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Name your top 3 favorite books

> 1 The Picture of Dorian Gray
> 2 A Clockwork Orange
> 3 Frankeinstein

>> No.6720006

3/10 taste OP

>Mason & Dixon
>Petersburg
>If on a winter's night a traveler

>> No.6720012
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>Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
>The Book of Delusions
>Malone Muert

>> No.6720015

> The Sea Wolf
> Bart Simpsons Guide to Life
> The Beano Annual 2004

>> No.6720018

>>6719997
Picture of Dorian Gray (let's be friends)
The Waves
Swann's Way (haven't read all of In Search... yet.)

>> No.6720045

On the Road
The Big Sleep
Weaveworld

>> No.6720062

no longer human
do androids dream of electric sheep
notes from the underground

i am a nonreading edgelord

>> No.6720067
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Current Favorites are

The Castle by Franz Kafka
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
The collected volumes of Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing

>> No.6720107

1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. Ulysses
3. Blood Meridian

>> No.6720190

>The Sound and the Fury
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>The Brothers Karamazov

>>6720067
God-tier, except it would be better if you replaced Alan Moore with something else. You can make a separate top 3 for comic books.

>>6719997
>>6720006
>>6720018
>>6720107
>>6720012
Excellent

>>6720015
Damn, you reminded me that "The Sea Wolf" has been sitting in my backlog for a while, I'll start reading it soon.

>>6720062
Cool taste, although "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep" ruins it a bit.

>> No.6720556

>>6720190
I really liked the Brothers K. Haven't read the other two but I want to get into Faulkner. Started reading As I Lay Dying a few years ago but had to stop for I don't remember why, but I really enjoyed his style.

>replaced Alan Moore with something else

Probably Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

>> No.6720562

1. V.
2. Catch-22
3. Iliad

>> No.6720568 [DELETED] 

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
J R - William Gaddis
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

>> No.6720582

American pastoral
Stoner
Satantango

>> No.6720591

>>6719997
>stoner
>a portrait of the artist as a young man
>breakfast of champions

>> No.6720592

>Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
>A Farewell to Arms
>White Noise

>> No.6720599

>>6719997

1. Absalom, Absalom!
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. The Dispossessed

>> No.6720605

>>6719997
I don't think it's really fair to apply that sort of clickbait list mentality to books. There are way too many great ones out there for it to work.

>> No.6720610

Being Singular Plural - Jean Luc Nancy

A Short History of Decay - E.M. Cioran

Hunger - Knut Hanson

>> No.6720619

>>6720605

Troll/10, but I'll bite.

Perhaps it is not a "click bait mentality" that he is trying to foster but either:

A) I method to look for new books to read. If anon post 2 of your favorite novels perhaps you will like the third.

B) Circle jerk judgment fest.

>> No.6720622

>>6720619
> A) I method to look for new books to read. If anon post 2 of your favorite novels perhaps you will like the third.

There doens't need to be rec threads, there is a comprehensive guide to lit on the wiki

>> No.6720627

>>6720622

Alright. Let us let the wiki stagnate.

>> No.6720634

>>6720622
>there is a comprehensive guide to lit on the wiki
Not really, it's a barely organized list of literature some people here have read that redirects you to Wikipedia articles. It's more of an index than a guide.

>> No.6720639

Speaker for the Dead
Everything is Illuminated
I, Claudius

>> No.6720641

A long days journey into night
Mcbeth
Moby dick

>> No.6720647

>>6720599
>2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Ah yea, that's a strong choice.

>> No.6720695

>>6720605
Well I just thought it would be fun...

>> No.6722366

In Latin
>Aeneid
>Metamorphoses
>Ars Amatoria
In English
>Metamorphoses
>Aeneid
>Ars Amatoria

>> No.6722371

>>6720599
Haven't read Absalom, but loved the other two, I take that as a recommendation.

>> No.6722377

> 1 WE
> 2 Minima Moralia
> 3 Fateless

>> No.6722533

Portrait of the Artist
Aleph and other Stories
The Evenings (De Avonden)

>> No.6722542

Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

Not even kidding
Okay, a bit kidding. Mason & Dixon could replace GR

>> No.6722592

>Moby-Dick
>The Trial
>Crime and Punishment

>> No.6722609

at a pinch:

The Recognitions
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

>> No.6722824

American Psycho
The Old man And the Sea
Moby Dick

>> No.6722831

>>6719997
>Finnegan's Wake
>Identifying Wood
>Hungry Caterpillar

>> No.6723051

Lolita
Stoner
Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.6723063

>>6722609
>that murakami sandwiched in there

This is like saying your favorite foods are sushi, clods of cow shit, and steak.

Is this like how when people go to buy condoms and they're embarrassed of it they'll buy two other items they don't need and put condoms in the middle?

>> No.6723080

>>6723063
kek

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>>6723063

or he's just being completely honest about his favourite books, but w/e. gotta pose gotta rep right?

>> No.6723146

>>6723063
I put my condoms on top just like my Murakami pal

>> No.6723244

Ctrl + F: Bible = 0 results

You lied to me /lit/, I seen that the bible was at the top of your chart so I went out and bought the King James