I am looking to take up reading again and I am finding it hard to filter through the garbage when I go to bookshops, so I am turning to trusted Redditors for your kind opinions. Below are some of my favourite books. I am a fan of cult classics, and books that make me think. I could bear a love story if it makes me think (e.g. Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being).
* Catch-22
* The Catcher in the Rye
* The Alchemist
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Fight Club
* The Old Man and the Sea
* When Nietzsche Wept
* The Girl with the Louding Voice
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Nix – Nathan Hill
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison.
No one can ever go wrong with *East of Eden*, if you haven’t read that yet. Simple and complex, achingly beautiful and ugly, mournful yet triumphant.
*The Bell Jar* by Sylvia Plath