Name five books in your to-read stack. Anons will then tell

>>9868143
Romeo & Juliet is essential Shakespeare, do that one first

Othello and Julius Caesar next, they're really just a lot better

> not saving Winter's Tale for winter

I skipped Twelfth Night. I read a few of Shakespeare's comedies and they did nothing for me. The tragedies are his best imo.

From my doorstopper stack:
Les Miserables
Don Quixote
Anna Kerenina
Herodotus' The Histories
The idiot

>>>9868143
>shakespeare
>read

>>9868143
>Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, The Winter's Tale or Twelfth Night.
Is this a reading for twelve year olds?

>>9868143

They're just plays.
Fucking read them already.
You could've been done by now

>>9868153

Quixote is the most essential

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Speaker for the Dead
Naked Lunch
Ringworld
Easter Parade

t. pleb

>>9868143
Underworld
War and Peace
Moby Dick
Fathers and sons
Brothers Karamazov

just finished brothers karamazov. looking for something a little lighter, but not fluffy. here are my next 5; order would be appreciated!

>don quixote
>in search of lost time
>moby dick
>huysmans' "against nature"
>complete aristophanes

don quixote made me jej on the first page, so i'm leaning towards that.

>>9868177
naked lunch, lube your anus

>>9868156
> not reading Shakespeare when you don't have the opportunity to see it performed

It's easier to appreciate the language when you can re-read certain lines.

>>9868159
I want to know which one is the best one, faggot

>>9868197
Aristophanes first, he's funny, crude but political
Don Quixote next, it's hilarious while also heartbreaking
Moby Dick

I can't say for the other two because I haven't read them. If Don Quixote already won you over with the first page, continue with that one. It's wonderful.

>>9868156
oh yeah all the theatre companies are just dying to fuckin perform As You Like It, you poncy cunt

>>9868213

Just read all of them, you fool
They're far too short to justify asking
The premise of this thread is completely derailed by that list, which is why I'm not offering mine

Autobiography of a Corpse
Oblomov
Big Sur
The Last Samurai
The Green House

Great Expectations
Lolita
Hamlet
Gulliver's Travels
Don Quixote

Been putting this off for a while

>>9868153
Don Quixote

>>9868185
Moby Dick

>>9868197
Don Quixote

>>9869488
Lolita

Madame Bovary
The Nibelungenlied
Canterbury Tales
Murphy
Idylls of the King

>>9868483

I preferred Oblomov over Autobiography, personally. I'd go with that.

>Love in the Time of Cholera
>Mouchette
>Atomised
>Hopscotch
>Hounds of Baskerville

The Essential Keynes
Russell - Principles of Mathematics
Nicholas Everitt - The Non-existence of God
Autobiography of Malcolm X
George Orwell's Essays (Penguin Modern Classics)

Dubliners
Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
brothers karamozov
As I lay dying

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War and Peace
Spring Snow
Narcissus & Goldmund
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Les Miserables

>>9869595
Can't go wrong with B.K. or D.Q.

>>9868143

Iliad (And Odyssey after)
Crime and Punishment
1984
Heart of Darkness
The Gambler

>>9868143

Brave New World
Old man and the sea
Britannica guide to genetics
We Live inside you
Skullcrack City

>>9868143
Replace Twelfth Night with Coriolanus and read that.

>>9869632
tackle the beast, read war and peace

>>9869572
Orwell. he was a much better essay writer than novelist

>>9869650
Iliad- You have no excuse for not having read Homer yet

All the light we cannot see - doerr
the uncosonled- ishiguro
europe central- vollman
tristram shandy- sterne
typee- melville

>>9869680
>>9869650

Sort of expected that.
What about after Homer?

>>9869572
Russell or Malcolm X. Read the Orwell essays on the side.

>>9869570
Love in the Time of Cholera

>>9869595
Don Quixote

>>9869501
Madame Bovary

>>9869632
Zarathustra

>>9869650
Homer

>>9869658
The Old Mam amd The Sea

>>9869680
Tristram Shandy

Deconstruction and Criticism
The Power Broker
Empire of Illusion
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Society Must be Defended

>>9868143
I don't know whether I should read

The Crying of Lot 49
Rayuela
Don Quijote
Ulysses
The Brothers Karamazov

>>9868153
Les Miserables

>>9868177
Naked Lunch. It's the only thing from your list worth reading

>>9868185
From first to last: Moby Dick, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Fathers and Sons, Underworld.

>>9868197
>Lighter
Read Quixote, followed by Dick, then Aristophanes.

>>9868483
Oblomov

>>9869488
Quixote

>>9869501
Canterbury Tales

>>9869572
Orwell

>>9869595
Dubliners> Quixote> Karamazov> Karenina> As I Lay Dying

>>9869632
Les Miserables

>>9869650
Iliad (wtf)
After you're done with Homer, Crime and Punishment

>>9869658
Old Man. Although boring, it's somewhat "essential"

The Dark Tower
Cloud Atlas
The Grapes of Wrath
The Talisman
Kafka on the Shore

De Anima (with commentary)
Bible
Confessions
Hyperion
2nd part of Demons (finished the first part yesterday)

>>9869794
Grapes of Wrath. Ditch everything else.

>>9869796
Bible, of course

>>9869799
Why should I ditch the others?

>>9869799
I kind of want to finish Aristotle and read some neoplatonist thought before the Bible.
The influence is undeniable, right?

>>9869716
the meme answer would be Plato.

But assuming you've read Homer and the Bible. I think you will have enough background to grasp any literature that strikes your fancy

>>9869806
you do realize the silver scrolls predate Aristotle by 200 years?

>>9869806
Of course it'd be great if you finished reading Aristotle and the Neoplatonists before getting to The Bible!

>>9869804
They're pretty light and not that good. Maybe Kafka on the Shore, although I didn't like it much.

>>9869799
>>9869833
Still, do not allow my biases to deter you from reading them. Maybe you'll find something I didn't.

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>>9869806
>you can't deny it... can you?

>>9869825
I mean the NT specifically.
>>9869850
W-What?

V - Pynchon
Women - Bukowski
The Exorcist - Blatty
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

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Memories of wind and waves - junichi saga
A dangerous encounter - Ernst junger
The camp of the saints - Jean raspail
The road to wigan pier - George Orwell
Thirst for love - Yukio Mishima

>>9869741
If these are all first time readings then I recommend either Quijote or Brothers Karamazov. Then Rayuela, then Ulysses. I don't know anything about the other one.

>The Illuminatus! Trilogy
>Mathematical Methods in Linguistics
>Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
>Gormenghast
>Lost Horizon

>>9868153
Don Quixote or Anna Karenina.

>>9868177
Naked Lunch

>>9868185
From those I've read, Brothers Karamazov.

>>9869501
Canterbury Tales

>>9869650
Iliad and Odyssey

>>9869658
Hemingway

For me:

Gilgamesh,
Dubliners,
Moby Dick,
Another Country,
or 100 Years of Solitude.

Not sure what will be the best jump from The Tale of Genji.

Invitation to a Beheading
A Bend in the River
The Passion According to GH
Extinction (or some other Bernhard)
The Tartar Steppe

Just so many of you guys know, it wouldn't kill you to venture outside of the /lit/ top 100 and The Greatest Books of the Western World. Not that they are bad, but its also rewarding to develop your own personal taste as well. It is purely at your discretion what you choose to read or not read.
>>9868143
Othello
>>9868153
Don Quixote
>>9868177
Naked Lunch
>>9868185
>>9868197
Moby-Dick
>>9869488
Lolita
>>9869501
Murphy
>>9869595
As I Lay Dying
>>9869680
Tristram Shandy

>>9868143
2666
Crime And Punishment
The Corrections
We The Living
Catch-22

A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
About 100 page into the first book. The beginning of each "chapter" is slow and boring, but then I suddenly find myself at the end.

>>9868143
Notes from underground
The illiad
The Odyssey
1984

>>9869880
>V.

>>9869889
Junger

>>9869963
moby dick

>>9869965
good choice with extinction- that's my favorite bernhard but if you aren't familiar with his works u might wanna start with something else.. most of his works are <200 pages. extinction is well over 300. But regardless read some bernie next

>>9869978
Crime and Punishment

>>9870017
Iliad

The Man Without Qualities
War and Peace
Buddenbrooks
The Broom of the System
Gravity's Rainbow

A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting
The Count of Monte Cristo
HHhH

Stoner
Black Spring
Confessions of a Mask
Brave New World
Donkey Shot

>>9870050
>good choice with extinction- that's my favorite bernhard but if you aren't familiar with his works u might wanna start with something else
I've read six of his books so far, so I'm aware of what I'm getting into. Was leaning towards that one desu, thanks!

>>9868153
>Herodotus
Followed by
>Herodotus
And to top it off
>Herodotus

>>9869965
>Just so many of you guys know, it wouldn't kill you to venture outside of the /lit/ top 100 and The Greatest Books of the Western World
No one responds to you when you do this.

>The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
>The Satyricon
>The Republic
(I bought all three one night when I was drunk)
>As I Lay Dying

>>9870057
Monte Cristo
>>9870058
Confessions of a mask

Lolita
No Longer Human
Hunger
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August

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help me i am an indecisive faggot

memoirs of hadrian
journey to the west
watership down
E.T.A Hoffman collection
Kill all normies

The Brother Karamazov
Blood Meridian
Brave New World
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paradise Lost

Proust
JR
The Gold-bug Variations
Lookout Cartridge
The Anatomy of Melancholy

>>9870053
The Man Without Qualities
>>9870058
Black Spring
>>9870148
The Republic
>>9871689
Memoirs of Hadrian
>>9871751
Paradise Loft
>>9871766
JR

>>9870148
Sophocles.

>>9870533
Lolita.

>>9871689
Hadrian. And please, don't read that fucking book.

>>9871751
Paradise Lost.

>>9871802
which one should i not read?

Skylark
War and Peace and War
Contes du Lundi
Enquiry on human understanding.
Exile and the kingdom

>>9869659
just read Coriolanus actually, loved it

>>9869804
Don't ditch Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell is underrated here imo.

>>9868143
Fear and Trembling
The Gay Science
Beyond Good and Evil
Revolt Against the Modern World
The French Revolution: A History

>>9868143
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Slaughterhouse 5
Brave New World
Invisible Man
Illiad

this thread should be a staple thread

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>Daphnis & Chloe - Longus
>Politics -Aristotle
>On Power - Bertrand De Jouvenel
>The Foundations of Early Modern Europe - Anthony Grafton
>The Weimar Republic -Detlev J K Peukert

bump great thread

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Coriolanus
R&G are Dead
Murphy
The Master and Margarita
A Brief History of Ancient Greece

>>9872480

BNW then Portrait my negro

>>9872472
Fear and trembling
>>9873226
the master and margarita

>>9872503
I loooooooved Daphnis and Chloe. Taught me about Love's Form

>>9868143
The House of the Spirits
Catch-22
American Gods
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
11/22/63

The Rings of Saturn
The Second Sex
Max Havelaar
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
HHhH

2666
Invisible Man
Midnight's Children
The Recogntions
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Paradiso - Lezama Lima
Stoner - Williams
The Once and Future King - White
The Rings of Saturn - Sebald
The Confidence Man - Melville

>>9873234
cheers buddy

>>9873797
catch 22 is fucking great

Steppenwolf
A Study in Scarlet (and the rest of the Sherlock Holmes canon)
Beowulf
Meditations on First Philosophy
Starship Troopers
>>9873797
Read Catch-22 first, if you like Gaiman's other stuff you'll like American Gods and should read that next, then Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and then idk

My to read stack is just the read of Murakami's books. I have read Norwegian Wood, Wind-up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore. NW was really good, the closest thing I've felt to reading Salinger. WUBC wasn't as "literary" I suppose but I maybe enjoyed it even more, like if Gabriel Garcia Marquez tried to write a Stephen King novel. KOTS was more cohesive than either of the other two but not nearly as much fun or emotionally impactful. The last page or so was fantastic though, one of my favorite last lines.

What do I read next?

Peace - Gene Wolfe
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Plague - Albert Camus

>>9868143
>Russell's Philosophie des Abendlandes
>The Ego-Tunnel
>The King in Yellow
>Moral Tribes
>Shobogenzo
>something Mishima

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai- Last Wolf/Herman
Umberto Eco- Foucault's Pendulum
Michel Houellebecq- Submission
E.M. Cioran- Tears and Saints
William Gladdis- Recognitions

>>9868143

>>9868148
this is earnest but not good advice. Twelfth Night is arguably top 3 comedies and the comedies are tragically misunderstood. There's a reason Shakespeare ended his career writing a comedy and righting what's done by the tragedies (not that the tragedies should be overlooked--not at all). Shakespeare's philosophy, if you can ascribe him to one, is shown in the comedies and especially in Midsummer, As You Like it, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. Summing it up extremely crudely: nature, love, and judgment are crucial to our life and to Shakespeare's comic universe, and they are perfected by magic, faith, and mercy, respectively. Thinking should not go as far as one would think. We should accept one another and learn to live in the moment (not completely hedonistically of course). We should appreciate life and be filled with wonder that we're even here. "Let us not be stoics nor stocks," "There is more than life dreamt up in your philosophy."

Other than that, sure: read Romeo and Juliet first because its more popular and it comes before everything else on your list. Read Shakespeare chronologically and then re-read him and re-read him until you die.

>>9868157
die

>>9868143
Consider Phlebas (muh space opera)
Annihilation
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Blood Meridian
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

3/5 are going to be depressing af. Can anyone recommend me something happy?

>>9873797
The House of the Spirits is quite good. Just be ready for /leftypol/-tier "muh Allende did nothing wrong, it was all the imperialists' fault."

>>9869794
Read Cloud Atlas first. It hooked me and I read it in like three days.

>>9868153
The Histories is like half-history, half-folklore. Read Thucydides if you want real critical history.

Industrial society and its future
Ride the tiger
Daemonologie
Columbine
48 laws of power

>>9874537
suicide
>>9874513
beowulf
>>9874543
Peace
>>9874553
Submission

>>9868143
Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol - Dead Souls
Nabokov - Lolita
Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler
Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>>9874578
this anon is right about everything

>Murphy
>Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
>The Great Gatsby
>Franny and Zooey
>Napoleon Symphony

>>9868153
anna karenina
>>9868177
Naked Lunch
>>9868185
Brothers K personally, but right after Moby Dick
>>9868197
Moby Dick
>>9868483
Oblomov
>>9869488
Hamlet>Quixote>Great Expectations>Lolita
>>9869501
Madame Bovari
>>9869570
Hopscotch
>>9869595
Damn son, all of them. Order of my favourite.
Brothers K>Anna Karenina>Dubliners>Quixote>AILD
all masterpieces regardless.
>>9869632
Zarathustra personally
>>9869650
The only reply you're going to get is I&O. But after read Crime and Punishment.
>>9869658
Old Man
>>9869680
Shandy
>>9869741
Brothers K>Quixote>Ulysses>TCoL
>>9869794
Grapes of Wrath
>>9869796
Finish Demons because you're halfway through it, then Bible.
>>9869880
V>Naked Lunch>Master and Margarita
>>9869889
Mishima personally.
>>9869943
Gormenghast
>>9869963
Moby Dick
>>9869965
Beheading or Tartar
>>9869978
C&P
>>9869986
The first one
>>9870053
Buddenbrooks or War and Peace if you have the willpower to finish it.
>>9870058
Mask or Stoner
>>9870533
Absalom or Lolita
>>9871751
TBK>Paradise Lost>Blood Meridian
>>9872480
Dorian
>>9873797
Catch-22
>>9873937
Stoner or melville
>>9874513
Steppenwolf
>>9874543
Plague or TCoL
>>9874586
Blood Meridian or Ivan
>>9875047
All really good actually. Can't decide.

Childhood's End
The Metamorphosis
Notes from Underground
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Batalha do Apocalipse (a brazilian fantasy book, pretty popular here)

>>9873226
R&G, then A Brief History.

>>9875180
Also,I forgot to mention The Deads,it's in my list too (I know it's only five,but whatever)

The myth of sisyphos
Nausea
Slaughterhouse five
Iliad
Homo Deus

The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quijote
100 Years of Solitude
Collected Works by Kafka
Collected Works and Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann

I'm currently reading Extinction by Thomas Bernhard, it's good but not his best imo

>>9874623
but what if I'm dying for that half-folklore half-history from an unreliable historian

>Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
>What Had God Wrought - Daniel Walker Howe
>The White Donkey - Maximilian Uriarte
>Helmet for my Pillow - Robert Leckie
>The Federalist Papers

Just what was on my desk at the moment

Suicide Squad: The Official Novelization
Drive
Re:Zero Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Volume 1
In the Name of the Wind
American Gods

>gravity's rainbow
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>do androids dream of electric sheep
>Dune
>The Doom that Came to Sarnath and many other short stories in this book

>>9876672
Iliad
>>9876807
Brothers Karamazov
>>9876843
Federalist Papers
>>9876856
kek
>>9876889
Dune

All of you: begin the very first item in your lists from the point you read this until the end of the hour.
You can thank me later

>>9877348
im not at home but thanks anyways

>>9875180
>A Batalha do Apocalipse
Read. Also, post a pic of it - I can't find it on Ebay

Plants for a future
Earth abides
Orthodoxy and the religion of the future
Natural theology
Salka Valka

Death in Midsummer - Mishima
Life and Fate - Grossman
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
Naomi - Tanizaki
Pale Fire - Nabokov

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plato - republic
orwell - road to wigan pier
hobbes - leviathan
rand - atlas shrugged
homer - the iliad

>>9868143
>Anna Karenina
>Finishing the Brothers Karamazov
>The Book of Disquiet
>Finishing The Sound and the Fury
>Gravity's Memebow

>>9878029
Drop Rand, read The Republic, then the Illiad

>>9868143
Meditations
This spoke Zathusta (whatever)
Miss P's home for Pecuilar children
Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
Well?

>>9868220
>>9868156

https://youtu.be/72pyUuNLuoE

>>9878690
republic then iliad? are you retarded?

>>9878743

Pride comes before the Fallllllllll, mother fuckerrrrrr

>Nicomachean Ethics Reread
>Steppenwolf
>Laurus
>Dark Matter
>Gravity's Rainbow

The Idiot
The Dream of A Ridiculous Man
The House of The Dead
A Farewell to Arms
Across the River and into the Trees

>>9868143
Current to-read stack:

Yukio Mishima - Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
DFW- Infinite Jest
James Joyce - the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce - Ulysses
Dostoevsky - Demons
Victor Tadros - The Ends of Harm

>>9878725
Don Quixote

War and Peace
Demons
Light in August
Blood Meridian
Ibsen

Fiction:
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
East of Eden
A Confederacy of Dunces
Kafka On The Shore
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Non-Fiction:
Wind, Sand and Stars
I, Asimov: A Memoir
Down And Out In Paris And London
Being And Time
Memories, Dreams, Reflections

>>9875117
Great Gatsby is all I'm familiar with and it is such a short read you'll blitz it.

>>9877535
How familiar are you with Pynchon?

>>9878725
>Miss P's home for Pecuilar children
I hope this is a joke. Monte Cristo or Don Quixote.

>>9878937
I've heard somewhat good things about Blood Meridian. Have you read any other McCarthy?

The Abridged Count of Monte Cristo
Hogg
Platform
Mythology
Some mystery novel by Harry Truman's daughter

>>9879444
Reddit

>>9879423
someone reccd east of eden for me recently so i want some others on this boat too.

Catcher in the rye
Sun also rises
Ulysses (planned on this one)
The Road
If on a winters night a traveller

>>9874547
P-pls respond

>>9879444
>The Abridged Count of Monte Cristo
Read the full version or don't bother.

>>9879553
I'll take it on board.

>>9879568
Ulysses is the most /lit/ there but you really should build up to it if you haven't already.

>>9879574
>King In Yellow
Pretty good, essential if you want to read Lovecraft. Might mess with your mind.

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>>9868143
The soul's upward yearning
The grammar of assent
Insight
Man and his symbols
The history of religious belief

>>9878029
Iliad

The Sun Also Rises
Labyrinths-Borges
The Savage Detectives-Bolano
The Big Sleep-Raymond Chandler
Jerusalem-Alan Moore

>>9879423
East of Eden x 1000, it's the kind of book that takes forever not because it's hard to read at all, but because you want to stop and think about every other line. Also very enjoyable experience the whole way through.

>>9877535
Pale Fire
>>9875047
Lolita
>>9873797
11/22/63 if you've read something difficult recently, if not save it for a fun break when you just need a great plot
>>9873226
Master and Margarita
>>9872463
+1 Cloud Atlas is a very unique experience
>>9871751
Brothers Karamazov

>>9878828
>Can't count to five, what an utter retard

>>9879701
>The soul's upward yearning
Read, son.

The Recognitions (current)
A Frolic of His Own
V.
Infinite Jest (re-read)
Rabbit Angstrom Tetralogy
And then where should I start with Faulkner? I have his 4 essential novels, Sound/Fury, Absalom, As I lay dying, and light in august

>>9879835
You read it daddy?

>>9878828
Sea of Fertility is better than most of those other Mishima books, if you haven't read it already.

>>9878782
help plz

>>9880309

Laurus. Maybe you'll have better luck than I did.

>>9868143
Plato the Complete Works
Aristotle the Complete Works
The ego and its own
The Book of Five Rings
Tao Te Ching

The Golden Ass, Apuleius
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Orlando Furioso, Ariosto
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais
The Golem, Gustav Meyrink

>>9880428

Honestly you can probably skip Five Rings altogether. A lot of it is Musashi explaining sword techniques that translate terribly into text and him giving a vague vague platitude and telling you to figure it out yourself ("You must study this well"). Not nearly as much value as it's hyped to have.
And if your copy is anything like mine, there's a significant foreward and a lot of the end of the book is just footnotes, so it's not nearly as long as you think it'll be.

Man and His Symbols
The Story of Art by Gombrich
The World's Religions by Huston Smith
The Glass Bead Game
Mere Christianity