Hi there,
First a disclaimer: English is not my first language.
I am a young woman who used to read a lot troughout my childhood, but who now finds difficulty or restlessness in doing so because of this fast-paced, dopamine-addicted, visual-oriented society I live in. It's like my brain isn't wired to do that anymore. All this despite wanting to read and enjoying stories. Simply emerging myself in a narrative world became hard for me over the years.
My graduation project at the art academy I study at, is about this struggle. About showing it and finding ways to navigate it. To encourage myself, and others, to read and reclaim my rest and focus in doing so.
I am looking for book recommendations about characters who are also struggling in navigating through a society that may not be made for them, or distracts them from finding out how to grow as a person. Like I am.
No requirements for certain genres or age groups. Children's books, YA, literature, all is welcome. Happy ending or no happy ending, don't care. The only requirement I have, is that it must be fiction, in hopes of wandering of into another world again.
Thank you so much <3
by Nearby-Yogurtcloset3
7 Comments
Not a perfect match, but Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse might be a good one for you. It’s fairly short at about 150 pages.
Convenience Store Woman
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, historical fiction about women of a sapphic and gender-nonconforming persuasion in Victorian England.
Jude the Obscure. Read with caution however, never had a book truly piss me off before.
A Psalm For the Wild-Built and its sequel, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy.
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Give [Beautiful Shining People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Shining_People) by Michael Grothaus a try. It’s about two people who feel like outsiders for very different reasons.