Book suggestion thread

Ulysses, desu.

The Bible, The Quran

I enjoyed Picture of Dorian Gray and Crime and Punishment.

PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack Kirby's New Gods, by Jack Kirby

Notes from the Underground

Pan, To the Lighthouse

>mfw I post the most generic stuffy classic doorstoppers together
>mfw local teenage pseuds start to unironically ""recommend"" literature
This board is beyond redemption. I hope you all get ass cancer.

Looking For Alaska, The God Delusion
I'm serious

Harry Potter, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, by Breece D'J Pancakge

Stoner and Catcher in the Rye

Someplace To Be Flying, Charles De Lint

your local high school's english lit curriculum

To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

The Sea, The Sea
Cloudstreet

The Collected Stories of Herman Melville, The Collected Fictions of Borges

The Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison

Cannery Row
Suttree

Brother's 'Zov

J.R.

that Stephen King JFK assassination book and the lost steps

The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley

Pale Fire,
Pierre or the Ambiguities

The Book of Mormon (it's a mashup between the two)

Does this somehow make them less profound as literature? I think them excellent pieces to be read at a young age.

The Magicians and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and Dune by Frank Herbert

Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand by Samuel Delany

This.

Pleb

Little, Big by John Crowley

The works of Nikolai Gogol

thanks lad

Well?

Infinite Jest and Hyperion

Flowers for Algernon
Vernon God Little

Night Watch -- Lukyenenko
Solaris -- Lem

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Hello. I'm the "This" senpai. It shows where you get your motivation from. You are forced to read a couple of YA books, one of which is a race baiting piece of crap, and read by angsty teens worldwide, and forced upon people to read by unimaginative teachers.
> le "what was this book about society about xD"
It's just a further enforcement of vain liberal ideas that make teenagers feel well read, and make them ponder. These same teenagers that were forced to read "The boy in the striped pyjamas", and "The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime", are now reading babby's first le edgy teen books.

A World Lost, by Wendell Berry

the sorrows of young werther

the irrationalist

Not even him, annd I have not even read one of tbe two books but
>This book is read by X type of people
>I don't agree with the ideology of the author
Are both pretty shit arguments against any book

berlin stories, walser
beware of pity, zweig

Down and Out in Paris and London

I read both of those books originally when I was younger. I read them again being older and they are clearly well thought out and written stories, albeit a bit short.
>race baiting
Ah yes, lets ignore all of the other themes, right? The ramifications of false accusation of rape? The grisly air of domestic violence? The strength Atticus must show to mount a defense even when his client is regarded as a second class citizen?
>liberal ideas
Ok I actually don't want to take the time to respond to your shitpost, but its evident that you are retarded if you think Animal Farm is simply about "liberal ideas that make teens feel well read".

>it's another autistic teenager who thinks unsubstantiated hatred towards excellent universally acclaimed books makes him 'le elite internet patrician'
Nobody gives a shit about your intense rebellious phase, autismo.

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

>>This book is read by X type of people
>implying you would like something that is only enjoyed by a pack of smelly apes, or a crying pack of a tumblr fandom. You end up feeling like that guy who gets left by a group of weirdos by their friends.
>>I don't agree with the ideology of the author
It's when the author mirrors it in a book, I dont like it. Also, it(to kill a mockingbird) gets pushed by liberals everywhere to promote something i dont like. Nothing good is here. It is not the idealogy of the author, but how the book gets promoted and read.

Those are literally my favorite two books. I read them at least once a year for well over a decade....Dune for over 2 decades.

how the fuck can you read The Fountainhead more than once

Thank you, anons. While i still disagree strongly with the messages that to kill a mockingbird sends, i can at least appreciate that it might be an ok piece of lit desu.

>this book is bad because people I don't like like it a lot
>""""""""""""""""""""""""""""ideology""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Fucking hell, this level of mental disability. Even /r9k/-frogposts are less embarrassing.

I dont like agressive arguing baka.

no one? :'(

excellent pages to read _at a young age_. someone who's assumed to be beyond that age wouldn't consider entry-level books written for teenagers with hamfisted messages and allegories about society "profound". it's the male pseud equivalent of 35 year old women liking YA dystopian fiction

fuck off, you contrarian cunt

This.

Pedro Paramo by Rulfo
Terra Nostra by Fuentes

Easy. Its a great book and I love it. The writing appeals to me. I've worn out 2 copies of it and am on my third copy now.

conversation in the cathedral

watership down, on the road

Thanks, user!

would you suggest reading the fountainhead before atlas shrugged?
the silmarillion

Winesburg, Ohio and Dubliners.

ishmael by daniel quinn
the broom of the system by dfw

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
Gérard de Nerval's Les Chimères

> (You)
>would you suggest reading the fountainhead before atlas shrugged?

I would suggest reading The Fountainhead before Atlas Shrugged. I read Atlas Shrugged about every 18 months or so. I like it but not nearly as much as The Fountainhead. Atlas Shrugged has some huge speeches that can really be tough to get through the first time you read it. The Fountainhead is a smaller investment of time and a better introduction to Rand. If you don't like The Fountainhead then don't bother with Atlas Shrugged because the later is even more of everything but much more long winded. You might even read Anthem first as its short(can be read in one sitting) and will give you a rough idea of what Rand's writing is like.

Great book. Orwell's second best after Homage to Catalonia IMO. Also surprisingly funny.

>Dubliners
Hunger, by Hamsun
Have not read the other book, sorry

Thanks, user, been on my radar but I'll bump it up the priority list.

non fiction:
>all the shah's men by stephen kinzer
fiction:
>the nix by nathan hill

Mason & Dixon and The Count of Monte Cristo

A hero of our time, Moby Dick

White noise, and one hundred years of solitude

anyone got anything for me

Heart of a Dog, Blood Meridian

"the witness" by juan jose saer

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

riddley walker by russell hobban

>The Road by Cormac McCarthy
thanks

Just reread Camera Lucida and La Parole (Gusdorf) and finished In Suspect Terrain (Mc Phee)-- recently reread Rabbit Redux (due to a thread here) and, for the first time, The Beautiful and the Damned, which I thoroughly enjoyed-- read it because it was the one by him I hadn't. Am currently rereading the 1805 Prelude, perhaps my favorite narrative poem EVER, and non-recipient of even the slightest love here. Well?

Seveneves, The Erstwhile

Don Quixote, Dune

>Rum Punch
>Demons (Orwell's wet dream)

Picture of Dorian Grey

Dracula

Demian
Absalom Absalom

Frankenstein

Already done

I love victorian shit in the form of journal entries

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, by Neil Postman.

The Dark Labyrinth by Durrell
The Razor's Edge by Maugham