6 years ago with 7 notesReblog 
Anonymous
whats your favorite book?

Impossible, unanswerable, I’ll try to give you a short list of some of my top fiction books though. Presented in no particular order:

Paradise Lost (Milton), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), The Iliad* (Homer), The Double*  and The Brothers Karamazov* (Dostoevsky), The Master and Margarita* (Mikhail Bulgakov), Odd John (Olaf Stapledon), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett), Ulysses (Joyce), Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe), the entirety of The Divine Comedy* (Dante Alighieri), Orlando (Virginia Woolf), The Trial and The Metamorphosis (Kafka)

Asterisks denote books which I’ve only read in translation. This is also excluding plays, comics, or other miscellaneous texts that aren’t really books (e.g. Socratic dialogues, poetry volumes, short stories, and so forth), for the record. 

tagged as: I feel like a pretentious fuck for putting ulysses on this list but i rly love ulysses;  portrait of the artist too though;  like i'm so far up james joyce's literary ass i could give him a prostate exam;  but enough about that yeah books woo;  this was really just off the top of my head and I'm probably forgetting some of my faves but hey;  Anon Alert;  Ask;  

  1. runecestershire said: You are not pretentious, you are a dorklord. There’s a difference, dorklords are genuine.
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