What are your favorite books?

Other anons judge the lists

>>24462763 (OP)
my favorite book is the book I wrote.

>>24462763 (OP)
Stoner by John Williams
Women by Charles Bukowski
Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
and finally, The Thieves of Heaven by Richard Doetsch

>>24462763 (OP)
The bible, The republic, 48 laws of power

A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

>>24462782
You are a parody

>>24462763 (OP)
Tao Te Ching
On War by Clausewitz
Kapital vol. 1 by Marx
Walden by Thoreau
Look Homeward, Angel by Wolfe
The Guns of August by Tuchman
Essays by Montaigne
Dead Souls by Gogol
Histories by Herodotus
The Magic Mountain by Mann
The Windup Bird Chronicles by Murakami

L'anti-Œdipe by Deleuze and Guattari
Fanged Noumena by Land
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung by Schopenhauer
De l'Inconvénient d'Être Né by Cioran
Hillbilly Elegy by Vance
Il Principe by Macchiavelli
孫子兵法 by Tzu
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling
Les Particules Élémentaires by Houellebecq

>>24462781
The overly sensitive INFJ starterpack (I mean this with love, but I've only read 1/3 of these so maybe inaccurate).

Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Chapel Road/Summer in Termuren by Louis Paul Boon
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Ulysses by James Joyce
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Capital by Karl Marx
Doctor Faustroll by Alfred Jarry
Faust by Goethe
Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Moby-Dick by Melville

>>24462763 (OP)
There’s probably two dozen anons who read, who have read at least a double digit number of books, and also like at least a double digit number of books

This place is for posturing, arguing and it’s a husk of itself

>>24462861
I am an overly sensitive INFJ, I don't know how you did that but that's terrifying. Great job.

>>24462884
Lucky guess, or maybe I'm in your floorboards.
(Stoner and Catcher both shout sensitive young man to me. First time reading Stoner was on a cross-country flight and I never felt so alone in my life)

>>24462782
sargon of akkad fan

>>24462763 (OP)
I like young french women with petite figure, small tits and tight cunt; especially if they are interested in books.

The First Law
Malazan Empire
The Second Apocalypse
A Song of Ice and Fire

>>24462763 (OP)
Jounrney to the End of the Night
A Voyage to Arcturus
Hunger
Satyricon
Junky
>>24462781
>Women by Charles Bukowski
Strange, all my favourites are largely from a teenager and I would never have discovered them if it wasn't for Buk. I remember the passage in Women where he's being interviewed and talks about Hamsun and Celine, and the part where Burroughs looks at him with contempt from across the room. Sadly Buk doesn't make the cut for me no more. Post Office is still a great read, though.
>>24462870
>Doctor Faustroll by Alfred Jarry
Based Alred Jarry appreciator.

Pic related

>>24462787
I haven't read the other two, but Butcher's Crossing is an incredible read. I was surprised after the disappointment that was Stoner.

>>24462763 (OP)
Here we go again:

José Ingenieros, Las fuerzas morales
Le Clezio, Urania
Vargas Llosa, Historia de Mayta
Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Borges, Obras completas
Williams, Stoner
Lugones, Las fuerzas extrañas
Tolstoi, The Death of Ivan Illich
Güiraldes, Don Segundo Sombra
Gálvez, El espíritu de aristocracia y otros ensayos
Houellebecq, Platform
Ocampo (S), Cuentos

>A Farewell to Arms
>On the Road
>Storm of Steel (1960)
>My War Gone By, I Miss It So + Another Bloody Love Letter by Anthony Loyd
>The Hobbit + The Lord of the Rings
>From Hell
>Catch-22
>Perfume
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, & UBIK
>Siddhartha
>House of Leaves
>Redwall
>2001: A Space Odyssey
>Slaughterhouse-V
>Fahrenheit 451
>Nineteen Eighty-four
>The Time Machine
>The Call of Cthulhu/The Dunwich Horror/The Shadow Out of Time
>The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
>The Bell Jar
>Solaris
>Lords of Chaos
>Dune Messiah
>The Master and Margarita

>>24462915
I read it and felt his isolation, had a lonely guy 3 book span. No longer Human, Stoner, and Notes from the Underground. Similar themes in these books.

>/lit/ - instagram thots

>>24463451
Imagine 'tasting' her.

Can't I just browse this place without having a wank?

>>24463266
I genuinely think literary writers could learn a lot from Joe Abercrombie's character writing and close third person. As for judging you I wont, but you should read more outside of fantasy.
>>24462763 (OP)
As I Lay Dying.

>>24463437
I took a screenshot of your OP to add to my booklist, thanks fren

>>24462803
Didn‘t quite start reading yesterday but pretty close too it. Is genuine in wanting to learn more.

>>24462825
Did start reading yesterday after being overeducated in a somewhat tangential field. Is not sincere about it.

>>24462870
Most fun guy to party with I would ever meet

my "defining" books:
The Man who was Thursday/Orthodoxy - Chesterton
Welcome to the NHK - Tatsuhiko Takimoto
Wonderful Fool - Shusaku Endo
The Medium is the Massage - Mcluhan
What is Called Thinking - Martin Heidegger
The Gay Science - Nietzsche
Preparation for Death - Alphonsus Ligouri
The Spiritual Combat - Lorenzo Scupoli

i feel like im missing the greeks and they have had a huge impact on me but it's just hard to specify 1 book like the republic or NE maybe but for me those authors are much less "one book" and is more their work in general.

I have a weird thing where I have books I am very "sentimental" towards while they aren't even my favorite books. I didn't even give some of these 5/5 on goodreads (some even got 3/5) but my mind just goes back to them constantly and they have kinda shaped me more.

While other books I liked more reading them they didn't have as lingering an effect...

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Confessions by Augustine
Family Happiness by Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy
Stoner by John Williams
The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa
Fear by Stefan Zweig

I'm not well-read. I got into literature not too long ago.

>>24463594
You are not well read and got into literature not too long ago.

Il Canzoniere by Petrarch
Odyssey by Homer
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Iliad by Homer
Blood Meridian by McCarthy
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Goethe
Duino Elegies by Rilke
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
Die Geburt der Tragödie by Nietzsche
Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner

>>24462781
Based
>>24462782
Cringe
>>24462787
Based
>>24462803
Based
>>24462825
Cringe

>>24462870
Based
>>24463266
Cringe
>>24463278
Based
>>24463307
Based

>>24462763 (OP)
The Enneads - Plotinus

>>24463387
Based
>>24463404
Extremely cringe
>>24463593
Extremely cringe
>>24463594
Based
>>24463605
Based

>>24463307

a thousand word picture: no comments.

>>24462763 (OP)
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Caesar's Gallic War
Polybius' history

More modern works

Failure of Empire by Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Sumption's Hundred Years War series
Henry the Young King by Matthew Strickland
Henry III by David Carpenter
Brotherhood of Kings by Podany

>VALIS by PKD
>Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
>Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
>Battle Royale by Takami
>Augustus by John Williams
>The Silmarillion by Tolkien
>Mother Knight by Vonnegut
>The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell

convenience store woman
to kill a mocking bird
the metamorphosis
charlotte's web

>>24463671
Unabashedly who they are
>>24463672
>>24463849
Gay
>>24463966
Based 16 year old who is underage posting

>>24463594
>>24463307
Dostoevsky sucks

>>24464163
>t. Nabokov

Blood Meridian - CM
The Sound and the Fury - WF
American Psycho - BEE
The Elementary Particles - MH
The Creature from Jekyll Island - GEG
Nigger - DG
Democracy: The God That Failed - HH

Granted, I haven't read enough books, but these impacted me the most.

>>24463449
I prefered the illusion of a quiet, humble reading woman in the OP. Not yet another self-absorbed parisian trust fund shell of a person.

>>24462763 (OP)
>The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
>Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, The Colossus of Maroussi, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, letters with Lawrence Durrell)
>DH Lawrence (The Rainbow, Women in Love, Sons and Lovers, lots of short stories and essays)
>Walt Whitman
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>Henry David Thoreau
>The Chinese (I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi, classical poetry translated by Rexroth)
>Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
>Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
>In Search of Lost Time by Proust
>Franz Kafka (particularly The Trial and his short stories)
>Septology by Jon Fosse
>Casanova’s autobiography
>Cellini’s autobiography
>Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
>The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
>A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
>William Carlos Williams
>Sophocles
>Nietzsche
>Edmund Wilson (To the Finland Station, essays and reviews)
>Montaigne

>>24462763 (OP)
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers
V. by Thomas Pynchon
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
The End of the Road&The Floating Opera by John Barth
Disco Detective Wednesdayyy by Outarou Maijou
A Regicide by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
Normance by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Satyricon by Gaius Petronius
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran
The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov
The Bark-Tree by Raymond Queneau
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute
The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke
John Lennon vs the Martians by Genichiro Takahashi

Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
Dictionary of the Khazars
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dance Dance Dance
House of Leaves
Hopscotch
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Name of the Rose
Infinite Jest
The Haunting of Hill House
The Tartar Steppe
And Then There Were None
Landscape Painted with Tea
Steppenwolf
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Pale Fire
>>24464830
I have read none of these
>>24464506
based
>>24464194
cringe
>>24463966
based
>>24463849
cringe

>>24462763 (OP)
Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
Something Happened - Joseph Heller
The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany
Book of the Short Sun - Gene Wolfe
The Worm Ouroboros - E. R. Eddison
Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor

>>24464937
Almost based until you included that shit ass Heller drivel
>>24464879
Taste curated entirely by this board. Sad!
>>24464830
>>24464506
>>24464194
Based
>>24463849
Why don’t you just like the better books from half the authors listed
>>24463672
Based

>>24462763 (OP)
Deerskin - Robin McKinley
Nine Stories - Salinger
Narcissus and Goldmund - Hesse
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Person - Sam Pink

>Suttree
>No Country for Old Men
>Flowers for Algernon
>Sun and Steel
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
>Kafka on the Shore
>Lolita
>The Moonstone
>The Woman in White
>Middlemarch

In no particular order.

Religious:

Book of Revelations (aka Apocalypse) – The Holy Bible
Book of Daniel – The Holy Bible
Book of Enoch (Apocrypha)
Gospel of Nicodemus – Descensus Christi ad inferum (Apocrypha)
Summa Theologica – Saint Thomas Aquinas
Confessions – Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Noble Quran
Lebor Gabála Érenn
Shanameh – Epic of Kings
Tao Te Ching
Pópol Vuh
Edda


Phylosophy & History:


Rerum Novarum – Pope Leo XIII
The Revolt of the Masses – Ortega y Gasset
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
Arthashastra – Chanakya
The Republic – Plato
The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
The Travels of Marco Polo
Muqaddimah (Prolegomena) – ibn Khaldun
The Art of Worldly Wisdom – Padre Baltazar Gracián


Misc.:

Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
The Lord of The Rings – JRR Tolkien
Cien Años de Soledad – García Márquez
Don Quixote de La Mancha – Miguel de Cervantes
1984 – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Idiot – Fyódor Dostoevsky
The Truce of The Bear – Rudyard Kipling
Robinson Crusoé – Daniel Defoe
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Devil and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgákov


Lusophone Classics:

The Lusiads Epic (Os Lusíadas) – Luiz Vaz de Camões
A Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha
Mensagem – Fernando Pessoa
Sermão de Santo Antônio aos Peixes – Padre Antônio Vieira
Eurico, O Presbítero – Alexandre Herculano
Os Maias – Eça de Queiroz
Dom Casmurro – Machado de Assis
O Auto da Compadecida – Ariano Suaçuna
O Auto da Pedra do Reino – Ariano Suaçuna
A Terceira Margem do Rio – Guimarães Rosa
Os Cus do Judas – Antônio Lobo Antunes
A Jangada de Pedra – José Saramago
Caçadas de Pedrinho – Monteiro Lobato
Iracema – José de Alencar


...plus many, many more.

>>24462763 (OP)
The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob
The Golem by Gustavo Meyrink (and also "Angel of the West Window" by him)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Francois Augieras
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler (and also Speedboat by her)
The Use and Abuse of art by Jacques Barzun
Romaji Diary by Takuboku Ishikawa
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (and also May Day by him)
The Apprentice According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The poems of John Ashberry and Pessoa

Feel free to disparage me. I'm 100% confident that the books I've chosen as my favorite are just about the best possible books for me, at least based on my personal tastes.

>>24462763 (OP)
Augustus by John Williams
The sorrows of young werther by goethe
A confederacy of dunces by Toole
Stoner by john williams
In praise of older women by vizinczey
The sea-wolf by Jack london

>>24465013
Can't forget The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis, The Anti-Christian Conspiracy, by Msr. Henri Delassus, and The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion — the only plagiarism in History to be written before the "original" work!

>>24465036
This picture moves me, idk why.

>>24465036
Based Ashbery reader
Have been reading him through: Will start Girls on the Run later this week
Haven't read much Pessoa yet, but ordered Disquiet a few weeks ago-- would you rec starting elsewhere? (I know that they're bits and pieces of works not published in his lifetime)

>>24464506
>A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
This sounds like the kind of book I'd love to read and sounds very similar in ways to a novel I'm writing (British mythology ingrained into a modern day look at Britain politically and socially). Cheers for the rec.

>>24462763 (OP)
The Brothers Karamazov by Dosto
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
Catch-22 by Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
MS&T by Tad Williams
The Book of John

>>24464966
I've read a few different Heller novels. Picture this was neat, but otherwise nothing special. Good as Gold was competent, but again, nothing stands out. Catch-22 is incredibly overrated, but Something Happened is genuinely great. Have you read it? I'm only asking because a lot of people ignore it because of how they either were disappointed by Catch-22 or hate that it is nothing like Catch-22.
>>24462781
Norm's "memoir" is such a huge leap in quality from other books by stand-up comedians I have read. Norm has an actual narrative that carries between his bits, the framing story with the ghost writer, and how it has touching moments at times.
>>24462787
After I finished The Remains of the Day, I had to sit down for a while and just stew in the way it made me feel. Great book.
>>24463266
Malazan blows, unironically read Conan instead
>>24463404
>Slaughterhouse-V
I hate this book, the short choppy sentences get extremely tiring as the novel goes on. Metaphors and themes aside, it felt like a chore to read. Dune Messiah is a cool pick though, I don't think Dune(The standalone novel) is a good story unless you include Messiah.

>>24465292
Disquiet isn't as good as Pessoa's other work imo since it's devoid of his other heteronyms which is the best part about reading Pessoa.

I have a collection entitled "Pessoa and Company" that has a selection of poems from like 5 different heteronyms of his and it's perfect imo

>>24465214
It's truly unique and beautiful. I'm pretty sure it's not a Japanese artist that did concept art for Chrono Trigger, Hosono or something like that?

Brothers Karamazov
Heart of Darkness
Three Musketeers
Man in the Iron Mask
War and Peace

I need to read more novels...

>>24466221
Will check it out. Thanks, anon

>>24462782
>hey guys did I tell you im 18-22 years old and try REALLY REALLY hard? I can't just exist I'm always trying to impress someone!

>>24463404
what manner of catte is this?

>>24463428
why are there multiple pictures of this homely european woman? why does this guy feel the need to post a dozen pictures of her?

just scream "I'VE NEVER GOTTEN A PIECE OF PUSSY IN MY LIFE!" and get it over with lol. holy shit im embarrassed for you

>>24462763 (OP)
Everything by Shakespeare
Oresteia - Aeschylus
Ulysses - Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Moby Dick - Melville
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities - Melville
Tristram Shandy - Sterne
Anatomy of Melancholy - Burton
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott
The Magic Mountain - Mann
Everything by Nietzsche
Everything by Montaigne
Zhuangzi
The Varieties of Religious Experience - James
Texts of Early Greek Philosophy
Works & Days - Hesiod
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Selected Yeats
Selected Wordsworth