Let's list all the books we've read this year and give each other recommendations where to go next.
Personally, I've read:
Dubliners The Sound and The Fury Absalom, Absalom! Pnin Knut Hamsun – Victoria The Magic Mountain Bolano – The Insufferable Gaucho Ficciones The Bell Jar The Flowers Of Evil A Season In Hell Rilke – Letters To A Young Poet Anne Frank’s Diary Story Of The Eye Raymond Carver – What We Talk About... Hesse – Demian Hesse – Unterm Rad Mishima – Confessions Of A Mask Roger Willemsen – Das Hohe Haus Kafka- The Trial Kafka – Short Stories Swann’s Way Murakami – Hard-boiled Wonderland Georg Büchner – Leonce und Lena Wolfgang Herrndorf – Tschick Kirsty Gunn – Rain The Picture of Dorian Gray Reread: Büchner - Danton’s Tod, Frisch – Homo Faber, Stamm - Agnes
I feel pretty accomplished
Jaxon Campbell
>not having hundreds of books in your backlog already without recommendations
lurk more
Elijah Kelly
>a cuck thread reaches 300 replies but let's not talk about what we actually read
David Diaz
I've read like 15-20 books this year but hell if I could remember what they were
Alan Watt's autobiography is really good
Josiah Brooks
>set goal of 30 books this year on Goodreads >read 15 >forgot about it til now >spending my last 3 days before New Years reading the shortest plays I can possibly find like Death of a Salesman and children's books like the Petite Prince
Nathaniel Morgan
Good job man, I wish I did better this year, but it could have been worse I guess. Don't know what to recommend you.
Evan Powell
>Being able to remember everything you read this year.
I'm not giving you the congratulations you want.
Kevin Roberts
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Sebastian Peterson
>not keeping a list do you even autism?
Luis Gomez
Which program did you use to make that chart?
Connor Morgan
excel
William Davis
Guess it was a stupid question. I might start doing that next year, but only if I start reading more often, which I hope I'll do. I think my primary problem is that most of the books that I want to read I can't find in my local library (it mostly has pleb YA shit), so I have to resort to ebooks, and I like a real book much more. I love to turn pages and feel that paper.
Robert Brown
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Adam Thomas
Just use goodreads. >separate category for gender
Nicholas Martinez
Did you try looking in the fiction section and not the YA section? You'll see a lot less YA there.
Kevin Campbell
Ferdyduke The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Lord Jim by Conrad A night of Serious Drinking by Rene Daumel The Blind Owl by Hedeyat Art movements since 1945 Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs Human, all too Human by Nietzsche Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima The Loser by Thomas Bernhard A Curtain of Green and other Stories by Eudora Welty The Soft Machine by William Burroughs Henry IV by Shakespeare What is History by Edward Carr Guilty by George's Bataille
Books I started but did not finish:
Froth on a Daydream by Boris Vian Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar The Court Society by Norbert Elias.
Lincoln Bell
i use goodreads as well :^)
i like having the gender tag just out of interest to see what percentage of female authors i read (it turns out not that many)
Jacob Perry
> "United States" essay collection by Gore Vidal > "Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James > "Scoop" by Evelyn Waugh > "A Handful of Dust" " " " > "The Loved One", also by Evelyn Waugh > "The Master and Margharita" by Bulgakov > "A single Man" by Isherwood > "A History of the Crusades" unabridged by Steven Runciman > "A Spy among Friends" By Macintyre > "Hell's Angels" by Thompson > "Burton" by Byron Farwell > "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton > "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky > "Stoner" by John WIlliams > "The Greek Myths" by Robert Graves > A little poetry here and there, from Whitman, Keats, Wordsworth etc > "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino
I'm also currently reading Gravity's Rainbow. The first 200 pages or so are exhausting, but he seems to have calmed down by the second book, and I'm enjoying Slopthrop's story and perspective.
There are probably a couple of books I've forgotten, but I reckon that's most of them. I tried my best to get out of my comfort zone, and read some stuff that might change my perspective on things. I lot of the stuff I though I'd hate was actually some of my favourite stuff to read.
Gavin Ortiz
I'm serious, there's almost no YA.
Daniel Lewis
Armor Slaughterhouse Five Breakfast of Champions Got 2/3rds of the way through Inherent Vice The Stranger Started reading the Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays but it felt like a repetitive drone onto a thesis I already understood Make Something Up anthology
To read: Things Fall Apart Starship Troopers Player Piano Blood Meridian
Ryder Fisher
>the Martian >The road >The long walk- not quite a waste of time >the Communist manifesto >Journey to the center of the earth >2001 a space Odyssey >Why evolution is true Work gets in the way. I wanted to read more
To read >The gentle giants of ganymede >Foundation >catch 22 >Fools crow >The santaroga barrier >Dune >The fellowship of the ring