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>>24093695fake and gay
>books that moved up from 2023+78 Kaczynski—Industrial Society and its Future+48 Shelley, M—Frankenstein+48 Joyce—Dubliners+44 Orwell—1984+37 Huxley—Brave New World+37 Dostoevsky—Notes From Underground+37 Augustine—Confessions+36 Márquez—One Hundred Years of Solitude+34 Anonymous—The Epic of Gilgamesh+31 Heller—Catch-22+30 Kafka—The Trial+29 Dostoevsky—The Idiot+25 Kafka—The Metamorphosis+23 Joyce—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man+22 Tolkien—The Hobbit+22 Ellis—American Psycho+21 Brontë, E—Wuthering Heights+16 Homer—The Odyssey+15 Xenophon—Anabasis+15 Flaubert—Madame Bovary+12 Plato—Dialogues+11 Tolkien—The Lord of the Rings+7 Dante—The Divine Comedy+5 Jünger—Storm of Steel+5 Homer—The Iliad+5 Dostoevsky—Crime and Punishment+2 Salinger—The Catcher in the Rye+2 Anonymous—The Holy Bible+1 Tolstoy—War and Peace+1 Gogol—Dead Souls+1 Camus—The Stranger>books that were added to the chartpicrel
>books that moved down from 2023-70 Wolfe—The Book of the New Sun-48 Mann—The Magic Mountain-48 Hamsun—Hunger-45 Toole—A Confederacy of Dunces-34 Wagner—The Ring of the Nibelung-31 Steinbeck—East of Eden-29 Mishima—Spring Snow-29 Dazai—No Longer Human-28 Bolaño—2666-23 Nietzsche—Thus Spoke Zarathusta-22 Williams, J—Stoner-20 Céline—Journey to the End of the Night-17 Montaigne—Essays-17 Dostoevsky—Demons-16 Mishima—The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the Sea-16 Borges—Ficciones-13 Proust—In Search of Lost Time-13 Nabokov—Lolita-12 Wilde—The Picture of Dorian Gray-12 Bulgakov—The Master and Margarita-11 McCarthy—Blood Meridian-10 Shakespeare—The First Folio-9 Hemingway—The Old Man and the Sea-8 Tolstoy—Anna Karenina-8 Milton—Paradise Lost-7 Kant—Critique of Pure Reason-7 Hesse—Siddhartha-4 Schopenhauer—The World as Will and Representation-4 Dumas—The Count of Monte Cristo-3 Eco—The Name of the Rose-3 Cervantes—Don Quixote-2 Pynchon—Gravity’s Rainbow-2 Goethe—The Sorrows of Young Werther-1 Wallace, DF—Infinite Jest-1 Melville—Moby-Dick-1 Joyce—Ulysses-1 Goethe—Faust-1 Faulkner—The Sound and the Fury-1 Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov>books that fell off the chartpicrel
>>24093695>no GaddisGrim.
>>24093695At least Moby Cock wasn't #1
>51/100How many have you read?
>>24093695Reddit has seen the new list, they just BTFO'd it./lit/bros... our response?
>>24093695tolstoj, dazai, homer and joyce don't belong in top 100
>>24093744>a list that includes Plato but has no Aristotle in itThe chart has Aristotle>omits even such major works as the plays of the Greek tragediansThe chart has Aeschylus and Sopohocles>omits the works of the Greek and Roman historians (indeed, ALL histories)The chart has Herodotus and Xenophon>omits Beowulf, any of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe chart has all those>There is NO lyric poetryThe chart has Yeats>It's just a bunch of shitposters showing off.Guilty as charged
>>24093695Fuck you
>>24093780>t. seething chink mad he couldn't rig the polls
>>240936953 dostoevsky books in top 10 + tolkienjust laughable
>>24093752Which one of the top 100 will fix a NEET?
>>24093700How did these books, objectively superior to much of what's on the list now, fall out completely in just 1 year? Animal Farm over Les Mis and Hamsun, are you kidding me /lit/?
>>24093808the odyssey
>>24093744Old pasta but interesting how many of the complaints no longer apply:>now has Aristotle>now has ~48 dating before 1900>now has Aeschylus and Sophocles>now has Herodotus and Xenophon (although no Roman historians)>now has Beowulf>now has one of the Great Classical novels of Chinese literature>now has Canterbury Tales>now has four (4) playwrights>now has one (1) book of lyric poetryIt's almost like /lit/ collectively listened to this pretentious douchebag's criticisms. (Not that they were ever warranted because it's not a curated list, it's just a popular list where the LCD of /lit/ posters decide what goes on the list. From that perspective it's not all that bad.)
>>24093810>nooooo you should have voted for 100 pages of Parisian sewer architeture
>>240937339/100 which is why I didn't vote on the list. I recently started reading The Count of Monte Cristo so soon to be 10/100. I have a ways to go before I'd consider myself qualified to comment on the best literature of all time.I will say that Moby Dick is Mega Gay though.
>>24093695Neat list, think I preferred last year's, but thanks for running things OP.I think a good goal for next year is to supplant Nietzsche and get Wagner ahead of him, as he rightly should be.
>>24093844Modest goals for 2025 are:- Moby Cock out of the top 5- Iliad to #1- Flashman on the list
>>24093744I'm always impressed by Redditors ability to spill so much ink despite being clearly illiterate.
>>24093810I think it's mainly to do with the change in how the voting worked this year. Normally it's something like pick 5 or 10 books, whereas this time you could choose to vote for as many books as you wanted in the list. So from that the obscurer books that have devoted readers (like Gaddis, notably) who would normally get picked in the older system of favourites fall out, replacing them with books that more anons know generally even if they're not so beloved by their readers. There's good and bad to both systems: now we have Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristotle and Ovid who we wouldn't normally have. But we also get Animal Farm because everyone's read it and knows it.Also I think Luo Guanzhong and Xenophon, as good picks as they are to diversify the list a bit, were probably manipulated/cheated to get into the list.
>>24093695this list is so shit it's not even funny
>>24093695Best year so far. Is lit getting better?
I like the alternative rando list better desu senpai. Next year should use ranked choice voting to better sort out quality from popularity in the rankings.
>>24093908It has a few head-scratching choices. OED?Oresteia is good but only the first two parts, not of a fan of the Eumenides. If I had to pick a favourite it'd be Prometheus Bound or Sophocles' Electra.Still very based for including the Confidence-Man.
>>24093695>55there should be far more philosophy and I dont mean the chinese or indian crap
Merci beaucoup OP!>>24093782based OP.He should have deleted even Daodejing.
>>24093908>I like the alternative rando list It's obvious that you're the one who made that list.
>>24093869>>24093929OP said he deleted the spam votes, so I don't think there's cheating
How pathetic do you have to be to attempt rigging a Scandinavian sun-tanning forum's poll about books of all things?
>>24093695>1984 in the top 25Sad that such a dogshit book got so many votes>>24093700>steppenwolf fell off
>>24093943Caught red handed! Will stop posting it.
For the anons that voted for Animal Farm over Pessoa, Hesse, Hugo, Balzac and Pound, may I ask why?
>>24094045Animals are cool.
>>24093695One of the most vanilla charts ever. Lots of good books but it’s just “typical, boring, and lacking personality
>>24093695>classicschuds blowing the absolute smoke out of postmoderncelsYou love to see it, folks! But seriously, saved for later when I need to pick a new book. Thanks for putting this together.
Basic bitch tier
>>24093695Can we get the whole list so we can see where all the proposed books rank
>>24093695Schopenhauer absolutely disrespected.Kafka probably has too much loveKaczynski too highProust should be top 20Pessoa RIP. . . Gatsby way to lowNow it's time to build the meta list, take the top 100 of the last ten years to make the ultimate top 100. I'm not qualified to do such things.
>>24094085The link is in the chart
>the bibleWay too many 2016 MAGAboomers on this website
31/100Am I patrician?
>>24093695Is there a version where there is only one book per one author?
>>24093919>Oresteia is good but only the first two parts, not of a fan of the Eumenides.Interesting. I think Eumenides is the single greatest play we have from the Greek world (especially when taken together with the cycle as a whole). The conversion and resolution of private vengeance into public/societal judgment is probably the most profound thing I've read - a way out of the Hobbesian world centuries before Hobbes himself. And the thinly-veiled portrayal (I believe, anyways) of the post-Ephialtes Aereopogus as a bunch of bitching harpies is just so good.
>GR @ 29Us Pynchonsexuals used to own this board. If anyone ever said anything bad about a Pynchon book, we'd bully them until they left and never came back. We always made sure GR was in the top 5, plus a smattering of his other works in the top 100. And now I see this board is no longer a place for us. Goodbye, faggots.
>>24094369Farewell pinecone fren, and see u tomorrow.
>>24094369Did you think you could shine here like an immortal light bulb and not get burnt out? Don't slip on a banana peel on your way out fag
>>24094369Pynheads...we lost to Infinite Jesters
>>24094369I remember those days. For a few years at the beginning we used to have call signs to let other Pynchonites know who we were, so that others could back us up in threads in case we ever got into arguments with the non-Pynchon fans. I wonder if anyone else still remembers those days...FalconWing4057, over and out.
>>24093695of the books i've read1. based2. gay and overrated6. gay8. amazing9. meh13. high school book15. hot shit16. good shit22. schizo but... good?25. good but high school level30. great42. hiiiiiiiiiiiigh shooooooooool45. classic46. boring56. excessive use of "gd"62. good, similar to 1984 in terms of how easy it is to read64. zendaya book67. meh, movie okay71. good book, good film73. GAY80. booooooooooooooooooooring85. high school, meh94. very sad, very good (junji ito too)96. cant remember it
>>24093700>book of disquiet not in the chart/lit/ has fallen billions must chart
>>24093695Good job /lit/, yet again, another boring list filled with horrible picks
>>24093700Aw man my favorite book is Alice in Wonderland
>>24093695Why not just allow 10 votes with the bottom 7 counting as 1 point and the top 3 counting as 2,3 and 4 points.That way hidden gems with a dedicated readership get to stay a float while universally beloved classics and flavour of the year books make up the rest of the list
>>24094527I think they did that in 2020.
>>24093695He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
>>24094328Yeah.>>>r/truelit
Attempts at explaining +/->+78 Kaczynski—Industrial Society and its FutureGut reaction: surprised. Thought about it - deserved. Look at your society now, compare to pre 1990s.>+44 Orwell—1984Horrific bounce. You are not living in 1984, you're in brave new world. Soma.>+37 Huxley—Brave New WorldDeserves more than 1984 if only for prognostications. This sick fuck predicted invitro like 46yrs in advance.>+22 Ellis—American PsychoAlmost the same explanation as Uncle Ted, but with zoomers and some millennials idolizing christian bale. Nihilism galore. Funny book though.>+2 Anonymous—The Holy BibleHeh, Anonymous. >+1 Camus—The StrangerYou know there's no real point to this book, right anon?>-70 Wolfe—The Book of the New SunLook at how they massacred my boy. He's not THAT bad, shit. I mostly was pissed off I will absolutely never have a defintive answer to anything - but this nigger can write some rape.>-11 McCarthy—Blood MeridianYou fell for wendigoon, it's his mustache. And Britt. The filter has a filter on it.>-1 Faulkner—The Sound and the FuryThe technical prowess evades this community, but you don't need it since your parents are already sending you to a psychiatrist.
finally /lit/'s top 100 list without any form of rigging with bots and discord trannies.
>>24094545Don't they have some rule about how they have to include one female author for every 4 male? It's pathetic
>>24094121It's the era of 2025 MAGAZOOMERS CHUD.
>>24094551>>+78 Kaczynski—Industrial Society and its Future>Gut reaction: surprised. Thought about it - deserved. Look at your society now, compare to pre 1990s.Bro did you really take the advice and start living in some cabin in the woods or whatever with minimal technology? It's because of that Luigi's Mansion guy. Research it.
>>24094328then it would be called top 100 author ,dummy.
>>24094572>Bro did you really take the advice and start living in some cabin in the woodsI'm communicating with you on the internet.>Luigi's Mansion guyPoint taken. 41% of "young people" think it was a justified kill. Seems fucking retarded as it changes nothing, but good point nonetheless.
>Have read (or partially read) 27/100 of the books>another 10 I own but haven't readMuch higher than I expected desu. Maybe /lit/ is influencing my reading picks more than I realised.Having complete works of Plato but splitting Aristotle feels odd. Though I guess it be unfair to all the other books to have half the top 100 be Plato dialogs.
>>24093744Bah humbug
>>24093908>Next year we should use ranked choice voting to better sort out quality from popularity in the rankings.Absolutely. I suggested Ted K but the fact that it's at #22 is ridiculous, it should be #80 at best.
>>24094447>the metamorphosis>hot shitagreed. i listened to the audiobook. that little jew wasted two hours of my time.
>>24093858>shills Flashman, hates Moby DickYou are fucking cancer
>>24093695RIGGED. Top of the real list is as follows: Dao De Jing - LaoziA Dream of Red Mansions - Cao XueqinAnalects - ConfuciusPoems - Li BaiPharsalia - LucanRomance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo GuanzhongJourney to the West - Wu Cheng'en
>>24093695>Anonymous image board>Poll you have to sign up for with Google accountThis is not /lit/. This is just pathetic.
>>24094671>>24094674>t. chink seething he couldn't rig the polls
That's not a bad list. If the ranking was different, it would probably be one of the best annual charts of /lit/.Thanks to the anon who organized it. Hope that next time it would be even better.
>>24093695Boring list. Lack of individuality and taste
>>24094700At least it's accurate then. Maybe we should do an obscure top 100 list. No books that have appeared in previous /lit/ top 100s, or maybe only under a certain amount of reviews on goodreads.
>>24094716
>>24094716Honestly I think the number of people who post here with any regularity (like at least once a week) who have read hundreds of books is very small. I’d bet most anons couldn’t even make their own 100 book list because they haven’t read that much.
>>24094736450 voters and 8800 votes means average of 20 books per person
>>24094747Exactly. It’s a newbie board. Not many anons will have read enough to offer “obscure” titles
>brothers karamazov >Anna Karenina >Faust>Don Quixote Which of these would 1) be the easiest to fit into a busy schedule 2) be a nice fit in a schedule that already has Crime and Punishment
>>24094751Obscure loses when votes are the same 15 popular books and different sets of 5 obscure books
>>24094751Being obscure doesn't improve the quality of a book.
FUCK STONER
>>24094771DUDE WEEDHow it became liked here baffles me.
>>24094767No but reader preference plays a huge part. If you’ve read a lot and your favorites is just some generic list of great books you haven’t developed any taste of your own
>>24094775Nope
>the bible number 1Bait chart. Funny, but really, anon, post the real one
>>2409373383/100probably the year end chart I have read the least of but also the one I am least interested in filling out
>>24093801lord of the rings is an egregiously embarassing entry for the top 10, but I blame the voting systemapparently a huge chunk of anons in here has not only read it but also find it inoffensive and even agreeable enough to check his box when given an unlimited amount of votesstill embarassingso is dostoevsky but he was always a darling in here so not surprising at all
>>24093908>Next year should use ranked choicethat will only get direction brained lurkers to push their holy book into the top spots. get ready for insanely high placements for bible, quran, capital, and of course mein kampf
>>24094090>Proust should be top 20good luck getting anons to read him. it's already a hard sell to begin with him being a kike and gay
>>24094328I already feel like including all of shakespeare, plato, and greek tragedians as singular pics is cheating desu
>>24094611>Though I guess it be unfair to all the other books to have half the top 100 be Plato dialogsonly the republic has ever consistently made the chart. anons definitely don't care about Phaedo or what have you
>>24094759Faust part 1 is nice and easy. Faust part 2 is the great filter and you won't get it without sufficient preparation.AK and DQ are straightforward but long.
>>24094824Would BK and C&P back to back lead to Russian burnout?
>>24094829it would turn into a dostofag which is the worst thing to be
>>24093695Glad I'm not voting for anything this year. Seems like there was too many tourist and newfags on this board, something that is completely unnecessary but not that unpredictable either. There was so much derank on this list compared to last year, really unfortunate on that one. But what did you expect? Regardless, thanks op for organizing this stuff. Evendoe I'm not a voter but atleast this entire voting result is a big nod, a final blow, emphasis even, on what this board have become since its first downhill in 2016.Oh btw, some faggot just posted this list on xitter, just when I thought that this board is free from xitter hoarder like pirat nigger on /v/, someone managed to do that anyway and probably inviting even more retarded tourist in here
>>24094829I'm not your dad, do whatever the fuck you want.
>>24094838>twitter is laughing at us again/lit/bros... I don't know how long I can endure this kind of humiliation. at least when reddit mocks us it gets me hard for some reason...
Every other website and board is laughing at us for how bad this year’s list is. Congratulations /lit/
Bros, the UN just took a break from proceedings to laugh at us...
>>24093844This is only fair, considering that Wagner is just slightly ahead of Nietzsche in the number of books written about him in the library of congress.
>No Hitler>no Supreme Gentleman 4chan i am disappoint
>>24095007oh look!! an amateur psyops glowie!hiiiiiiii~
>>24095017You will never be a woman
Way too many female authors
>>2409369551
>>24093700>-22, StonerBill bros...
>>2409373338
>>24093695Thanks for your effort, anon. Bros, what happened to Book of the New ?Sun? I thought it's one of our faves around here
>>24095090It Is. But we have 90 other favourites too
>>24093700This chart is better and more patrician than the main one kek
>>24094721Can we make one for 2024?
>>24093810leftist xitter crowd influx
r/TrueLit dyels can’t stop seething at /lit/chads
>>24095159>>24093744Go back
>>2409369522/100I'm still a pleb.
I've been waiting for this! Thanks mate!
>>24095164How about you finally lift 10 pounds over your head without struggling then maybe I will
>>24093955There is literally nothing wrong being unemployed because it can also affect you but I guess having a job is also good. Remember there are pros and cons for being a NEET and having a job. So life is up to you as long as you managed to survive.
I'm also noticing a pattern to this chart
>>24093700>Picrel is better than this year's entire listkwab
>>24093695cheers
>>24093695Top 101–200 chart when? (we've done this previous years)
>>24095262Not necessary
>>24095264Untrue. The top picks are always boring, it's what's left behind that's interesting.
>>24095287What do you mean?The left behind books are always the same.
>>24095287Anything discussed here is a must read if you know it's a good book
>>24095287i agree!! there are some in here >>24093700hopefully op will make losers top 100 chart.
>>24093695Wow, it's the exact same list as it is every year, how exciting...
/lit/ top 100 but books that showed up the previous year arent allowed
>>24095316why? it's a list of favorites, not a recommendation list to find new novels to read
>>24093695>no lusty argonian maidshit list
>>24095369because I want a recommendation list to find new novels to read
>>24094568based and true
>>24095388here two favorites that I didn't bother have OP add to the poll because why even bother then:>Bomarzo, Lainez>The Temple of Iconococlasts, Wilcocknow go and make a thread for recs you entitled lazy bum
>>24095316/lit/ top hundred but no anglos and no russians are allowed (easy on the greeks too)
>>24093695Why is this list so much worse than years past?
>>24095094We also did in previous votes, but it ranked much higher there.
>>24095505new method of polling
>>24094925Michael Jackson surely has more books written about him than a lot of these authors, why isn’t he up there?
>>24095505I see little or no coal here, what’s the issue? Ranking?
>>24095527Really? Thanks guys I wonder what kind of nonsensical stuff you all wrote about me. It's better be good.
>>24095505I disagree we got better every year
>>24095262It's all just books with 2-3 votes.
>>24095559Given this year’s voting I think it might be notably more desu
>>24095505The polling changed. Everyone has read LOTR so I became top 10 but not many on /biz/ ever puts LOTR as a top 10 book
>>24094842It really puts into perspective how dead 4chan is that people just repost threads from here on other websites and get hundreds more people discussing the things we say but the actual threads here themselves struggle to even reach 100 posts
fucking hell the same number of ORWELL books on here as women total is lmfaoI can forgive the lack of Jane Austen or like, Willa Cather or Pearl S. Buck. But not even Toni Morrison or Charlotte Brontë or Virginia Woolf?
>>24095818Toni is not better than Willa
>>24095830Ok
>>24093744>they just picked these books because they want to be seen as hipster intellectuals>but all the books are too popular, they didn't pick any obscure hard books>and they didn't pick any ancient plays or foreign stuff or poetryIt's almost a derangement the degree to which this person won't recognize that these picks just reflect what we like. Most people don't like poetry, nor alien books in place or attitude. Which is it? Have we added things too grand and intellectual for us to have read, or have we omitted things grand and intellectual? A sad polemic, specious and ill-reasoned.
>>24095818>Virginia WoolfNo Virginia woolf is a red flag that you're all newfags
>>24093695Votes should be weighted according to an anon’s age and how many books they’ve read. No reason some 18 year old who’s read 20 books’ vote should be taken seriously
Embarrassing list. Next year please change the polling system. I haven't checked if it's up yet, but reddit's r/truelit will undoubtedly have a better list this year. For shame, anon
>>24095943+2 but ,Age doesn't matter.however there shall be a way to ask people how many books they read and if they can verify this. because this thing is not done and we allow newfags to vote,this ends up filling every top 100 books chart with entry level books or books written by overrated or trending writers.
>>2409373325, I got 5 more than last year
>>24095830Lmaoooooo
>>24095943>>24095996Trying to implement this would be hilarious. People would simply lie about the number of books they've read. And even if you did you weigh it accurately by number of books read you might get the few anons who have read mountains of genre fic slop putting their autistic genre fic choices at the top by default.
>>24093700Heh, bad books are actually... le good. I am so cool and interesting for having this opinion.
Dostoevsky continues to be the GOAT of all time.
>>24093695very nice anon, good work.
>>24096172Yeah as of right now I think I'm really am him
>>24096066>you did you weigh it accurately by number of books read you might get the few anons who have read mountains of genre fic slop putting their autistic genre fic choices at the top by default.then the genres can be weighed too between "literary", "philosophy", "genre", etc. and if its genre it gets weighted lower.
uh oh /lit/bros...
>>24094803Almost all of those are better than LotR so that's fine.
>>24096388>thread of meaning Kek what a seething dimwit. Why does /lit/ make insecure retards seethe?
>>24093695So fucking dumb, lmao. Why is the Bible top one.
>>24096388>>24096478I don't even understand the complaint. He's mad the books aren't thematically connected?
>>24096478A lot of those guys are corrupted by the medium and feel pressed to come up with inane "takes" like this.If he was posting here he wouldn't have the same incentive to come up with bespoke nonsense.
>>24096388The average member of The Book Community. Why would any of the works be linked?
>>24095527He's not even in the top 30, and he wasn't an author.
>>24095505It was rigged
>>24096055Cather is a great author regardless of gender. Jesus fucking Christ nobody on this Cambodian thimble collectors forum actually reads; what a disgrace.
>>24096527The Bible has the coalition of votes from tradcucks who probably never read it and literati who read it for secular appreciation, because it does have some amazing literature in it
>>24096946>it does have some amazing literature in it>Ezekiel 23:20 "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."Yes, we just HAVE to describe those donkey dicks and horse sized cum shots. Um, yeah sweaty, it's called LITERATURE.
>>24093817imagine of much of a robotic twat you have to be to have nichomachean ethics in your top 100 books lol
I've read exactly 50 and half the list. This is the half I haven't read.
>>24096669If Bob Dylan can win the Nobel and an opera is already on the list then Michael Jackson counts
>>24095505The entire board has gone to shit.
