2017 Top 100

This is the real 2017 chart, or at least as real as we are gonna get.

Do not entertain the /pol/ Discordfag who is running a "poll" as s vehicle to push his shitty memes. There is no "discord" boogeyman rigging his poll except for his own Discord.

Other urls found in this thread:

strawpoll.me/14776329
4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Veeky
twitter.com/AnonBabble

This is seriously better than what the current poll has so far, which is pathetic.

But it's probably ran by the same people anyway.

Sage and report both.

Is cunts didn’t vote for Culture of Critique, it wouldn’t be there. I’m tired, here’s a very open poll: strawpoll.me/14776329

>This is the real 2017 chart
I agree
back to pol

Can someone please explain why finnegans wake is so high up when nobody has read it?

speak for yourself

no one cares

this faggot is literally having a mental breakdown in the other thread
just like he did every other time he tried to do a stupid poll
top kek

But I’ll finish. And everything will be documented. So it doesn’t matter. At the end of this, there will be a 2017 chart which represents the state of Veeky Forums, and not the state of some random Veeky Forumscord.

To reiterate, I’ve never done this before. The way this is going I won’t attempt it next year either.

No one cares.

Veeky Forums doesn't need these charts. All they do is attract redditors.

You sound like a redditor.

How exactly do we know you're not another discordfag as well? You act just like them. Power tripping bitch ass.

>spacing
>calls me the redditor
They seem to have had enough interest 2014-16.

All of these charts are being made by Discord groups. They're cancer.

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

this TOTAL IDIOT hasnt read Finnegan's Wake

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>They seem to have had enough interest 2014-16.
from imgur users unfortunately. if Veeky Forums was a board seeking new posters that would be great, but Veeky Forums IS a board of new posters.

That said, years of shilling Llosa Cather Kawabata and Stendahl seems to finally be succeeding

>self-proclaimed power users attention whoring and acting as an authority on the tastes of an entire board

we are witnessing the death throes of Veeky Forums

who cares, top 100 charts are reddit af. Go read instead baka

As I said in the earlier threads, Redditors>/pol/fags, simply because they’re actually going to stay out of /clg/.

Stfu bitch Redditor.

while discord/goodreads lords are ridiculous, they are the ones who have kept a nugget of quality. 50% of this board is homework/beginning readers with no depth or integrity. I cant even find recommendations here anymore. Where oh where have sunhawk and sebastian gone, where are Veeky Forums tier autists of literature now?

I agree with you, and there are worse things then reddit immigrants reading Sebald, but the real result tends to be 10x ready player one threads and riveting discussion coming from new blood meridian readers

A lot of this is rubbish.
Firstly you have a lot of books, like the bible, the iliad, Shakespeare and Chaucer, that are there not because they are good but because they are influential.
Secondly The Gormenghast Trilogy. I like the trilogy but only the frist two books. The third is complete and utter shite.
James Joyce.

stfu you discord fucking cuck

this isn't about books and shit, this is about board fucking culture

I've been on this chan since 06, and this discord namefaggotry shit would make any true oldfag fucking disgusted

>they keep a nugget of quality

WOOOOOW. fucking WOOOOW. who the fuck cares. Again this isn't about who can be the most pretentious about books, this is about board culture and some pretentious arrogant namefag fucks trying to mess with the anonymous principles of fucking Veeky Forums.

If you're not angry about this then get the fuck out.

if i were you I would self-immolate desu senpai

You OK buddy?

it's just the usual discord shitposter LARPing
they enjoy getting mentioned
when it stops they have to do it themselves

what this guy said
you wouldn't get this kind of faggotry back on the IRC
it's a shame the IRC died
far superior to the idiotic way discord works

>muh discords
Kill yourself bud

yep I agree too
IRC had the best people
discord is unfortunately ran by people with
no respect for the quality of IRC

a flat headed discord chink

So whens the top 10 chart of 2017?

Oh wait thats right this faggot board just circlejerks the same old books forever and ever never reading anything new.

>this faggot board just circlejerks the same old books forever and never reads anything

ftfy

reminder that there is an oldguard of goodreads fags that are constantly delving into experimental and obscure literature

wow another namefag community?

gtfo

Yes. I see them posting about obscure things all the time. Have faith, if everyone reads enough, no matter if the userbase goes down, good discussion will be had!

gotta say, im happy that youve chosen to remain in this ivory tower of intellectual froth

>This is seriously better than what the current poll has so far, which is pathetic.
>Random small group picking is slightly more interesting than a large group poll.
Yeah no shit. It's not even better, it's the same shit.

I’m a newfag to Veeky Forums. I just want a list of good shit to read, instead I find a bunch of retards arguing over what is the best list.

Is there an archive somewhere of all the previous lists? I really want to start reading again

There's some charts and shit on the wiki.

4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Veeky Forums_Wiki

You could do worse than follow OP's list, fake or not (like taking a clue from the previous polls which have Murakami and Vonnegut in them).

just read canonical works, can't go wrong with them

look up Bloom's Canon or most other great book lists

The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE):
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Proverbs
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1914, 1922, 1939)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Autism

fuck your chart and fuck your discord.

nice try discord fag

>Mom, I'm fitting in on Veeky Forums!

Thank you user, this is exactly what I was looking for.
I don’t know who either of those authors are. I take it you recommend steering clear?
Thanks user, I actually forgot about the odyssey. Gonna have to read that. I’ve read about 1/3 of the Bible, guess I should finish it up, it’s just so boring... the rest of those books have promising names instead of modern shit like “the fall” “the rest” “the maker” etc just sound retarded from the lack of thought out into names.

Fake chart, accepting it is akin to being cucked.

>cucked
just go back to pol

>the aeneid at 86
You should all be ashamed of yourselves

For real what the fucks the point of charts? They're pretty much invalid for anything beyond a top 20, and the top 20 are just the same meme shit year after year. It provides nothing but an influx of outsiders.

Faggot detected.

no we shouldn't

>the Bible, chaucer and Shakespeare aren't good
Get a load of this absolutely pleb

It is for fun, user.

it's for "powerusers" like surveyautist to try to attention whore

People who suggest to avoid Vonnegut or Murukami are pseuds. Check them out, but they may be a little below you in the end.

Just like the poweruser anons who made the past three years' top 100? They've garnered many (You)s and infamy from those classic posts and threads they created.

(The joke is, no one knows who those people are, and no one will know who this guy is. The chart lasts, and everyone forgets the rest.)

you read V and M in middle/high school naturally. if you havent read them by then there's no poinmt to go back to read them , you're not missing anything

they're all shit and Veeky Forums is worse off for them
you're probably one of those chart making fags
kys

your brain is GONE my dude

Nah, I think you can check them out on your own and come to whatever conclusion. Maybe that user would enjoy their whimsy.

The absolute plebbery.

It's common to not see images on Veeky Forums because we're not 18 years old anymore. We're not even 20.

We read fucking thick non-fiction books, and when we do read fiction it is fucking intense shit like Thomas Pynchon.

Let me tell you, Veeky Forums usually does not see image posts for this very reason. WE READ HERE, AND WE DON'T LIKE TO PAY ATTENTION TO SHITTY TRIPFAGS POSTING ANIME BERNIE SANDERS IN A DAMN THREAD

RAWWWRRRRRRRRRR

It’s an imageboard. If you’ve outgrown posting images, leave.

i got sum of what u want

Not even sure if you're pretending to be autistic or if you actually are a massive sperg.

When's the list gonna be finished. Don't keep me waiting pls

Why fuse OT and NT? The old is of much higher literary worth than the new

>skipped Euripides
Based.
>skipped Aristophanes
No.

What are the major works of Aeschylus?

Oresteia and Prometheus Bound (so, basically, half of his extant works).

The 2016 list was pretty good (if you ignore Jerusalem and Bottom's Dream, which are meme books nobody has read at that point).
Overall, however, you shouldn't trust Veeky Forums too much. Try to find a book on the history of literature, a good one will function like a massive to-read list that will give you knowledge and context far better than Veeky Forums's patchwork of memes and surface-level classics.

Really? I have been on GR for quite a while and in these new threads I don't see anyone from the old guard posting.

what exactly is taking so long for the new chart? are the tiebreaker votes in?

What are the major works of Aristophanes?

The lists from 2015 and 2016 got 1 million plus views on imgur and were posted all over reddit. The amount of genre-fiction trash posted in the subsequent months made it pretty obvious how much reddit influence those charts had on the board.

Naw fuck that guy

based chart

No Les Mis or Houellebecq? Trash chart.

Wait there was a vote? I totally missed it what the hell.

or is this discord shananigans again?

That’s the goal. Since the other thread reached the catalog I’ll be posting the chart in a few hours.

It was up for a week, because someone posted to ask about it on the 30th and I didn’t want to do it too far into 2018.

Post now pls I don't want to have to wade through the archive for it when I wake up.

alright, how many votes?

around 400 were considered valid.

stop samefagging
no one else cares about your stupid rigged vote
stop pretending "other anons" care

sage and report all poll threads, sage and report all chart threads

Euripides was the greatest greek dramatist, only plebs will disagreee.

evaporate, fool

Looking forward to it user, I appreciate it.
The doc is freely available in the catalog, you can go and verify. Just as the doc of the fake 2017 poll was available which is, along with the screenshots, what exposed them.

stop samefagging.

EVAPORATE!
be gone!

lmao this chart was made by 15 Veeky Forumsscord faggots who by no means represent the general opinions of this board

Also their taste is complete shit because everything they added was just boring novels exclusively from the 20th century. No poetry, no philosophy, and they had the fucking gall to act like they're arbiters of taste just cause IJ isn't in the top fucking 10.