Your top 10 books

If you think that this
Is better than this
You're everything that is wrong in Veeky Forums

(You)

Are you talking shit about my taste, friend?

Antony and Cleopatra
Franny and Zooey
Eugene Onegin
Lolita
1982, Janine
Oblomov
Manhattan Transfer
Inherent Vice
Goodbye to Berlin
All That Is

>not liking tan lines
>not liking nail polish
yr loss bud

>boobs
>vagina
>no cock

Yuck.

I can't tell bad bait from summer-Veeky Forums anymore. I don't even know which is worse.

Toenail polish is fucking disgusting though.

>vagina
>no cock
How do you know?

The Room
Ulysses
Siddartha
White Noise
Against the Day
Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Desert Fathers
Goethe's Faust
A Moveable Feast
Heart of Darkness

>Anything by Yann Martel

Volumes 1-10 of Wheel of Time

OP is an obvious bait but I don't know about the others. Terrifying really.

Frankenstein
Heart of Darkness
The Sun Also Rises
The Catcher in the Rye
The Witcher
Silmarillion
Poe's works
Futu.re
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Road

1. The Prince

2.The Ego and Its Own

3. Thucydes' writings

4. Anarchist's Cookbook

5. On War

6. Rhetoric

7. The Art of War (Tzu and Machiavelli)

8. Berserk

9. Mein Kampf

10. The Communist Manifesto

>Coetzee

Is she retarded?

>joy ruck club
>kite runner
>scholar

bruh

high school advanced lit class reading list / 10.

I do like The Catcher in the Rye though

have u red the thred

>liking Catcher more than poe and the road
Who has the high school taste here, user?

the road is mccarthy's weakest book by far, and poe is a judgment call, the man had his peaks and troughs, while salinger is consistently amazing. you sound like an american buttblasted they made him read good literature before he could appreciate it.

The Man Who Was Thursday
The Transylvania Trilogy
Being and Time
Mason & Dixon
Life and Fate
In Search of Lost Time
Petersburg
Journey to the End of the Night
Titus Groan
The Castle

Thoughts?

0/10 for liking heidegger

I like your selection.

what's wrong with heidegger?

Ulysses - Joyce
Light in August - Faulkner
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
2666 - Bolano
Herzog - Bellow
White Noise - DeLillo
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Ubik - PKD
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Saramago
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon

david foster wallace is the only i have to back me up when i say that red dragon is a great book

now i remember why i stopped going on Veeky Forums. it really gets worse every day.

>summer Veeky Forums

Approve bro. Good choices

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Siddharta by Herman Hesse
L'Etranger by Albert Camus
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

i dont even like books. i literally just have a huge book shelf and read like once a month to maintain the appearance that i'm not a giant fat fucking idiot

>John Stewart Mill - On Liberty
>Karl Marx - Capital
>David Wong - John Dies at the End
>Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
>F.A. Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
>F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
>Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
>J.J. Rousseau - Second Discourse on Inequality
>Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death
>Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene

thread should be renamed: the only 10 books you've read

Guys this thread is suppose to trigger me right? It's all in jest, yea? I am unsure! please this can't be real

Does Veeky Forums not like Coetzee? He's barely mentioned. I really like Dusklands, and I know people smarter than posters here who like Disgrace alot, I have yet to read it myself though.

edgy teen who thinks he's going to be a powerful politician detected

I can't speak for the rest of Veeky Forums, but I quite liked Waiting for the Barbarians.

it just gets worse and worse...

even the 'good' ones make me sad..so memey

read some women ding dongs
not even getting into your other problems

same to you who only give queen virginia a chance

i read plenty of women, they just didn't make it into my top 10.

Nick Hornby likes it too :)

I can't order them, too much pressure.

Favourite is Steppenwolf.

Do people actually bust out Crime and Punishment from their shelves when they are bored or is it a meme?

Gaddis, The Recognitions
Gaddis, JR
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Melville, Moby Dick
Beckett, Collected Short Prose
Beckett, Three Novels
Onetti, La vida breve
Hernández, Nadie encendía las lámparas
Mutis, Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Didion, Collected Nonfiction

War and Peace
Siddhartha
Principia Discordia
Good Omens
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Idiot
The Myth of sysphus
Huck Finn
Kokoro
The Path to the Nest of Spiders

only thing on your list I've read was Ubik, and boy was that a wild ride.

Melville sets you straight about whales in much the same way a redneck sets you straight about the federal reserve; insistently, arrogantly, and incorrectly. I'm glad I have read Moby Dick but I think I would have hated Melville.

There's no use in stating your favorite books without any sort of commentary. This thread is a practice of delusional anons who think anyone has the time to read and commend their shitty lists that have already been typed before.

>l'etranger

1. Libra (DeLillo)
2. Underworld (DeLillo)
3. Zero K (DeLillo)
4. Great Expectations (Dickens)
5. Mason and Dixon (Pynchon)
6. Blood Meridian (McCarthy)
7. Moby Dick (Melville)
8. To The Lighthouse (Woolf)
9. The Castle (Kafka)
10. Poems of Emily Dickinson

not in order.

To the Lighthouse, Woolf
Romance of the Three Kingdom, Guanzhong
Lolita, Nabokov
Master of Go, Kawabata
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Storm of Steel, Junger
The Leopard, Lampedusa
Dubliners, and The Dead, Joyce
In Search of Lost Time, Proust (only read first four books so far though)
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy

still a pleb don't worry.

>DeLillo
>McCarthy
>Pynchon
Sup Bloom

I come to Veeky Forums solely to masturbate to this image. I haven't picked up a book in months.

Does this make me a bad person?

Moby Dick -Melville
Siddartha - Hesse
The Castle - Kafka
The Fall - Camus
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy -Adams
Farenheit 451- Bradbury
Communist Manifesto - Marx (LOL JUST KIDDING)
Steppenwolf- Hesse
Apology- Plato
Nicomachean Ethics- Aristotle
Beyond Good and Evil- Nietzche

>read some women

not even once

In no order

> The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
> The Flame Alphabet - Ben Marcus
> 1984 - George Orwell
> Ulysses - James Joyce
> Winter Journal - Paul Auster
> Mistborn 1 - Brandon Sanderson
> Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
> A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
> Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

i'm sorry the only time you've ever laughed was HGttG

Does Kafka on the Shore imply any reference to Franz Kafka?

Recommend some comedies?

thematically yes. not overt.

laughed out loud a few times during BJ Novak's short story collection--"And Another Thing" i think?

Sedaris too, just all of it

now this shit i can get into. take me to the farthest reaches of despair.

Disgrace is beautiful and terrifying. want to read Elizabeth Costello real bad.

This guy "tastes" () are banal, everybody can read a few classics and call them favourites (and maybe rightfully so), the problem is that people on Veeky Forums are so concerned filling up their charts, their reccomended lists that the only thing that's getting read is typically just dosto, joyce, and few other greats. Nobody reads other things. Taste here is a staple

You memers cant look an inch from your nose

Similar writing style?

no i wouldn't say so. twisted and all about humans' innate urges.

trying to decide if ur a jew or not teebeeaitch

If you like hgttg you might like Terry Pratchett. He might be "lol so randum" at times but his philosophy is sound.

1-2 - Gormenghast, Titus Groan - The imagination and prose of these books are unparalleled, 'nuff said.

3 - Suttree - Again, the prose is juicy beyond belief, and the utter pathos of the story and its characters makes it more accessible and human than similar monumental books like, say, Ulysses.

4 - The Consumer (by Michael Gira) - Not a very traditional collection, nor even particularly well written, but it manages to get inside you and make you feel unclean.

5 - Grendel - The oscar bait equivalent of books, it's still a seminal achievement, a depiction of historic angst and senseless human industry and tragedy (with, ironically, the monster being the most senselessly tragic character of them all)

I'm not well-read enough to list 5 more.

I'll bite and do a non-bait list

1. William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
2. Don Delillo - White Noise
3. Henry James - Washington Square
4. Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
5. Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
6. Joan Didion - The White Album
7. Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons
8. Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem
9. Chuck Klosterman - Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
10. Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice *

**I enjoy his other books but Vice sticks with me the most

>3 - Suttree - Again, the prose is juicy beyond belief, and the utter pathos of the story and its characters makes it more accessible and human than similar monumental books like, say, Ulysses.
>more accessible and human than similar monumental books like, say, Ulysses.
>more human than Ulysses.
>Ulysses

Ulysses is one of the most human books and the inaccessibility is a meme. Will you get every allusion, no, but 80% doesn't require any outside reading. Not that you have to jump into it but leave JJ alone.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating Ulysses. I think it's a great book. Just, personally, I prefer Suttree.

Ulysses is one of the most human books and the inaccessibility is a meme. Will you get every allusion, no, but 80% doesn't require any outside reading.
so is reading The Odyssey before Ulysses not """required""" reading? I'm going to read Dubliners and Portrait first, but I'm hesitant to read Ulysses because I've been convinced that I need to study an Ancient Greek tome beforehand.

lol forgot to greentext that quote, my bad

China Mieville - The Scar
Mieville builds great worlds with intricate themes with more enjoyable stories to boot than most "literary" writers

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
I've never been a fan of the dix but i absolutely love this book

Philip K. Dick - Time out of Joint
I love stories of cold-war paranoia and thematically/intellectually a lot of what's written in this book on the nature of surveillance still holds true today

James Joyce - Dubliners
Read this for a class on Irish literature and it stuck with me forever. People forget Joyce was really good at the short stories too

Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
I always considered this guy 'your favorite author's favorite author'. Like that guy whose works have great literary merit and are read more by academics but still have casual appeal

other books I would put in my top ten
Don Delillo - Underworld
Gary Snyder - Mountains and Rivers Without End
Tommy Pinecone - Crying of Lot 49
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun

If you haven't encountered some form of The Odyssey before Ulysses, you're doing globalized modern society wrong.

of course I have, but that isn't what I'm asking.

Should I read that book before reading the other book.

If you know generally what Odysseus goes through, then no.

If you don't, then yes.

Reading The Odyssey cover to cover is not required.

Lots of numbers in those titles. Just something to ponder

>read like once a month to maintain the appearance that i'm not a giant fat fucking idiot
I read every day and I'm still a fat fucking idiot.

>8212045
The keks are from the top

1. The Road (McCarthy)
2. A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
3. A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
4. HHhH (Lauren Binet)
5. American Tabloid (James Elroy)
6. The Dead Zone (Stephen King)
7. Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
8. Hell's Angels (Hunter S Thompson)
9. Metamorphosis (Kafka)
10. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

You don't know what you're talking about. My taste, particularly for the Russians, developed wholly outside of Veeky Forums. In all honesty, those aren't my top 10 books because I don't have a top 10 because I'm not retarded. I just wanted to post in this thread and those were the first ones that came to mind. Those books are favorites of mine, but truthfully BK is the only one I regularly attribute as a favorite or "list-topper".

Cathedral - Carver
Volverás a Región - Juan Benet
Ficciones - Borges
Dubliners - Joyce
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Odyssey - Homer
Yes - Thomas Berhnard
Complete Short Stories - Flannery O'Connor

And
Le Spleen de Paris - Baudelaire

Utter plebeian coming through

The Stranger
Journey to the End of the Night
The Gunslinger
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Path of Cinnabar
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Democracy in America
The Alchemist I unironically liked the story
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tao Te Ching

Are English Faust translations worth reading? And so, which?

One them is by DFW.

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Get good, plebs. Summer really is here.

1. Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (or Short Sun/Peace/Fifth Head)
2. Tristram Shandy by Sterne
3. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
4. Lord of Light by Zelazny
5. Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima
6. Pale Fire by Nabokov (or Lolita)
7. Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
8. The Devil is Dead by Lafferty
9. Tom Jones by Fielding
10. [Cheating like a mother: Norton Anthology of English Literature, especially pre-realism - so much great stuff.]