https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
adding books just because the writer is/was a woman is American level retarded lmaoo
>The VegetarianI swear to god people just hop on bandwagons, I like seeing Han Kang there but Human Acts and We Do Not Part mog it free.
no gravity's rainbow, no infinite jest, list disregarded
Never heard of the top 2 books but ofc 1 is written by a heroic foid under a man’s pen name and 2 is about muh slavery trauma. Dropped.
>>25282042u never heard of middlemarch or beloved? not saying they're good but damn /lit/ is really plebeian now
>some kind of javascript shit stops u from highlighting the novel names so u can search themhighly user hostile dickmove from the guardian
>>25282049Yes I am very ignorant of boring books that hold no appeal to me and I don’t converse with lots of women and faggots on booktok. If you need me I’ll be re-reading Shakespeare.
This guy definitely posts here
just kind of Anglo biased
>>25282059We wont be needing you
Why does this nigga get a vote lmao
>>25282025Whole list is obviously retarded. Yet, only Great Gatsby ranked above Moby-Dick triggers me.
>>25282135The most common occurrence on these lists since forever bothers you?
>/lit/ says women can't write>literally the two best novels of all time are written by women/lit/ BTFO
>>25282025>6 of the top 15 written by women>No Céline>No MishimaIn fact not a single Japanese novel. Ishiguro does not count. It's always fun to see these type of 'woke' lists that disregard any and all actual merit of the works themselves. Instead giving mid (still better than most in this case) novels bonus points if the author had a cunt between their legs. And of course any problematic authors even if the work itself includes no such 'problematic' themes are blacklisted. Thus always failing to be actually inclusive. Do these people think that if they just praise Austen enough eventually people will start thinking she actually wrote works equal to (or greater than!) Moby-Dick? It is such a transparent attempt to put lipstick on a pig. It never works long term, but keep trying though. It's actually quite funny.
>>25282171Does the eternally retarded opinion still bother me? Yes.
Every time I try to read Jane austen I feel like I'm being gaslit. How can people love this as much as they say? The Bronte are better
what the fuck does the color coding mean? it's not gender, it's not country of origin, idk man i got filtered, oh it is by century or something? idc enough to continue looking for patters, someone just tell me
>>25282129high school reading level
>>25282182celine is good, mishima is watered down baudelaire and klossowki for kiddies
>>25282059>If you need me I’ll be re-reading Shakespeare.So fucking masculine and tradpilled
>>25282129he's a booktok influencer who read 137 books last year ok
>>25282182Kys weeb
>>25282182Mishima doesn't deserve to be in top 100. Wtf. It's shit list, but if it were good Mishima wouldn't be there anyway, objectively he isn't even in top 5 japanese writers. Try reading something else other than dumbass memes from this board or grow up idk.
>>25282025Meh. It's kind of shit but also partially redeemed by the inclusion of Willa Cather (albeit only at 100, and for My Antonia as opposed to Death Comes for the Archbishop), who is generally forgotten these days. Also, points to them for including Greene's The End of the Affair.But there are obvious omissions and over representations as well, but that's the nature of these things.
>>25282129>A Little LifeTOPKEK.Can't wait for him to kill himself once picrel gets translated into english.
>plotfag weebs ITT filtered by AustenSeek a new hobby, please. I recommend going back to anime and video games. Anyway, list is terrible.
>>25282025>1984 in the top 20>but no Brave New WorldBNW is way more prescient and relevant to our times but gets neglected in favor of 1984 because people want to pretend like theyre being oppressed by tyrannical government instead of themselves. sad!
>>25282247weebs need their chad jap writer so they can feel le manly by proxy
>>25282319your victimhood is showing
>>25282062Picking Suttree over any other McCarthy novel is the patrician move. This list would be good if it wasn’t for Franzen>>25282129Definitely a gay dude, that’s why
>>25282361Your penis is showing and it's really, really small
still showing
>>25282129This has to be a rib.
My top novels on a Saturday at 20:50 PM that nobody asked for:1 - Il deserto dei tartari - Buzzati2 - L'Écume des jours - Vian3 - Mémoires d'Hadrien - Yourcenar4 - Mort à crédit - Céline5 - Água Viva - Lispector6 - Anna Karenina - Tolstoj7 - Le Rouge et le Noir - Stendhal8 - The Recognitions - Gaddis9 - Ferdydurke - Gombrowicz10 - Cien años de soledad - García Márquez
>>25282247Embarrassing take. Say it even louder next time though so that I could atleast be rage baited. In my headcannon I imagine your favorite author is Borges. That's the type of person I picture in my head when I read your post.
>>25282025HOW CAN HE MOG? HOW CAN HE MOG?https://www.openculture.com/2013/10/david-bowies-list-of-top-100-books.html
>>25282269>picrelqrd?
>>25282025Compare this with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokklubben_World_Library
>>25282319This
This is exactly what I would have expected from The Guardian's top 100 novel, no more, no less, especially Middlemarch at number 1 -- a very good but absurdly overrated book.
>>25282361yeh better go take your soma I mean go wake and bake, attend the orgyporgy I mean the onlyfans stream. definitely nothing in that book is relevant.
>>25282649Since she is certified highbrow literature, I'll post the abstract of this academic article from Italy analysing the novel.>The essay argues that trauma is conveyed less through narrated events than through internalized practices, silences, and social expectations.A Little Life is all about those "narrated events", it's just a bunch of cheap shock value. Bogdanova is all about how that shit eats (rots, to use the book terminology) you alive. Quoting the book:>Илья зaкpывaeт глaзa. Чyвcтвyя, кaк мeдлeннo cгнивaeт зaживo, oн зacыпaeт.I've got a couple more, if you wanna get deeper into it.https://periodicals.karazin.ua/philology/article/view/22835https://russkayarech.ru/en/archive/2024-1/98-106
>>25282781If you ever decide to read it, avoid the french translation: it even got the title wrong.Check this passage:>Eй жe пpиятнo oт чyжoй бoли, oт poзoвых ocкoлкoв в чyжих глaзaх.And>La douleur des autres lui est agréable, quand leur vie en rose est réduite à néant. Or>Taк oн yвидeл Дpyгyю Жeню. Oнa былa coткaнa из cвeтa и лeгкoй caдoвoй тeни, тaнцeвaлa пoд oднy eй cлышимyю мyзыкy: яблoнeвый шeлecт, тeнькaньe cиниц, oтгoлocки ycлышaннoй мeлoдии. Oнa caмa былa тoй мyзыкoй, нeycтaнным движeниeм, кoтopoгo никтo нe дoлжeн видeть. Ho Илья yвидeл и тeпepь выcмaтpивaл Дpyгyю Жeню пoд бecцвeтнoй мoлчaливoй шeлyхoй. И кaждый paз, пoймaв пpoблecк, paдoвaлcя – нeт, вce-тaки нe пpиcнилacь.And>Dans la lumière brodée et les ombres fines du jardin, il avait vu l’Autre Jénia ; elle dansait sur une musique qu’elle seule entendait, faite du bruissement des pommiers, du pépiement des mésanges, des réminiscences d’une mélodie entendue. Elle incarnait cette musique, ces mouvements, semblait infatigable. Personne n’était censé voir, pourtant Ilia avait vu cette Autre Jénia, cachée sous l’enveloppe de la discrétion et de la fadeur. Dès qu’il en repérait un éclat, désormais, la joie l’envahissait : non, il n’avait pas rêvé.Pure trash.
>>25282800how come Russian lit gets translated into french first despite the smaller market? Like Alexievich only got translations after nobel price when french and spanish years after publication
>>25282186The Brontes are schizo as shit. Wuthering Heights is fantastic, Wildfell Hall is great, Jane Eyre is overrated as hell and Charlotte in general can't plot worth a shit
>>25282129Gays have horrendous taste.
>>25282049In a list that was somehow free of context (i.e. not reflecting the political context of the judges) they shouldn't be numbers 1 and 2, but you're a fool if you ignore a book just because it is outside your own narrow political frame (also defined by context). Both of these are great and at least top 100 material.
I'll buy Middlemarch as no 1, but no 2 is way too high for Beloved. Should've put Nabby at no 2 and bumped literature's Rosa Parks to the back of the list.
I'm annoyed Ishiguro's on there. If you're going to put a YA-centered novel, just make it Catcher. If you need a contemporary male brit--I see Hilary Mantel merits a spot, another muffed pick--then use Ian McEwan or Julian Barnes. But not that dirty sci-fi Nip.
>No On The Road>No Fear and Loathing>No Naked LunchPiss poor list
>>25282874lot of russian expats in france...you know they all kind of fleed there due to Lenin...
>>25282025Can someone explain why these DEI pseuds flood these lists with shitty spic and black writers, but also miss out on genuinely good Chinese and Japanese literature? How do they not suffer from cognitive dissonance when they make a show of "unwhitening" the canon but still discriminate against the yellow race?
>>25283190Because only racism against browns is 'real' racism.
>no Pynchon REEEEEE
>>25282781>certified highbrow literatureHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhahah
>>25282063this is one of the many things I fucking hate about the british media; any listicle on any topic overwhelmingly prefers brit entries. they are the most insular and self-congratulatory cunts around.
>>25283261That’s hilarious coming from a chink
>>25283249Only /ourgirl/ could have got 3 Us from 3 different countries talking about a book that came out 4 years ago.Not even Jacques "6 figures net sum on a 3.5k investment, but I couldn't save The White Review" Testard.Anglos in shambles, all they can do is WE WUZZING about a (proto-)Zionist whore.
>>25283190>guys im the REAL victim you guys
>>25282025Let me guess:>92 books my "muh marjunuhlized voysses" (browns who can barely speak English, feminists who see everything through the lens of misandry, and kikes who wont shut up about the holocaust and nazis or their weird sexual perversions) >7 books by token white men to make the discrimination less obvious. And those books specifically talk about how evil white people are.I would expect nothing less from The Guardian.
>>25283385this is a list where Jews are underrated
>>25283385no, it's actually 50% english books about english leisure class from 2 centuries ago, and a couple french ones to appear cultured
>>25283190Where to start with chinklit? A shortish novel on "global" themes (migration, globalisation) would be good.
>>25283427Read the illustrated I Ching
>>25283427There's only one place to start, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
>>25283440For me, it’s the illustrated I Ching>>25283431HELLO BASED DEPARTMENT?
>>25283427performative gaylords who read books by reading wikipedia articles will tell you some ancient meme shit. In reality you should start with 20th century chinese literature. Eileen Chang, Fortress Besieged, Rickshaw, To Live, Red Sorghum, Wives and Concubines, Four Books.When you want to get into anglophonic literature you start with Hemingway or Fitzgerald, and not with Beowulf and Canterbury Tales.
>>25282173We love men here.
I like this list. Some obvious omissions like Stendhal and Zola but it could have been a lot worse.
All this seething so no one will notice that my nigga Obama dropped a coldass top 3
>>25282025>proust top 5meme award
>>25282025So it’s just the typical canon but front-loaded with women and minorities. Seems this happens with every ranking of art lately
Is Beloved actually good? It sounds like such boring niggerslop.
>>25284805Idk. I've read 50 pages of Sula and it was genuinely awful
>>25284967Try the illustrated I Ching instead
>>25282059Do you think this makes you sound smart or edgy? Those are both really good books. They don't belong as high as they are (Middlemarch is legit defensible though), but these lists are always influenced by current cultural trends. To have never heard of them and to refuse to read them just makes you sound like a retard.t. man, not a simp but fucking sick of /lit/ filling up with retarded children.
>>25282025I get silly placements like Beloved being #2 but how the fuck is Don Quixote not at least top 5.
Middlemarch being number is is somewhat of a pleasant surprise but then I figure it's probably mainly because the writer is a woman.
>>25282129We don't talk like niggers here.
>>25284015>When you want to get into anglophonic literature you start with Hemingway or Fitzgerald, and not with Beowulf and Canterbury Tales.No, you start with Shakespeare and the King James Bible.
>>25283190East Asians are lighter skinned and actually successful and developed societies so you don't get DEI points for including them like you do the oppressed browns and blacks.
>>25285201>legitpost chastity cage
>>25282025>https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time>The greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide>no dante alighieri>no luigi pirandello>don quixote is no. 26>lolita is no. 25>orland is no. 54 but is not by ludovico ariosto>no the catcher in the rye>no jon fosse>no victor hugo>no homer>the metamorphosis is only no. 48>no lord of flies
>>25283400Two Kafka entries and zero Goethe makes that definitively impossible to claim. I mostly consider this an effect of postwar anglocentrism picking asinine tokens from outside its sphere though.
>>25285278Good point, they should have included a few teenagers on the panel.
>>25285278It is a terrible list but you also need to know what a novel is.
>>25284015Thanks anon this is more like it for now
>>25284967It's excellent. The themes look DEI on the surface but it's written with great craft.
>>25285278>dante>homer>novel
>>25282259I love End of the Affair. I like a lot of Greene books, but so far that's been the best. Apparently it's kind of polarizing.
>>25285278Kind of announcing yourself as a retard here.
>>25285256as soon as I get my wife's permission, she's fucking her boyfriend right now so it'll be a while.
>>25285278"i'm still earning my high school diploma" woulda taken less time
>>25282497What's wrong with Borges? Mishima is my favorite nip author and Borges is one of the GOATs
>>25285742borges has a vague connection to genre fiction so pseuds slander him
>>25283114Ishiguro belongs, not not for Never Let Me Go; Remains of the Day (also on the list) is deserving; The Unconsoled has an argument as well.
>>25282025>no my first book>no how to win friends and influence peoplengmi
>>25282025lazy fucks; 100 My Ántonia99 The Go-Between98 The Road97 Catch-2296 Pedro Páramo95 The Return of the Native94 The Known World93 Invisible Cities92 Sentimental Education91 Life and Fate90 Jacob's Room89 The Left Hand of Darkness88 Ragtime87 The Line of Beauty86 The Turn of the Screw85 The Vegetarian84 The Talented Mr Ripley83 A Farewell to Arms82 The End of the Affair81 Buddenbrooks80 Rebecca79 Go Tell It on the Mountain78 A House for Mr Biswas77 The Rainbow76 Dracula75 The Bluest Eye74 Nervous Conditions73 Austerlitz72 Our Mutual Friend71 Kindred70 Jude the Obscure69 Crime and Punishment68 Blood Meridian67 The Man Without Qualities66 The Master and Margarita65 The Color Purple64 The Good Soldier63 White Teeth62 Half of a Yellow Sun61 The Rings of Saturn60 Howards End59 Never Let Me Go58 Disgrace57 The Sound and the Fury56 Mansfield Park55 The Waves54 Orlando53 The Transit of Venus52 The Golden Bowl51 My Brilliant Friend
>>25286330 50 Wide Sargasso Sea49 A Fine Balance48 The Metamorphosis47 Vanity Fair46 The Leopard45 The Golden Notebook44 Giovanni's Room43 Housekeeping42 The Magic Mountain41 Heart of Darkness40 Song of Solomon39 Their Eyes Were Watching God38 The Age of Innocence37 Invisible Man36 The Handmaid's Tale35 Great Expectations34 Wolf Hall33 David Copperfield32 The God of Small Things31 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie30 Frankenstein29 Pale Fire28 The Brothers Karamazov27 The Trial26 Don Quixote25 Lolita24 The Remains of the Day23 Midnight's Children22 Things Fall Apart21 The Portrait of a Lady20 Wuthering Heights19 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman18 Persuasion17 One Hundred Years of Solitude16 Nineteen Eighty-Four15 Moby-Dick14 Mrs Dalloway13 Emma12 Bleak House11 The Great Gatsby10 Madame Bovary9 Pride and Prejudice8 Jane Eyre7 War and Peace6 Anna Karenina5 In Search of Lost Time4 To the Lighthouse3 Ulysses2 Beloved1 Middlemarch
>>25282063>>25283261well no shit, those lists are always influenced by what kind of demograhpics do you ask, i mean just look at le monde's top 100 books of 20th century, over half of them is french and in the top 10 there are only three not-french booksthe only way to do it in unbiased way is to ask people from the whole world, but it's a shitton of work, so rarely anyone tries
>>25282247name top 5 japanese writers
>>25286330>Deerstalker capHe only used it once or twice in the country side.
>>25284805It's only good if you aren't racist.
