This is her to be read list so far
◦ I who have never known man
◦ Girl interrupted
◦ Naked lunch
◦ Dead poets society
◦ The fountainhead
◦ Big Swiss
◦ Prokaryote season-
◦ The bell jar-Sylvia Plath
◦ White nights- fyodor Dostoyevsky
◦ I have no mouth and I must scream-Harlan Ellison
◦ The life of a stupid man
◦ Things have gotten worse since we last spoke-Eric larocca
◦ The trouble with being born-e. M. Cioran
◦ The art of loving-Erich Fromm
◦ The myth of Sisyphus-Albert Camus
◦ At the extistenilist cafe- Sarah bakewell
◦ Notes from underground and the double- fyodor Dostoyevsky
◦ A very easy death- Simone de Beauvoir
◦ In the absence of men-philippe besson
◦ I remain in darkness-Annie ernaux
◦ We have always lived in a castle-Shirley Jackson
◦ An enquiry concerning human understanding- david humme
◦ Letters to a young poet- Rainer Maria Rilke
◦ A certain hunger- Chelsea g summers
◦ Tender is the flesh-
◦ Life ceremony- Sayaka Murata
by rkopls
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Brave new world
If that reflects her reading up to this point, the challenge for you might be finding some thing that’s both serious enough to be intriguing to her but that she hasn’t read yet. I may be projecting on that, but… If that’s the case, maybe look at Japanese literature in translation because she might not have really gotten to that yet? Mieko Kawakami’s All the Lovers in the Night, Hiroko Oyamada’s The Hole, or Emi Yagi’s Diary of a Void are all great reads, really interesting, and it seems like there’s a decent chance she hasn’t read them yet. Good luck!