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Make an ordered list of the books in your backlog and roll to see the book that you'll be reading next.

I'll start.

0. Infinite Jest
1. The Book of Disquiet
2. Light in August
3. The Sound and the Fury
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
5. The Castle
6. Dubliners
7. The Myth of Sisyphus
8. East of Eden
9. On the Road
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0. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
1. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
2. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
3. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
4. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
5. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
6. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
7. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
8. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
9. The Tunnel (re-re-read)
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>>8034006

Thank god I didn't get infinitely meme'd this time
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>>8034006

how have you not read these books yet? just start reading or something?
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>>8034006
0. Infinite Jest
1. White Noise
2. Don Quixote
3. Savage Detectives
4. The Beach
5. East of Eden
6. Doors of Perception
7. Moby Dick
8. Conf of Dunces
9. No Longer Human

DUBS. Still Life with Woodpecker
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Taming of the Shrew 0-1
Macbeth 2-3
Mrs Dalloway 4-5
Black Holes: VSI 6-7
La Tregua 8-9

0 rerol
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>>8034036

Started reading intensively (on a daily basis) since last summer and got addicted. Already read quite a bit, but still miles and miles to go.
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>>8034047
Nice roll, my good fellow.
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>>8034030
kek
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0. Moll Flanders
1. The Plague
2. Bleeding Edge
3. Anathem
4. Metamorphoses (Ovid)
5. The Aeneid
6. Amerika
7. Sister Carrie
8. Acts of Worship
9. Hypersphere
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>>8034036
>here is a set list of objectively good *must read books* that everyone must have read or else they are a novice reader

People read different stuff. I haven't read any of OP's list, I mainly read politics/ economics/ sociology
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>>8034119

Then why are you here?
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0.Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
1.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
3. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
4. Middlemarch by George Eliot
5. The Odyssey by Homer
6. Living in the end times by Slavoj Zizek
7. The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
8. The world as will and idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
9.The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
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0. Infinite Jest
1. Infinite Jest (re-read)
2. Infinite Jest (re-re-read)
3. Infinite Jest (re-re-re-read)
4. Infinite Jest (re-re-re-re-read)
5. Infinite Jest (re-re-re-re-re-read)
6. Infinite Jest (re-re-re-re-re-re-read)
7. Infinite Jest (re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read)
8. Infinite Jest (re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read)
9. Infinite Jest (re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read)
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>>8034068
might take me a while but i have been wanting to read it for a while.
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>>8034167
dude picture of dorian gray is so fucking good it will change your life
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0. TBK
1. V.
2. The rise of christianism
3. book of Disquiet
4. freakonomics
5. moby dick
6. ulysses
7.o relato de um certo oriente
8.house of the dead
9.Grande sertão veredas
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>>8034229
>The Devil to Pay in The Backlands
oh boy im fucked
neologisms here i go
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0. Numero Zero
1. The Tin Drum
2. Kafka on the Shore
3. Franny and Zooey
4. Heart of Darkness
5. The Crying of Lot 49
6. East of Eden
7. Gravitys Rainbow
8. Inherent Vice
9. Opio en las nubes
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0 War and Peace
1 Pickwick Papers
2 Twilight of the Idols
3 The Antichrist
4 The Skating Rink
5 Nova Express
6 JR
7 Vanity Fair
8 Turn of the Screw
9 Portrait of a Lady
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0. A clockwork Orange
1. Catch-22
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Slaughter House Five
4. The Catcher in the Rye
5. Invisible Man
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7. Lolita
8. Lord of the Flies
9. Roll-Again
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>>8034269
God fucking damn it, really?

>>8034222
Just finished it. God, I love Oscar Wilde. Truly one of the wittiest authors I've ever read, and one of the best authors to portray the dangers of hedonism.
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0. Aeneid
1. The Double / The Gambler
3. Snow Country
4. Absalom, Absalom!
5. Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
6. Course in General Linguistics
7. The Trial
8. Against Nature
9. Picture of Dorian Gray
10. Dubliners
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>>8034292

haha god damn it. i didn't put a 2 but i put a 10.....

we'll go with dubliners
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0. Diary of a country Priest
1. Washington Square
2. Pnin
3. Invitation to a Beheading
4. Confessions of a Mask
5. Disgrace
6. Skylight
7. A Time to Keep Silence
8. The Train Was On Time
9. Enemies
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>>8034006
0. A Frolic of His Own
1. Milkbottle H
2. 2666
3. Pale Fire
4. The Pale King
5. The Beetle Leg
6. Against the Day
7. Cannonball
8. Swann's Way
9. Dhalgren
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>>8034006
0. Dead Souls
1. War & Peace
2. The Trial
3. Against the Day
4. The Cannibal
5. The Master and Margarita
6. Gogol Short Stories
7. Demons
8. The Book of Disquiet
9. White Noise
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0. V
1. Meditations
2. Blood Meridian
3. The Sound and the Fury
4. The Great Gatsby
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>>8034110
What's the best translation for Ovid's Metamorphoses?
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>>8035100
enjoy. halfway through now. really great
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0 Sarah Kane Collected Plays
1 Anything by Durkheim or Weber
2 if anyone is reading this, /lit/'s choice (non-fic)
3 Ariel
4 Against Method
5 if anyone is reading this, /lit/'s choice (non-fic)
6 any book on aesthetics or phil of art
7 A New Philosophy of Society
8 if anyone is reading this, /lit/'s choice (non-fic)
9 Antic Hay
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Memes: the thread
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>>8034006
0. Infinite Jest
1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Ulysses
3. The Tunnel
4. The Recognitions
5. Women and Men
6. 2666
7. Stoner
8. Lolita
9. Pepe
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1. Moby Dick
2. Moby Dick
3. Moby Dick
4. Moby Dick
5. Moby Dick
6. Moby Dick
7. Moby Dick
8. Moby Dick
9. Moby Dick
Dubs = The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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1. Slaughterhouse five
2. Pale Fire
3. Embassytown
4. Count Zero
5. Dune
6. Gravity's Rainbow
7. Steppenwolf
8. The Blade Itself
9. The Black Prism

lets riggity roll
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not rolling but I like these threads anyway
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>>8035588
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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1.Notes from Underground
2.Tibetan book of the dead
3.The art of war
4.Gravity's rainbow

How do you manage to pile up so many books?
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>>8036760
>Don't have to read anything
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The Tin Drum 0-1
The Hunt For Red October 2-3
Neuromancer 4-5
Junky 6-7
Gravity's Rainbow 8-9
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>>8036806
Junky won? I'm okay with this. Reading a shorter novel now cause I just got done with a larger one. So reading two short novels in a row is pretty good to me.
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>>8034298
it's 2 in binary so your good
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/g/
>install gentoo

/mu/
>neutral milk hotel

/lit/
>infinite gest

I wish there was a comprehensive list of these.
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>>8034026
Fucking hate gass posters
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1. The Iliad
2. The Odyssey
3. The Histories
4. The First Philosophers
5. Plato Complete
6. Aristotle Complete
7. All Umberto Eco
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My backlog is so big that the last two digits will determine what I read
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0. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1. The Grapes of Wrath

2. Either/Or

3. Germinal

4. Lolita

5. Stoner

6. Republic

7. Beyond Good and Evil + Zarathustra

8. The First Philosophers

9. Bertrand Russell
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0 House of Leaves
1 White Teeth
2 A Supposedly Fun Thing
3 Hard Rain Falling
4 The Recognitions
5 Suttree
6 Dubliners
7 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
8 Nadja
9 Infinite Jest (re-re-re-read)
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Finished Sorcerer's Stone last night.

-1. Chamber of Secrets
0. Prisoner of Azkaban
1. Goblet of Fire
2. Order of the Phoenix
3. Half-Blood Prince
4. Deathly Hallows
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0. Mishima's Sea of Tranquility series
1. Hersey - Under the Eye of the Storm
2. Selimovic - Death and the Dervish
3. Gide - If It Die...
4. Camus - A Happy Death
5. Gaddis - The Recognitions
6. Faulkner - The Reivers
7. re-read Beckett's Murphy
8. Hemingway - The Dangerous Summer
9. Soseki - Sanshiro
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0. The Brothers Karamazov
1. Portrait of a Young Artist
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. The Tunnel (Sabato)
4. As I Lay Dying
5. Candide
6. Kokoro
7. Orlando Furioso
8. Pale Fire
9. Ovid's Metamorphoses

Dubs: Finnegans Wake
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1 House of many ways
2 los detectives salvajes
3 shadow and claw
4 temple of the golden pavillion
5 renains of the day
6 tortilla flat/connery row
7 snow leopard
8 chrome yellow
9 kon tiki
0 snow country
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>>8034006
0 infinite jest
1 catch 22
2 man in the high castle
3 brothers K
4 don quixote
5 divine comedy
6 portrait of artist
7 macbeth
8 les miserables
9 the reality dysfunction
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>>8034167
Dead Souls is the only book I wish went on forever.
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>>8037206
have fun lmao
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1. Dead Souls
2. Glory
3. The Talkative Corpse
4. Life: a User's Manuel
5. East of Eden
6. The Master and Margarita
7. Portrait of the Artist
8. Foucault's Pendulum
9. Alterity of Transcendence
0. 2666
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>>8037670
It would have at least gone on longer if Gogol hadn't found religion and burned the remaining manuscript.
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>>8036811
Both Junky and Queer are interesting reads and help to contextualize Naked Lunch. Enjoy.
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