2015 is coming to an end. Let us list the books that we have read this year, what did you like the most, what did you like the least, what are your reading plans for 2016 and so on.
Oh and rate other peoples list, but nobody does that and it's pointless
Here what I read this entire year.
>t-thanks /lit/
>>7475350
wow are you 12?
I pretty much started reading 2 months ago 2bh but so far I've read
>1984 - 6/10
>Crime and Punishment - 9/10
>The Picture of Dorian Gray - 8/10
>Lolita - 10/10
>The Sorrows of Young Werther 5/10
Going to read everything Dostoyevsky and Nabakov in 2016
>>7475370
>>The Picture of Dorian Gray - 8/10
>>Lolita - 10/10
it should be in reverse.
Infinite Jest - Wallace
The Insulted and Humiliated - Dostoyevski
Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
Brief an den Vater - Kafka
The History of Sexuality 1 - Foucault
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (thanks /lit/) - Jacobs
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts - Barthelme
L'Education Sentimentale - Flaubert
Stoner - Williams
Rendezvous with Rama - Clarke
Hermann Hesse: Sein Leben und sein Werk - Ball
The Tin Drum - Grass
The Prince - Machiavelli
Revolution of Everyday Life - Vanegeim
The One-Dimensional Man - Marcuse
Looking Awry: Introduction to Jacques Lacan - Zizek
Diaries of Franz Kafka - Kafka
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Der Sandmann - Hoffmann
Die schwarze Spinne - Gotthelf
Grete Minde - Fontane
Flügblätter - Die Weiße Rose
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Nachdenken über Christa T. - Wolf
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rilke
A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People - Ozment
Der Zauberberg - Mann
The Civilizing Process, Vol. 1 - Elias
Untimely Meditations - Nietzsche
Irre - Göetz
Kritische Theorie - Schwandt
The Unbearabale Lightness of Being - Kundera
Der Vorleser - Schlink
Tonio Kröger - Mann
Mario und der Zauberer - Mann
Der Tod in Venedig - Mann
Soumission - Houellebecq
Against the Grain - Huysmans
Beneath the Wheel - Hesse
Eeeee Eee Eeee - Lin
At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft
The Black Cat - Poe
Also Sprach Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Quite a lot of things i loved this year, that opened my eyes, or hit me heavily. Highlights in fiction being Zauberberg, Infinite Jest and Zarathustra. In non-fiction Marcuse and Foucault.
I didn't like At the Mountains of Madness, which surprised me as i expected myself to really dig Lovecraft (it was my first novel from him).
It's my second year of serious reading, and it was pretty good, though i often had longer periods where i wouldn't touch a book, i still felt turning into a better reader.
>>7475350
It took you an entire year to read 300 pages of Infinite Jest? Pathetic.
Art of the Deal
How to Make America Great Again
Mein Kampf
I am getting ready for next years election
All the ASOIAF books
A bunch of video games
Marathoned Buffy on Netflix
American Psycho
Les Miserables
1984
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian
The Count of Monte Cristo
Jurassic Park
Anna Karenina
Blood Meridian
The Movement (Some book from the show Nathan For You)
Crime and Punishment
Favorite was Les Miserables, followed pretty closely by the Count of Monte Cristo.
My least favorite by far was the Martian.
I don't know what I'm going to read next year. I'm hoping I can get either War and Peace or Infinite Jest in there somewhere.
Slow year 2bh
>>7475370
sounds like a boring 2016 imo
>>7475350
you can finish it senpaisan. do it for dfw
>>7475434
My favorite book is also video games.
in order:
>A History of Western Philosophy (Russell)
>The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
>The Unfortunates (Johnson)
>Disgrace (Coetzee)
>Person (Pink)
>Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Bechdel)
>Kindred (Butler)
>How to Read and Why (Bloom)
>Dave Barry Does Japan (Barry)
>Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Shields)
>Drown (Díaz)
>We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Fowler)
>My Struggle Book 1 (Knausgård)
>The Republic (Plato)
highlights were Reality Hunger, My Struggle, Disgrace, and The Unfortunates. on the other hand, Beside Ourselves, Dave Barry, and Person were the worst pieces of shit I have ever read. in 2016 I resolve to read more, and if I know with a high percentage of certainty beforehand that a book is going to be a piece of shit (as with the latter three), I will allow myself to judge it by its cover and not to read it.
>>7475407
Are you a NEET?
>>7475459
Y-yeah, but only until next month
>>7475478
>having plans for the future
>NEET
>>7475489
Only started reading seriously around June, was only reading LNs and shit before.
Hundred years of solitude
Time of the hero
Death of Artemio Cruz
Nobody writes to the colonel
The Vortex
1984
Fahrenheit 451
No longer human
The Metamorphosis
The Stranger
2666
The catcher in the rye
Lord of the flies
The savage detectives
Dubliners
Prose fiction:
The Cloven Viscount – Italo Calvino
The Baron in the Trees – Italo Calvino
The Nonexistent Knight – Italo Calvino
The Complete Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
The Sea Hawk – Rafael Sabatini
The Black Swan – Rafael Sabatini
Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Cyberiad – Stanisław Lem
Solaris – Stanisław Lem
Animal Farm – George Orwell
1984 – George Orwell
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
The Invention of Morel – Adolfo Bioy Casares
Tschandala – August Strindberg
Doktor Glas – Hjalmar Söderberg
Dracula – Bram Stoker (re-read)
The Fellowship of the Ring – J. R. R. Tolkien (re-read)
Poetry:
The Metamorphoses – Ovid
The Thebaid – Statius
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Aniara: En revy om människan i tid och rum – Harry Martinson
Non-fiction:
Herakleitos and Diogenes translated by Guy Davenport
The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
The Ego and Its Own – Max Stirner
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism – Max Weber
The Accursed Share, Volume I – Georges Bataille
The History of Sexuality I: The Will to Knowledge – Michel Foucault
Forget Foucault – Jean Baudrillard
In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities – Jean Baudrillard
The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI – Arnold H. Mathew
Mohammed and Charlemagne – Henri Pirenne
Currently reading:
Sabbath's Theater – Philip Roth
Difficult Loves – Italo Calvino
The Consumer Society – Jean Baudrillard
Favourites this year were The Sea Hawk, The Count of Monte Cristo, Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, Auto-da-Fé, Cosmicomics, the Metamorphoses and the Thebaid for fiction; for non-fiction, The Ego and Its Own, The Accursed Share, Mohammed and Charlemagne and The Consumer Society. Worst books were The Cloven Viscount, The Nonexistent Knight, and Sabbath's Theater so far as I've read it. The History of Sexuality was pretty boring, too.
>>7475478
where're you working?
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
The Stranger
The Myth of Sisyphus
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Prince
This is Your Brain on Music
To Kill a Mockingbird
>>7475450
>Machado de Assis
Ayyyyyyyy
No one is reading any of this
>>7475828
I have the first three waiting at home, how did you find them?
I've read a few isolated short stories outside of what is mentioned in the list and I would put Tolstoy's 'How much land does a man need' as my single favourite read for the year. I saw a good half a dozen plays by Chekhov (which obviously aren't included in the list) as well as probably half his short stories and all his short novels and I really fell in love with the aestheticism of his works. It is the same thing that made me really enjoy Kawabata.
I've already got my next years reading lined up. It will help me flesh out the modernists, both early and late, a real tour de force of the post-modernists, a huge amount of 20th century Japanese lit as well as rounding off my Russian. There is obviously a lot more but that's the main branches I am working on.
For philosophy I have more works by the Greeks and Romans as well as contemporary works to help elucidate the classics. Add in some MacIntyre and Anscombe for an introduction to 20th century virtue ethics and a few existential things like Shestov and Kierkegaard will round out my philisophical reading for next year.
>>7475828
What is it you like about Calvino so much? I've only read a very short collection of three short stories by him this year. They seemed somewhat interesting but it was hard to tell what to make of them because there was so little. Would it be correct to say that he is in some regards similar to Borges?
>>7476807
Forgot to mention that purple means am currently reading and blue means I gave up.
Why do so many plebs only read what /lit/ tells them to read?
>>7476865
Right, because only people who come to /lit/ read Dostoevsky and Joyce.
Why is /lit/ so absorbed by Infinite Jest?
Is this another meme, or should i look into it?
Love in the Time of Cholera
Underworld
There may be one or two more, potentially In Cold Blood. It was not a good year for reading
>>7475332
This guy was pretty hilarious. I feel sorry that he had to commit suicide but he did write books that were both informative/educational and funny.
>>7476865
Why don't you spend more time reading books than browsing 4chan you autist?
>>7476963
Because it talks about lonelyness and sadness in our time
Lovecraft, tons of short stories. And Edgar Allan Poe, short stories and poems. I got into a habit of reading short stories before bed because they were less likely to keep me up all night, completing a story appeals to the "completionist" in me.
I also read part of Clive Barker's Nightbreed (under recommendation) and I didn't particularly like it, he sucks at writing women. Also read most of fear and loathing in Las Vegas but gave up because it's... messy? I found myself forgetting a lot of what I read constantly. But it was still an enjoyable process, so I might try to push through and finish the last few pages.
Hopefully once I'm done with this exam bullshit I'll be able to get more reading done. I don't assume biochemistry textbooks count as literature.
>>7476807
I don't like Calvino all that much. The Cloven Viscount and The Nonexistent Knight were thoroughly mediocre, and Difficult Loves is merely okay so far as I've read it. Invisible Cities and The Baron in the Trees are great, but hardly masterpieces. What I really, really love is Cosmicomics. It's the best short story collection I've read, and my main motivation in continuing to read Calvino books is the hope of finding another one like that.
I wouldn't say he's very similar to Borges in general. Invisible Cities and Cosmicomics are his most Borges-esque books, but while both authors play around with concepts a lot, Calvino does it in a much more lighthearted and enthusiastic way, and while Borges uses his imagination more to make you think, Calvino uses his no less extensive imagination more to create visual, tactile and emotional experiences.
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
Feed by Mira Grant
Deadline by Mira Grant
Blackout by Mira Grant
The Martian by Andy Weir
Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
Starbound by Joe Haldeman
Earthbound by Joe Haldeman
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
Dead Simple by Peter James
The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson
The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero
Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
Dragon Princess by S. Andrew Swann
Alif The Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson
Sixth of the Dusk by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn Part 1: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn Part 2: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson
Mistborn Part 3: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
The Town by Bentley Little
The Disappearance by Bentley Little
The Broken Empire Part 1: Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
The Broken Empire Part 2: King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
The Broken Empire Part 3: Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
The Expanse Part 1: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
And I had loads of fun. The end.
>>7475434
I love you, Phil Lester <3
I only got into literature this year. My favourites have been The Waves, Naked Lunch, Gravity's Rainbow, TKaM, Infinite Jest, Trainspotting, Ulysses and Jane Eyre.
I hope to read In Search of Lost Time next year. Maybe 2666 and Against the Day too if I finish Proust within the allocated time. Happy reading, y'all.
>>7475332
English fag so I cant read much else other than course work but here are some suggestions if that's what you're looking for:
>The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner -- Coleridge
Fucking great, one of my favorite poems now, really quotable and creepy.
>The Ruined Cottage -- Wordsworth
Another really great really long poem.
>Under The Volcano:
Took a bit of time to get into but it has perhaps the most depth of anything I've read. The number of references, allegory, and reincorporation in this novel is immense. BUT its also very very subtle and elegant for the most part, so it comes off very well. The prose is pretty great farther alone and the ending is fantastic. Its almost a type of love novel of sorts, but done in the best possible way.
Unique and well worth reading.
>Frankenstein
Re-read it, damn fine novel I love how tight and concise the novel is and the number of ideas it juggles.
>The Old Man and the Sea:
Classic Hemingway, short, simply, pure, and moving. At least to me. The story is presented as it is and I fuckin love it.
>Molloy
This book is fucking weird as hell, but there are some gems of humor, and its ONE of a kind. Seriously, there's nothing quite like reading Molloy and its sequels, its post-modern lit to the extreme in a lot of ways. I'd recommend it. Its short too.
>The Waves
One of my new favorite all time novels, this book has a lot of depth and lot of lofty ideas. The way that its written is extremely poetic and beautiful and almost serves to mimic a kind of "water-color" it sort of blends together descriptions and the passage of time so that it demonstrates the "same-ness" of an un-fulfilling life. The book practically spends an entire life in 400 pages.
>Orlando Furioso // Jerusalem Delivered:
Its WELL worth checking out these old classic epic poems, they're not quite as encompassing and elegant as Milton's but damn are they still excellent. Seriously, people should respect these old classics more because the level of skill on display for such long poetic stories is immense. Not to mention that they pay homage to a great tradition and depict pretty incredible historical events anyways.
>>7475450
So what, you read a novel every three fucking days or something? How much free time do you have lad? Pretty jealous over here m8.
>>7478812
Been meaning to read UtV for a while now, definitely gonna cop it now. Cheers, mate.
>>7478848
A fair bit of Ulysses did go over my head (Oxen of the Sun, Ithaca and Scylla come to mind) but I did enjoy it. I don't think yer meant to fully understand Ulysses on your first run, though.
>>7475407
This, without equivocation, the most try-hard list I have ever chanced upon. Shame on you!
>>7475332
Inherent Vice-Thomas Pynchon
Dune: Messiah-Frank Herbert
Kangaroo Notebook-Kobo Abe
Labyrinths and Other Stories-Borges
Mason & Dixon-Thomas Pynchon
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
War with the Newts-Capek
Heart of Darkness-Conrad
Wuthering Heights-Bronte
Petersburg-Bely
The Pendragon Legend-Szerb
Children of Men-PD James
Herzhog-Bellows
The Book of Disquiet-Pessoa
Midnight's Children-Rushdie
The Shadow of the Torturer-Gene Wolfe
The Kraken Wakes-John Wyndham
The Crying Lot of 49-Thomas Pynchon
Revolutionary Road-Richard Yates
The Day of the Triffids-John Wyndham
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
Player Piano-Kurt Vonnegut
To the Lighthouse-Virgnia Wolf
V.-Thomas Pynchon
Hyperion-Dan Simmons
Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
The Pale King-David Foster Wallace
V., Hyperion, Midnight's Children, Mason & Dixon and The Book of Disquiet were my favourites.
Petersburg, War With the Newts and Herzhog were my best undiscovered gems. Loved the experimental use in Petersburg, War With the Newts was also pretty good if not a little transparent in its allegorical message.
Dune Messiah was probably the worst book on my list I read. I enjoyed some of it like the cabal plot but didn't really feel like what made classic Dune, Dune.
The Pale King was the last book I read, just finished today actually, enjoyed it a lot and thought some of the chapters were pretty fun and memorable, chapters 22 or 23 and the suicide ward felt extremely honest but a good book none the less. I imagined the entire thing as a Mike Judge show in my head.
>>7475332
Doctor Zhivago - Pasternak
Walden - Thoreau
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
Burmese Days - Orwell
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
The Prince - Machiavelli
Short Cuts - Carver
The Dharma Bums - Kerouac
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Dhammapada
Futebol Nation - Goldblatt
Segundo Tempo - Laub
Five Dialogues - Plato (Didn't note translator)
Tractatus Logico-Philosoficus - Wittgenstein
Cat and Mouse - Grass
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and other Short Stories - Kafka
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes
Mexico City Blues - Kerouac
The Nick Adams Stories - Hemingway
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Díaz
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Murukami
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Tortilla Flat - Steinbeck
You Can't Go Home Again - Wolfe
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Trial - Kafka
Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
Look Homeward, Angel - Wolfe
Cities of Tomorrow - Hall
You Are Here - Thich Nhat Hanh
Garden Cities of To-Morrow - Howard
The Transposed Heads - Mann
Symposium - Plato
The Spirit of Zen - Watts
A Streetcar Named Desire - Williams
I just got into reading last year, discovered /lit/ a couple months ago.
Probably liked You Can't Go Home Again Best
Tractatus was definitely over my head, but I found what I think I got interesting
Streetcar was totally underwhelming desu
Next year I want to build up a really solid understanding of the Greeks and world history
>>7479010
favourite things I read:
>Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
>Salman Rushdie - East, West
>Helen Garner - Postcards From Surfers
>Kjell Askildsen - Selected Stories
>Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
>Anton Chekhov - The Prank
>Breece D'J Pancake - Trilobites
>Jules Renard - Natures Stories
>Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio
>Alice Munro - Dance of the Happy Shades
>Charles Bukowski - South of no North
>Sylvia Plath - Ariel
>John Forbes - Collected Poems
>FT Marinetti - Futurist Cookbook
>Boyd Oxlade - Death in Brunswick
I mean, those are the standout things I enjoyed, I was going to write a list of books I didn't enjoy as well but desu senpai i can't really be bothered. I think I read like 30-40 books this year, that includes quite a few 'best australian stories' and poetry anthologies etc. tho
Here's everything, 103 books so far, probably going to finish two more by end of the year.
>>7480130
Oh, and my favorite books this year were Complete Stories of Kafka (had read most of them beforehand though) and Paradise Lost.
>>7478954
It seems like a great list for someone who's only into his second year of serious reading.
>>7475381
You're insane. Nobokov was an infinitely more interesting writer than Wilde in both content and style. They aren't even on the same level.
>>7480199
I think most people would agree with you, he is insane.
The Fall - Camus
Soumission - Houellebecq
Infinite Jest - Wallace
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Whatshisname
Godverdomse Dagen op een Godverdomse Bol - Verhulst
First three books of Proust
Sun also Rises - Hemmingway
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Purity - Franzen (would not recommend)
The Weekend - Charles Jackson, great stuff about alcoholism, iirc first American book from the perspective of an alcohol that showed the human side but that could be blatant bullshit
Something great about four kids who get revenge on the detention guards that abused them in New York I believe, forgot title or author, something with blood in the title I thought
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
One or two mediocre Dutch novels
The Children's Act - McEwan
Enduring Love - McEwan
This is off the top of my head, probably missed one or two. Didn't have my eReader and am now on my holiday, which is where I do most of my readings, but I haven't had one yet this year so not a lot of time for books with study, work and shitposting on the table.
Think my favorites would be either Infinite Jest or Submission. Children's Act and The Weekend were pretty great too. Only disliked Purity (rest of the books I didn't finish if I didn't enjoy them after 1/5th, rule of thumb)
I read NOTHING because I'm a FUCKING fag
>>7480130
how big is your screen? jelly
>>7480199
Nah Lolita is uninteresting contentwise, compare their 'lowest' points of interest (i.e. Dorian's lap of luxuries to Humbert's American roadtrip) and its style is hackneyed. Dorian Gray does the same but glibly with a lot more humour, something impossible for an autist like Nabakov.
The Grapes of Wrath - John Ernst Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Ernst Steinbeck
The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel - Charles De Coster
Cell - Stephen King
The Night in Lisbon - Erich Maria Remarque
The Collector - John Robert Fowles
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren
Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
The Martian Chronicles -Ray Douglas Bradbury
Dandelion Wine -Ray Douglas Bradbury
La Peau de Chagrin - Honore de Balzac
Ten Little Niggers - Agatha Christie
The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
Zinky Boys - Svetlana Alexievich
Discovered this shitty board April this year. Have to say, I don't really regret it. You guys introduced me to some really fucking amazing books ;)
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Scott Lynch - Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch - Red Seas Under Red Skies
Scott Lynch - Republic of Thieves
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon - V.
Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49
John Barth - The Sot Weed Factor
William Gaddis - The Recognitions
William Gaddis - J R
Truman Capote - Breakfast At Tiffany's
>>7483475
how'd you like the mass slave rape in the sot-weed factor?
>>7483482
It was OK lol. Tbqh, I found sot weed factor quite disappointing. Fucking characters constantly coming back from the dead and changing names, and it went full soap opera teir towards the end. Not saying it was bad, some amazing scenes in it like the Cyprian episode etc.
Lessee..
Lolita
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Crime and Punishment
Fight Club
Haunted
David Copperfield
Daily Rituals
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Fountainhead
Paddle your own canoe
Gumption
Mastery
How to win friends and influence people
Metamorphosis
The Trial
The brothers Karamazov
Flowers for Algernon
At the mountains of madness
The martian
And a few other self help books. Working on Moby Dick right now.
David Copperfield and Lolita were my favorites. Copperfield for hitting me in dem feels and Lolita for the writing style.
Worst would probably be Haunted. But that's only because palahnuiks short stories in it except for a couple were super boring.
As for 2016 I'll probably go for some Nietzsche and other classics and junk along with whatever interests me. Haven't had as much time for reading these past couple years so I've been catching up this year.
Books I read in 2015
1. The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
2. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
3. The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt
4. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
5. Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
6. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
7. The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
8. The Man Eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson
9. Confessions of a Mask by Yukiko Mishima
10. The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
11. Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
12. The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
13. Conversations on a Homecoming by Tom Murphy
14. The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
15. My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger
16. The 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States
17. Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
18. Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge
19. The Collector by John Fowles
20. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
21. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
22. Operation Shylock by Phillip Roth
23. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
24. The Sea by John Banville
25. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
26. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
I'm on the last hundred pages of Mysteries by Knut Hamsun and should have it finished by Monday or Tuesday. Next on the to read list are The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks (not one of his better known ones but it was only a dollar at a used book store and I was really impressed by Continental Drift and Affliction)
My favorite reads for the year were
Anna Karenina
The Peregrine
The Red and the Black
The Rings of Saturn
Foucault's Pendulum
Worst reads were
Night Soldiers and Midnight in the Century
Most disappointing was probably Laughing Monsters. I thought Jesus' Son, Train Dreams and Angels by Denis Johnson were outstanding. Laughing Monsters was okay I guess but nowhere near as mind-blowing as the other three Johnson books that I read.
for 2016 there's still a lot on my to read list
Lanark
The Confidence Man
Sabbath's Theater
Tree of Smoke
The Glass Bead Game
only started seriously around april, But:
1984 - george orwell (8/10)
anna karenina - tolstoy (10/10)
blood meridian - mccarthy (8/10)
the death of ivan illyich - tolstoy (9/10)
family happiness - tolstoy (8/10)
the kreutzer sonata - tolstoy (7/10)
the brothers karamazov - dostoevsky (10/10)
the outsider - lovecraft (4/10)
the call of cthulhu - lovecraft (5/10)
lolita - nabokov (10/10)
huckleberry finn - mark twain (8.5/10)
speak, memory - nabokov (9/10)
the stranger - camus (6/10)
the dubliners -james joyce (7/10)
right now I'm reading murphy by beckett, prob give it a 7/10 so far
what i learned is the blatant superiority of the Russians.
>>7475762
what did you think of
Hundred years of solitude
2666
The savage detectives
Dubliners
This is coincidentally also my current to do pile
>>7483635
>Daily Rituals
>Paddle your own canoe
>How to win friends and influence people
>the martian
>few other self help books
oh am i laffin at this redditor
Wasn't able to read as much because of school and other obligations.
Last three volumes of In Search of Lost Time
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
The Way of Zen
Pnin
Kokoro
The Rings of Saturn
The Sound of the Mountain
Growth of the Soil
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Lucky Jim
Jakob von Gunten
Jude the Obscure
The Oresteia
Winter Mythologies and Abbots
>>7475332
This is all the literature I read, I read plenty of philosophy for my studies, that's not included:
Terry Pratchett - Mort
Kurt Vonnegutt - Slaughterhouse Five
Sterling Archer - How to Archer
Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
J.K. Rowling - H.P. and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling - H.P. and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling - H.P. and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling - H.P. and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling - H.P. and the Half Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling - H.P. and the Deathly Hallows
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss - Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss - The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay
Jay McInerny - Bright Lights, Big City
Daniel Kehlmann - Ruhm
Richard Matheson - I AM LEGEND
Most of it was pleb this year, but I had a lot to do for work and wanted to read relaxing stuff.
>>7483650
Which translation of Anna Karenina did you read?
>>7483904
Because I have to post classics to gain the approval of some guys I'll never meet? Because ill actually read shit just for the hell of it? Christ you fucks are obnoxious.
>>7483967
>Because I have to post classics to gain the approval of some guys I'll never meet?
True, just be fake among those you know to influence them and win their approval, just how your self-help books taught you
>>7484006
What's wrong with that? Everyone does that, even normies.
>>7484006
Enjoy playing king in your castle of sand. Because self improvement is apparently such a detestable thing to do. You fucks have such a warped perception of the world and yourselves that you can't step back and realize how full of shit you are.
God I hate this place
>>7475443
Did you read abridged or unabridged Les Mis? I still need to read unabridged
>>7475332
i started don quixote in the summer, i havent finished. im a slow reader and an alcoholic, fight me.
>>7484874
leave
dont come back
>>7475450
>Dostoevsky
>Boring
In my opinion, Dostoevsky's works are probably some of the greatest works of literature ever written. I'll be honest, I'm biased towards Russian literature anyway, but reading Demons actually changed me quite a lot. It was the first time I'd really read anything that could be considered an epic, and at first I was bored; by that point though, I'd already decided that it was worth reading, even just to say that I'd read it.
I ended up liking it so much, I did my thesis on it.
>>7475332
Can't be assed to type all of them out for e-penis points. Best of the lot in no particular order:
Othello - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Collected Short Stories - Nikolai Gogol
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
Inferno - Dante
The Gambler - Dostoyevsky
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Odyssey - Homer
Honourable mention to Travels With Charley by Steinbeck as a contender for comfiest book I've ever read.
Worst works:
Things Fall Apart - Achebe
A Terrible Vengeance - Gogol
Status - Erlend Loe
Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Reading plans for 2016 boils down to everything by Shakespeare and hopefully DeLillo if I get some of his works for Christmas.
>>7478816
Not that guy, but I'm at91by now.
>>7483475
How is The Republic of Thieves? I heard it's the worst one in The Gentleman Bastard Series but I've only read the first, also how is JR? I've been meaning to pick it up for a while but not sure whether or not a good place to start with Gaddis.
And who's chapters in V. did you like more, Profane or Stencil? I liked how insane Profane's chapters got at points with the whole crew doing stuff like going into the sewers, etc.
>>7483833
>the dubliners -james joyce (7/10)
Bitch, you did it wrong.
>>7478954
Looks quite a bit like mine tbqh.
>implying there's anything wrong with trying hard
>>7483635
How was the Teddy Roosevelt book? I've been looking at a few different Roosevelt biographies.
>>7483938
>Not relaxing with Hegel
>>7476630
Reading through now. Particularly interested in everyone's favorite.
>>7475353
Can someone explain this meyme?
>>7483868
They are all pretty good.
I enjoyed them all, Bolaño was a wild ride, make sure to read 2666 after savage detectives for maximum enjoyment. Both books feel like a collection of short stories tied in between.
100 years is a fun book, the magical realism bits along with the setting give the novel an unique feel. I live in a nearby place so it really feels like Marquez captured well the life of the countryside colombian family.
Dubliners' prose is good, stories are all standalone and pretty short, read one or two a day along with other books.
>>7485325
I'm >7483929
I enjoyed all of the books I listed except Rushdie's latest, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.
The ones that stood out the most were In Search of Lost Time, The Rings of Saturn, Growth of the Soil, and Winter Mythologies and Abbots. I'll probably reread all of them at some point in my life. It's difficult to choose favorites, though, because it was an excellent year of reading for me in terms of the quality of the books I read. Besides Rushdie's novel, I'd recommend all of them.
Proust's novel had the greatest effect on me (I read it during a semester of school and noticed while writing essays that the length of my sentences began to increase), and will likely stay with me the longest, but that's partially to do with its size.
2015 has been a great year for me.
>Falling Behind: Explaining the Gap Between Latin America and the United States.
>How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.
>Divine Fury.
>Propaganda.
>Napoleon's Buttons.
>Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power.
>Wonderul Life with the Elements.
>The Martian.
>The Way of Men.
I'm currently in the process of reading "A History of Christianity" and "The Fate of Empires".
Its hard to pick a favorite, but I'm glad I read The Way of Men. I regret ever having picked up The Martian, a garbage book. Overtly cliche and clearly meant to be a movie instead of a book.
>>7485281
It was great. Really inciteful and easily readable. Almost read like a novel. I definitely gained some new respect for the man after reading it.
>>7485272
Republic of Thieves was pretty good, but not nearly as good as the first one. Certainly not the worst, that honor goes to Red Seas Under Red Skies. Don't know how I got through that borefest.
J R is one of the best books I've ever read, easily my third favorite of all time. Although it does take some time getting used to and I read the Recognitions prior to it so it did help me get into Gaddis' style better. But I don't know, Recognitions was pretty average so you might just go straight to J R.
Best chapters in V. were Stencil's, easily. The historical chapters fucking blew me away, especially the ones based in Egypt and Malta, some of the best shit I've read in there.
>>7475332
(Just started reading this semester)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Year of the Flood ^
Blind Assassin ^
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Saga (graphic novels) by Brian K. Vaughan
The Doctor is Sick by Anthony Burgess
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>>7475422
undr 8ted
100 Years of Solitude
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Life of Pi
The Sound of the Waves
A collection of Edgar Allen Poe short stories
Two Treatises on Government
The Art of War (Clausewitz)
The Qur'an
The Book of Five Rings
Reread The Hobbit
Just finished The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
>>7485935
Oh dear. Inciteful? Was Teddy Roosevelt really such a terrible human that his biography could provoke such a strong response?
>>7475332
Went to rehab this summer and read a lot of books, including:
The Corrections (Franzen)
Jailbird (Vonnegut)
Timequake (Vonnegut)
Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
Catch 22 (Heller)
Silas Marner (Eliot)
Lots of David Sedaris books (When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Naked, a few more I can't remember)
Rant (Palahniuk)
Doctor Sleep (King)
How Music Works (Byrne)
Fire in the Hole (Leonard)
Maximum Bob (Leonard)
Collected Short Stories (Twain)
Prince and the Pauper (Twain)
And of course, the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
>>7475370
Sad 4 u if you didn't like Goethe.
Oh yeah I forgot about Brave New World (Huxley) and Lord of the Flies (Golding)
>>7475407
Don't listen to those losers, I think your list is great. What's up with your focus on Germanic writers?
>>7476656
Not him, but I though Cloven Viscount was so-so, but Nonexistent Knight is well worth a read.
The Iliad
Metomormphoses (Ovid)
Orestes trilogy
Hamlet
The Gambler, Bobok, A Nasty Story
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
The Histories of Herodotus
Grapes of Wrath
To The Lighthouse
Lolita
A bunch of Plato's shit
Plan on finishing The Sound and The Fury by the end of the year. I'm kind of sad that I haven't read more, but transferring colleges fucked my reading schedule up. Planning on picking up an annotated copy of Ulysses my prof recommended, should b good.
>>7475332
too little to brag about on here. Too many to stop now.
Just read when my heart cries. And to remember the two drops in my spoon, whilst enjoying life.
>>7486507
Not so much that. I was merely ignorant of him and most of what he had done. I knew about his presidency and what he did during his presidency and the more notable points of his career.
But this book was more 'insightful'(my bad) into the nature of the man. His character and attitude and so on. He wasn't a terrible person from what I gleaned from it. But that could be due to author bias.
All in all it was a good read. A good role model in my opinion. Helped me glean a lot of good life lessons.
>>7486587
pleb
>>7475370
>>The Sorrows of Young Werther 5/10
eh?
Read this year:
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Faust Part I - Goethe
The Plague - Camus
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Irrational Man - Samuel Barrett
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Faust Part II - Goethe
Selfish, Whining Monkeys - Rod Liddle
The Decline of the West - Spengler
Fascism Viewed from the Right - Evola
First half of Either/Or - Kierkegaard
Why I Am So Wise - Nietzsche
Ride the Tiger - Evola
The Fall - Camus
Napoleon - Alan Forrest
Poetics - Aristotle
Sartor Resartus - Carlyle
The Meaning of Conservatism - Scruton
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
Very Short Introduction to Kant - Scruton
Very Short Introduction to Hegel - Singer
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Tolstoy
Very Short Introduction to Heidegger - Michael Inwood
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands - Scruton
Very Short Introduction to Beauty - Scruton
The Gambler - Dostoevsky
Hegel - Frederick Beiser
Currently reading:
The Swan King - Christopher McIntosh
The Philosophy of History - Hegel (only the introduction for now)
ABC of Reading - Pound
r8 me m8s
>>7486575
>is in AA
>didn't read IJ
What did he mean by this?
>>7486601
I was on a search for the german identity, found what i was looking for, especially in The Process of civilization and Untimely Meditations
>>7475350
SAME
>>7475407
*cough* hardo *cough*
got half way through infinite jest
read some of the bible
Planning on finishing anna karenina before 2016. My goal is to read at least twice the number of books next year.
>>7490471
Favourite was probably a confederacy of dunces, but I think Lolita is a better, deeper book. Asylum and Babbit were also very good reads. Way of men and Gen ID were complete trash.
>>7475332
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2015
Best book: A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Master of Go, The Conquest of the Incas
I dont tend to finish books I hate, but Là-Bas by Huysmans was terrible. The Alistair MacClean book was pretty bad too.
Reading Plans for next year:
>>7490528
Reading Plans for Next Year:
>>7490484
this is pretty great. i want to creep other users with this.
>>7475332
The Divine Invasion
>8/10
The Fall
> 8/10
American Psycho
> 7.5/10
Endurance
> 7.5/10
Zero to One
> 0/1
The Score takes Care of Itself
> 5/10
Notes from the Underground
> didnt finish/boredom
Siddhartha
> 8/10
Crying of Lot 49
> 5/10
Gravity's Rainbow
> in progress, potential 9/10
A meager list
