Yea Forums here, usually don't read books (or at least don't read books to completion...

Yea Forums here, usually don't read books (or at least don't read books to completion, as I have trouble staying focused/motivated,) but I would like to start reading more books. just read this one and really liked it, other favorites of mine include 1984, Things Fall Apart, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. Already looked through several Yea Forums charts for recs, but what do you guys think I should read next? bonus points for 1900s era stuff, sci-fi/dystopia stuff, and stuff that uses symbolism, allegory, and other techniques like that really well.

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The bible

don't, you've reached the peak

Dystopia :

- Arthur Koestler : Darkness at Noon
- Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451
- Mikhail Bulgakov : The Master And Margarita

New-Wave Sci-fi :

- Harlan Ellison : The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World: Stories
- Harlan Ellison : Alone Against Tomorrow
- Harlan Ellison : Deathbird Stories
- Harlan Ellison : Shatterday

- Philip K. Dick : Human Is? : A Philip K. Dick Reader
- Philip K. Dick : A Scanner Darkly
- Philip K. Dick : Ubik
- Philip K. Dick : Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Cyberpunk :

- William Gibson : Burning Chrome
- William Gibson : Neuromancer
- William Gibson : Count Zero
- William Gibson : Mona Lisa Overdrive

Angstcore :

- Fyodor Dostoevsky : Notes From The Underground

- Knut Hamsun : Hunger

- Louis-Ferdinand Celine : Journey to the End of the Night
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine : Death on Credit

- Jean-Paul Sartre : Nausea

- Albert Camus : Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics )
- Albert Camus : The Rebel
- Albert Camus : The First Man
- Albert Camus : Happy Death

>Yea Forums here, usually don't listen to music (or at least don't listen to whole albums, as I have trouble staying focused/motivated,) but I would like to start listening to more. just read this one and really liked it, other favorites of mine include Hospice, Sgt. Peppers, and ITAOTS. Already looked through several Yea Forums charts for recs, but what do you guys think I should listen to next? bonus points for 1900s era stuff, synth, and stuff that uses symbolism, allegory, and other techniques like that really well.

First read books that are generally well known and often referenced like Lord of the Flies, Catch-22. Fahrenheit 451, etc. It will help you feel like you are finally in on the joke when you hear an element of them on another piece of media and they also serve for general conversation with normies.

Then you can delve into the Yea Forums top 100 list and sperg all day about books no one cares about.

1400 era shit mixed with early 2000s shit mixed with techno shit mixed with punk shitixed with Morrissey’s shit mixed with Plato’s the republic Infinite Jest kind of style

should I actually? I've read a good deal of it by way of going to church and I never found it all that interesting but maybe there's some merit to reading it the whole way through.
thanks, this is far more helpful than I could've ever hoped for. probably going to go with Electric Sheep or Nausea.
will check these out too at some point, they've actually all been in the back of my mind as books to read next.

Flowers for Algernon
Slaughterhouse Five

Dude delete this

Camus is a great place to start. If you've read the stranger, read the plague and the fall. Skip the rest.

>skip the rest

faggot

sigh

*unzips flowchart folder*

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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea is a good entry level book

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Everybody should read Earth Abides and a Canticle for Leibowitz. They're not just some of the best sci-fi around, they're some of the best novels.

This chart is bad, Confessions of a Mask is obviously the place to start.

Read some Kafka and Borges! Short stories are a great way to get motivated to read more, and these two are pretty standardly recognized as fuckign amazing.

If you want a 1>pg Kafka, try before the law. The one where its that man outside the gate. For Borges, you could try the circular ruins, the garden of forking paths, or the library of babel.

In terms of books, I think electric sheep/nausea would both be good. Brave New World sounds like it'd also fit well.

Start with the Greeks

>1900s era stuff
That's quite a large span of time
>sci-fi
Dune is probably the only essential novel for sci-fi fans
>dystopia stuff
I'd recommend the big 3 dystopian novels (1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451) as they're great for beginners and are endlessly referenced and discussed. Maybe Atlas Shrugged as well (It's a good novel that uses symbolism expertly, but is somewhat lengthy and ideological)
>stuff that uses symbolism, allegory, and other techniques like that really well.
Once again, very broad

Camus reads like it was written by an edgy teenager

You should read Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.

kill yourself