This is the thread to vote on who will appear in the chart of /lit/'s favorite novelists. Link:https://strawpoll.com/wby5QYMVJyA>https://strawpoll.com/wby5QYMVJyAhttps://strawpoll.com/wby5QYMVJyA>https://strawpoll.com/wby5QYMVJyANominations were gathered in this thread >>23969325You can select as many from the list as you like. The poll will be open until next Sunday. Thank you for participating!
If /lit/ had any distinguished culture of its own, this list would be unrecognizable from lists created by mainstream outlets.
>>23974916Do you think /lit/ is good and cultured? Some are but the bulk aren’t
bump. go up.
you spelled samanta schweblin's first and last names wrong
Voated.
Meh,it will be the same list with the same names that everyone else has
>>23975215Wrong. It will have a few extra japs sprinkled in
>>23974867>no spot for Richard Wright>no spot for Sherwood Andersonlosers
>>23975329Anderson is more famous for his short stories
>>23975020my bad
Austenites! Assemble!
Who is Bloypilled?
>>23974867>The Master is not on the list??? ALL of /lit/'s Jamesfags were sleeping during the nominations thread? It's hard to overstate how obvious of an omission this is, your list can't truly have credibility without him. OP, can you fix this???
>>23975622Normally, if he wasn't nominated, I wouldn't add him, but I will oblige.
>>23975622I would have nominated him but I thought he was already mentioned in the thread
>>23975622I like his short stories better than his novels
>>23974867>https://strawpoll.com/wby5QYMVJyA>No Alberto Laisecanigga u PLEB
>>23974867>WHY ARENT THERE WRITERS ON THE POLL THAT ARE RARELY MENTIONED ON /LIT/?!?! WHY ARENT THERE WRITERS ON THE POLL I COULD HAVE NOMINATED?!?! THIS WRITER I LIKE THAT ISNT DISCUSSED ON /LIT/ MUCH ISNT WINNING THE POLL FOR FAVORITE WRITER!!! HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN?!!? SAVE ME NIGGERMAN!!!
>>23975626Thank you. In this case I believe it's absolutely warranted.I do think Thomas Mann is an *extremely* obvious and worrying omission too, especially considering there is both Musil and Broch already. Zauberberg, Faustus and Buddenbrooks all regularly make /lit/ top 100 lists, not to mention other best books lists of all time.I am also quite upset that William Gass wasn't nominated. Maybe not so obvious as an omission, but he is among my most favourites and normally a /lit/ staple author, and I think would probably enter the top 100 novelists if he were (usually he's more popular than eg. Markson, already on the list). There are of course others I think are obvious omissions given the length of the nominations list (eg. Fielding, Richardson, Trollope) but I don't think are necessarily popular enough among the /lit/ demographic to get the votes to enter the top 100. I recognise you can't include everyone.
I see a lot of votes for Woolf. Which is very surprising considering the disdain /lit/izens have for females.
>>23975703People who hate women tend to make more noise.
>>23974867>>23975329>>23975622>>23975663>>23975694I've decided I'll allow anons to mention names they'd like to see on the list, and I've also made it so anons can edit their answers to add those who've only recently been added to their own selections.
>>23974867>5 votes for John Cowper PowysMy niggas. Didn’t even think 5 anons would know him
Tommy P.
>>23975694Thomas Mann is there
>>23975774I nominated him btw
>>23975909Very nice. I did too. I wish his books were republished. Not many still in circulation today. Isn’t this what NYRB is for? I should email them lol
>be a newfag >only read books from like 3 writers>still join the top 100 circlejerk thread and vote them higher than anyone mentioned in the voting system. sorry I spoiled your top 100 chart.
Why is the board so dead today?
>>23974867Why are people voting for Poe? He wrote one shitty novel.
>>23976849Same reason they voted Borges among the poets. They see name they like and disregard the category entirely.
>>23976211>Why is the board so dead today?been dead since it was created
>>23977179deep
I think you should've limited the picks to 5 per vote. The current poll allows a writer who isn't necessarily a favorite but generally likeable enough to top the list.
>>23978262I think if we do a 2024 end of year books list we should get 10 picks. If you can vote for as many as you like it can skew things as you’ve said. Picking only 5 means only the popular ones will make the chart. Maybe 10 choices will diversify things a bit
>>23974867I wonder what would happen if the only nominated authors would be those who published novels after the year 2000.
>1151 votes>61 participants OP, i appreciate your effort but this destroys any validity of the voting.The average voter is voting for 20 WRITERS per vote. That's not a list of /lit/'s favorite novelists, that's just a list of the most famous writers that people happen to know. This is without considering repeat voting from alternate devices and such.This poll desperately needs a voting cap. Samuel Beckett is ahead of Dickens and DFW right now! Beckett has had less threads in the past year than DFW has had the past month. Why is the bigger favorite not getting any traction on the actual board?
>>23978793A few autists can change perception. The DFW anons left years ago. There is that one anon who brings up Dickens any chance he can. Beckett threads usually do okay and some anons really know him, and they come out of the woodwork when they see a thread dedicated to him. Just because someone is mentioned a lot, doesn’t mean anything when a few overactive anons can distort things
>>23978874The longest recent Beckett thread was only alive because the critic anon kept offering his criticisms of his work. Otherwise most of them are dead by a dozen posts. DFW gets a lot more traction, that is also verifiable by IJ's placement on /lit/ end of the year lists compared with Beckett's placement.Notwithstanding, Beckett was just an example. Gaddis is at 10 votes too. When was the last Gaddis thread? Are there even 20 people on this board rn who have read his work?
>>23978262>>23978793Look, I hear what you're saying, but the point is to see who anon's favorites are. I'm not in a position to say to anyone "you're lying, he's not one of your favorites!" If any anon votes for people who aren't actually their favorites, it's unfortunate, but it's on them. Even if I capped the vote, there's no guarantee that anons wouldn't vote for who they think their favorites should be, rather than who their favorites really are. >>23978914>Are there even 20 people on this board rn who have read his work?I don't think there are even 20 people on this board, period.
>>23978950Most people have 3-4 genuine favorites and after that they are just filling the list with writers they might have read one book from. With a choice cap they'd be forced to select only their absolute favorites which should be the way to go. There's no way an average anon has read majority of the works of 20 writers.
>>23979559It's my thought that if I did cap it, the list would end up being less interesting. Right now, the top five in the poll are Dostoevsky, Joyce, Faulkner, Melville, and McCarthy. Those five authors get mentioned a lot around here. They probably are the authors most frequently mentioned, and most frequently have threads dedicated to them. I think if I capped it, you'd see those five at the top anyway, along with other popular ones, but you wouldn't see a lot of votes cast for other minor favorites. Having it unlimited allows anons to give more attention to those other minor favorites of theirs which they may have in common. Bottom line is, if you want to see other authors at the top of a list like this, you/I/we have got to start talking about other authors more and getting other anons to read them. This board is susceptible to shilling.
>>23978914This board is too jaded so I don’t make threads about writers I like but I’ll comment on an existing thread if I feel it will be productive >>23979559That’s because there are like 30 people who read here and have read more than 100 books. Those same anons don’t come here all the time either. Younger readers will always trend towards more entry level writers.
Goethe being in the Top10 is strange, because I never see any threads about him on /lit/. Still pretty based.
>>23979645Then why is Gerald Murnane not popular
>>23980408Probably because one dude makes every single thread about him.
>>23977379>deepI Wish, just been around since before the board was made so its just old fashioned oberservation
bupo
>>23974867>organized by first name>no Joseph Heller on the list
>>23974867>Colleen Hoover at three votes.Based CoHo.Filtering both pseuds and roasties alike.
