I’m a little embarrassed about my reading history but. I’m at that point where I haven’t read in so long I don’t know where to start. I’m almost 30 and haven’t read very much since high school. I read very slowly which can feel frustrating but I want to try to improve. I just got a library card and have downloaded some ebooks and audiobooks. I loved the classic lit that I did read in school such as The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc. I have read a few other classics along those lines. I just read The Yellow Wallpaper and loved it. I feel like there are so many classics I have missed that I need to read before moving to modern books because I have no clue what I would like. I’m looking for some suggestions that I can download or get myself for Christmas. I basically love the feeling of experiencing something that to me feels lonely, but finding comfort in that someone from 100 years ago experienced the same thing. I’m feeling uninspired, stuck and stagnant in life. I feel detached from art and culture and want to reconnect. I want to feel inspired and understood on a human level. Topics I care deeply about are nature, feminism, sexism and misogyny, authenticity and finding meaning for life, girlhood, loneliness. I feel drawn to female authors but any gender is fine. I do enjoy crime, horror, thrillers, mystery. I’m looking for the time frame of approximately early/mid 1900s. Not especially interested in books about war/military as the main topic/plot but of course many stories take place during times of war.
Authors of interest- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf
Thank you so much I’m advance 🙂
by fuckedup_barbie