Your top 10 favorite books

Nice bait.

>>8284173

Why is this bait? This is my honest top 10 books, i.e the top 10 books I enjoyed reading the most.

I don't fucking know

Also the problem with these lists is that it assumes the standpoint of the novel; most of my favourite writers are lyric poets who don't have a "book" to read per-se.

1. The Arabian Nights
2. Don Quixote
3. Light In August
4. Invisible Man
5. A Confederacy of Dunes
6. Dubliners
7. The Iliad
8. Neuromancer
9.I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (lonelyache best in collection)
10. A Maze of Death

In no order

Middlemarch - Eliot
The Age of Innocence - Wharton
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
The Dead and the Living - Olds
Transformations - Sexton
Ulysses - Joyce
My Ántonia - Cather
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Le Morte d'Arthur - Malory

>>8284171
legacies, phantom
legacies look like a panda
go hard at it like im montana
hundred killer on their hammers

Volverás a Región - Juan Benet
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Anabasis - Xenophon
Odyssey - Homer
Le Spleen de Paris - Charles Baudelaire
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Dubliners - James Joyce
Yes - Thomas Bernhard

>>8284171
Harry potter 1
Harry Potter 2
Harry potter 3
Hairy potter 4
Harry Potter 5
Harry potta 6
Harry Potter 7
Inferno
Angels and demons
The Da vinci malinci codedinci

>>8284186
High five.

1. As I Lay Dying
2. Kings I (KJV)
3. The Odyssey
4. The Castle
5. The Galactic Pot Healer
6. Daniel (KJV)
7. The 9 gorillion names of God
8. The Bright Messenger
9. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
10. Lucifers Hammer

Harry potter 1
Harry Potter 2
Harry potter 3
Hairy potter 4
Harry Potter 5
Harry Potter 6
Harry Potter 7
Harry Potter 8
Harry Potter 9
Harry Potter 10

1. Infinite Jest
2. Stoner
3. Lolita
4. Blood Meridian
5. Heart of Darkness

ive only read 5 books

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>>8284171
>Honey, can you come in here?
>Why does my copy of IJ smell like ass?
>If you want to sit on my books, wipe a little better. I mean, cmon you got a little poo smear on it for christs sake.

>>8284171
My new favorite book is whichever one she is sitting directly on top of, however I can't make out a title.

>>8284291
underrated post

>>8284284
I feel like I'm about to throw up thanks to that anon, jesus christ

>>8284219
>Yes - Thomas Bernhard

really? I read that and it was the weakest Bernhard I ever read. Have you tried the rest of his stuff?

>>8284351
Some. I read Woodcutters, The Voice Impersonator and some of his short stories. I've been wanting to read his autobiographical works, but I don't have the first one. What's your favourite Bernhard?

>>8284171

>Sam Harris


Kys

>>8284284

You fucking ruined the beaty of that pic to me

Hope you're happy with yourself, you disgusting cunt.

on god if I caught a thot sitting her nasty ass on top of my books like that she would lose her damn life

>>8284365
Concrete, Loser, Frost. Yes was actually pretty disappointing, but it was short so I didn't care.

>>8284394
real talk
some people are just sick in the head

>>8284318
>>8284394
>>8284406
You people are weird. I see a post like that, and it's disgusting sure, but I forget about it soon after. Retards don't deserve to be remembered, and the person who posted that is a retard. If someone talking about poop is enough to ruin all naked women for you then you need to see a therapist.

as it is in no order:

Moby Dick
Book of the New Sun
Urth of the New Sun
Call of the Wild
I Am Legend
Alamut
The Man in the High Castle
From Hell
Don Quixote
Shadow of the Sun

Confessions of a Mask
Oblomov
Thus Spoke Zarathoustra
Divine Comedy
Les Faux-monnayeurs
Un jardin sur l'Oronte
Ficciones
Cien Anos de Soledad
De l'inconvénient d'être né
Pride and Prejudice

>>8284415
THIS IS A CELIBATE BOARD

There's a thread for people like you. Stay in it

>>8284415
Literally a 6.5/10

Jesus Christ would you stop using this hideous pic, OP?

>>8284284
Kek

No particular order.

Slaughterhouse Five
The Corrections
Nausea
Them - Adventures With Extremist
Less Than Zero
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Anna Karenina
Blood Meridian

I can't think of two more books I enjoyed enough to put on this list.

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals by Elizabeth Smart
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Chaos by James Gleick

Whom is this ebony goddess

>>8284716
>ebony
Are you retarded?

>>8284724
She has dark skin

>>8284318
>>8284394
>implying it doesn't make it better

I come to /lit/ for the sole purpose of masturbating to this pic, I like to imagine smelling her ass sweat on the top book

Why hasn't some anon recreated the pic by plonking his hairy arse on a stack of essential /lit/core?

>>8284171
God dammit I really dont like this picture for some reason

Ubik by PKD

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Espedair Street by Iain Banks

The Trial by Kafka

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Márquez

Neither Here, Nor There by Bill Bryson

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

I dunno these are all the books I read in my life

>>8284415
this is a blue board, mate, no prawn allowed

>>8284273
Hang around /lit/ a /lit/tle longer, a.non. We'll tell you what your other favorite books are

I don't have a "top ten." It's not even worth it to say "plebeian" here.

Works of literature don't fall into a linear scale line-up.

>Phenomenology of Spirit
>The Book of Lies
>Dianetics: The Original Thesis
>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>The Koran
>Capitalism and Schizophrenia
>Submission
>The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy
>Hamlet
>Kiss Me, Deadly

>>8284806
maybe because you are homosexual?

>>8284893
I have never been able to make top ten lists of any medium I like. I don't even really understand the concept of a "favorite movie" or a "favorite book". When someone asks me I just answer with the first good movie or book that comes to mind.

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Without a particular order:

Ray Monk - Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
Kafka - The Trial
Kafka - The Castle
Shelly - Frankenstein
St. Augustine - Confessions
Dazai - Schoolgirl
Sophocles - The Theban Plays
Euripides - Medea & Other Plays
Wittgenstein - Blue & Brown Books
Nabokov - Pale Fire

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>>8284171
>(so don't include obscure russian writers just because you think it makes you look smart, it doesn't).

>mfw years of reading obscure lit were all for nothing

>>8284171
i havent read any of these, but,

complete shakespeare
faerie queene
gargantua & pantagruel
Don Quixote
the divine comedy
the cantos
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
The Recognitions
J R

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>>8284806
>>8284977
rekted hard

In no particular order

Dune
Book of the New Sun
2001
The Hobbit
The Lays of Beleriand
The Gunslinger
A Storm of Swords
The Jungle
Neuromancer
The Stand

Hate all you want, I'd rather have good taste than /lit/ taste.

>>8285660
>I'd rather have good taste than /lit/ taste.
You have neither

>>8285664
Good one dude!

>>8284171

That fucking bitch is getting her shit stains all over the cover of that book.

>>8285719
It's Blood Meridian, so it's already a shit book.

>>8284171
>HONEST
pleb

>>8285660
Reading storm of swords right now. The Arya chapters are killing me. Rest of the book is good, but Arya'a story with Lord Beric's men is just too damn long and boring.

Stoner
Pride and Prejudice
The Karamazov Brothers
Anna Karenina
Of Mice and Men
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Crying of Lot 49
The Old Man and the Sea
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

No particular order:
1. Silmarillion - J.R.R.T.
2. Lord of the Rings (whole trilogy) - J.R.R.T.
3. Hobbit - J.R.R.T.
4. Song of Ice and Fire (whole series) - G.R.R.M.
5. The Foundation (whole series) - Isaac Asimov
6. The Demon Cycle - Peter V. Brett
7. 1984 - George Orwell
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell
9. HP (whole series) - J.K.Rowling
10. Poirot (not going to bother writing down all of the names) - Agatha Christie

>>8284171
Nice body. Now show soles.

>>8285040
Good taste: The post.

I also haven't read any of them.

The Long Walk - Stephen King
Favourite book of all time

>>8286003
That was the book that first made me want to write! No book before then had ever made me feel what the characters were feeling. Good choice. Holy shit it's nice having threads like this where for a brief moment I can visit /lit/ without having some pretentious 18 year old english major try to shove pynchon or dfw's dick in my mouth.

Siddhartha
Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff
Lolita
Ficciones
The Invention of Morel
Catch 22
Wind Up Bird Chronicles
White Noise
A Confederacy of Dunces
Sorcerer's Stone

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>>8284171
I wish my face was a stack of books

Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Unicorn - Miller
The Trial - Kafka
American Psycho - Ellis
The Fall - Camus
Jitterbug Perfume - Robbins
The Birthday Party - Pinter
Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald
Stories of a Dirty Old Man - Bukowski
Less than Zero - Ellis
The Picture if Dorian Gray - Wilde

>>8286003
>>8286050
This board has gone so downhill

>>8284171

Petersburg Tales - Nikolai Gogol
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
The Cossacks - Tolstoy
Growth of the Soil - Hamsun
Pan - Hamsun
Lykke-Per - Henrik Pontoppidan
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida - Shakespeare
Hærværk - Tom Kristensen

This is legitimately honest.

Yu Hua - To Live
August Strindberg - Inferno
Sigrid Undset - The Wreath
Maksim Gorkij - My Childhood and In the World (never finished My Universities, which is part three)
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Franz Kafka - In the Penal Colony and The Metamorphosis
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Herman Hesse - Siddharta
Cynthia Summers (editor) - Vampire the Masquerade Revised Edition.

All ten books of Malazan, and anything from that universe too.

>>8284785
>She has dark skin
no

>>8286143
All of 4chan has lost quality desu

In Search of Lost Time
The Man Without Qualities
The Transylvania Trilogy
Titus Groan
Mason & Dixon
Being and Time
Journey to the End of the Night
The Sea of Fertility
The Castle
Petersburg

Who is this chocolate sunday

>>8286143
Have you read it? Then shut the fuck up. Early King is great. Pull your head out of your ass.

>>8284171
also not in particular order

1. Fornar Ástir - Sigurður Nordal
2. Complete Fiction - H.P. Lovecraft
3. Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher - Walter Moers
4. Woyzeck - Georg Büchner
5. Der Schimmelreiter - Theodor Storm
6. Das Nibelungenlied
7. Grettis Saga
8. Blóðhófnir - Gerður Kristný
9. The Coming Race - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

>>8284284
Going to pasta this whenever this stupid picture gets posted here. Thanks.

>>8286143
Shouldn't you be on sparknotes reading about how whatever flavor of the month "literature" is supposed to have made you feel so you can share your manufactured reactions with the 4/10 behind the counter at your local barnes n noble? The sad thing is this is probably not far from the truth.

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>Why does this book smell like poop?

>>8286562
The Long Walk ending was fucking awful. Get some damn taste for pete's sake

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>>8284284

>>8284284

Why do you hate my penis?

>>8286951

>low T detected

Implying that chick's ass doesn't smell like heaven

>>8286961
Freak. I don't care who it is. After no showering for a long time it's gross.

>>8286966
go back to /r9k/, faggot

>>8287015
Sh-shut up..

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>>8284171
In no order:

The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
The Sailor Who Fell..., Mishima
Snow Country, Kawabata
2666, Bolano
The Hobbit, Tolkien
The Moon is Down, Steinbeck
Oliver Twist, Dickens
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
My Struggle, Knausgaard
Witch Grass, Queneau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78E2N156ZJk

>>8286050
>>8286744
summerfaggot leave

Twilight
Mein Kampf
Green Eggs and Ham
Eat, Pray, Love
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
The Fault in Our Stars
The Hunger Games
Brave New World
Harry Potter
The Art of War

>>8287187
Nah i think i'll stay.

>>8287158
what the hell sam

>>8284875
TOPKEK

>>8284219
>Volverás a Región - Juan Benet
are you the anon that rec'd this? if so thanks. it is awesome

>>8287193
well meme'd my friend

>>8284545
And a patrician appears.

Master and Margerita
Ulysses
Ficciones
Moby Dick
Sound and the Fury
The American
Under the Volcano
Black Snow
Rayuela
The Waves

>>8285798
High school English/10

The Dice Man
Catch 22
House of Leaves
S.
Drawing the Head and Hands
Cirque Du Freak
The Koran
Fear and Loathing in Las vegas
The wheel of time
Choke

in no particular order.

I haven't read 10 books yet (counting HP as 1 book).

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The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Infinite Jest
The Sound and The Fury
The Brothers Karamazov
Dubliners
My Twisted World
Don Quixote
Meditations
Up, Simba!

Les caves du Vatican - Gide
Le spleen de Paris - Baudelaire
The idiot - Dostoïevsky
A confederacy of dunces- JK Toole
The witcher - Sapkowski
L'homme qui rit - Hugo
The keeper of herds - Pessoa
A rebours - Huysmans
The baron in the trees - Calvino
Un roi sans divertissement - Giono

>>8288111
kek

>The Outsiders
>Catcher In The Rye
>Of Mice and Men
>Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
>Rumble Fish
>The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
>The Body (also Stephen King)
>Lord of The Flies
>Shooter
>The Giver

Basically most classic YA books, reading them in middle and high school made me enjoy English.

>>8284241
I read #5 as "The Galactic Pot Dealer"
kek'd

Latino incoming.

In no particular order:

The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoievsky
El Astillero, Onetti
Ulysses, Joyce
Rayuela, Cortázar
Los Siete Locos/Los Lanzallamas, Arlt
Los Detectives Salvajes, Roberto Bolaño
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
Story Of The Eye, Bataille
Cicatrices, Saer
Nausea, Sartre

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Gravity's Rainbow
The Trial
The Canterbury Tales
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
The Crying of Lot 49
Metamorphoses
Valis
Illuminatus!
The Sot Weed Factor
For Whom The Bell Tolls

>>8287351
Yep. Glad you liked it. Are you aiming at any other Benet? I bought "En el Estado" some weeks ago. I'll probably let /lit/ know in some way how I liked it.

No particular order

1. Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
2. Lolita - Nabokov
3. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Rabelais
4. As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
5. Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado de Assis
6. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (yep)
7. Death of a River Guide - Richard Flanagan
8. Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cook
9. Rontel - Sam Pink
10. The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux

>>8284180
Just post their names in top ten order then.

>>8284806

This only thing I don't like about this picture whenever I see it is that her ass is literally touching the book cover. For all we know there found be skid marks.

>>8288421

>could*

>>8288421

>implying her skidmarks aren't aesthetic af

On the Marblecliffs by Jünger
Fiasco by Kertész
Trilogy by Beckett (it count's as one right?)
Confessions of a Mask by Gayjackednip
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
Illuminatus! trilogy by RAW and Shea
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pinecone
The Savage Detectives by Mexican Pinecone
House of Leaves
Stoner

>>8288421
I think for me, it's really just the 'right foot pose on toes and head down' thing. Like some sort of naked retard neckbeard

>>8284284
>>8284318
>>8284394

Faggots. The ass smell is what makes it work.

Kafka- The Castle
Camus- The Fall
Melville - Moby Dick
Kafka- The Castle
Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Borges - Fictions
Hesse- Siddhartha
Nietzche - Beyond Good and Evil
Lao Tzu- Tao Te Ching
Aristotle - Ethics

>>8292148

>listing The Castle twice

Is this some meme I don't know about

>>8292170
not knowing about memes is the new meme, summerfriend

>>8292170
oh fuck I didnt notice when i was making it

>>8284171
Plutarch - Parallel lives (Alexander the Great)
Sand Count Almanac - Aldo Leopold
The Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Republic - Plato
Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
End of Faith - Sam Harryass
What do you care what other people think? - Richard Feynman
Cahokia - Tim Pauketat
Sailing Around The World Alone - Joshua Slocum

>>8292185
How about not knowing about that meme then?

>>8292205
There's like 1 fiction book in there.

>>8292205
this is the list of someone who doesn't know how to have fun.

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>>8292186
How Kafkaesque.

>>8285660
You have an assassin's creed tattoo

>>8284171
In no order:
The Magus
Through the valley of the nest of spiders
11/22/63
Ancient History
Sons and Lovers
Foucaults Pendulum
Beyond Black
Dhalgren
The Ghost Writer
A Heart So White

Most of the posts in this thread are fucking repulsive. You people don't read because you enjoy it; you don't read to forget your miserable existences. I see now that you read the bare minimum of the "classics" in order to qualify yourself as a reader. I can now tell that I am surrounded by the words of people who read boring trite, which fails to resonate with them on the simplest of levels, solely so you can feed that smug shit-eating, piss-drinking grin that works it's way onto your irksome, douchey face every time you are presented with an opportunity where you are "forced" to "reluctantly" proclaim to your uninterested listener that you are, in fact, "a well read connoisseur of literature.

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>>8292591
or maybe I like those books?

>>8292591
Please rate mine anon, and give yours.

Mine: >>8288417

>>8284284
I would give anything to rim her dirty ass. Shit if I lived with her I wouldn't let her use toilet paper, she would just have me lick her clean after she shits and pisses

>>8292593
Of course one would like them, they are classics. but favorites should be forged of a special sentimentality, a deep connection with the writing wholly unique to the individual. The problem here is it shows you've failed to expand your horizons past this egotistical wankery. With the vast library of the world at your disposal, one should find it so convent that you just ever happen to enjoy what we are told the intellectuals among us will enjoy the most.

My list... There aren't any picks that are going to be there to impress anons, just stuff I loved. Not really an order to it either.

The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
The Giver - Lois Lowry
1984 - George Orwell
A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
The Gunslinger - Stephen King
A Feast For Crows/A Dance With Dragons (A Feast for Dragons reading order) - George R.R. Martin
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
The Lord of the Rings (counting as one book, as the man intended) - J.R.R. Tolkien

>>8292367
Somebody please rate my list thanks

>>8292652
If you enjoyed those books, the list is great. Why do you care what people think of what YOU like? You don't need other people to validate your taste in books. Just read what you like and let the story pull you into it. That's what stories are supposed to do. If those did that, awesome.

>>8292655
Stop being a lame, anon.

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>>8292671
>I need anonymous people to validate my opinions on books... ... but you stop being lame

Alright, I'll get on that...

>>8292671
Oh, and samefagging here but I like your list, personally. 11/22/63 is one of King's best. I really loved it.

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>1) House of Leaves
>2) On the Road
>3) The Lord of the Rings
>4) Redwall
>5) UBIK
>6) The Old Man and the Sea
>7) Hells Angels
>8) The Dharma Bums
>9) Watchmen
>10) Watership Down

Really memey, I'm aware.

>>8288417
Why has no one commented on my list or rated it? Do I have no friends here? Or enemies either? Is my list that average?

1. Great Expectations
2. Little Dorrit
3. Old Curiosity Shop
4. Bleak House
5. Nobody's Boy
6. Nobody's Girl
7. Lord of The Rings
8. Anne of Green Gables
9. Emily of New Moon
10. A Little Princess