ITT: we post the HONEST list of our top 10 favorite books. (so don't include obscure russian writers just because you think it makes you look smart, it doesn't).
Here's my top 10 in no particular order:
1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K.Rowling 2. Stoner - John Williams 3. The Black Company - Glenn Cook 4. Assassin's Apprentice (the whole trilogy) - Robin Hobb 5. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 6. Game of Thrones - G.R.R.M 7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K.Rowling 8. The End of Faith - Sam Harris 9. Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson 10. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Why is this bait? This is my honest top 10 books, i.e the top 10 books I enjoyed reading the most.
Ryan Young
I don't fucking know
Also the problem with these lists is that it assumes the standpoint of the novel; most of my favourite writers are lyric poets who don't have a "book" to read per-se.
Brayden Allen
1. The Arabian Nights 2. Don Quixote 3. Light In August 4. Invisible Man 5. A Confederacy of Dunes 6. Dubliners 7. The Iliad 8. Neuromancer 9.I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (lonelyache best in collection) 10. A Maze of Death
Gavin Brooks
In no order
Middlemarch - Eliot The Age of Innocence - Wharton Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon Mason & Dixon - Pynchon The Dead and the Living - Olds Transformations - Sexton Ulysses - Joyce My Ántonia - Cather To the Lighthouse - Woolf Le Morte d'Arthur - Malory
Luke Bailey
legacies, phantom legacies look like a panda go hard at it like im montana hundred killer on their hammers
Jaxson Ortiz
Volverás a Región - Juan Benet Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry Anabasis - Xenophon Odyssey - Homer Le Spleen de Paris - Charles Baudelaire Cathedral - Raymond Carver Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges Dubliners - James Joyce Yes - Thomas Bernhard
Easton Jackson
Harry potter 1 Harry Potter 2 Harry potter 3 Hairy potter 4 Harry Potter 5 Harry potta 6 Harry Potter 7 Inferno Angels and demons The Da vinci malinci codedinci
Hudson Smith
High five.
1. As I Lay Dying 2. Kings I (KJV) 3. The Odyssey 4. The Castle 5. The Galactic Pot Healer 6. Daniel (KJV) 7. The 9 gorillion names of God 8. The Bright Messenger 9. The Egyptian Book of the Dead 10. Lucifers Hammer
Henry Sanchez
Harry potter 1 Harry Potter 2 Harry potter 3 Hairy potter 4 Harry Potter 5 Harry Potter 6 Harry Potter 7 Harry Potter 8 Harry Potter 9 Harry Potter 10
Robert Murphy
1. Infinite Jest 2. Stoner 3. Lolita 4. Blood Meridian 5. Heart of Darkness
ive only read 5 books
Dylan Kelly
>Honey, can you come in here? >Why does my copy of IJ smell like ass? >If you want to sit on my books, wipe a little better. I mean, cmon you got a little poo smear on it for christs sake.
Jordan Allen
My new favorite book is whichever one she is sitting directly on top of, however I can't make out a title.
Robert Lopez
underrated post
Cooper Bennett
I feel like I'm about to throw up thanks to that user, jesus christ
Sebastian Foster
>Yes - Thomas Bernhard
really? I read that and it was the weakest Bernhard I ever read. Have you tried the rest of his stuff?
Jacob Clark
Some. I read Woodcutters, The Voice Impersonator and some of his short stories. I've been wanting to read his autobiographical works, but I don't have the first one. What's your favourite Bernhard?
Julian Jackson
>Sam Harris
Kys
Wyatt Stewart
You fucking ruined the beaty of that pic to me
Hope you're happy with yourself, you disgusting cunt.
Lucas Bennett
on god if I caught a thot sitting her nasty ass on top of my books like that she would lose her damn life
Noah Rogers
Concrete, Loser, Frost. Yes was actually pretty disappointing, but it was short so I didn't care.
Caleb Phillips
real talk some people are just sick in the head
Aiden Morales
Working on reading more, but as of now:
East of Eden Grapes of Wrath Odyssey Phaedo (making my way through complete works) Infinite Jest Bible Crime and Punishment Catch-22 On Writing Watership Down
Eli Thompson
You people are weird. I see a post like that, and it's disgusting sure, but I forget about it soon after. Retards don't deserve to be remembered, and the person who posted that is a retard. If someone talking about poop is enough to ruin all naked women for you then you need to see a therapist.
Aiden Morris
as it is in no order:
Moby Dick Book of the New Sun Urth of the New Sun Call of the Wild I Am Legend Alamut The Man in the High Castle From Hell Don Quixote Shadow of the Sun
Gabriel Price
Confessions of a Mask Oblomov Thus Spoke Zarathoustra Divine Comedy Les Faux-monnayeurs Un jardin sur l'Oronte Ficciones Cien Anos de Soledad De l'inconvénient d'être né Pride and Prejudice
Eli Parker
THIS IS A CELIBATE BOARD
Jacob Diaz
There's a thread for people like you. Stay in it
Aaron Wilson
Literally a 6.5/10
Nathan Baker
Jesus Christ would you stop using this hideous pic, OP?
Josiah Diaz
Kek
Matthew Russell
No particular order.
Slaughterhouse Five The Corrections Nausea Them - Adventures With Extremist Less Than Zero Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Anna Karenina Blood Meridian
I can't think of two more books I enjoyed enough to put on this list.
Isaac Flores
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector The Trial by Franz Kafka The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals by Elizabeth Smart The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Chaos by James Gleick
Wyatt Morris
Whom is this ebony goddess
Cooper King
>ebony Are you retarded?
Evan Gonzalez
She has dark skin
Carter Nguyen
>implying it doesn't make it better
I come to Veeky Forums for the sole purpose of masturbating to this pic, I like to imagine smelling her ass sweat on the top book
Isaiah Phillips
Why hasn't some user recreated the pic by plonking his hairy arse on a stack of essential Veeky Forumscore?
Carter Stewart
God dammit I really dont like this picture for some reason
Jose Gomez
Ubik by PKD
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Espedair Street by Iain Banks
The Trial by Kafka
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Márquez
Neither Here, Nor There by Bill Bryson
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
I dunno these are all the books I read in my life
Owen Foster
this is a blue board, mate, no prawn allowed
Xavier Mitchell
Hang around Veeky Forums a Veeky Forumstle longer, a.non. We'll tell you what your other favorite books are
Henry Flores
I don't have a "top ten." It's not even worth it to say "plebeian" here.
Works of literature don't fall into a linear scale line-up.
Zachary Robinson
>Phenomenology of Spirit >The Book of Lies >Dianetics: The Original Thesis >The Protocols of the Elders of Zion >The Koran >Capitalism and Schizophrenia >Submission >The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy >Hamlet >Kiss Me, Deadly
William Wright
maybe because you are homosexual?
Samuel Peterson
I have never been able to make top ten lists of any medium I like. I don't even really understand the concept of a "favorite movie" or a "favorite book". When someone asks me I just answer with the first good movie or book that comes to mind.
Isaiah Evans
Without a particular order:
Ray Monk - Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius Kafka - The Trial Kafka - The Castle Shelly - Frankenstein St. Augustine - Confessions Dazai - Schoolgirl Sophocles - The Theban Plays Euripides - Medea & Other Plays Wittgenstein - Blue & Brown Books Nabokov - Pale Fire
John Robinson
>(so don't include obscure russian writers just because you think it makes you look smart, it doesn't).
>mfw years of reading obscure lit were all for nothing
Lincoln Nelson
i havent read any of these, but,
complete shakespeare faerie queene gargantua & pantagruel Don Quixote the divine comedy the cantos Ulysses Finnegans Wake The Recognitions J R
Jack Hall
rekted hard
Luis Clark
In no particular order
Dune Book of the New Sun 2001 The Hobbit The Lays of Beleriand The Gunslinger A Storm of Swords The Jungle Neuromancer The Stand
Hate all you want, I'd rather have good taste than Veeky Forums taste.
Alexander Wright
>I'd rather have good taste than Veeky Forums taste. You have neither
Dylan Johnson
Good one dude!
Brandon Taylor
That fucking bitch is getting her shit stains all over the cover of that book.
Dominic Allen
It's Blood Meridian, so it's already a shit book.
Adam Moore
>HONEST pleb
Henry Edwards
Reading storm of swords right now. The Arya chapters are killing me. Rest of the book is good, but Arya'a story with Lord Beric's men is just too damn long and boring.
Logan Cooper
Stoner Pride and Prejudice The Karamazov Brothers Anna Karenina Of Mice and Men The Odyssey The Iliad The Crying of Lot 49 The Old Man and the Sea The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Jeremiah Gray
No particular order: 1. Silmarillion - J.R.R.T. 2. Lord of the Rings (whole trilogy) - J.R.R.T. 3. Hobbit - J.R.R.T. 4. Song of Ice and Fire (whole series) - G.R.R.M. 5. The Foundation (whole series) - Isaac Asimov 6. The Demon Cycle - Peter V. Brett 7. 1984 - George Orwell 8. Animal Farm - George Orwell 9. HP (whole series) - J.K.Rowling 10. Poirot (not going to bother writing down all of the names) - Agatha Christie
Jackson Bell
Nice body. Now show soles.
Adam Collins
Good taste: The post.
I also haven't read any of them.
Grayson Jackson
The Long Walk - Stephen King Favourite book of all time
Jaxon Jones
That was the book that first made me want to write! No book before then had ever made me feel what the characters were feeling. Good choice. Holy shit it's nice having threads like this where for a brief moment I can visit Veeky Forums without having some pretentious 18 year old english major try to shove pynchon or dfw's dick in my mouth.
John Jenkins
Siddhartha Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff Lolita Ficciones The Invention of Morel Catch 22 Wind Up Bird Chronicles White Noise A Confederacy of Dunces Sorcerer's Stone
Daniel Roberts
I wish my face was a stack of books
Oliver Perry
Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Unicorn - Miller The Trial - Kafka American Psycho - Ellis The Fall - Camus Jitterbug Perfume - Robbins The Birthday Party - Pinter Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald Stories of a Dirty Old Man - Bukowski Less than Zero - Ellis The Picture if Dorian Gray - Wilde
Evan Gray
This board has gone so downhill
Jackson Barnes
Petersburg Tales - Nikolai Gogol The Idiot - Dostoevsky The Cossacks - Tolstoy Growth of the Soil - Hamsun Pan - Hamsun Lykke-Per - Henrik Pontoppidan The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas Hamlet - Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida - Shakespeare Hærværk - Tom Kristensen
This is legitimately honest.
Easton Nguyen
Yu Hua - To Live August Strindberg - Inferno Sigrid Undset - The Wreath Maksim Gorkij - My Childhood and In the World (never finished My Universities, which is part three) Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita Franz Kafka - In the Penal Colony and The Metamorphosis Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Herman Hesse - Siddharta Cynthia Summers (editor) - Vampire the Masquerade Revised Edition.
Jose Nelson
All ten books of Malazan, and anything from that universe too.
Easton Davis
>She has dark skin no
Easton Baker
All of Veeky Forums has lost quality desu
Alexander Nelson
In Search of Lost Time The Man Without Qualities The Transylvania Trilogy Titus Groan Mason & Dixon Being and Time Journey to the End of the Night The Sea of Fertility The Castle Petersburg
Jeremiah Hall
Who is this chocolate sunday
Christian Jones
Have you read it? Then shut the fuck up. Early King is great. Pull your head out of your ass.
Mason Gonzalez
also not in particular order
1. Fornar Ástir - Sigurður Nordal 2. Complete Fiction - H.P. Lovecraft 3. Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher - Walter Moers 4. Woyzeck - Georg Büchner 5. Der Schimmelreiter - Theodor Storm 6. Das Nibelungenlied 7. Grettis Saga 8. Blóðhófnir - Gerður Kristný 9. The Coming Race - Edward Bulwer-Lytton 10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Jace Green
Going to pasta this whenever this stupid picture gets posted here. Thanks.
James Hernandez
Shouldn't you be on sparknotes reading about how whatever flavor of the month "literature" is supposed to have made you feel so you can share your manufactured reactions with the 4/10 behind the counter at your local barnes n noble? The sad thing is this is probably not far from the truth.
Jayden Carter
>Why does this book smell like poop?
Lincoln Lee
The Long Walk ending was fucking awful. Get some damn taste for pete's sake
Isaiah Price
...
Levi Williams
Why do you hate my penis?
Camden Thomas
>low T detected
Implying that chick's ass doesn't smell like heaven
Nicholas Sullivan
Freak. I don't care who it is. After no showering for a long time it's gross.
Jonathan Davis
go back to /r9k/, faggot
Andrew Myers
Sh-shut up..
Sebastian Jackson
In no order:
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway The Sailor Who Fell..., Mishima Snow Country, Kawabata 2666, Bolano The Hobbit, Tolkien The Moon is Down, Steinbeck Oliver Twist, Dickens A Moveable Feast, Hemingway My Struggle, Knausgaard Witch Grass, Queneau
Twilight Mein Kampf Green Eggs and Ham Eat, Pray, Love The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion The Fault in Our Stars The Hunger Games Brave New World Harry Potter The Art of War
Owen Walker
Nah i think i'll stay.
Xavier Jackson
what the hell sam
Carson Roberts
TOPKEK
Benjamin Price
>Volverás a Región - Juan Benet are you the user that rec'd this? if so thanks. it is awesome
Daniel Johnson
well meme'd my friend
Jason Cox
And a patrician appears.
Liam Brooks
Master and Margerita Ulysses Ficciones Moby Dick Sound and the Fury The American Under the Volcano Black Snow Rayuela The Waves
Charles Scott
High school English/10
Charles Miller
The Dice Man Catch 22 House of Leaves S. Drawing the Head and Hands Cirque Du Freak The Koran Fear and Loathing in Las vegas The wheel of time Choke