>>2597344
Capsguy?

>2012
>implying
>detected

Working, by Studs Terkel
because fuck you.

some short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
also because fuck you.

a collection of mostly postmodern short stories edited by Ben Marcus
because hey. Fuck you.

I don't like to read.

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Because Victorian novel class.

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Because it's famous.

Stoner by John Williams
Because I heard it was good.

>>2597387
you read The Flame Alphabet?

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
>I watched some of his Stanford lectures online. He recommended reading the book to compliment them.
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
>I read Ishmael (first book in the series) because a band I listen to referenced it. I thought it was interesting, so I read the squeakquel.
In The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
>I read The Metamorphosis not too long ago. Thought it was good. I wanted to see what else Kafka has to offer.

I'm currently working my way through IT, but I like to occasionally take breaks when reading large books so I might find a smaller book to break up the monotony. I'm considering Blood Meridian or The Road because a friend recommends them.

The Hobbit
>because dragon

The Drawing of the Three
>because cowboy

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>because android

>>2597359
Nope.

But I'll post mine in my format.

Last Five:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Iliad - Homer
A Misummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse
Mary - Nabokov

Current
To the Spring Equinox & Beyond - Soseki

Next Five:
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
The Belly of Paris - Zola
Hagakure - Nitobe
Swann's Way - Proust

Aware many listed are entry level, but just trying to read them especially since many are often brought up in /lit/.

>currently reading:
A Confederacy of Dunces, because I'm southern

>last read:
50 pages of Breakfast of Champions before I realized it was shit.

>last actually read:
Pale Fire, it was excellent

>reading next:
maybe taking on Gravity's Rainbow depending how I feel, I also have the New York Trilogy lying around, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Also would love another Nabokov book, or maybe to try some Murakami to see what its like

Because i'm new to /lit/ and need to read non-horror/fantasy classics
>Recently read
Brave New World
Great Gatsby
War and Peace
Foundation books

>Currently
Heart of Darkness
Slaughterhouse 5

>Soon to read
Clockwork Orange
Catch - 22

Currently The Bonehunters, Steven Erikson.
Read the ones before that one, because I love epic fantasy.

Thinking about picking up some of Lovecraft's books after I'm done with my current just to see what all the fuzz is about.

~last read
>Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
Initially found it on a postmodern reading list, intrigued by its being re-published by Dalkey Archive, read it, and adored it. A satire on marriage and married life, a setting both absurd and amazing and always brilliantly modified, and maybe a treatise on the fickle nature of inspiration?
>The Blue Fox by Sjon
Saw it mentioned a few times on /lit/ and also saw that it was short (and had a really cute cover). A lot of it read like prose poetry, which fit the folklore-ish story. Having such a major reveal all the way at the last page did feel like kind of a cheap move though.
>Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Also saw this rec'd on /lit/, either in a children's lit or fantasy thread as an example of the genre at its best. Took me a while to get over the kid humor, and the story itself didn't live up to what I expected after the first chapter. It was cute enough though, and I liked some of the thought.

~reading now
>The Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson
Picked up in order to read all of Jansson's adult books I can get in English. Every story so far has already been collected in other collections I've read, but it's nice to revisit them.
>The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
I feel bad because I am not liking so many of these. Got it because I want to read more flash fiction collections.

>>2597444

~near future
>Pancake: A Global History
I got it because it's a history of pancakes.
>Motorman by David Ohle
Transparently similar to the Crawford book I just read, so I wanted to try it out.
>The Father Costume by Ben Marcus
Marcus seems to be rec'd alongside Ohle and Crawford a lot so I thought I'd check him out too.
>One Minute Stories by Istvan Orkeny
Collection of flash fiction by a Hungarian author, and as I mentioned above, I've been wanting to read more of that.
>Metrophilias by Brendan Connell
Also flash fiction + has a neat cover, contemporary author and seems consistently loved. So I wanted to buy it.
>The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Picked up on some combination of seeing it recommended on /lit/ a few times, his almost unanimously renown, his early suicide, and his silly name.

>>2597448
Transparently is supposed to be apparently* wat

>>2597416
Animal as Leaders?

>>2597465
Yep.

>>2597444
What post-modern list?

>>2597487
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-mostly-complete-annotated-and-essential-postm
odern-reading-list.html

>>2597499
ugh not this again

>>2597519
Sorry? It introduced me to a few new authors, like John Hawkes and Crawford, so I'm pleased with it. That's all I ever want out of lists like these.

last books I've read:

* Maupassant - Contes du jour et la nuit
> Because Maupassant's short stories are always delightful

* Kessel - L'armée des ombres
> Because WW2 history

* Hawking - A briefer story of time
> Because SCIENCE, bitches.

* Zola - La fortune des rougon
> Because it's the first book of his Rougon-Macquart serie, I plan to read the others


next:

* Chekhov : The story of a nobody
> Because I discovered Chekhov last year (Yard n° 6, the steppe), and it was GOD TIER

Past - Molly Moon and the Morphing Mystery
>Don't give a shit what you think.
Present - War & Peace
>Because I want to know what the hype is behind this book.
Future - Moonraker or OHMSS
>I fucking love Bond, but I dont know which one to read.

(almost) just finished: Gebusi
why: School

Starting: A Crime so Monstrous
why: School

Next: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
why: bought the book, might as well read it

American Gods- cause i heard of it hear. I loved it.
I just finished the last game of thrones book, which took me a couple of weeks. They were okay.
And before that I read a book called I am the cheese. It was just weird.

Currently reading:

White Noise - Don DeLillo
>I haven't read it since university, and I saw a copy in my local second-hand bookshop and I thought it had been long enough that I may enjoy it again. I was right.

Last few read:

Sharpe's Company - Bernard Cornwell
>I like Cornwell's books - they're well plotted and researched and you usually learn something interesting. They pass a few hours in the sunshine nicely

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet - Reif Larsen
>I liked the pictures, and thought the premise was interesting. In the end, I thought it was self-indulgent and a little bit empty

The Third Reich - Roberto Bolano
>I love Bolano, and I love wargames with hexagonal boards. What's not to like about this book? Well, the ending, but meh.

Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
>Class act all the way through, is your boy Dave

At the same time I got White Noise, I also picked up To Have and Have Not [Hememmmimmmmmingway], The Book of Illusions [Paul Auster], and Cock and Bull [Will Self] so one of those will undoubtedly be what I read next unless I read one of the things on my kindle.