2018 Top 100

Saved! Some surprising new additions.

If someone could make one of those chart things that would be good too...

Not a perfect list, but still better than last year

Seems like the largest year-to-year change so far

When did the polls happen?

Don't say The Bible. Even the hardest christian doesn't read it

Dianetics? What the fuck?

>20. The Culture of Critique - MacDonald
>49. The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
>53. Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
I'm done
Also Hunger being the only Hamsun book on that list really shows the absolute state of the board

20. The Culture of Critique - MacDonald
should be higher

You're reading a bit much into the chart mate. Just two or three people voting for a meme or normie book can have it added to the chart. There are a handful of them every year.

They were pretty low-key. To keep out tourists from other boards and redditors.

He's right wing idiot that's why he's hard for Hamsen, probably never read him

I'm not right wing. I am however a Norwegian and I would be ashamed of myself had I never read Hamsun. Hunger is the one book everybody who has read one Hamsun book has read, and while it is a good book, it is hardly his best, and I was kinda hoping Veeky Forums was well-read enough to know this. His best work (that I have read) is imo Growth of the Soil.

k but he's pretty fucking boring

I don't think this board is for you

That's not a real list. I doubt more than five people on Veeky Forums have ever read Finnegans Wake cover to cover

Even my dad's read finnegans Wake cover to cover and he's not even Veeky Forums. Just because you can't read doesn't mean a board literally devoted to reading is full of people just like you.

100% sikkert at amerikanere står bak denne listen

>still no Lolita

>The official list follows. Enjoy.
why is it official?
Who made it official?

What does low-key even mean?
I'm constantly on this board the last few days.

Simply epic
Disregard this, the real list isn't ready yet

no shit, de står bak alt

nice trips, /tv/

I'm sure you and your pseud dad read Finnegans Wake and jerk off together all the time. You probably even pretend to understand it. What I doubt is that the /pol/ runoff and failsons of Veeky Forums have read Finnegans Wake in such high numbers as to vote it their fifth favorite book

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>What does low-key even mean?

Most people who see the polls don't vote because they don't consider themselves well read enough. If a person hasn't read Finnegans Wake they are much less likely to vote. It's really not that difficult to understand.

>The bible is #1
Literally kill yourself

NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION: WE REVOLT!

>Ctrl + F, "Blake"
>0 results
Ya fucked up

I always find it surprising that people from irrelevant countries browse Veeky Forums. I wish they couldn't.

This is a Japanese board, you're not supposed to be speaking Elvish.

>it wasn't real inside my mind

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

lots of narcissistic gay boys

you should have voted like we all did

go look at cartoon images of little girls on /b/ you husk of disgust

>the real list isn't ready yet
it better not be worse than this one, or this is the real one

By representation I meant totalitarian dictator of me, I was speaking for myself...forget it, I will make my own list

Stop being such a faggot jesus christ

>24. The Trial - Kafka 25. Infinite Jest - Wallace
JUST

That would be me.

It's not my ideal list in terms of content or ranking. I'm glad to see so many classics near the top and less of this pomo bs, though. Some nice adds towards the end, too.

Do not flaunt your faggotry in the presence of the Veeky Forums king!

A voyage to Arcturus, nice

>MacDonald
fuck off

Ask me how I know you’ve never read it?

Somebody, turn it into an image

this good enough for you?

Yes good enough, thanks. Made a part 2.

>adds to cart

I’m pretty happy Burton and Montaigne made it to the list. I learned about those 2 on lit and it’s good to see them.

Where the fuck is Winnie the Pooh?

I thought there was no non-fiction. What the fuck. You can put CoC and Dianetics in? If I had of known we were voting this shit through I would have voted in some famous reporters and travelogs. This list needs to be refined in another round instead of having this fucking stupid voting system. Considering the position of the republic, I'd consider being apart of a select group of individuals who would make the decision to cull the weak from this list for the sake of the good.

This list needs to have its legitimacy removed for failing to hide all your bad taste.

I wonder how hard that would be.

Fucking Chesterton

>first day of 2018
>this list defines 2018
>it was a hidden poll

>Montaigne
>Lovecraft
>Tolkien
>Wolfe
>FUCKING Culture of Critic

lmao you niggas are fucking tasteless nerds.

WHERE THE FUCK IS ICE BROS? I thought it had like 20 votes or something WHAT HAPPENED.

No, I must have hallucinated it...

Culture of Critique should be counted as spam or a meme. No one has really read it.

Can’t wait for net neutrality to make away with all the amerifats on this side.

Fuck off you yankee piece of shit

Not everyone hasn't read what you haven't read, user. It's good to read different kinds of things and challenge the way you look at things.

Of course, but no one has read Culture of Critique. It is literally a forced meme.

>forced meme
Nice meme. I've read it. I've seen other anons post it on Veeky Forums

reminder that sheep is a brainlet which is why his cooked lists are so awful

I guess this is the discord people again. The real list hasn't been finished yet.

It is a forced meme from /pol/. It doesn't belong on the list.

That's the 2017 list (again). This is the 2018 list.

Ah, I thought it was 2017 released in 2018. So, I'll just forget about this list.

Take Montaigne off that list

eh? /pol/ is mostly anti-/pol/ bait and the odd political news; not much book discussion

the book itself is pretty controversial tho

>eh?
are you new here or something?

>t.

sorry, was just watching ice hockey

>sorry
are you new here or something?

>solving a captcha to write this

NICE
VOTE
COUNT
DISCORD
FAGS

Anyway, the 2017 poll closes in two hours(since I decided to do it after a thread appeared on the 30th asking where it was). If there’s no vote count, and no description of how it was collected, it’s not a real list.

>somewhere right now on discord people are scratching their heads wondering how they created a list and then magically forgot they did

>t. Discord shill

samefag

the bible top
dianetics number 26

fuck this board. amerifats forcing their brainwashed watered down 'culture' on literature.

Growth of the Soil is great, but my personal favorite is and has always been Mysteries. Johan Nagel is the most unforgettable character in literature I've ever encountered. That's the reason why it beats Pan in my eyes - while Pan has the greatest lyrical waxing on nature, the charm and the alternating cheerful and dark madness of Nagel is just so memorable, and it's captured so masterfully in the prose. He manages to be oblique and completely transparent at the same time. He is a complete riddle of a character, but never in a stilted or fabricated way, there's this very profound sense of some motive, it's just impossible to pinpoint it. He's a miracle of a character. The entire psychology of Nagel is probably the greatest take on modernity I've encountered.

I'd rank Growth of the Soil third, Pan coming in second. That's not to say I think it isn't one of the greatest of all time. It's just that the early prose of Hamsun has such an unprecedented lyrical fire in everything it does, be it madness, love or nature. He still reaches those lyrical heights occasionally in his later work, Growth of the Soil being a very good example, but it is generally more reserved and somber.

God damn I love Hamsun, definitely my favorite author.

>Culture of critique above infinite jest
and this is how we know old Veeky Forums is dead

Yes, I just got banned from reddit and I hate this book. It's very antisemitic, you know. We should not offend the delicate sensibilities of our poor, victimised friends.

>10483915
is it not enough that you've killed this board, you also have to shit on its corpse?
Not even worth a (You)

Damn.. to be this angsty again.

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If this thread's not going to die, I might was well use it to shill

i hope this was a misquote or you're just reinforcing my belief that this board is beyond help

>i have no individual taste and follow the Veeky Forums hivemind
>let me just list books that i know people think are good to make it seem like i am well read

>i'll just insult half the board and do redditposting because i was too lazy to vote