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So, there's one day left in January.

How many/which books have you read so far this year?

>> No.1507361

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>> No.1507365

>>1507361
Which one?

>> No.1507369

At Home by Bill Bryson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

I think that's it.

>> No.1507374

I finished 6 books.
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Bro Code by Barney Stinson with Matt Kuhn
The Trial by Franz Kafka
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell

Currently reading:
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Armor by John Steakley
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

>> No.1507380

13.

Been slacking off since it's summer holidays over here, and have been camping and whatnot.

I usually read one book every 1 - 3 days, depending on length. Really long ones, a week or so.

>> No.1507388

3 and a textbook. The book they gave us is like an Idiot's Guide to American History. "Making and Using the Atomic Bomb," for my first big assignment is pretty neat though, overview of the whole thing plus primary sources from physicists, politicians, and military staff.
I gave up on Stendahl. It's boring as hell, I might come back to it but I rarely do with books I give up on.

>> No.1507397

>>1507365
Metamorphosis
what about you

>> No.1507401

Thirteen so far for me:

Salamander and Other Stories by Masuji Ibuse
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
Five Women Who Loved Love by Ihara Saikaku
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Paper Door and Other Stories by Shiga Naoya
Japanese Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
Botchan by Natsume Soseki

And reading Country Teacher by Katai Tayama right now.

>> No.1507410

2
The Red House by A.A. Milne
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine.

And lots of uni stuff

>> No.1507416

>>1507380
Forgot to mention them:

Astronomica - Manilius
Complete works - Seneca
Complete works - Virgil
Complete works - Horace
The Queen of Spades, Boris Godunov, Eugene Oneguin - Puschkin
A hero of our times - Lermontov
Odes - Pindar
The Conspiracie of Catilline and the Jugurthine War - Salust
Speeches (his 7 most important ones) - Demosthenes
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

>> No.1507418

Their Eyes were Watching God - Hurston
The Stranger - Camus
The Sickness unto Death - Kierkegaard
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Herzog - Saul Bellow
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Schopenhauer
River of Gods - Ian McDonald

>> No.1507427

>ITT: tools measuring dicks

>> No.1507431

>>1507397
Not even really a book. More of a novella on the lean side

>> No.1507433

>>1507431
Books are books :/

>> No.1507435

>>1507351
The Broom of the System - D.F.W
Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
Norweigen Wood - Murakami
No One Writes The Colonel - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
Everything is Illuminated - Safran-Foer

Currently reading Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas.

>> No.1507439

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Safe House by W.F. Hermans
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Moocher. Little Titans. Little Poet. Mene Tekel. by Nescio

Currently reading The Gambler by Dostoyevski.

>> No.1507440

The Saga of Darren Shan - 12 short stories
The Demonata - 10 books - Rather short
The Dark City Trilogy

Started on The Saga of Larten Crepsley.

Yes, I do not actually have a life.

>> No.1507444

STOP PRESSURING ME

>> No.1507451

The Master and Margarita
Kafka on the Shore
Symposium
The Trial

>> No.1507459

>Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
>Othello by William Shakespeare
>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Currently reading: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I'm behind by one book. I meant to read one every week this year.

>> No.1507483

Norwegian Wood. The Road finished tomorrow

>> No.1507487

The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld
Keeper of the Night - Kimberly Willis Holt
Spook - Steve Vance
Ghost Girl - Delia Ray
Foundling - D.M. Cornish
The Lord Ramage Novels - Dudely Pope
Interred With Their Bones - Jennifer Lee Carrell
By Schism Rent Asunder - David Weber
Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey
Slam - Nick Hornby
Floating Dragon - Peter Straub
Dark Angel - Klass
Ends - James Hughes
The History of Danish Dreams - Peter Hoeg
The Rock Star Chronicles - Creston Mapes

Thrift store/bargain bin pickups.

>> No.1507494

The Gathering Storm and Towers of Midnight.

>> No.1507498

Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
The White Queen- Philippa Gregory
The Hound of Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle

>> No.1507503

>>1507401
I read Botchan when I was in Japan as an exchange student (spent a lot of time alone in the library at my school), and I actually lol'd at the egg-throwing.
Fun little read.

>> No.1507507

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Tom Bissell - Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Levitt & Dubner - Freakonomics
Ryan North (editor) - Machine of Death
Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers

In the middle of a whole bunch of others.

>> No.1507541

I've read 19 books thus far, although only 9 of those were novels. The others were 6 comics, 2 novellas, 1 graphic novel and 1 manga.

>> No.1507563

So far only The Bean Trees and re-read the Road. Seriously slacking right now. I usually read at least 1-2 books per week.

>> No.1507568

Read:
Player Piano- Kurt Vonnegut
Enchantress of Florence- Salman Rushdie
Starship Troopers- Robert Heinlein
The Puppet and the Dwarf- Slavoj Zizek

Reading:
A Gun For Sale- Graham Greene
The Sublime Object of Ideology- Slavoj Zizek

>> No.1507569

3

Pot Smokers Handbook
The Bell Jar
Great Expectations

I'm slacking. This semester is pretty difficult for me.

>> No.1507581

The Kite Runner (first time; for class)
Decoded-Jay Z
Skippy Dies-Paul Murray
John Days at the End-David Wong

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1507582

Books:

Endgame
Waiting For Godot
Rules of Attraction
Beyond Good and Evil
Darkness at Noon
Fear and Trembling (abridged)
Crime and Punishment

Essays:
'Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences'

>> No.1507585

Six so far, but I'm going to finish the seventh today.

St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The Croquet Player by H.G. Wells
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
and I'll end with Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

>> No.1507588

Freakonomics
Glass castle
Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal (trying to learn portuguese)