I’m trying to re-kindle my love of learning, I love reading but mostly stayed in the fiction genre till now.
Can you recommend some books to broaden my intellectual horizons? Any subject or genre you’d like, just as long as it’s a thinker, something which added to your life after you were done with it, and made the wheels in your brain work extra time while you were in the midst of reading it.
“Classics” recommendations would also be incredible if you have any!
thank you 🙏
by GoWithTheFlow667
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I like to recommend millroy the magician by Paul Theroux. it’s … unique. Theroux the novelist is no-one to mess with. he satirized the orthorexic manias we’re seeing now, way back in the 1990’s.
idk if it will make you think, but it sure made its own space in my mind.
i suggest reading
1. conflict is not abuse by Sarah Schulman (a book i can’t stop thinking about, it’s one of those books that you keep understanding more and more after you’re done reading it. i personally found it endlessly thought provoking)
2. not a book but i recommend you read rayne fisher quann’s [substack](https://internetprincess.substack.com/) essays, my favorites are [the pain gap](https://open.substack.com/pub/internetprincess/p/the-pain-gap?r=1b7svn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) and [standing on the shoulders of complex female characters](https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-complex) (you don’t have to pay to read both)
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Bill bryson as an author for straight learning
The Humans by Matt Haig if you want a speculative fiction book. It’s fiction but the primary purpose of the book is to make you think about how you view life and society.
My favorite classics: Fahrenheit 451, catcher in the Rye, and count of monte cristo.
Lolita by Nabokov
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadette Evaristo
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro