Completely hypothetical: there is a person with good intellectual potential that has never picked up a book. You are given the task of gifting this person a package of ten books. They could be anything from religious texts to collections of comics, non-fiction or classic novels. You want to give this person an idea of what, to you,litterature is, what reading is about – why anyone should read at all.
If you choose a series of connected books, all books count. Lord of the Rings means you have seven books left, etc. You can select one book to represent the whole to only fill one spot on your list.
by fodahmania
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Seeing as it’s what reading is *to me*…
The Tempest
Les Misérables
Candide
The Road
On The Road
Changes in the Land
The Rebel
Joseph and his Friend
The Immoralist (or A Happy Death, I can’t decide)
Mr. Mercedes
1984 – for the distopian
The hobbit – for the fantasy
Murder at the orient express or and then they were none – for the thriller
Maus – for the comic and something historical
Little women or pride and prejudice – for some heart warming stories
The secret history – for the dark academia
Matilda – for the child book
Misery – for the horror
Beach read (but could be any other cheesy romance) – for the romance
I’m glad my mother died – for the biography
>If you choose a series of connected books, all books count. Lord of the Rings means you have seven books left, etc
Lord of the Rings is a *single novel.* It’s not a series. It’s not a trilogy. One novel, often printed in three volumes.
Moby Dick, 1984, Plato: Apology of Socrates, Marvel Comics the Books of Doom, Dune, Lord of the Rings.
I think this would be a decent overview. Though it’s not perfect by any means.