I’m finishing up the Idiot by Dostoevsky, what a good book! I think the most valuable thing I’ve taken from this book is the realistic way the characters are written and how they all relate and talk to each other. It’s really helped me with my social skills and confidence just by seeing the different ways the characters express their emotions, as well as all of their realistic desires and thoughts. Also it thoroughly walks you through society alongside the “Idiot”, and sort of shows how it all works.
I’m pretty socially awkward and have spent a long time isolated, so I relate to the protagonist a lot. I’m hoping if there are good books that are similar in this way and excel at it.
by feelinglikedoodoo
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Maybe you could try ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus.
In this book, Camus shows how people react and interact when they are confronted with an emergency they can’t escape.
It’s a short book, with characters easy to relate to, and maybe it could help you.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
George Sanders, specifically his short stories. As I haven’t had the pleasure to yet read his novels.