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List your top 10 favorite books Anonymous Sun Mar 6 22:40:40 2022 No.20026824 [Reply] [Original]

If you had to reduce your entire library to only 10 books, which would ones would you choose?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 6 22:43:29 2022 No.20026838 *which ones would you choose

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 6 22:44:35 2022 No.20026842 >>20026824 The Trial Tao Te Ching Bhagavad Gita Hemingway Collected Stories Tropic of Cancer/Colossus of Maroussi Steppenwolf/Siddhartha TBK Germinal Sometimes a Great Notion Gogol Collected Stories

Anonymous Sun Mar 6 22:49:58 2022 No.20026865

The Holy Bible, Authorized Version
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Gulliver's Travels
The Westminster Confession
1650 Scottish metrical Psalter
1662 Book of Common Prayer
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Christian in Complete Armour by William Gurnall
Holiness by J.C. Ryle

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 6 22:53:22 2022 No.20026883 >>20026865 >bible Protestant? Catholic? Orthodox?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 6 22:56:53 2022 No.20026893 File: 1.61 MB, 4032x3024, IMG_1903.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20026883 Protestant, Presbyterian in particular.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 6 23:07:35 2022 No.20026942 >>20026824 >List your top 10 favorite books while bumping my dumbass frog for a few days. Fuck off, dumb frog poster

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 6 23:14:51 2022 No.20026978 >>20026942 Thanks for bumping my thread, lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 6 23:40:07 2022 No.20027049 I haven't read 10 books yet but I feel like bumping your frog

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 00:22:27 2022 No.20027151
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>>20026824
Hmmmm....
>The Holy Bible, NKJV
>My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd + the sequel Another Bloody Love Letter (I will count that as one hehe)
>On the Road by Jack Kerouac
>The Hobbit + The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
>A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
>Redwall by Brian Jacques
>Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
>House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
>Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
(Not specifically in that order.)

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 01:15:28 2022 No.20027341 >>20026824 The Iliad Metamorphoses Brothers Karazmov Tale Of Two Cities Herman Melville Selected Tales And Poems The Hobbit + LOTR Poetic Edda Saga Of The Icelanders The Poetic Edda Complete Works Of HP Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 01:19:43 2022 No.20027352 >>20026824 Moby Dick Lord Jim Dead Man's Float The Great Railway Bazaar Infinite Jest Bleeding Edge The Bhagavad Gita Tragedy and Hope Process and Reality The Holy Bible (Douay Rheims)

>>	dmoney Mon Mar 7 01:23:29 2022 No.20027365 >>20026824 Slaughter House-Five Rum Punch Capitalist Realism Yotsuba Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Savage Season The Hobbit A Wizard of Earthsea The Chapo Guide to Revolution Essex County might be retarded choices but ya know what I like them

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 01:26:49 2022 No.20027368
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>>20026824
rabbit angstrom tetralogy
the complete works of william shakespeare
absalom absalom
confederacy of dunces
ham on rye
king james bible
blood meridian
cane
derek walcott's collected poems
hunchback of notre dame

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 01:45:33 2022 No.20027429 File: 1.84 MB, 202x360, 1646443669101.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20027365 >Capitalist Realism >The Chapo Guide to Revolution

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 01:50:03 2022 No.20027442 The Bible Infinite Jest Moby Dick War and Peace The Brothers Karamazov Growth of the Soil East of Eden The Book of the new Sun Mason & Dixon Road to Reality

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 01:56:00 2022 No.20027452

My poop smeared on paper
My urine smeared on paper
My jizzum smeared on paper
My vomit smeared on paper
My boogers smeared on paper
My sweat smeared on paper
My blood smeared on paper
My bile smeared on paper
My saliva smeared on paper
My earwax smeared on paper

>>	dmoney Mon Mar 7 02:03:12 2022 No.20027478 >>20027429 I don’t know I liked them

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 02:06:59 2022 No.20027485 [DELETED]

Not my favorite per se... but if I were stranded on an island and had to pick just 10 books to keep with me:

Bible
Essays by Montaigne
The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Iliad
Faust
New Science
Tragedy and Hope
The Technological Society
Storm of Steel
Anti-Fragile

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 02:08:24 2022 No.20027489 File: 182 KB, 1400x1400, HPLovecraft.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20027478 >I don't know I liked them

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 02:08:57 2022 No.20027492

Not my favorite per se... but if I were stranded on an island and had to pick just 10 books to keep with me:

Bible
Essays by Montaigne
The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Iliad
Faust
New Science
Storm of Steel
Tragedy and Hope
Anti-Fragile

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 02:30:49 2022 No.20027547
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The Bible
The Quran
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Upanishads+ Bhagavad Gita
The Red Book
Ride The Tiger
Divine Comedy
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Hitler's War
History of Philosophy- Copleston

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 03:09:09 2022 No.20027623
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>>20026824
according to letterboxd, they're
>platform
>crime and punishment
>bros k
>introduction to metaphysics
>coin locker babies
>phenom of spirit
>different and rep
>chaosmosis
>120 days of sodom
>thus spoke zarathustra

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 03:10:10 2022 No.20027625 >>20027623 shit, not letterboxd, goodreads. you know what i mean

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 04:38:24 2022 No.20027812
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I could try to come up with a varied list that represents different facets of my taste but if i am being completely honest its probably like 10 Bernhard novels maybe some Beckett and Kafka in there.

>>20026842
>Germinal
Thanks for reminding me I want to read this.

>>20027365
>Capitalist Realism
>Yotsuba
holy based. you seem chill and not tryhard. would hang out with/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 05:05:22 2022 No.20027877 Moby Dick Crime and Punishment War and Peace The Count of Monte Cristo Doctor Faustus The Name of the Rose Blood Meridian The Rainbow The Red and the Black A Hero of Our Time

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 05:47:09 2022 No.20027972 Dracula - Bram Stoker Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky, Fyodor Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad 1984 - Orwell, George The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 06:24:37 2022 No.20028060 >>20026824 >If you had to reduce your entire library to only 10 books Why would this be a case?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 06:33:43 2022 No.20028090 >>20028060 Imagine you'd be running and hiding.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 06:38:49 2022 No.20028101 File: 120 KB, 371x353, BDCC95A8-8902-404E-8FBE-470E4A1547FF.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20028090 Well, actually I am rn. I took one French learning book and 6 volumes of Plato. Nothing more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 06:41:56 2022 No.20028109 >>20028101 based ukrainian platonist going to France

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 06:45:37 2022 No.20028122 >>20026824 Concept Of The Political The Social Contract The Bible Leviathan On The Genealogy Of Morals Summa Theologica Critique Of Pure Reason Tao Te-Ching Philip K Dick "Collected Short Stories" Politics The Republic I don't read much fiction

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 08:02:53 2022 No.20028309

HP Lovecraft complete works.
George Orwell complete essays
Animal farm - Orwell
The elementary particles - Houellebecq
Lolita - Nabokov
Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Euripides complete plays
Fountainhead - Rand
Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
The Aeneid - Virgil

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 08:09:19 2022 No.20028327 >>20026824 The bible, leave the rest

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 11:29:20 2022 No.20029006 bump

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 12:41:44 2022 No.20029259

Good question...

Dazai's collected stories (I read japanese)
The wind up bird chronicle
The idiot
Snow country
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
The remains of the day
Hemingway's first 49 stories
A farewell to arms
Great expectations
David Copperfield

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 12:49:52 2022 No.20029288 File: 4 KB, 200x200, 1645767595815.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20026893 >evangelicuck cringe

>>	dmoney Mon Mar 7 17:30:54 2022 No.20030541 >>20027812 thanks man, you too

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 17:34:44 2022 No.20030565 The Bible The Iliad The Odyssey Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov Notes from the Underground War and Peace The Count of Monte Cristo Confederacy of Dunces The Old Man and the Sea

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 17:35:44 2022 No.20030576 File: 52 KB, 750x540, 1642836076342.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20029288 Idol-worshiper

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 17:39:09 2022 No.20030601 >>20026824 Genesis Isaiah Ezekiel Daniel Zechariah Malachi Matthew John Hebrews Revelation

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 17:46:56 2022 No.20030649 >>20026824 The Violent Bear It Away The Maias Dom Quijote A Confederacy of Dundee Magic Mountain Grandma Nineteen and the Secret of the Soviet The Beggars of Miracles Master and Margarita The Karamazov Brothers The Leopard

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 18:05:23 2022 No.20030731 >>20028327 This.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 19:41:45 2022 No.20031172 >collected works >complete works >[this book] + [this one too] OP said 10 books, you fucking idiots

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:06:54 2022 No.20031561

>>20026824
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Sir Robert Louis Stevenson
A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Studies In Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
The Philosophy Of Redemption by Philipp Mainlander
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Book Of Genesis
The Gospel Of John

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:08:14 2022 No.20031564 >>20031172 This, desu.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:13:51 2022 No.20031587 File: 69 KB, 774x494, 1646359519960.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I dont read

Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:18:56 2022 No.20031610

>>20026824
1. Holy Bible (KJV w deuterocanon)
2. Bhagavad Gita
3. Tao Te Ching
4. Paradise Lost
5. Picture of Dorian Gray
6. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
7. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
8. The Hobbit
9. The Divine Comedy w the Doré etchings
10. Heart of Darkness

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:31:55 2022 No.20031659 The Bible Paradise Lost Divine Commedy Ulysses The Brothers Karamazov Plato's Republic St. Augustine Confessions Critique of Pure Reason Phenomenology of Spirit Aion These should keep me busy for years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:33:36 2022 No.20031665 >>20031172 >>20031564 A book is that which has a cover, a backing, and paper in between, often binded together

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:35:07 2022 No.20031670 File: 58 KB, 1000x1024, 1628699455625.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20028309 >Lolita - Nabokov that boy aint right

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 21:40:28 2022 No.20031690 >>20031665 in that case i'll print out the western canon, paste some cardboard on the top and bottom, and ducktape the side. i get 9 more

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 23:33:38 2022 No.20032164 The Man Without Qualities The Sleepwalkers The Good Soldier Svejk In Search of Lost Time Berlin Alexanderplatz Doctor Faustus Austerlitz Dog Years War And Peace Absalom, Absalom!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 23:48:30 2022 No.20032220 The Complete Plato Bible The Enneads Confessions City of God Journey to the West The Comedia Don Quixote Confederacy of Dunces New Tales of Tono

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 7 23:54:31 2022 No.20032243 The New Testament Infinite Jest Ulysses The Count of Monte Cristo Crime and Punishment The Death Ship Poems of Georg Trakl Moby Dick To the Lighthouse The Magic Mountain

Anonymous Tue Mar 8 03:27:35 2022 No.20032899
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Moby Dick
Heart of Darkness
In Search of Lost Time
Lolita
The Third Policeman
Doctor Faustus
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Brothers Karamazov
The Screwtape Letters
Grande Sertão: Veredas

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 06:02:57 2022 No.20033269 >>20031587 Breath of Kiev

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 06:46:53 2022 No.20033385 Crime & Punishment The Great Gatsby Brothers Karamazov Anna Karenina The Cherry Orchard Journey to the End of the Night Stoner The Reader The Raven The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 14:00:01 2022 No.20034743 File: 67 KB, 720x669, QJVU6GO.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20026865 >t.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 14:04:29 2022 No.20034764 File: 1.95 MB, 468x392, 1645979032134.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 16:51:13 2022 No.20035386 File: 74 KB, 526x567, 1646599889843.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 18:43:31 2022 No.20035869 The Holy Bible (KJV) The Iliad Growth of the Soil Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov The Count of Monte Cristo Thus Spoke Zarathustra East of Eden Musashi Tale of Two Cities

Anonymous Tue Mar 8 19:00:46 2022 No.20035942

>>20026824
Why do so many of you like Dostoevsky? I presume it's because you're all depressed retards, but is there another reason?
Anyway,
Humiliated and Insulted
The Wall
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Old Man and the Sea
The Phantom Tollbooth(My Childhood favourite)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Count of Monte Cristo
The History of Philosophy
The Hurting Heart (A book by my psychiatrist)
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Never read it but I'm Chinese & liked the TV show)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 19:05:06 2022 No.20035958 >>20035942 >The History of Philosophy Which one? Copleston? Durant? Grayling?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 19:07:46 2022 No.20035979 >>20034764 Good list

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 19:09:30 2022 No.20035992 >>20035958 Grayling I thought his writing style was quite accessible and liked the breadth of philosophers, even though it was mainly on the western canon. Who are the other two guys? Would you recommend?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 19:34:33 2022 No.20036082 >>20026824 Atlas Shrugged 10 Rules for Life Revolt Against the Modern World Bronze Age Mindset Thus Spoke Zarathustra The Art of the Deal The Ego and Its Own Sex and Character The Lightning and the Sun Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 20:31:52 2022 No.20036264 >>20026865 chad >>20026883 >Protestant? Catholic? Orthodox? lol, that list is pretty suggestive

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 20:34:38 2022 No.20036273 >>20029288 >Presbyterianism is evangelical This board sucks

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 20:49:01 2022 No.20036327 >>20026824 The fuck do I need 10 books for An invincible memory The bible The Baron on the trees Anna karenina The hitchikers guide to the galaxy

Anonymous Tue Mar 8 20:53:01 2022 No.20036337

1. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
2. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
3. The Idylls of the King
4. The Consolation of Philosophy
5. The Song of Roland
6. The Gentleman from Everywhere
7. The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, the Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
8. Cosmos
9. Thus Spake Zarathustra
10. On Reading and Books

Anonymous Tue Mar 8 20:58:50 2022 No.20036358
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>>20026842
8.4
>>20026865
7.5
>>20027151
5.5
>>20027341
6
>>20027352
8.2
>>20027365
3
>>20027368
7.9
>>20027442
7
>>20027492
7.2
>>20027547
8.1
>>20027623
7.4
>>20027877
8.4
>>20027972
not 10 books
>>20028122
8.6
>>20028309
7.7
>>20029259
7.9
>>20030565
8.5
>>20030601
7
>>20030649
8.7
>>20031561
7.6
>>20031610
8.1
>>20031659
8
>>20032164
7.8
>>20032220
8.8
>>20032243
8.2
>>20032899
7.4
>>20033385
7.7
>>20035869
7.9
>>20035942
7.5
>>20036082
6.8
>>20036327
not 10 books
>>20036337
8.3

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 21:50:23 2022 No.20036577 >>20026824 A Farewell to Arms The Sun Also Rises The Catcher in the Rye The Portrait of a Lady The Golden Bowl The Great Gatsby This Side of Paradise Blood Meridian All The Pretty Horses Less Than Zero

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 21:53:31 2022 No.20036590 >>20036358 You have autism

Anonymous Tue Mar 8 23:12:42 2022 No.20036915

Dubliners
A Portrait of the artist as a young man
ulysses
Finnegans Wake

and then fill the rest with study guides for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake eg. Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses

If I am only going to read 10 books ever for the rest of time , might as well go out understanding James Jwtoyce.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 23:21:28 2022 No.20036949 Very diverse taste in here :——-)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 8 23:22:11 2022 No.20036954 >>20036949 Are you trying to say something?? :>

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 9 01:17:15 2022 No.20037369 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 9 01:26:25 2022 No.20037393 :——-)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 9 02:26:53 2022 No.20037512 >>20026824 Song of Ice and Fire Lord of the Rings Moby Dick Don Quixote The I Ching Poems of Hart Crane The Book of Luminous Things The Golden Peaches of Samarkand Shakespeare Two Volume Great Books Set Lonesome Dove

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