Forgive me /lit/ for I am but a peasant when it comes to consuming

>>8914299
Read Kafka (Metamorphosis), Calvino (If on a winter's night a traveller/ Cosmicomics), Boulgakov (The Master and Margarita), Borges' short stories, Gogol's short sorties, Svevo (Zeno's Conscience). All relatively short books which are extremely fun to read, imo at least. Should get you hooked reading.

>>8914299
>>8914299
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Study in Scarlet and other Sherlock Holmes short stories
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (series)

Good novels, novellas and series to get proles into the patrician tier hobby that is reading.

>>8914299

Portrait of The Artist as Young Man

Why does everyone ignore the fucking sticky?

>>8914381
Because it's impersonal

>>8914351
Fear and Loathing too

>>8914299
You're honestly doing well by the standards of a lot of places. Read 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus.' If you understand it you can consider yourself e/lit/e.

/lit/ basic reading list, feel free to add your own shit, just keep it entry level

Start with the Greeks:
- The Illiad & The Odyssey by Homer
- The Republic by Plato

Early European Canon:
- Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney. Supplement Grendel by John Gardner
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Excerpts acceptable
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, supplement additional Arthurian legends
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Later European Canon:
- Everything by William Shakespeare
- Notes from the Underground, The Idiot, Crime & Punishment and Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoekvsky (tackle these as you like, shit's dense)
- The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Les Miserables (abridged acceptable but not recommended) by Victor Hugo
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Great Expectations and The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Modern Western Works:
- Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Everything by Ernest Hemingway (I most recommend The Complete Short Stories)
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Slaughterhouse Five; or, The Childrens' Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

>>8915135
And just to add my own little touch:

Entry Level Genre Sci-Fi:

- Armor by John Steakley
- Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
- Dune series by Frank Herbet (and ONLY Frank Herbet, his son is a retard)
- Ringworld by Larry Niven, see if the series is right for you
- The War of the Worlds and Tripod series by H.G. Wells
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Queer by William Burroughs, Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney, and A Fan's Notes by Fred Exley.

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Start. With. The. Greeks.

>>8914358
Just skip straight to Gilligan's Wake

>>8914299
>reading Anne Rice
What the hell, she ruined Gothic literature for everyone!