Hello /lit/! Last month I made a chart of our 100 favorite poets. Now I would like to make a chart of our 100 favorite novelists. This thread is for you to nominate who should be on the list. After this thread dies, the nominations will be uploaded to a strawpoll where we can vote, after the poll closes, I'll make a chart.
>>23969325We have done this innumerable times. Check the archive. Fuck off
I will be nominating:Leo TolstoyGunter GrassJean RhysWilliam T. VollmannErnest HemingwayThomas BernhardHalldor LaxnessVladimir SorokinVasily GrossmanNikolai GogolSamuel BeckettUwe JohnsonAndrei BelyJean ToomerJohn Dos PassosSergei DovlatovMark LeynerEdward AbbeyItalo SvevoGustave FlaubertDon CarpenterHeinrich BollChristopher IsherwoodGraham GreeneJohn Steinbeck
DostoevskyNabokovTolstoy
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Cormac McCarthyEdgar Allan PoeYukio MishimaPetar II Petrovic-Njegos
>>23969631>Edgar Allan Poe>novelist?
>>23969342This. We could have another productive thread about women, aka something that has tangible value
>JRR Tolkien>Frank Herbert>Robert Silverberg>Stanislaw Lem
>>23969792can i cast a vote against these people
FaulknerMelvilleThomas WolfeSteinbeckFitzgerald Henry MillerJack Kerouac Ken KeseyMatthiessen DelilloGaddisBolanoCarpentierVargas LlosaGracia MarquezKnut HamsunAlbert CamusLouis Ferdinand CelineStendhal
Henry Williamson
Mary ShelleyEmily BronteCharlotte BronteGeorge EliotVirginia WoolfMary RenaultEdith WhartonWilla CatherMarguerite Yourcenar
Marcel ProustDaniel DefoeVoltaireJohn UpdikeThomas Pynchon
>/lit/ makes a grandiose list of authors they've never read who wrote books that are never discussed here to impress r/books ...........again.
Thomas mannFranz kafkaHonore de balzacEmile zolaItalo CalvinoW.G SebaldJon FosseMichel HouellebecqLazlo KrasznahornkaiKarl Ove KnausgardJames JoyceErnst JungerIvan TurgenevNatsume SosekiYasunari KawabataOsamu DazaiHaruki MurakamiCharles DickensJane AustenGeorge EliotDavid Foster WallaceThomas PynchonHermann HesseVictor HugoAlexander DumasRobert MusilHermann BrochThomas HardyWilliam GaddisTheodore Dreiser
Walter M. Miller jrJohn WilliamsStrugatsky brosTolkienHG WellsJules Verne
>>23969350>>23969801>>23969858I am on the same page as these anons but I’ll add some more later
>>23969634He wrote one. Let me shill in peace.
Thomas HardyEvelyn WaughWilliam GoldingRobert GravesJohn Fowles George OrwellD. H. Lawrence V. S. Naipaul Martin AmisAnthony BurgessLawrence DurrellAlasdair GrayJames HoggRobert Louis Stevenson Alexander TrocchiIrvine WelshJames Joyce Oscar Wilde Flann O’Brien
>>23969325William FaulknerHerman MelvilleJohn SteinbeckNathaniel HawthorneJack LondonWilliam Dean HowellsCharles Brockden BrownThomas HardyCharles DickensVirginia WoolfGustave FlaubertJulien GracqHonoré de BalzacJoris-Karl HuysmansMiguel de CervantesJavier MaríasBenito Pérez GaldósMiguel de UnamunoJohann Wolfgang von GoetheThomas MannNatsume SosekiKenzaburo OeJippensha IkkuIhara SaikakuYumeno KyusakuToson ShimazakiMishima YukioHaruki Murakami
A lot of my favorites have already been nominated so addingH. Rider HaggardArthur Conan Doyle James SalterRichard YatesSaul BellowWilliam S. Burroughs John BarthJean Genet
>>23969325What about non-writers who wrote a good book, like an autobiography, or letters?
>>23969950High-level trolling is appreciated
Melville NabokovJK Rowling
Carson McCullers
>>23969325Joris-Karl HuysmansMarquis de SadeAndré GidePierre KlossowskiFrançois AugiérasMaurice BlanchotGeorges BatailleEmmanuel BoveLaurence SterneDenton WelchNathaniel WestFrederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo)Dennis CooperAustryn WainhouseWitold GombrowiczCarlo Emilio GaddaPier Paolo PasoliniGuido Morselli
Conrad Umberto EcoJean GionoDenis JohnsonJohn Kennedy TooleNorman Mailer
Cao Xueqin
>search for my faves>all already nominatedYou're all right sometimes, /lit/
Just adding a few strays, most of my favorites have already been listedLermontovRobert Penn WarrenJuan RulfoGraham GreeneWilliam Kennedy
Novelists and short stories >Henry Miller>DH Lawrence >Kafka>Proust>Kesey>Fosse>Hesse>Matthiessen >Dos Passos>Rabelais>Joyce>Gogol>Stendhal>Hemingway >Faulkner >John Cowper Powys>BeckettNot sure if they count>Van Gogh >Casanova>Cellini >Burton
Roberto ArltErnesto SábatoFedor DostoevskyMario Vargas LlosaGabriele d'AnnunzioHaruki Murakami
>>23970107>Not sure if they countOP clearly stated novelists, so no.
>>23970080>William KennedyWoah, there's a name I don't see often here.
>>23969325Georges PerecJonathan SwiftLuigi PirandelloBoris PasternakMaxim GorkyMikhail SholokhovFlannery O'ConnorMikhail BulgakovRobert CooverYevgeny ZamyatinRalph EllisonRichard BrautiganJ. G. BallardFord Madox FordE. M. ForsterJohn HawkesDavid MarksonLeonard Gardner
>>23969871Why do you need to shill for a mediocrity whose entire legacy coasts on like a handful of decent stories amongst a sea of crap?
>>23969325Robert WalserFelipe AlfauAlfred JarryFritz ZornRobert MusilPhillip K. DickFenimore CooperThomas CarlyleGustave FlaubertFlann O'brien
Norman DouglasRonald FirbankFrans KellendonkFriedrich SchlegelArno SchmidtAlberto Arbasino
>>23969325>Colleen Hoover>Marco Rossari>Holly Black
Dostoevsky KafkaJames JoyceThomas HardyFlann O'brien Samuel Beckett Solzhenitsyn TolstoyThomas Pynchon Virginia WoolfGabriel MarquezD.H Lawrence Somerset MaughamCormac McCarthyOscar WildeFitzgerald Toni MorrisonProustTolkien
>>23969975Embarrassing
Daved Foster Wallace.
gene wolfeursula k le guin
>>23969325well every author I know is already mentioned but I wanna know what tool do you use to make chart? I wanna make a reddit top 100 shitpost.
Pierre Drieu la RochelleGeorges BernanosLeon BloyPierre GuyotatPhilippe SollersGabrielle WittkopLouis AragonEdouard LeveMarguerite DurasOctave Mirbeuo
jane bowlessamanta schweblingeorge eliotfleur jaeggyivy compton-burnettvirginia woolfaimee bendermarilynne robinsonbarbara comynsagatha christie
>>23971547actually disregard aimee bender - i just like her for her short stories, not novels
>>23971547>ivy compton-burnettbased
>>23970934tru reader
Lewis CarrollThomas PynchonJ R R TolkienH P LovecraftMary ShelleyBret Easton EllisArthur Conan DoyleCormac McCarthyRobert Howard if he counts.Philip K DickSayaka MurataJohn Kennedy OTooleRoald DahlJoseph ConradCharles DickensC S LewisA A MilneMark Twain
Robert walserFranz KafkaGerald MurnaneThomas BernhardAlain Robbe-GrilletCormac McCarthy Theodore dreiserGustave FlaubertDenis JohnsonMaurice BlanchotHeinrich von kleistBrian evensonRobert CooverWilliam GaddisJohn Cowper PowysWG SebaldAndrei BelyMikhail BulgakovJean GenetJoy WilliamsAnne CarsonJohn GardnerJohn HawkesBen Marcus
>>23972716Forgot:Gertrude SteinJ.A. BakerJohn BanvilleRaymond RousselGordon LishBarry HannahJohn McGahernFlann O'Brien
>>23972533>Robert HowardWhy wouldn't he? He wrote novels.
Harry CrewsCharles Portis
>>23972027Thanks fren.I try my best.
Jobe CartevillaNeville Jeguard
I like Kurt Vonnegut.
Jean Paul
Mervyn Peake
>>23969325Robert A. Heinlein
First three are my real favourites, the rest are favourites but not ordered.Cormac McCarthyVladimir NabokovJohn WilliamsWilliam FaulknerHerman MelvilleJohn FowlesHermann HesseKnut HamsunMichel HouellebecqHaruki MurakamiKazuo IshiguroThomas MannVirginia WoolfKōbō AbeYukio MishimaFranz KafkaErnest HemingwayEdward AbbeyOakley HallPhilip K. DickGene WolfeJack VanceMervyn PeakeJ. R. R. TolkienUrsula K. Le GuinWilliam GibsonAdrian TchaikovskyChristopher Buehlman
Dan SimmonsOrson Scott CardClive BarkerTerry PratchettStephen King
>>23973117>Adrian TchaikovskyWhat have you liked by him? I've sort of always associated him with cheap sci-fi, but admittedly I've never read his work.
>>23973207I think he is the best currently active sci fi writer. The Children of time trilogy is his best. But I liked his Novella "Elder Race" and the standalone novel "Cage of Souls" as well, both of these have a dying earth (ish) theme that I like.
>>23973221Sweet, I might check out Cage of Souls in that case. Thank you.
>and yet no mention of george rr martin yet.despite countless threads of asoiaf *sniff*. you made this old scoundrel cry anons. current mood :(
>>23969325TolstoyProustMurasaki ShikibuCao XueqinNabokovFaulknerMichael EndeAustenDickensLewis CarrollPeakeC.S. LewisWu Cheng'enMark HelprinDavid Lindsay (Voyage to Arcturus)
