Thread 24572450

How many of them have you read to completion? How many have you started and not finished?

Red is finished
Yellow is unfinished

Essentially a list of books for boys.

imagine having completed this list. I cannot imagine more of a wasted human life. people who are digging holes and filling them up again after a project is cancelled are living more meaningful lives.

>>24572450 (OP)
19

>>24572450 (OP)
>How many of them have you read to completion?
80
>How many have you started and not finished?
6
I dropped finnegans wake after the first book and have only read some of plato dialogues, motaigne essays, and Shakespeare, aeschilus, and sophocles' plays
I do believe it is pretty dumb to include collections like that in such a chart, but then again not as dumb and retarded as having genre slop in the top 10. How embarrassing

>>24572462
Yes. Books for boys. Not a single story about getting raped by a millionaire with hair like John Stamos.

>>24572450 (OP)
I have read 20 so far. So far the quality has been exceptional compared to most books. Even the books I didn't like from this list have at least made me ponder the topics they talk about.

12 compleat & 12 incompleat

>>24572450 (OP)
Finished 46
Gave up on 10

I've read 53 in full, with bits and pieces of others.

>>24572465
These are generally good books that most of us would eventually read and enjoy even if we've never looked at the chart. I'm sorry you see reading as such a chore, anon.

47
Only read The Inferno, some Canterbury Tales, some Paradise Lost, some Aeneid.
Got filtered by Oxen of the Sun chapter of Ulysses but had been enjoying it up until then.

>>24572450 (OP)
I've read 82 of them. I don't feel any better for having done so.

Fully read: Moby Dick, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and punishment, Don Quixote, lord of the rings, notes from underground, war and peace, blood meridian, hobbit, portrait of the artist, catch 22, monte cristo, Siddhartha, great Gatsby

Partially read: Bible, first folio

Currently reading: iliad

>>24572450 (OP)
I finished 26, dropped 10, and found only 16 of those 36 worth my time. This whole list is a combination of aniquity (why?), influential, but outdated stories, and suffocatingly boring "style over substance" books like McCarthy

>>24572450 (OP)
Read 29

23 in full and parts of the Bible in school
will apply myself

>>24572450 (OP)
>first folio is a book
>finnegan's wake made top 100
>kaczynski and dazai

okay.

74 but I didn't count the unfinished ones

100 but I haven't finished any of them

>>24572450 (OP)
>the Bible is #1
>in the 2014 ballot it ranked #64
I will never forgive that fucking Q pedophile for bringing a bunch of faux-Christian drunks to this website.
I hate the christcuck larpers so much it's unreal.

>>24572450 (OP)
Finished 47, plus some yet unfinished or preferring other titles by the same authors. Solid list over all.

>>24573228
Yeah I can't believe people stop pretending they've enjoyed Ulysses and Moby Dick!

>>24572450 (OP)
What a godawful list. /lit/ truly does have atrocious taste.

>>24572450 (OP)
These lists are for new readers, or people who are lost looking for a next read. You should not be going back to reference the 4chan top of 2024. You should be following the thread of your interests down rabbitholes from author to author, tracing out concepts and themes in your own mind and connecting things broadly.

some time ago, having found this list, i've made it my goal to read a bunch of books off it and my progress so far has been very enjoyable, so thanks for the recs, bros. i finished Frankenstein today, which was brilliant and i have purchased copies of Gatsby, Picture of Dorian Gray and Crying Lot of 49 as next on my reading list. I liked how the creature from Frankenstein shared sentiments with modern day chuds, such as myself. Really ahead of its time, and also much deeper than its perception in pop-culture.

I want some more short stories to read up on the canon. Any recommendations? I especially enjoyed a bunch of Lovecraft and Philip K. Dick.

>>24573406
>>24572462
Reminder that the conductor of the poll just removed any unconventional answer that was getting votes. List is a fraud.

>>24573208
100 but just the wikipedia articles for the books

>>24572450 (OP)
im up to 25 now

>>24572462
lol

>>24572450 (OP)
26, now kneel.

Just 23.

>>24574014
Makes sense, because the poll looks exactly the same since like 10 years ago. It's probably just a samefag forcing his taste to look as "the taste of /lit/". I've noticed the same happens on /tv/ and /mu/ a lot.

>>24572450 (OP)
>The Old Man and the Sea

36 completed and 9 incomplete. This list is terrible, though.

>>24572450 (OP)
>/lit/'s #1 book is about a giant Dick full of sperm
Never change, faggots.

>>24577484
Worse, it's actually a compilation of ancient Jewish laws and stories which include chopping up their own babies' dicks

>>24572450 (OP)
Finished 53
Started but didn't finish Count of Monte Cristo. Plan to though. I enjoyed it and stopped do to time and being busy.

Reading lotr now. Uneducated to put it anywhere near the top 50, let alone top 10.

>>24578362
why?
>inb4 fantasy is not literature

>>24572450 (OP)
Pleb reporting in.

I've only read 3 of the books here, even tho I started and almost finished some others but I'm a lazy piece of shit.

1. 1984 - it was shit, I'm sorry that I wasted my time on it.

2. Old man and the sea - read it in school.

3. Hunger by Hamsun - I loved this book, it's still one of my favorite ones

>>24578996
>I've only read 3 of the books here
Go to the library and don't come back until you've aged out of your parents' health insurance.

>>24579000
Kek a lot of these books I started to read and some of them almost finished but my mental illness or something else stopped me. I read more than a half of crime and punishment, about 80% of Anna Karenina, 80% of journey to the end of the night, etc.

I fully read some good books that are not on this list, like the tunnel by Sabato, hero of our time, etc.

>>24572450 (OP)
>>24572450 (OP)
13 finished
10 unfinished, of which 4 I actually intended to read to completion but gave up on
>Herodotus got overtaken by more enticing reads at the time
>Book of the New Sun was laughably unenjoyable, only read the first one
>100 Years of Solitude taught me I'm not a fan of magical realism
>Gatsby bored me, but I was too young, I'll read it at some point.
Reading Conrad atm.

>>24573995
Found this for short stories in the charts repo.

>>24578996
I also read great gatsby but it was shit so I completely forgot that I read it kek

>>24579107
>murakami on there
>murakami on there twice

>>24572450 (OP)
25 completed, 2 not finished. I've only read volume 1 of Don Quijote (Will read vol. 2 soon) and dropped Blood Meridian.

>>24574014
>>24576297
It was fair. The top 10 was the typical western canon books with 15 or 20 votes each, and then suddenly from one minute to another all the top 10 were chinese novels with hundreds of votes who have not been mentioned for years if you search them in the archive.

>>24572462
What do you read, big guy?
Seriously

>>24572450 (OP)
>The Holy Bible
Which translation?

>>24572462
So what's the problem?

>>24572450 (OP)
Read 14. Another dozen or two are on my TBR list.

>>24572450 (OP)
Read 34, partially read 8

I've only started reading this year. barely read anything since out of HS. I fond it hard to stay focused.

Unfinished
>Holy Bible
>Lord of the Rings (just finished Two Towers)

Finished
>Notes from Underground
>The Trial
>The Stranger
>Ficciones
>Old man and the sea
>Journey to the end of the night
>Crying of lot 49

Future (maybe offlist) readings :
>Salambo
>The Trial
>Iliad and Odyssey
Why not some other Pynchon or Celine as I enjoyed reading them

>>24583510
>>The Trial
meant The Castle for future readings

>>24572450 (OP)
10

I only started reading classics about a year ago though.

>>24577380
Thanks, anon

>>24572450 (OP)
Is Anna Karrenina really better than War And Peace? I figured War And Peace would be on this list.

>>24583608
number 13

>>24572450 (OP)
>Camus
>Orwell
>Ellis
>Marcus Aurelius
>Dazai
This board really is Reddit

>>24572450 (OP)
I read only 10 of these, but I intend to read most of them. I will pass the middle-English ones (Shakespeare and... Hamilton?) because as an ESL I literally do not understand most of the sentences. I might try to read a modern English translation some day.
I will also pass Uncle Ted's book and the Hebrew mythology book.
>>24572462
>MUH JANE AUSTEN
Cry me a river. Go to goodreads, like half the userbase is female.
>>24572731
Yeah I will probably skip any "style over substance" book in there.

>>24572450 (OP)
>bible #1
wow, /pol/fags really have ruined this board, haven't they?