what are your top 10 favorite books?
I haven't read many but
1. Cannery Row
2. East of Eden
3. Meditations Aurelius
4. The Things They Carried
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. For Whom The Bell Tolls
7. Tom Sawyer
8. Into Thin Air
9. The Sirens Of Titan
10. Island by Huxley
I won't rank them but I can sure name some for you
Candide by Voltaire
Lost Illusions by Balzac
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell
On the Road (original scroll text) / Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM
Travels with Charley by Steinbeck
Lit by Mary Karr
>>7495131
may this imgur invasion you speak of really be the new sincerity?
>>7495134
>>7495145
misplaced reply but you get the idea
>>7495158
cop
>>7495171
can't be bothered, 3x3s threads are more common than top 10s.
>>7495181
>top novels
>posts inherent vice nonironicly
the book apocalypse now was based on
odd-numbered harry potters
arabian nights
the confessions of jean-jacques rousseau
journals and writings of emerson
f. scott fitzgerald's short stories
hemingway's memoir
ulysses / dubliners
harold bloom
franny and zooey
The Plays of Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
The Canterbury Tales
Paradise Lost
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Bible
Infinite Jest
A Confederacy of Dunces
Youth In Revolt
The Big Sleep
The Trial
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
American Psycho
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Last Exit To Brooklyn
pretty pleb but these are the ones that have stuck with me
The Jungle
Ham on Rye
Great Expectations
The Sound and the Fury
Of Mice and Men
>>7495249
>>7495242
>Youth in Revolt
the only good YA novel ever
>>7495251
Neck beard
>>7495229
>stop liking things i don't like.jpg
>>7495240
LOL
>>7495244
xD us patricians right
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
...
Cat's Cradle
Hamlet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
100 Days of Sodom
Around the World in Eighty Days
The diary of Eva Braun
Summa Theologica
As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing
Purgatorio
>>7495273
>memes
>patrician
??
1. 1984
2. Starship Troopers
3. The Crying of Lot 49
4. White Noise
5. Libra
6. The Ghost Writer
7. The Web of Belief
8. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
9. The Rules of Attraction
10. I've only read 9 books
>>7495236
>odd-numbered harry potters
may you not grow up in ignorance of the atrocity which is this opinion
>>7495229
it's pretty good bro
>>7495292
1, 3, 5, and 7 have the most cohesive plots in the series besides 4 and 6, fight me IRL bastard
>>7495303
>books for limey toddlers
>literature
>cohesive
u wot
>>7495309
Bro, I am truly saddened that you don't know the pleasures of cohesion in narrative prose
>>7495303
2 is the best. Kill yourself.
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
Dracula - Stoker
Dharma Bums - Kerouac
Dispatches - Herr
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Death Sentences - Chiaki
Great Expectations - Dickens
Shogun - Clavell
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Thompson
>>7495104
junior varsity/10
>>7495131
i bet you wear a monocle unironically
>>7495160
>>>/mu/
franny and zooey good tho
>>7495236
u wot
>>7495240
shitty b8 implying anyone would exult the bible and paradise lost together
you undiscerning plen
>>7495242
infected neckbeard follicles
>>7495277
i am curious as to the extent to which this is bait
>>7495284
passable ruse
>>7495319
you are a diarrhea person idiot
The Western Lands
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
The Pale King
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Glamorama
The Idiot
Job: A Comedy of Justice
The Unfortunates
Gravity's RainbowTaipei
>>7495322
crawl back up moaning myrtle you goofy shit
>>7495343
You seem like a cool guy, but why did you have to ruin such a perfect list with Gravity's Rainbow? Have you read M&D? What are your opinions on Cormac McCarthy?
>>7495344
>implying the blood on the walls and the chamber itself wasn't fucking metal
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Some Plays of Shakespeare
Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus
The Divine Comedy
A Clockwork Orange
Moby Dick
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
>>7495353
not as metal as when umbridge makes harry cut himself in the fifth one
2666
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Underworld
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The God Delusion
The Dune
The Koran
Di-Cyclic Hypernomial Wong Projections in Kocjizctoot Subspaces by Broob Kocjizctoot
>>7495367
>The God Delusion
fuckin kek
the meme trilogy too
Women and Men - McElroy
Ulysses - Joyce
The Recognitions - Gaddis
Infinite Jest - DFW
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Moby-Dick - Melville
The Ego and Its Own - Stirner
Stoner - Williams
2666 - Bologna
>>7495417
how'd the redpill go down senpai?
The Selfish Gene
The Extended Phenotype
The Blind Watchmaker
River Out of Eden
Climbing Mount Improbable
Unweaving The Rainbow
A Devil’s Chaplain
The Ancestor’s Tale
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show On Earth
I love books that expose the stupidity of the average person.
>>7495352
M&D is at the top of my list for next year. and McCarthy is excellent, I would almost call him a "wordsmith," but even he can't make me feel not cheesy enough to actually use that term.
>>7495429
You forgot 1984 and Animal Farm.
>>7495078
1. Hamlet
2. Wind in the Willows
3. Book of Disquiet
4. Catch-22
5. The Exit
6. Candide
7. Faust
8. Iliad
9. Excluding purely philosophical works and others that don't deserve top ten.
In my country, I am called The Genrepleb.
Hild -- Nicola Griffith
The Tempest -- Wm Ss
Little Miss Strange – Joanna Rose
Taran Wanderer -- Lloyd Alexander
Vurt -- Jeff Noon
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny
Sewer, Gas & Electric – Matt Ruff
Carve the Sky – Alexander Jablokov
The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
Lie Down in Darkness
Anna Karenina
The Leopard
The Waves
Last Words from Montmarte
A Free Life
Autobiography of Red
The Idiot
Butcher's Crossing
Absalom, Absalom
>>7495078
Petersburg-Bely
Being and Time-Martin Heidegger
In Search of Lost Time-Marcel Proust
Gormenghast-Meryvyn Peak
Mason and Dixon-Thomas Pynchon
The Sea of Fertility-Yukio Mishima
Night on the Galactic Railroad and various-Kenji Miyazawa
The Transylvanian Trilogy-Miklós Bánffy
The Castle-Franz Kafka
Journey to the End of the Night-Celine
>>7495461
Hey, I like u
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Trial - Kafka
Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Dubliners - Joyce
Middlemarch - George Eliot
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
The Book of Ecclesiastes
>>7495367
Pirsig is a faget. MUH QUALITY
Those Who Trespass (O'Reilly)
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
White Noise (DeLillo)
The Rules of Attraction (Ellis)
Mockingbird (Tevis)
Dead Babies (Amis)
Junky (Burroughs)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson)
The Secret History (Tartt)
A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
Watchmen
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Master and Margarita
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Stranger
Invisible Man
Moby Dick
Blood Meridian
Breakfast of Champions
Steppenwolf
>>7495284
I like the honesty.
>>7495343
Just finished reality hunger yesterday. Head trip.
Don Quixote
Ficciones
Leaf Storm
Tree of Science
Niebla
San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
From Hell
The Savages Detectives
Fortunata and Jacinta
Gay Science
White Noise
The Secret History
Nausea
A Farewell to Arms
The Sound and the Fury
Dhalgren
Metamorphosis
Blood Meridian
House of Leaves
Beloved
Surprised how often The God Delusion is popping up on a lit forum. Must have really tripped some people the fuck out.
>>7495710
>Reality Hunger
>steal from other authors, don't feel bad, and B.E. yourself
unironically really an inspiring book 2bh. the passages that are Shields' are enjoyable, his voice shows through even among the clutter of other fragments.
Not in order, but I cannot be assed to think that hard:
>Virgin Suicides
>Dead Souls
>Gulliver's Travels
>Beloved
>Old Man and the Sea
>On the Road
>Elective Affinities
>Three Theban Plays (yes, it is one work. No one reads just one of them as a stand alone. In order though: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus)
>The Zero
>Brothers K
>>7495895
Fuck, I forgot about The Passing. I can't decide which one to replace it with, so I have 11
>>7495078
i must include poets (no order)
Suttree-Cormac McCarthy
Italian Journey-Goethe
Complete Poems of Hart Crane
Complete Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Complete Poems Rilke
Amsterdam Stories- Nescio
The Idiot- Dostoevsky
The Confidence Man - Melville
Ecclesiastes
The Border Trilogy - McCarthy
Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
Underworld
Mason & Dixon
V
Taipei
As I Lay Dying
To the Lighthouse
Like Life
Birds of America
>>7495104
Ha, reading East of Eden and Meditations atm.
Mine are probably The Sun Also Rises, The Hobbit, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, 2666, Moby-Dick, The Moon Is Down, Oliver Twist, The Pale King, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and, honestly, probably East of Eden.
>>7495078
This one my Nigga http://w.tt/1QGUPBJ
To The Lighthouse
Gravity's Rainbow
The poetry of Rilke
Mason and Dixon
Underworld
Libra
Blood Meridian
Moby Dick
The poetry of Wallace Stevens
The poetry of William Wordsworth
So much meme trilogy in here
>>7495971
Nice. How you liking meditations? Reading it just for fun?
>>7495078
Starship Troopers.
>>7497054
Another anon reading meditation here, don't you guys find some of his musing to plainly be bullshit? I like all the rational and objective inquiry into life, but all the 'reference for gods' seems so empty.
>>7496882
trole/10
rocky a straight up bitch real talk f@m
no yams no asap
>>7495078
I'm
That
Pretty
Mutha
Fucka,
ASAP
Is
Just
My
Nickname.
The Book of Knights.
Phenomenology of Spirit
Virtue and terror
Hegemony and socialist strategy
the German ideology
Pollen
Sickness unto Death
beyond good and evil
moby dick
critique of judgment
ideas for a philosophy of nature
Katherine Mansfield - Bliss and Other Stories
Jules Renard - Nature Stories
Breece D'J Pancake - Trilobites
Juan Rulfo - The Burning Plain
Kjell Askildsen - Selected Stories
Alice Munro - Dance of the Happy Shades
Helen Garner - Postcards From Surfers
Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Rashamon and Other Stories
Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
damn, ten really isn't enough
>>7498562
you sure like your short stories.
>>7495343
>Glamorama
my man
>>7498562
>Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Fuck. I loved this. I have found Carver's writing style is much like a modern Hemingway, so an extent.
Also, are you talking about the short story, or his collection of short stories by that same name? If it's the latter, which one did you enjoy best. "Popular Mechanics" really stuck with me.
>>7497703
Yes personally I think so too. But it was just made to comfort himself I think. What the booked helped me do is think about the feelings that comfort me.
>>7498681
yeah, i tried to fit in more novels but i haven't read that many great ones desu. maybe i should replace that mishima with heart of darkness or lord jim or portrait of the artist tho ... idk.
>>7498935
I mean the collection. my favs were probably 'viewfinder' and 'gazebo' and 'why don't you dance' desu, but almost every story in there is pretty dank. I've read elephant too and just starting 'will you please be quiet please?', neither collection has grabbed me as strongly though.
>>7495160
book in the top left?
Snow Country - Kawabata
Ferdydurke - Gombrowicz
The Misanthrope - Molière
Satires - Juvenal
Against Nature - Huysmans
Satires - Boileau
A Hero of our Time - Lermontov
Cinna - Corneille
Poetry - Mallarmé
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
>>7495740
>Surprised how often The God Delusion is popping up on a lit forum.
We've had a recent influx of redditors based on an imgur post about a chart made here. They mostly post in accessible threads like this.
Here's my 3x3.
>>7500241
>a weeaboo that likes Faulkner
how on earth
>>7500252
retard
>>7500252
Yeah, there are some legitimately good books and movies in there for someone who thinks it's okay to like anime, manga and shitty television sci-fi.
Don Quixote
The Opposing Shore
War and Peace
2666
Notes From the Underground
The Hermit
Selected Works of Konrad Bayer
The Pale King
The Soft Machine
Island
Hamlet
Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
Eee eee eee
Madame Bovary
Remembrance of things past
Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
Gargantua & Pantagruel
Illiad
>>7500274
And where do you get your taste? Do you randomly pick out book at a library?
>>7500297
He probably gets his tastes from an amalgam of sources, like any nonposeur. Have you ever actually tried blindly reading random books from the library? It's actually quite fun and you can stumble across something good every once in awhile.
>>7500309
I'm sure it's fun, but it doesn't mean that it will make it in your top favorites.
>>7500316
Just stick with anime, weeb.
>>7500331
Keep judging books by their covers, pleb.
>>7498562
Read Cathedral breh
>>7500338
The irony.
Don Quixote
The Shadow Out of Time(Would mention more Lovecraft stories, but this is my favourite)
1984
Masque of The Red Death
A Game of Thrones(Not the entire series, just this book)
>>7500338
I hope you learn your mistakes soon, because I'm pissed.
>>7495331
we have very similar taste. could you recommend a few from that list?
>>7500341
I have, good book.
