Top 100 Books of /lit/ - /lit/ (#24536525) [Archived: 391 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:09:44 AM No.24536525
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Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ulysses - James Joyce
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Holy Bible - Various Authors
Stoner - John Williams
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Iliad - Homer
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey - Homer
The Trial - Franz Kafka
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
1984 - George Orwell
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
Dubliners - James Joyce
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paradise Lost - John Milton
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Dune - Frank Herbert
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Republic - Plato
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
V. - Thomas Pynchon
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
Confessions - Augustine of Hippo
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:09:57 AM No.24536526
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Das Kapital - Karl Marx
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo
Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
Phenomenology of Spirit - G.W.F. Hegel
Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger
The Tunnel - William H. Gass
JR - William Gaddis
Bhagavad Gita - Various Authors
Industrial Society and Its Future - Theodore Kaczynski
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:36:56 AM No.24536581
Thank you for posting the most popular chart of /lit/ in text format. That is very helpful and a worthwhile addition to the board
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:49:26 AM No.24536590
>>24536581
How many have you read? Be honest
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 9:17:00 AM No.24536629
Why no Secret History but Confederacy of Dunces?
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:02:57 AM No.24536668
>>24536525 (OP)
>>24536526
you've read 100 books and didn't find your niche yet!?!
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:02:29 AM No.24536771
>>24536525 (OP)
Here anon, let me help you! You also forgot to add Borges' Ficciones and "The Trilogy"
>>24536590
19 out of 102, but 19th/20th century classics are not really my thing.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:04:02 AM No.24536772
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>>24536771
Damn, I forgot the pic
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:59:56 AM No.24536844
>>24536771
Borges is a patico without a house. He wasn't included because we aren't 15 yr olds and we moved past him
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 12:13:55 PM No.24536874
>>24536844
wew lad