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>>24093695
fake and gay
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>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 chart
picrel
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>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 chart
picrel
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>>24093695
>no Gaddis
Grim.
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>>24093695
At least Moby Cock wasn't #1
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>51/100
How many have you read?
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>>24093695
Reddit has seen the new list, they just BTFO'd it.
/lit/bros... our response?
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>>24093695
tolstoj, dazai, homer and joyce don't belong in top 100
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>>24093744
>a list that includes Plato but has no Aristotle in it
The chart has Aristotle
>omits even such major works as the plays of the Greek tragedians
The 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 Chaucer
The chart has all those
>There is NO lyric poetry
The chart has Yeats
>It's just a bunch of shitposters showing off.
Guilty as charged
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>>24093695
Fuck you
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>>24093780
>t. seething chink mad he couldn't rig the polls
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>>24093695
3 dostoevsky books in top 10 + tolkien
just laughable
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>>24093752
Which one of the top 100 will fix a NEET?
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>>24093700
How 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/?
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>>24093808
the odyssey
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>>24093744
Old 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 poetry
It'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.)
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>>24093810
>nooooo you should have voted for 100 pages of Parisian sewer architeture
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>>24093733
9/100 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.
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>>24093695
Neat 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.
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>>24093844
Modest goals for 2025 are:
- Moby Cock out of the top 5
- Iliad to #1
- Flashman on the list
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>>24093744
I'm always impressed by Redditors ability to spill so much ink despite being clearly illiterate.
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>>24093810
I 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.
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>>24093695
this list is so shit it's not even funny
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>>24093695
Best year so far. Is lit getting better?
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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.
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>>24093908
It 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.
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>>24093695
>55
there should be far more philosophy and I dont mean the chinese or indian crap
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Merci beaucoup OP!
>>24093782
based OP.
He should have deleted even Daodejing.
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>>24093908
>I like the alternative rando list
It's obvious that you're the one who made that list.
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>>24093869
>>24093929
OP said he deleted the spam votes, so I don't think there's cheating
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How pathetic do you have to be to attempt rigging a Scandinavian sun-tanning forum's poll about books of all things?
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>>24093695
>1984 in the top 25
Sad that such a dogshit book got so many votes
>>24093700
>steppenwolf fell off
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>>24093943
Caught red handed! Will stop posting it.
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For the anons that voted for Animal Farm over Pessoa, Hesse, Hugo, Balzac and Pound, may I ask why?
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>>24094045
Animals are cool.
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>>24093695
One of the most vanilla charts ever. Lots of good books but it’s just “typical, boring, and lacking personality
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>>24093695
>classicschuds blowing the absolute smoke out of postmoderncels
You love to see it, folks! But seriously, saved for later when I need to pick a new book. Thanks for putting this together.
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Basic bitch tier
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>>24093695
Can we get the whole list so we can see where all the proposed books rank
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>>24093695
Schopenhauer absolutely disrespected.
Kafka probably has too much love
Kaczynski too high
Proust should be top 20
Pessoa RIP. . .
Gatsby way to low

Now 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.
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>>24094085
The link is in the chart
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>the bible
Way too many 2016 MAGAboomers on this website
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31/100

Am I patrician?
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>>24093695
Is there a version where there is only one book per one author?
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>>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.
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>GR @ 29
Us 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.
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>>24094369
Farewell pinecone fren, and see u tomorrow.
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>>24094369
Did 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
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>>24094369
Pynheads...we lost to Infinite Jesters
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>>24094369
I 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.
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>>24093695
of the books i've read
1. based
2. gay and overrated
6. gay
8. amazing
9. meh
13. high school book
15. hot shit
16. good shit
22. schizo but... good?
25. good but high school level
30. great
42. hiiiiiiiiiiiigh shooooooooool
45. classic
46. boring
56. excessive use of "gd"
62. good, similar to 1984 in terms of how easy it is to read
64. zendaya book
67. meh, movie okay
71. good book, good film
73. GAY
80. booooooooooooooooooooring
85. high school, meh
94. very sad, very good (junji ito too)
96. cant remember it
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>>24093700
>book of disquiet not in the chart
/lit/ has fallen billions must chart
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>>24093695
Good job /lit/, yet again, another boring list filled with horrible picks
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>>24093700
Aw man my favorite book is Alice in Wonderland
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>>24093695
Why 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
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>>24094527
I think they did that in 2020.
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>>24093695
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
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>>24094328
Yeah.
>>>r/truelit
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Attempts at explaining +/-

>+78 Kaczynski—Industrial Society and its Future
Gut reaction: surprised. Thought about it - deserved. Look at your society now, compare to pre 1990s.
>+44 Orwell—1984
Horrific bounce. You are not living in 1984, you're in brave new world. Soma.
>+37 Huxley—Brave New World
Deserves more than 1984 if only for prognostications. This sick fuck predicted invitro like 46yrs in advance.
>+22 Ellis—American Psycho
Almost the same explanation as Uncle Ted, but with zoomers and some millennials idolizing christian bale. Nihilism galore. Funny book though.
>+2 Anonymous—The Holy Bible
Heh, Anonymous.
>+1 Camus—The Stranger
You know there's no real point to this book, right anon?

>-70 Wolfe—The Book of the New Sun
Look 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 Meridian
You fell for wendigoon, it's his mustache. And Britt. The filter has a filter on it.
>-1 Faulkner—The Sound and the Fury
The technical prowess evades this community, but you don't need it since your parents are already sending you to a psychiatrist.
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finally /lit/'s top 100 list without any form of rigging with bots and discord trannies.
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>>24094545
Don't they have some rule about how they have to include one female author for every 4 male? It's pathetic
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>>24094121
It's the era of 2025 MAGAZOOMERS CHUD.
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>>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.
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>>24094328
then it would be called top 100 author ,dummy.
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>>24094572
>Bro did you really take the advice and start living in some cabin in the woods
I'm communicating with you on the internet.
>Luigi's Mansion guy
Point taken. 41% of "young people" think it was a justified kill. Seems fucking retarded as it changes nothing, but good point nonetheless.
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>Have read (or partially read) 27/100 of the books
>another 10 I own but haven't read
Much 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.
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>>24093744
Bah humbug
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>>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.
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>>24094447
>the metamorphosis
>hot shit
agreed. i listened to the audiobook. that little jew wasted two hours of my time.
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>>24093858
>shills Flashman, hates Moby Dick

You are fucking cancer
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>>24093695
RIGGED. Top of the real list is as follows:
Dao De Jing - Laozi
A Dream of Red Mansions - Cao Xueqin
Analects - Confucius
Poems - Li Bai
Pharsalia - Lucan
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
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>>24093695
>Anonymous image board
>Poll you have to sign up for with Google account
This is not /lit/. This is just pathetic.
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>>24094671
>>24094674
>t. chink seething he couldn't rig the polls
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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.
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>>24093695
Boring list. Lack of individuality and taste
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>>24094700
At 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.
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>>24094716
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>>24094716
Honestly 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.
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>>24094736
450 voters and 8800 votes means average of 20 books per person
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>>24094747
Exactly. It’s a newbie board. Not many anons will have read enough to offer “obscure” titles
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>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
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>>24094751
Obscure loses when votes are the same 15 popular books and different sets of 5 obscure books
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>>24094751
Being obscure doesn't improve the quality of a book.
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FUCK STONER
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>>24094771
DUDE WEED
How it became liked here baffles me.
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>>24094767
No 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
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>>24094775
Nope
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>the bible number 1
Bait chart. Funny, but really, anon, post the real one
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>>24093733
83/100
probably the year end chart I have read the least of but also the one I am least interested in filling out
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>>24093801
lord of the rings is an egregiously embarassing entry for the top 10, but I blame the voting system
apparently 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 votes
still embarassing
so is dostoevsky but he was always a darling in here so not surprising at all
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>>24093908
>Next year should use ranked choice
that 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
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>>24094090
>Proust should be top 20
good luck getting anons to read him. it's already a hard sell to begin with him being a kike and gay
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>>24094328
I already feel like including all of shakespeare, plato, and greek tragedians as singular pics is cheating desu
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>>24094611
>Though I guess it be unfair to all the other books to have half the top 100 be Plato dialogs
only the republic has ever consistently made the chart. anons definitely don't care about Phaedo or what have you
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>>24094759
Faust 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.
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>>24094824
Would BK and C&P back to back lead to Russian burnout?
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>>24094829
it would turn into a dostofag which is the worst thing to be
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>>24093695
Glad 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
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>>24094829
I'm not your dad, do whatever the fuck you want.
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>>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...
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Every other website and board is laughing at us for how bad this year’s list is. Congratulations /lit/
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Bros, the UN just took a break from proceedings to laugh at us...
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>>24093844
This 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.
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>No Hitler
>no Supreme Gentleman
4chan i am disappoint
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>>24095007
oh look!! an amateur psyops glowie!
hiiiiiiii~
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>>24095017
You will never be a woman
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Way too many female authors
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>>24093695
51
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>>24093700
>-22, Stoner
Bill bros...
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>>24093733
38
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>>24093695
Thanks for your effort, anon.

Bros, what happened to Book of the New ?Sun? I thought it's one of our faves around here
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>>24095090
It Is. But we have 90 other favourites too
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>>24093700
This chart is better and more patrician than the main one kek
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>>24094721
Can we make one for 2024?
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>>24093810
leftist xitter crowd influx
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r/TrueLit dyels can’t stop seething at /lit/chads
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>>24095159
>>24093744
Go back
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>>24093695
22/100
I'm still a pleb.
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I've been waiting for this! Thanks mate!
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>>24095164
How about you finally lift 10 pounds over your head without struggling then maybe I will
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>>24093955
There 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.
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I'm also noticing a pattern to this chart
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>>24093700
>Picrel is better than this year's entire list
kwab
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>>24093695
cheers
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>>24093695
Top 101–200 chart when? (we've done this previous years)
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>>24095262
Not necessary
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>>24095264
Untrue. The top picks are always boring, it's what's left behind that's interesting.
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>>24095287
What do you mean?
The left behind books are always the same.
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>>24095287
Anything discussed here is a must read if you know it's a good book
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>>24095287
i agree!! there are some in here >>24093700
hopefully op will make losers top 100 chart.
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>>24093695
Wow, it's the exact same list as it is every year, how exciting...
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/lit/ top 100 but books that showed up the previous year arent allowed
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>>24095316
why? it's a list of favorites, not a recommendation list to find new novels to read
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>>24093695
>no lusty argonian maid
shit list
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>>24095369
because I want a recommendation list to find new novels to read
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>>24094568
based and true
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>>24095388
here two favorites that I didn't bother have OP add to the poll because why even bother then:
>Bomarzo, Lainez
>The Temple of Iconococlasts, Wilcock
now go and make a thread for recs you entitled lazy bum
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>>24095316
/lit/ top hundred but no anglos and no russians are allowed (easy on the greeks too)
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>>24093695
Why is this list so much worse than years past?
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>>24095094
We also did in previous votes, but it ranked much higher there.
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>>24095505
new method of polling
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>>24094925
Michael Jackson surely has more books written about him than a lot of these authors, why isn’t he up there?
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>>24095505
I see little or no coal here, what’s the issue? Ranking?
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>>24095527
Really? Thanks guys I wonder what kind of nonsensical stuff you all wrote about me. It's better be good.
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>>24095505
I disagree we got better every year
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>>24095262
It's all just books with 2-3 votes.
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>>24095559
Given this year’s voting I think it might be notably more desu
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>>24095505
The polling changed. Everyone has read LOTR so I became top 10 but not many on /biz/ ever puts LOTR as a top 10 book
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>>24094842
It 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
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fucking hell the same number of ORWELL books on here as women total is lmfao
I 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?
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>>24095818
Toni is not better than Willa
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>>24095830
Ok
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>>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 poetry
It'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.
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>>24095818
>Virginia Woolf
No Virginia woolf is a red flag that you're all newfags
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>>24093695
Votes 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
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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
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>>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.
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>>24093733
25, I got 5 more than last year
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>>24095830
Lmaoooooo
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>>24095943
>>24095996
Trying 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.
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>>24093700
Heh, bad books are actually... le good. I am so cool and interesting for having this opinion.
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Dostoevsky continues to be the GOAT of all time.
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>>24093695
very nice anon, good work.
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>>24096172
Yeah as of right now I think I'm really am him
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>>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.
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uh oh /lit/bros...
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>>24094803
Almost all of those are better than LotR so that's fine.
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>>24096388
>thread of meaning
Kek what a seething dimwit. Why does /lit/ make insecure retards seethe?
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>>24093695
So fucking dumb, lmao. Why is the Bible top one.
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>>24096388
>>24096478
I don't even understand the complaint. He's mad the books aren't thematically connected?
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>>24096478
A 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.
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>>24096388
The average member of The Book Community. Why would any of the works be linked?
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>>24095527
He's not even in the top 30, and he wasn't an author.
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>>24095505
It was rigged
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>>24096055
Cather is a great author regardless of gender. Jesus fucking Christ nobody on this Cambodian thimble collectors forum actually reads; what a disgrace.
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>>24096527
The 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
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>>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.
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>>24093817
imagine of much of a robotic twat you have to be to have nichomachean ethics in your top 100 books lol
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I've read exactly 50 and half the list. This is the half I haven't read.
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>>24096669
If Bob Dylan can win the Nobel and an opera is already on the list then Michael Jackson counts
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>>24095505
The entire board has gone to shit.
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>Bible
There's something kind of sad a bout this choice. I guess it's a good thing that the Quran no longer appears on these, but that's not much of a silver lining.
>Lord of the Rings
Really makes me question the state of the board.
>The First Folio
Seems like a bit of a ca cop-out to me. I doubt most of the people who voted for it have read it in full. It would have been better to just list the individual plays.
>Summa Theologica
How many posters do you honestly think have read this in its entirety?
>>24096991
I mean Descartes' Meditations is one of my favorites, so I get it.
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>>24093695
The Lord of the Rings movies are better than the books. top 10 placement lmao. Has that even happened on this board before?
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>>24097508
Lord of the Rings is good. The reason it is there is because 10 people love and voted for The Iliad and another 10 people for Ulysses etc etc and all groups liked Lord of the Rings and tossed it a vote too because no vote cap.
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>>24097512
It's consistently in the top 50. I think usually around the 30s. The voting system this year was a no limit choice so books everyone has read got big boosts.
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>>24097514
I thought it was on there because tradcath weirdos like it. Every disappointing item on the list looks like it's there because of them.
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>>24097519
Unabomber Manifesto at 22 is tradcaths?
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>>24097524
Maybe, there's probably some overlap there. Even then, tit's better than having Fucking Aquinas anywhere on the list.
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>>24097527
Tits are better than a lot of books. I love tits.
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you guys got to stop making these exact same charts year after year. I think you should make a rule every year that you can't post books that where in last year or wait 5 or so years in between
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>>24096388
>a list of favorite books being polled from hundreds of anons with different interests and taste does not have unifiying thread aside for being good books
Does he think the board is a hivemind where collective taste is curated? I wish it was and that /sffg/ fags would get kicked out for aiding lotr placing so high but be realistic
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>>24096949
dude regardless of missing context that shit absolutely tame compared to what you can find in other entries in the chart
>the humiliation sissy sabbath in ulysses
>the coprophagia bdsm raceplay in gravity's rainbow
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>>24097648
the poll asks me for my favorite books. should I change my taste every year?
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>>24097516
Top 50 I understand, it’s super popular and influential. But top 10? I’ve never seen it that high. Then again there’s 3 Dostoevsky books in the top 10 so I have to assume this entire board has been conquered by 17 year old zoomers who are pretending to read for the first time and have chosen Tolkien and Dosto as their idols



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