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Hello.
I'm not a big reader, but I would be very willing to start reading much more often in order to be more cultured in writing film, short stories, and comic narratives. The problem is that there are too many to choose from, and I don't know where to start on my road to "good writing". I'm not as interested in learning how to write stories leaning towards specific genres, as much as I'd like to know how to write good stories in general.
From an artist's standpoint, what books are essential to reference for the road towards good storywriting? I've also begun to read up on tvtropes, to be more familiar with some of the really basic structure of general storywriting and scriptwriting.
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>>8776637
Flannery O'Conner's complete stories
Kafka's kollected stories
Borges - Ficciones
Corncob Mccucky - Blood Meridian
Meme Wolfe - Shadow & Claw
Hermann Melville - Moby DICK
Shakespeare's plays
William Gass - Omensetters Luck
Nabokov - Lolita
Ikuhara - Revolutionary Girl Utena
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Read the Iliad and the Odyssey
Chekhov for some masterfully constructed short stories
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>>8776687
before reading Moby Dick I'd recommend hitting "Bartleby the scrivener" before hand. It's a short story written by Melville and it's pretty excellent.
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>>8776719
Will do, thank you.
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Infinite Jest is one of the best beginner books
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>>8776773
It's funny because it's not that hard of a novel, just long and unusually ordered.
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>>8776776
That's why i recced it, it's an easy read
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>>8776671
Came here to post the Iliad and Odyssey. I think you should read at least the major plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as well, being the Oresteia, Three Theban Plays, and Bacchae respectively.
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>>8776659
why are Shakespeare's plays so important?
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>>8777092
They're one of the best examples of meeting high culture with low culture.
Also, out of that list, there the most straightforward in terms of plot structure.
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>>8777092
straight up everything after makes references to them
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thanks everybody for making /lit/ into a boring shitty request board
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>>8777463
>thanks everybody for making /lit/ into a boring shitty request board
Mate, I request books on here all the time because no one fucking goes to /wsr/. There is no one who has an actual issue with this.
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>>8777092
Shakespeare is the western canon.
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>>8776637
Le Secret de l'Eau Bleue is probably the most important work of the 20th or 21st century.
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