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Anonymous No.24675670 >>24675674 >>24675676 >>24675941 >>24675947 >>24676134
trying to get into literature
What are some universally recognized good books that one should read? I'm reading 1984 right now
Anonymous No.24675674
>>24675670 (OP)
Iliad (Fagles)
Odyssey (Fagles)
Not 1984
Anonymous No.24675676
>>24675670 (OP)
literature or /lit/?
if the latter you need 10,000 pages of Marx and 20,000 pages of misanthropic gay poetry.
I ignore women No.24675692 >>24676120
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Anonymous No.24675749 >>24675947
Notes from Underground
The Stranger
Fifty-Two Stories by Chekhov
Tolstoy short stories
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Akutagawa
A Hero of our Time
Germinal
Old Man Goriot/Pere Goriot
Life and Fate and Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
Voluntary Fool No.24675929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
Anonymous No.24675941
>>24675670 (OP)
Mein Kampf
But seriously, Borges' Collected Fictions
Anonymous No.24675947
>>24675670 (OP)
Brave New World
The Hobbit
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Growth of the Soil
HP Lovecraft books

>>24675749
>The Stranger
Anonymous No.24676120
>>24675692
i second this, but fuck frog posters, courtesy of /a/.
Anonymous No.24676134
>>24675670 (OP)
The old man and the sea