The results of the 2025 poll for /lit/'s Top 100 books.It was a lot of work running the polls and making the chart, but it's worth it to keep this board's annual tradition alive. Thanks for voting!
The books that moved up from last year.>+37—The World as Will and Representation>+33—Siddhartha>+28—Finnegans Wake>+27—No Longer Human>+24—2666>+24—The Castle>+23—Brave New World>+20—Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?>+18—The Old Man and the Sea>+18—Journey to the End of the Night>+17—In Search of Lost Time>+17—Heart of Darkness>+14—The Count of Monte Cristo>+13—The Epic of Gilgamesh>+13—The Crying of Lot 49>+11—Lolita>+10—The Picture of Dorian Gray>+9—Blood Meridian>+9—1984>+9—The Catcher in the Rye>+9—The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the Sea>+7—The Metamorphosis>+7—Storm of Steel>+5—Plato>+5—Stoner>+5—Confessions>+5—The Poems of Yeats>+5—The City of God>+4—Gravity's Rainbow>+4—The Tragedies of Sophocles>+3—The Trial>+3—Anna Karenina>+3—East of Eden>+3—Hunger>+1—The Brothers Karamazov>+1—The Death of Ivan Ilyich>+1—Wuthering HeightsPicrel are the books that were added to the chart.
Books that moved down from last year.>-63—One Hundred Years of Solitude>-33—The Æneid>-33—Frankenstein>-33—The Canterbury Tales>-26—Industrial Society and its Future>-23—Catch-22>-19—The Ring of the Nibelung>-18—Thus Spake Zarathustra>-17—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man>-15—Animal Farm>-13—The Stranger>-11—The Sorrows of Young Werther>-11—The Prince>-10—The Divine Comedy>-9—The Tragedies of Æschylus>-9—Demons>-8—War and Peace>-8—The Master and Margarita>-8—Metamorphoses>-7—The Idiot>-7—Beowulf>-7—Nicomachean Ethics>-5—Notes From Underground>-4—Don Quixote>-4—The Lord of the Rings>-4—Faust>-4—Infinite Jest>-4—The Sound and the Fury>-3—Ulysses>-3—The First Folio>-3—The Hobbit>-2—Paradise Lost>-2—Dubliners>-2—Slaughterhouse-Five>-2—The Magic Mountain>-2—The Name of the Rose>-1—Moby-Dick>-1—A Confederacy of DuncesPicrel are the books that were removed from the chart.
These are the books that kept the same place. Funnily, number one and number 100 are the same as last year!
What did Marquez do to these people to deserve this
>>25005000>One Hundred Years of Solitude fell 63 placesDamn, what happened?
>>25005023>>25005026Shit book pushed by insecure browns. Like Pedro Paramo
>>25005026Im pretty pissed rn. Everybody that didnt vote for my goat getting RAPED tonight
>>25005028Why didn't the insecure browns push it this year though?
>>25005032No duplicate votes were allowed this year.
>>25004997Book of Disquiet and To the Lighthouse didn't make it last year? Clearly something was shady with that poll.
Smoking on that Book of the New Sun pack
>>25005038I'm more surprised Pale Fire didn't make the cut last year.
>>25005046Authors' second-tier works were heavily aided by the unlimited votes format this year
>>25004995Garbage. Lolita, 1984, Blood meridian, notes from underground, and... lord of the rings, over Shakespeare, Dante, Tolstoy, Proust, Milton, Goethe, Eliot, Pound, Yeats, Virgil, and Ovid. Chaucer is 81, I'm ashamed I even voted in this. Now my twitter feed will be a mix of people talking about how good this is, and people talking about how infantile it is; and I took part in it. Im never coming back fuck all of you.
Fucking 1984 in the top 20. Lord of the Rings too. Above Faulkner, above Dante, above Shakespeare. What happened? Outing myself as a newfag but it wasn't always this bad, was it?
>>25005069>>25005157or maybe 1984 is actually a good book, and you just want to be a contrarian about everything
>>25005157OP purposely used the dumbest and worst voting method due to incompetence because the prior ways of voting was too much counting for him
>>25005164Good book? Sure. 16th greatest book ever written? No.
You nerds and readers are fond of Oxford Handbooks?
>>25004995Um where tf is the Bible?
>Wagner still on the chartFuck this pseud board
>>25005200It is.
>>25004995>Thanks for voting!Where? I didn't vote.
>>25005069>Proust, eliot, poundDon't act like Blood Meridian isn't better/significantly better than this shit. Kys
>only 1 book written by a womanBased.
>>25004995>/lit/'s top 100 gets worse every yearGrim
>>25004997Well, the list could be worse.
>>25004995Since when is 'Cthulhu Mythos' a book?
>>25005234I see at least 3
>>25005157Because this is a popularity top, not a quality top.
>>25004995Is A Christmas Carol the first time Dickens has ever made the list?
What percent of people voting haven't read a book since high school, read one classic last year, then voted for it?
>>25005292Considering there are two Homers, two Kafkas and two Dostevskys in the top 10, I'd just assume this list was made by teenaged boys.
>>25005069see ya tomorrow
>>25005302>teenage boys
>>25005273I think tale of two cities made the cut way back in 2011
>>2500499589/100Embarrassing as always
>>25005069I'd rate Lolita and Blood Meridian over Tolstoy.
>>25005000>Aristotle x2>Marcus Aurelius>Herodotus>XenophonClassics bros . . . we got too cocky
>>25004995>It was a lot of work rigging the polls and making the chartFTFY
>>25005028It's one of the only good novels
>>25005302Homer's the GOAT, seethe
>>25004995Awful, awful. It's all awful. 2016 was a mistake.
>>25005167I agree. Letting people vote for as many as they wanted was an interesting experiment, but a bad one nonetheless. It too easily allows a homogenisation of the list, which dilutes board culture, something that should stand out against other top 100 lists. Limited choice forces people to think about what they want to include, instead of coalescing around the usual top 30 or 40 that everyone else votes for.
>>25004995Kafka has no fucking right to be ranked anywhere here. Slimey talentless kike. Had he not been a Jew in a time where Jews had (undeserved) sympathy no one would give a shit
>>25004995Dickensbros.....we are ascending!
>>25004995Awesome. I am reading the Bible right now. I'm looking forward to reading this list.
>>25005746But enough about the bible
Possibly the worst year yet…Still thanks for doing it op
>>25005845Yah, I am taking this almost as a call to action. Like /lit/ anons need to make 2026 the year of actually reading along with "internet minimalism". Its like the internet has gone from>people having irl interests and hobbies, and bringing them tot he internet for fun discussionto>people having internet interests and hobbies, and bringing them to real lifeIts like we need to rediscover the first one.
>>25004995Rookie bitch hereAre there specific dialogues for Plato, or all of them?
>>25004995Crazy how much the /lit/ top 100 got chuddified over the years. Weathered fossils of good taste hidden in between books primarily listed to appear 'based', rather than actually read.
>>25004997>>+37—The World as Will and Representation62>>+33—Siddhartha37>>+28—Finnegans Wake68>>+27—No Longer Human67>>+24—266635>>+24—The Castle41>>+23—Brave New World39>>+20—Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?60>>+18—The Old Man and the Sea34>>+18—Journey to the End of the Night43These are the 10 most changed and what number they are on today. I think it is more impressive to be both so much increased and also so high as Siddhartha, than say stuff that is in the 60s.
>>25004997>Finnegan's wake up by 28 points>Siddhartha up by 33 points >2 Dostoys in top 10>2 Kafkas in top 10>Lolita in top 10I'm going to be frank this has to be the lamest year so far. I like Dostoyevsky and all but my God at least make the top 10 a little more varied, even as good as Notes from Underground is it should not be close to also cracking the top 10. Maybe there's some silver lining in Dubliners now being higher ranked than Portrait of An Artist. The ladder is an okay book at best. Overall there's a lot of weird prioritizations and the "meme picks" are flooding these polls
>>25005000The American Psycho meme picks all got replaced by Blood Meridian
>>25005449Kali yuga anon
>>25005885Having made their own home board a shithole the immigrant /pol/ cocksuckers look to shit up yet another board
Does anyone have the link for /lit/'s previous polls?
>>25005705We did that 2 years ago and people complained
>>25006005Notes From Underground is one of the most 4chan books ever though. In an ideal, non 2016 world, the top two would be Infinite Jest and Notes From Underground.
>>25006012This is a chud board now, libtard. Scuttle off to bluesky or go provoke an ICE agent.>>25006059I'd be interested to see what would happen with just one vote per person. And screw the complaints.
>>25004995>It was a lot of work running the pollsYour polling systems sucks ass.>keeping the tradition aliveYou've actually killed it with your shitty fucking polling system. Kill yourself, you fucking asshole.
>>25005705He's talking about the list being preset and continually updated with more books after you cast your vote. If you limit the choice to 5 or even 10 books, you get a consistent top 20 but then the bottom 80 is just full of books that got 2 votes or even 1 vote.
>>25006059holy fucking newfagThat's how it ALWAYS WAS until this dumbass brownoid faggot hijacked the poll in 2024. This redditor is an embarrassment and needs to kill himself asap
>>25004995the bible being #1 is proof that this board is dominated by functionally illiterate americans
>>25006259t. has never read Ecclesiastes
>>25006259It's a literary masterpiece and if you can't recognize that you need a different hobby
>>25004995Someone please post it on reddit and xitter
>>25006152>>25006166seethe harder, faggot
>>25006264>>25006271hi cletus/shlomoMIGA!
>>25006165>or even 1 voteNah, in the last ten or so years I've been around the top 100 has been all more than one vote; but yeah a lot if it has received only two votes, not bottom 80, but maybe like bottom 30 (and with tiebreaks needed).
>>25006282>politically brainrotted nazi can't into literatureShocking
>>25006300Performative Bible voting
>>25006271>a literary masterpieceThe book of genesis disproves this btw
>>25005217>Reddit Meridian>better than ProustLol. Terrible judgment.>>25005207Cope and seethe.
>>25004997>>+37—The World as Will and RepresentationBased.
>>25006271too many plotholes and inconsistent worldbuildingplus the fanbase is obnoxious
>>25006271is there a bookclub i can join somewhere?
>>25006320You're retarded and have never read the book
>>25004995>Lolita to p 10this is site gonna crack down on pedos soon and i can't fucking wait
>>25005069lotr is great just for the autismo for the english alone1984 is an overrated diss book but the protagonist's circumstances are so unique there isn't a better example.
>>25006271>a literary masterpiecethe prose puts you to sleep and it's written by like 40 writers and 40^x ghost writers
>25/100shamefur
>>25004995Bible, LotR, Confessions, The Hobbit, The Count of Monte Cristo, Industrial Society and its Future.This year I'll read Lolita.
I haven't and will never read a single one of those books.
What are the top 100 books that didn't make the list
I think I might have (inadvertently) pushed Dickens to the list with my Dickens threads. A Tale of Two Cities deserves to be on the list though.
>>25006628the poll results are linked in the top left of the chart
>>25006637That's one of Dickens' worst books. It's only famous for its opening lines. But after that, it's just a dull serial novel.
>>25005856>>25005845It’s 90% identical to ever other year though
>>25004995What is the point of even doing this when it's 95% the same canon-approved books every year? It would be a lot more interesting to have a /lit/ top 100 weighted by divergence from overall popularity (using Goodreads or whatever metric) to highlight the more eccentric choices like the Unibomber manifesto and Wagner's Der Ring
>>25006884You're thinking Oliver Twist
>>25006637Nice. Dickens needs more love.
>>25007081Don't forget about the Balzac either.
>>25006912>the more eccentric choices like the Unibomber manifesto and Wagner's Der RingThe shittier choices, you mean
>>25005026>Damn, what happened?People actually read it
>>25004995>Iliad above Odyssey>Moby-Dick and Crime & Punishment above Lord of the Rings>Lolita on the list at allWho made this shit?
>all that nietchzeLol
>>25007344Bad bait. Do not try so hard next time, it would be believable with only the first greentext
>top 100>zero (0) Marxist philosophy bookswhat's the fucking point?
fuck man, why does it feel this list is getting more redditified y/y?
>>25007584>reddit>bible no 1lmao, no
I would like to shill "The Little Prince" for your consideration. I think it deserves to be on the list more than something like Alice in Wonderland (Through the Looking Glass is better anyway).
>>25007587“more reddified”, not “omg this place is literally r/books now!”
>>25007594alice in wonderland is both alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass
>>25006271From my experience this board is more critical of Christianity than not yet the Bible is considered the greatest book here
There needs to be a method that pushes overrated beginner shit like Blood Meridian and 1984 out. All the dostoevsky too. They're good books, but nowhere near deserving of being in the top 20.
>>25007873That's what you get when you have an infinite number of votes. People just vote for everything they're read since high school and thus lowest common denominator slop is pushed to the top.
>>25007873Name 20 books better than TBK and C&P
>>25005000>/lit/ finally realizes that Percy wrote Frankenstein>it drops 33 placessimps
>>250049952017 still the best year
>>25006351I accept your concession.
Easily the worst /lit/ top 100 ever.I regret wasting my time by voting on this.
Pseud /lit/ btfo'd
>>25008097Oh no! Not heckin lack of diversity!
>>25004995Did anything change at all?
>>25008097How did you even find this?
>>25004995It wasnt truely representative as I didn't get to vote this year. But I have voted in 2023, and 2021, 2020, 2019, as well as 2018. >Did your favorite book make the cutNo>Are you angry at me about that?No>Are you angry at me for making the poll inaccessible?Yes>Was the poll overly curated and conducted incorrectly?Yes>Isn't that a symptom of transgender ideology infiltration of information system hierarchies?Absolutely yes, it is.Suspect.
250063302010 called.
>>25007914kill yourself
>>25008667you dont follow vishal?
