why isn't my favorite erotic novel on the list?

I don't mind George Eliot. Virginia Woolf is also enjoyable. Flannery O'Connor is a truly forgotten gem.

Jane Austen sucks though. She's writing a parody of genre fiction that's gone out of style for nearly 200 years. The jokes fly over the reader's head. At least with Pynchon, I know I'm getting that and for every 10 I miss there's one super obscure math/history reference I spot that makes me chuckle. Shelley is also overrated, co-opted by feminists who have to insist that she invented all of science fiction full stop, instead of acknowledging that it's a genre that grew and expanded, with no exact origin and numerous different authors contributing along the way.

I think the biggest problem with female authors is that they're pidgeonholed into writing works that explore feminism. Yeah sure there's male authors that explore what it means to be a man, like McCarthy, but most are more interested in exploring different subjects. Be it Clarke questioning the future, Nabokov exploring love, or Joyce examining all of human and Irish existence, these are stories that go beyond.

It's not even the authors' faults, mostly. Publishers won't publish and reviewers won't sing your praises as a woman author if you're not writing either female misery porn or modern feminist girlboss dreck. Imagine if every male author had to write books where the principal villain was always Satan. That would get old quickly, and the books would all blend together as religious tripe That's basically what women have to do, replacing Satan and demons with the patriarchy and chauvinist men. You can't write about other, potentially more universal topics. Even genre authors get crushed. Margaret Weiss is one of the titans of classic high pulp fantasy. The Deathgate Cycle might be the finest series playing things completely straight, with everything after either having to be meta, genre-savvy, or ironic. But no one in the Reddit/Tumbler/Twitter book world today respect her as a female author because she didn't write about women being women in a man's world.

Speaking of fantasy, I'm surprised /lit/ never latched onto Titus Groan. It's prose is just as dense and good as anything in the Western canon, and utterly impenetrable to the casual reader. That or picking Malazan Book of the Fallen to be contrarian in terms of greatest epic fantasy novel against the Reddit-tier schlock that dominates discussion,

Ursula Le Guin is pretty goated

I can also name Jane Austen

You don't know Jane Austen or Mary Shelley at least?

It mostly tells me you're a massive r-slur

My favorite foid writer is James Tiptree Jr

Clarice Lispector

Also, Paulo Coelho is a man but his books are all foid adjacent and might as well have been written by a woman.

I'm a huge Sanderson fan, and I fully recognize that his name should appear nowhere near this list.

It's the only book reddit foids and feminists read besides fantasy and genre slop so they conflate it with being "high literature".

The Handmaid's Tale is such a book but redditors insist on Atwood being a literary genius !bookworms I remember the threads on Nobel Winners where would ask "why doesn't Margaret Atwood win? She deserves it!"

Its essentially a philosophy book, but redditors cant help but be simultaneously smug, pleading and paranoid when they suggest that not putting The Hate U Give in #1 is insecure

Lot of words for no

if you boil it down those passages are uninteresting garb breh. If all it takes is to write in old english, well even AI can do that now

Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.

The Song of Solomon is a beautiful love poem.

!strayans

Skullduggery Pleasant

I would read these to my younger cousin when he visited lol

the PS2 game were good shit

It's not even in top 100 dystopian sci fi or whatever.

Someone linked /r/books top 200 and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was number 1 lmao

Infinite Jest is bad read my porn instead

Interestingly, that came from a thread in 2010, which explains why it's even more dominated by Anglo men than /lit's/. Sure shows how time has changed, but Reddit only having the maturity for books assigned in middle school remains constant.

/lit/ is known for being faux intellectual, and even attempting to compare Hegel, Das Kapital or Industrial Society and its Future to something like Frankenstein or Moby Peepee does not help their case.

It's better to look at this list as just a list of good books to read (with some exceptions)

Lits top 100 is a meme itself. Clear depiction of 20 years of faux posturing what is good lit.

Kill all YA authors, but god darn stop telling sub 100 iq r-slurs to read Gravity's Rainbow. The current voracious readers inhale YA slop and have mini strokes with anything complex.

>"bottom" marsifies to

!bottoms what did they mean by this?

More than zero would've, there's practically nowhere for people to discuss books without being elitist heck or full or horny foids so you do get lots of genuine lit majors on the board (failed/burnt out/unemployed in particular)

I made it 5 pages into FinBIPOC's Wake and I'm pretty sure I hold the world record.

I tried Proust's "Swann's Way" and couldn't finish it.

An anti-p-do book by a guy who was molested. Whats your problem?

@ass_load_of_cum get him

That book hits close to home for many 4chan users.

the good guy is good because he loves you, and the bad guy is bad because the book says so

Was the Bible written by a bpd foid?

It's loaded with plot holes, character inconsistencies, contradictions, a complete lack of understanding of science, and the protagonist is actually the antagonist while the antagonist does almost nothing wrong.

It's a very influential book that has historical importance just by how influential it is, but the reason it's on the list is because 4chan is full of Tradcath larpers.

If you read the Bible as just a book it's a slog to read through. Oh you want to read John's kino doomsday revelations? You have to read through the blessed begats first.