This thread was fun the last time. You take 5 outta your stack, anons tell you which one to go for next. I'm new to reading so I'm going over the basics
- Brave new world by Aldous Huxley - Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut - My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse - Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse - Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson
Blake Hall
Slaughterhouse 5. Easy choice. Vonnegut is such a common thread in pretty much every reader of good books person I've met. He comes up in conversation often enough it is worth it to read his, possibly, best or at least most talked about book. Do it.
Logan Russell
A little Life by Hana yanagihara I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki Notes from the underground by FyDo Frost by Thomas Bernhard The Savage Detectives by Bolano
Chase Hughes
Nostromo Far from the Madding Crowd The Charterhouse of Parma The Rainbow The Tartar Steppe
Brody Anderson
Cool, I'll hit it tonight. Cheers my man
Isaac White
I was in love with nostromo at first but as the plot started moving I lost track of why I should care. Probably definitely my fault but heart of darkness didn't do it for me either.
The Rainbow is sublime.
Brayden Wilson
BNW, then S5
The Double
Nathaniel Bell
The tartar steppe - buzzati Humiliated and insulted - Dostoevsky War and war - krasznahorkai Pale fire - nabokov Judas Iscariot - andreyev
We could both read tartar steppe and make a thread about it in a week or 2..
Liam Jenkins
Titus Groan The Sorrows of Young Werther Catch-22 Amerika The Third Policeman
Kayden Lopez
Pale Fire is unfuckwitable.
Ryder Bailey
Catch 22
Robert Harris
Underground by Haruki Murakami Trilogy of New York by Paul Auster 22/11/63 by Stephen King Malazan book of the fallen (full series) The bell jar by Sylvia Plath
Notes from the underground, absolutely.
Evan Williams
I have read and would recommend A Little Life, but it's quite heavy (in terms of length and subject matter), so I'd agree with starting with something smaller if you want.
Evan Fisher
Catch 22 is great
Camden Parker
The bell jar
Zachary Roberts
Then what!
David Robinson
Goethe
Jose Allen
>Pale Fire is unfuckwitable. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
Cooper Carter
The Iliad Moby-Dick Oedipus plays Paradise Lost Don Quixote
Cooper Rogers
Iliad What a meme you are.
Luis Wilson
Brave New World changed my life
Carter Diaz
I've been memeing too hard man
James Brooks
-Blood Meridian -Collected excerpts of Marx -Iliad -Revolt Against the modern world Evola
Read Steppenwolf OP
Jaxon Hall
...
Matthew Robinson
Libra by Don Dellilo Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Ice by Anna Kavan Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Robert Edwards
It means that other books can try to fuck with it, but cannot because they are less. It's at the tippity top.
Oliver Thompson
Continue with the Greeks or Resume with the Modernists?
Dominic Young
I've only got four in my stack atm Der Römerbrief- Karl Barth Eumeswil- Ernst Jünger Fanged Noumena- A Meme And the collected writings of William Blake
I'd say libra
Justin Lopez
Of the top 4 Charterhouse, easily the best. Haven't read the 5th, however.
Nathaniel Clark
Eh just pick new books dude
Dylan Wood
Imo modernists then go back
Mason Scott
The Fountainhead, Rand Catch-22, Heller On the Road, Kerouac Pale Fire, Nabokov I, Robot, Asimov
Daniel Kelly
Anna
Jeremiah Cox
Cat's cradle is good, albeit a bit on-the-nose with the main metaphor
Ethan Kelly
Oops, I misunderstood the thread and just posted 5 books I've read expecting a new rec.
Everyone should read Ice, though.
Blake Miller
Place the Fountainhead in the trash.
Hudson Clark
Walden The Cancer Ward The Collected Stories of William Faulkner The Sun Also Rises All The Kings Men
James Adams
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Chingiz Aitmatov, The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World The Tao te Ching
Zachary Gray
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Homo Faber by Max Frisch The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima Danton's Death by Georg Büchner
Der Römerbrief and then open a thread about it, fampai
Jacob Smith
I would go with Catch-22. Everything besides the Rand is excellent
Lucas Price
Thoreau then Hemingway
Nolan Long
That's not how those work. You're supposed to give it to a girl in college, very seriously, that you are trying to fuck to make sure she never fucks you and will always tell the story about exactly that whenever that silly cunt's books are mentioned. I've met a few women relating this exact story over the years.
Evan Thomas
Zinn or reroll
Robert Perez
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Angel Davis
I thought the point of Rand was to become a pseudo-intellectual in middle school
Juan Anderson
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Thus Spoke Zarathustra The Prince Either/Or Volume I The Myth of Sisyphus
Camden Morales
Definitely read the Prince before Zarathustra
Charles Martin
It's a stepping stone to becoming a Scientologist.
Dylan Rivera
Libertarianism is the political equivalent of the flat earth theory
Aiden Reed
If you're depressed then read Camus. If not Nietzsche
Alexander Ward
Martian chronicles Steppenwolf Siddhartha We Brave new world
Angel Lewis
Foucault's Pendulum Lincoln in the Bardo Hard Rain Falling Potsdam Station Killers of the Flower Moon
Kevin Williams
Change your life already, read Siddhartha. don't be a psued.
Jonathan Cox
Ulysses Infinite Jest Gravity's Rainbow Jerusalem Magic Mountain
Tyler Powell
the Tao my nigga
Zachary Rogers
is it that cool?
Adam Carter
Anthony C. Yu - The Monkey and the Monk Hunter S Thompson - Hell's Angels Justified Ancients of MuMu - 2023: A Trilogy WIlliam S Burroughs - Naked Lunch Cervantes - Don Quixote (Motteux translation)
Isaiah Taylor
All Quient on the Western Front - Erich Ramarque The Sea - John Banville The Testament of Mary - Colm Toibin H is for Hawk - Helen McDonald A History of Knowledge - Charles van Doren
Jordan Collins
finishing stoner now
confederacy of dunces warlock the corrections big book on american architecture or a big book of art (the story of art)
Jaxson Thomas
Dubliners Heart of Darkness The King In Yellow The Three Musketeers Underworld
I'm about to finish Stoner if that makes any difference.
BNW or S5.
Catch-22 or The Third Policeman.
22/11/63 or The Bell Jar.
Moby-Dick or Don Quixote.
Blood Meridian. Can't comment on the others.
Invisible Man or The Bell Jar.
If you haven't read Rand leave the Fountainhead for now and read Anthem or We The Living first. Or, read I, Robot.
Zinn or Tolkien. I can recommend more on American Exceptionalism if you want.
Orwell or Mishima.
Don't know about Jerusalem but you need to be intimately familiar with Joyce, DFW and Pynchon to read those books. Read Death In Venice before you read Magic Mountain (if Mann).
Naked Lunch or Don Quixote. Couldn't assess the translation.
First two.
Hello Stoner bro. Just finished Dunces too and I heartily recommend it. Walker's introduction doesn't spoil anything so read that if you want.
David Morales
The Art of the Loophole - Nick Freeman The Very Bastards of Creation - James D Young The Social Contract - Rousseau Behind the Myths - John Pickard Contending Economic Theories - Richard D Wolff
Matthew Sanders
>Heart of Darkness
How to read literature like a Professor Iliad The First Law Book 2 The Karamazov Brothers Malazan series
John Evans
Okay. I have lying around in my room right now: Stoner, Blood Meridian, White Noise, Three-Body Problem and For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Chase Cooper
I'd go for Dubliners, but they're on my to-read list as well, so I don't know if they're any good. But it's Joyce, so it probably is.
Isaac Powell
The Story of Art's Gombrich if I'm not mistaken, so strong rec in that direction along with CoD.
Mencken's In Defense of Women Cornwell's Sharpe's Gold (read the first two already this summer) Boorstin's The Image Gass's Finding a Form Greene's Our Man in Havana
Ryder Collins
The Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger Omensetter's Luck- William H. Gass Vineland - Pynchon Butcher's Crossing - John Williams As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Andrew Lee
Tristam Shandy Barry Lyndon Perfume The Sot-Weed Factor Suttree
Matthew Martinez
Stoner Satantango Savage Detectives Girl With Curious Hair Ubik
Grayson Bennett
This is the only list I've seen that prompts me not to recommend but to dissuade. Don't read Parfum. The other four are fabulous. I only choose Shandy because not only is it the most innovative, but was also written first. If (you) want light summer reading, however, choose the Thackery.
Angel Gutierrez
I was really moved by Hard Rain Falling. I had atough time with Foucaults Pendulum, not so much with the esoteric occultism, more with the one characters childhood memories and beta cuck relationship with some bimbo.
I haven't read the others.
Owen Perez
Just the thread I was looking for. >Crime and Punishment >Fight Club >Beyond Good and Evil >Meditations >Classic Tales of Horror - Edgar Allan Poe
Matthew Ortiz
-War and peace -Steppenwolf -Vanity Fair -The Idiot -Rameau's Nephew
Angel Gomez
Meditations, then beyond good and evil, then fight club, then crime and punishment
Poe is great but save him for last all the same
Ryder Hall
>Letters from a Stoic by Seneca >On the Good Life by Cicero >Ann Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke >Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius >Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Jace Allen
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Levi Murphy
FUCK ME IN THE ASS, I meant to type Notes from the Underground, but somehow I instead replaced it with Crime and Punishment. Do your lists still stand lol? I've actually already read Crime and Punishment, and I loved the hell out of it.
Justin Flores
Not him but read Beyond Good and Evil then Notes. Perfect perfect progression. Crime and Punishment as well, pretty much Nietzsche misinterpretation the fictiob. Then meditations I guess and throw out Fight Club
Ian Hughes
Her
pretty much agree about fight club desu
Jace Baker
Thanks for the responses, I think I'll go for Meditations first, Beyond Good and Evil, and everything else sometime afterwards.
Camden Powell
>Walker's introduction doesn't spoil anything so read that if you want. thanks, and why the hell do all these NYRB books spoil like half of the book? i mean its not gonna ruin a novel for me, but damn NYRB thank you. i might do COD after the story of art just because i havent had some nonfiction in a while, not since maybe college.
Lucas Howard
As I Lay Dying Steppenwolf Count of Monte Cristo Norwegian Wood Lolita
Asher Murphy
Meditations The Count of Monte Cristo
Big Sur(Kerouac) History of the Peloponessian War To Build a Fire and Other Stories(London) The Right Stuff(Wolfe) The Sea(Banville)
Angel Kelly
Théâtre - Racine Contes - Lafontaine Nos, Book of the Ressurection - Miguel Serrano 金閣寺 - 由紀夫三島 Sophocles I (ed. Lattimore) - Sophocles
Ethan Sullivan
Thucydides is the only fantastic choice here. Pity (you) didn't start it a few weeks back so that (you) might have timed reading it's disasterous conclusion with a viewing of the solar eclipse! It's a great book.
Dylan Rodriguez
Portrait of an artist blah blah - Joyce Swanns way -- Proust Molloy trilogy -- Beckett Against the day -- pinecone The picture of Dorian gray -- Oscar Wilde
I read about 30-50 pages of one of them a day and it's driving me insane not settling on one and killing it
Zachary Fisher
Dorian Gray
Jaxon Morris
Origins of Totalitarianism - Ardent Burning Chrome - Gibson Prague Cemetary - Eco Annihilation - Vandemeer War of the End of the World - Vargas Llosa
Jose Hall
Thanks babe
Caleb Brown
Swan Song The Fireman Eyes of Doom Bird Box The Hematophages
No one has probably read these.
War of the End of the World. Picked it off name alone so enjoy.
Xavier Gray
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy Savage Night by Jim Thompson The Long Walk by Stephen King 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez LA Confidential by James Ellroy
Gavin Torres
Of the two shorter volumes pick Rameau's Nephew- it's one of those little read books that dumbfounds as to just how good it is. Then settle into War and Peace.
Hunter Richardson
prague cemetary is a fun read
Josiah Roberts
Walden Under The Volcano Beloved Three Lives Warlock
Probs solitude Joyce or Wilde Either AILD or Lolita
Dominic Cooper
Crime and Punishment The Portrait of Dorian Gray Modern Man In Search of a Soul The Third Policeman Man's Search For Meaning
Blake King
Gombrich's a great writer and both an incredibly knowledgeable and incredibly modest scholar. THE single volume book by him is Art and Illusion. If (you) ever see a copy when browsing used books snap it up. Theyre out there.
Levi Fisher
>if you want to read philosophy aristotle, then boethius
>if you want the only effective self-help method out there seneca, then cicero
Nathaniel Smith
I, Claudius Sword and Citadel Franny and Zooey Gilead Dubliners
Warlock. Just finished it and loved it.
Juan Bailey
Breeze through F&Z and then read I, C. Though Dubliners is the best title, save it for early Fall.
Lincoln Bailey
why did you love it?
Jace White
It has the most well developed and interesting characters of any novel I've read (though I haven't read a ton). It's an excellent subversion of character tropes of popular genre fiction, and the philosophical themes are clear and thoughtful but never hamfisted.