/lit/ - Literature

29/100. i'm a pleb. thought for sure i'd read more than that.

9/100 bruh ha ha

>>14057688
damn bruh you finna be a reader and sheeit huh LMAO

>>14057577
I don't read fiction.

5, with parts of some read (high school) and Montaigne up in the near future

I tend more towards nonfiction desu

>>14057577
56

>>14057577
3 but not because ive actually read three but because ive read halfway through 6 of them

3 but like 3 full books

>>14057719
>>14057712
>>14057688
cringe

16 from just going to highschool and uni

>>14057727
suck my nuts fag

>>14057577
5
I read half of The Hobbit and half of Catch-22 so that adds up to one more for a total of 6.

31, skipped a lot of the entry-level ones, desu

>>14057577
4, I think I have many of those but I haven't read them. I'm too busy reading gothic novels.

>>14057577
26, but I'm a beginner, so that seems right.

>>14057746
Sneed my feed bro

33. Though I actually bothered to make my way through this whole chart when I first came across it years ago.

Does no one here read anymore? Jesus are you all just philosophy majors? Where are all the lit-heads?

what next?

>>14057815
suck my nuts fag

>>14057820
39 Whatever

57. I really wish people who say things like kino would stay in /tv/

>>14057958
Spoken like a true kinosseiur of literature

>>14057577
24, 25 if you give me credit for making it through 1/6 of Phenomenology before the library wanted it back.

>>14057577
36/100, 24 yo STEM PhD student, I'm gonna make it bros

>>14057577
i'm giving myself half a point for the ones i started but didn't finish
9.5

>>14058066
I’ve read 62/100 and I’m 20 years old STEM major. Fuck off retard

>>14058023
>Phenomenology
I want to give it a shot, but still have to finish Critique of Judgment.

>>14057577
Forty-five (45)... Still do not understand why the author of "The Iliad" is Homer but for "The Odyssey" it is Fagles... Also, there is no way "Infinite Jest" is superior to "Hamlet."

>>14057577
7, but I'm working on it.

>>14057577
6.

32/100, not a bad start. still a lot to do.

>>14058112
it's ranked based on how many people listed it in their top 5

>>14058098
read more papers kek

>>14057577
36, I'm reading through Pessoa right now though and have dipped in and out of Montaigne, but haven't read all the essays.

I just stumbled onto /lit/ and this thread, probably first post on this board

I could 9

>>14057577
19, though I've read parts of a bunch of classics like Paradise Lost and The Iliad and Odyssey.

42

>>14057852
read The Iliad and The Odyssey.
in fact every pre-20th century fiction book on the chart is essential fiction reading but start with the greeks.

>>14057577
imagine reading a list of books just to fit in with some anime-watching losers you don't even know in person. imagine calling people out for not reading and liking every book on that list rather than having their own individuated tastes for period-specific literature.

>>14058931
t. reads 2 books a year

>>14058931
Imagine posting here.

>>14058947
ok, we get it, you discovered /lit/ from that reddit thread about this chart a year ago but at least learn how to use t. you fucking newfag. and no, you're wrong; i read around 50 books a year, but i almost exclusively read Romantic period literature. how about you get a personality, instead of forcing yourself on a hobby you don't even enjoy, to impress strangers on the internet for some stupid and arbitrary goal like self-improvement. have sex incel.

>>14058931
It's a pretty standard list outside a few /lit/ oddities

61/100. I am a NEET with a lot of time though.

>>14057577
45/100

17/100, I'll get there eventually. I wonder what's going to be on the 2019 top 100.

Moby Dick - 9/10
C&P - 7/10
The Bible
Lolita - 8/10
Blood Meridian - 9/10
Don Quixote - 4/10
The Stranger - 5/10
1984 - 6.5/10
Catch 22 - 5/10
East of Eden - 8.5/10
LOTR - 7/10
Invisible Cities - 8/10
Metamorphosis - 9/10
Dorian Grey - 7/10
No Longer Human - 5/10
Grapes of Wrath - 9/10
King Lear - 9/10

These are the ones i've read so far,my favorites being Catch-22,first half of notes from underground and IJ
Least favorite are heart of darkness and american psycho

33, but this chart's pretty dumb. I have five books borrowed from the library right now and none of them are on this chart
>Satantango
>Endgame (biography of Bobby Fischer)
>Darkness Visible
>Earth Abides
>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

28/100

Why the fuck is Spengler on there?

>>14057577
One, LMAOing at you nerds.

>>14060519
the same reason every other person is on there

Is there going to be a 2019 chart or will we wair another year?

This is just Anglo shit. I got 30, but this list sucks.

33. Expected fewer.

84/100
based

>>14060688
What was the best out of the 84?

>>14060662
this. the list just shows that lit is plagued with monolinguals.

47.

>>14060430
>T. Kuhn
nice, good to see philosophy of science on lit.

>>14060727
>english speaking site is focused on english literature
shocking discovery. who could have predicted such a thing

39.

>>14060727
i love how europoors think being bilingual is some kind of achievement despite the fact that the reason for them knowing multiple languages is solely because they're absolutely cucked by the U.S.A. and the globalists. get back to me when you know latin or koine, you fucking cuck.

>>14060775
can speak 4 languages total but ok boomer.

Yeah, not much.

>>14060825
how progressive of you. i bet people think you're really cool and intelligent

>>14060835
>Metamorphosis is by Kafka
Fuck no I did not read that pagan shit. And I just realized there isn't The Metamorphoses by Ovide. What a shit list.

>>14060853
i just wanted to read litterature in its original language desu.

>>14060871
>monolinguals are a plague
>i-i'm not pretentious, i-i just wanna read!!!

>>14060884
plenty of monolinguals stay that way because they believe learning another language is "globalist propaganda" as an anon mentioned earlier. i've seen that way of thinking many times on lit, and i believe they're missing out on a lot of great works just because they dont want to be "sheeps of the system" by studying another language.

>>14060913
oh shit, i'm gonna miss out??!! well i wouldn't wanna miss out!! god forbid i miss out!!!!!

>>14060957
ok boomer

anyone of you guys read in search of lost time?

>>14057577
41, just doing number 42 atm.

>>14061731
Yes I read it in the original French volume 1 to 7 cover to cover.
I'm >>14060835 btw

16 but I haven't been reading that long so I'm not surprised

>>14061786
wow respect, how much time did it take?

>>14057577
22 but im from /mu/

>>14057577
43. I dont score that well on other top 100s tho

>>14061798
Haha thank you but all the respect goes to Proust for writing this masterpiece. I took me a bit more than one year to read it, I read other things at the same time though. If I hade to estimate an amount of hours I would say around 130, Proust need to be read slowly.
It's probably one of my favourite book, and if there wasn't those immensely long and overdescriptive parts in Du Côté De Guermantes and in Sodome Et Gomorrhe it would probably be my favourite.

>bible in top 10
Kill yourself kike worshipper

>>14061888
thank you for the answer

>>14057577
17. I've only gotten back into reading this year though so I think I'm making decent progress.

Cant we just agree to remove Infinite Jest from this list? There's literally nothing to gain from it, it's just a big waste of time

>>14057577
Lolita and stoner top. 10,time for a new website I think. Bye lit.

Gross, fiction. I'm fine with being a poseur, at least I have a brain.

7 lol

>>14057820
If it wasn't for philosophy this place would be jerking of Pynchon and fags posting stacks like it's Reddit or something. Forever.

>>14057577
Only 20 of these books are actually good, the rest are trash. I could make a better list of 100 than this.

>>14062071
I'm genuinely curious, please do so

>>14057577
0.

>be me
>don’t read
>post exclusively on /lit/

Heh.

>>14057577
I've read ~26, however, I read a lot of those books before I really got into reading (either in HS or some classics courses in uni) so I feel like I shouldn't count them. I probably just read them passively desu.

>>14062087
Pseud

>>14061083
Join this reading group to be one book less pseud

>>14057577
100/100 all in there source language I guess you can call me "BASADO"

>>14062255
It's already halfway over

71/100. I don't read spic shit

>30
Reading more is being lurker-tier forever.

>>14062319
It just means you read out of obligation and not pleasure.

>>14057577
>The stranger
>1984
>Brave New World
>Invisible Cities
>Metamorphosis
>He Greeb Gasty
>No Longer Human (reading for the first time)
>If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
I've got more reading to do, I guess. Why's 1984 on this list though?

>>14057852
Invisible Cities, and then more Calvino
>>14060204
>>14060423
>>14060835
>No Calvino
Why do anons love to waste their time?
Honestly

>>14057577
I've read:

14, 15, 21, 27, 34, 37, 40, 55, 58, 60, 62, 74

12/100

Yikes, I've got a lot to read.

>>14057817
And I've read 11/20 for this.

37, but I read what I please.

>there are people on /lit/ who haven't read Infinite Jest

>>14062516
IJ is shit

>>14062287
You read the Bible in Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Aramaic, and Ancient Greek?

1, and it's Finnegans Wake. I don't read normie shit, which is most of the chart

>>14057577
I've read or studied more then half of this shit in highschool, American education really is a joke if this is your top 100

>>14060707
moby dick

>>14057711
cringe

>>14062729
I sincerely doubt that.

>>14062297
What?

>>14057852
The Bible of course.

Not many, I don’t read fiction

Hello, /lit/! I am a new user, interested in joining your discussions. After looking at the chart, I've found that I've only read three of those books: the Bible (NRSV), Phenomenology of Spirit, and Finnegans Wake. Would you say that I am "based"? Also, what books do you recommend next?
Thanks! :)

>>14063299
Isn't it already 3 weeks into it?

>>14063386
>today is October 26th
>the start date is November 3rd

>>14063378

>>14063412
I'm sorry, fellow 4channel-surfer, but what is this picture? I can tell it is of a hook, likely for the purposes of BDSM-related activities, but I don't understand the context. Is it a meme?
Thanks! :)

>>14063428

>>14063396
Oh, I only saw it once and I must have misread it. I might participate in that case.

>>14063439
I don't recognize that word, but based on it's spelling, it seems French. After all, many french words end with -ait. That said, I can't find any translation to English, as if it isn't a French word in the first place. Please elaborate?
Thanks! :)
>he's still giving me (You)'s

>>14057577
4 lol

>>14062070
>Implying that the philosophical discussion on this board isn't as shitty as stack threads.

>>14057577
18, didn't really like a lot of them, like No Longer Human though. I'm more of a religious books/Hindu person.

>>14057577
56, working on 57 currently.

>>14057577
I'm pretty proud of not having read most of the garbage on that list. It should be called "pseud-core" because that's what -most- of it is.

>>14057577
I have read 30 and have 40 of them.

>>14057577
44 BITCH

>>14064104
What list would you use then? Crypto-pseudcore?
Posturing that you're cynical about posturing says nothing about your intelligence.

>>14062087
That’s just all /lit/ posters

57
I will ascend shortly
My life is worse than ever

>>14057577
21

>>14064732
>>14064732

>>14057577
46

6
guess I'm not hipster enough
have read the entire Bible though

>>14057577
Someone give me a list of the shortest books on this list so I can pump up my rookie numbers

>>14059001
What are the /lit/ oddities on here?

40 but I'm not following any fag charts
/lit/'s taste is too Anglo for me

>>14057577
6

>>14065149
A clockwork orange is short

>>14065149
>The Stranger
>Dubliners
>Notes from Underground
>The Trial
>Hunger
>Siddhartha
>Metamorphosis
>The Hobbit
>Meditations
>The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
>Steppenwolf
>Of Mice and Men
>Finnegan Wake
>the Waves
>King Lear

>>14057577
0

>>14065583
So is your mom but you don't see me complaining. It's easier when she doesn't have to get on her knees.

>>14057577
The poseur is the one thinking reading through random books from a list aggregated by random people, 95% of whom are poseur shitposters somehow does anything at all but waste your time

>>14057577
I've read 48 by accident. Honestly, the top 100 lacks serious depth in terms of academic non-fiction and philosophy.

>>14066142
What do you think is missing anon?

>>14057577

I've read 50.
I think we need to remake the chart since too many books by the same author, too many Dostoyevsky and Hesse. Also not a single Dickens made the list, not even Bleak House?

>>14057577
How does /lit/ feel about the theory that moby dick is a criticism of whiteness and slavery?

>>14057577
0
I don't read that much, but I always borrow like 40 books from the library and don't read any of them, and I like to pretend to be a reader because you look sophisticated. But the truth is I know authors and important books and roughly their content, but I don't read books that are literally hundreds of pages, it takes hours upon hours of my time that I'd rather spend browsing 4chan.

>>14062535
>Why yes, I DID read the Bible in Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Aramaic, and Ancient Greek, how could you tell?

>>14057577
28

>>14066450
That's sad

>>14057577
Seven 7

>>14058980
Based

11
roll i guess

>>14069821
everyone's read that dammit
re-rolling even if it's a foul

>>14069831
ahhhhhgg got halfway through before i realized it was a slog
shine your love upon me, 4chan