I have never been on /lit/. I do not know what makes you guys

Start with the Greeks

>>9338096
>I'm a newfag
Which Greeks do you recommend.

>>9338096
/θρεαδ

>>9338093
From personal experience.

Good:
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Catch 22 - Joseph Miller
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Trash:
Any generic Romance/smut novels sold at Wal-Mart; Shit movie novelizations, etc.

>>9338109
Start with Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle

>>9338173
2001: A Space Odyssey has a really good novelization

>>9338093
Let me catch you up.
/lit/ recommends:
- Infinite Jest
- Blood Meridian
- Gravity's Rainbow
- Lolita
- Ulysses

/lit/ seems to hate:
- Ready Player One
- Harry Potter
- anything by Stephen King
- anything by John Green
- Tai Pei

I just saved you so many threads.

>Books /lit/ loves
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Lolita
Blood Meridian

>Books /lit/ hates
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Lolita
Blood Meridian

>>9338173
The book thief?
Wtf I hate lit now.
Picked it up after some other internet recommendations.
It wasn't bad written, but the author struggled with the characters. He tried making almost every Charakter lovable and failed miserable at the attempt.

>>9338093
Good:
Bible
Complete Plato
City of God
Complete Shakespeare
Moby-Dick

Bad:
Blood Meridian
Toa Lin
Murakami
/sffg/
Lincoln in the Bardo

>>9338395
/lit/ doesn't hate Murakami, though

>>9338395
>Lincoln in the Bardo
But I've ever only heard meh-to-good things about Saunders on here

>>9338395
Actual valuable advices OP, you're in luck. Be careful with Plato, though, maybe just read his early dialogues for a start. If you look for more entry-level stuff, there's a chart somewhere.

>>9338395
This is actually a great list.

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>>9338093
Start with the Greeks. Don't come back until you've read and comprehended the complete works of Plato and Aristotle, newpleb.

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The Holy Bible (King James Version)
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Dante's Divine Comedy

Then dive into the world of non-fiction.

>>9338369
This is the answer OP

>>9338369
so deep