>>25259415
Name them

>>25259418
Name (((them)))?

>>25259415
I read 9 :)
My goal is to read at least 3 a month, I am lagging behind but by not as much as I was last year

>>25259415
Zero. Trying to read the first Dragonlance book and it sucks ass. It's taken me 5 months and I've still not been able to force myself to finish this garbage.

>>25259415
Me in the back

>>25259422
Name (((them)))!

Here are my reads in the past year, my ratings, and the dates I finished them.
>Death and the dervish B/B+ (5/14/25)
>The Opposing Shore B (8/5/25)
>Zama B/B- (9/11/25)
>Invention of Morel C-/D+ (9/28/25)
>The Singularity B/B+ (10/18/25)
>The Bridge on the Drina A- (04/03/26)
>A Love Affair B/B+ (05/01/26)

>>25259465
That's it? That's all you read in the past year? Do you work 80 hour weeks or are you lazy and retarded?

>>25259471
Had my first child. Took up a lot of time / energy.

>>25259465
Yawn

>>25259415
Aye read a bunch but Aye also read Ulysses so smooch ma cooch

5 finished, maybe another 5 more than halfway. Seems about right, I usually complete 20-something books an year.

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>>25259415
Only 13 so far. Have been very busy with studies so not reading as much as I'd like. By the end of June I'll just be working a part-time job and chilling until the end of the year so will likely get to around ~40 books by the end of the year. Currently reading Nabokov's Pnin.

>>25259415
Dangerously slow. Only ten books, I'm reading the eleventh one.

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:)

>>25259415
I've been doing better than previous years. A lot of shorter stuff but all things that were on my long-term reading list that I'm finally checking off.

>Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Suppliant Women
>Euripides: Phoenecian Women
>Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes
>Library of Apollodorus
>D.M. Smith: The Cypria
>Iliad
>Posthomerica
>Aeschylus: Oresteia
>Odyssey
>Aeneid
>Poetic Edda
>Prose Edda
>Saga of Volsungs
>Saga of Hervor & Heidrek
>Saga of Hrolf Kraki
>Seven Viking Romances

Currently reading Beowulf

>>25259494
>Ulysses
Based, did you like it?

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i completed 45
whatchu gonna do about it?

>>25259415
36

>>25259516
i kneel

I have never read much, mostly self help meditations 48 laws etc
This year i read most of the cosmere by brandon b sanderson
Mistborne 1-3 4-7, all of stormlight (5) + novellas(2), arcanun unbouned, warbreaker, sunlit man, yumi and painter
I am gonna end it problably this month with emberdark and tress
Also this year read the 4 gospels and i want to end atleast the new testament this year, if i am fast the whole bible

>>25259510
yes, but didn't enjoy it, if that makes sense. I'll probably read it again in a few years, and will be ready to enjoy it on the second go around.

Bukowski - Ham On Rye, Factotum, Post Office
Murakami - Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore
Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker
Kafka - Metamorphosis, The Trial
Jung - Man and His Symbols, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols & The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud - An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
Camus - The Stranger, Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague
McKenna - True Hallucinations
Baudrillard - Simulations
Nabokov - Lolita, Bend Sinister
McDonald - Based on a True Story
Lynch - Catching the Big Fish
Gunn - The Toy Collector
Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984
Hemingway - Old Man and the Sea
Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

>>25259563
You didn’t find Sirens enjoyable? Aw, I always found it to be one of the most fun chapters in literature

>>25259563
Was it your first Joyce? I read Dubliners and Portrait before Ulysses.

>>25259590
parts of it were fun of course, but I was ill prepared because
>>25259627
yes it was. I walked in thinking I had no trouble with IJ or GR, so why would this be different? Ulysses was different from anything I've read before

>>25259677
Well I’m glad you had some fun in some parts, the 14th chapter in the hospital for all its linguistic shapeshifting autism is quite funny too. Definitely check out the two the anon above mentioned before rereading Ulysses

>>25259677
Haven't read IJ, GR is hard because the entire book is so stroboscopic, but ultimately it's just one style (unless you count all the limericks and weird shit like the short story of the talking lightbulb revolutionaries near the end) so you can get used to the zaniness after a couple hundred pages or so. Ulysses imo is somewhat harder since it shifts styles every chapter, you're constantly playing catch-up and constantly needing to adapt.

How do you guys go through so many books in a year? Is reading the primary form of entertainment for individuals reading upwards of 35 books a year? Or is there a diversity in entertainment/educational media?
I've only been able to get through like 3 books so far & we are getting close to half way through the year.
Genuinely curious, not mocking or deriding

>>25259415
I've read harassment architecture, and that's it.

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>>25260028
cut out porn, video games, podcasts, basically any low-IQ addictive electronic media and you give yourself so many extra hours per week/month/year

>>25260028
I've decided to make literature and music my primary forms of indoor entertainment. I've completely given up on TV as a medium, and I've gotten rid of my television. I watch films in theaters with friends still but watch classic movies on my computer sometimes.

Just finished book #45 : )

>>25259415
Only 12 or so but most of my energy is going into /g/ and /sci/ shit. I also took January and half of March "off".

>>25260028
If you're on any social media more than thirty minutes a day cut that out, and identify whatever mental damage is causing you to waste your life on it if necessary. For me handling (mainly with improved sleep, more exercise, reduced caffeine, dbt, and l theanine)my extreme anxiety (which I've lived with so long it took years to realize it wasn't normal) is the single biggest reason I'm as relatively productive as I am now vs sleeping 6 hours a night, working 8 hours a day, then doing nothing but playing games or watching porn the rest of the time.

I have a job.

>>25259415
65, with 11 manga volumes (vagabond + kagurabachi) though

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>>25260184
I know people with 2 jobs and they still read, so

1. The Library or History Books XVI through XX
By Diodorus Siculus
2. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
3. Whales and Men (screenplay) by Cormac McCarthy
4. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
5. Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
6. Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913-1914 by Frederic Morton
7. The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam
8. Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
9. Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard
10. Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now by Frank Conroy
11. The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
12. Original Letters from India by Eliza Fay
13. Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff

>>25260223
So 54 real books? That's damn good

>>25260258
how was the coltrane book? i've read several jazz bios this year and probably will be in the mood for more soon

>>25260283
Not much biographical info unfortunately. Much more about Coltrane’s musical ideas and influences. Didn’t really have much to say about his religious/philosophical beliefs. To be fair Coltrane really didn’t make many statements about that in his interviews but aside from quoting one letter there isn’t much info about that in the book. I think I learned more about Coltrane’s life and philosophy in a book about Miles Davis than I did in this book.

A musician or somebody who at least knew music theory better than I do would probably enjoy this more than I did. I’m a dilettante who wanted to learn more about Coltrane’s transformation from heroin addict and heavy drinker to a deeply spiritual man with an incredible work ethic for his music. He put out a lot of music for a man who only lived to the age of 40.

>>25259415
I haven't read a book in 8 years

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16 so far. Currently reading The Forever War and 100 Years of Solitude

>>25259415
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2. The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
3. Napoleon's Campaign in Poland 1806 to 1807 by Francis Loraine Petre
4. The Human Chair by Edogawa Ranpo (very short story)
5. Botchan by Natsume Soseki
6. Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie
7. Hauser's Memory by Curt Siodmak
8. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
9. The Medea by Euripides
10. Works and Days, Theogony and The Shield of Heracles by Hesiod
(+2 mangas ig)

Didn't read more because of college, I had too much work.

>>25260240
I have a real job.

>>25260414
>press X

>>25260358
>Much more about Coltrane’s musical ideas and influences.
That sounds fine too, thanks for the heads up

>>25259415
>performative reading
Incredibly sad.

>performative use of words
Like clockwork

>>25260119
>cut out porn, video games, podcasts, basically any low-IQ addictive electronic media and you give yourself so many extra hours per week/month/year
Don't try to do this all at once, or you will likely fail. Work on the worst one, then move onto the next, one by one, only when the prior is sufficiently mastered.

>>25260258
Thoughts on Amis? Read anything else by him?

>>25259465
Just pick one ranking ffs, every single one has a slash. If you need that level of precision then use numbers

Let's go backwards
-chud meridian (2nd full reading) - great
-portrait of artist as young man - had some value but I just don't like Joyce much
-roughing it - twain - great, fun, informative and historical
-faulkner - various short stories - meh
-the art of the deal - drumpf - kind of funny
-autobiography of dog the bounty hunter and also one by his daughter - kind of funny
miscellaneous stuff never got too far in
That's all I can remember. The only things that really grabbed and captivated me were mccarthy and joyce and twain. I read very little over the last year or so but have started again the last couple months.

>>25260365
could've lied like everyone else in this thread, the last c/lit/ user who actually read passed away years ago

>Lying on the internet

>>25259415
>44 books completed
Cool. Tell me anything about them that isn't just a plot summary or author context.

>>25259449
you need to time travel and read it as a kid, so you dont care about the writing. great stories, nice characters. fucking shit writers. they basically transcribed dnd dice sessions. SO BAD. loved em when i was stupid though. maybe ill try again and see if they dont make me kill myself

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9 books.

>>25259562
I liteally read like 15000 pages in 4 months and no one cares cause its sandergod

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>>25259415
+ a book about a genocide in the Ind. State of Croatia

>>25259499
Are you reading through that manchild core chart?

>>25259415
I read 30 books so far this year but some of them were novellas and some of them were plays. My longest book this year was Bleak House back in April.

>>25259415
I'm on 45 books as of today.
>>25260028
>Is reading the primary form of entertainment for individuals reading upwards of 35 books a year? Or is there a diversity in entertainment/educational media?
I cut back on TV and movies, podcasts, games and random scrolling and it turns out you have hours every day to read. Audiobooks on commutes or when you go shopping really help you catch up as well.

>>25260028
I'm (>>25260897) a NEET so I have a lot of time on my hands. My ideal day is basically this: I wake up at 8, make tea, get back in bed and read until 10. I get up, turn on my PC, have breakfast at my desk, listen to music while browsing 4chan like a retard until around noon (I need to cut this out someday), have a quick lunch, grab a book and go read, either outside when the weather's nice or on my couch. I read 3-4 hours, until I notice my thoughts getting muddled and my comprehension waning. I get up, make dinner, chat with my mom, who's home at this point (yeah I live with my mom), then go for a final PC session where I decompress for a bit by (actively) listening to music without browsing, or just browsing and shitposting a bit. I get ready for bed at 8, cozy up, write in my literary journal, then read until I fall asleep at 1 AM. I read 162 books last year and could hold a conversation about any of them because reading is actually my primary interest and I've structured my life around it. I realise I have more time to read because I'm a NEET, but anyone who says they want to read more and says they can't make time for it, doesn't actually enjoy reading as much as they pretend to. If you truly love doing something, you want to spend as much time as possible on it. Makes sense, right? So while I do have sympathy for people who work 12 hours a day and are too tired to read or only get half an hour of reading done, I have zero for faggots who scroll their phone, watch porn, or play video games all day and only pretend to be readers while deriding those who actually do read a lot by saying shit like "ohh, you don't remember any of it!!". No, I do, because literature is actually my primary interest in life; I read, I think about what I read, I write down what I read. I live and breathe literature.
It's 11 AM and I'm gonna go continue reading The Cossacks now. I started it today and expect to finish it today. Thanks for reading my blog.

>>25259499
Lol we found bakkefag lmao

Do you guys like just speed read or what, how are you guys getting close to triple digits?

>>25260945
They're fucking lying you dingbat.

>>25260945
do you also thing people on fa/g/ actually code

It's pathetic but I've only read
>Armance
>Le Rouge et le Noir
>Madame Bovary

>>25261033
>female lead
>name her ovary
tolkein grade foreshadowing

>>25259415
I only read three books this year, but I'm not seeking to read a plethora of titles in a given year. They were:
>The Girl from Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs
>The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
>McTeague by Frank Norris

Now I'm currently reading Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold.

>>25259422
kek

>>25259587
Unc has plenty of time in the nursing home

>>25260642
Eh, I like my system. When there are two grades, the first is like primary and the second is the direction it's trending. It works for me. I'd rather give something a B/B+ than an 86.

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>>25259415
29 so far, keeping big uns for summer (Suttree, Yu Hua's Brothers and Name of the Rose)
Month by month:
January
1. Joseph Heller – Catch-22
2. Natsume Soseki – Kokoro
3. Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
4. Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
5. Su Tong – Wives and Concubines
6. Han Kang – Human Acts
7. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
8. Karel Poláček – We Were a Handful
February
9. Sayaka Murata – Convenience Store Woman
10. Yukio Mishima – Spring Snow
11. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki – The Makioka Sisters
12. Henry James – Washington Square
13. Koji Suzuki – Ring
14. Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England
March
15. Kobo Abe – The Woman in the Dunes
16. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki – The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Arrowroot
17. Ladislav Klíma – The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
18. Émile Zola – Nana
19. Yu Hua – The Seventh Day
20. Gustave Flaubert – Salammbô
April
21. Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses
22. Shusaku Endo – The Samurai
23. Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
24. Kurt Vonnegut – Hocus Pocus
25. Ernest Hemingway – The Garden of Eden
26. Karel Čapek – War with the Newts
27. Josef Karel Šlejhar – Melancholic Chicken
28. Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo
May
29. Sheng Keyi – Northern Girls
Best ones so far: Makioka Sisters, A Farewell to Arms, Nana, Human Acts, I Served the King of England
Worst ones so far: Salammbô, The Woman in the Dunes, Norwegian Wood, Melancholic Chicken

>>25259496
Great picks anon.

>>25261093
It's gay and retarded, never post it again

>>25261437
Because you asked nicely, I'll share the movies I've seen this year, rated using the same system.
>Kiro dreams of sushi B+/A-
>Rogue B-
>Woman in Cabin 10 B-/B/B-
>Project Hail Mary B/B+
>Thrash D-
>Samsara A-
>Koyaanisqatsi B

>>25261448
Nice digits
I'm amazed you had the decisiveness to forgo equivocation on an actual majority of them. Unfortunately that just makes the other ones look more retarded in comparison.

>>25260945
I probably have a faster base reading speed than normies being an english major and all, but i;m not reading at 600 words per minute, maybe 450? is the average still 250?

>>25261113
damn you read a lotta nippon writers

i do agree that farewell to arms and human acts are kino sovl, though

>>25259496
which translation of homer did you read and did you like it?

>>25261476
I don't read "translations."
And "did I like it"? You are asking "did I like" Homer? Am I hearing that correctly?

>>25261481
The copy of the Odyssey selected in your chart seems to specify a translator's name of some sort. So you read it in Greek? Never mind, then.
>You are asking "did I like" Homer?
I'm asking you if you liked the Odyssey specifically (I said "it" not "him"), lots of people tend to find it inferior to the Iliad.

zero (0)
im playing vidya rn

>>25261481
>fluent in Ancient Greek, Latin, French, Russian
>just now reading Homer, Ovid, Aeschylus, Balzac, Defoe, and fucking Joyce
sure buddy

>>25259499
So you've read six books?

>>25260595
I enjoyed Ending Up. That’s my 4th Kingsley Amis book. My rankings so far are

1. Lucky Jim
2. Ending Up
3. One Fat Englishman
4. The Green Man

I like him. Meanly funny. Ending Up was probably his second meanest after One Fat Englishman. About the indignities of aging (and dying). Don’t expect much compassion. He’s pretty savage. But to be fair he’s usually recognizable as one of the characters he is savaging.

I have The Old Devils on the shelf. Might get around to it later this year. If not maybe next year. I’ve got a ridiculously long backlog

>>25259415
>counting the number of books
Retarded approach. This year alone I've read:
- Anna Karenina
- War and peace
- the whole Brilliant Friend saga (4 books)
- 2 books of La Recherche.
- To the Lighthouse

Only 9 books, but they count for 200 of your faggoty little faggy booklets for faggy retards.

Fag.

>>25260184
>>25260414
You have a shit-tier brain and therefore make excuses.

When I was working 60 hours a week in irregular shifts I still managed to read 3 books a week.

>>25261476
>>25261488
>>25261494
Ignore that retard, I read Richmond Lattimore on this re-read. I actually have been learning Homeric Greek for the past few months with Pharr's book and enjoying it a lot, but not at a level that I can read the entirety of the Illiad or Odyssey quite yet. I read Fagles the first time around and it was good but Lattimore was so much better, which led me to pick up his and Grene's tragedies. As of this point I speak/read only English, Norwegian at a B2 level, and Homeric Greek at a beginner level.

>>25259415
I'm 25 books deep currently, will finish Snow Country tonight for my 26th. Going to pick up David Hume's selected essays at the library tomorrow, that'll be a fun weekend.

>>25259465
The descriptions of impalement in Bridge on the Drina made me lose a little faith in humanity

>>25261556
>i'm smart and i belong here

>>25261596
I say that to myself every time I open this website.

>>25261578
Agreed, that was the most brutal thing I had ever read.

>>25261090
mid 30s is young akshually

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>>25261474
>Japanese literature
Noooooooo!!!! I am into east asian literature!! I used to be into japanese literature but have been branching off into chinese and korean.
My life:
Lord of the rings > Princess Mononoke > anime > weeaboo shit > japanese literature > literature > czech literature > east asian literature
btw Chinese exchange student made me develop yellow fever in FUCKING EASTERN EUROPE (FUCK MY LIFE)
based on your opinions of the two books I recommend you read Yu Hua's To Live it's my favorite and Yu Hua is kind of chinese Hemingway.

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>>25261954
>I recommend you read Yu Hua's To Live
thank you kind nippon lover, will do

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>>25261977
>nippon lover

>>25259587
Not sure how you felt about it, but McDonald’s “memoir” had me laughing through out the whole book, was sad when I finished it.

7 books. Also been reading quite a few short stories, poetry and essays.

>>25259415
9

>>25259415
It's not 1930. No one is impressed by reading anymore, or even writing. If you make a YouTube video that gets 1M views, you will get the respect you crave.

>>25262125
This was my second time reading it (well the first time was the audiobook, which I'd also highly recommend), and my take is that it's a masterpiece and pinnacle of the career of the funniest person to ever live

>>25259415
Man carrying things looksmaxxing

>>25262365
Agreed. I’ll have to listen to his audiobook as well, because I’m eager to go through it again

30 something. 9 of them were Moomin books though

>>25262932
But there aren't even that many Moomin books? Unless you're counting actual picture books I guess