Sci-fi and Adult books

>>8889631
I don't know what books are a must read in general, i mean things like Whitman, Hemmingway or Tolstoi. I would like to know too.

Absolutely Required Works:
The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE)
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners and Ulysses by James Joyce (1914, 1922)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

How about you start by reading The Sticky and then maybe move on to reading threads on here

Lesser Known Works by Famous Authors


Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac (1831)
Demons/The Possessed/The Devils by Dostoevsky (1871)
The Forged Coupon and Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (1910, 1912)
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1931)
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse (1931)
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov (1935)
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947)
The Fall by Albert Camus (1956)
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (1958)
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams (1960)
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata (1962)
October Ferry to Gabriola by Malcolm Lowry (1970)
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979)
Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (1982)
Blow-up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar (1985)
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988)
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (1995)
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (1997)
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano (2000)
Seeing by Jose Saramago (2004)

Underrated Books


Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (1791)
Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant (1850’s)
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (1914)
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
The Confession of Zeno by Italo Svevo (1923)
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig (1939)
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (1940)
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (1941)
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
The Cannibal By John Hawkes (1949)
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman (1961)
Silence by Shusaku Endo (1966)
Xiao Ao Jiang Hu/The Smiling, Proud Wanderer/Laughing in the Wind by Jin Yong (1969)
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote (1980)
Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass (1996)
The Albany Trilogy by William Kennedy (1996)
Giles Goat Boy by John Barth (1966)
The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (1998)
Orfeo by Richard Powers

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>>8889631
>90 KB JPG Sci-fi and Adult books Anonymous 12/26/16(Mon)22:27:11 No.8889631>>8889639When I say adult books I DO NOT MEAN erotica. I mean books with adult chara
those fucking metro books were great. Read Do Androids dream of electric sheep. Classic

>>8889631
If you liked Metro 2033 read Roadside Picnic and then the Kefahuchi Tract series (or at least the first two).

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>>8889631
>YA is so all-encompassing now that "adult" must be differentiated