This thread again. Just finished Slaughterhouse 5, per user's recommendation in the last thread.
>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
>Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
>Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
>Stoner by John Williams
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Grapes of Wrath is the best of those, but it depends on what sort of mood you're in. Steppenwolf and Stoner are good if you find existentialism interesting, and you'll probably relate to them a lot. Invisible Man is similar, but less relatable for Veeky Forumsizens, and the solutions the book presents aren't as practical as the other two. BNW is okay, but Huxley's writing is noticeably lacking, with tons of cliche, and there's probably nothing in it that you haven't already learned via cultural osmosis. The Grapes of Wrath doesn't have many fresh ideas either, but depicts them with great skill, and immerses you in a way the others don't. For those reasons, I'd say choose that one.
1 and 4 are the quickest to get through though not necessarily the best. Read the Brit.
don quixote
jean et pierre
the tartar steppe
divine comedy
godel escher bach
A House of Pomegranates
East of Eden
Petersburg
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kokoro
Steppenwolf
Don Quixote
Portrait
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Handke
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Handke
Murphy by Beckett
Idylls of the King by Tennyson
Onegin's great, but a bad translation can ruin it. Idylls SHOULD be read at some point, is easy and far shorter than it should be....
Murphey. A little obnoxious, but read that one first.
*Cannot comment on Handke because have not read.
The Voyage Out by Woolf
The Prince by Machiavelli
Leviathan by Hobbes
Ficciones by Borges (in Spanish)
For Us, The Living by Heinlein
Recommend me two, please.
Stoner, so you cry, like the babby you are.
Don Quixote
East of Eden
Idylls of the King
>Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity
>Celine - Journey To The End of The Night
>Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum
>Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
>Knut Hamsun - Growth of The Soil
Gravity's Rainbow
War & Peace
2666
Crime & Punishment
Underworld
>Dialogues with Leucò - Pavese
>Our ancestors - Calvino
>Invisible cities - Calvino
>Knowledge: a very short introduction
The Aesthetics of Resistance - Weiss
Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science - Nagel
The Death of Virgil - Broch
Joseph and His Brothers - Mann
The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona
The Tin Drum
Underworld
Leviathan and The Prince
Dialogues with Leucò
Cheers. A shame to hear that about BNW, I felt the same way about Fahrenheit 451. Grapes of Wrath feels a little long for my mood right now, I'll think about it until tomorrow and make up my mind. Thanks buddy
I just finished reading Brave New World and I thought it was dumb.
I remember reading Steppenwolf and cried like a little bitch during the first half.
It's pretty short though, is it a quick read? I already bought it so I figure I could just plow through it
I'll be finishing Sometimes A Great Notion soon so decide my next one for me. I know it's more than 5 but just pick one except The Stranger which I already read. I also have The Crying of Lot 49 and V.
Kafka The Trial
Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Island - Aldous Huxley
I don't know what's next but read Death in Venice after Catcher
stoner
don quixote
portrait of the artist
murphy
ficciones
the myth of sisyphus
underworld
invisible cities
the death of a virgil
dubliners
catch-22
>the magic mountain by thomas mann
>the corrections by jonathan franzen
>no longer human by osamu danzai
>a personal matter by kenzaburo oe
>herzon by saul bellow
only ever finished 3 books. haven't acquired taste or genre I like yet
>The Name of The Wind
>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>Chaos: Making a New Science
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Just my last five, looking for what next
>Universal Harvester
>Devil's Bargain
>Hillbilly Elegy
>Kavalier and Clay
>Americanah
Here's five from my to read stack
>Carpenter's Gothic
>As I Lay Dying
>Omensetter's Luck
>Mason & Dixon
>The Cannibal
infinite jest
finnegans wake
the sound and the fury
gravity's rainbow
140 days of sodom
>finnegans wake
this
then throw the rest in the bin
A Personal Matter. I thought it was very readable and was the novel to get me into nip/lit/.
I think you misread the topic of the thread, you're supposed to list books you haven't read yet.
As I Lay Dying
Seconding Finnegans Wake
seconding Hitchhikers
The Cannibal
> My Heart Is That Eternal Rose Tattoo / John Yau
> The Lost Scrapbook / Evan Dara
> I Looked Alive / Gary Lutz
> The She-Devils / Pierre Louys
> Locos / Felipe Alfau
The Lost Scrapbook
Fuck these fucking threads. I always post my shit but because its not fucking memes like infinite jest and gravitys throwup no one ever picks anything for me. FUCK ALL OF YOU!
post 'em. I'll pick one for you.
Mason and Dixon--I'm finishing it up right now and it's been great, just be prepared for it to take a long time
Stoner by John Williams
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Thanks for the response! It's between a few of them now, but I'm really excited for M&D, I hear it's his best. So far I've read GR, tCoL49, IV, and VL by Pynchon.
I'd highly recommend Stoner. I just finished it a week or two ago and it was one of the best reading experiences I've had in awhile.
Let's see what happens.
Coriolanus
Troilus and Cressida
Cymbeline
A Brief History of Ancient Greece
Jorge Manrique's poetry
That's great, that's the one I've been leaning towards anyway. I think the raw insane energy of GR still makes it his best I've read imo--out of IV, V, Col49, and now M&D, but M&D is a close second.
How did you like VL? seems like it might be similar to IV in some ways
Vineland is great but it is really like Pinecone going into a basement for 20 years and smoking pot. A very enjoyable read but I enjoyed IV more. I really want to read V as well. So far CoL49 is my least favorite
M&D/Against the day - Tommy Pynch
Moby Dick - Melville
Portrait of the artist - Jimmy Neutron
The sound and the fury - Faulkner
One hundred years of solitude - Marquez
Half way through part 3 of Gravity's Rainbow currently and I'm fucking loving it, I assume I'll follow it up with another Pynchon but I'd like to read a few other bangers. Might swap one hundred years for ficciones but I don't own a copy of it yet.