Need a book to write a long report on and I’m a junior
Preferably a shorter book ~200 pages
I don’t enjoy very historical books/african American identity/women’s identity type of books
I think I like psychological books?
So far some books I’ve enjoyed are lord of the flies, the great gatsby, and life of pi
I also don’t read much
What would be a good book for me to read?
by Aware_Hovercraft_702
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The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Some classics here:
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
I think Toni Morrison or Octavia E. Butler could change your mind, highly recommend Beloved by Morrison or Kindred by Butler. Both modern classics and both phenomenal
Fantasy books by David Eddings.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Slaughterhouse five or the Things They Carried
Moby Dick
* *Catcher in the Rye* – JD Salinger (Kid kicked out of prep school struggles with society)
* *The Pearl* – John Steinbeck (diver finds something he thinks will save his family but it does not at all)
* *Animal Farm* – George Orwell (animal utopia reveals truths about human nature)
* *The Postman Always Rings Twice* – James M. Cain (noir crime drama)
* *We Have Always Lived in the Castle* – Shirley Jackson (psychological horror)
* *The Crying of Lot 49* – Thomas Pynchon (WEIRD POSTMODERN BOOK)
* *Breakfast at Tiffany’s* – Truman Capote (1940s New York)
* *True Grit* or *Norwood* – Charles Portis (late 1800s fierce girl and marshal track down her father’s murder, “hillbilly” guy goes to NY to get back some money and has adventures)
* On the Road – Jack Kerouac (two beatniks ride the rails trying to find themselves and lots of pie and jazz)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Anything by James Thurber. He wrote The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. So funny American Lit