I've unconsciously neglected reading during the past two years, so I've decided to read 10 books in 2017.
I haven't read many of the great novels I see in the usual Top 100 lists.
I like clear, minimalist, to-the-point prose like Hemingway's Old Man and the sea. I've also a penchant for overtly violent and horrific stories, like Books of Blood, American Psycho and Stephen King's older novels.
So far I'm interested in:
For Whom The Bell Tolls Child of God Blood Meridian
Can anyone recommend any books I might like? Non-fiction is good too.
Also post your 2017 reading lists.
Christian Kelly
>10 books. >The only three you listed are short. >Pleb-tier.
Read the Iliad, The Odyssey, then end with a selection of works from the Russians.
Caleb Lewis
I'll read all of Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Homer, possibly some Hesiod, Ovid and Joyce.
No wait that's for the end of this year my bad.
Matthew Johnson
>clear, minimalist, to-the-point prose like Old Man and the Sea
Then you don't want to read For Whom the Bell Tolls. Read The Sun also Rises and A Farewell to Arms first, as well as Men without Women or any other short story collection by him. Then check out FWtBT if you're still interested.
That said, Iliad + Odyssey is good, add to that shorter works by Dostoevsky (Penguin double edition of Notes from Underground and The Double would be good).
Then I would recommend Dubliners and Crying of Lot 49 (for something a little different). If you like horror add some Lovecraft (any, really, Shadow over Innsmouth is a good starting point) and Thomas Ligotti. Check out George Saunders' short story collections (Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation) for something more modern.
Me for 2017:
Some Plato (prob. up to Parmenides) Some Aristotle (prob. up to Physics) Dosto's great four Ulysses Shake's Sonnets and some plays (Lear and Othello at least) Some Kant (Critiques) Some Nietzsche (Tragedy, Gay Science) Some Heidegger (Being and Time)
Henry Nguyen
The World as Will and Representation Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov The Idiot Anna Karenina War and Peace Satantango The Blind Owl The White Guard One Hundred Years of Solitude Das Kapital A different translation of the Master and Margarita
But if we're really being honest I will probably just read Satantango, re-read The Master and Margarita and maybe get to One Hundred Years of Solitude because I'm a pathetic fucking idiot.
Jason Clark
my goals for 2017: more plato/aristotle finish the bible finally finish Finnegans Wake I want to reach fluency in French, so I want to read lot more French. more poetry in general.
Joseph Jenkins
I've set a goal of 26 physical books or 52 works (the reason for this is that I have a lot of collections and complete editions so 1 book actually contains more).
Some of these are going to be read before 2017 but my current plan is: >Iliad >Odyssey >Histories >Lotr trilogy >re-read Stoner >Lolita >a bunch of short novels from Oxford library of short novels
Obviously I'll read more than this but these are the ones I have planned.
Tyler Clark
thats some top tier nerd shit
Christian Rogers
You could read 10 books by New Year's.
Noah Long
I've been putting off reading as well I have a ton of books on my shelf I need to read Although I did read the Avatar the Last Airbender comics (good shit btw)
