And so this year has come to pass. List the books you've read in 2016. It's nice to find new books from people with similar taste.
I'll start: Ficciones- Jorge Luis Borges The Book of Sand (and Shakespeare's Memory)- Borges A Universal History of Infamy- Borges Dreamtigers- Borges Antwerp- Roberto Bolano Richard II- William Shakespeare Henry IV Pt. 1- Shakespeare Henry IV Pt. 2- Shakespeare Henry V- Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor- Shakespeare De Fledermaus- Johan Strauss Faust I- Johan von Goethe Faust II- von Goethe A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls- Hemingway The Stalin Front- Gert Ledig Peace- Richard Bausch Those Who Dare- Phil Ward Dead Eagles- Ward Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk- Ben Fountain The Death of Ivan Ilych- Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina- Tolstoy The Atom Station- Halldor Laxness Burial Rights- Hannah Kent Selected Stories- Katherine Mansfield The Heart of a Dog- Mikhail Bulgakov The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy War of the Worlds- H.G. Wells (reread from 8th grade) The Lathe of Heaven- Ursula K. Le Guin The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas- Le Guin (standalone short story) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain No Longer Human- Osamu Dazai The Setting Sun- Dazai Pale Fire- Vladimir Nabakov House Made of Dawn- N. Scott Momaday To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees- Kenko Beowulf- user Grendel- John Garner Last Words from Montmartre- Qiu Miaojin Goodbye Chunky Rice- Craig Thompson (graphic novel) Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- Hunter S. Thompson Shadow of the Colossus- Nick Suttner Deep Survival- Laurence Gonzales The Art of Conversation- Catherine Blyth Furiously Happy- Jenny Lawson Hillbilly Elegy- J.D. Vance King Leopold's Ghost- Adam Hochschild Paid For- Rachel Moran Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl- Carrie Brownstein Man's Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankl Countdown to Zero Day- Kim Zetter The Silent Epidemic- Alan Lockwood What a Fish Knows- Jonathan Balcombe My Dog Tulip- J.R. Ackerley The Invaders- Pat Shipman A Million Years of Music- Gary Tomlinson The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory- Max Planck (speech) Quantum Mechanics and Experience- David Albert
Sebastian Cooper
>The crying of lot 49 >Catcher un the rye
Levi Smith
the revenant-Michael punke The iliad- homer (fitzgerald trs) The odyssey- homer (fitzgerald trs) The Aeneid-virgil (fitzgerald trs) Hannibal fields of blood- Ben kane Communist Mannifesto- Marx and engels Emma-Jane austen Importance of being earnest- Oscar Wilde Soul of man under socialism- Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde Salems lot- Stephen king Grapes of wrath- John Steinbeck Babylon revisited- F. scott fitzgerald Socrates Trial- plato Moby Dick- Hermann Melville 1984- orwell animal farm- orwell Heart of darkness- Conrad Tom sawyer _twain huck finn - twain Brave new world- Huxley How much land does one man need? - Tolstoy pride and prejudice- austen metamorphosis- kafka Dubliners- joyce Harvest- jim crace Eureka: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but were Afraid to Ask - Peter jones Babylon- paul kriwacyk (idk some polish name) Anna Karenina- Tolstoy Jane eyre- charlotte bronte oliver twist- dickens a Christmas carol- dickens spqr- mary beard a dolls house- ibsen
Adrian Morris
You did good user
Daniel Hall
fuck it i'm gonna post in every one of these threads i don't give a shit
Richard Yates Cold Spring Harbour Elmore Leonard Fire in the Hole Roberto Bolaño 2666 Kazuo Ishiguro The Buried Giant Denis Johnson Jesus' Son Frans G. Bengtsson The Long Ships Jim Crace Harvest Georges Bataille Story of the Eye Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Don Delillo Mao II Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon William H. Gass In the Heart of the Heart of the Country W. G. Sebald Austerlitz Marilynne Robinson Gilead Michael Frayn Spies Ambrose Bierce The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter Yasunari Kawabata The Master of Go James Rebanks The Shepherd's Life Philip K. Dick Martian Time-Slip Elmore Leonard The Complete Western Stories Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye Takahashi Genichiro Sayonara, Gangsters Marlon James The Book of Night Women Yukio Mishima The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Magda Szabó The Door Elmore Leonard Riding the Rap Tove Jansson The Summer Book Laszlo Krasznahorkai The Bill: For Palma Vecchio, at Venice Roberto Bolaño Amulet Philip K. Dick The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub Italo Calvino Mr Palomar Han Kang The Vegetarian Chris Moore The Hoarse Oaths of Fife Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov Alfred Bester Starburst Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Venedikt Yerofeev Moscow Stations Dimitri Verhulst Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill Raymond Carver Cathedral J. G. Ballard Vermilion Sands Emma Jane Kirby The Optician of Lampedusa Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America Jorge Luis Borges The Book of Imaginary Beings H. P. Lovecraft The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories Antal Szerb Journey by Moonlight Christopher Isherwood A Single Man Jack London The Call of the Wild Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon Juan Rulfo Pedro Páramo Taichi Yamada Strangers
Sebastian Sanders
Are we having 10 of these threads every day?
Thomas Harris
Biographie of Yu Suzuki Frankenstein Alice's Adventures in Wonderland L'ombre d'un rêve (Zhang Chao)
Luis Nelson
>>Catcher un the rye
>reading translations
Ryder Morgan
nobody fucking cares, dude
Easton Butler
This.
also read deeply, not widely
Gavin Clark
i read infinite jest 4 times
i'm close to total understanding
Justin Gomez
infinit chest
Benjamin Garcia
What? It was a typo...
Alexander Reed
Similarly
Speak with meaning, not platitudes.
Landon Ortiz
It's probably closer to 12,000 pages. a few of the books I've read had no page numbers on goodreads and so weren't counted.
Austin Walker
Getting praise from anons is nice
Ethan Gonzalez
Walden - Henry David Thoreau The Waves - Virginia Woolf The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima The Book of Ebenezer Le Page - G.B. Edwrads The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Maxims - La Rouchfoucauld The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton How to Set a Fire and Why - Jesse Ball Travel Notes - Stanley Crawford A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum Travels with Herodetus - Ryszard Kapuscinski Imperium - Ryszard Kapuscinski Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs - Gerald Murnane The Plains - Gerald Murnane Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories - Robert Walser The Tanners - Robert Walser The Robber - Robert Walser Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings The Islandman - Tomas O'Crohan Men in Prison - Victor Serge To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia Skylark - Deszo Kosztolanyi Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
And also some short stories here and there, as well as papers and books for researching in my degree, some of which were actually good. My favourite was "The Spectre of a People in Arms" by Frank Lorenz Müller. If you have an interest in 19th century German history, you should check it out.
Grayson Hill
What did you think of The Ark Sakura? I have had The Box Man and other Kobo Abe books in my to-read list for years, but I always end up postponing this author.
>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima That's another book I should read soon. The only Mishima book I've read is The Sailor (etc). How was it compared to The Salior?
Jose Long
I'm not really one to ask because I'm not a huge fan of Mishima. I quite liked Sailor but Golden Pavilion bored me for the most part. It's more focused than Sailor, but on the theme of beauty and obsession which isn't something that interests me all that much. If you liked obsessive characters like Ryuki or whatever his name was (the kid from Sailor) then you'll probably liked Paviolion. But like I said I don't really like Mishima all that much.
Jose Roberts
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon The Name of the Rose - Eco Foucault's Pendulum - Eco The Prague Cemetery - Eco Blood Meridian - McCarthy Outer Dark - McCarthy The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton The Orphan Master's Son - Johnson Dead Wake - Larson 1776 - McCullough All the King's Men - Warren Slaughter-House Five - Vonnegut Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Murakami Carrie - King 'Salem's Lot - King Neuromancer - Gibson Escape from Alcatraz - Bruce Annihilation - Vandermeer The Electric Kook-aid Acid Test - Woolfe The Origins of Political Order - Fukuyama Political Order and Political Decay - Fukuyama The Elegant Universe - Green The Long Goodbye - Chandler
Various short stories and essays. I've probably forgotten some books.
David White
I did forget a few:
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick Red Dragon - Harris
Jaxson Gonzalez
Hyperion - Dan Simmon Welcome to the NHK - Tatsuhiko Takimoto The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler LOGH I-II - Yoshiki Tanaka Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky White Nights - Dostoyevsky The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Stranger - Camus Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevsky Anna Karenina - Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy War & Peace - Tolstoy Brothers K - dostoyevsky The Trial - Kafka The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Lovecraft Anti-Ice - Stephen Baxter Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov Looking for Alaska - John Meme What i Talk About When I Talk About Running - Murakami Hard Boiled Wonderland - Murakami Colorless Tsukuru - Murakami Kafka on the Shore - Murakami Wind-up Bird - Murakami Stoner - John Williams Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Brave New World - Huxley No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai Journey to the Centre of the World - Verne
And about 500 pages of The Count of Monte Cristo
Jason Kelly
> All this Goethe
My man. What did you think of Faust?
Logan Clark
>And about 500 pages of The Count of Monte Cristo I tried reading that too this year, but book fatigue hit me, fast.
Tyler Brown
Am I cool yet?
Tyler Scott
I'm not listing shit.
Owen Allen
That's a lot of Schmidt
Owen Rodriguez
...
Christian Anderson
you're reading some fucked up shit bro
Chase Wilson
How's Inland? I got a first edition of it for Christmas
Joseph Cooper
It's really good.
Asher Perez
The Ark Sakura was fine and that's basically it, it's a good read but don't expect anything extraordinary. It was an interesting insight into the Japanese psychology using satire but I felt it quite lacking in power. What you should read if you want to get into Kobo is The Woman in the Dunes, imo one of the greatest existentialist novels.
Faust is one the best books I've ever read even if I'm sure quite a few references went over my head in Part 2, easily one of the greatest portrayal of human condition. What I read was a translation though so obviously much of Goethe's genius was lost.
Henry Robinson
t. read one book in 2016 and spent the rest of the time shitposting
Zachary Thompson
Will Self - Dorian Beckett - Trilogy Javier Cercas - Soldiers of Salamis Albert Caraco - Bréviaire du chaos Leonard Cohen - Beautiful losers Miklós Mészöly - Megbocsátás Nabokov - Despair A collection of Borges short stories Manuel Puig - Betrayed by Rita Hayworth Ádám Bodor - Az Eufrátesz Babilonnál Viktor Pelevin - The Clay-Machine Gun László Cholnoky - Bertalan éjszakája Augustine - On the free will/on the good life Péter Nádas - A Biblia és más régi történetek Ádám Bodor - A Zangezur-hegység Dostoyevsky - The Devils Pierre Clastres - Archeology of Violence Mario Vargas Llosa - The storyteller Imre Kertész - A kudarc Viktor Cholnoky - Trivulzio szeme Sterne - Tristram Shandy Gyula Krúdy - Rezeda Kázmér szép élete Knausgaard - Min Kamp 1 Miklós Mészöly - Saulus Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman Beckett - Murphy A short collection of plays by Witkiewicz Cioran - The temptation ot exist János Rosmer - Hátsó ülés DFW - IJ Imre Bartók - Láttam a ködnek országát Dostoyevsky - Notes from the underground A collection of short stories from american pomo (inluding: Pynchon, Barthelme, Coover, Gass etc.) Imre Bartók - A kecske éve Goethe - Werther Chesterton - The man who was Thursday Lowry - Under the volcano Beckett - Mercier and Camier
Isaiah Nelson
Hello fellow Hunbro, which Hungarian book would you recommend?
Adrian Bailey
Kudarc by Kertész. Camus' and Beckett's circlejerk over Kafka (and the first part basically explains Fatelesness and how nobody gets it, that the holocaust was AESTHETICS AF). Also Krúdy. Read Krúdy.
Daniel Howard
I've just started regular reading last year, here it goes: The Silmarillion Children of Húrin Unfinished Tales Choke 1984 The Dark Half The Old Man and the sea Brave New World looking to buy more books, but i need to go abroad to do that-_-
William Roberts
You talk like a complete idiot.
Charles Thompson
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Andrew Ortiz
Can you guys mention your favorite books of the year btw, thats the whole fucking point of these threads.
For me :
Laurus Silence The Erl-King The Black Jacobins My Antonia Skylark The Siege of Krishnapur The Year of the French
Christian James
no
Noah Lopez
you are excused
Lucas Rodriguez
4u
Hunter Phillips
-Frankenstein. -Mein kampf -20 poens of love and a song of despair. -The unbearable lightness of being (can't end this one) -Steppenwolf Also some comics. Starting the year with Don Quixote.
Jason Harris
i was hella busy and quite frankly didn't read shit, at least not that i can remember...well i read parts of Ovid and Paradise Lost, but other than that, shit I don't think I finished a whole book...
Justin Anderson
i only had time to listen to audiobooks but Rise And Fall Of American Growth and White Trash were p gud, also Code Warriors was decent
Isaiah Butler
Iceberg Slim - Pimp: The Story of My Life Anthony Swofford - Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles Hermann Hesse - Beneath the Wheel William Shakespeare - Hamlet Pär Lagerkvist - Barabbas Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Simon Garfield - Just My Type: A Book About Fonts John F. Kennedy - Profiles in Courage Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? Don DeLillo - Point Omega Martha Gellhorn - The Face of War Mortimer J. Adler - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading George Fillmore Swain - How to Study Cal Newport - How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students Gabriel Wyner - Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It Breece D'J Pancake - The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake George Pierce Baker - The Principles of Argumentation Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye Michel Surya - Georges Bataille, la mort à l'oeuvre Richard Chenevix Trench - On the Study of Words: Five Lectures Addressed to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, Winchester Jorge Luis Borges - A Universal History of Iniquity Writing this all out now, I had a much weaker second half of 2016.
Samuel Bailey
Favourites of 2016:
The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West Warlock - Oakley Hall Light Years - James Salter My Antonia - Willa Cather A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick Middlemarch - George Elliot Mrs Bridge - Evan S. Connell The Centaur - John Updike Home land - Sam Lipsyte Black Wings Has My Angel - Elliot Chaze Parker Series (1-6) - Richard Stark
