/lit/ - Literature

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
No one Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
Taipei - Tao Lin

>>4075684
do you even read?

last 3 i read were:

germinal
the atom station
skylark

i recommend them to those of you who enjoy reading

Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Anything by George Saunders
Joan Didion essays

The Name of the Wind - Patrrick Rothfuss

the lies of locke lamora - Scott Lynch

the way of the kings - brandon sanderson

>>4075696
No

haruki murakami

recommend me authors

>>4075686
"no one" made me laugh, cringe, and CRY

Borges - Fictions
Wolfe - The Electric Koolaid Acid Test
DeLillo - Libra

>>4075712
exactly

>>4075744
White noise by Delillo if you haven't read it yet.

>>4075746
Instead of shit-posting, why don't you give me some reading recommendations? Make yourself useful.

>>4075751
adventures of tom sawyer and huckleberry finn

>>4075760
Thanks!!!

>>4075684
The picture of Dorian Gray- Wilde
1984-Orwell
Portrait of a Lady-Henry James

>>4075760

who recommends mark twain books? everyone everywhere already knows about mark twain and his books

>>4075771
i've never read mark twain

>>4075771
Someone who has read them.

>>4075744

American Tabloid by james ellroy if you want another JFK conspiracy

Heidi
Anne of Green Gables
Comet in Moominland

I've been on a classic children's lit kick recently.

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
War and Peace - Tolstoy

Stoner,

The dwarf,

Satantango.

(and then I got a jerb and stopped doing the /lit/ goodreads club, great books though)

DeLillo - White Noise
Heller - Catch-22
Calvino - If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

>>4075684

Catch 22 - Heller
Valis - P.K. Dick
Death on Credit - Céline

>>4075908

Journey to the End of the Night, if you haven't read it yet.

>>4075916

of course i read it already, but thnx anyway

Island - Aldous Huxley
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick

Ernest Hemingway- Men Without Women
George Orwell- Down and Out in Paris and London
Gore Vidal- A Search for the King

I have a masssssive backlog so chances are I can actually read whatever I get recommended, I can't decide what to read at the moment and it's so frustrating.

The Trial
Siddartha
Old man and the Sea

Rousseau's Confessions
Lolita
Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

I want to twitch from pleasure while reading, like when I read these three.

>>4076116
Shatterday - Harlan Ellison (short story collection)

>>4076061
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick (much better pacing than Flow My Tears)

>>4076158
The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged). Once you get past the first 200 pages or so you'll be twitching like crazy.

>>4075908
Naked Lunch

>>4076167

Cool.

>>4076167
The Count of Monte Cristo it will be. Thanks!

>>4075744
what translations of Ficciones? And from where did you buy it? I'd rec Labyrinths.

>>4075768
Brave New World
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Turn of the Screw
Notes from Underground (MacAndrew)

>>4075864
The Waves
Notes from Underground (MacAndrew)
Invisible Man

>>4075925
how was JttEotN?

>>4076116
anything existential. if you haven't already:
The Stranger
No Exit
Notes (MacAndrew)
and i'm sure you can find tons more with a google search

my last three:
Ellison - Invisible Man
Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Woolf - To the Lighthouse

currently reading House of Leaves, after that it's either Hopscotch, Mrs. Dalloway, or Journey to the End of the Night.

>>4075684
Everyman- Roth
Death of a Salesman
Brave New World - Huxley

Does anyone know something similar to The Sackett's series by Loius L'amour?

>>4076068
help

>>4075684
Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
Anna Karenine - Leo Tolstoi
The Gospel according to Jesus Christ, José Saramago

Help me move away from wizards and shit please

Name of the wind
The subtle knife
the lies of locke lamora

>>4076407

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

>>4076407

(The Earthsea Cycle) - Ursula K. Le Guin

Christie Malry's Own Double Entry - B. S. Johnson
The Unfortunates - B. S. Johnson
Alberto Angelo - B. S. Johnson

I think you get the picture here

>>4076265
>Hopscotch

That better be in Spanish

>>4076468

The translation by Gregory Rabassa is really good.

>>4076474
And a dildo is just as good as a real penis...

>>4076468
my spanish is not nearly good enough for me to read a novel as difficult as Rayuela.

maybe some day. In the meantime, any recs on decent but simple spanish works to read?

Mount Analogue by René Daumal
All Things Are Possible by Lev Shestov
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen

hyperion/fall of hyperion
the dice man
the moon is a harsh mistress

Russell - Problems of Philosophy
Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Orwell - 1984
Sagan - Cosmos
Hawking - Brief History of Time

I recommend these 5 to everyone who asks me what I find to be the core/starting place of my library.

Emile Zola - Germinal
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Patrick White - Voss

/mu/ here, how to into reading?
I like Song of Ice and Fire and Lovecraft's stuff.
>inb4 pleb

>>4078016
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

me talk pretty one day - sedaris

assassination vacation - vowwell

rant - palahnuik

>>4076708
Kierkegaard - Fear & Trembling

Woodcutters - Bernhard
Alexandria Quartet - Durrell
Jude the Obscure - Hardy

>>4076385
You would probably like Kierkegaard.

>>4076068
Read Creation and Julian by Gore Vidal. Also check out Homage to Catalonia by Orwell. Assuming you haven't read this.

Brave New World - Huxley
If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

I also want to read books in Spanish, since I never have. I'm a native speaker.

I will list five instead

The Castle-Franz Kafka
The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoyevsky
The Man in the High Castle-Philip K Dick
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again-David Foster Wallace
No Longer Human- Osamu Dazai

My current read is Dubliners by James Joyce

2001: A Space Odyssey
Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
Notes from Underground

1984 - orwell
steppenwolf - hesse
Faust 1 (disregard 2) - goethe

>>4075684
Game of thrones
Hunger games
The twilight saga.

>>4078431
I'd recommend The Bone Season

>>4078459
I've already preordered it.

Red Dust

I'm tired so I'm just giving you my last 3
>The Autobiography of Malcolm X
>Nostromo
>Moby Dick


>>4078366
stranger in a strange land

Juliette society
Me and my perenium
Please be my frenulum

Less Than Zero, Ellis
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
Blood Meridian, McCarthy


>>4078348
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner

>>4080062

i've already read it.

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Ask the Dust - John Fante
The Diary of a Drug Fiend - Aleister Crowley

>>4080100

Naked Lunch
Less Than Zero

Dune(entire series)- Frank Herbert
1984- George Orwell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?- Philip K Dick

What books have changed your life (for better or for worse,) anons?

>>4078289
this perfect day

>>4080100
junky

>>4080146

Brave New World - Huxley

Don't see these mentioned on /lit/ often enough:

Benvenuto Cellini - Autobiography
Laurence Sterne - Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Jean Genet - Our Lady of the Flowers

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Pornografia - Witold Gombrowicz
House of Day, House of Night - Olga Torkarczuk

Siddhartha - Hesse
Mary - Nabokov
Brothers Karamasov - Dostoyevsky

books i was hooked on since this summer

>>4081365
Read ALL of Dosteovsky, obviously.

A confederacy of Dunces- Toole
Mist - Miguel de Unamuno
The metamorphosis -Kafka

>>4081296
Cool, thanks.

>>4076708

I'm a book pleb, so I don't have any favourites. But can somebody recommend me something with a competent, capable, and determined woman? Or women.

>>4082018

Procopius - The Secret History

>>4082015

"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence."

Where did this sentence was first created? Who is the author?

>>4082061
Like all terrible things it came from /r/atheism

>>4082066
I thought it was laurie penny.

>>4082066
The story is more complex than that. I think someone on 4chan or some other part of reddit made up the quote to make fun of r/atheists, but then someone on r/atheism thought it was an actual quote and posted it on the subreddit, then it got super popular, then they found out it was originally a troll.

>>4082061
Nah it was a legit post, from an r/atheism poster Aalewis. He claimed to not be a 'professional quote maker' and then deleted the post after it brought negative attention and criticism from redditors. Then circlejerkers spread it throughout reddit and then 4chan and helped ignite or at least perpetuate the whole atheist fedora may-may.

>>4082094
It did not ignite it, it got popular because it was a distillation of what people noticed and disliked about some internet atheists already, it didn't cause people to think like that

>>4082018
Incident in the life of a slave girl.

The Code of the Woosters - Wodehouse
Trouble Is My Business - Chandler
The Fucking Iliad - Fucking Homer

Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Despair - Nabokov
London Fields - Martin Amis

Brave new world is recommended every other post.

Notes From Underground
Lolita
Steppenwolf

V. - Pynchon
Walden - Thoreau
Franny and Zooey - Salinger

>>4082101
With books like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, I wouldn't be surprised if there actually was a book called The Fucking Iliad by an author under the pseudonym of Fucking Homer.

>>4082121
I'm visiting a bookstore in the next few days, so I'd appreciate some suggestions now, if anyone has any.

>>4082148
Well obviously if you liked Notes From Underground you should read all of Dosteovsky's works. I read Crime and Punishment recently and it was great.

>>4082164
I only have The Idiot now.
Should I keep it for later since it's arguably his worst book?

>>4078388
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Ham on Rye - Bukowski
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Kessey
The Stranger - Camus

The Cherry Orchard - Tchekov
A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov
Stoner - Williams

>>4082178
I'm not that guy, but The Idiot was my second favorite Dostoevsky novel after Notes. I also think you'd benefit a lot from reading it before Brothers Karamazov, since it's almost a beta run of his ideal man which he retools (more realistically and, in his eyes, successfully) in Brothers. Give it a read!

Cat's Cradle
Frankenstein
Sound and the fury

i cant stop dickirding w.g. sebald

someone give me something similar but better

>>4082567
if it helps, 3 favorites:

Rings of Saturn - Sebald
House of Leaves - Danielewski
A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole

Blood Meridian - Mccarthy
Junkie - Burroughs
Inherent Vice - Pynchon

>>4082561
I haven't read that much so unfortunately I can't really give many recommendations. These three books are my current favorites though!

Catcher in the Rye
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Beyond Good and Evil

451 Fahrenheit
Animal Farm
V for Vendetta

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Watchmen

I honestly can't think of anything else I enjoyed.

>>4075684
Roadside Picnic
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Journey to the End of the Night

A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava
Stone City - Mitchell Smith
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev

Notes From Underground-- Dostoyevsky
Thus Spoke Zarathustra-- Nietzsche
Eugene Onegin-- Pushkin

>inb4 hurr durr translated poetry
I'm never going to learn Russian and I enjoyed it, so what am I doing wrong?

>The Magus - John Fowles
>Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
>Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

>>4082558
Thanks.
Will do.

The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
Cathedral- Raymond Carver
Leaves of Grass-Walt Whitman

>>4082868

Would you read paraphrased Shakespeare? Would that really feel right to you?

>>4083310
>>The Magus - John Fowles
Was this any good? I've read the synopsis of the book, including most of the twists and turns in the plot and it seems pretty ridiculous. Not necessarily ridiculous in a good way, either.

>>4083358
I loved it.

Probably my fav book I have read thus far [probably showing my plebness but whatever]

some recent stuff

The Goshawk by T.H. White
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Diderot
The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales by Kipling

>>4083344
If I had no access to the original and the paraphrased version was still enjoyable, I see no reason not to.

The Nonexistent Knight - Calvino
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

The Recognitions - Gaddis
Actress in the House - McElroy
L.C. - Daitch

>need recommendations badly

The Stranger - Albert Camus
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

>>4083763

But you wouldn't be reading Shakespeare, would you? You'd be reading a poor attempt at recreating Shakespeare, and probably something the man himself wouldn't even have liked.

>>4083798
Have you read anything else by Gaddis or McElroy? If not, look for their other books. A Frolic of His Own is really good, and in my controversial opinion -- a more skilled work and satire than JR, but JR is amazing too. Never heard of L.C., but thanks for introducing me to it.

>>4083814
>
Gaddis - everything but JR. My favorite was actually Carpenter's Gothic I think
McElroy - Night Soul & Other Stories and aforementioned Actress.

looking to read more McElroy soon (W&M ! ~1100 pages). The tough thing for me with McElroy is that his sentences are so rhythmically and syntactically complex that they don't lend to quick reading.

>>4083837
Definitely go ahead with JR then. On a first read, it's very sprawling and complex and loose (but, like many works of its kind, it's actually very intricately woven together), with a shitload of characters, and as a result the satire doesn't seem as focused and bitter as it does in A Frolic of His Own, but it's still amazing.

As for Women and Men, I only wish I could find a copy.

>Stoner
>Mother Night
>Meditations

>>4083842
>Women and Men
I have an epub sitting on my computer right now. Somehow just as intimidating as i imagine the book on the shelf would be

>>4083837
McElroy's prose is weird as fuck, yeah, but it has a way of burrowing deep into your brain.

>>4083846
>but it has a way of burrowing deep into your brain.
exactly. here's some random passage from actress
>Bent and thin and shaking his head, Sid KNox turned abruptly and Daley realized the It's You he'd greeted Becca with was what Sid had heard coming out of the phone from her to Daley Monday and why Sid had gotten up to go then, as if his disappearing out the back door onto the pier now, just as Daley had a dumb question to ask, were for some similar reason probably no more than mortal. "You really know some independent gals."

A Confederacy of Dunces
King of Madison Avenue
Thinking, Fast and Slow

>>4083789
nice taste m8

read Dead Souls if you haven't yet

Catch-22- Joseph Heller
Deadeye Dick- Kurt Vonnegut
The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas

>>4080149

that one

Norwegian Wood - Murakami
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
A Spell For Chameleon - Anthony

>>4076484
well I prefer it actually...

>>4083812
So what? If I enjoyed it, why does it matter? I don't care who the author is, it's good literature.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
Less Than Zero - Ellis
The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Shea & Wilson
American Gods - Gaiman
The Lords of Salem - Zombie

Oreimo
I Am A Cat
Complete Idiot's Guide to Relationships

the waves
the unconsoled
invisible cities

>>4085765
you're def gonna need that last one you freak

>>4087565
Today I learned I have to be accepting

I accept your opinion anon now will you marry me

The Metamorphosis
The House of the Dead
The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Mind's I - Turing, Hofstadter, Dawkins, et el
5000 B.C. And Other Philosophical Fantasies - Smullyvan
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 - Borges

>>4075684
Are you me OP?

City of Thieves - Benioff
Catcher in the Rye - Sulinger
How much land ... - Tolstoy

As I lay Dying- Faulkner

Beloved- Toni Morrison

Great Expectations- Dickens

>>4089776
Blood Meridian.

Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition

Alamut - Vladimir Bartol

Tender is the night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

OS sertões (trans: Rebellion in the Backlands) - Euclides da Cunha

>>4089811
>implying

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Stoner - John Williams

>>4087915

>The Mind's I - Turing, Hofstadter, Dawkins, et el

Being no one by Metzinger.

Out of our heads by Alva Noe.

>5000 B.C. And Other Philosophical Fantasies - Smullyvan

Algorithmic puzzles by Levitin and Levitin.

A Set Theory Workbook by Adamson.

Problems and Theorems in Classical Set Theory by Komjath and Totik.

>>4085366

>The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Shea & Wilson

Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott.

>>4084066

>Thinking, Fast and Slow

Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgement by Bishop.

John Steinbeck "East of Eden"

Thomas Pynchon "The Crying of Lot 49"

J.D. Salinger "Franny and Zooey" or any of the stories featuring the Glass family.

>>4085366
If you liked Less Than Zero, I might recommend "Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney.

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

>>4091937

Lunar Park is really good too, though it's a lot different to Ellis' other stuff.

King Rat, James Clavell
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-en
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Jewish War by Josephus