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The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
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Ada
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>>7526563
The Tunnel by William Gass. I will find you if you do not read this.
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Orlando furioso
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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
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Blood Meridian by Mac McMac
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>>7526612
google brings nothing, have a link?
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>>7526614

Prae by Miklós Szentkuthy
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2 6 6 6
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>>7526637
Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone
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The Stand
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madame bovary - Flaubert
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This. Enjoy the ride.
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>>7526614
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Saxo Grammaticus
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>>7526652
sorry, bro
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>>7526642
>sorcerers
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Invisible Cities by Calvino
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>>7526513
The Sea, The Sea--Iris Murdoch
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A Faustian retelling

you pick Marlowe, Goethe, Mann, or Bulgakov
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in search of lost time , proust
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>>7526702
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>>7526702
Damn that's a dick move.

The Sound and the Fury
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The Bible
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>>7526715
Dark Night of the Soul
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The Legacy of Totalitarianism in A Tundra
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Underworld by DeLillo
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The Leopard
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The Once And Future King. T. H. White.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Che by Jon Anderson
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Hi /lit/.

Did you ever think, you are going to die?

I don't give a shit about your resolutions. I just want you to know, that you will, one day die. And that's it. You're fucking DEAD.
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>>7526810

The Passive Vampire.
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Thanks for clogging up the board with shitposts. You get to read Hogg, faggot
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>>7526845
The Asiatics - Frederic Prokosch

Be kind
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>>7526863
Orlando Furioso.
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>>7526867
im not reading that, someone recommend me something else
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>>7526876
the mahabharata (whole thing, not just bhagavad-gita)
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>>7526876
Faggot.
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>>7526882
waiting for non-meme reply
also,
Finnegans Wake 4 u
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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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>>7526887
joke's on you i've already read finnegans wake and was planning on giving it a reread soon :)
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whoever that is holding the thing she's kicking gets to see her panties
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>>7526899
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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>>7526810
Memento mori, carpe diem, etc etc.

I wish I had a bracelet or something to wear as a reminder of mortality. Something to look at every once and a while that forces you to think about it.
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>>7526916
Sorry, but you'll be reading twilight reimagined.
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>>7526977
Hypersphere :^)
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>>7526981
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JR
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The Odyssey, Robert Fitzgerald translation
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>>7526988
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>>7527048
Tom Sawyer
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The Quran with it's Tafseer (explanation)
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Crippled America
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Sex by Madonna.
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>>7527081
Thanks
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
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Zettels Traum
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Calculus, Volume 1, One-variable calculus, with an introduction to linear algebra - Tom M. Apostol
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Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Or

The Skyborn by paul collins

Whichever looks more enjoyable.
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Electric-Edge-Academe-Springs/dp/1607814064
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Augustus - John Williams
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Planescape Torment
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Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis
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>>7527190
Also sprach Zarathustra - Nietzsche
(Thus spoke zarathustra)
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A personal matter by kenzaburo oe
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The unconsoled - kazuo ishiguro
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Simplicissimus
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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
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Augustus by John Williams
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Blood meridian
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Don Delillo - White Noise :^)
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>>7526654
why would you even
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Omon Ra by Pelevin
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An Introduction to Algebraic Topology by Joseph J. Rotman
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Spinoza's Ethics.
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Diary of a Madman by Gogol
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
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Mrs Dalloway - Woolf
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Der Müllmann by Helmut Wolkenwand
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In Search of Lost Time by Proust
All of it you lazy sod
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The Complete Works - Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite
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Zettels Traum
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Philogelos: The Laughter Lover
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At Swim, Two Boys
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>implying I haven't started a book already

Fuck you, you don't own my literary interests.
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whatever you're already reading my friend :^)
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Mein Kampf :^)
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^crime and punishment^ Dostoevsky
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The Entire Sandman Omnibus
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>>7526513
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Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
it's on piratebay
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Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt
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A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
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The First Philosophers - Robin Waterfield
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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>>7527609
>2339 pages

Come on man.
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>>7527611
It's worth it
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Not a book, but two short stories:

'The Library of Babel'
by Jorge Luis Borges and

'One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock'
by Neil Gaiman
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The republic by plato
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kokoro - soseki
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>>7527677
Butchers crossing
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life of pi
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do androids dream of electric sheep? - Dick
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>>7527704
Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
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In Search of Lost Time - Proust
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>>7527715
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
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>>7527722
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
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In Search of Lost Time - Proust
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In Search of Lost Time - Proust
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the martian
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>>7527735
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
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>>7527738
Delete this
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Stephen W. Hawking The theory of everything
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Elliot Rodger - My Twisted World
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Dead Souls - Gogol
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>>7527797
Whoops, link was a mammoth, had to shorten it. Your material to read for 2016 is at: tinyurl/pnoupc7
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Libra by don delillo
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Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski
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The Age of Spiritual Machines - Raymond Kurzweil
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>>7527848

The Sultan of Monte Cristo
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War & War, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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>>7527796
not going to rea dthat retarded shit.
rolling again
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The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings
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Wanderer, by Sterling Hayden
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>>7527993

this was meant for >>7527980
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The Greeks
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>>7528001
Thanks mate
Have a nice
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>>7527594
Is this the only book you've read? I've seen this shit spammed all the time in the last few days.
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Ask the Dust by John Fante
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Voices from Chernobyl, Alexievich
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The Trial
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Clifford D. Simak - City
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The Broken Commandment
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Dune, Frank Herbert
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Joseph and his Brothers - Thomas Mann
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>>7528091
Ecce Homo - F. Nietzsche
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Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
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>>7528173
excellent choice

Three Apples Fell From Heaven - Marcom
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Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
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Huger by Knut Hamsun
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>>7528202
Shit, Hunger*
It was at >>7528200
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Women and Men
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War and Peace
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the notebooks of malte laurids brigge
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Dune
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A clockwork orange
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Aristotle's Metaphysics
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>>7526513
Crippled America by Donald J. Trump
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aristotle's masterpiece
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>>7528385

Swedenborg's journal of dreams, 1743-1744, by Emanuel Swedenborg
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I am John von Dorf
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>>7526513
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. I heard it was good.
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Il Gattopardo - Tomasi de Lampedusa
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The First Bad Man - Miranda July
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Stefan Zweig's Chess Story
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Madame Bovary
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Spinoza's Ethics
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The architect's and builder's pocket-book: a handbook for architects, structural engineers, builders, and draughtsmen, by Kidder, Frank Eugene
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>>7528075
I've already read this and I don't want to read some random guy's trial
good thing the above anon doesn't deserve a rec 'cause I'm taking his. Rerolling.
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the complete twilight saga
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Ready Player One
:^)
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ok I leave board forever goodbye
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Women and Men by McElroy. Do it>>7528604
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Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
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>>7527450
That was a pretty good book.
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>>7526513
Infinite Jest
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The Sound and the Fury
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>>7528947
infinite jest
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>he hasn't finished a book yet
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The Diary of Witold Gombrowicz
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Master and Margarita
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Taipei
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>>7529062
I (>>7529046) read that a few months ago. Guess I'll tack onto whatever's posted next.
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plunkitt of tammany hall
enjoy anon <3
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Dune
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>>7526513
>>7526513
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
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chinese takeout arthur nersesian
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I am not a serial killer
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prometheus rising
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ok. maybe i will finally start reading.
As for you poster above me, you are going to read GEB
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>>7529417
So you are starting, I will be kind to you.

Read Around the world in 80 days, by Jules Verne
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>>7529417
I already read that i need another
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>>7529438
A rebours
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>>7529447
Doctor Glas - Hjalmar Söderberg
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>>7529447
sounds interesting, will read it.
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>>7528017
No lol, this was my first post on /lit/
Go with Isak Babel's Tales of Odessa if you prefer, or Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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>>7526513
bring it faget
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The Iliad (any translation you want)
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>>7529493
thus spoke zarathustra
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>>7529497
Already read. Another.

Also, for you Atlas Shrugged.
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>>7529495
I've read that as well.

For you, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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>>7529511
Any of FrankMcCourts autobios
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In Search of Lost Time
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Sextus Empiricus - Against the Logicians
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>>7526568
Shit I've read about this and now I really want to read it but it hasn't been translated in my language and I can't find an ebook.

How do i get this book?
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>>7529552
maybe see if your local library allows patrons to order books? might be a bit of a long shot, especially if it's a foreign-language book. if you're willing to pay up, you might as well try book depository.
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>>7529611
I'll try, thanks.

It really fucking infuriates me how often I can't find books I'm interested in beause they've been out of print for a decade, while every fucking time I enter a bookstore I see a literal cubic meter of the new YA/momporn shit.

A literal cubic meter.
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>>7529552
Your best bet is to get it off Amazon. And reading it translated would be like reading Ulysses translated, as the rhythm and musicality of his writing—what makes it so astounding—is untranslatable. Even if it's hard and doesn't make sense, read it in English.
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Replay by Ken Grimwood

Underrated as shit.
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>>7529546
Don Quixote
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Taipei - Lin
:^)
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Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet.
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>>7526513
The Revenant
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>>7529685
Independent people by Halldor Laxness
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The Dying Earth by Jack Vance.

Prepare for swag.
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>>7529890
Grail Quest: Kingdom of Horror

by J.H.Brennan
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testing
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>>7526513
either journey to the end of the night, lolita, or kokoro, you pick>>7530608
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>>7530886
i am a cat
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The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.

Enjoy you lucky fucking. Shits good.
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>>7530997
It's fucking wasted on him, he's a cat.
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Hitchhiker's Guide
Fuck off whoever
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>>7531004

Either that or a Japanese aristocrat
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The Alexiad
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Elementary principles of Philosophy - George Politzer
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Gulistan (don't know why you faggots pronounce it like that) of Saadi
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The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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>>7531196
Love in the time of cholera
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>>7526513
2666
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The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Nigger Bastard
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women and men
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>>7528017
>>7529488
How do all the Gombroposters always claim that it's their first post on /lit/
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L'Étranger - Albert Camus
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Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester
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Collected Tweets by Mira Gonzalez

make sure to buy a copy for you and one for your friends <3
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Fifty Shades of Foreskin - Robert Chandler
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Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts
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Rayuela
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what is a book
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My Struggle - Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Merlin by Robert Nye.
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima.
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>>7532048
Nice, but already read. Can I have another?
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Crab walk - Günter Grass
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>>7532061
Diary of a Madman by Gogol.
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Cat's cradle
Kurt vonnegut
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death and the kings horseman. its like shakespeare if shakespeare was actually relevant

probably because the guy studied shakespeare, but still..
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>>7532076
>Diary of a Madman by Gogol.
Excellent, will do.
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Herzgewächse, oder der Fall Adams by Hans Wollschläger
as far as I know there's no translation so I hope you speak german anon
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Insatiability by Witkacy. I hope the person above me will take it seriously and read the book, I'm planning to do the same and read whatever shit next anon posts.
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Life and times of Scrooge McDuck -Don Rosa
and/or
How to read Donald Duck - Dorfman
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>>7533572
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBeJS8Bfgo
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>>7532258
Was there a thread on Wykop or karachan about /lit/, or you just happen to know Witkacy? I've noticed an alarming influx of faggots from Poland to this board.
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Isis Unveiled
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>>7533600
Already read it desu.
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