/lit/ - Literature

>>12509537
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In Search of Lost Time Vol. 2 Within a Budding Grove
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 3 The Guermantes’ Way
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 4 Sodom and Gomorrah
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 5 The Captive and The Fugitive
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 6 Time Regained

>>12509537
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
Old Man and the Sea
Catcher in the Rye

Meme tier. I know. I've only gotten into reading a couple of months ago.

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Heart of Darkness
Jane Eyre
The Good Earth
As I Lay Dying
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

>>12509537
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Invitation to a Beheading
Youth without God
The Royal Game
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Demons (Dosto)

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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
The Martian
1984
The Stars My Destination
Microserfs

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Way of the tarot, Jodorowsky
Mysterium con., Jung
Daemon voices, Pullman
Notes from underground, Dosto
Writing treatment that sell, Atchity

>Age:
Does it really matter?

>Books:
Testimony (Solomon Volkov)
Kudrun
Dao de Jing
The Injustice to Dou E (Gaun Hanqing)
Lady MacBeth of the Mtsensk District (Nikolai Leskov)

>Current:
Red Sorghum (Mo Yan)
The Lay of Igor (Nabokov Translation) (Going to sit down and read it now)

>>12509642
>Way of the tarot, Jodorowsky
but why? this sounds silly

>26
Blood Meridian
Player Piano
Women
The Stranger
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

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The Sound and the Fury
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Suttree
The Waves

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Siddhartha
Steppenwolf
Hunger
The Alchemist
Notes from Underground

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John Whittier Treat, The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature
Stephen Hart, Companion to Latin American Literature
Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov Russian Years
Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov American Years
James Klagge, Wittgenstein in Exile

>>12509537
>19
1.Dark Night of the Soul
2.Accessible Hegel (im hegel pleb, and this did not help much)
3.Early Christian Lives (collection of biographies of those like St Antony)
4.Rise and Fall of the European Monastery
5.The Normans

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Journey to the End of the Night
Poetics of Space
LeopardI CantI
Beckett Trilogy
Correction

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Notes from Underground (just finished it 5 minutes ago)
Leviathan
Meditations by Aurelius
Dictatorship by Schmitt
Revolt Against the Modern World by Evola (meme-tier, I know...)

>18

Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari)
Moby-Dick (Melville)
A Treatise of Human Nature (Hume) (Ongoing Study)
Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky)
Metaphysics (Aristotle) (Ongoing Study)

>>12509573
Meme tier, but superior to what 90% of the population reads

>24
>If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
>Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
>The Death of Ivan Illyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
>The Complete Short Stories of Ray Bradbury
>Sketches from a Hunter’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev

>>12509537
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Cartas Marcadas (Alejandro Dolina)
Strip-Tease (Enrique Medina)
Las Hienas (Enrique Medina)
Las Muecas del Miedo (Enrique Medina)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)

I'm about to finish The Terror (Dan Simmons). I'm going to take a shower, I'll rate later.

>>12509797
>The Terror (Dan Simmons)
Did you watch the AMC adaptation, or are you reading the book first?
I thought it was some of the best Television to come out in a while, and Jared Harris nailed his role.

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>Beyond Good and Evil (I know, I'm late to this one)
> How to run a drug cartel
> Liar's Poker
> Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time
> Francis Fukuyama, State Building

>>12509537
:)

schachnovelle
tao te king
the three musketeers
a collection of all poems from attila joseph
kossuthkifli

>>12509674
>The Alchemist
woman detected

>>12509918
also the three musketeers kinda doesnt count cause;
a, only vol. I
b, only picked it up because found it in an antique shop
so the fifth i read was the chronicon pictum before i read kossuthkifli, its a chronicle with pictures from the 14th century written by a kalti mark, a hungarian guy working under the king at the time

>>12509537
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The Idiot
Animal Farm
Crime and Punishment
1984
Russia:A history

>>12509922
Guy here, I thought it was a comfy easy read.

>>12509870
I'm reading the book.
I didn't watch the live action adaptation, actually I don't want to watch it. I saw a trailer and pictures of the cast it's not like in the book.
Silence is supposed to be young, she's constantly described as a young woman, a teenager, Crozier even compared her with his cousin's young daughters. In the TV show she's a grown up woman.
Franklin is old, fat and bald. His live action counterpart is the opposite, and who's the monkey?

>>12509954
Based but underaged.

>28

>The Terror - Dan Simmons
>LA Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City - John Buntin
>Shah of Shahs - Ryszard Kapuściński
Perfidia - James Ellroy
>Endurance - Alfred Lansing

I got most of the Big Books out of the way in my earlier twenties so now I focus on the more comfy.

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American Psycho
A singular man
Norweigan Wood
Secret History
The Goldflinch

20

milkman
death of a salesman
orlando
the hour of the star
temple of the golden pavillion

>>12509954
lmao

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All Quiet on the Western Front
The Prince
The Bell Jar
Lucifer's hammer
Crime and Punishment

>>12509537
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Snow Country - Yasanuri Kawabata
The Redneck Manifesto - Jim Goad
Silence - Shusaku Endo
Ship of Fools - Tucker Carlson
Illiad - Homer

>>12509954
Based underage

>>12509980
I feel like live action adaptations are a way to tell a story along the same framework as a novel, but can be enjoyable without adhering to the source 100%
If I know exactly what to expect when watching an adaptation I'll be bored by it.
There are a few performances that I think make the show well worth watching, and Simmons mentioned that the actor playing Mr. Blanky elevated him far above anything he could have written.

>>12509537
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-The blank slate
-Brave new world
-Rule of law
-1984
-The republic of Playdoh.

>inb4 just started reading.
Bout to take me LSAT so I re-read some relevant stuff.

>>12509664
>>Way of the tarot, Jodorowsky
>but why? this sounds silly

I have always been interested in the tarot, you know see the future and shit, but I never actually learn anything. After studying Jung thou, I learned of the symbols of man and synchronicity. In a few words, with the tarot (once you can read it's visual language of symbols) you can 'read' your unconscious to better understand your present (as in your surrounding). Akin to this it's the jungan way to interpret your dreams to gain similar knowledge.
I'm descovering all this stuff to better understand and write my book.

>>12510113
I used to like playing pretend too. Just wait till that magical day when you truly comprehend the deeper implications of "confirmation bias".

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>Ulysses
>The White Goddess
>Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
>The Sot-Weed Factor
>England's Hidden Reverse

>>12509573
Decent start. You never had to read any of those for school?

>>12509582
>Flatland
absolutely based

>>12509618
cool guy, more people should read Demons

>>12509674
a resounding Meh

>>12509727
was the Evola any good?

>>12509573
those are all pretty gud, 7/10. keep reading, hopefully you're having fun. I'm in a similar position atm.
>>12509582
good mix
>>12509653
2patrician4me
>>12509668
masc
>>12509695
probably an annoying faggot who corrects people on their grammar in spoken conversation
>>12509704
T R A D
>>12509714
i don't know what any of these are which menas you're prolly pretty smart
>>12509736
smartass
>>12510132
>memoirs of an anti-semite
based and redpilled etc

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>Confederacy of Dunces
>The Exeter Book
>Anna Karenina
>Independent People
>The Kalevela

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Growing Up in New Guinea
The Omnivore's Dillema
Girl With Curious Hair
Homage to Catalonia
A Farewell to Arms

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Ubik(current)
White Noise
A Scanner Darkly
The Maddaddam trilogy

>>12510282
y-you have never reached five books, anon?

>>12509537

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>Current reads
The World Goes On-Krasznahorkai
Love in a Bottle-Szerb

>Last 5 read
Norwegian Wood-Murakami
The Stranger-Camus
The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Tales
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 3 The Guermantes’ Way-Proust
White Noise-Don Delilo

>>12510297
This has to be a joke.

>>12509537
>26
>Nabokov - Look at the Harlequins!
>Nabokov - Transparent Things
>Nabokov - Pale Fure
>Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
>Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

Brideshead revisited - Waugh
The Pussy - Delicious Taco
American Psycho - Ellis
The Glass Bees - Jünger
The Elementary Particles - Houellebecq

>>12509573
I wouldn't say meme tier. More like catching up after not having read a book since middle school tier. But if you're enjoying yourself, that's all that matters.
>>12509990
Did you watch the TV adaptation of The Terror?
>>12510132
What did you think of Ulysses? Seems like a lot of people say Dubliners and Portrait should be read first, thoughts on that?
>>12510297
Have you read any other Murakami or was Norweigan Wood your first of his novels?

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> Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
>A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
>Gravity's Rainbow -Thomas Pynchon
> Room to Dream - David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
Currently reading The Erstwhile by B. Catling

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The Sea of Fertility tetralogy and Stoner

>>12510336
21 years old btw

>>12510338

I've read a few of his books before like Hardboiled and Underground. I think Norwegian Wood is the fifth novel I've read by him. How are you finding Gravity's Rainbow? Iv'e read a good amount of Pynchon but I've held off reading Gravity's Rainbow for a while now. How is the Lynch book?

>>12510336

What did you think of Brideshead? One of my favourite novels and Waugh doesn't seem to get a lot of love here sadly. I've got Scoop and Vile Bodies on my shelf to read soon.

>>12510338
>What did you think of Ulysses?
Took a while to get into it but overall I had a lot of fun, it's both a deep and playful book. Dubliners and Portrait should absolutely be read first; Ulysses was originally going to be part of Dubliners, and while I didn't care that much for Portrait it provides a lot of insight into a number of characters and themes in Ulysses.

>>12510344
Well, well, well. We get ourselves a worthless piece of shit here. Get lost, fuckboy. Go sort out your fucking excuse of a life and stop wasting precious natural resources. It's a pity the Princess Diana had to die while useless garbage like you gets to shit up everything you touch. Dirty cunt.

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Whatever
The Social Contract
Faust
The Histories
Demons

>>12510378
Parts of Gravity's Rainbow are very enjoyable, other parts less so. As a whole I was satisfied with what I read, but it definitely takes some time to unpack after finishing. I'll probably reread it in a few years to see if my understanding of anything changes.

Room to Dream was great, especially as a big fan of Lynch's work. It basically splits up into a biographical chapter by McKenna for every major project he's worked on (early life-film school > Eraserhead > Elephant Man > etc) and then after every chapter Lynch writes out his thoughts and responses to the preceding interviews and information. I'd also recommend watching the interview/documentary Criterion produced about Lynch, The Art Life, if all that sounds interesting to you.

>>12510400
Definitely noted. I have Dubliners and Portrait sitting unread on my shelf so I was probably going to get to them before long, but part of me wants to just dive into Ulysses so I can say I've read the entire meme trilogy.

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>Crime and Punishment
>Divine Comedy
>The ego and its own
>The Idiot
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>12510407

>26

Gentle Spirit (Dostoyevski)
Nine Stories (Salinger)
Jezebel (Nemirovsky)
Selected Short Stories (Dorothy Parker)
Ice (Anna Kavan)

>>12510438
>16
MODS

>>12510503
I meant 18*
sorry for typo
forgive me oh generous mod.

>>12509537
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Cities of the Plain
The Crossing
The Road
The Great Santini
Lonesome Dove

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Aristophanes - Lysistrata
Nikolai Gogol - Collected short stories
Daniil Kharms - Collected writings
Franz Kafka - Letter to his father
Isaac Babel - Tales of Odessa

>22

>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>Karamazov
>Aeneid
>Metamorphoses

You'd think on /lit/ people would read the bit in the OP that says to rate

But I guess this proves that
a) /lit/ users are only out for feelings of validation based on responses of others to the perceived notoriety of their reading material, and
b) /lit/ doesn't read

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Modern Japanese Tanka (ed. Makoto Ueda)
Historia de lo inmediato (Renato Leduc)
La sangre de Mesuda y otros cuentos (José Emilio Pacheco)
Discusión (Jorge Luis Borges)
Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
>bonus
Currently reading Montaigne's Complete Essays

>>12509537
c u n t

>>12509573
7/10 for beginning
>>12509582
nice
>>12509625
decent scifi/10

>>12509667
kino/10

>>12510676
Somehow, I like you more than Butterfly.

>>12509553
10/10 for your dedication. How do you like it so far?

>>12510717
Somehow, your stupidity knows no bounds.

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>Bleak House by Charles Dickens
>Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
>Henry IV (does a play count?) and Romeo and Juliet (just to make up for it) by the Bard
>Seratonin by Houellebecq
>Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Makes me realise how little literature I read, but then I read loads of non fiction too

>>12510830
>defending butterfly

>>12510891

How was Seratonin? I read Platform this month and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think Platform might be his most underrated novel. I've been interested in Bleak House too.

>>12509653
Based on your list I suspect Nabokov’s translations aren’t for you. I can’t stand his Pushkin.

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1. Prometheus Rising
2. Bronze Age Mindset
3. Impeachment of man
4. The Occult Technology Of Power
5. Reality of ESP

>17(seventeen)
>the Complete Works of Plato
>the Complete Works of Ovid
>the Complete Works of Dante
>the Complete Works of Spinoza
>the Complete Works of Joyce

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Perfume: the story of the murderer
A farewell to arms
Women - Charles Bukowski
The prince - Machiavelli
I am pilgrim - Terry Hayes

>>12510955
underaged

>>12510955
Based

>>12510974
17(seventeen) = 17*17 = 289

>>12509573
These Hemingway & Salinger are two among my favorite books.

>>12509674
Loved Siddharta, found Steppewolf really whiny and boring and even found Hesse had a pretty limited worldview. There was five years between reading the two, so I don't know if I would enjoy Siddharta now.

>>12509736
Pretty impressed desu.

>>12509918
Schachnovelle any good? My mom gave it to me for my birthday some months ago. It says "A great story about the dangers of loneliness" on the back, so that really made me think.

>>12510240
I read Homage to Catalonia back to back with For Whom the Bell Tolls (which is also about the Spanish Civil War, pretty similar in style and themes to A Farewell to Arms). Found it nice to see how two authors describe the same historical event completely differently.
Tagging >>12510965 as well for afta

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The Aleph
A Sailor Abandonned by the Sea (Mishima, not sure about English title)
Bonjour Tristesse (lol)
Stoner
In the Presence of Schopenhauer

>>12509537
did i make that pic related popular on /lit, i’m honored

>>12510598
read All The Pretty Horses last year, thoroughly enjoyed it
how's the rest of the trilogy?
glad you kept with it?

>>12509573
I hate anime posters

>>12511697
They're all pretty good, I would say about equal in quality though my favorite was the second. They're well worth a read.

>>12511095
"The sailor who fell from grace with the sea"

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Billy Budd - Herman Melville
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy


Yeah most of these were for uni and not totally by choice. Casterbridge by choice and 10/10

>>12509537
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Wheel of time- fires of heaven
Wheel of time- shadow rising
Wheel of time- dragon reborn
Wheel of time- great hunt
Wheel of time- eye of the world

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Three Kingdoms
Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings
Hundraettåringen som tänkte att han tänkte för mycket
Katanagatari 1-3
Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance

>>12511861
>Billy Budd - Herman Melville
what a shitshow that was desu

>>12509537
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The Stranger
Dubliners
100 Years of Solitude
Sun and Steel
Zen and the Art of Archery

>>12511884
Yeah it's a little all over the place and I'm not gonna say I loved it, but you can tell the guy's really fucking good. I've gotta tackle Moby Dick soon, as it sounds like he just puts it all together properly.

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Anna Karenina
Emilio's Carnival / Senilità
Life: A User's Manual
The Sound and the Fury
Augustus

I think Senilità was actually my favourite of all of them, more people should really read that book.

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Augustus
The Setting Sun
Confessions of a Mask
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Dubliners
>>12511902
>Augustus
What'd you think?

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Blood Meridian
The Expanse - Cibola Burn
Valis
Gabriela Cravo e Canela
Hippie (Paulo Coelho)

you all disgust me

>>12511933
>Augustus
Honestly didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped or expected to as a huge fan of Stoner. Parts of it were absolutely beautiful; when it focused more on the characters I really enjoyed it. And I loved the idea of an epistolary novel about a character where we almost never actually read anything directly from that character. But ultimately I just found huge amounts of it to be really dry and uninteresting. Too much of it felt like the bad kinds of historical novel, with a lot of just recounting things that happened without much personality to it. I feel like it'd maybe be better on a re-read though.

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A Frolic of His Own
The Frolic of the Beasts
The Elementary Particles
Concrete Island
A Personal Matter

two with the word "frolic" in the title, why?

>>12512040
Agreed.
The scene where Augustus meets the old woman from his youth was absolutely beautiful, I cried like a bitch

>>12509537
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The crying of lot 49
The corrections
Mobydick
2666
the savage detectives

Moby dick was very good

>>12509537
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The Ugly Swans
Monday Begins on Saturday
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
The Kid from Hell
March of the Titans: The Complete History of the White Race

>>12509537
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Gravity's Rainbow
Stoner
Bleeding edge
Master and Margarita
Thus spoke Zarathustra

Come at me fags.

>>12510921
It'll be my first encounter with Nabokov.
I can always just check another version, because it's a really short work. I actually found out about it while reading the translator's foreword to Pushkin's "Ruslan and Ludmilla"

>>12509537
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The Sound of Waves, Mishima
The Last Castle, Vance
The Thirty Years War, Wedgwood
A History of Denmark, Jespersen
The Constitution of Liberty, Hayek

>>12509537
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might is right
birth of tragedy
faust
man and technics
meditations on the peaks

>>12510132
>was the Evola any good?
It has lots of information that will blow you away but it is dense and excessively detailed.
Most people say it is better to start with one of his easier reads like Ride the Tiger or Men Among the Ruins before reading Revolt.

>>12510826
Really good and the final book puts a perspective on the entire series that will make you want to start over at the beginning. Proust’s ability to capture the way his memory works is astounding. Not to mention how dynamic his characters are, and the way he explores what he calls Lost Time to distinctly portray his characters. The last book really ties it all together from a motivational point.

>>12512715
>man and technics
How was it?
Someone told me it was a better place to start off with Spengler as its an easier read than Decline of the West.

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Brad Blanton-Radical Honesty
David Boaz-The Libertarian Mind
Friedrich Nietzsche-Beyond Good and Evil
Ayn Rand-The Fountainhead
Friedrich Nietzsche-on the Genealogy of Morals

>21
>don quixote
>the stranger
>Siddhartha
>The Idiot

No 5th because DQ took me a few years of on and off reading to finish

>>12512753
Why tho? The Idiot is just as long as either of Don Quixote. How long did it take you to read The Idiot?

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Our Kind of Traitor
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joseph and His Brothers
The Oresteia

>>12512788
I'm still reading the Idiot, but it's actually not such a slog to read as compared to DQ

>>12512736
it's just a brief essay really. it could've been a chapter in decline of the west, and like decline its themes are prescient today.

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Infinite Jest
Women
The Fall
Tender is the Night
Notes from the Underground

>>12509537
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Fanged Noumena
Finnegans Wake
Infinite Jest
The Art of the Deal
Kill All Normies

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The Crying of Lot 49
V.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Sun also Rises
I, Claudius

>who cares
Iris Origo - A Chill in the Air
Joy Harjo - She Had Some Horses
Edward Bond - Bingo
Peter Handke - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
RK Narayan - Malgudi Stories

>>12512873
nice bait.

If not, please stop reading fake philosophy and read something good, like Bernard Williams.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Fascism Viewed From the Right
The Philosphy of Fascism
The Origins and Doctrine of Fascism
The Illiad

Not a joke post I really did read those in that order, just finished Nietzsche last night

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Person and Object (Rodrick Chisholm)
Naming and Necessity (Kripke)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
Meditations (Descartes)

>>12512923
How's "I, Claudius"?
I've been seeing it at a street vendor for weeks now, and I'm tempted to buy it for a buck, even though I can't spear that buck.

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The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck (Mark Manson)
Lolita (Nabby cough)
Three Days of Happiness (Sugaru Miaki)
40 ways to be miserable (Randy J. Paterson)
Demon Princess Magical Chaos (vol. 1) (J.J. Pavlov)

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Sharpe’s Company
Sharpe’s Gold
Julius Caesar (martin freeman bio)
The Dice Man
Stranger in a Strange Land

>>12513025
>martin freeman
I meant Phillip freeman, i’m an idiot

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Moby Dick - ongoing read that I'm thoroughly enjoying, bit too much whale info but ok
Lucian's dialogues - funny guy, though too cynical. Aristophanes was slightly better.
Foundation trilogy - good scifi. Pulpy but nice plot twists and captivating.
Hyperion - bad scifi. Too many plot lines, not enough thought or heart put in.
Spears of Twilight - anthropology book on amazon tribe. Interesting but too dense, needs editing

>>12512744
man exercise some freedom and read outside the libertarian bubble, please

>>12512053
Read story by Thomas Ligotti called Frolic. Pretty good.

>>12509537
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A Clockwork Orange
The Catcher in the Rye
Jitterbug Perfume
The Bell Jar
No Longer Human

>>12512871
Great list. Women deserves more love on /lit/ imho

>>12512999
I honestly really enjoyed it. It was a lot more funny than I would have expected and really did a great job of humanizing historical characters. If you've got the chance, I definitely reccomend it.

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As I Lay Dying
Siddhartha
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
On the Road
The Road

>>12513255
>As I Lay Dying
reading this now, pretty good. Much denser than I thought it would be.

>>12512873
>Kill All Normies
cringe
How could an 18 yo read this?

>>12509537
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This Is Not Fame - Doug Stanhope
The Consumer - M Gira
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
The Atrocity Exhibition - JG Ballard
All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

>>12509664
There's more to tarot than spooky divination ponzi scheme. It's more of a tool for self-awareness and understanding your present situation. It's also a bit tricky to draw cards for yourself, you should probably have someone draw for you.

Also if I'm not mistaken Jodorowsky has no explicit elements in his take on the Tarot.

>>12509537
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Mearsheimer)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Waiting for Godot
Exile and The Kingdom

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Blood Meridian
The Stranger
Notes from Underground
The Brothers Karamazov
East of Eden

Got back into reading after a year and a half break a few months ago and slowly going through the books I own. Started with East of Eden in October. Finished Blood Meridian yesterday and start One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich last night.

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The Pilgrim Hawk - Glenway Wescott
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro - Zachary M. Schrag
The Savage Detectives -Roberto Bolaño
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

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Agammemnon
The Metamorphosis
Pindar's Odes
Man and Technics
The Overcoat

>>12509537
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I don't read
comfy af desu ne wa

>>12509994
My grandmother got me The Goldfinch a few years ago saying it was really good but it's just been sitting on top my shelf. How'd you like it?

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>Omensetter's Luck
>Lolita
>Heart of Darkness
>The Iliad (Pope, Butler)
>The Tunnel

HoD = The Tunnel > Lolita > OL

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All Quiet on the Western Front
Catcher in the rye
Brave new world
1984
Animal farm

>>12513609
he honk
>unironically reading lolita

>>12513644
The standard college kid selection
Try Storm of Steel

Meditations

>>12513687
That ur age?

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-The first two Galaxy's Edge books
-Metternich's autobiography
-Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
-Deus Ex tie-in novel

>>12513699
And I'm reading the Decline and Fall now and probably the Shahnameh next

>>12509537
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In Search of Lost Time Vol. 4 Sodom and Gomorrah
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 2 Within a Budding Grove
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 6 Time Regained
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1 Swann's Way
In Search of Lost Time Vol. 3 The Guermantes' Way

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The Hunt for Red October
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Armies of Pestilence: The Impact of Disease on History
I, Robot
Deadfall in Berlin

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sun and steel
american psycho
catcher in the rye
ghost in the wires
why we sleep

>>12513728
is proust it worth it anon? also, what translation

>>12513764
Moncrieff translation is widely considered the greatest work of literary translation. I've heard some say Lydia Davis for Swann's Way and Moncrieff for the rest but you can't go wrong with Moncrieff

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Pierre et Jean -- Guy de Maupassant
A Life -- Guy de Maupassant
Hill -- Jean Giono
Disgrace -- JM Coetzee
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

>>12513782
>greatest work of literary translation

Not Pope's Iliad tho? Not even Stephen Mitchell's Rilke?

Well, if it's the best. What edition do you rec? I'm eyeing the modern library box set.

Lydia Davis's Madame Bovary blew me away btw

15
The Republic
Nicomachean Ethics
Crime and Punishment
The Prince
Hamlet

99
Naked Lunch
Rose crucifixion
Bible
Justine
Quran

23
The Man Without Qualities
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By Night in Chile
Ficciones
The Kreutzer Sonata

>>12509553
how long did it take you from volume 1?

>>12509537
>18
>rivers of london
>a clockwork orange
>1984
>lady of the lake
>tower of the swallow

x=18
lim x---> 0-
where x is age

1. Plato’s Timaeus
2. Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics
3. Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War
4. Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: Or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
5. Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
6. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
7. Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space
8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria
9. Paul Valéry’s Eupalinos, ou l’architecte
10. Sir Thomas Malory’s Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
11. Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Burial
12. Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
13. Virginia Woolf’s Selected Diaries
14. Ford Maddox Ford’s Parade's End (the Tietjens tetralogy)
15. William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
16. Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist
17. James Joyce’s Ulysses
18. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
19. Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
20. Beckett’s How It Is
21. Beckett’s Ping
22. José Lezama’s Paradiso
23. Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch
24. Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths
25. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
26. Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor and Other Stories
27. Herman Broch’s The Sleepwalkers
28. Italo Svevo’s Confessions of Zeno
29. Italo Svevo’s Zeno's Conscience (in William Weaver’s marvelous recent translation)
30. Gustave Flaubert’s Letters
31. Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet
32. Stendhal’s The Red and the Black
33. Colette’s Break of Day
34. John Donne’s Poems and Sermons
35. Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hymns
36. Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés
37. Ezra Pound’s Personae
38. William Butler Yeat’s The Tower
39. Wallace Steven’s Harmonium
40. Henry James’s The Golden Bowl
41. Henry James’s Notebooks
42. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
43. Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider
44. Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
45. William Gaddis’s The Recognitions
46. John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig
47. Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
48. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies
49. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus
50. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters

>77
> Finnegans Wake

>>12509537
23
To The Lighthouse
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Cities of the Plain
Brothers Karamazov (currently reading)

22
Another
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
The Double
Kokoro

>>12511697
Worth reading, Cities of the Plain is worth it just to see Billy and John Grady Cole interact

>>12514497
Wow I can't count
My fifth book is Flowers for Algernon

21
>Youth, by Dostoyevsky
>Boyhood, idem
>Infancy, idem
>The Death of Ivan Ilych, idem
>The Shining, by Stephen Kungz

21
>Autumn
>How to be Both
>Boredom
>The Magic Kingdom
>The Heart of a Dog

>>12513699
Loved cryptonomicon
Did you reed the baroque cycle? Great stuff

>>12509537
>22
>A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
>The Scarlet Gospels
>When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters
>Northanger Abbey
>The German Ideology

>>12516220
>German ideology
Nazism, right?

>>12516231
Surprisingly no, just a lot of different types of Hegelians bickering with each other. It's by Marx.

20
The Idiot
Notes from Underground
The Turn of the Screw
The Good Earth
The Master and Margarita

35
>Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons (reread)
>Hjalmar Söderberg - Doctor Glas
>Alice Munro - Dear Life
>Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint
>Kent Haruf - Plainsong

22
the banquet - plato
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Let the Devil Sleep - John Verdon
Karamazov Brothers - Fiodor Dostoyevski

>>12516325
I hate to be that guy but
>Fiodor Dostoyevski

19

The Recognitions
Ulysses
Gravity’s Rainbow
Tristram Shandy
Gargantua and Pantagruel

>>12510921
You were right. Though I'd day it's not entirely Nabokov's fault that this work falls flat on its face.
The Lay of Igor is just a really primitive "epic".

>>12513953
A little over a month. Granted I have lots of free time and no friends/social obligations. I have at least 3 whole days a week where I don’t work. So I would typically knock out one volume in those 3 days plus whatever reading I could get done on days I did work.

>>12509553
You could have just said In Search of Lost Time vols 2-6

>>12509537
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Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Sickness Unto Death (Kierkegaard)
The Art of Fiction (John Gardner)
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)

>tfw no one r8s you

>>12517102
at least i >you'd this post

Temple of golden pavilion
Blood Meridian
Sailor who fell from Grace
Sound of waves
Neuromancer

>>12515784
I’m about to start the Ivan book. How’s it?

>>12516220
Interesting I guess

>>12516261
Good book selection mate. I need to pick up a few of them 8/10

>>12516325
Based and redpilled 10/10

>>12516730
:bigbrained:

>>12515784
You are confusing your russian writers anon

>>12515813
I've only read hear of a dog, but nice mix of contemporary stuff

>>12516730
how can you read tome after tome like that, I always need a novella in between (or concurrently)

>>12516267
nice

>>12513937
>Bible
>Justine
>Quran
funny

>>12509537
22

Blindsight
The Gone World
Dune 1
Dune 2
Dune 3 (paused to read something else cuz I got bored)

>>12510234
I started the Kalevala but God its hefty

>>12512951
How was Nietzsche? starting it literally today

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The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Kybalion
12 Rules For Life
Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
The Way of Zen (didn't finish it)

And yes, I'm a mentally unbalanced loser.

25
Iliad
Presocratics
Death of Socrates Arc
Heart of Darkness
Clockwork Orange

>>12517135
>Sound of waves
based and mishima pilled

To the Lighthouse
Too Loud a Solitude
The Martian Chronicles
The Shining
At the Mountains of Madness

22

30.

>Catch-22.
>Good Omens.
>Second Variety.
>The Miracle of Castel di Sangro.
>The Sleeper Awakes.

18
The Trial
The Rage Against God
All Quiet Along the Western Front
The Abolition of Britain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

>>12511095
Not him, but I really liked Schachnovelle.

>>12509537
24

>Othello
>Seveneves
>Cosmic Shift Russian contemporary art writing
>Stoner
>Catching Thunder: The True Story of the World's Longest Sea Chase

25

Confessions of a mask
Storm of steel
Diary of a napoleonic footsoldier
Ghost on the throne
Heart of darkness

>>12517183
Really really great
Probably one of my favorite books already, I'm going to read Beyond Good and Evil now.
He kinda strikes me as kind of the biggest contrarian of all time, but I still like him and I love the way he writes.

>>12518404
Good shit.
Although I prefer Mishima's tetraology.

>>12518723
It was my first mishima, i have golden pavilion sitting on my shelf

>>12509537
19
>Satantango

>Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy

>Jacob's Room

>Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds

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.
.
...
>a dane with dragons
it was fun ok?

Osamu Dazai -- Run Melos! and other stories
DFW -- Brief interviews with hideous men
John Williams -- Stoner
Richard Feynman -- Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1
Leo Tolstoy -- Death of Ivan Illych
26

>>12509537
18
Aldous Huxley - Psychedelics
Ted Kaczynski - the Unabomber manifesto
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad - The Secret Sharer

>>12509537
32
hesiod
selected dialogs of plato
heart of darkness & other stories
leviathan
psalms and proverbs

>>12509537
24
Sun and Steel
The Story Of Art
69
Blood Meridian
Welcome to the N.H.K.

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Guards! Guards!
Tao Te Ching
Galapagos
Treasure Island
Robinson Crusoe

>>12518953
You're old my friend

>>12515784
DAS TOLSTOY NIGGUH

27

> Lolita
> Heart of Darkness
> Beatrice and Virgil
> Two Thousand Years (Mihail Sebastian)
> On the Road

24

Gravity's Rainbow
House of Leaves
Infinite Jest
The Wasteland (Stephen King)
Vimy (Pierre Berton)

>>12518953
>Guards! Guards!
Noice. Have you read Thud! yet?

>>12509537
>21
>And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste
>The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James
>Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
>If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
>The Eternal Husband

>>12512617
You choose what to read based solely on what /lit/ tells you to. 3/10

Wheelocks latin

>>12513386
how'd you like The Consumer?

>>12510891
Flashman is wonderful
Wish i read it at 19
How’d you like it? Are you going to read the rest of them?

>>12519218
I initially read it as a PDF last year, but I reread it early 2019 because I found a copy online for under $50 (usually they go for 200-500) so I was really psyched.

Honestly you get desensitized to the shock value stuff pretty quick, there's a lot of variations on the same themes that get tiresome in the final stretch of the reading. That said the quality of the prose is fucking beautiful and I'm amazed at how he can just steep every story in such a heavy, musty atmosphere that's almost suffocating to read. And even through all of the filth there's these little nuggets of beauty and humanity that stay with me. One story that comes to mind is I think called "If I Were Him"

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>1984
>brave new world
>the apology, euthypro and crito
>notes from the underground
>death of Ivan illych
Yeah i know, but i haven't read a book since middle school

18

>Kafka on the Shore
>Jurassic Park
>The Man from Beijing
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>The Lord of the Rings

probably shit tier but you be the judge

18
The Name of the Rose
Meditations on First Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Julius Caesar

>>12517162
Lit sci-fi. Blindsight is one of my favourite books. I'm also planning on reading Dune soon.


>23
>12 rules for life
>Brothers Karamazov
>Fahrenheit 451
>1984
>Gödel, Escher, Bach

>>12520052
Then why are you here?

>25

>Baudolino
>Notes from the Underground
>Fifth Head of Cerberus
>100 Years of Solitude
>Twelfth Night

>>12509537
19

1. Catcher in the rye
2. Perks of being a wallflower
3. The fault in our stars
4. The world according to Garp
5. My twisted world(elliot)

Catcher in the rye is sooooo underrated y'all should really check it out

>>12521325
I really loved Blindsight yes, This book will stick with me for sure.... I'll read the sequel Echopraxia eventually.

24
We
Do androids dream of electric sheep
Shining
Clockwork orange
Metamorphosis
Reading never let me go rn
Thinking about reading something big next like dune or Quixote

>27

>Breakfast of Champions
>What Does This Button Do? Bruce Dickinson (absolute shit)
>Fahrenheit 541
>The Handmaid's Tale
>Slaughterhouse 5

Still a absolute pleb

19
>Fear and Trembling
>The Sickness Unto Death
>The Ethics of Ambiguity
>Being and Nothingness (Current)
>Being and Time (Currently studying)

>>12509573
Bretty good for just starting out
>>12509618
8/10
>>12509625
Oof
>>12509667
9/10
>>12509668
7/10
>>12509736
Nice
>>12510027
7/10
>>12510438
Nice b8
>>12510891
10/10 for Henry IV
>>12511864
A Mood
>>12518875
Basic but good
>>12518953
What a mixed bag
>>12519113
9/10
>>12520287
8/10
>>12522222
0/10

>21

>norwegian wood
>welcome to the NHK
>pet semetary
>house of leaves
>11/22/63

18
Oyasumi Punpun
Kafka on the Shore
Catcher in the Rye (again)
The Sun Also Rises
Society of the Spectacle

>>12509537
18

>The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
>Ideas Have Consequences
>How To Read A Book
>The Wordly Philosophers
>Faust

Okay, but don't laugh.
26

El Cantar de Mio Cid
Dubliners
Demian
The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Robinson Crusoe. Both books.
BONUS SPIC CLASSICS
>Cóndores No Entierran Todos Los Días (Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal)
>Que Viva La Música (Andrés Caicedo)

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W.G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn (second read)
Terry Eagleton - Marxism and Literary Theory
Will Ashon - Chamber Music: About The Wu Tang (in 36 pieces)
Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
Micheal Houellebecq - Submission

>>12520367
Probably a first year philosophy student at U of T or some other Canadian uni

>23
The International Jew
The Balkans, Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
Confessiones
Oxford Latin Course
A Political Biography of Lazar Kaganovich

https://www.instagram.com/lunargod101/

Go follow it if you want $500

20
>Don Quixote
>1776
>Paradise Lost
>Storm of Steel
>The Illiad

>>12509537
19
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Hunger - knut hamsun
The plague - Camus
Stoner - john williams
Steppenwolf - hesse

>>12509537
>15
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Wonderland+Through the Looking Glass
Metamorphosis, Kafka
Dorian Gray
Island, Huxley

Currently reading Brothers Karamazov and Paradise Lost.

>>12521351
Catcher blows. "Holden's a whiny cunt." summarizes the entire book.

19

Fractured Lands (Anderson)
Norwegian Wood (Murakami)
The Angel of Grozny (Seierstad)
My Stolen Rwanda (Rurangwa)
I Shall Not Hate (Abuelaish)

>24
>Nazi Literature in The Americas
>Ficciones
>The Savage Detectives
>Blood Meridian
>Stoner

>>12517135
It's pleasant to read and able to keep your attention. Maybe read some commentary on its plot's meaning

>>12521946
Echopraxia was unfortunately a disappointment. Not as mind blowing nor as interesting as Blindsight, but you could of course give it a try just to quench your curiosity.

19
Brave New World
All Quiet on the Western Front
Vietnam an Epic tradegy by Max Hastings
Great Ages of Man:The renaissance
The Godfather

>>12524209
paradise lost good choice

29

Not sure how well I can remember but I think some books I finished reading were:

Dostoyevsky - Notes From Underground
Camus - The Outsider
Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

I'm really bad for not finishing books. That's why those are shorter ones.

>>12513785
Sir Gawain and the green knight. I see somebody is still a senior in highschool going over middle english poetry and short stories