List the top 10 books you've ever read, whether they're nonfiction, fiction, experimental, etc or in terms of how much they impacted you.
I just had surgery so I'll form a 10 book list from you guys and go from there. I'll have two weeks to read them all
I had surgery today and will have two weeks of just reading to get through.
Didn't mean to fuck up that post, still drugged up
genesis
exodus
levitcus
numbers
deuteronomy
joshua
judges
ruth
1 samuel
2 samuel
Walden, Thoreau
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky
Proposed Roads to Freedom, Bertrand Russell
Leaves of Grass, Whitman
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing 4th Edition
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
Bartleby, the Scrivener, Melville
The Trial, Kafka
Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse
Either/Or
The Gulag Archipelago
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Letters To A Young Poet
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Confessions Of A Mask
Shantaram
Doctor Zhivago
Wild Swans
Man's Search For Meaning
I haven't read all that much. There's a whole pile of classics I know I will love that I haven't read yet, but will do.
Worst. Fiction. Ever.
Bartleby the scrivener is not a book, it's a short story.
Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
David Ricardo - The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
J.S. Mill - Principles of Political Economy
Carl Menger - Principles of Economics
Irving Fisher - Theory of Interest as Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest
Keynes - The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money
Kierkegaard - Thy Suffering Unto Death
Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Plato - The Republic
Hobbes - Leviathan
dezso kosztolanyi - skylark
kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled
j a baker - the peregrine
raymond carver - cathedral
italo calvino - invisible cities
laszlo krasznahorkai - war and war
virginia woolf - the waves
richard brautigan - in watermelon sugar
richard yates - the easter parade
juan rulfo - pedro paramo
Hai Rebel
>Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
Is it hard to read?
You must be a blast at parties.
I'm pretty sure absolutely no one who uses this cliche is actually fun at parties
Not really.
I love how you just casually tossed Keynes in there with all the real economists...
It is a defense mechanism, assuming someone actually likes that selection the best way to be superior to them is demean them in social aspects if you can't demean them intellectually.
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time series), Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Lovecraft Tales, Lovecraft (Peter Straub as editor)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
It, Stephen King
Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
Wicked, Gregory Maguire (Other books in the series are feminist/numale derivative trash, skip them)
>Lord of Chaos
Is this bait? If not what about the book do you love so much?
Teatro Grottesco
The Consumer
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race
Songs Of A Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
The Metamorphosis
1984
The Catcher In The Rye
i fucking love some of the excerpts from The Realms Of The Unreal although it's unlikely the whole thing will ever be made available, and the books that collected the excerpts with the art are long out of print
The Story Of The Eye
O Livro Do Desassossego
man, i like a lot of those classics but i can't fathom how anyone actually likes Stephen King enough to consider one of his books a favorite
ignore my retardation here, this was supposed to be Shadow Rising. I also really like The Gathering Storm.
He writes good characters and tension, the only flaw I can find with his work is that he can't write an ending for shit. I can't help that it's trendy to hate him.
Through the Looking Glass
Idylls of the King
Le Morte d'Arthur
Bulfinch's Mythology
Good News Bible - Today's English Version
Between Fantoine and Agapa
Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
A Book of Traveler's Tales
Just After Sunset
i just don't find any of his horror affecting in any way
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
The Holy Bible (KJV) - Various
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Phaedrus - Plato
This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
10/10 list.
The Alchemist
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkeban
The Subtle Knife
The Stranger
Moby Dick
Gatsby
50 shades darker
The Andrelite Saga
The Silmarillion
The Ego and His own
>American Psycho
What did you like about it, other than the occasional boner?
House of the Dead - Dostoyevsky
Trout Fishing in America - Brautigan
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Ficciones - Borges
The Magic Mountain - Mann
Tao Te Ching - Laozi
Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald
A Thousand Plateaus - D&G
Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
Streets of Crocodiles - Schulz
>Moby Dick
>Heart of Darkness
>Blood Meridian
They're all worth at least 3 + 1/3 books :^)
>house of the dead
my god, user. that shit was horrible! why not suggest the adolescent or some other trash?
>op asks for 10 books
>user offers only 4 books worth and two dogshit pamphlets
I'm not offering, it's a favour, a gift to you in return for your sweetie kisses. now get back in the kitchen honey
nice meme friend
The Alchemist
but it's ok i believe
>50 shades darker
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
The Red and the Black
Mrs. Dalloway
The Peregrine
The Snow Leopard
The Iceman Cometh
love Carver, The Peregrine, Skylark and The Easter Parade
Excellent list
1984
La Peste
Son of a thief
For whom the bells tolls
The Aleph
Crime and Punishment
Chronicle of a death foretold
My tender matador
Homage to Catalonia
The Obscene Bird of Night
Look into what people you admire have read, then pick and choose.