Name five books in your to-read stack

Name five books in your to-read stack.

Anons will then tell you which one to read.

Let's get the ball rollin'.

I'm torn between reading Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, The Winter's Tale or Twelfth Night.

Romeo & Juliet is essential Shakespeare, do that one first

Othello and Julius Caesar next, they're really just a lot better

> not saving Winter's Tale for winter

I skipped Twelfth Night. I read a few of Shakespeare's comedies and they did nothing for me. The tragedies are his best imo.

From my doorstopper stack:
Les Miserables
Don Quixote
Anna Kerenina
Herodotus' The Histories
The idiot

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>shakespeare
>read

>Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, The Winter's Tale or Twelfth Night.
Is this a reading for twelve year olds?

They're just plays.
Fucking read them already.
You could've been done by now

Quixote is the most essential

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Speaker for the Dead
Naked Lunch
Ringworld
Easter Parade

t. pleb

Underworld
War and Peace
Moby Dick
Fathers and sons
Brothers Karamazov

just finished brothers karamazov. looking for something a little lighter, but not fluffy. here are my next 5; order would be appreciated!

>don quixote
>in search of lost time
>moby dick
>huysmans' "against nature"
>complete aristophanes

don quixote made me jej on the first page, so i'm leaning towards that.

naked lunch, lube your anus

> not reading Shakespeare when you don't have the opportunity to see it performed

It's easier to appreciate the language when you can re-read certain lines.

I want to know which one is the best one, faggot

Aristophanes first, he's funny, crude but political
Don Quixote next, it's hilarious while also heartbreaking
Moby Dick

I can't say for the other two because I haven't read them. If Don Quixote already won you over with the first page, continue with that one. It's wonderful.

oh yeah all the theatre companies are just dying to fuckin perform As You Like It, you poncy cunt

Just read all of them, you fool
They're far too short to justify asking
The premise of this thread is completely derailed by that list, which is why I'm not offering mine

Autobiography of a Corpse
Oblomov
Big Sur
The Last Samurai
The Green House

Great Expectations
Lolita
Hamlet
Gulliver's Travels
Don Quixote

Been putting this off for a while

Don Quixote

Moby Dick

Don Quixote

Lolita

Madame Bovary
The Nibelungenlied
Canterbury Tales
Murphy
Idylls of the King

I preferred Oblomov over Autobiography, personally. I'd go with that.

>Love in the Time of Cholera
>Mouchette
>Atomised
>Hopscotch
>Hounds of Baskerville

The Essential Keynes
Russell - Principles of Mathematics
Nicholas Everitt - The Non-existence of God
Autobiography of Malcolm X
George Orwell's Essays (Penguin Modern Classics)

Dubliners
Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
brothers karamozov
As I lay dying

War and Peace
Spring Snow
Narcissus & Goldmund
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Les Miserables

Can't go wrong with B.K. or D.Q.

Iliad (And Odyssey after)
Crime and Punishment
1984
Heart of Darkness
The Gambler

Brave New World
Old man and the sea
Britannica guide to genetics
We Live inside you
Skullcrack City

Replace Twelfth Night with Coriolanus and read that.

tackle the beast, read war and peace

Orwell. he was a much better essay writer than novelist

Iliad- You have no excuse for not having read Homer yet

All the light we cannot see - doerr
the uncosonled- ishiguro
europe central- vollman
tristram shandy- sterne
typee- melville

Sort of expected that.
What about after Homer?

Russell or Malcolm X. Read the Orwell essays on the side.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Don Quixote

Madame Bovary

Zarathustra

Homer

The Old Mam amd The Sea

Tristram Shandy

Deconstruction and Criticism
The Power Broker
Empire of Illusion
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Society Must be Defended

I don't know whether I should read

The Crying of Lot 49
Rayuela
Don Quijote
Ulysses
The Brothers Karamazov

Les Miserables

Naked Lunch. It's the only thing from your list worth reading

From first to last: Moby Dick, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Fathers and Sons, Underworld.

>Lighter
Read Quixote, followed by Dick, then Aristophanes.

Oblomov

Quixote

Canterbury Tales

Orwell

Dubliners> Quixote> Karamazov> Karenina> As I Lay Dying

Les Miserables

Iliad (wtf)
After you're done with Homer, Crime and Punishment

Old Man. Although boring, it's somewhat "essential"

The Dark Tower
Cloud Atlas
The Grapes of Wrath
The Talisman
Kafka on the Shore

De Anima (with commentary)
Bible
Confessions
Hyperion
2nd part of Demons (finished the first part yesterday)

Grapes of Wrath. Ditch everything else.

Bible, of course

Why should I ditch the others?

I kind of want to finish Aristotle and read some neoplatonist thought before the Bible.
The influence is undeniable, right?

the meme answer would be Plato.

But assuming you've read Homer and the Bible. I think you will have enough background to grasp any literature that strikes your fancy

you do realize the silver scrolls predate Aristotle by 200 years?

Of course it'd be great if you finished reading Aristotle and the Neoplatonists before getting to The Bible!

They're pretty light and not that good. Maybe Kafka on the Shore, although I didn't like it much.

Still, do not allow my biases to deter you from reading them. Maybe you'll find something I didn't.

>you can't deny it... can you?

I mean the NT specifically.
W-What?

V - Pynchon
Women - Bukowski
The Exorcist - Blatty
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

Memories of wind and waves - junichi saga
A dangerous encounter - Ernst junger
The camp of the saints - Jean raspail
The road to wigan pier - George Orwell
Thirst for love - Yukio Mishima

If these are all first time readings then I recommend either Quijote or Brothers Karamazov. Then Rayuela, then Ulysses. I don't know anything about the other one.

>The Illuminatus! Trilogy
>Mathematical Methods in Linguistics
>Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
>Gormenghast
>Lost Horizon

Don Quixote or Anna Karenina.

Naked Lunch

From those I've read, Brothers Karamazov.

Canterbury Tales

Iliad and Odyssey

Hemingway

For me:

Gilgamesh,
Dubliners,
Moby Dick,
Another Country,
or 100 Years of Solitude.

Not sure what will be the best jump from The Tale of Genji.

Invitation to a Beheading
A Bend in the River
The Passion According to GH
Extinction (or some other Bernhard)
The Tartar Steppe

Just so many of you guys know, it wouldn't kill you to venture outside of the Veeky Forums top 100 and The Greatest Books of the Western World. Not that they are bad, but its also rewarding to develop your own personal taste as well. It is purely at your discretion what you choose to read or not read.
Othello
Don Quixote
Naked Lunch
Moby-Dick
Lolita
Murphy
As I Lay Dying
Tristram Shandy

2666
Crime And Punishment
The Corrections
We The Living
Catch-22

A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
About 100 page into the first book. The beginning of each "chapter" is slow and boring, but then I suddenly find myself at the end.

Notes from underground
The illiad
The Odyssey
1984

>V.

Junger

moby dick

good choice with extinction- that's my favorite bernhard but if you aren't familiar with his works u might wanna start with something else.. most of his works are

The Man Without Qualities
War and Peace
Buddenbrooks
The Broom of the System
Gravity's Rainbow

A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting
The Count of Monte Cristo
HHhH

Stoner
Black Spring
Confessions of a Mask
Brave New World
Donkey Shot

>good choice with extinction- that's my favorite bernhard but if you aren't familiar with his works u might wanna start with something else
I've read six of his books so far, so I'm aware of what I'm getting into. Was leaning towards that one desu, thanks!

>Herodotus
Followed by
>Herodotus
And to top it off
>Herodotus

>Just so many of you guys know, it wouldn't kill you to venture outside of the Veeky Forums top 100 and The Greatest Books of the Western World
No one responds to you when you do this.

>The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
>The Satyricon
>The Republic
(I bought all three one night when I was drunk)
>As I Lay Dying

Monte Cristo
Confessions of a mask

Lolita
No Longer Human
Hunger
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August

help me i am an indecisive faggot

memoirs of hadrian
journey to the west
watership down
E.T.A Hoffman collection
Kill all normies

The Brother Karamazov
Blood Meridian
Brave New World
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paradise Lost

Proust
JR
The Gold-bug Variations
Lookout Cartridge
The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Man Without Qualities
Black Spring
The Republic
Memoirs of Hadrian
Paradise Loft
JR

Sophocles.

Lolita.

Hadrian. And please, don't read that fucking book.

Paradise Lost.

which one should i not read?

Skylark
War and Peace and War
Contes du Lundi
Enquiry on human understanding.
Exile and the kingdom

just read Coriolanus actually, loved it

Don't ditch Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell is underrated here imo.

Fear and Trembling
The Gay Science
Beyond Good and Evil
Revolt Against the Modern World
The French Revolution: A History

The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Slaughterhouse 5
Brave New World
Invisible Man
Illiad

this thread should be a staple thread

>Daphnis & Chloe - Longus
>Politics -Aristotle
>On Power - Bertrand De Jouvenel
>The Foundations of Early Modern Europe - Anthony Grafton
>The Weimar Republic -Detlev J K Peukert

bump great thread

Coriolanus
R&G are Dead
Murphy
The Master and Margarita
A Brief History of Ancient Greece

BNW then Portrait my negro

Fear and trembling
the master and margarita

I loooooooved Daphnis and Chloe. Taught me about Love's Form

The House of the Spirits
Catch-22
American Gods
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
11/22/63

The Rings of Saturn
The Second Sex
Max Havelaar
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
HHhH

2666
Invisible Man
Midnight's Children
The Recogntions
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Paradiso - Lezama Lima
Stoner - Williams
The Once and Future King - White
The Rings of Saturn - Sebald
The Confidence Man - Melville

cheers buddy

catch 22 is fucking great

Steppenwolf
A Study in Scarlet (and the rest of the Sherlock Holmes canon)
Beowulf
Meditations on First Philosophy
Starship Troopers
Read Catch-22 first, if you like Gaiman's other stuff you'll like American Gods and should read that next, then Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and then idk

My to read stack is just the read of Murakami's books. I have read Norwegian Wood, Wind-up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore. NW was really good, the closest thing I've felt to reading Salinger. WUBC wasn't as "literary" I suppose but I maybe enjoyed it even more, like if Gabriel Garcia Marquez tried to write a Stephen King novel. KOTS was more cohesive than either of the other two but not nearly as much fun or emotionally impactful. The last page or so was fantastic though, one of my favorite last lines.

What do I read next?

Peace - Gene Wolfe
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Plague - Albert Camus

>Russell's Philosophie des Abendlandes
>The Ego-Tunnel
>The King in Yellow
>Moral Tribes
>Shobogenzo
>something Mishima

Laszlo Krasznahorkai- Last Wolf/Herman
Umberto Eco- Foucault's Pendulum
Michel Houellebecq- Submission
E.M. Cioran- Tears and Saints
William Gladdis- Recognitions

this is earnest but not good advice. Twelfth Night is arguably top 3 comedies and the comedies are tragically misunderstood. There's a reason Shakespeare ended his career writing a comedy and righting what's done by the tragedies (not that the tragedies should be overlooked--not at all). Shakespeare's philosophy, if you can ascribe him to one, is shown in the comedies and especially in Midsummer, As You Like it, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. Summing it up extremely crudely: nature, love, and judgment are crucial to our life and to Shakespeare's comic universe, and they are perfected by magic, faith, and mercy, respectively. Thinking should not go as far as one would think. We should accept one another and learn to live in the moment (not completely hedonistically of course). We should appreciate life and be filled with wonder that we're even here. "Let us not be stoics nor stocks," "There is more than life dreamt up in your philosophy."

Other than that, sure: read Romeo and Juliet first because its more popular and it comes before everything else on your list. Read Shakespeare chronologically and then re-read him and re-read him until you die.

die

Consider Phlebas (muh space opera)
Annihilation
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Blood Meridian
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

3/5 are going to be depressing af. Can anyone recommend me something happy?

The House of the Spirits is quite good. Just be ready for /leftypol/-tier "muh Allende did nothing wrong, it was all the imperialists' fault."

Read Cloud Atlas first. It hooked me and I read it in like three days.

The Histories is like half-history, half-folklore. Read Thucydides if you want real critical history.

Industrial society and its future
Ride the tiger
Daemonologie
Columbine
48 laws of power

suicide
beowulf
Peace
Submission

Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol - Dead Souls
Nabokov - Lolita
Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler
Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

this user is right about everything

>Murphy
>Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
>The Great Gatsby
>Franny and Zooey
>Napoleon Symphony

anna karenina
Naked Lunch
Brothers K personally, but right after Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Oblomov
Hamlet>Quixote>Great Expectations>Lolita
Madame Bovari
Hopscotch
Damn son, all of them. Order of my favourite.
Brothers K>Anna Karenina>Dubliners>Quixote>AILD
all masterpieces regardless.
Zarathustra personally
The only reply you're going to get is I&O. But after read Crime and Punishment.
Old Man
Shandy
Brothers K>Quixote>Ulysses>TCoL
Grapes of Wrath
Finish Demons because you're halfway through it, then Bible.
V>Naked Lunch>Master and Margarita
Mishima personally.
Gormenghast
Moby Dick
Beheading or Tartar
C&P
The first one
Buddenbrooks or War and Peace if you have the willpower to finish it.
Mask or Stoner
Absalom or Lolita
TBK>Paradise Lost>Blood Meridian
Dorian
Catch-22
Stoner or melville
Steppenwolf
Plague or TCoL
Blood Meridian or Ivan
All really good actually. Can't decide.

Childhood's End
The Metamorphosis
Notes from Underground
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Batalha do Apocalipse (a brazilian fantasy book, pretty popular here)