Not exactly relevant to early 20’s but The Catcher in The Rye was a bittersweet/melancholic book (at least to me) about growing up. Follows a teen who gets excluded from school and it’s written from his pov as he explores New York City and ponders his existence/time passing and how he hates social norms and is pessimistic about everything around him in the ‘real world.’
Read it at 19 and it really hit me deep but also feel if I re-read it now at 24 I’d get something new out of it. It defo makes you feel less alone in this whole navigating life as an adult.
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Not exactly relevant to early 20’s but The Catcher in The Rye was a bittersweet/melancholic book (at least to me) about growing up. Follows a teen who gets excluded from school and it’s written from his pov as he explores New York City and ponders his existence/time passing and how he hates social norms and is pessimistic about everything around him in the ‘real world.’
Read it at 19 and it really hit me deep but also feel if I re-read it now at 24 I’d get something new out of it. It defo makes you feel less alone in this whole navigating life as an adult.