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Just like the previous one - a selection of 100 books that /lit/ picks. I'll begin the poll with voting for The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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>>7750190
Huck Finn, Slaughterhouse 5, Forever War
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>>7750190
Fuck off, we made one a few months ago.
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why don't we read books and discuss them
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The Master & Margarita - M. Bulgakov - 1
Huckleberry Finn - M. Twain - 1
Slaughterhouse 5 - K. Vonnegut - 1
Forever War - J. Haldeman - 1
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>>7750198
Can you share it please?
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The Idiot.

Also - Pan Tadeusz.
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The Trial, The Twelve Chairs, The Plague, Pan
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>>7750200
wow will you look at this fag
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The Master & Margarita - M. Bulgakov - 1
Huckleberry Finn - M. Twain - 1
Slaughterhouse 5 - K. Vonnegut - 1
Forever War - J. Haldeman - 1
The Idiot - F. Dostoyevsky - 1
The Trial - F. Kafka - 1
The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov - 1
The Plague - A. Camus - 1
Pan - K. Hamsun - 1
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The Master & Margarita - M. Bulgakov - 1
Huckleberry Finn - M. Twain - 1
Slaughterhouse 5 - K. Vonnegut - 1
Forever War - J. Haldeman - 1
The Idiot - F. Dostoyevsky - 1
The Trial - F. Kafka - 1
The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov - 1
The Plague - A. Camus - 1
Pan - K. Hamsun - 1
Pan Tadeusz - Adam Mickiewicz - 1
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The bible
infinite jest
summa theologica
the trial Norwegian wood
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The Master & Margarita - M. Bulgakov - 1
Huckleberry Finn - M. Twain - 1
Slaughterhouse 5 - K. Vonnegut - 1
Forever War - J. Haldeman - 1
The Idiot - F. Dostoyevsky - 1
The Trial - F. Kafka - 2
The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov - 1
The Plague - A. Camus - 1
Pan - K. Hamsun - 1
Pan Tadeusz - Adam Mickiewicz - 1
The Holy Bible - 1
Infinite Jest - D.F. Wallace - 1
Summa Theologica - T. Aquinas - 1
Norwegian Wood - H. Murakami - 1
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>small and unreadable
nice retards
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Hunger - K Hamsun
Divine Comedy - Dante
Faust - Goethe
Proust - ISOLT
Big Breasts and Wide Hips - Mo Yan
APOAAAYM - Joyce
Nienasycenie - Witkiewicz
Пpecтyплéниe и нaкaзáниe - Дocтoeвcкий
>>7750217
approved
>>7750219
>The Trial
>The Plague
approved
>>7750247
>the bible
approved
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The Trial - F. Kafka - 3
The Plague - A. Camus - 2
The Holy Bible - 2
The Master & Margarita - M. Bulgakov - 1
Huckleberry Finn - M. Twain - 1
Slaughterhouse 5 - K. Vonnegut - 1
Forever War - J. Haldeman - 1
The Idiot - F. Dostoyevsky - 1
Crime and Punishment - F. Dostoyevsky- 1
The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov - 1
Pan - K. Hamsun - 1
Pan Tadeusz - Adam Mickiewicz - 1
Infinite Jest - D.F. Wallace - 1
Summa Theologica - T. Aquinas - 1
Norwegian Wood - H. Murakami - 1
Hunger - K. Hamsun - 1
The Divine Comedy - Dante - 1
Faust - Goethe - 1
In Search of Lost Time - M. Proust - 1
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - J. Joyce - 1
Insatiability - S. I. Witkiewicz - 1
Big Breasts and Wide Hips - M. Yan - 1
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Norwegian Wood
The Remains of the Day
The Once and Future King
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The Trial - F. Kafka - 3
The Plague - A. Camus - 2
The Holy Bible - 2
Norwegian Wood - H. Murakami - 2
The Master & Margarita - M. Bulgakov - 1
Huckleberry Finn - M. Twain - 1
Slaughterhouse 5 - K. Vonnegut - 1
Forever War - J. Haldeman - 1
The Idiot - F. Dostoyevsky - 1
Crime and Punishment - F. Dostoyevsky- 1
The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov - 1
Pan - K. Hamsun - 1
Pan Tadeusz - Adam Mickiewicz - 1
Infinite Jest - D.F. Wallace - 1
Summa Theologica - T. Aquinas - 1
Hunger - K. Hamsun - 1
The Divine Comedy - Dante - 1
Faust - Goethe - 1
In Search of Lost Time - M. Proust - 1
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - J. Joyce - 1
Insatiability - S. I. Witkiewicz - 1
Big Breasts and Wide Hips - M. Yan - 1
The Remains of the Day - K. Ishiguro - 1
The Once and Future King - T. H. White - 1
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>>7750190
That isn't the previous one, this is the previous one.

Also, we really should be using Google Forms or something like that for the submissions.
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>>7750200
>implying
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>>7750413
What a shit list
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Hunger, Hamsun
Odyssey, Homer
Gravity's Rainbow, Pinecone
Dubliners, Joyce
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Dead Souls, Gogol
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
Moby Dick, Melville
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>>7750190
Pan Tadeusz by Mickiewicz
The Stranger by Camus
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
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Fuck off back to imgur.
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What if we made a new kind of list for diversity? Like 1990 or newer, or something. It's always the same kind of books on this one.
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3 - The Trial - Kafka
2 - The Plague - Camus
2 - The Holy Bible
2 - Pan Tadeusz - Mickiewicz
2 - Norwegian Wood - Murakami
2 - Hunger - Hamsun
1 - The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov
1 - The Stranger – Camus
1 - The Remains of the Day -Ishiguro
1 - The Once and Future King - White
1 - The Master & Margarita - Bulgakov
1 - The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
1 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers
1 - The Divine Comedy - Dante
1 - Summa Theologica - Aquinas
1 - Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
1 - Pan - Hamsun
1 - Odyssey - Homer
1 - Moby Dick
1 - Insatiability - Witkiewicz
1 - Infinite Jest - Wallace
1 - In Search of Lost Time - Proust
1 - Huckleberry Finn - Twain
1 - Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
1 - Forever War - Haldeman
1 - Faust - Goethe
1 - Dubliners - Joyce
1 - Dead Souls - Gogol
1 - Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
1 - Big Breasts and Wide Hips - Yan
1 - As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
1 - Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
1 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
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We did this just a few months ago.

Jesus. At least wait until December or something.

Shaking my damn head
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>>7750190
Fitzgeralds translation of Homers odyssey
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vernon god little - dbc pierre
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>>7750479
2 - Ponas Tadas - Adomas Mickevičius
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Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Bible KJV
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The once and future king
Dune
Journey to the end of night
Vurt
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Crime and Punishment
The Plague
The Illiad
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>>7750190
>this one
>just like the previous one
if you werent a shameless imgurfag you'd know there have been two more charts since then.
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what are we just going to make a new top 100 list every month now?
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does anyone know/remember the name of the book where a young Russian spy infiltrates America and goes to elementary school? I remember it being written in a way that was kinda hard to read like "this one concludes the reporting of today" and whatnot.
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In Parenthesis, Endgame, Prometheus unbound, Mythologies
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>>7750819
pretty sure you're thinking of Infinite Jest
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Brothers Karamazov
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>>7750834
no it's not that

tho that book looks pretty decent
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>>7750850
>>7750819
not knowing this book is pissing me off
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>>7750892
read something good and it will come back to you
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Please no
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>>7750908
this t.b.h.
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this seems like an efficient polling thread
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Faust, Goethe
Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
Crime and Punishment, Dosto
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ABORT THREAD
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>>7750190
Dune
Hamlet
Ready Player One
Moby Dick (abridged tho)
Infinite Jest
120 Days of Sodom
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse V
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>>7751494
>those first 5
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>>7750215
Here it is.

There were already two separate top 100 votes last year. We don't need to make this into some monthly thing.
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>>7750308

/thread
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This board is sickening.
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>>7750328
>Пpecтyплéниe и нaкaзáниe - Дocтoeвcкий
Look at this faggot.
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>>7751623
THe same old SHIT
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>>7751494
>mfw I searched the first one
I'm getting vanned, ain't I?
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>>7750190
Fuck your list, and fuck you you newfag. If you had lurked a chart thread you would have found the proper list. Just go back to plebit.
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>>7751654
The ballots always attract votes for lots of interesting books, but many don't make the final list, as it's always the same set of books that collect enough votes to make it onto the final list. /lit/ really needs to broaden its reading.
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The Tunnel
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Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry.
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner.
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford.
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The Trial - Kafka
The Waste Land - Eliot
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Fictions - Borges
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>>7750413
>>7751623

There was one with top 100 authors too right? Can someone link that
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>>7752516
there was an author's list too.

anyhow, FUCK OFF OP.

you're obviously new as fuck and this needs to fucking wait. the "best of" lists mean absolutely nothing but as a sample of the board's taste at that particular time, and it hasn't been nearly long enough for the general average taste of the board to have changed much. i.e., it mostly serves as a catalogue of current memes.

go away.
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Can we do a list for books after 2000 just for a more modern take?
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A list of top 100 authors would be cool
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>>7752530
THIS
>>7752117
GASS
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>>7752516
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Poor /lit/, now all your new charts are going to be mostly reddit scum.
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>>7752966
>gene wolfe better than milton, homer, dante
utter fucking trash.
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>>7752966
>Nearly all cishet white males
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>>7753131
>over half are clearly homosexual
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>>7751623
delete this
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>>7753135
The point of my post
Your head
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If the list dosent have John Hawkes its trash tbrh
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>newfag posts 2014 list posted to Reddit a free months ago
>hey guys!! Let's make new one!! xDD

You know where to go OP.
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>>7752966
>>7751623
>almost all English shit
>the non-English things aren't even good half the time
>that order
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>>7752966
>Stephen King so high
Delete this
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>>7753464
note, again, that it's not 'OBJECTIVE ALL-TIME GOAT BEST THE TIPPITY-TOP AUTHORS READ IT AND WEEEEEEEEEP', it's 'what authors does /lit/ like the most in the current moment.' and, even with how much it's been posted, '>translation' is just but a meme, and most here are monolingual faggots, but hey.

there are no (unironic) pretensions here.
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The Stone Angel
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>>7753493
People who make a chart with Eco and Calvino as the only Italian representatives shouldn't be allowed to make charts in the first place.
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>>7753493
>>7753464
I mean, if we made a genuine sincere list, why would we keep on doing it over and over?
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>>7753513
>dante
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>>7753464
i counted 42 non english works, that's pretty fucking high for an english speaking board
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>>7753519
>Dante is the only Italian author together with Eco and Calvino
>what are Petrarca, Boccaccio, Tasso, Ariosto, Leopardi
>meanwhile Englishcucks unironically think Whitman is the greatest poet and Joyce is the greatest novelist
Now, I can deal with the last one but the first one is a crime, if you don't read don't fucking vote for a chart like this. I wouldn't.
>>7753514
You should make a definitive list and then periodically a worthless list to keep autism in check.
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Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
Yes - Bernhard
Complete Short Stories - Chekhov
Seven Madmen/Flamethrowers - Arlt
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>>7752704
Seconded. But probably just a top 30 or something, 100 is too much.
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>>7753539
>You should make a definitive list and then periodically a worthless list to keep autism in check.
Fantastic idea, which presents to me a general fact of this board: the first of the thing is sincere and unironic, genuine in its love and appreciation for the board's intelligence; the latter copies are mere mockery, parodies of the first which seek to supplant it, to be taken as seriously while subtly sneaking in total incongruities and utter mistakes, all to poke fun at the very idea that this board could have even intelligence or real useful knowledge at all. viz. the various novels. Autists can't tell the difference. :^)
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>>7750190
>>7750790
>>7752516
>>7752530
All of these top 100 charts are on the recommended reading wiki linked in the sticky, which newfags should browse before posting so that we don't have stupid threads like this. The 2015 poll happened in October-November, so we're still a ways away from doing the 2016 version.
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>>7751782
>/lit/ really needs to broaden its reading.
Its... what, "core" reading, as you've admitted to understanding that's what this is? Why? To have a snazzier list at the end of the year to show for these other websites?
Classics as the lowest common denominator here make much more sense than anything else. Read the fringe you're interested in, disregard reputation.
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>>7753599
How many people are interested in this here? Just a response would be good I guess
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The Nigger of Narcissus, Conrad
The Confidence Man, Melville
Bleak House, Dickens

>>7750328
Wikipedia for Dostoyevsky but not for Mo Yan?

>>7751514
Voting for Hamlet (one of these things is not like the others) or an abridged Moby Dick (...) is fucking stupid.

If we insist on having this thread, can we please try nominating something new? Previous lists are almost indistinguishable
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>>7750190
>#1 book about tennis
>hitchhikers

>>7751623
>#1 book about tennis - 40 votes
>#2 book about a whale - 25 votes

tell me I'm being meme'd
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>>7755375
>ij
>just about tennis
>moby dick
>just about whales
total fucking pleb right here
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>>7750716
eik nachui ; - D
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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
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