What are your top 3 favorite books that aren't on this list /lit/?
Hard mode:Nor by any of the authors on the list.
>All that normie stuff
>Literally zero power level
1. Sword Art Online
2. Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari
3. Mushoku Tensei
t. random weeb.
>>7741123
You could've at least tried to pick good LN
>>7741091
Autobiography of Red and Red Doc.
The Hearing Trumpet
Petersburg
>>7741091
The Tunnel
The Recognitions
The Lime Twig
Against Nature - Huysmans
The Life of Henry Brulard - Stendhal
Colonel Chabert - Balzac
hard mode 4 u (no order)
vargas llosa - conversation in the cathedral
stendhal - the red and the black
gombrowicz - ferdydurke
pirandello - the late mattia pascal
marias - a heart so white
roth - sabbath's theater
döblin - berlin alexanderplatz
modiano - missing person
leskov - short stories
babel - short stories
>>7741131
i love you gassposter
>no Dickens
are you kidding me? Anyway
>Great Expectations
>Sons and Lovers
>Trainspotting
>>7741129
>not good LNs
then recommend something m8, I found these pretty entertaining for my tastes at least, I'm always willing to read better if I can find anything, though I read only fantasy and stuff smiliar to this.
>>7741219
>>Trainspotting
Spot the Reddit poster.
>>7741231
Check out HakoMari, Bungoku Shoujo and Zaregoto. The last one only has 5 volumes translated, but it is god tier.
>>7741232
>stop liking what I don't like :(
>>7741091
Locos
Manuscript Found In Saragossa
Gil Blas
>>7741236
>fuck they know how new I am
>better meme to distract
nice1
>>7741235
>HakoMari, Bungoku Shoujo and Zaregoto
The first was on my list, I watched the Bungoku Shoujo animation and was pretty nice though I'm not sure I can get myself to read the novel yet, maybe later this year (I still remember the story well). I never heard Zaregoto and I'm definitely checking it out.
>>7741202
I love you too, anon.
>>7741263
i was kidding, i hate you, you little bitch.
The Sirens of Titan
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
>>7741387
I am hurt
>>7741242
You're such a gigantic faggot.
Using the 'meme' argument is just self-parody, because you're using a meme to denegrate someone for using a meme.
Grow up you fucking retard.
>>7741091
Brief History of Seven Killings
Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan
Death comes for the Archbishop by Cather
My only top book on that list is Blood Meridian
Yes by Bernhard
Seven Madmen/Flamethrowers by Arlt
Complete Short Stories by Chekhov
>>7741219
Tale of Two Cities is on the list.
From authors on the list:
Dickens - Bleak House
Melville - The Confidence Man
Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
From authors not on the list:
Swift - Gulliver's Travels / Tale of a Tub
Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
Also: No Flannery O'Connor?
>>7741434
>Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
It sounds a bit corny. Could you please tell me why the book is worth?
Thanks for sharing.
The Dove by Patrick Süskind
Schachnovelle (The Royal Game) by Stefan Zweig
Nibelungenlied
Silence by Endo
>tfw you have a new top tier book
Kim by Kipling
The Remains of the Day
I cant believe The Good Earth made it on there. How many votes needed for 80-100
>>7741441
Admittedly is a little corny. But egg-head narrator vs. Zorba gets at why one reads literature at all - Zorba, the fictional character, certainly sees the written word as an unnecessary stain. The book is more ambiguous than it seems.
Plus it's not so goddamn gloomy. Spring weather calls for authors like Cervantes, not melancholy old Dickens.
>>7741503
Alright, thanks. Might check it out.
Moby dick in really in your top 100?!? Melville is the most overrated author ever.
>>7741416
you are horribly pleb
>>7741601
And the chances you have read any of them is probably 5%.
Go back to your hs reading list and feel superior for gobbling up what is fed to you.
>>7741613
i love death comes for the archbishop.
i dont even care what you picked, the fact that you say your only top book from this list is BM is hilariously pleb
>>7741600
agreed. nowhere near as good as Gene Wolfe
That is the old chart, and since when did this board turn to such utter pleb trash? This thread is embarrassing.
>>7741623
you forgot to post yours
>>7741616
My favorite novelists are the ones I mentioned, plus Ishiguro Kipling Llosa Roth Hardy and some Chinese classics. Don't assume.
>>7741630
Critique of Pure Reason, The Idea of the Holy (it's not that good but I love the numinous concept and it was one of the first philosophy novels I read), and probably the poetry of W.B Yeats if that counts. Most of my favourite novels like Stoner and No Longer Human are already there
Mao II
Omensetter's Luck
The Dead Father
>>7741675
I don't think poetry and philosophy counts. pick three that aren't on the list
>>7741775
>don't think poetry and philosophy counts
>there's peotry and philosophy on the list
???
i always forget to save that mother fucker. someone link me /lit/ guide to philosophy.
>>7741232
He says as if he has read it.
>>7741675
>calls people pleb
>favorite book is stoner
>>7741091
Il nome della rosa
La ciudad y los perros
A confederacy of dunces
>>7741231
Boogiepop
>>7741130
Beauty of the Husband
Hard mode for plebs, maybe.
Benedetti - gracias por el fuego
Uslar pietri - oficio de difuntos
Miguel Otero silva - cuando quiero llorar no lloro
You guys should learn spanish, after the 1950's and until about the 80's, latin american literature was on another level.
Also, anything written by pablo neruda, probably the best poet of the 20th century.
>>7743736
>pablo neruda
>best poet of 20th century
wew lad i am laffin'
>>7743741
Respond with an actual answer, then, and leave the stupid memes for another board.
>>7743736
>Pablo Neruda
>Better than Pound, Crane, Eliot, and Ashbery
You're entitled to your own opinion. But damn--that's an odd opinion to have.
Trainspotting
the book of five rings
con iggulden's books about caesar
if your idea of english fiction is limited by this list, maybe try
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders
Anthony Trollope - The Warden
then you can move on to P.G. Wodehouse and C.S. Lewis
>>7741232
what's reddit about trainspotting
>>7743736
>Benedetti
estoy loleando
Stewart Lee - How I Escaped My Certain Fate
>>7743715
Fantastic as well. Can't really decide my favourite though. Autobiography was the first I read, so.
>>7743736
>Neruda
>Benedetti
Haceme el favor de matarte.
the stranger would never be #2, not even in /lit/
deszo kosztolanyi - skylark
laszlo krasznahorkai - war and war
kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled
>>7746353
>kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled
my nigga
>>7741091
Are there only English speaking users on this board? Or does anyone on here read the same stuff to fit in?
>>7746360
>Does everyone read the same stuff to fit in?
>>7746360
>on an english site
>wonders why most people read and post in english
w e w l a d
>>7746360
This is an English speaking board, what do you think?
It's not my native language, but I prefer to read it as it has the most interesting literature.
>>7746360
the 2nd and 3rd place picks aren't originally in the english language...
but yes, yes there are and yes we do
Maldoror
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Maldoror
>>7746440
Whoops, one of those should have been The Bridge over San Louis Ray
>>7741623
I know it's been said before, but this chart is soo much better, we should retire the old one
>>7746784
it doesn't have the personality of the older one, and it's ugly to boot
1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. Pnin
3. A Confederacy of Dunces (not by someone on the list, but extremely /lit/core)
Hard mode:
1. The Dispossessed
2. The Remains of the Day
3. Midnight's Children
>>7746443
what are you talking about? two instances of maldoror and that's still the best list this garbage thread will ever possibly have.
>>7747474
>nabby's pnin
>midnight's children
>confederacy of dunces
please, go back to plebbit
>>7747499
hmmm. no
would reddit even like midnight's children? I have a reddit account I don't sign into often but I have never once seen a discussion of Rushdie there (he comes up here pretty often)
>>7741091
twilight, harry potter, eragon
>Robert Musil - The Confessions of Young Torless
>Tao Lin - Bed
>...
Why is there so much Camus on the list? I read The Plague last year and it was super bloated.
