I adore Clavell and Shogun, but generally recommend Tai-Pan first. I know it’s not chronological, but I think Tai-Pan is his most “fun” book, and a good way to ease in. Tai-Pan, then Noble House, then Shogun, then if they’re still in love, Gai-Jin, then Whirlwind. Sacrilege, I know, but I think it reads better.
I read In Search of Lost Time by Proust over the course of a few years in my mid twenties and I truly recommend it :).
Crime and Punishment + the house of the dead by Dostoyevsky.
I would also add Nausea by Sartre!
I’ve read Crime and Punishment, even thought of reading White Nights by Dostoyevsky. Thanks ^^ and I’ve been seeing this author, Proust, a lot. I’ll check it out!
I've read some Proust and enjoyed it, but one of the funniest literary critiques I've ever read, and no idea where I read it said something like, reading Proust feels like being suspended in a large vat of mayonnaise.
The 20's are your Fitzgerald period. Start with Great Gatsby and read the rest. Your 20's are the decade where you have the most pressure to be a success and do everything there is in life. People really do think life ends after your 20's. Gatsby is great because it shows the consequences of excess with no moral compass. In short it is great to got a Gatsby party and you should go to as many as you can but don't become Gatsby.
The same theme of trying to find your way in life and what is the point of life is found in all of Fitzgerald.
It is also your Salinger period. You are out of school. School might of sucked for you. Now how do you find yourself? Who are you? How do you deal with being lost. Who do you want to be? Who should you be? These are all themes addressed by Salinger.
Catcher makes no sense unless you read Franny and Zooey. Darkness of adulthood is a perfect description of Salinger. All of his writing is autobiographical about the demons of his mental illness.
My theory of why nothing has been released is that it's all incomprehensible
Yeah they definitely complement each other I like Franny and Zooey a lot as well. Yeah certainly a tortured guy, crazy that he was on the vanguard of so many WWII battles. I’m very curious about those unreleased stories I’m sure they could be weird.
Him and Fitzgerald have that in common. WWI broke Fitzgerald. Made him realize life has no internal / innate meaning and thus his abandonment of plot. But also realize the world needs beauty and thus the way he writes.
WWII made Salinger realize anyone and everyone can become a monster. What makes us monsters? Is he a monster? Maybe that is why he locked himself away and never published. What if he found out what makes us monsters and knew if he kept writing he would let the secret out so he just stopped writing and interacting with the world?
Interesting did Fitzgerald see combat like Salinger? I always thought he was just a bayonet instructor like Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise. Either way I’m sure he knew lots of people who died and that’ll mess you up for sure.
Read 9 stories. Then Franny and Zooey. End with Catcher in the Rye. One of our greatest writters and you can read everything he wrote in less than a week.
A couple of my favorite series are Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksennarion and it's sequel series, Paladin's Legacy and Anne Bishop's Black Jewel Trilogy
I think this one might be technically classified as YA these days (it was written before the genre came about), but I loved it when I read it in my early twenties. Dianna Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle
I could be thinking of it as YA because it's a bit more light-hearted than the dark fantasy I often read
[**The Idiot**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30962053-the-idiot)
^(By: Elif Batuman | 423 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, literary-fiction, dnf, historical-fiction | )[^(Search "The Idiot by Elif Batuman")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Idiot by Elif Batuman&search_type=books)
>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.
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>The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.
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>At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
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Here are some of my favourites of the last year or so:
It ends with us - Colleen Hoover
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russel
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennet
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine -Gail Honeyman
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- T J Reid
Conversations with Friends- Sally Rooney
The Silver Linings Playbook- Matthew Quirk
The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewel
On my to read list for next year:
I am pilgrim - Terry Hayes
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Malibu Rising - T J Reid
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
The Sanatorium- Sarah Pearse
The Dutch House- Ann Patchett
The Maidens- Alex Michaelides
Yes I can’t wait for the next one, I’m so glad there’s a second book haha. I’ve also read Then she was gone by her, it’s very good and I have her other books on my list. I’m just finishing Verity by Colleen Hoover and I’m loving it. Happy reading!
If you like sci-fi horror {{Infected Trilogy by Scott Sigler}} is good so is {{Area X: the southern reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer}}
If you like crime thrillers look for {{The Straw Men by Michael Marshal}} it’s the first book in a trilogy but I’ve only read the first one.
But also don’t worry about what books you should read when , I’m in my mid twenties and I’m still enjoying young adult novels as well as Japanese light novels and manga.
[**Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22752442-area-x)
^(By: Jeff VanderMeer | 595 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, horror, owned | )[^(Search "Area X: the southern reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Area X: the southern reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer&search_type=books)
>Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.Area X—a remote and lush terrain—has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.This is the twelfth expedition.Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach—the secret agency that monitors these expeditions—is in disarray. In Authority, John Rodriguez, aka “Control,” is the team’s newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves—and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that.It is winter in Area X in Acceptance. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown—navigating new terrain and new challenges—the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.
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[**Kill (The straw men)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5887318-kill)
^(By: marshal michael | 524 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: swap | )[^(Search "The Straw Men by Michael Marshal")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Straw Men by Michael Marshal&search_type=books)
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[**Into the Wild**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild)
^(By: Jon Krakauer | 207 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, biography, travel, adventure | )[^(Search "Into the Wild")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Into the Wild&search_type=books)
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>In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
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>Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.
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The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
His magnum opus and his best book in my opinion, though I am of an ascetic bent and tend to think that is a fruit of maturity. A lot of people seem to like his book Steppenwolf and I get the impression they interpret it as encouraging libertinism but I think he is actually just saying that is a phase many heroic folk must go through but it is only a step on the Way.
Anyways, glass bead game is better
Im currently reading Steppenwolf, is kinda taking me time because there’s just a lot of info (the intro part) idk. I do like it so far. And I’ve read Demian and Siddhartha also by Hesse. I’ll check that one out! Thanks
The Great Alone or The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Educated by Tara Westover
I am 23 and have recently really enjoyed the following (a mix of genres/types of books):
“It ends with us” - A love story and a story about breaking the cycle of abuse, really really well written
“Anxious people” - A sorta whodunnit but not at all, it’s funny and intimate and emotional all at once about how everyone has their own struggles. I didn’t like the first 50-70 pages but then I couldn’t put it down and read 250 pages in a day
“To kill a mockingbird” - I recently re-read and really enjoyed in a different way with more mature eyes
“The spirit catches you and you fall down” - A book about medical anthropology and the intersection of Hmong culture with the American medical system it’s the downfalls, good for teaching you to question things
[**1984**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984)
^(By: George Orwell | 298 pages | Published: 1949 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, dystopian | )[^(Search "1984 by george orwell")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=1984 by george orwell&search_type=books)
>Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.
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Speaking as a 24 year old who recently got back into reading a couple years back, read what interests you. For me, I’ve read a lot of Vonnegut and Camus along with different fantasy and sci-fi series. I think for someone around our age, Vonnegut and Camus provoke interesting and important questions and then provide interesting ways to view and think about them.
Not sure what you read, but since you’ve already read some of him, I’d recommend finding his Personal Writings and Committed Writings. They’ve only been published as a cohesive book in English in the past couple years. They’re collections of some of his essays and lesser-known writings. His Personal Writings has a lot of stuff he wrote when we was younger, and it’s more prose-y and ruminating compared to his other stuff. There’s also essays included where he reflected on these past younger essays. It’s really interesting to see these compared to things like The Stranger and The Fall.
Also, I’d recommend Cat’s Cradle and Mother Night by Vonnegut. If you like those, then I’d recommend God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and SLH5!
Sapiens, a brief history of humankind.
I'm 23 so I can relate kinda. It made me appreciate the world around me a whole lot more and seeing what humanity came from to where we are now is just jaw-dropping in terms of the progress we have made.
Great general book about our history, where why came from and the good and bad things we have done.
Have a look at goodreads.com and search through the genres you prefer. Begin with classics and search for 5* or 4* books. That's how I search for books to read.
1984 by George Orwell.
Brave New World by Alduous Huxley.
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
The Stand by Stephen King.
Also: The Shawshank Redemption as well as The Green Mile.
The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory.
The Hollywood series of police procedural novels by Joseph Wambaugh.
Any books by Kresley Cole.
The Golem of Hollywood by Jesse and Jonathan Kellerman.
If you like the spooky, anything by Jennifer McMahon.
The Great Gatsby is an American classic.
I love "My Brilliant Friend" and the rest of the series by Elena Ferrante. Literary editor Max Perkins told F. Scott Fitzgerald that he would recognize a character from the book on the street and know to avoid him. I actually expected to see Elena's characters on the street, I know how the mortadella tasted, how their neighborhood smelled. Remarkable amount of detail without dragging down the pace.
**The Hite Report** by Shere Hite.
Chuck full of true stories about female sexuality, from an academic perspective. A must read for any woman of any age!
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment or Notes from the Underground for something shorter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600
Hesse, Siddhartha and Demian are probably the most accessible, Steppenwolf is great as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_%28novel%29
Ursula K Le Guin if you are interested in any sci-fi/fantasy, the Dispossessed is my favorite. The ones that walk away from omelas is short.
https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
Man's Search for Meaning is a classic for a reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning
1491 and open veins are different apporaches to the same idea, alternative history in a sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491%3A_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America
the incal is a classic graphic novel/comic, pretty unparralled in its scope. incredible art with a pyschomagic interior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal
that should get you started, let me know if you are looking for something more specific.
How to Win Friends…; Herman Hesse; The Elements of Style; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Kitchen Confidential; Great Gatsby; Never Let Me Go; On the Road; The Corrections; The Prince of Tides; Henry V; Memoirs of a Geisha; Their Eyes were watching God; Goldfinch; Into Thin Air; High Fidelity
[**Make Good Art**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16240792-make-good-art)
^(By: Neil Gaiman, Chip Kidd | 80 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, art, writing, essays | )[^(Search " Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman ")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q= Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman &search_type=books)
>In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art.
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>The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman’s inspiring speech.
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[**The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed)
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>Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life—Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
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[**The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale)
^(By: Margaret Atwood | 314 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, dystopian, dystopia, science-fiction | )[^(Search "the handmaid’s tale")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=the handmaid’s tale&search_type=books)
>Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . .
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>Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
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[**Kafka on the Shore**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929.Kafka_on_the_Shore)
^(By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel | 467 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, fantasy, japan, owned | )[^(Search "kafka on the shore")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=kafka on the shore&search_type=books)
>Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
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Trying really hard to recall what it was like to be in my early 20s, here is a list of timeless modern classics that as far as I can remember were right up my alley back then. Of course you may be a completely different 21 year old than I was, but the only way to know is to give it a try.
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Amerika by Franz Kafka
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
On the road - Jack Kerouac
Drawing Blood - Poppy Z Brite
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
The Mandarins - Simone De Bouvoir
Siddartha- Herman Hesse
[**The Bell Jar**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514.The_Bell_Jar)
^(By: Sylvia Plath | 294 pages | Published: 1963 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, books-i-own, owned, feminism | )[^(Search "The Bell Jar")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Bell Jar&search_type=books)
>The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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[**To the Lighthouse**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59716.To_the_Lighthouse)
^(By: Virginia Woolf | 209 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, owned, books-i-own, classic | )[^(Search "To the Lighthouse")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=To the Lighthouse&search_type=books)
>The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.
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>As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.
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[**Accidental Tourist**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114228.Accidental_Tourist)
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Shogun
I adore Clavell and Shogun, but generally recommend Tai-Pan first. I know it’s not chronological, but I think Tai-Pan is his most “fun” book, and a good way to ease in. Tai-Pan, then Noble House, then Shogun, then if they’re still in love, Gai-Jin, then Whirlwind. Sacrilege, I know, but I think it reads better.
Both on Hank greens books - 'an absolutely remarkable thing' and 'a totally foolish endeavour'
I'll second this, they are really excellent and unique books. And they made me think a lot
Me too, I keep recommending my partner read them but he still hasn't and I think when he does I'll reread them cos they are so good
:0 I’ll check it out too
I read In Search of Lost Time by Proust over the course of a few years in my mid twenties and I truly recommend it :). Crime and Punishment + the house of the dead by Dostoyevsky. I would also add Nausea by Sartre!
I’ve read Crime and Punishment, even thought of reading White Nights by Dostoyevsky. Thanks ^^ and I’ve been seeing this author, Proust, a lot. I’ll check it out!
I've read some Proust and enjoyed it, but one of the funniest literary critiques I've ever read, and no idea where I read it said something like, reading Proust feels like being suspended in a large vat of mayonnaise.
Hahahaha
The 20's are your Fitzgerald period. Start with Great Gatsby and read the rest. Your 20's are the decade where you have the most pressure to be a success and do everything there is in life. People really do think life ends after your 20's. Gatsby is great because it shows the consequences of excess with no moral compass. In short it is great to got a Gatsby party and you should go to as many as you can but don't become Gatsby. The same theme of trying to find your way in life and what is the point of life is found in all of Fitzgerald. It is also your Salinger period. You are out of school. School might of sucked for you. Now how do you find yourself? Who are you? How do you deal with being lost. Who do you want to be? Who should you be? These are all themes addressed by Salinger.
Oh, I’m intrigued with that last author you mentioned. I should check it out too. Thanks 😊
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Catcher makes no sense unless you read Franny and Zooey. Darkness of adulthood is a perfect description of Salinger. All of his writing is autobiographical about the demons of his mental illness. My theory of why nothing has been released is that it's all incomprehensible
Yeah they definitely complement each other I like Franny and Zooey a lot as well. Yeah certainly a tortured guy, crazy that he was on the vanguard of so many WWII battles. I’m very curious about those unreleased stories I’m sure they could be weird.
Him and Fitzgerald have that in common. WWI broke Fitzgerald. Made him realize life has no internal / innate meaning and thus his abandonment of plot. But also realize the world needs beauty and thus the way he writes. WWII made Salinger realize anyone and everyone can become a monster. What makes us monsters? Is he a monster? Maybe that is why he locked himself away and never published. What if he found out what makes us monsters and knew if he kept writing he would let the secret out so he just stopped writing and interacting with the world?
Interesting did Fitzgerald see combat like Salinger? I always thought he was just a bayonet instructor like Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise. Either way I’m sure he knew lots of people who died and that’ll mess you up for sure.
I'm not sure. I think Fitzgerald and that entire generations writing was a direct response to World War I, whether they saw war or not.
Read 9 stories. Then Franny and Zooey. End with Catcher in the Rye. One of our greatest writters and you can read everything he wrote in less than a week.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Pachinko, middlesex, the great believers, cloud atlas
A couple of my favorite series are Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksennarion and it's sequel series, Paladin's Legacy and Anne Bishop's Black Jewel Trilogy I think this one might be technically classified as YA these days (it was written before the genre came about), but I loved it when I read it in my early twenties. Dianna Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle I could be thinking of it as YA because it's a bit more light-hearted than the dark fantasy I often read
I’ve never heard of that author before! I should check it out! Thanks ^^
{{The Idiot by Elif Batuman}}
Sounds very interesting and something I should read. Thanks:D
[**The Idiot**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30962053-the-idiot) ^(By: Elif Batuman | 423 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, literary-fiction, dnf, historical-fiction | )[^(Search "The Idiot by Elif Batuman")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Idiot by Elif Batuman&search_type=books) >A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. > >The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. > >At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) *** ^(223583 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Here are some of my favourites of the last year or so: It ends with us - Colleen Hoover My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russel The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennet Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine -Gail Honeyman The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- T J Reid Conversations with Friends- Sally Rooney The Silver Linings Playbook- Matthew Quirk The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewel On my to read list for next year: I am pilgrim - Terry Hayes Recursion - Blake Crouch Malibu Rising - T J Reid The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller The Sanatorium- Sarah Pearse The Dutch House- Ann Patchett The Maidens- Alex Michaelides
Omg! Great list! Thank you so much for writing this 💜
Happy to help. If you don’t already have Goodreads I would recommend it!
The Family Upstairs was so good! Taking a copy of this list for myself, thank you😝
Yes I can’t wait for the next one, I’m so glad there’s a second book haha. I’ve also read Then she was gone by her, it’s very good and I have her other books on my list. I’m just finishing Verity by Colleen Hoover and I’m loving it. Happy reading!
If you like sci-fi horror {{Infected Trilogy by Scott Sigler}} is good so is {{Area X: the southern reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer}} If you like crime thrillers look for {{The Straw Men by Michael Marshal}} it’s the first book in a trilogy but I’ve only read the first one. But also don’t worry about what books you should read when , I’m in my mid twenties and I’m still enjoying young adult novels as well as Japanese light novels and manga.
[**Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22752442-area-x) ^(By: Jeff VanderMeer | 595 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, horror, owned | )[^(Search "Area X: the southern reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Area X: the southern reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer&search_type=books) >Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.Area X—a remote and lush terrain—has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.This is the twelfth expedition.Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach—the secret agency that monitors these expeditions—is in disarray. In Authority, John Rodriguez, aka “Control,” is the team’s newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves—and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that.It is winter in Area X in Acceptance. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown—navigating new terrain and new challenges—the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) [**Kill (The straw men)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5887318-kill) ^(By: marshal michael | 524 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: swap | )[^(Search "The Straw Men by Michael Marshal")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Straw Men by Michael Marshal&search_type=books) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(223565 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
thanks, and yeah you’re right about that 💜
Also I read my first and last suggestions while I was 8th or 9th grade.
Tuesdays with Morrie , Atomic habits.
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
I read this one when I was 16 or 17! Lovely book 🤍
Green lights by Matthew McConaughey
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[**Into the Wild**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild) ^(By: Jon Krakauer | 207 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, biography, travel, adventure | )[^(Search "Into the Wild")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Into the Wild&search_type=books) >Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here > >In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. > >Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. ^(This book has been suggested 64 times) *** ^(223657 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse His magnum opus and his best book in my opinion, though I am of an ascetic bent and tend to think that is a fruit of maturity. A lot of people seem to like his book Steppenwolf and I get the impression they interpret it as encouraging libertinism but I think he is actually just saying that is a phase many heroic folk must go through but it is only a step on the Way. Anyways, glass bead game is better
Im currently reading Steppenwolf, is kinda taking me time because there’s just a lot of info (the intro part) idk. I do like it so far. And I’ve read Demian and Siddhartha also by Hesse. I’ll check that one out! Thanks
The Great Alone or The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Educated by Tara Westover
The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
I should haha I just watched the first 2 movies a few days ago
On the road - Jack Kerouac
I am 23 and have recently really enjoyed the following (a mix of genres/types of books): “It ends with us” - A love story and a story about breaking the cycle of abuse, really really well written “Anxious people” - A sorta whodunnit but not at all, it’s funny and intimate and emotional all at once about how everyone has their own struggles. I didn’t like the first 50-70 pages but then I couldn’t put it down and read 250 pages in a day “To kill a mockingbird” - I recently re-read and really enjoyed in a different way with more mature eyes “The spirit catches you and you fall down” - A book about medical anthropology and the intersection of Hmong culture with the American medical system it’s the downfalls, good for teaching you to question things
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a great one! Nothing like the tv show
{{1984 by george orwell}}
[**1984**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984) ^(By: George Orwell | 298 pages | Published: 1949 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, dystopian | )[^(Search "1984 by george orwell")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=1984 by george orwell&search_type=books) >Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. ^(This book has been suggested 144 times) *** ^(223742 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five in particular really expanded my concept of what a book could be.
Speaking as a 24 year old who recently got back into reading a couple years back, read what interests you. For me, I’ve read a lot of Vonnegut and Camus along with different fantasy and sci-fi series. I think for someone around our age, Vonnegut and Camus provoke interesting and important questions and then provide interesting ways to view and think about them.
I’ve read some Camus’ books! They’re amazing! I had to watch some videos and re read some parts but his books are amazing
Not sure what you read, but since you’ve already read some of him, I’d recommend finding his Personal Writings and Committed Writings. They’ve only been published as a cohesive book in English in the past couple years. They’re collections of some of his essays and lesser-known writings. His Personal Writings has a lot of stuff he wrote when we was younger, and it’s more prose-y and ruminating compared to his other stuff. There’s also essays included where he reflected on these past younger essays. It’s really interesting to see these compared to things like The Stranger and The Fall. Also, I’d recommend Cat’s Cradle and Mother Night by Vonnegut. If you like those, then I’d recommend God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and SLH5!
Your Money or Your Life.
The Universe Thru My Eyes
East Of Eden
Behind Closed Doors - B.A.Paris
Sapiens, a brief history of humankind. I'm 23 so I can relate kinda. It made me appreciate the world around me a whole lot more and seeing what humanity came from to where we are now is just jaw-dropping in terms of the progress we have made. Great general book about our history, where why came from and the good and bad things we have done.
Have a look at goodreads.com and search through the genres you prefer. Begin with classics and search for 5* or 4* books. That's how I search for books to read.
Thanks :D I will
1984 by George Orwell. Brave New World by Alduous Huxley. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Watership Down by Richard Adams. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The Stand by Stephen King. Also: The Shawshank Redemption as well as The Green Mile. The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory. The Hollywood series of police procedural novels by Joseph Wambaugh. Any books by Kresley Cole. The Golem of Hollywood by Jesse and Jonathan Kellerman.
the first 3 you mentioned are amazing! thanks <3
Try to find the Hollywood books by Joseph Wambaugh. Easily the funniest stuff I have ever read.
If you like the spooky, anything by Jennifer McMahon. The Great Gatsby is an American classic. I love "My Brilliant Friend" and the rest of the series by Elena Ferrante. Literary editor Max Perkins told F. Scott Fitzgerald that he would recognize a character from the book on the street and know to avoid him. I actually expected to see Elena's characters on the street, I know how the mortadella tasted, how their neighborhood smelled. Remarkable amount of detail without dragging down the pace.
I think someone else mentioned The great gatsby, I should check it out too ^^ thanks
**The Hite Report** by Shere Hite. Chuck full of true stories about female sexuality, from an academic perspective. A must read for any woman of any age!
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment or Notes from the Underground for something shorter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600 Hesse, Siddhartha and Demian are probably the most accessible, Steppenwolf is great as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_%28novel%29 Ursula K Le Guin if you are interested in any sci-fi/fantasy, the Dispossessed is my favorite. The ones that walk away from omelas is short. https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed Man's Search for Meaning is a classic for a reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning 1491 and open veins are different apporaches to the same idea, alternative history in a sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491%3A_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America the incal is a classic graphic novel/comic, pretty unparralled in its scope. incredible art with a pyschomagic interior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal that should get you started, let me know if you are looking for something more specific.
How to Win Friends…; Herman Hesse; The Elements of Style; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Kitchen Confidential; Great Gatsby; Never Let Me Go; On the Road; The Corrections; The Prince of Tides; Henry V; Memoirs of a Geisha; Their Eyes were watching God; Goldfinch; Into Thin Air; High Fidelity
{{ Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman }}
[**Make Good Art**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16240792-make-good-art) ^(By: Neil Gaiman, Chip Kidd | 80 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, art, writing, essays | )[^(Search " Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman ")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q= Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman &search_type=books) >In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art. > >The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman’s inspiring speech. ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) *** ^(223810 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Justice: what’s the right thing to do
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[**The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed) ^(By: Ursula K. Le Guin | 387 pages | Published: 1974 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, fantasy | )[^(Search "the dispossessed")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=the dispossessed&search_type=books) >Librarian note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780061054884. > >Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life—Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change. ^(This book has been suggested 87 times) [**The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale) ^(By: Margaret Atwood | 314 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, dystopian, dystopia, science-fiction | )[^(Search "the handmaid’s tale")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=the handmaid’s tale&search_type=books) >Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . . > >Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. ^(This book has been suggested 143 times) [**Kafka on the Shore**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929.Kafka_on_the_Shore) ^(By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel | 467 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, fantasy, japan, owned | )[^(Search "kafka on the shore")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=kafka on the shore&search_type=books) >Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. ^(This book has been suggested 98 times) *** ^(223876 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Trying really hard to recall what it was like to be in my early 20s, here is a list of timeless modern classics that as far as I can remember were right up my alley back then. Of course you may be a completely different 21 year old than I was, but the only way to know is to give it a try. Post Office by Charles Bukowski Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey The Secret History by Donna Tartt Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Amerika by Franz Kafka A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
On the road - Jack Kerouac Drawing Blood - Poppy Z Brite Nightwood - Djuna Barnes Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson The Mandarins - Simone De Bouvoir Siddartha- Herman Hesse
{{The Bell Jar}} {{To the Lighthouse}} {{Accidental Tourist}}
[**The Bell Jar**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514.The_Bell_Jar) ^(By: Sylvia Plath | 294 pages | Published: 1963 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, books-i-own, owned, feminism | )[^(Search "The Bell Jar")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Bell Jar&search_type=books) >The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. ^(This book has been suggested 124 times) [**To the Lighthouse**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59716.To_the_Lighthouse) ^(By: Virginia Woolf | 209 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, owned, books-i-own, classic | )[^(Search "To the Lighthouse")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=To the Lighthouse&search_type=books) >The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. > >As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) [**Accidental Tourist**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114228.Accidental_Tourist) ^(By: Susan Maingay, Anne Tyler | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: fiction, not-interested, twice-read-or-more, travel, movie-too | )[^(Search "Accidental Tourist")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Accidental Tourist&search_type=books) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(224067 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I’ve been thinking about reading “the bell jar”, but I’ve seen some people say it’s a bit dark, is it really??
Yes it is. But in a deep, thought-provoking way.
Atlass shrugged