particular order, I think I'll dig deeper into Bolaño and Garcia Marquez sometime this month.
>>7459328
laughable
>>7459255
Top 5 :
>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
>Shogun
>Hawaii
>Ask the Dust
>Gaijin
>>7459255
>2666
>Underworld
>>7459255
>https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/3wpikx/best_books_youve_read_during_2015/
first comment
>The Martian was good even after seeing the movie.
>Kafka on the Shore was a fun little mindfuck.
>The Jungle curbed the fuck out of my meat consumption.
>Where Men Win Glory had been sitting on the shelf for a few years because I knew it would make me angry. Finally read it. It made me angry.
1982, Janine
Franny and Zooey
Sphinxi will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together
Molloy
>>7459395
only top 5 btw
>>7459255
infinite jest
blood meridian
lolita
snow crash
isoiaf
( . Y . )
>>7459395
>Franny and Zooey
Or as it's better know, "hack author wish he could write plays"
A book isn't 90% fucking dialog
>>7459395
>1982, Janine
mah nigggaaa
lmao redit is so dum lol!
I read:
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Ulysses
>As I Lay Dying
>2666
and I read those books because they adhere 100% to my actual interests and not at all because I want to look like I have discerning taste to fit in with a group of people on the internet
By far the best was Disgrace by Coetzee, probably partly because I expected I'd hate it. Also:
My Struggle book 1
The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
Reality Hunger by Shields
Other than that, I must say I really fouled up with my reading choices this year and read many terrible books.
Novels:
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Old Man and the Sea
>Mrs. Dalloway
>Holy The Firm by Annie Dillard
>The Metamorphosis
Plays:
>Master Harold...and the 'Boys'
>Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
>Madame Butterfly
>The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
>The Museum by Tina Howe
>The Eccentricities of Being a Nightingale
>Not About Nightingales
Short Stories/Short Story Collections:
>The Penal Colony
>Too Much Happiness by Munro
>Tenth of December
>How to Skin a Cat by McGuane
>Slow Learner
>Assorted Chekov
Poetry:
>Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr
>Black Zodiac by CW
>Scar Tissue by CW
Notes on this year's reading:
Really happy about most of what I read this year. Got a Pinecone up the ass for the rest of my life, got more deeply penetrated by Charles Wright. Really liked Saunders' Tenth of December collection, but I can see how too much of his aesthetic could get tiresome. Got burnt out a bit on Mrs. Dalloway because I took too long to read it and had some of it 'spoiled' in class. Only thing in here that I would not recommend to anyone: Mary Karr's Sinners Welcome. I have yet to read any of her highly-touted memoir stuff, but I would stay away from the poetry.
Goals for 2016:
>Read another Pynchon novel
>Read more women; more PoC (Munro, Atwood, Achibe, Ngozi-Adichie
>Read first DeLillo
>Read first Bolano
>Read IJ or Broom
>Read Ulysses
>Finish reading all of Fugard's plays
>Read 3-4 Shakespeare plays
>Pale Fire or Lolita
Happy reading /lit/
>>7459472
>hack author
pftt
>>7459515
>i can't accept people genuinely like things i don't obviously they are lying because i can't conceive of people that aren't literally me
ok pleb
>>7459515
Damn you had a good year family
>>7459539
forgot to add these two to Short Stories
>Bartleby, The Scrivner
>Billy Budd
>The May Pole of Merry Mount
>The Fall of the House of Usher
>Kindred - Octavia Butler (A modern-day black woman keeps being transported back to a plantation in the pre-Civil War South owned by her white ancestor. A really interesting wrench in the usual "time travelers shouldn't fuck up their own timelines too much or they won't exist" dilemma.)
WE WUZ SLAVES N SHIEET?
I liked Stoner, I doubt any other book will stand out in the next years to me besides this one. I haven't finished more then 10 books this year, although I probably started like a hundred that I end up dropping, and went until half from at least 10 others.
>>7459549
I've actually read and enjoyed most of those books. Thanks for the meme reply.
I'm critical of the spirit of this thread established in the OP. who cares that reddit has a dumb opinion? it's pretty "laughable" to criticize a community for "pleb taste" when you base your selection of reading material on a "top choices" list on 4chan.
Both Iliad and Odyssey.
This year I read
Murakami - Wind up Bird Chronicle
1Q84
Love craft - Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories
Dostoevsky - The Idiot, The Gambler, Notes From Underground and reread Crime and Punishment
Stoner
Moby Dick
Reading Infinite Jest right now
Yeah I'm a pleb I know
>>7459623
That's not pleb at all. Anyone who reads Moby-Dick is kawaii and I just want to hug them. :)
>>7459600
>implying anyone read the op and that it isn't just an excuse to post the favourite books we read this year
great discerning skills, being critical where it really counts, buddy
also that reply was like 90% percent non meme fgt
>>7459628
Not him, but I'm drinking Mt. Dew right now actually. lol
>>7459255
Mine were:
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
Jane Eyre
The Makioka Sisters
>>7459583
what was your impression of Stoner?
>>7459515
Also read Infinite Jest for the first time, finished it last month. I guess I didn't really get it.
Probably Ulysses desu
this was my Middlemarch year
enough said
Finished up the Divergent Series, Mason & Dixon, and all of John Green's books. Paper Planes was my favorite! After I read the book, I watched the movie and I cried watching it lol (but it was really good!)
Before the year ends I want to get through the hunger games trilogy-i already finished the first book-and infinite jest.
>>7459472
who sez?
Is reddit the site for normies? I might want to check it out.
I mean, I could list them all, but I don't go on /lit/ except when I'm procrastinating before an exam, which, well, I'm doing now. I kept a list early this year for all my books read since January, and the last edit date was on the 14th of April. I've read probably about 100 or so books since then, and probably about 1000 poems, about 100 very very very closely.
This is the contents of the file:
Confessions of a Mask
The Trial
The Metamorphosis
4 Irish Rebel Plays
Ulysses
Dubliners
Visions of Gerard
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Sound and the Fury
Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
V.
Goblin Market and Other Poems
The Process
Wozzeck
A Doll's House
The Mezzanine
Swann's Way
Critique of Pure Reason
The Scarlet Letter
Pictures of the Floating World
Mrs Dalloway
Hedda Gabler
Yanko the Musician and Other Stories
The Liar
Le Cid
Selected Poems of Seamus Heaney
Collected Poems of WB Yeats
Harmonium
Peste soit de l'horoscope et autres poèmes
Mosada, A dramatic Poem
Nine Stories
Summer and Smoke
The Dragon
Chamber Music
This list is old so don't ask
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
My favorites of what I've read this year.
My favorites from this year:
A Scanner Darkly. I'm a big fan of Dick, but hadn't gotten around to this one until a few months back. I think it's his best work.
Top 10. Some of Alan Moore's best. Partly because it's not as ambitious as something like Watchmen or even Swamp Thing. He's just sort of having fun and it lets him dive into all sorts of stuff he's clearly interested in. Great fun. Wish it was longer.
The Story of Philosophy. Damn was Durant a good writer. I've always wanted to know more philosophy, but really had only gleaned off wikipedia until now. Thanks to this great little book I'm way more informed than that. Hope to actually read some of these texts, beyond the bit of Plato I already have under my belt, within the next year.
As I Lay Dying. My first Faulkner. Hot damn. Can't wait to read some more.
Just about finished Don Quixote. It's been fun, but holy fuck it's so long. Can't wait to have this brick behind me and move onto more stuff. It's going to be a good long while before I start another tome like this.
>>7459255
Everything I read in 2015:
The World's Religions by Huston Smith
Waiting for Godot
The Waste Books
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Blue Octavo Notebooks
Night
Book of Genesis (Crumb)
No Longer Human
Stay Up With Me (horrible)
Persepolis
The Size of the Universe (by my great 2nd cousin or something. Very strange melancholy stories. Depressing that nobody cares about it)
Kafka: The Decisive Years
Kafka: The Years of Insight
Either/Or, Part I
My Struggle, Book 1
Didn't really enjoy any of them but Stach's biography of Kafka and Either/Or Part I.
>>7460313
Uninspired bait
I've only read 13 books this year sadly, been busy because I had to prepare for the exam which got me into my uni, and uni started, so I didn't have much time. My top 5 this year are:
>Don Quixote
>Moby Dick
>The Sound and the Fury
>Oblomov
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
My top 5 this year:
Animorphs 1
Animorphs 2
Animorphs 3
Animorphs 4
Animorphs 5
Some favourites from this year:
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
The Thebaid - Statius
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Sea Hawk - Rafael Sabatini
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
Anne of Green Gables
Peace
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
>>7460488
You didn't enjoy The World's Religions? I mean it doesn't go into great detail, but I thought it was pretty great as an intro. We used it in my high school World Religions class and I thought it was a perfect text for that.
Read 28 so far and will likely hit 30-32 by the end of the year. Top 5:
> Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
> Cryptonomicon
> Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
> Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
> The Metamorphosis
>>7459255
>Othello
>Hamlet
>Don Quixote
>Moby Dick
>Catch-22
>Dead Souls
>Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
>The Book of Disquiet
>The Odyssey
>Homage to Catalonia
>>7459255
>A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
>Imagine There's No Heaven by Mitchell Stevens
>God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Oh reddit.
>>7460450
>I'm a big fan of Dick
>>7461011
plebs need books too m8
>>7459255
>41 people are commenting in redshit threads
>remember when the would redshit ='d a ban
I see that lit has really been taken over by reddit.
muh top five of 2015
Anna Karenina
The Red and the Black
The Peregrine
The Rings of Saturn
Foucault's Pendulum
>>7459255
Jewish study Bible
An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer and Selected Works
On the Sensations of Tone
Kokoro
Kjerlighedens Gjerninger
Best of the year:
Stoner
Chekhov shorts
Gogolj shorts
Dostoevsky shorts
2666
Aquinas on law, ethics and morality
Apology of Plato
Groundwork for metaphysics of morals
Children of Hurin
There is probably more, too lazy to open goodreads atm
Some great books I've read this year:
The Kekoo's Egg
The Last Samurai (DeWitt)
The Histories
The Weird
Werner Herzog - A Guide To The Perplexed
The Denial Of Death
Diary Of A Man In Despair
The Long Ships
Wittgenstein - The Duty Of Genius
King Leopold's Ghost
Voices From Chernobyl
Silence
Skylark
The Remains Of The Day
Amsterdam Stories
The Corpse Exhibition
Do No Harm
All I'd recommend to someone looking for something to read. I've read 102 this year, hopefully I can make the 110 before time runs out.
>>7461156
top wordfilter, love it. /lit/ needs more wordfilters for all this dumb shit
>>7459255
do you have nothing better to do than lurk reddit and make fun of whatever tripe theyre enjoying?
you only read two books. go fuck yourself.
>>7459255
>The Son, Philipp Meyer
>Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
>Blood Meridian (Re-read), Cormac McCarthy
>The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth
I-I hope I'm a patrician.
>>7459255
Kafka Metamorphosis
Dostoyevsky Man from Underground
Shitton of Plato dialogues
Mythology
First Philosophers
Catcher in the Rye
Dubliners (almost)
The Stranger
Favorite:
The Man from Underground
>>7461251
The Oddysey - Homer
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Rules Of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
>>7460488
How was Either/Or?
Hardly anyone talks about that book here.
>>7461288
How was Ariel and The Bell Jar?
I really enjoyed the latter, but it is very much a biased opinion, because I was dealing with several problems at the time (seeing psychiatrists and therapists) because of which I found it very relatable.
>>7461302
The Bell Jar was incredibly powerful, you notice that she is really young when she's writing it, but her writing is still excellent.
Ariel contains Lady Lazarus which is one of my favorite poems of all time, it's a brilliant collection, I love Plath, her poetry and writing and her life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkK2fwZfVjA
>>7461324
Cool. Consider reading her Journals. It's a nice book too. The Unabridged collection compile all her available journals (the very last one is lost, it was burned by her husband).
>>7461369
Just ordered it, thanks!
>>7459255
>tfw have only read 20 novels this year
i feel like i shouldnt even be on this board
>>7461159
It on the whole site you kukk, not just /lit/
In no particular order
>Eumenides by Aeschylus
>Odyssey of Homer, Lattimore translation
>Gilgamesh, "translation" by Mitchell
>Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
>Frankenstein
A shit ton of British romantic era works, mostly poems, my favourites being:
>Rime of the Ancient Mariner
>Keats' Odes
>Kubla Khan
>The Haunted Beach by Mary Robinson
>pleb undergrad tier
The year is far from over, but my top so far would be
>The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Grushin
>TM&M by Bulgakov
>Childhood's End by Clark
>The Woman of Rome by Moravia (also read The Conformist this year, but I found that one more disappealing)
>and Diary of a Madwoman by Geza Csath (differs from the movie)
I'm currently reading Pamuk's The New Life, with mixed feelings.
I live in a country where people just don't read books (only 1 person in 10000 read books regularly, go figure) so I've never had a reading habit. I mean I read books, but not regularly, and they were almost exclusively read young adult fantasy stuff like the Dragonlance series.
Towards the end of 2014 I decided to read books of real value, and start building an actual reading habit, so my choice of books might not be as interesting. Here goes.
>Metamorphosis
>Notes from the Underground
>Miles: The Autobiography
>The Art Of War
>Tao Te Ching: The Ancient Classic
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Lolita
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Steppenwolf
>East of Eden
>Time Regulation Institute
>White Noise
>Quiet
I actually read a fuckton of fantasy and sci-fi this year.
I teach, and it's hard to sink my teeth into more dense books. I'm busy taking a look at the books I'm teaching, analyzing them, and painstakingly trying to figure out the best path to get an unmotivated high school kid to come to a relatively interesting analysis of the book without me doing all the work for them.
Reading something a little more page-turning and plot oriented is much easier to do at the same time all of that is going on.
>The Twelve Chairs
>Tranströmer Collected Poetry and Prose
>Women and Appletrees
>Death of Ivan Ilyich
>Master and Margarita
>>7462905
was the twelve chairs as good as i'm hoping it will be?
>>7463135
Yes. It get's better as it goes on too, which was a nice change. It's more common for books (and films) to start good but fail to wrap it up.
Roughly in chronological order:
>The Savage Detectives
>2666
>Freedom
>Colorless Tskuru Tasaki
>Anna Karenina
>My Struggle Part I
>My Struggle Part II
>The Great Gatsby (3rd time reading)
>Purity
>Lolita
>The Bell Jardon't fucking judge me
>>7463739
You think I'd judge you for Plath but not Franzen?
>>7459322
this
>>7463899
>>franzen hate
>This is a reddit meme
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>7463907
I've got to stop coming here with all these failed abortions.
>>7459255
Black Rain by Masuuji Ibuse. I mainly read it because I wanted to watch Shohei Imamamura's film adaptation, but I really enjoyed it.
>>7461295
Really incredibly dense, but very moving at parts. I cried
>>7460373
It is. It's the site for normies, corporate interests, whiners, and even bigger whiners.
It's also very plebian, self-congratulatory, and a hugbox, and all of their actually funny content originates on 4chan.
>>7465001
>plebian, self-congratulatory, and a hugbox
sounds like /lit desu
>>7459381
>mindfuck
i hate that word so much
