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24989090zakat is a form of debt cancellation: forgiveness of sin (deror) in the old testament meant a debt c…[View]
24985966Never Forget: One year anniversary of elite readership[View]
24989068What are some books on the origins of homosexuality and homosexual inclinations? Pic related was pre…[View]
24993438Let's have a 'What You Expected vs What You Read' Thread[View]
24993400Whenever I listen to music, I want to write a novel. Anyone else like this?[View]
24993283Alright I'm convinced, what am I in for? >As one or two patient readers may have gathered b…[View]
24992748Should I read all of these?[View]
24984980Who is your favourite English Romantic poet? You can learn a lot about someone's personality an…[View]
24990933Should i read the magic mountain?[View]
24993073I'm this kid's math tutor not because she's stupid but because she studies at a colle…[View]
24989538*ahem* Evenin' /lit/.: /vp/chad here. I am requesting a book or series that functions as deeply…[View]
24985382The more I think about the simulation hypotheses, and the more I learn - the more it seems plausible…[View]
24992983Do I have to smoke tobacco to write well?[View]
24992604Lit top 100 request: Anybody got the top 100 list from the past say, 19 years? I’d be curious to see…[View]
24991360About to marathon this. What am I in for?[View]
24992578What do you think of this book?: Tell me even your smallest opinion[View]
24984129Which book have you enjoyed the most this year?: The book I have enjoyed the most this year has been…[View]
24968950Rene Guenon: PBUH?[View]
24992376>be a journalist >write fiction >it's just okay, often boring and trite >write nonf…[View]
24983314Which is the best for winter reading.: Image and topic say it all, I have all three and debating whi…[View]
24990902Did anyone else ever read Michael's second Autobiography?: My mom used to have a copy. https://…[View]
24985110I'm doing a Nabokov chronological read through for 2026, starting with The Real Life of Sebasti…[View]
24977294New Year's Game Round 2: Suggest books you want to read with other anons. Earliest dubs decide.…[View]
24985033We are nearing a hundred years without a lasting work of literature: All that has come out of the la…[View]
24992566corporate slumber: this morning, i woke up to an ad playing in my head. it was from a local furnitur…[View]
24985980Write your thoughts: Crocodile Tears edition. OLD: >>24978375[View]
24991039Does anybody have an PDF/epub of this Maurass book by Arktos Press? Also reactionary philosophy thre…[View]
24992537Does anyone have a file with the Loeb Classical Library?[View]
24988972Books for existential boredom?: Not sure if 'boredom' is the right word. It's more like equanim…[View]
24990214>BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG[View]
24986421Can we all agree that he was a mediocre sci fi writer, and that jurassic park was just lightning in …[View]
24991098Do authors with significant social media presence alter the way you look at their books?[View]
24987833>Adapt a Monty Python sketch >Get canonized as important literature…[View]
24992071Today we celebrate one of greatest fiction writers of literature history and the father of the moder…[View]
24982791Can you grind to get good at writing? Did niggas like Hemmingway and McCarthy actually practice?[View]
24989214Julius Evola never said this Still a cool picture though[View]
24987584Group Story: ITT we write a story together, three words at a time. I'll begin. >It all star…[View]
24990886Is an english degree low iq compared to linguistics?[View]
24990649>The bad guy was a good guy who got corrupted >His best mate was a guy who got corrupted >W…[View]
24990322The Golden Pot: Thinking about finally getting into this. It's been calling to me for a couple …[View]
24982958>This is how we recognize the man who has tendencies toward an inner quest: he will set failure a…[View]
24977963Disprove Thomas Aquinas on the existence of God.[View]
24986040I recently finished Capital, vol. 2: It was probably the hardest book I've ever read. Simple re…[View]
24991343any books on why constant alarmism ends up being interpreted as comedy after awhile and serious thre…[View]
24989592Uplifting books: I've been reading nothing but depressing books lately and I want to destress a…[View]
24991647Should i?[View]
24989982Self-Help Books: Has /lit/ read any self-help books? What were they? Did they help?[View]
24989491What would make someone a genius?[View]
24991445Evotheism.: I am writing a book of a evotheist doctrine, I read the Humani Generis papal bull and th…[View]
24989354I prefer reading on the Kindle app on my phone.[View]
24986804Questions about Plotinus: So the One is absolutely simple yet has the power to overflow itself and g…[View]
24982934How much am I missing by reading picrel without having read the Bible beforehand? I’m at Part 2, and…[View]
24991291/Wenn euch das gefällt/ general: Where can I download an ebook/pdf of this for free?[View]
24990672>/lit/ goes on a date[View]
24990609>1,000 page screwball comedy So what kind of comedy is it? I read the author killed himself, so I…[View]
24991230books for this feeling: I am looking for books that can help me understand what might be wrong with …[View]
24985543Is he right about religion?[View]
24988626ICP-US 2026 program: Did /lit/ read it? Just dropped a few days ago. Main points >The emancipatio…[View]
24988352Cormac McCarthy: McCarthy published his first novel at the age of 32, while he was working in an aut…[View]
24991019Its all a strange lie, one moment of genius that somehow transformed everything. And all it took wa…[View]
24984820>he reads poetry to impress women[View]
24989842Multi-Volume Monstrosity of the Month Club you: Recommend works that are multiple volumes Here are s…[View]
24990885>fails to account for helicopters TWO count it TWO hours[View]
24988777>yes your honor my client IS a rapist, but why OUGHT he be punished?[View]
24986649/wng/ — Web Novel General: Alone Once More Edition Stubbed >>24982319 >What is /wng/ — Web …[View]
24990832Philosophers or Theologians who Talk about the Beauty of God: Not trying to trad LARP or Deus Vult o…[View]
24983187Why have nonfiction authors recently started saturating their books with footnotes? I have noticed i…[View]
24988555I imagine Helen of Troy being blonde #sorrynotsorry[View]
24983097>Far from being a man of his time, Lovecraft's views were abhorrent even to his bigoted peer…[View]
24988335This world finds redemption not by being raised into myth (which it is not), nor by McCarthy finding…[View]
24983216How has Buddhism helped you?[View]
24989320Worst translations?: We always have threads about the best translations of x, but what are the worst…[View]
24986982>Anna's Archive[View]
24990378Where do I read Rumi in longer form? I really enjoyed reading this translation by Haleh Liza Gafori …[View]
24987466What book would you go to if you felt like starting over with something? With something being anythi…[View]
24988450Does it ever get better, /lit/?[View]
24989019What are your favorite performances of Shakespeare?: For me, it's the BBC Television Shakespear…[View]
24990241/fit/erature 1: Fietzsche (Nietzsche): Let's substitute words into the works of our favorite wr…[View]
24990203Kierkegaard vs Hegel: Hegel's overcoming of being and becoming distinction by unity through dia…[View]
24987566>1980s Soviet Union >dissident movements are all ineffective and also heavily tattled on by in…[View]
2498648150 pages a day will get you to 52 books in 2026.[View]
24990031The future of fiction: Does anyone think it's still worth being a fiction writer anymore? Novel…[View]
24981193Thoughts on Reza Negarestani’s recent critique of Nick Land?: >When the loud options are moralist…[View]
24986504Does anyone know how to download those 'Print Disabled' protected books on internet archive?[View]
24986301Behold: the phD level intelligence that's going to write the next literary classic[View]
24988741>le wolverine haircut[View]
24989836What are the best science fiction anthologies?[View]
24988698The Prince if The Prince was written sincerely instead of as a joke.[View]
24984094What did you read this year?: I decided to take /lit/'s advice and started reading the Greeks t…[View]
24988303Quotes: You know the drill, post literary quotes.[View]
24987517Modern Literature: >average English speaker is Indian >average French speaker is African >a…[View]
24987965What do you read when you’re going through a really bad anxiety episode / panic attack / paranoia sp…[View]
24981045>The dispensers of mass information have once again discovered science fiction. They do it every …[View]
24988441What is this book for?: We get it, this gaylord main character and his pen pals are very bored with …[View]
24988807If I end up dying before I finish my story...: I'll release the notes and explanations to you a…[View]
24986433New year, new hobby: What are the best books to get into music? By that I mean what are the best boo…[View]
24989447>In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-…[View]
24988845>Kafka: rarely left Prague >Pessoa: rarely left Lisbon >Schulz: rarely left Drohobych >L…[View]
24987443So much I want to read, I will never get to the tenth part of it, even if I didn't have to wage…[View]
24987695arisu: i have never met anyone my age [zoomer] who has watched the disney alice in wonderland cartoo…[View]
24958227Is /lit/ Chinapilled?: I have been reading Chinese classics lately and finished this one. Out of all…[View]
24988941'Aversion to happiness, also called fear of happiness, refers to 'the subjective experience of negat…[View]
24989217>dances nakedly on floorboards or some shit wow so evil wow im scared[View]
24983856>called The Count Of Monte Cristo >by the halfway mark it's actually a bunch of subplots …[View]
24977229Is it worth reading the books as an adult? I never read it, only saw the movies up to Prisoner of Az…[View]
24980042How did someone decide to publish this slimy piece of trash shit 119 years after it was written and …[View]
24981979Stop Philosophizing: 'The limits of my language mean the limits of my world' The normie scholar read…[View]
24978571Thinkers of /lit/: Who are your influences? I'll start with mine: - Plato - Nieztsche - Peterso…[View]
24988961Start doing this[View]
24988386HP Lovecraft: This nigga GOATed.[View]
24988692What about Mr Albert: Proud Beggars[View]
24989042So...how is faith different from emotional investment?: Or maybe in Kierkegaard's conception, B…[View]
24983250Why isn't this guy more famous? A lot of his stuff is seriously mind blowing, the type of ideas…[View]
24988883>consciousness is an illusion But isn't illusion a state of consciousness?…[View]
24986548So, I think I understand Aristotle now. Singular things are the primitive beings for him. But what m…[View]
24988944I've just been reading 'The Transit of Venus' by Shirley Hazzard. I've heard a lot about h…[View]
24981825ITT: we post history books about less discussed topics i'll start >western technology and so…[View]
24985830Stop Reading Translations: Learn the Western Languages.[View]
24988746Does the fossil record disprove solipsism?[View]
24975922one of those books you immediately start re-reading once you get to the end[View]
24976958Modern Romantic travel essay critique: I've written an account of my travels which lasted aroun…[View]
24988039What are some modern versions (actually used on the internet) of Heideggerian terms? I.e. on 4chan I…[View]
24988567>especial >espied >espouse…[View]
24981975/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General: Dastardly New Age Edition >Old: >>24975110 …[View]
24987842I'm 1/4 of the way through this book, and it's almost too sad to finish.[View]
24984253Bakker: I'm ready for the third series.[View]
24987165Should i read this abridged edition or go through the 2500 pages of the original one?[View]
24988405Science fiction and progress is associated with advancement in the rights and dignity of women. Why …[View]
24988365Puss in Boots: How do you interpret the original story of Puss in Boots by the French writer Charles…[View]
24988240What on Earth did I just read? So much for detective fiction...[View]
24986731you did read 100+ books in the year of our Lord 2025 didnt you /lit/?[View]
24986891Recently I got into highly acclaimed literature because I heard it had narratives that were vastly s…[View]
24987863Love doesn't exist[View]
24984819>tfw PDFs acquired from anna's archive and read through a computer screen yield scientifical…[View]
24988243what do you think about my story in progress?: https://www.wattpad.com/1599062020-untitled-chapter-1…[View]
24988228Recommendations for translations of Sophocles? I started with the University of Chicago Press versio…[View]
24976060just finished this what should i think of it[View]
24985813It Is The Secret: If you had to summarize the meaning of this book and it's sequels very briefl…[View]
24986308Learn French: >Translations are not reading >It is easy >You can not utilise English withou…[View]
24988036aside from Aristotle, what are some good books on the field of poetics?[View]
24984886Andrea Dworkin: On fairies: >The origins of the magical content of the pagan cults can be traced …[View]
24983209>Gore Vidal, author of that trashy pornographic book Myra Breckinridge soon to be a major motion …[View]
24987808Nancy Drew has entered the public domain.[View]
24985175>hates allegory in literature >likes the metamorphosis Explain.…[View]
24986544Popular history: Discuss good narrative history books on any subject.[View]
24986224LoTR would have been way more poignant if Frodo died at Cirith Ungol and Sam destroyed the ring.: …[View]
24985416Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton are the three greatest writers in the English language and if you ha…[View]
24987547Amateur story writer: First time trying to write a story. https://anotepad.com/notes/pisww2mg…[View]
24986251Any Writers Here???: I kinda want to start writing and I thought of trying this website I am new to …[View]
24987473Why do you never see scripts of films sold as books in the same way you do with plays, both classica…[View]
24984935This is the most absurd fantasy series ever written. I GENUINELY believe the author is a smart guy, …[View]
24985320Writing realistic responses to unrealistic scenarios: How to do this? Ex. >a man approaches you i…[View]
24985064Alexander Arguelles, linguist and polyglot who speaks 50 languages, believes that we should all lear…[View]
24987499So I'm trying to get the ball rolling on Royal Road, I just lost my job so while I'l looki…[View]
24986343can we save him, /lit/, please? what are some things he was right about?[View]
24986103Dark fantasy: Pls recommend dark fantasy books for me to read[View]
24985295This book is perhaps the most irresponsible and dangerous operation manual written since The Anarchi…[View]
24983887When does it get good[View]
24986229Asking for permission to post daily essays here: Hi. I will read a book every day of the year (seven…[View]
24986598How do you feel about novels with sex scenes or that deal heavily with sex?[View]
24980558Where do I start with Arthurian romance?: Or should I read the fanfic by White or Tolkien?[View]
24986704Being vs. Becoming: Which do you lean towards here with Being vs. Becoming: 1. Mutual exclusion – Be…[View]
24985961>he still reads .pdfs >not comfy .epubs[View]
24984620>Pitch the blurb of your novel to an AI, ask it for an opinion Post results…[View]
24987088>expecting a story like Blue Period, a young artist finding their way in the world >actually j…[View]
24983815>just a bunch of people fighting at each other's houses[View]
24986967Books for this feel?[View]
24980632Both got very moral and positive detachment teachings and inner/outer peace >Problem: people are …[View]
24982106how much of ROT3K is fictional?[View]
24965277English is such a shit language. For me the nail in the coffin for English was when I learned that t…[View]
24986257When discussing maximalist fiction here, a couple years ago some anon started posting about this 100…[View]
24980787Icebreaker: Thoughts on pic related? One of the best books I read in 2025.[View]
24985222What if Wagner had done an opera of the actual German Nibelungenlied, where instead of Brunhilde bur…[View]
24986718>on _______[View]
24982800Moby Dick: This book is anti white horseshit. It would be right at home with the modern leftist coll…[View]
24985535Building a good reading habit - General: Since we're at the start of a fresh new year, and many…[View]
24981679>never married >never had sex >wasted his inheritance on a publishing house which soon went…[View]
24978628>place where the dwarves made a huge mistake >ERRebor >place where the elves made a huge mi…[View]
24983618Start with The Jews (ANE): You can not understand Western Civilization without the Germans, to which…[View]
24985491Did she become the top dog among the feminists by eating the other ones?[View]
24985991What subjects do you plan on reading this year? For me: Roman history Labor history Media theory …[View]
24986231Any Writers Here?: I kinda want to start writing and I thought of trying this website I am new to (I…[View]
24979778Why does this Nobel Prize-winning author write like this?: László Krasznahorkai, who won this year’s…[View]
24985900Yearly reminder[View]
24985014WLW romance: Can anyone recommend wlw romance that actually centers class struggle or socialist them…[View]
24984761Thoughts on the Jurassic Park novels?[View]
24984434Here’s the list of books I’ll be reading (or re-reading) over the next few months Thoughts?[View]
24986197Any Writers Here?: I kinda want to start writing and I thought of trying this website I am new to (I…[View]
24983040What do you think?[View]
24986094How can a text be so devastating and hopeful at the same time?[View]
24975194It's the most beautiful love story I've ever read.[View]
24970926So what did everyone get for Christmas? picrel is the kindle book hauls I got, plus I got 125 dollar…[View]
24985548Limbus Comapny: What is /lit/s opinion on the most /lit/ game ever created. Each character (called s…[View]
24985918what's his problem?[View]
24978375Write your thoughts: Whats your resolution ed. Prev: >>24973915[View]
24978063Is it possible to separate the art from the artist?[View]
24981388When you finish your masterpiece, how will you compete in today's marketplace?[View]



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