ITT: Everything you've read this year

V.
Crying of lot 49
Inherent Vice By Pinecone

White Noise
Slaughterhouse Five

Currently reading: Some russian book about stalin

just started being Veeky Forums this year, so I still have to make it through all the newfag stuff

Shakespeare
The Tempest
Midsummer's Nights Dream
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Julius Caesar

Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
Breakfast of Champions

Faulkner
The Unvanquished
As I Lay Dying

Heller- Catch-22
Hesse- Siddharta
Camus- The Stranger
Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
Joyce- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Salinger- Catcher in the Rye

currently reading Crime and Punishment and V.

why do you separate your lines like you do?

Colorless Tsukuru Takazaki and His Years of Piligrimage- Murakami
Breakfast at Tiffany's- Truman Capote
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
Kokoro- Natsumi Soseki
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- Murakami
Tender Is The Night- Fitzgerald
Trilogy of the Rat- Murakami
South of the border, West of the sun- Murakami

The Count of Monte Cristo
A Farewell To Arms
The Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
Macbeth
Stoner

That's it so far, pretty unproductive but things should pick up during the summer.

Cause I'm retarded.

Shit, and Of Human Bondage. That was an okay book.

how was the primal screamer?

Notes from underground
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
V. (currently reading)

Not much, I know.

Daisie Miller, The American, The Turn of the Screw, Washington Square, What Maisie Knew, Portrait of a Lady --H James
Emma -Austen
Wuthering Heights
Hard Times, Bleak House
The Return of the Native
Daniel Deronda-Eliot
Lolita
Zero K-DeLillo
The Corrections
Infinite Jest, Consider the Lobster
White Teeth- Zadie
The Blind Assassin-Atwood
Beloved-Morrison
My Century-G Grass
2666
The Odyssey
Billy Budd-Melville
Disgrace-Coetzee
House of Fog & Sand-Dubus
The Woman in White-Collins
Castle Rackrent-Edgeworth
Giovanni's Room-Baldwin
Preparation for the Next life- Lisch
The Human Stain-Roth
The Great Gatsby
Half a Life-VS Naipaul

Come at me

Be lawfag. Almost all my reading has been case law and left-leaning textbooks. :,(

>Crime and Punishment
>Mere Christianity
>Space Trilogy-C.S.Lewis
>1984
>The Everlasting Man
>Frankenstein
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>The Great Controversy
>Confessions
>Beyond Good and Evil
>some redwall books, I enjoy them.

lord jim, joseph conrad
great expectations, dickens
the glass castle, j. walls
on writing, king
david copperfield, dickens
a tale of two cities, dickens
the girls' guide to hunting and fishing, melissa bank
the age of innocence - wharton
pere goriot - balzac
fathers and sons - turgenev
hamlet
the tempest

i hate myself more than i did on january first tho

Homer - Odyssey

Hesiod - Works and Days

Plato - apology, credo, euthyphro, Phaedo, phaedrus, gorgias, symposium

Aristophanes - The Clouds, The Frogs

Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Philoctetus

Aristotle - ethics, rhetoric

Cicero - On Friendship, On the Ends

Seneca - Letters

Epictetus - Handbook, Discourses

Plutarch - Lives of Caesar and Cato

Nietzsche - on the genealogy of morals

Dostoevsky - Notes from the underground

Heidegger - On the Essence of Truth, What is Metaphysics?

Camus - The Stranger

Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism, Nausea

Long commute m8s

I need to get a job.

Brave New World
Clockwork Orange
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch 22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1984
Slaughterhouse Five
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
Invisible Man
American Psycho
The Great Gatsby
Fear and Loathing
Of Mice and Men
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
Siddhartha
Infinite Jest (waste of time)

you are a legit dumbass

>Infinite Jest (waste of time)
So you read a bunch of entry books and are shittin on IJ now ? So contrarian

In order of enjoyment:

The Recognitions
The Sickness Unto Death
JR
Essential Peirce Vol 1
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Infinite Jest
...
The Corrections

peirce as in charles sanders peirce?

we have very similar reading lists for the year

>using the term 'entry books'
psued detected

Yeah, both volumes for a grad class. Brilliant shit, such an intense clarity of thought. The rest of the list was just for pleasure.

i've been reading dover's "philosophical writings of peirce" for fun and am just now reading the recognitions. Both authors are very smart and fun to read. Was the class just on peirce?

>Dubliners
>Shadow Over Innsmouth
>This is how YOU write
>Candide
>The Dunwich Horror
>The music of Erich Zann
>Tao Te Ching
>The Tragedy of Man
>The Prince
>Sino-Hungarian literature collection I.

Currently reading:
Sino-Hungarian literature collection II.
Notes from the Underground

He uses it because it is defined term and lot of those books are assigned under this term. Good practice this is to think about some books as 'entry' or not doesn't make him a pseud

There is an academic society dedicated to Peirce, we read the two main volumes of his works that they are responsible for assembling. The class was almost entirely on Peirce but with a small amount of Royce as well. That Dover book has some nice selections in it.
My favorites not in there are:
On Phenomenology
Pragmatism as the Logic of Abduction
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined
Neglected Argument for God
And one on chance I forget it's title.

Also, have fun The Recognitions, it is probably my favorite novel of all time.

no lifer detected

John Williams - Stoner
George Saunders - Tenth of December
Homer - The Odyssey (Fitzgerald)
John Berryman - 77 Dream Songs
Joe Wenderoth - Letters to Wendy's
Gilgamesh
Euripides - Herakles
Christopher Logue - War Music (A partial (unfinished) retelling of the Iliad. Excellent read.)
Theodor Herzl - The Jewish State
Franz Kafka - The Judgement and In the Penal Colony
Matthew Minicucci - Translation (book of poetry)
Abraham Cahan - The Rise of David Lewinsky
Philip Levine - Breath
Henry Roth - Call it Sleep
Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Magician of Lublin
Edward Lewis Wallant - The Pawnbroker
Bernard Malamud - The Assistant
JD Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
Saul Bellow - Mr. Sammler's Planet
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
David Grossman - See Under: Love and To the End of the Land
Philip Roth - The Human Stain
Ayalet Tsabari - The Best Place on Earth

Currently reading the Iliad (Lattimore)

pleb detected

The Holocaust Kingdom - Alexandar Donat
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Loser - Thomas Bernhard
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Why We Get Fat: And What to do About it - Gary Taubes
My Family and Other Animals - Gerard Durrel
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran Shoutouts to Art of Loving - Erich Fromm
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzche

Currently Reading -
The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini

>21 weeks into the year
>read less than 20 books

In my defense. I'm an engineering student.

Brothers Karamazov
Le Roman de Monsieur de Moliere
Book of disquet
Beckett Dramatic Works
Poemes Saturniennes/ Fêtes Galantes
A bunch of Shakespeare Commedies
American lessons by Calvino
Narciss and Goldmund
Currently reading Don Quixote
I read more but these come to mind

In my defense,I just got into it.

thanks

>reading is a dick measuring contest for how many titles you can say you've finished

> The last Emperor
> The silmarillion
> "La Destra" Italian alt-right magazine Apr-Mag 1974 "The sense of History" with Partecipations of Huxley, Evola, Toynbee, Von Treitschke etc
> The Golden Temple, Y. Mishima

Naked Lunch
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Ulysses
House of leaves
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
V

What do you do for a living?

Stoner (John Williams) 10/10
Pretty much a perfect book, I have no delusions about it being custom-built for a middle class white boy like me, but I loved every word.

The Undertaking (Thomas Lynch) 6/10
Very dull at times and borderline insufferable when Lynch gets on his right-wing soapbox, but really interesting to hear some of his thoughts about a trade he knows so well. It's also cool to read something that was such a clear influence to the creators of Six Feet Under, if you're into that show.

Submission (Houellebecq - read in french) 7.5/10
Quite dull at points, but ultimately a good book. Maybe I'm just terrible at literary analysis, but it took me a while to figure out how it wasn't really a critique of Islam/religion, which it still is in a way, but just on a throwaway level really.

Brave New World (Huxley) 9/10
Loved it, Huxley's use of language is great. The ending bored me slightly when it became more plot-driven.

V. (Pynchon) 9/10
Amazing, blew my mind. I find the sweeping theories people have about his work interesting, but ultimately it's Pynchon's use of language and set-pieces really fun and engaging.

The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon) 8.5/10
"She couldn’t stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence in tears".

My Struggle, Book 1 (Knausgaard) 8/10
The 'climax' of this book in his grandparent's house with his brother and grandmother is fantastic.

The Man in The High Castle (P. K. Dick) 7/10
I enjoyed the beginning and not the end. I'm very willing to assume that I'm just too dumb to understand PKD's philosophical undertones.

Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi) 9/10
Really great visceral account of a failed marriage. Kureishi is so underrated outside of the UK it's unreal.

God is Dead (Ron Currie, Jr) 8/10
It felt a bit devoid of any depth, but the writing was fun, and it made me want to explore his other work.

Graphic Novels (fuck you they deserve to be here):

Watchmen (Moore) 9/10
Weirdly the only part I didn't care for was the central plot. The exploration of the characters and Moore's tangents were amazing.

From Hell (Moore) 10/10
Meticulous and beautiful, a masterpiece. Reading through the second half while doing historical fact-checking on Wikipedia was a really pleasant experience. Chapter 14 is just... Wow.

Asterios Polyp (Mazzuchelli) 9.5/10
Really great character study and the art style is beautiful. It's a shame it goes JUST over the pretentious threshold at times.

It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken 6/10
Very Anticlimactic. Ultimately left no impression on me, but the art style is nice.

Currently Reading:

Le Rivage des Syrtes (Julien Gracq) ((The Opposing Shore))
100 Years of Solitude (Marquez)
A History of Western Philosophy (Russell)

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men- DFW
The Stranger- Albert Camus
The Girl Who Was Plugged In- James Tiptree
No Longer Human- Osamu Dazai
Ubik- PKD
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Meditations- Marcus Aurelius
Babyfucker- Urs Allemam
Winnie the Pooh- A.A. Milne
Family Happiness- Leo Tolstoy
The Dhammapada
The Trial- Franz Kafka
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said- PKD

Currently reading:
Walden
Mindfulness in Plain English
Lolita

Is Animal Liberation worth reading, user? From what I heard about Singer he sounds like a hack.

Er Ist Wieder Da - Timur Vermes
Utopia - Thomas More
New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
From Jutland to Junkyard - S.C. George
K-PAX - Gene Brewer

Not a great year so far

Not a great year so far.

1. The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
2. Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
3. The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald /The City of Dreadful Night by
James Thomson/The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
5. The Pigeon by Patrick Susskind
6. V by Thomas Pynchon
7. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
8. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
9. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
10. This Is the Ritual by Rob Doyle
11. Lanark by Alasdair Gray

Currently reading Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth and enjoying it. Very pervy.
I know the meme on Roth around here is he only writes about Jews from New Jersey and their problems, and while that's true of this book, it doesn't take into account how enjoyable stories from the pov of an aging perv are.

Either Beneath the Wheel or Man's Fate will be next on the list.

The Time Machine - Wells
The Invisible Man - Wells
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Inherent Vice - Pynchon
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut

Next on my list is David Copperfield, am I doing alright for a pleb?

try to read more women and non-white authors honestly

copperfield is the shit tho, I don't care if a dead white man wrote it

Forgot to add The Norton Edition of Edgar Allen Poe's stories.

I really enjoyed Inherent Vice, what would be the next obvious Pynchon to read?

Woolf is the next woman on my backlog

can't go wrong there

I always rec gertrude stein. my favorite author, period

>Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
>Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
>Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
>Right Ho, Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
>The Code of the Woosters - P G Wodehouse
>Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
>Ring for Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
>Money - Martin Amis
>Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
>reread Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Shit, I don't know for sure. What I can remember.

>First half of the Book of the New Sun - Wolfe
>Ethics - Spinoza
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
>Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
>Passage in the Forest - Junger
>Blindsight - Peter Watts
>Neuromancer - Gibson
>Le Pli, Leibniz et le Baroque - Deleuze
>Outer Dark - McCarthy
>Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
>Spiritual in the Arts - Kandinskij
>Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
>The Post-Documentary Era - Perlisa
>Gli Esordi - Antonio Moresco
>Story of the Eye - Bataille

Pretty sure I've read a few others but don't remember them, plus a load of essays and selection from books.

Currently reading:
>Models of Political Philosophy
>The Social Contract - Rosseau
>Democracy in America - De Tocqueville
>Introduction to Rosseau

All this for class, think I'll be reading The Ego and Its Own in my spare time

I see you like humorous fiction. Have you read any Tom Sharpe?

>Foucalt's Pendulum--Umberto Eco
>Assassin's Apprentice--Robin Hobb
>Seven Gothic Tales---Isak Dinesin
>Blindsight--Peter Watts
>The Stars My Destination--Alfred Bester
>Royal Assassin--Robin Hobb
>Under the Volcano--Malcolm Lowry
>Invisible Cities--Italo Calvino
>The Crying of Lot 49---Memas Pinecone

Currently Reading:
>Assassin's Quest--Robin Hobb
>The Lions of Al-Rassan--Guy Gavriel Kay
>The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia--Peter Hopkirk

It's highly autobiographical and the first 90% or so read as if they were written in the context of a writing therapy, thus it's pretty authentic and interesting. After that, it evolves into some kind of Lovecraftesque horror. Not a masterpiece, but all in all an interesting read.

What the actual fuck?

Something doesn't add up here, honestly. I see a lot of 'daily routine' threads, and it seems like everybody who isn't a procrastinatory NEET actually has something to do in life. How do you guys have the time to have read over 15 books within 5 months

I have a fulltime job and a wife, but I read about 1-2 hours per day - I commute by bus and read before I sleep. 2016 I've read 46 books, 12,982 pages, much less than I had last year at this time. I'll probably finish at ~80 to 100 books with 30,000-35,000 pages based on experience of the last few years.

If you read less than 15 books in 5 months then I really don't know what you're doing on the literature board, that's 3 books per month, more than one book per week.

full time architecture student. It's not that hard to find time to read desu, just don't watch tv or spend so much time on Veeky Forums.

some ppl dont read fast

>implying this thread wasn't already meant to be a dick measuring contest

what were your favorites

In no particular order

>Henry James- Spoils Of Poynton
>Edith Wharton- The House Of Mirth
>HL Mencken- The American Scene
>Heidegger- Introduction To Metaphysics
>Jorge Amado- The Two Deaths Of Quincas Wateryell
>Carlos Fuentes- The Old Gringo
>Hegel- Collected Works
>Camus- The Myth Of Sisyphus and Collected Essays
>William Somerset Maugham- Short Stories
>Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar
>Joseph Conrad- Heart Of Darkness
>Theodore Dreiser- Sister Carrie
>John Williams- Stoner
>Woolf- Jacob's Room
>Conrad- Lord Jim
>Don Delillo- Libra
>Marquez- Autumn Of The Patriarch
>Wittgenstein- Blue And Brown Books

>tfw super pleb

Oh and Pound's Cantos, as well as Pavannes and Divagations

Solzhenitsyn is wonderful, love his work

Marquez and Borges may be right up your alley

might be easier to list which ones weren't my favorites:
1. the tin drum
2. infinite just (i got memed)
3. the bell jar
4. wuthering heights
5. master and margarita (it was funny but i got pretty bored towards the end)
6. paradise lost (don't get me wrong--the book was amazing, the descriptions of hell and satan's speeches were incredible, but the constant scenes of Jesus sucking God's dick kind of ruined the book for me)

finish the meme trilogy lad

I'm wary to read GR after getting memed up the butthole with infinite jest. That is two I will never get back.

two weeks

Brazilian? Portuguese?

I had a Rudimentary Peni cassette get jammed in the tape deck of my old beater car, and the fuse setup was such that you couldnt disable the audio without taking out the headlights. Eventually the actual tape started to decay and slur in spots. Nighttime drives in that thing were a Lovecraftesque horror for sure.

Me?

No I'm filthy Turkpleb, I just love South American literature for some reason

Amado may seem like an odd choice but I just picked it up at the behest of a Brazilian friend when I asked him what Brazilian author I should read

East of Eden
Flowers for Algernon
Salems Lot
Catch-22
Ready Player One
Slaughterhouse-five
Blood Meridian
Grapes of Wrath
Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Old man and the sea
Cannery Row
Rage
Brief interviews with hideous men
Crime and Punishment
Death of a Salesman
The metamorphosis

Would've probably had 4 or 5 more by now but a first-time read through of the bible and a reread of infinite jest are slowing my count. But that's okay, right?

>Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Loved it.
>James Joyce - Dubliners
I liked some of the stories and thought that a few of them were specially great, but otherwise I thought it was kinda nothing REALLY special as people hyped me up to be. Still looking forward to reading more Joyce, though.
>Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism (read in French)
I understood his ideas, but I don't know if it's the way I'd want to live my life.
>Edith Hamilton - Mythology
Good start for the greeks :^)
>Homer - The Iliad (Lattimore)
Fantastic, my oldest classic and I loved it. It's breathtakingly beautiful.
>Kafka - The Trial
Almost nauseating to think about these burocratic nightmares Kafka is so fond of. Really good.
>First Philosophers: Pre-Socratics and Sophistas (accompanied by classes on Youtube and Oxford's site)
Amazing to see the ocidental mind forming here in it's earliest stages. However, remembering each name and their arguments is really hard.
>Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro (read in portuguese)
Should've read this sooner. Really good book.
>Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Thought it was really weak. Nothing stood out.
>Karen Armstrong - A Short History of Myth
Kinda simplistic, but it does a good job at summarizing the history of religion.
>Calvino - Complete Cosmicomics (read in Portuguese)
At the beggining, I was really enjoying it. However, 90% of the stories are so similar that it gets very boring after some time. My favorites were the ones from T=0.
>Thomas Sowell - A Conflict of Visions (accompanied by a small debate group with 2 PhDs in Philosophy and 4 other people)
This one (along with the group) really made me turn my attention to political philosophy, something I never thought I'd care about. A game changer for me, personally.

Currently Reading:
A Supposedly Fun Thing, DFW
Complete Works, Plato
Obra Completa, Murilo Rubião (in Portuguese)
Rayuela, Julio Cortazar (in Spanish)
A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural, Peter Berger

You should try Graciliano Ramos. He is our James Joyce with his book "Grande Sertão: Veredas". Dunno how well it translates, though.

Damn. Had a brain fart. It's Guimarães Rosa that wrote Grande Sertão.

>Porno - Irvine Welsh
>Close Range - E Annie Proulx
>Heart Songs - Proulx
>Shipping News (second time reading) - Proulxmeister
>Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
>Misery - Stephen King
>On Writing - Stephen King
>The Princess Bride - William Goldman ft. Morgenstern

>currently reading: The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

Sweet, thank you for the recommendation

I'm sure I can find a good translation

pynchon is actually good though

Not in any specific order

>Free Will by Sam Harris
>Why Johnny Can't Think by Robert Whitaker (almost a joke)
>Anatomy of An Epidemic by Robert Whitaker (I can't believe its the same guy that wrote this wonderfly cited and nuanced book)
>Ride The Tiger by Evola
>A Hand Book of Traditional Living

Currently reading:
>Stoner by John Williams
>Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus

>1. the tempest - shakespeare
>2. the antichrist - nietzsche
>3. absalom absalom - faulkner
>4. the tin drum - grass
>5. essays & aphorisms - schopenhauer
>6. nicomachean ethics - aristotle
>7. infinite jest - dfw (waste of time)
>8. the bell jar - plath (also waste of time)
>9. genealogy of morals - nietzsche
>10. wuthering heights - bronte
>11. illuminations - rimbaud
>12. letters to a young poet - rilke
>13. selected poetry - rilke
>14. the waves - woolf
>15. sound and the fury - faulkner
>16. a confession - tolstoy
>17. ulysses - joyce
>18. beyond good and evil - nietzsche
>19. the orestia - aeschylus
>20. master and margarita - Bulgakov
>21. myth of Sisyphus - camus
>22. the iliad - homer (fagles)
>23. ezra pound - heyman
>24. complete poems - catullus
>25. paradise lost - milton
>26. the cantos - ezra pound (still reading)
>27. Sappho & greek lyric poets - Barnstone
>28. selected poems - E.E. Cummings
>29. Twelfth Night - shakespeare
>30. writing metrical poetry - william bauer
>31. Hamlet - shakespeare
>32. Selected poems - WB Yeats
>33. Anna Karenina - tolstoy (still reading)

TOP KEK YOU LIE!!

> Book of Job
> Gospel of Matthew
> Gospel of Luke
> Gospel of John

Why would I lie. A lot of those are books of poetry and shakespeare plays, which can be read in a day if you aren't a retard.

How you liking that Mishima?

i'm so sorry about your brain tumor :(

i havent. i will look into it though.

Pride and Prejudice
Paradise Lost
Fathers and Sons
Anna Karenina
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Torrents of Spring
The Singers
Bezhin Meadow
Mumu
The Sun Also Rises
Pere Goriot
Of Mice and Men
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Complete Poems of Sappho
Uncle's Dream
The Permanent Husband
Tao Te Ching
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Peasant Marey
Dark Adeptus
Quixote: The Novel and the World
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The Canterville Ghost
Lysis
Holy Bible

Bible took me a little over a month and a week. OT is so fucking long

what did you take out of how to read a book?

Not too much since it's mostly aimed at people reading non-fiction, but it has a lot of good information in there for newer (or less observant) readers.

Sophocles - Theban Trilogy
Aeschylus - Oresteia
Friedrich Schiller - History of the 30 Years War
Some book on the Franco-Prussian War
Herodotus - The Histories
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Double
Leo Tolstoy - The Cossacks
Ivan Turgenev - Torrents of Spring
Ivan Turgenev - First Love
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf (never finished)
Thucydides - History of the Peloponessian War (still reading, took a hiatus for the Russian lit midway through)

Somewhat disappointed in myself. Really ought to get rid of my PC.

>Franz Kafka - Complete Short Stories
>Albert Camus - The Stranger
>Machiavelli - The Prince
>Voltaire - Candide
>Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49

Currently Reading:
>Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
>Albert Camus - The Plague
>Thomas Pynchon - V

>albeit
Sounds like you've picked it up along the way, or maybe you were always just a pretentious pseudo-intellectual.

Nice inferiority complex