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[Anonymous No.15059006]

Post charts here

[Anonymous No.15059019]

[Anonymous No.15059335]

[Anonymous No.15059351]

Read them, incels

[Anonymous No.15059386]

>>15059351
No Ayn Rand? She's the most female author I can think of.

[Anonymous No.15059398]

>>15059351
>Read them, incels

[Anonymous No.15059408]

>>15059351
Why is the book for Anne Carson a photobook and not Autobiography of Red or any of her poetry? What pseud made this chart

[Anonymous No.15059491]

>>15059351
Honestly, I’d love to see them in charts that are not specifically about female authors. If they’re good works they should live lives of their own regardless of the author.

(I’ve Duras’ L’Amant and I loved it, but more due to personal reasons and contextual circumstances than to its literary merits. Nice book regardless if you’re after a psychological and carnal love story — I read it in French so idk if the translation is good).

[Anonymous No.15059629]

>>15059408
nox isn't a photobook you pleb. it's probably her most formally innovative work. red is sentimental trash.

[Anonymous No.15059676]

>>15059629
It isn't strictly a photobook, but it is hardly representative of her work as a writer. It would be like using her translation of Sappho as her pinnacle work.
If 'most innovative' is all you care about, it should be Float instead of Nox.

[Anonymous No.15059691]

>>15059006
>no Gods and Generals
trash

[Anonymous No.15059729]

>>15059351
Handmaid's Tale sucks though, like all of Atwood's explicitly political novels. Cat's Eye and The Blind Assassin are much better.

[Anonymous No.15059793]

>>15059351
White knight is burnt, and the most interesting is that you don’t need to read anything from this list at all and you won’t lose anything

[Anonymous No.15059806]

>>15059351
>handmaid's tale
lmfao

[Anonymous No.15059857]

>>15059793
>you don't need to read anything from this list at all and you won't lose anything
>Sappho
>Shikibu
>Sor Juan
>Dickinson
>Woolf

t. pseud

[Anonymous No.15059865]

>>15059006
Is there a chart for 21st century fiction that isn't driven by identity themes like gender, race, homosexuality, etc? Especially in the last decade. Seems like every recent critical darling has some kind of identity politics angle.

[Anonymous No.15059900]

>>15059857
All of these wyman authors can be skipped especially overrated trash Woolf and Shikibu, if you dont give a fuck about japanese literature.

[Anonymous No.15059902]

[Anonymous No.15060036]

Obligatory

[Anonymous No.15060047]

>>15059900
>Woolf is overrated trash
state of /lit/

[Anonymous No.15060068]

>>15059691
I have Gods and Generals on here

[Anonymous No.15060079]

>>15059491
This and
>>15059729
this

[Anonymous No.15060101]

>>15059865
I don't read much 21st century fiction so the only authors I can recommend are McCarthy, Ishiguro, and Murakami

[Anonymous No.15060160]

>>15060036
Am i dumb if i dont really get Simulcra and Simulation?

[Anonymous No.15060226]

>>15060047
Based.

[Anonymous No.15060240]

>>15060160
What in it you don't get, tho? Is it the language?

[Anonymous No.15060282]

[Anonymous No.15060474]

>>15060240
I'm not him, but I thought the structure was kind of strange, it felt similar to Pascal's Pensees

[Anonymous No.15060521]

anybody got a chart related to Hegel? or learning german? im reading kant now.

[Anonymous No.15060546]

[Anonymous No.15060626]

>>15059351
Genji is an incel fantasy

[Anonymous No.15061371]

>>15060036
Infinite Jest legit made me want to kill myself
I dreaded my reading time every night while I was on it

[Anonymous No.15061393]

>>15060546
Who the fuck namedrops As I Lay Dying over The Sound and the Fury? Or Cat's Cradle over Slaughterhouse-Five? Or even Endgame over Waiting for Godot?

[Anonymous No.15061417]

>>15059491
They are all excellent books, but I don't think a good amount of 4chan would put them on charts 'in their own right'. I think Anne Carson is one of the best writers writing rn (and you would expect, from her subject matter, that 4chan would love her) but she's barely talked about here at all.

[Anonymous No.15061434]

>>15059019
Yeah but why would you do that?

[Anonymous No.15061619]

>>15061417
>Anne Carson is one of the best writers writing rn
Based
>and you would expect, from her subject matter, that 4chan would love her
A classicist who translates Greek and Latin works and writes contemporary lyrical essays and poetry. Though, this board hates anything contemporary, but being a women obviously doesn't help.

[Anonymous No.15061791]

>>15059865
I’ve read A Brief History of Seven Killings, and it’s not about race, but it is about the country of Jamaica. I didn’t get the feeling of an agenda though, and it was pretty good. I’ve also read Against the Day which is unforgettably good, and Kafka on the Shore, which I didn’t like. I’m sure you can judge from the descriptions if they fit your description though.

[Anonymous No.15061800]

>>15061791
pretty good chart
pretty pretty pretty good

[Anonymous No.15061858]

Any chart for afro-latino or Dominican lit?

[Anonymous No.15061967]

>>15059006
Any similar charts for the World Wars?

[Anonymous No.15061975]

[Anonymous No.15062054]

>>15059386
Awful

[Anonymous No.15062260]

>>15060282
best chart in this thread. Good, not-so-famous reads.