Walker Weekly – Top 100 Books of All Time (According to Who?)

Welcome to Walker Weekly, a regularly scheduled newsletter where I share things that I find interesting, useful, inspiring, or thought-provoking. If you have anything of your own that falls into these categories, please let me know in the comments! I’m always looking for new inspiration.

List of best books I’m browsing

4chan’s list of top 100 greatest books – 10-year aggregate (reddit). I should preface this firstly by saying that I’ve never spent any time on 4chan. Despite their reputation, it sounds like 4chan’s /lit/ (literature) board takes itself pretty seriously and is dedicated to the discussion of, well, literature. The thing that’s most interesting about these types of “Top X best Y of all time” posts is how they differ from one another based on the inherent biases of the polling demographic.

Anyways, the reddit post linked above is fascinating and informative. Here are the top 10 as a teaser:

1. Moby Dick
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. Lolita
4. Crime and Punishment
5. Ulysses
6. Infinite Jest
7. Don Quixote
8. Blood Meridian
9. Gravity’s Rainbow
10. Holy Bible

Blog post I’m re-reading

1,000 True Fans (kk.org). This post is an always-welcome refocusing for anyone who strives to “make it” on the internet.

Quote I’m pondering

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. … What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing … the thing that might be worth saying.

Gilles Deleuze

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That’s all for this week, thanks a lot for following along!

Stay curious,

Walker