Just curious what you frickos pretend to read.
Mine are
The Coming of Neo Feudalism by Joel Kotkin (Never read it, just have it so I can bring it up as a hailmary to force people out of my house if they over-stay)
War Diary of Yi Sun-sin (no reason except to prove my gook superiority over other gooks)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (I read 5 pages and called it a day and haven't opened it since 2016)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (/lit/ meme book I kinda like)
Might throw on Journey to the End of the Night by some Frenchman so I look fancy.
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Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, and Atlas Shrugged. I want to confuse anyone who looks at it.
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I read Mein Kampf every night before bed.
Usually read Atlas Shrugged every day at work.
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Maybe I should have read Atlas Shrugged in front of the CEO's office :(
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Lmao, I bought Atlas Shrugged and The fountainhead together. Started the Fountainhead and gave up, never even started Atlas Shrugged and now both of them are just there in my shelf.
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I don't believe in coffee tables
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currently in my living room
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Meditations is interesting. It's one of those things you want to read a few pages of, put down then a few days later read a few more pages of. It's not a straight through book.
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I haven’t finished meditations yet. I read a few chapters one week, then put it down for months, then re-read the same chapters and a few more, then put it down again.
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I've heard that's the best way to read it. Let it sink in and reread because your circumstances will change and it may take on new meaning for you.
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The Frolic Of The Beasts By Yukio Mishima - I've read a few of Mishima's novels but this has been sitting idle for a while
Why Nations Fail by Acemoğlu and Robinson - Never really finished it yet, been reading a few chapters sparingly.
@kaamrev actually motivated me to finish it lmao 
Heavenly Bodies by Paul Koudounaris - badass book on bejewelled Christian cult treasures (skeletons of martyrs venerated as relics and adorned in gold,silver,jewels etc..)
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my coffee table book is memento mori by the same guy!!
it’s really neat, especially the pictures of fully gilded buddhist monks.
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Macabre KINO books. Empire Of Death was pretty good too
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Man that cover slaps.
Maybe I'll buy one.
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Momento Mori
Empire Of Death
Heavenly Bodies
Those are the 3 main books of his that are great.
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I was considering reading some Mishima but Pewdiepie recommended his books and then I was like "I will never read a book recommendation from a weeb youtuber"
How do you like his books?
Those are some cool skelly boys
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There's an intensity to his prose I quite like. I guess him being from a literal ultranat samurai family injects a lot of personality into his writing.
It's very modernist in some respect with confessions of a mask especially. There's a huge effusive dialogue in Confessions of a Mask where Kochan sees Guido Reni's painting of Saint Sebastian and goes full RETVRN TO TRADITION & HONOVR
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Are you writing fiction now?
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Anna Karenina. I recall seeing somewhere that you must be in the right state of mind to enjoy reading the Russians. 7 years so far and I have not finished the first chapter.
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This but with War and Peace on my Kindle, I downloaded it years ago after reading Anna Karenina and never passed beyond page 50.
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I've had the works of Edgar Allen Poe chilling there for a few months and just recently added Pulp by Bukowski and Haunted by Palahniuk.
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I bought many books I never read (but I still may read some of them in the future). For instance, I own an illustrated hardcover edition of LOTR in english, I bought it just because it was pretty, but I never read it so far. I also bought Purgatorio and Paradiso as a collection, but so far I only finsihed Inferno.
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Journey to the West..it’s the book I’ve been procrastinating on so much for no apparently good reason. At least it makes me look cultured.
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Killed my book backlog this year. Got a few copies of books i read a long time ago and like, but that doesn’t count imo
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i try to keep picture books as coffee table books. so i have The World of Ice and Fire, all the Megg Mogg and Owl collections, a graphic novel my friend did the art for, and a book identifying regional plants sitting out for people to look at.
as for what I pretend to read I have now purchased My Struggle 1 by Knaausgard twice lmao. the second copy went in the little free library down the street when i got home and realized i had already owned one for like a year and had yet to pick it up.
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Opus by Asimov and Gulag Archipelago have been there a long time.
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