ITT: we recommend must read books
>>607766795
the running man
atlas shrugged
mein kampf
Wheel of time
>>607766795
Game of thrones
Prince of Tides
Discworld
Dune
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Night's Dawn trilogy
>>607766795
Life Among Giants
>>607766795
Kamasutra
>>607766795
The Bible
The Necronomicon
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Stephen King's IT
Altered Carbon
The lusty argonian maid
Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Torah
>>607766795
Corpus Hermeticum
This. I thought sci-fi was kinda stupid, but this book was awesome.
Dave Cullen's "Columbine"
Made me want to shoot up my school
The Crying of Lot 49
>>607766795
The Forever War is probably my favorite novel.
>>607768828
Was just about to post this. If you read enders game, Forever War is like a better version of it.
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i heard the triforce fail trilogy was good
>>607767040
This, must read books
>>607768612
this is soo stupid but i still laughed
Lamb
Christopher Moore
City of Thieves
All the Pretty Horses
I'd post covers but, well, don't judge a book by its cover, fag.
>>607766795
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Dream Merchant... Its like 900+ pages I haven't read it in ages though.
>>607766795
All Creatures Great and Small
>>607766795
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
>4-book retelling of the story of King Authur
>>607768722
ehhh boi! I see you also have good taste!
Notes From Underground
>>607769567
Theological book?
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Absolutely brilliant.
>>607766795
the Bible
"compilation" of unexplained or unsolved events throughout history.
sadly, don't know of any site that has a pdf version so if you want to read this you're gonna have to get it thru amazon.
>>607769996
The one by James Herriot. Not sure what your referring to. But I guess you can view some portions in a theological sense.
and a bottle of Rum a History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
>>607767040
Get past the blatant feminism theme from the Aes Sedai and others, you're golden for a fantastic fucking series.
>>607768828
>>607768970
>>607769850
my niggas
The Sparrow
>>607768462
This. 10/10. Highly recommend it.
Also, 50 shades of gay
>>607767001
Really ? I have it here next to me 'cause a friend of mine wanted to know what I think of it, but I haven't opened it yet...
The Communist Manifesto
>>607769394
City of Thieves was one of the best books I've ever read, must read
House of Leaves
>>607766952
telemachus sneezed
The Demon Haunted World
by Carl Sagan
Starship Troopers
The Awesome Guide to Life: Get Fit, Get Laid, Get Your Shit Together
-jason Ellis
>>607771216
>>607771428
very nice
Horny book...
>>607766795
stephen king writing as "richard bachman"
>>607771712
So, how are you enjoying high school?
50 shades of grey
Watership Down
A Clockwork Orange
>>607766795
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy
Plato's dialogue
Daniel Chamovitz - What a Plant Knows
Edward Bernays - Propaganda
Edward Bernays - Crystallizing public opinion
Gustave Le Bon - The Crowd
Robert B. Cialidini - Influence: They Psychology of Persuasion
After reading this list, you will be an elite being.
Heart of Darkness
Robinson Crusoe
Lord of The Flies
Frankenstein
>>607772319
Oops.
Robert B. Cialidini - Influence: The* Psychology of Persuasion
>>607772013
indubitably more than you're enjoying your community college
A Long Way Gone?
>>607768807
We Await Silent Trystero's Empire
Ten Little Niggers
/b/ is surprisingly well-read. Well done.
My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger
Wheel of time Series - Robert Jordan
>>607772013
Okay!
>>607772319
So how is second year of uni going for you? You enjoyed that mandatory first year "Great Philosophers" course?
>>607767203
Dune dragged on and on for fucking ever. Decent story line , but all of it could've been said in 100 pages. But no, shit's like 800. Ain't no Dickens novel, asshole.
>>607766795
Daodejing
1984
The Trial
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh
Tale of the Heike
Dune
Bhagavad Gita
On the Road
Fahrenheit 451
The Art of War
Heart of Darkness
The Things They Carried
The Aeneid
Shogun
Forgotten realms
>>607773005
I'm a high-school dropout. Thanks, I guess.
the stars my destination
alfred bester
Dr. Zhivago-- great book
>>607773236
Ha, well played.
>>607773005
>>607773236
Also, I didn't recommend any Heidegger, Nietzsche, etc. because they're hard to understand to normies.
>>607772319
>includes Plato's Dialogues
>neglects Popper's Enemies of Open Society
>2nd year phil student pleb
I bet you think Neitzsche is for edgy teens rather than high-power business executives
>>607773305
Loved this book. Was going to say the same. Bottoms up Anon.
>>607773095
There is nothing that we can learn from the east.
Anybody know of anything similar to House of Leaves?
The Blade Itself
The Selfish Gene
A History of Western Philosophy
>>607768800
I made a list of kids I wanted to kill in my pony shaped journal when I was about 9.
>>607766795
The little engine that could
>>607773690
How so?
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (already posted, but still, my fucking favourite books)
"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
"A Distant Neighborhood" by Jiro Taniguchi
Especially the last one, made me overthink my life
>>607773095
Okay list. Enders Game and Speaker for the Dead age MUCH better than Dune, though. Dune is way fucking overrated, like the Foundation series.
>>607771840
I found that in a book called The Bachman Books. I forget how many stories there were but it was great. I wished the movie The Running Man was more like the book with the hero crashing into the skyscraper that the guy who ran the game was in.
>>607772811
dubs confirm it
>>607773948
snow crash was awesome
>>607773095
I didn't understand Fahrenheit 451 tp be jpmest
>>607774030
Did the edition you read have Rage, the one about the high school who takes his class hostage? If it did you are a lucky SOB
ender's game
ender's shadow
swan song
lightning - koontz
>>607774248
How did you not understand it?
>>607774248
Holy shit I could not have fucked that up more
>>607767040
I really liked the first two - number three I remember as running a bit on empty - and after that, a lot of it (though not all of it) just dragged on.
Now I can't finish it because I can't remember where I left off. It's enough to make me tug my braid.
>>607773095
Fahrenheit 451 was fucking stupid
Glory Road
A talent for war
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
Flat Land
A Universe from Nothing - Lawrence Krauss
>>607773565
Been to the Nietzsche museum, his house, etc. Read all his shit. Doesn't take a genius to understand persecution and feeling "different" you dumbass.
>>607773948
>manga
>over-think my life
top kek
>>607766863
My personal favorite. Long live Ben Richards; long live the King.
>>607766863
underrated post
>>607774356
I don't know. I read it carefully but it wasn't as amazing as I'd heard it was. It felt unfinished, like there was supposed to be a sequel, and I was left wondering what happened to Clarisse as I honestly don't think she died
>>607773095
dude fuxk the things they carried, had to read that sophmore year of hs, dont know if it was the book or the way the course was but it sucked ass
>>607773943
>implying that mysticism is easier to understand than rationalism
>being this pleb
>>607774857
Fuck the king
>>607774928
If judging by your grammar, clearly you are not literature/writing oriented.
>>607774727
Oh, that's cool, but it's completely irrelevant as I didn't ask for the info. I also never said it took a genius to understand anything. What are you talking about? I think your mind is warped, anon.
the /b/tards bible
>>607774639
great book
>>607774522
>tug my braid
Nice it gets pretty good they keep introducing new aspects the only thing that got me was the ending seemed rushed and the whole jesus/mesiah aspect rand portrayes
>>607775060
it can be
>>607775271
Siddhartha's better IMO
>>607768807
Gravity's Rainbow if you liked that one.
>>607766795
for scifi
-foundation series by Isaac Asimov
-Man of war by H. Paul Honsinger
-The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
-Armour by John Steakley
-dune original series (reading teh novels by herbert son is up to you based on original like of series)
-Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
a personal one, but i actually enjoyed Privateers by Ben Bova
anybody who's remotely into fantasy should check out Brent Weeks, i've read the 3 books of the lightbringer series (4th isn't out yet and it's annoying as shit), and also the Night Angel trilogy is literally the best of things
>>607775738
if you think you understand mysticism, then you're not doing it right.
The Foundation series has fucking great world-building.
>>607775748
But it's not the /b/tards bible
Lord of the Rings
>>607774263
im a huge king fan but found rage to be kind of boring. same with roadwork
>>607775926
Jon?
A Song of ice and fire series.
>>607776122
Why read something that will never be finished?
>>607766795
my two favorite books are
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
and
A Confederacy of Dunces
>>607776122
do you mean the game of thrones novelisation? i love kelly c!
>>607775977
faggot
>>607776310
both those books are overrated
>>607776433
dat ad hominem
>>607773058
Totally agree. Has not aged well
>>607776106
I was a huge King reader, but then my balls dropped, I matured a bit and I moved on to reading books by actual authors
>>607775247
good one...
>>607775269
Normies?
Fucking autist.
>>607776687
>ad hominem
>>607777075
See this >>607776687
>>607769898
an excellent example of what not to be. I vividly recall the neuroticism that pervaded it.
>>607777184
Just picked up a copy for 3$ the other day. Fucking classic
>>607772013
My second year at Michigan State is coming to a close, how's your mom's basement?
>>607767040
>>607769016
>>607770772
>>607774522
Nope. Too long, too long winded. Might as well read Eddings and think it's a masterpiece.
Try:
The Name of the Wind
The Dark Tower
Anything from the Discworld series
American Gods
>>607776841
You are so manly. Maybe I should start reading Stephanie Meyer too
>>607777527
That's cool they offer a remedial english class at a State College -- usually you'd have to go to Community College for that.
>>607777405 love the cock.
The Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
>>607777075
>>607777405
Honestly though, by "normies" I just meant people who have no philosophical training. I bet 90% of the people in this thread wouldn't understand Being & Time, so why I would I put that as a must-read book?
>>607778324
Good luck. ...
>>607771289
physical infinities have never ceased to intrigue me. the ultimate destiny of this planet lies in one, inevitably.
Good interesting read.
>>607778195
You do sound like someone who would enjoy her writing
>>607778397
Philosophical training? ok faggot.
>>607778324
Ninth Gate reference?
>>607778397
>> I'm so enlightened. I'm absolutely euphoric.
>>607778397
faggot
>>607776476
i really like both of them and i have excellent taste so that means you're wrong :P
I also like Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and thats an unusual favorite so there
>>607778721
lol. great comeback you fuckin faggot. Go suck another dick before bedtime.
>>607778397
go back to leddit, autistic fedora faggot
Collapse by Jared Diamond.
>>607777527
Took AP English in HS man. Don't need remedial anything. My double major is actually coming along pretty well.
>>607778724
>>607778799
>>607778893
>>607779005
Fucking /b/. I'm going back to /lit/. Have fun jerking off to "traps", you lifeless scums.
>>607766795
Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. If anyone have something like that tell me. pretty nice fantastic stuff
>>607770233
>>607770233
Thanks anon
>>607778976
So butt hurt...
Factotum - Charles Bukowski
Fight Club - Chuck Palaniuk
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
>>607779296
Cheers, you autistic asshole. Have fun with your life of enlightened mediocrity.
>>607766795
Naked Lunch
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Breakfast of Champions
>>607778259
Took AP English in HS man. Didn't need remedial anything. My double major is coming along pretty well actually.
>>607779593
The whole cantos is a must read
>>607766795
The Monster Hunter International series. I haven't met anyone that's read them but they are fucking awesome. Imagine a bunch of mercenaries that carry big ass guns that kill monsters for a living, throw in great action, Jhedonesque humor and H.P. Lovecraft monsters like shogoths and you have a recipe for success.
Into the Wild
>>607779296
good riddance, cunt. i hope you die a slow, painful death :D
>>607780016
First one still is best.
>>607772319
The 48 Laws of Power
>>607779886
Just bought that in audiobook format on audible a couple weeks back. Looking forward to it
REAMDE_
The Name of the Wind (and sequels)
inb4 faggot
>>607766795
Okay. OC!
Classic and thought-provoking
>>607780362
Dude what?
>>607780109
underrated as fuck. one of the best books I've read
>>607767203
This
zero to one by peter theil
>>607780211
>REAMDE_
Ohh god no -- I've forever sworn off Neal Stephenson for good after that long winded, cliche riddled piece of shit piece of shit.
>>607780485
Not QUITE as deep, but still entertaining
>>607780495
This
My favorite PKD isn't even sci-fi.
>>607780759
That book is stupid, but I bought it just for the motorcycle-riding Hitler hero.
>>607780965
give me the best sci-fi book ever
and the second
>>607780580
Look at me. I'm a special snowflake that needs to find his place in the world. Let's go live in the wild with no sense or experience.
Oh shit, I died.
Great story.
>>607780943
DUDE!
>>607774777
DOUBLE TRIPS
I'm serious, though. Give it a try.
I Robot
>>607781202
AND THAT!
>>607768209
Stephen kings it was too fucking long
>>607780134
>>607779249
you sound like a fucking tool
Atlas Shrugged, changed my life.
>>607781567
Really dude?
>>607772319
nah, you'll be a marketingfag
The Silmarillion
>>607767874
/thread.
>>607773663
As something similar to, though a bit different from, a conventional business executive, Nietzsche is unquestionably the philosopher I regard most highly.
>>607782012
Really....
>>607778973
sauce
>>607782180
This, and LoTR and the Hobbit
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
>>607766795
The Sword of Truth Series
>wheel of time
>the way of shadows
>alpha and omega
>everything by Agatha christie with Hercules Poirot in it
>house of leaves
>the broken empire
>mistborn trilogy
>Beautiful creatures series
>Bartimaeus trilogy
>Ultimatum
>Guns of Navarone
>the swarm
>perfume
>looking for alaska
I got shittons more that are must-reads, but it depends on what you like to read. If you're into young adult then I recommend beautiful creatures and looking for alaska, but if you like something with more action and detective work then I recommend ultimatum and agatha christie books, specifically "ten little niggers" (yes that is the name of a real book)
>>607775581
Fuck. Yeah. dat dialog doh
>>607782313
Well then....
>>607773753
underrated post
>>607781874
No, just don't like faggots like the guy I was talking to. I fucking hate frats, so there's that.
>>607776841
>>607782136
$$$$
You also wont be easily scammed or influenced by ads.
>>607773948
Neuromancer
All Tomorrow's Parties
The Diamond Age
The Difference Engine.
.V
Pynchon
>>607766952
Love this book, haven't been able to put it down for the past 2 weeks. Until today. I'm at John Galts speech, it's sooooo long. But I know it so important and there's so many valid points in it, that I can't skip even a little. But fuck is it long.
The Martian
>>607782339
Why would you ever read LotR when the movies are shorter and skip all the bullshit like Tom Bombadil?
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
>>607783321
...and you will write the best damn copy, period.
>marketingfag, here
The Stupid Vaginaass of Luciferniggerbastard
>>607766952
I prefer Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
>>607783449
Good read, wouldn't say must read, but it's alright
>>607782475
As someone who read (and enjoyed) the whole series up until the Chainfire trilogy (where I finally gave up), you're full of shit. These books are awful and you know it. Same thing for you Wheel of Time fags.
>>607767040
read that, changed the way I thought about fantasy novels in general.
>>607768473
Was a very entertaining read with interesting character development and a nice world.
>>607771289
was a very slow read at first but it picked up pace. Don't really like how back and forth it goes though, but the way he analyzes the characters himslef is beautiful and rare
>>607772744
10/10 agatha christie is amazing
>>607773095
>1984
meh at best, didn't see what the fascination is all about, it was hardly the first book to describe a dystopian world
>the trial
this one was actually a VERY interesting piece, I read it in german and it's a true shame it wasn't finished before his death.
>fahrenheit 451
also kinda meh
>art of war
too boring and academic
>>607773699
american psycho
>>607774278
ender's game is also really nice, very interesting world and the style of writing is very captivating too
>>607775957
brent weeks is a god. He is the next robert jordan
>>607780109
Damn, just got hit by nostalgia pretty hard, I should reread that