Book Lists

Does anyone compulsively make lists, reorder them, rewrite them, and inevitably ignore them?

also, rate my list, and show your own?

i always make a list before going to the bookstore and then end up losing it at some point so i have to make a new list every time.

Why didn't you make a .txt list? Waste of paper.

This is an orderly list of sorts

i still have an old battered list in my wallet, just in case i'm stuck on an island and need to know what to request of my rescuers.

because fuck you, that's why.

How rude.

You are the first.

that's a relief, at least i'm unique in some way

What is that? Monster?

does look like the monster ingredients, doesn't it?

Rockstar but yeah

no criticisms? no one has any cool lists of books? you guys all suck. see if i invite you to my dinner party. you guys are going to be jealous. Pynchon'll be there. I sent him an e-mail.

I do have lists. No pics because my camera is shitty, but I have a list for each of the following:
> J.J. Rousseau
> Diderot & Voltaire
> Platon's dialogues
> Sartre (mainly the plays)
> Middle age (most complete list so far, lots of works to read from that era)
> Rimbaud & Verlaine
> Baudelaire
> Racine's Andromaque (have to read Odyssey/Iliad/Eneid and two Virgile plays in order to really understand that play from Racine)
> University reading list

Yeah, to keep from spending $200, I'll just make a list of what I want.

mump

I just have a list of books I own separated by fiction and nonfiction. Here it is for those interested.

Aeneid (Hackett Classics)
The Odyssey of Homer
The Iliad of Homer
The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus (Focus Classical Library)
Macbeth (Norton Critical Editions)
Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)
Invitation to a Beheading
Darconville's Cat
The Gormenghast Novels
The Pilgrim's Progress (Norton Critical Editions)
The Canterbury Tales (Norton Critical Editions)
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (3 volumes)
Ficciones (Spanish Edition)
Don Quijote de la Mancha (Spanish Edition)
Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)
Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus - The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics)
The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
T. S. Eliot - Complete Poems and Plays
William Wordsworth - The Major Works: including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)
Blake - Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
Lord Byron - The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
John Keats - The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics)
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics)
Poe - Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics)
Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
Moby-Dick (Norton Critical Editions)
Great Expectations (Norton Critical Editions)
Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)
The Once and Future King
Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Editions)
Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Wolfe - Peace
Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories
Catch-22
Infinite Jest
Beowulf
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Great Gatsby
Blood Meridian
The Annotated Lolita
The Lord of the Rings (in one volume)
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
The Scarlet Letter (Norton Critical Editions)
Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)

The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Republic (Hackett Classics)
Metaphysics (Hackett Classics)
Berkeley Problems in Mathematics (Problem Books in Mathematics)
Munkres: Topology
All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
Algebraic Geometry: A Problem Solving Approach
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
Compendium: Catechism of the Catholic Church
Open Mind, Open Heart 20th Anniversary Edition
A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake
The Essential Belloc: A Prophet for Our Times
A Little Greek Reader

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Can't you just memorize this ?

I mean I use goodreads to keep track of what I've read, if that's what you mean

I roll with a several thousand cell spreadsheet broken up by where I found the book.
(I'm not kidding)

Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
Humanism: A Very Short Introduction
Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
Influence: Science and Practice, 5th Edition
The Sommelier Prep Course: An Introduction to the Wines, Beers, and Spirits of the World
The Discovery of Evolution, 2nd Edition
Objectivity
Europe: A History
American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution
On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory
How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture
Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton (2 volumes)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences
Special Functions & Their Applications
A Rhetoric of Irony
A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking
The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament (Vol. 1) (Norton Critical Editions)
The English Bible, King James Version: The New Testament and The Apocrypha (Vol. 2) (Norton Critical Editions)
Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
The Seven Storey Mountain
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
Introduction to Christianity, 2nd Edition
Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith
Feser - Aquinas
Greek: An Intesive Course
Hamilton - Mythology
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Shorter)
A Poetry Handbook
Magee - The Story of Philosophy
Wheelock's Latin
Workbook for Wheelock's Latin
Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes
Wheelock's Latin Reader
Godel, Escher, Bach
The Road to Reality
A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound

And I have a bunch of math books that I haven't added yet. I might have missed a few other books as well but this is the majority of all the books I own.

2/2

goddamn you people are worthless

Why so mean, user?

I made this list:

MYTHOLOGY
Edith Hamilton

ILIAD
ODYSSEY
Homer

THEOGENY
WORKS AND DAYS
Hesiod

THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS
Robin Waterfield

PLATO: COMPLETE WORKS
John M. Cooper

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE
Jonathan Barnes

HAMLET
OTHELLO
KING LEAR
MACBETH
William Shakespeare

EITHER/OR
FEAR AND TREMBLING
THE CONCEPT OF ANXIETY
THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH
Soren Kierkegaard

THE GAY SCIENCE
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't know if I'll ever use it.

Oooh that's good looking handwriting. Like the pen too, bet it helps.

lmao

Uh yeah one. Here's my to-read/buy list:

PRIMARILY:
Chaucer shorter poems?
Spenser shorter poems?
MILTON shorter poems
Pope
Victorian anthology?
20th cent:
War Poets
Auden?
Larkin
Hughes?

Yanks:
Whitman
Dickinson
Stevens
Crane
Bishop
Plath?


FOREIGNERS:

MORE RUMI
Hafez
Cavalcanti
Ronsard
Camoes
Goethe
Holderlin
Leopardi
Pushkin
Baudelaire
Rimbuad
Cavafy
Rilke
Lorca
Pessoa
Transtromer

Why are you laughing?

laughing at the pretentiousness of the poster, it's cute

I don't see it.

you should

I compulsively kept a list of every book I've read since like middle school that I've since moved into goodreads (528) and I also have an Amazon wish list where I throw every book I'd like to get a copy, either digital of physical (432). But that leaves out all the books I own but haven't read yet. I do occasionally make to-read lists to order that but I've never followed them, something else always grabs my attention.
Though I do have a few reading tracks I created that I'm following. Like once I finish the Bible I want to read Divine Comedy then Paradise Lost. I also have the track of Don Quixote to Moby Dick to Magic Mountain to Ulysses to Gravity's Rainbow to Infinite Jest. Currently on Moby Dick (amazing). The idea behind that track is that each one seemed to be the central tome of succeeding eras of literature. Obviously if we get into details that could be argued to no end of course, the truth is I just want to have read all of those and it seemed like a fun way to do it.