Commit right now to reading ten books by authors who don’t look like you. That’s the only rule...

I've done this several times over, already. Every book I've ever read by a black woman was bad.

>iranian man living in north america

I do that on a daily basis ;)

Ignore the media pushing crap about how you need to stop reading dead white males and their terrible suggestions but there is absolute gold to be found when you branch out.
>Clarice Lispector, Brazil's finest author of the 20th century
>Virginia Woolf, who needs little introduction
>Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book, which is full of blink and you'll miss them witty references to Japanese history and literature
>Anna Akhmatova, one of Russia's greatest poets
>Mary Shelley, mostly known for Frankenstein in pop culture but a genuinely brilliant author
>George Eliot, although some people consider Middlemarch a bit of a slog it's undeniably a fantastic work
>Sylvia Plath, before she naked herself to death
That's not even taking any male authors, and you've still got the whole works of Mishima, Kobo Abe, the whole of the middle east and what not

Fuck off Peterson

>tfw not hwite so most books I read fit the criteria

>the whole of the middle east and what not
are they any good novels on the crusades by an Achmed?

>Brazil's finest author of the 20th century
That's not Guimaraes Rosa.

Here's my list of works by women for people who avoid womyn authors. I even threw in two extra for you:

>The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
>Ice by Anna Kavan
>The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
>The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
>Dark Spring by Unica Zürn
>The Topless Tower by Silvina Ocampo
>Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
>Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
>Under the Sea Wind by Rachel Carson
>Gutshot by Amelia Gray
>The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman by Angela Carter
>A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

Also listen to this person . Not all are to my taste, but if you're making a good faith effort I can all but guarantee you'll find something in these two lists that you like.

But I study East Asian literature already so I literally only read people who don't look like me.

I read based on how good the book is, not what superficial trait the author possessed.

I hereby commit to this

Directives like the one in the OP come off as accusatory and I can see why people have a knee-jerk reaction against it. But it's really about making an attempt to discover works that can stand on their own merits but weren't as widely read or lauded because of some aspect of the author's identity. That's what it should be about, at least.

east Asians are highly problematic though what with their high iq scores and low crime no matter how much racism or poverty they endure

BASED Flannery O'Connor fan

Honestly I can see where you can debate this but I'm a huge Lispector fan. She writes like a dream and turns absolutely nothing at all into incredible prose.
Tokarczuk is a top quality recommendation

And I only read the ancient Greeks who were Meds unlike myself.

Amin Maalouf is Lebanese. He has an essay called The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. I haven't read it, but I read something else by him. If for nothing else the man is an incredible storyteller, the way he creates historical fiction is really great.

But given the fact that The Crusades Through Arab Eyes is an essay and not a novel, you may get a very enjoyable read based on the primary arab sources from that time period.

I'm ginger. I don't even know of an author who does look like me.

No.

Glass the middle east and drill for oil through it.

I'm black so the very idea of this challenge is laughable.

Get your shit together, whites.

ok, no author looks exactly like me. checkmate

No fuck you. I'll read what I want.

Alright, what are the best books by attractive people?

Off the top of my head:
>On the Road by Kerouac
>Blood Meridian by McCarthy (who was pretty ruggedly handsome in his youth/middle age)
>The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (who was hot when she was young)
>Barbara Comyns as mentioned
was also hot
>The Secret History by Donna Tartt (who looks like she was hot when she was younger and is pretty good looking for her age)

All my favorite novels are written by dead people with beards. I'm unable to accomplish either of those things.

nausea - written by a manlet
critique of pure reason - written by a manlet
doctrine of awakening - written by a cripple
sublime object - written by a meme
crime and punishment - written by a guy with a beard
war and peace - written by a guy with a beard
confessions of a mask - written by a manlet bodybuilder
the master of go - written by a serious looking manlet
salambo - written by a guy with a moustache
the art of worldly wisdom - written by a scrawny dude

You're a meme mate

>not Marguerite Yourcenar
i mean she's basically a man, but still superior to all those listed there

does Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the arab, count?

>Be multicultural mutt
>Get to read all of world lit
> dont
Do i win?

what about this funny looking fellah? surely non of you look that retarded

How about I only read works by authors with the same name as me?

go back to the basement billy

then you'd better have it changed to Virginia Woolf

When people say stuff like this they don't mean actual literature from different times or places, they mean stuff written by #woke 21st century minorities in first world countries.

so coastal american literature?

>You only read white males, reee!
>The Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, early Christians and so on and so on weren't white, reeee!
Pick one

I just assumed the idea is we recommend books worth reading.

This. I don't even remember the last time I read something by a black author.

No it isn't.

BASED Shonagon poster

What writers should I pick, user?

Probably 5 of my top 15 are fags so...

>cyrillic
Someone white would be fine

>tfw I look like a less ugly Cormac McCarthy

So how about: get ye gone.

>ugly
I don't think Cormac McCarthy is an ugly man at all. Although weirdly I think he actually hit his peak in his 50s where he had a real old-school handsomeness to him.
>pic related

can confirm he's daddy af.
somehow he looks exactly how I always imagined him (except a tad more clean shaven)

Is the object to expose yourself to different viewpoints? (The assumption being that different-looking people will have led different lives and so hold different beliefs?)

If this is the objective, why not just read books from different time periods? An author writing 200 years ago will be a lot more different from me than an Iranian author writing in Tehran today.

>daddy af
>claims to enjoy McCarthy

That's easy, most people don't look like me.

Now, if you asked me to read 10 books EXCLUSIVELY BY pale men with curly brown hair and green eyes, who would fall into that category?

Not an SJW, just trying to see if I can meet that challenge looking at my own books shelves from where I'm sitting.

The Tale of Genji (Japanese, Female)
The Art of War (Chinese)
100 Years of Solitude (Colombian)
Price and Prejudice (Female)
Frankenstein (Female)
One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian)
The Book of Five Rings (Japanese)
Three Kingdoms (Chinese)

Well, unless I can use Slavs, I fail.

Also, probably plenty of men on this board read a couple dozen Animorphs books as kids, so challenge met.

But it’s being widely lauded now because of these “challenges.” The “fuck whyte boyz” meme is quickly becoming the status quo because if you haven’t noticed it is coming from most sources of power in the literary world.
It is a power that claims it has none which is exactly what American Christians spout come election year, it’s what any deceptive, totalitarian power claims.

>tfw when so handsome all of the authors I read wish they looked like me

Jokes on her, I'm a committed Neoplatonist and many (most?) of these guys were from the East.

Since everyone born east of the Aegean is considered a black man today, I think I'm in the clear.

...

you mean the greeks?

Let's see if I can do this:

>The Tale of Genji by Murasaki--female, Japanese (I'm about 2/3rds through, it's slow but interesting)
>Arabian Nights--Middle Eastern (reading aloud with my wife)
>Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë--female
>The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin--female (a lot more poorly written than I expected, but full of fantasy tropes that have stuck around in movies that I'm pretty sure she came up with by herself
>The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood--female
>In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami--Japanese (twisted as hell)
>The Savage Detectives & 2666 by Roberto Bolaño--Latino
>Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Thurston--Black female
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison--Black
>Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen--female
>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley--female
>Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe--African

Phew. That was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Thankfully most decent writers are pretty unattractive

There is as much aesthetic diversity among white people as there is among all people.

Are you trying to trick me into reading a book written by a fat guy?

>The Tale of Genji by Murasaki--female, Japanese (I'm about 2/3rds through, it's slow but interesting)
Decent, but not top-tier. Only notable for being the "first novel ever written"
>Arabian Nights--Middle Eastern (reading aloud with my wife)
Meh. Some good stuff mixed in with a bunch of shit.
>Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë--female
No
>The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin--female (a lot more poorly written than I expected, but full of fantasy tropes that have stuck around in movies that I'm pretty sure she came up with by herself
Better than Harry Potter but not by a significant margin. The original SJW with WE WUZ WIZZURDS shitskins casting spells.
>The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood--female
Second-rate feminist allegory
>In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami--Japanese (twisted as hell)
Might look into this one. The Japs seem to be the most adept at literature after the Anglosphere writers
>The Savage Detectives & 2666 by Roberto Bolaño--Latino
Great Novel. Bolano was Chilean. So European-lite essentially.
>Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Thurston--Black female
Boring and overrated, mainly due to her being a black female
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Woolf is good.
>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison--Black
Probably the only truly transcendent work of art yet produced by a black.
>Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen--female
No.
>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley--female
Important for Romanticism.
>Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe--African
Another middling novel propped up by the fact that it's written by a black person

>ctrl f
>no Wuthering Heights

Don't you mean WITHERING heights?

I'm not white.

>Look at how culturally aligned I am with you guise
Post discarded
>inb4 any response
You can't faze an immortal

>tfw young, skinny, blonde

guess i'll only read books by old chubby brown haired guys now

There's not a single author who looks like me
maybe there is, but I haven't read their books yet

>Decent, but not top-tier. Only notable
spotted the wikipedia reader

Everyone has a dupplelganger who writes books my lad.

It's weird that this artist clearly spent decades mastering lighting and shading but never learned how to draw eyes. Is it some kind of weird modern art thing?

>Clarice Lispector
Her later work (e.g. Hour of the Star) is tryhard trash, so I wouldn't give her a blanket recommendation. Actually, the problem with it is that she tries so hard to emulate the originality of her earlier work, which was lightining-in-a-bottle. "Near to the Wild Heart" is a fantastic book.

Everything else (except Plath, which I think is a matter of taste) is brilliant. Why Shelley's "Mathilda" never gets discussed here is beyond me — it's peak loli-lit.

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>The Tale of Genji by Murasaki-- Garbage
>Arabian Nights-- Written by an aryan
>Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë--Garbage
>The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin--Garbage
>The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood--Garbage
>In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami--Ok Nippon Honorary white
>The Savage Detectives & 2666 by Roberto Bolaño-- Non-Mixed breed white South American
>Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Thurston--Garbage
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf --Garbage
>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison--Nigger Crying Garbage
>Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen--Garbage
>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley--Just watch the movie, garbage
>Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe--Nigger Garbage

glad we cleared things up

I look like Wittgenstein in pic related.

>that bitch ugly af

Now that that's out of the way, kill yourself faggot.

Any literate human has read more than 10 books by non-"white cis male" authors. Hell, a lot of the authors people call white aren't even white. People call Paulo Coelho white, and Neil Gaiman.
>One's Brazilian/Latin American(?) and the other's Jewish.

You must be some fucking daft if you've fallen for the "white male must be persecuted/abandoned" drivel.

I'm still waiting for the day all these fucking libtards start tearing each others' throats out for not being enough of a minority, or for faking minority status for sympathy points.

>Any literate human has read more than 10 books by non-"white cis male" authors.

I've read books written by men of every race.
That said, I refuse to read books written by women.

This is the order of my being

I look like David Bowie so this will be easy as fuck.

I love you for your being, user.

>pls choose continue on your gameover screen