what have you read so far this year?

>>9622348
(if you have to list rereads, list them separately)

War and Peace by Tolstoy
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
Lolita by Vladimir Nabkkov
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
9 short stories by J. D. Salinger
Can you tell I'm new design


Also, where should I start with philosophy?

>>9622406
Desu*

>>9622406
always start with Hikeduugrawr's Bean &Thyme

>>9622406
the greeks

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>>9622406
Seconding the Greeks. How's War and Peace? I'll be reading that soon.

>The Crying of Lot 49
>Walden
>Butcher's Crossing (Williams)
>Answer to Job (Jung)
>The Republic
>The Sound and the Fury
>Aristotle - The Categories, On Interpretation, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, De Anima
>The Girl from Samos (Menander)
>On Great Writing - Longinus
>The Rape of Lucrece
>Antony and Cleopatra
>Sorrows of Young Werther
>Shakespearean Tragedy (A.C. Bradley)
>The New Bloomsday Book
>Wheelock's Latin
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Faust: First Part
>The Art of Love (Ovid)
>Twilight of the Idols
>The Portable Nietzsche
>Lingua Latina
>The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, King John, Henry V, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus
>Anna Karenina
>White Noise
>Martial - Epigrams
>The Aeneid

Re-reads:

Some Shakespeare and Ulysses (second time)

>>9622463

The prose is wonderful, and it's honestly not as much of a slog as people make it out to be. Enjoy it.

>>9622348
>Ibsen

I suspect it was the Oxford edition, was it not? Could you tell me how was the translation, the notes, and the introduction? Is there a better version, or is that good enough?

>>9622484
Cool. Translation rec? I enjoyed Garnett's Karenina (Also Garnett's Brothers K and C&P).

>Ancient Gonzo Wisdom by Hunter S. Thompson
>East of Eden by John Steinbeck
>On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
>The Second Generation by Weis & Hickman
>Evil in Modern Thought by Susan B. Neiman
>Dragons in Summer Flame by Weis & Hickman
>Rebel Dream by Aaron Allston
>Light in August by William Faulkner
>Rebel Stand by Aaron Allston
>The Demon Lover by Robin Morgan
>The Plague by Albert Camus
>Revival by Stephen King
>Under the Dome by Stephen King
>A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
>Desperation by Stephen King
>The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson
>Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
>Runoff by Clay Matthews
>Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
>Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless by Matt Hart
>Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
>Jacob, Menahem, & Mimoun by Marcel Benabou
>All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
>Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
>A Case of Need by Michael Crichton
>Love and Other Hungers by Sarah O'dell Underwood
>Looking Awry by Slavoj Zizek
>Interrogating the Real by Slavoj Zizek

All the King's Men is probably the best thing I've read so far this year. Really stellar book.

>>9622502
i read the idiot in garnet bc that's what was available. it's hard for me to say whether i liked the translation, i'm having a couple friends read it in different translations (one k&p, one someone much less famous) so we can all compare our experiences

>>9622523
i loooooooved all the king's men. actually grew up in the neighborhood where huey p. long kept his house for his mistresses

the town gov was trying to make it a thing to nickname that house "the governor's mansion"..... but everyone called it the whorehouse

>>9622497
it was a library book so i can't be totally sure about this, but my reading notebook says the translators were macfarlane and arup. so probs the oxford.

i thought the intro provided good social context, but no huge insights.

the translations were noticeably midcentury-y in feel, you know what i mean? like nora and hedda were contemporary with the feminine mystique. small amounts of cutesy midcentury slang.

(if ibsen's work had to be inflected with the times of the translator, midcentury honestly works really well.)

but overall highly highly readable and enjoyable.

>>9622523
>>Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless by Matt Hart

i like the title, tell me about the book?

>>9622463
war and peace is baller and hilarious. there's an incredible soviet miniseries of it, as a reward when you're done reading the book

>>9622538
It was really phenomenal. I read the "corrected" edition which undoes some of the editorial changes made to the original manuscript. I wasn't aware that it was somewhat controversial, but I think I'm glad I read that particular edition.

>>9622555
It is a collection of poetry by Matt Hart, who is one of the most phenomenal poets working today. It also has an accompanying cd which puts some of the poem to music with his punk band travel. Look up some videos of him reading on YouTube. I've been fortunate enough to see him read on two separate occasions and it is fucking powerful. I actually introduced him at a reading given at my undergrad institution.

>>9622552
Thanks, man. I am actually planning to buy that edition since it's rather unexpensive.

>>9622596
I just realized I used the word phenomenal redundantly, I'm a little drunk but don't let that detract from how sincerely I am praising both All the King's Men and Matt Hart.

>>9622598
sorry to be a prick, but it's inexpensive

>>9622606
if being drunk meant you couldn't talk about literature, we wouldn't have anyone to listen to

>>9622609
You are absolutely right. I always get it wrong. Thanks for correcting me.

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Going real slow this month, totally fucked up the pace I was moving at. Just been a little complacent and depressed but I think things are gonna get back on track soon

Here we are:

**jan**
The Winter’s Tale
The Emigrants
Elegy
Afghanistan: A Lexicon
Standoff (David Rivard)
Richard II
The Real Inspector Hound
Translation (Brian Friel)
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Henry IV Part One
Illuminations (Walter Benjamin)
Henry IV Part Two
Terra Nova
Homesick for Another Planet
The Widening Spell of the Leaves
Idaho
**feb**
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Bluets
McGlue
Portrait of the Alcoholic
Stag’s Leap
Jack Gilbert’s Collected Poems
Henry V
The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
Lincoln in the Bardo
Fortune Smiles
Salt.(nayyirah waheed)
Of Gravity and Angels (Jane Hirshfield)
Bone (Yrsa Daley Ward)
Too Loud a Solitude
**march**
Faith Healer
The Dead and the Living
The Argonauts
King Henry VI Part One
From Now On: New and Selected Poems (Clarence Major)
The Gold Cell
The Dollmaker’s Ghost
King Henry VI Part Two
Bringing Down the Shovel
Tracer (Frederick Barthelme)
King Henry VI, Part Three
The Oblivion Seekers
Alan Dugan New and Collected Poems, 1961-1983
Dark Money
Crimes of the Heart
**april**
Satan Says
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Richard III
The Father
The Crucible
One Secret Thing
Beowulf
Bob the Gambler
The White Hotel
The Flick (reread)
A Confederacy of Dunces
Titus Andronicus
Speedboat
**may**
The Comedy of Errors
The Aliens (Annie Baker)
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days on the War on Drugs
Love Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Cat Town (Sakutaro Hagiwara)
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Look by Solmaz Sharif
Waveland
John (Annie Baker)
The Vermont Plays
A High Wind in Jamaica
Third and Oak: The Laundromat
**june**
Moon Deluxe

Ulysses
The magic mountain
Life and faith (Grossman)
Lt. Colonel de Maumort (Du Gard)
The Tunnel (Gass)
The divine monster ( Lanoye)
Black tears (Lanoye)
If the heart could think it stood still (Pessoa, collected aphorisms)
Either/Or
Currently reading:
Don Quixote

1. The Bishop and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
2. Image and Idea by Phillip Rahv
3. A Sportsman’s Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
4. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
5. The Trial by Franz Kafka
6. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
7. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
8. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

currently reading Warlock by Oakley Hall

>>9622740
damn son

>>9622348
along w the books in this post, i just read elena ferrante's my brilliant friend

1. All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy)
2. Ham on Rye (Bukowski)
3. Factotum (Bukowski)
4. Women (Bukowski)
5. Hollywood (Bukowski)
6. Pulp (Bukowski)
7. Trainspotting (Welsh)
8. Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
9.Porno (Welsh)
10. A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
11. Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut)

Between books right now but I've been off and on with Infinite Jest

The Stranger by Camoo
The Underground Man by Dostoyevski

I am reading the Brothers Karamazov. Yes, I am a slow reader.

>>9624391
not that these aren't good books, but this is a very one-note list. . .

>>9624398
there's nothing wrong with reading slowly as long as you read!

i think im a fast reader, but anyone who prides themself on their reading just bc they do it fast is an idiot. there's a lot more to reading than skill and there's a lot more to reading-skill than just speed. it's about what you get out of the book

I can't remember.

>>9624417
I'm surprised Fear and Loathing isn't on this list.

>>9622348
I love artichokes.

>>9624458
or fight club

>>9624445
consider keeping a reading notebook where you jot down your thoughts about the books you read

Possession - A.S. Byatt
From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 - Jorie Graham
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus
Vita Nuova (Rosetti trans.) - Dante
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
On Being Ill - Virginia Woolf
Collected Poems - Jorge Luis Borges
Four Reincarnations - Max Ritvo
The Book of Frank - CAConrad
The Divine Comedy (Musa trans.)
A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat - Rimbaud
The Garden Party and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
Consider the Lobster - DFW
The Romantic Dogs - Roberto Bolano
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Varieties of Disturbance - Lydia Davis
Olio - Tyehimba Jess
The Wasteland and Other Poems - John Beer
The End of the Alphabet - Claudia Rankine
Don't Let Me Be Lonely - Claudia Rankine
Look - Solmaz Sharif
The Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) - Samuel Beckett
Voyage of the Sable Venus - Robin Coste Lewis
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elegy - Mary Jo Bang
The Castle - Kafka
Poems - Elizabeth Bishop
The Riverside Milton
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
The Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus
Vita Nuova (Musa trans.)
Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector
The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton
James Joyce - Richard Ellman
Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
Three Guineas - Virginia Woolf

Rereads:
The Last Two Seconds - Mary Jo Bang
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Complete Stories - Kafka

Currently reading Finnegans Wake along with William York Tindall's Reader's Guide because I fell hard for the Joyce meme a couple years back and have been making my way through all of his major works since then

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It's been a pretty good year so far. Gravity's Rainbow is a reread, and I'm about halfway through Infinite Jest (another reread) now.

>>9624562
you are one of like two ppl on this thread who read anything substantial by women

>>9624580
how does one obtain such a graphic???

>>9624588
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017 here anon. For some reason, it doesn't seem like you get get there from within the site easily. Replace year in url to see past stats.

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I just got into /literature/ this year again. I'm going to start on the Western Canon soon, but here's what I've read so far to get back into reading.

> Beowulf (Heaney)
> The Stranger (Camus)
> Meditations (Aurelius)
> The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus)
> Frankenstein (Shelley)
> Why I Am Not A Christian (Russel)
> Tao Te Ching (Tzu)
> Grendel (Gardner)
> Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut)
> The Hobbit (Tolkie )
> Siddhartha (Hesse)
> Beowulf (Tolkien)
> Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
> The Pearl (Steinbeck)
> In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck)
> Huck Finn (Twain)
> Tom Sawyer (Twain)
> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
> Stoner (Williams)
> Dubliners (Joyce)
> Ulysses (Joyce)
> The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)

>>9624616

Oh, yes, and I read a few companion books alongside Ulysses, but I don't quite count those.

>>9622463

Salve! Lingua Latina is exceptional.

>Invisible Cities - Calvino
>If on a winter's night a traveller - Calvino
>Story of My Life - Casanova
>Death in Venice/Tristan - Mann

>Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
>Futurist Theory and Collected Writings - Marinetti

>Italian Futurism 1909-44: Reconstructing the Universe
>Italian Cinema: Reinhabiting the Past in Post-War Cinema - Steimatsky
>Italo Calvino - McLaughlin
>Michelangelo Antonioni: Interviews

>Wagner and Nietzsche - Fischer-Dieskau
>Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics
>The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
>Ockeghem - Krenek
>Ezra Pound and Music
>Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession - Rosselli
>Piano Notes: The Hidden World of the Pianist - Rosen
>Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism - Kimbell
There are certainly some other books about music I can't remember right now. Definitely one about Renaissance music with some generic title I can't quite remember at the moment, along with others.

>>9624634
ayyyyyy fellow calvino fan!

the title of casanova's memoir cracked me up. i'm imagining him as a nineties teen smoking a cigarette. "jesus, story of my life."

>>9624634
it seems like you're big on italian shit, can i recommend ferrante to you?

>>9624417
>>9624458
>>9624506
Just started to get into reading again, sorry if my choices are shit. I tried to read things I knew I would like to get myself going rather than pick something up I knew I wouldn't finish or be interested in. I'm in college and there's a lot of distractions so I want to read things that will keep me coming back. I read Fear and Loathing a year or so ago so hence why it's not on the list.

>>9624585
Lol sadly true, anon. Turns out a lot of the contemporary poetry that's not hot garbage is written by women. Also I'm an undergrad who's focus of study is modernism hence the Joyce, all of the Woolf, Stein, Mansfield, etc.

>>9624648
I forgot Una pietra sopra as well. Tried to piece that list together using my library history but that is more difficult than it should be

Casanova's memoirs were really readable, although I did go with the Penguin Classics edition which is abridged, probably for the best since I think the manuscript runs to 3,700 pages. It's an entertaining read and though a lot of it is about him looking to fuck, it does provide an interesting look into the society of Europe during Casanova's life.

>>9624518
Nah

>>9624651
Just finished my undergrad in Italian and French, hence some of the Italian stuff there (although I read most of it because I was interested, as opposed to couple of chapters for use in essays)
I know a girl who adores Ferrante, but that's my only contact with her.

>>9624666
now i feel bad for teasing.

can i recommend some books that would probably be within your tastes but still expand your horizons a little?

>>9624666
kind of funny/sad that being in college makes extensive reading harder

>>9624702
no problem haha and of course anon, i'm open to any suggestions.

>>9624708
yeah shit sucks

>>9624670
I don't think at all about the author's gender when choosing books, but when I look back on it, my reading list over time is also fairly balanced. Now that the almost complete maleness of most of these reading retrospectives has been pointed out, I'm wondering if my reading habits are all that unrepresentative, or if the issue is just that, well, we're talking about this on 4chan.

Do people actively try to only read men?

Is no one reading Sappho anymore? Arendt, the Brontës, de la Cruz, Didion, Eliot, etc.?

(In fairness, I did see a Beauvoir thread and a Lispector one.)

>>9624695
i think you would really enjoy the neapolitan novels. and it sounds like you'll get to read them in the original italian, you lucky duck.

>>9624710
dedinitely try on the road and dharma bums

>>9624767
yeah i'm gonna read those soon

>>9622484
Those people either haven't read it, or don't read. It's a page-turner.

>>9624777
u could probly get into some sweet bret easton ellis too

>>9624811
yeah i want to read american psycho of course but do you have any other recommendations? i've heard mixed things about less than zero

>>9624754
You know, I think those who actively read only men are probably part of a small minority that congregate in places like 4chan. I think you bring up a good point about reading classics written by women, since it does seem to me like the western canon is male-centric, but there are a good amount of classics people can read that are by women, so maybe the lib arts school environment I exist in is distorting my perspective a bit. Anyway, nice to have a chat with someone on fucking 4chan of all places about shit like this.

Tl;dr the only people who actively try to read only men are those pathetic d-bags that make anti-women posts and threads on /lit/

>>9625088
I read the few good women authors and I make lots of anti-women posts on /lit/ because women are for the most part worthless garbage.

There are just far more male authors of quality. Women's psyche is mired in the kind of shit that doesn't produce good authors, the way we construct it at least. And women really started producing literature mostly in a bourgeois era that mires the general psyche in shit and produces bland mediocrity.

Women are double-shit in our culture. Takes a rare schizotypal weirdo like Arendt to run that gauntlet and come out the other side with something to say.

>>9625120
Whatever you say, anon. Clearly I'm not going to change your mind, so agree to disagree.

Embarrassingly enough I think by Siddhartha by Herman Hesse & The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler are the only books I've actually finished this year.

I have a terrible habit of starting books but not finishing them.

I started Idylls of The King by Tennyson but stopped 2/3 way through.
I also started reading Jill by Philip Larkin but it's not nearly as engaging as his poetry.

I'm currently muddling my way through Fagle's translation of The Iliad.

>>9624562
Hey! (>>9622740 here), how do you like those Rankine? I read Citizen a few years back or whenever it came out and really enjoyed it.

You should read Lucia Berlin

>>9625198
Got a rec for any other Lakrin? I'm a big poetry reader but--fuck, nevermind. Just realized you meant Larkin whom I love and not Levine whom I hate. What's Jill about?

>>9622740
How was The Prophet?

The Alchemist
Lolita (reread)
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Stoner
The Sun Also Rises
Prometheus Rising
Be Here Now
The Kybalion

>>9625120
so you're the dude making anti-womem threads on lit? you know those never have anything to do with literature, right? can you not go post those on pol or r9k?

>>9626768
>implying there aren't many who share the opinion that women make for sub-par authors

>>9626073
It's fine. It's great for what it is: a poetic and thematic collection of aphorisms with a slight narrative tying them all together.

Not a must read, unless you're trying to get into poetry; in which case, hey check it out!

meditations (aurelius)
letters to lucilius (seneca)
a sportsman's sketches (turgenev)
one day in the life of ivan denisovich (solz)
mitt liv som jag minns det (von wright)
the bell jar (plath)
plus random nonfiction and titles not worth translating here

>re-reads
a moveable feast (hem)
tinker tailor soldier spy (le carre)
tractatus & on certainty

Hamsun - Pan
Hamsun - Hunger
Hamsun - Mysteries
Musil - The Confusions of Young Törless
Hamsun - Victoria
Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms
Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Krasznahorkai - Satantango
Hamsun - In Wonderland
Currently reading The Melancholy of Resistance.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The Last Wolf & Hermann
Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle Book 1: A Death in the Family
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil
Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
Elmore Leonard - Killshot
Ivan Turgenev - Spring Torrents
George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Philip K. Dick - Eye in the Sky
Sándor Márai - Embers
Philip K. Dick - The Simulacra
Nell Dunn - Poor Cow
Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Breece D'J Pancake - The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Nicholson Baker - The Size of Thoughts
Amelia Gray - Gutshot
Philip K. Dick - A Maze of Death
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude
Ian Mcewan - The Comfort of Strangers
Banana Yoshimoto - Asleep
Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe

currently reading the next volume of knausgaard

>>9622348
Life of St Anthony - Athanasius
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey
The French Lieutenant's Woman - Fowles
Nostromo - Conrad
At Swim-Two-Birds - O'Brien
Men Without Women - Murakami

>>9622348
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>>9622740
>>9623443
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>>9624616
>>9624634
>>9626108
>>9627560
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>>9627843
That are some nice books, but why is it that /lit/ only ever talks about the same group of anglo high school curriculum books?

Ubu roi and that's about it.

reading dubliners and some commie stuff right now though

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski
After the Death of God by Vattimo and Caputo
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski
Hero with 1000 Faces by J. Campbell
Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of John, Revelation of John from the Bible
Nag Hammadi texts trans. J Meyer (2nd ed.)
Apocryphal Revelation of Paul

Currently reading: Monday Begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

>>9627919
oh, and a re-read of Agony of the Eros by Byung-Chul Han.

>>9627919
Good reading list.

Trump - Art of the Deal
Faulkner - Sound and the Fury
Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Ellison - Invisible Man
Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49
Ferris - 4 Hour Workweek
Pressfield - War of Art
Huxley - Doors of Perception
Pratchett - Color of Magic

slowly reading the KJB too, want to try Infinite Jest soonish

>>9625723
Thanks the rec! As for my thoughts on the Rankine collections, The End of the Alphabet was incredible, easily one of the best contemporary poetry collections I've ever read, if not THE best. The first contemporary literary work I've read that truly feels like it's doing something new. As for Don't Let Me Be Lonely, it's okay. Feels like a warm-up for Citizen desu. There are a lot of fascinating images in it but they end up battling with the poetry instead of complementing it, so call it a failed experiment, or more accurately an experiment she would refine to near-perfection with Citizen.

>>9628248
Holy shit it autocorrected desu to desu /lit/ is taking over my computer

>Lord of the Flies
>Catcher in the Ruy
>Hobbet
>Bill Bubb
>ninety eigty four

>>9628259
Fuck me I give up, you win /lit/

>>9626801
I heard a quote from it years ago, which I memorized because I liked it, but I have yet to actually read the book.

I read a lot of poetry as well.

The Trial
Crime and Punishment
The Bible
The Stranger
Confessions
Moby Dick

The Bible took me a while

>>9627624
ooh, i loved hunger!

>>9627880
what would you recommend that we read?

>>9624964
What website is this?

What a great narcissism thread.

Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
Gogol - Dead Souls
Plato - Apology
Plato - Crito
Pushkin - Collected Short Stories
Gogol - Collected Short Stories
Bible - Genesis
Plato - Phaedo
Plato - Meno
Plato - Protagoras
Plato - Gorgias
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Williams - Stoner
Freud - Civilization and its Discontents
Mier - Jung's Analytical Psychology & Religion
Rieff - The Triumph of the Therapeutic
Jung - Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Freud - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Plato - Symposium
Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Bible - Exodus
Plato - Republic
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Shakespeare - Macbeth
Shakespeare - The Sonnets
Aurelius - Meditations
Epicurus - Letters, Fragments, Doctrines
Aristotle - De Anima
Wolfe - Book of the New Sun
Seneca - Dialogues and Essays
Beard - SPQR
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Lewis - Mere Christianity
Augustine - Confessions

You can probably see the progress as I'm slowly converted to Christianity over the last 6 months.

>>9631049
What was your favourite piece of literature out of the ones you just listed?

>>9631067
Excluding all the Philosophy, Book of the New Sun was my personal favorite. Below that is a tie between The Brothers Karamazov and The Sonnets.

>>9627624
What did you think of Hunger? Would you consider it better than his other works?

Don Quixote
La muerte de Artemio Cruz

slow reader

Wilde- The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Orwell- Homage to Catalonia
Murakami- Kafka on the Shore
Descartes- Discourse on the Method and the Meditations on the First Philosophy
Tolstoy- The Death of Ivan Ilych
Beckett- Endgame
Chomsky- Understanding Power
Chomsky- Manufacturing Consent
Zinn- A People's History of the United States
Proudhon- What is Property?
Foner- History of the Labor Movement of the United States
Pynchon- Gravity's Rainbow (re-read)
Plato- Dialogues
Joyce- Dubliners
Feuerbach- The Fiery Brook
Polya- How to Solve It
Lenin- Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Harvey- A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Harvey- A Companion to Capital
Cleaver- Reading Capital Politically
Marx- Capital
Marx- 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
Marx- A Contribution to A Critique of Political Economy
Marx- Wage Labor and Capital
Marx- Value, Price and Profit
Wolff- Economics: Neoclassical vs. Marxian
Mill- Utilitarianism
Hume- An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume- Dialogues

I still have so much more left to read this year

All the Names - Saramago
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Niebla - Unamuno
On the heights of despair - Cioran
The fall - Camus
Bodas de Sangre – Garcia Lorca
Look homeward, Angel - Wolfe
Memorias Póstumas de Blas Cubas – do Assis
A doll’s House - Ibsen
Kingdom of this world - Carpentier
El gaucho insufrible - Bolaño
La gaviota - Chekhov
The Obscene Bird of the Night - Donoso
Ficciones de Brasil – VV.AA
Cuentos de mi mismo(cuentos) - Unamuno
Letters to a young poet – Rilke
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Las armas secretas(cuentos) - Cortázar
Todos los fuegos el fuego(cuentos) - Cortázar
If on a winter’s night a traveler - Calvino
El lugar sin límites - Donoso
La invención de Morel – Bioy Casares
Disgrace - Coatzee
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Magic Mountain - Mann
The Sheltering Sky - Bowles
El sentimiento trágico de la vida - Unamuno
The myth of sysiphus – Camus
Death of a Salesman - Miller
La consciencia de Zeno – Svevo
Sobre Héroes y Tumbas - Sabato
Moby Dick - Melville
Don Quijote - Cervantes
Demons - Dostoievsky
Society of Spectacle - Debord
The plague – Camus
Amsterdam Stories – Nescio
Kosmos – Gombrowicz
The Hour of the Star – Lispector
Ubik – Phillip K. Dick

Some titles are in spanish because i don't know or remember their english titles.
I think it's been a good year. I almost reach the number of books read from last year (43) and i still have a lot of time left to read more. Now i'm reading The Loser by Bernhard and i'm liking it very much, probably will finish it some time later

I'm up to like 90 books or so.

Highlights of the year so far have been discovering Julien Gracq and Kenzaburo Oe, as well as getting all the Malcolm Lowry I could

Just getting my life back together after being a wasteful, useless, video-game abusing neet for 6 years. Started studying again and getting into reading some decent stuff.

Read this year:
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Rats in the Walls - HP Lovecraft
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien

Partial reads:
Lives of the Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
Annals - Tacitus

Currently reading:
Dracula - Bram Stoker

After a little while lurking this board I purchased some books online yesterday and will hopefully be getting through most of these in the next few months. Any suggestions on where to start? I was thinking I'd start with Homer.

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Mein Kampf - Hitler
Ulysses - Joyce
Divine Comedy - Dante
Iliad and Odyssey - Homer
The Republic - Plato
The Prince - Machiavelli
Moby Dick - Melville
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Werner Herzog - Of Walking In Ice

and 320 pages of Mason & Dixon

>>9631242
>wasteful, useless, video-game abusing neet for 6 years

What did you play anon?

Crime and Punishment
Ficciones
Pale blue Dot (received as a gift, kind of liked it though)
The double
Siddhartha
The aleph and other short stories
The book of sand
Several of dostoyevsky's short work
A Portrait of the artist as a young man
V.

Reread-
The catcher in the rye

Any reccomendations?

Currently reading through the works of W.B Yeats and White noise by DeLillo. Should I read Mason & Dixon before GR? or should I just hop right in?

>>9622348
Odessy
Pnin
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
The Sun aslo Rises
Roadside Picnic
Crito
The Stranger
Don Quixote
Scarlet and Black
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
The Great Gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Old Man and the Sea
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Siddhartha
The Metamorphosis
Notes from Underground
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Infinite Jest
White Noise
Metamorphoses
Inherent Vice
The Sound and the Fury
The Divine Comedy
Madame Bovary
The Crying of Lot 49
Ubik
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Neuromancer
The Mote in God's Eye
The Shadow of the Torturer
Lolita
The Turn of the Screw
Candide
Child of God
The Eye in the Pyramid
The Pearl
The Golden Apple
Leviathan
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Steppenwolf
Pale Fire
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Scarlet Letter
The Aeneid

Emily you are by far the most transparent slut I've ever met. Why the fuck are you here? What purpose do you serve except a proxy mouthpiece? Go home.

>>9631242
Skip Mein Kampf no need to waste your time with such garbage

Instead pick up Camus' The Fall. For an introduction to Camus and his style start with either The Plague or The Stranger (Plague is better imo, Stranger is more commonly read)

>>9630979
goodreads

>>9631049
>beard SPQR

CATHOLICS GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>9627919
>counting each bible book as a book

Man they're like 20 pages each

>>9624964
How's Albert Wass? He's my granddads favourite writer. I've tried reading it a few times but my Magyar is not good enough

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>>9635642
nah

>>9622348

What did you think of the Murakami book?

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about 150 pages into Infinite Jest now

>>9636552
one of the tip top of the year. murakami at his most murakami--and somehow it manages not to come across as ridiculous. read!

Brave new world Huxley
Thus spake Zarathustra, neitzsche
The winter king, Cornwell
The Silmarillion tolkein
Fellowship of the ring
Count of Monte Cristo dumas