Year is almost over, so what have you read this year, what did

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>>8857438

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>>8857439
This year starts with Der Wehrwolf.

Particular favourites (with the exception of books by the authors i already mentioned) were the following:
>Salammbo
>Illusiones perdu
>Le Rouge et le Noir
>Die Zerissenen Jahre
>A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again
>Libra
>Brief Interviews with hideous men
>Byung-Chul Han
>Schopenhauer
>Deutschland, Ein Wintermärchen
>Euripides in general

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>>8857450
>>Byung-Chul Han
nice

>>8857438
>what are you planning to read next year
The first two parts of the meme trilogy and some basic overview of western philosophy so I can join in on dem memes, and formal logic because autismo. Other than that just whatever i feel like reading at the moment.

>>8857438

My best reading year yet, 77 books so far. I've never been a big reader until now, and my book choices are mostly informed by /lit/.

Some favourites; Colourless Tsukuru, Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Lord Horror, White Noise, War and Peace, V., Blood Meridian, The Handmaid's Tale, Lolita, All the Pretty Horses and Gravity's Rainbow. I read Taipei and really didn't like it I'm sorry!

As for future readings I kind of pick as I go. Next up is Wolf Hall, The Remains of the Day or The Three-Body Problem.

>>8857469
>needing to study logic
get a glossary of nomenclature. if you need anything else youre never gonna make it

>>8857438
What's your opinion on the Sea of Fertility tetralogy? How does it compare to the rest of Mishima's novels?

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>>8857438
I read a whole bunch of children's books this year. I'll probably be going through a lot next year too.

>>8857469
You don't need to read anything to be a memer

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>>8857438
I don't remember all the books I read but The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark and Stoner by John Williams were the best ones.

>>8857438
read maybe 20 books. I couldn't read until about March, I was hospitalized.
I was already a reader, but this is my first year on /lit/, which influenced my reading heavily.
Virginia Woolf became my favorite writer. Dostoyevsky became something above that. I feel a bit better about my disenchantment with Vonnegut and Murakami. Hesse was mind-altering reading. If I had to pick a top five
>Crime and Punishment
>Mrs. Dalloway
>To the Lighthouse
>Steppenwolf
>Stoner
I hope to finish The Idiot before the new year and start 2017 with The Waves. I'd like to cover more /lit/ essentials, but definitely more stuff that's off the map. 2017 will be a good year

>>8857728
How are you liking The Idiot anon? First time I read it I was 18 years old. Read it again at 25 and loved it. One of my favourites.

Books I read in 2016

1. The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
2. Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
3. The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald /The City of Dreadful Night by
James Thomson/The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
5. The Pigeon by Patrick Susskind
6. V by Thomas Pynchon
7. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
8. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
9. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
10. This Is the Ritual by Rob Doyle
11. Lanark by Alasdair Gray
12. Sabbath’s Theater by Phillip Roth
13. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
14. Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse
15. Là-bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans
16. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
17. Man’s Fate by Andre Malraux
18. The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet
19. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine
20. Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
21. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
22. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
23. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
24. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

I'm 1/3 of the way through The Bishop and Other Stories by Anton Chekov. I should finish before the end of the year

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This year was good, I think. My readings were mostly shaped by Shakespeare. I also plan to read Crave and Blasted, by Sarah Kane, before the year ends. I don't know exactly what I will read next year, since there are so many things I want to read, but I know it's going to be fun.

>>8857736
I loved part 1, part is a bit of a drag but I'm almost through it. I don't like it as much as C&P, but that's because I prefer the psychological themes. The characters are great, I'm really looking forward to part 3

>>8857665
sounds like a bad year, sorry man

>>8857615
Reminder that grown adults reading children's books are fetishising the genre.

>>8857830
>"reminder that"
>inevitably followed by some stupid shit
why are tumblrfags constantly reminding everyone of how fucking dumb they are

>>8857830
I'm reading them in preparation for a kid, anon. I'm not going to expect a baby to be able to read on its own; I'll have to read them out loud for a couple of years.

>>8857810
It was not. I spent more than 12 years reading classics and I've already read the works some of you are enjoying for the first time. These are books I've never read before. I feel extremely identified with Stoner and The Sleepwalkers is one of the best history books I've ever read.

>>8857556
Blew me away. Runaway Horses is easily one of my favourite books of all time. Had a very heavy impact on me. Have a weird love-relationship with Mishima though, the novel that i'm planning out in my head, while working on my writing, relates directly to him and his writing.

>>8857512
>if you need
For what? I'm gonna read about it for interest not memes. That's why I put it after the comma but I guess should have made it it's own sentence.

1.-Tragedies-Aeschylus
2.- Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
3.-Alice Through the Looking-Glass-Lewis Carroll
4.-The Greek Way-Edith Hamilton
5.-La Tumba-José Agustín
6.-The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Sallinger
7.-L'étranger-Albert Camus
8.-Genet-Edmund White
9.-Naked Lunch-William Burroughs
10.-The Nurture Assumption-Judith Rich Harris

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>>8858497

>>8857873
This makes me happy.
Good luck

>>8858568

Do you even lift, bro?

Gotta step it up in 2017.

>>8857439
Dürrenmatt is good shit. Have you read der Besuch der alten Dame?

>>8857764
>banks
>hawkes
>suskind
>roth
>llosa

Man you've read some good stuff dude holy shit

>>8859269
Nay, i've got it in my shelf though. May be a decent time to read it during the holidays. Really liked Romulus.

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1. The Master and Margarita
2. The Life of Monsieur de Moliere
3. The Republic
4. Oh (Albanian Post Modernism)
5. Tregtar Flamujsh (Albanian Modernism)
6. Most of Shakespeare's Comedies
7. Richard III, Macbeth, Hamlet
8. Reread Dubliners throughout the year
9. Reread parts of Ulysses throughout the year
10. Guermante's Way
11. Sodom and Gomorrah
12. Confession - St. Augustine
13. Calvino's American Lessons
14. The Book of Disquiet
15. Beckett's Dramatic works
16.The File on H
17. The Palace of Dreams
18. Zeno's Conscience
19. Montaigne Essays

I haven't read a lot, I know, but this year I really got into poetry, which I ignorant about. Started appreciating it a whole lot. Some of my favourites are Rimbaud, Verlaine, Cummings, Yeats, Stevie Smith, Apollinaire, Prevert, Shakespeare, Shelley. I also enjoy learning poetry by heart a whole lot, I use it as a kind of meditation, to cleanse my mind. So far I have memorized Clair de Lune by Verlaine, Ophelia by Rimbaud, The Tyger by Blake, She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron as well as Sonnet 18, ''To be or not to be soliloquy'' and ''All the world's a stage'' soliloquy by Shakespeare.

I would really like to start reading, and working to understand as much as I can of Finnegans Wake through the next year.

Just got into reading good lit this year.

>C&P
>The man in the high castle
>Lolita
>The stranger

I plan on next year reading:

>The idiot
>Do androids dream of electric sheep
>The plague
>A canticle for leibowitz

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>>8857438
I'll try better next year.

>>8860907
How was The Master and Margarita?
I have read Heart of a Dog and found it quite entertaining, but i'm not sure what to expect from The Master and Margarita

>Infinite Jest - DFW
> War & Peace - Tolstoy
>Ulysses - James Joyce
> Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
> To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
> The Martian - Andy Weir
> The Physics - Aristotle
> The Metaphysics - Aristotle

It's been a long year

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>>8860961
It is one of the most entertaining/funny/disturbing books I have ever read. It keeps you hooked in a way few novels do, it has a vast cast of characters, it's plot is lush and colourful, moving at an extremely fast pace and somehow never having you struggle to follow it. It is something unique, nothing else like it in my opinion.

>>8860953
Did any of those books help you improve as a person/ view things differently in a manner you are aware of?

>>8861015
Well I believe in God now largely due to Plato.

>>8861022
>believing in God
Being religious I get, but actually believing? Smhtbhfam.

>>8861030
pure ideology

>>8861030
It's sort of sketchy at the moment desu. I don't know where I am.

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>>8861031
I thought SFAP was really funny in a deadpan faux-profundity Tim & Eric/MDE sort of way, but I heard Taipei was more conventional so idk if I'll bother reading it. Or are you not actually Tao Lin? I'm assuming you are because I know he browses /lit/ and normally a thread wouldn't have gotten this far if it was started by a trip.

Books of 2016:

1. Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism
2. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3. Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
4. Leonard Cohen - Flowers for Hitler
5. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
6. Simone de Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death
7. James Joyce - Dubliners
8. Edith Hamilton - Mythology (Comp. 28 April 2016)
9. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Comp. 23 May 2016)
10. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (Comp. 05 June 2016)
11. Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful (Comp. 12 June 2016)
12. Don DeLillo - White Noise (Comp. 28 June 2016)
13. J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey (Comp. 02 July 2016)
14. John Williams - Stoner (Comp. 16 July 2016)
15. J.D. Salinger - Nine Stories (Comp. 09 August 2016)
16. Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd (Comp. 20 August 2016)
17. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea (Comp. 11 September 2016)
18. John Steinbeck - East of Eden (Comp. 13 September 2016)
19. Sigmund Freud - Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Comp. 19 September 2016)
20. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant (Comp. 21 September 2016)
21. Sigmund Freud - Civilization and its Discontents (Comp. 25 September 2016)
22. W. G. Sebald - The Emigrants (Comp. 30 September 2016)
23. Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin (Comp. 26 October 2016)
24. Colm Toíbín - Brooklyn (Comp. 03 November 2016)
25. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (Comp. 27 November 2016) (2)
26. Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond (Comp. 30 November 2016)
27. George Eliot - Middlemarch (Comp. 19 December 2016)

>>8857438
what do you use to generate these images

>>8862853
Goodreads or LibraryThing

>>8860967
>The Martian

I'm sorry

100 Years of Solitude
Love in Times of Cholera
Heart of Darkness
Guns, Germs and Steel
Superintelligence
Stoner
Rayuela
The Stranger
Death in Venice (and other stories)
The Trial
Why Nations Fail
2666
The Savage Detectives
Distant Star
The Flowers of Evil
The Book of Disquiet
Amulet
Nazi Literture in the Americas
Crime and Punishment
Notes from the Undergound
Death of Ivan Ilych
The Songs of Alfred J. Purfrock and The Waste and (They came together in the same book)
By night in Chile
Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
Dubliners
All of the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges
The Time of The Hero
The Rebellion of The Masses
The Republic and other dialogues
Hunger
Pedro Páramo
El Llano en Llamas
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Old Man and the Sea
The Setting Sun
No Longer Human
The Tunnel (Sábato)
Huasipungo
Borges oral (a collection of classes in a college by Borges)
The two first Hitchhiker´s guide books

Lots of poetry from Rimbaud, Borges, Pessoa, Neruda, Pizarnik, César Vallejo, Octavio Paz, Whitman (Leaves of Grass, but i haven´t finished it), Joyce, Nicanor Parra, Benedetti. Short stories from Cortázar, Bolaño, De Maupassant, Chekhov, Juan Villoro, Pynchon, Onetti, Kafka, Urmuz, Faulkner, Kjell Askildsen, García Márquez.

>>8857764
what were your favorites?

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Mine has been a life of much shame

>Herodotus
>The Pre-Socratics
>Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo
>The Sun Also Rises

Embarrassingly my most /lit/ year ever.

>>8857512
>Not knowing about formal logic
Kek mate, I'm guessing you don't know too much maths, eh? Formal logic is a branch of math that's closely related to set theory, lambda calculus, model theory, and proof theory if you're familiar with any of them.

>>8862385
I really am Tao Lin. Taipei is maybe structurally more conventional than my other works, but i think that i pushed my prose really to the edge with this one. My prior works had their unique style of course, but on the level of prose were somewhat minimalistic. Here i went, even if at first glance it may seem differently, since my work mediates a sort of detachedness and autistic non-affection towards reality, here i went much further.