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List of your top 5 favorite books. (In no specific order)

1.Moby Dick
2.All The King's Men
3.The Great Gatsby
4.1984
5.Dune

>> No.615104

bamp.

>> No.615109

1. Wheel of time series
2. The Godfather
3. Steven Brust's Dragaera series
4. Running with Scissors
5. M*A*S*H

>> No.615119

stoßen

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>>615109

>> No.615129

I don't have favourite books as in the general idea of the book (god, that made no sense). In terms of actual physical books:
1. A collectors edition of The Silmarillion signed by Christopher Tolkein and possibly worth $1000 (or the equivalent in pounds).
2. The Dream Tower, which is set in a folly in Rivington, Lancashire (a few miles from my home). It's about a man called the Wizzark who lives in the folly, which is like a Tardis that stores the world. Each continent is split by an electric-type forcefield and it is the Wizzark's job to tend to the Earth that humans are killing :( Also, children keep finding their way in while they are dreaming.
Amazing book.
3. I have a reader's digest atlas which looks pretty cool and quite fancy.

Other than that, not so much.

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Foucault's Pendulum
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Collected Fictions of J.L. Borges
Kafka on the Shore

partly modern with a chance of postmodern

>> No.615140

Das Kapital, should be read by everyone imo.

>> No.615143

1. The Giver
2. Along Came a Spider
3. Dying to Live
4. Holes
5. Up a Tall Tree

>> No.615148

>implying I read books

>> No.615156

In no order:

Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Candide
Crime and Punishment
Brave New World.


Guess my age.

And let's turn this into a "Five books then guess a users age" thread because those tend to be more fun.

>> No.615160

Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
The Name of the Rose
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Kafka: The Castle
Woody Allen: Complete Prose

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>>615156
12.

>> No.615171

Infinite Jest
A Confederacy of Dunces
Independent People
The Name of the Rose
1984

>> No.615172

>>615156
> And let's turn this into a "Five books then guess a users age" thread because those tend to be more fun.

Because we arent all mostly between 18 and 25.

you are probably 12, which makes it nice for you when people think you are 16.

>> No.615179

>>615172

Nah it was just fun seeing who could accurately guess the outliers in the other thread.

>> No.615200

>>615090
OP is a champ. I think thats pretty much the first iVe seen of All the Kings Men in /lit/

mine:
1. Sometimes a Great Notion
2. Catch 22
3. Watership Down
4. Great Gatsby
5. Les Miserables

>> No.615209

Ficcionnes
The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
2666
Gravity's Rainbow
From a Logical Point of View

>> No.615237

1. Master and Margarita
2. Brothers Karamazov
3. Bunch of Poe's novels
4. The Devil's Elixir
5. Markheim

>> No.615256

>>615237

I like.

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This thread need moar Fantasy.

>> No.615270

>>615256

Brofist, bro.

>> No.615279

Don Quixote
Ubik
Sputnik Sweetheart
The Bell Jar
The Scar

>> No.615284 [DELETED] 

1. Watchmen
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four
3-5. Miscellaneous Star Wars books.

inb4 Watchmen isn't a book

inb4 Star Wars isn't real literature

>> No.615295

>>615284
lold

>> No.615317

1.The Witcher
Also bunch of polish/russian fantasy
not much rly

>> No.615351

1. Farewell to Arms
2. Norwegian Wood
3. Catch-22
4. Battle Royale
5. Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.615354

The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Hyperion
A Canticle For Leibowitz
The Stand
The Golden Age

>> No.615389

Hm. Theres a lot of gravity's Rainbow love in this thread. I will have to check it out.

>> No.615406

1. Atlas Shrugged
2. Atlas Shrugged
3. Atlas Shrugged
4. The Fountainhead
5. Atlas Shrugged

>> No.615482

1. The Hobbit
2. Harry Potter series
3. His Dark Material series
4. The Phantom Tollbooth
5. The Republic

>> No.615499

1. Pillars of the Earth.
2. Shadowplay.
3. Wizard's First Rule.
4. World Without End.
5. Atlas Shrugged.

>> No.615507

Main-Travelled Roads
In Our Time
Jesus' Son
Blood Meridian
The Night in Question

>> No.615515

1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Eclipse
4. Breaking Dawn
5. The Host

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The Brothers Karamazov
The Grapes of Wrath
Manhattan Transfer
A Hundred Years of Solitude
Conversation at the Cathedral

>> No.615532

The Odyssey
A Farewell to Arms
The Chosen
The Aeneid
Aesop's Fables

>> No.615533

>>615515
Good list, can't agree with the order however.

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>>615532
>putting fanfic in a top 5 list
>my face

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>>615406
I JUST LOVE AYN RAND!!!

>> No.615551

1. Ulysses
2. Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
3. The Sound and Fury
4. Catch 22
5. Crime and Punishment

>> No.615554

God Is Dead
Great Jones Street
American Desert
Antic Hay / Eyeless in Gaza
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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615581

1. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. "The Collector" by John Fowles
4. "The Killer Inside Me" by Jim Thompson
5. "Panzram: A Journal of Murder" by Carl Panzram / "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

>> No.615587

>>615545
Which one is a fanfic? Do tell.

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>>615237
>>>3. Bunch of Poe's novels
>>novels
>novels

>> No.615644

1. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Carver
2. Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
3. Anil's Ghost - Ondaatje
4. The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Chabon

>> No.615761

>>615581

Fyodor is god?

(yes)

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>>615545

>> No.615797

I don't really read at all anymore.
guess my age, niggers

>> No.615803

>>615797
A 45-year-old overweight businessman working on the 25th floor of a skyscraper in New York.

>> No.615844

Les Miserables
The Trial
The Once and Future King
The Golden Bough
Jeremiah and the Princess

>> No.615865

How can one seriously like Moby Dick?

You must be boring as fuck, OP.

>> No.615866

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>> No.615874

>>615797
21

>> No.615875

The Trial
The Aleph
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
The Passion According to G. H.
The Name of the Rose

>> No.615880

The Road
The Age of Innocence
All Quiet on the Western Front
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison--not HG Wells)
In Cold Blood

>> No.615895

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. Blood Meridian
3. The Time Machine Did It
4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.615905

The fall of the king
The Stranger
Katinka
American Psycho
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>> No.615915

>>615905
Seriously guys, you should check out katinka if you like litterature from the modern breakthrough

>> No.615923

>>615865
I love that book. I feel as though you are a shallow person that can't appreciate a great book.

>> No.615938

The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro
Ulysses - Joyce
Vineland - Pynchon

>> No.615950

american psycho - bret easton ellis
the good life - jay mcinerney
filth - irvine welsh
i am charloette simmons - tom wolfe
as i lay dying

>> No.615954

>>615880
> All quiet is the West Front

>shit was so cash

>> No.615952

1. The Golden Notebook
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. Kafka on the Shore
4. Infinite Jest
5. The Famished Road

Gettin' all multi-cultural up in the bish

>> No.615960

>>615513

That pic = badassery