Suggest some good books for my /lit/
some of your favourites, maybe just really good ones.
I love The Call of the Wild and White Fang, I think they're best read together.
Some of my all-time favs
Easy/quick reads:
My Ántonia - Cather
The Age of Innocence - Wharton
Smith of Wootton Major - Tolkien
Anthem - Rand
If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino
Long/hard reads:
Mason & Dixon - Pinecone
Le Morte d'Arthur - Malory
Middlemarch - Eliot
Poetry:
Transformations - Sexton
Assorted poems by C. Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson
Obscure stuff that'll make you feel smart:
The Red Lily - France
Daughter of the elm - Hall
>>7984321
>My Ántonia - Cather
I love that book. Straightforward, yet beautifully written.
vurt
City of god lins
the virgin suicides
the once and future king
on a winter's night a traveler
for those that are fond of drugs/travelling/prose
On the Road - Kerouac
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Howl - Ginsberg
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
>>7984193
In Search of Lost Time
Goethe's Faust
Autobiography of Red
Jesus' Son
Crying of Lot 49
Fictions
Petersburg
(Salammbo is also pretty cool.)
The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
The Iliad, The Odyssey by Homer
The three Theban plays (Oedipus trilogy) by Sophocles
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Fathers and Sons, Mumu, The Torrents of Spring by Turgenev
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Huck Finn by Twain