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ITT: List your top 10 and what(...) No.25373145
ITT: List your top 10 and what you're reading currently  No.25373145
Rate, rec etc.

Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye
Thomas Bernhard - The Loser
Albert Camus - The Outsider
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
Arthur Rimbaud - A Season in Hell
Bruno Schulz - Street of Crocodiles

Currently reading: W. G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn
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Anonymous
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>>25373145
A little gloomy, but not bad.

Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the end of the night
Thomas Mann - Magic Mountain
Ernst Jünger - on the marble cliffs
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Tomas Espedal - Bergeners
Sadegh Hedayat - the blind owl
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Boris Savinkov - the pale horse
Werner Bergengruen - a matter of conscience
(Esl, I read them all in German)
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Anonymous
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>>25373163
I forgot:
Currently reading frost by Thomas Bernhard
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Anonymous
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>>25373145
>>25373163
well its certainly worse than my taste, thats for sure
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Anonymous
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>>25373145
Hunger
Journey to the End of the Night
The Odyssey
The Satyricon
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Naked Lunch
Work and Days
Beowulf
A Voyage to Arcturus

Currently reading Possibility of an Island by Wellbeck.
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Anonymous
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>>25373163
>>25373205
Great picks, at least from what I can gather since I haven't got around to them yet
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Anonymous
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1 - grande sera - pontiggia
2 - pale king - wallace (most beautiful opening ever written don't @me)
3 - tomorrow in the battle think of me - marias
4 - orwell essays
5 - maxims - chamfort
6 - cavafy poem collection
7 - sentimental education - flaubert
8 - zibaldone selections - leopardi
9 - chateaubriand: poetry and terror - fumaroli
10 - human acts - kang
(not my top 10 but the last 10 books i've read)
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Anonymous
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>>25373145
In no particular order
Max Stirner - Ego and its Own
Lev N. Tolstoj - War and Peace
Georg Wilhelm Frederick Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Plato - Phaedrus
Julius Evola - Revolt against the Modern World
Kenji Miyazawa - Night Train to Stars
Fjodor M. Dostojevskij - Idiot
J.R. R. Tolkien - Children of Húrin
Jacques Lacarrier - Gnostics

Currently reading Murder is a Habit
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Anonymous
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Giovanni Papini - A Man —Finished
Comte de Lautréamont - Les chants de Maldoror
Ernesto Sábato - Sobre héroes y tumbas
Roberto Arlt - Los siete locos
Osamu Dazai - The Setting Sun
Leopoldo Lugones - Cuentos fatales
Leopoldo Marechal - Adán Buenosayres
Mario Vargas Llosa - Historia de Mayta
Gaito Gazdanov - An Evening with Claire
Giovanni Papini - Parole e Sangue

Currently reading: Vladimir Varankin - Metropoliteno [for language learning purposes]

>>25373381
A few months ago I read Operette morali. I don't think it was the right moment to discover Leopardi...
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Anonymous
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1) The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
2) Nostromo -- Joseph Conrad
3) This Side of Paradise -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
4) The Long Goodbye -- Raymond Chandler
5) The Goldfinch -- Donna Tartt
6) The Picture of Dorian Gray -- The Divine Oscar
7) Cyrano de Bergerac -- Edmond Rostand
8) Mister Jelly Roll -- Alan Lomax
9) Father Elijah -- Michael D. O'Brien
10) Agnes Mallory -- Andrew Klavan

Right now reading: Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
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Anonymous
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1) Ada, or Ardour - Nabokov
2) The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Flaubert
3) Salambo - Flaubert
4) Grimscribe/Songs for a Dead Dreamer - Thomas Ligotti
5) Pale Fire - Nabokov
6) We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
7) The Witch and the Priest - Hilda Lewis
8) Speak, Memory - Nabokov
9) Ficciones - Borges
10) The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

Currently: Confessions - St Augustine
All Things are Full of Gods - David Bentley Hart
Silence - Shusaku Endo
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Anonymous
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you losers really want to feel smart
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Anonymous
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>>25374840
The most pseud post in the thread so far to be frank.
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Anonymous
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You are such a weirdo lmao
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Anonymous
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Flowers For Algernon - D. Keyes
Dairy of a country priest -G. Bernanos
Confession of a Mask - Y. Mishima
Memoirs of Hadrian - M. Yourcenar
Hunger - K Hamsun
Confessions - St Augustine
Tokyo Express - S. Matsumoto
Cyrano de Bergerac - E. Rostand
Chōnan no shukke - K. Miura
Master and Margarita - M. Bulgakov
>Currently : The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Y. Mishima
>>25374424
>>25373205
>>25373163
nice
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Anonymous
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Lord of the Rings
Game of Thrones
Foundation
Hunger Games (1st and 2nd only)
Dune
City of Thieves
1984
The Count of Monte Cristo
Ubik
The Secret History
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Anonymous
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>>25373145
I don't think I've read enough to have a top 10 but

The White Tiger - Arvind Adiga
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho
The devil and miss prym - Paulo Coelho
Veronica must Die - Paulo Coelho
A Game of Thrones - GRRM
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
The Broken Empire trilogy - Mark Lawrence
The Dinner - Herman Koch
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

Currently reading : A Clash of Kings by GRRM
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Anonymous
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>>25375445
Yes, you certainly didn't.
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Anonymous
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>>25375467
It turned out I did as I remembered while typing. But it seems you can't count to 10.
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