Hello! I'm seventeen, and for most of my life, I always thought I wouldn't be anything of a reader. I would try and try to pick a random novel from my countless shelves and read just a chapter, but wouldn't get farther than two pages. It really depressed me, and I felt I was just made that way, whether through some disorder like ADHD, or plain magic like a curse. That changed when I read my first book, Animal Farm. I read it all in two, which was very fast for me! I did nothing all day but read and read. Here are all the books I've read (in sequential order).
- Animal Farm
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Lolita
- The Great Gatsby
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Notes from Underground
- Crime and Punishment
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- I Fell in Love with Hope
I never got around the reading the other Harry Potter books, only getting halfway through the second one. Anyway, I'm very proud of what I've read, and my two favorite books are Crime and Punishment and Lolita. I'd like to know what other books I should read. There's only one female author there, so I'd like to half a clean 50/50 split between female and male authors.
What should I read??? I want essentials!!! I love reading!!!
I have The Brothers Karamazov sitting on my self. I tried to read it, but oof, I'll wait on it.
by consentwastaken2
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The Handmaid’s Tale! Modern classic, very readable, increasingly relevant, and by a female author
Not a female author, but you might want to read *Anna Karenina*. It’s another thick Russian novel, considered by many to be the greatest novel of all time.
Barbara Kingsolver’s *The Poisonwood Bible* is a more recent book, but one of my all-time favorites.
I always hate this question because there’s not a book in the world that I think is right for everyone, or even the majority of people. My Must Reads are always just whatever I think the person will genuinely like, and the Critical Darlings “Must Reads” often are the reason why people don’t get into reading or burn out by the time they graduate college.