/lit/ - Literature

>>18021762
My younger sister is 15 and she’s reading the Brothers Karamazov at the moment. In the last year she’s read Tolstoy, Hemingway, Murakami, Steinbeck, both Brontes, Tolkien, Salinger etc. I’m 18 and since March last year I’ve been readzing Dostoyevsky, Borges, Orwell, Kafka, Houellebecq, Aldous Huxley, Nabokov, DFW, Pynchon, McCarthy, Hemingway, Mishima, John Williams, Herman Hesse, Homer, plus Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, Herodotus, Rene Guenon and others I’ve probably forgotten. But to answer your question: zoomers don’t really read - none of my male friends read at all, and only a couple of my female friends read, and primarily just on holiday. Zoomers are on the most part entirely addicted to digital entertainment (including myself), and our ruined attention spans don’t allow for much reading.

Hi /lit/, I need help choosing a book to give my girlfriend a book for her birthday. She’s a 19 year old Tiktoking archetypal zoomer who doesn’t really read (the last book she tried to read was The Selfish Gene but she gave up because it was boring). I’m looking for some good recs that are easy to read but also not completely devoid of substance, and would appeal to a female (I’m thinking maybe Siddhartha??). Serious suggestions only please.