Suggestions for books when you’re nearing you’re mid 20s but you’re hating yourself for not living your life in your teens, because you were more focused on ruining yourself
very niche I know!
if not that specific vibe, then anything to do with being confused in your mid 20s lol
I felt the same and started reading fantasy books. Completely took me out of the normal world. I would recommend A Court Of Thrones and Roses
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Same, but late fourties.
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The Blue Castle, L M Montgomery. The start is a little slow but that makes the main character’s eventual development more satisfying. Light reading with a happy ending.
Persuasion, Jane Austen. If you can handle dry older books, personally I find it very comforting to know that 200 years ago people were also worrying at 27 that a choice made at 19 might have fucked up their whole life. Happy ending though. Public domain, can be downloaded for free from standard ebooks.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. More dark, in case what you’re looking for is “at least I’m not that fucked up”. Not a happy ending. To me it felt like slightly older female version of catcher in the rye.
Oddly enough, I’m also tempted to say Crime and Punishment could be interpreted as wayward 20’s. Main character drops out of law school and into poverty, has a philosophical/moral crisis that is also a mental breakdown that leads to the action of the book.
By that standard I could also mention Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, but that’s basically poverty porn. Still, it makes you feel sort of grateful for not being homeless.
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I felt the same and started reading fantasy books. Completely took me out of the normal world. I would recommend A Court Of Thrones and Roses
Same, but late fourties.
The Blue Castle, L M Montgomery. The start is a little slow but that makes the main character’s eventual development more satisfying. Light reading with a happy ending.
Persuasion, Jane Austen. If you can handle dry older books, personally I find it very comforting to know that 200 years ago people were also worrying at 27 that a choice made at 19 might have fucked up their whole life. Happy ending though. Public domain, can be downloaded for free from standard ebooks.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. More dark, in case what you’re looking for is “at least I’m not that fucked up”. Not a happy ending. To me it felt like slightly older female version of catcher in the rye.
Oddly enough, I’m also tempted to say Crime and Punishment could be interpreted as wayward 20’s. Main character drops out of law school and into poverty, has a philosophical/moral crisis that is also a mental breakdown that leads to the action of the book.
By that standard I could also mention Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, but that’s basically poverty porn. Still, it makes you feel sort of grateful for not being homeless.