/lit/ - Literature

>>17641388
no, just read books, critically, and various sorts
also, reported for underage - hopefully getting banned will help you focus on reading instead of asking stupid questions in a stupid place like this

Don't tell him

>>17641676
i'll tell him

>>17641388
Culture of Critique

>>17641694
tell him

death of ivan ilych

>>17641388
The best piece of advice I can give you is to stop asking so many questions like this. The board is plagued with people asking questions that they could answer themselves by doing the work.

Read a lot of books, you'll find out yourself which were good to read. No one has a magic answer.

>>17641388
Critique of Culture

culture of critique

>>17641714
this. Just fucking read what you want and then you will stumble upon books. There is no "MUST READ BEFORE 18" books because people are different. The book I would have wanted to read before 18 might not be the book you need.

>>17641388
bible

>>17641388
Don't listen to anyone ITT OP, start with the Greeks before its too late

>>17641714
>>17641755
This, fucking automatons asking these types of questions.

Seneca's Letters

>>17641388
No
Only retarded ideologues come up with "must read" books. That way they can pretend they have some power and maintain an illusion of predictability.

>>17641793

harry potter and stephen king

>>17641388
On the Road by Kerouac

The 120 Days of Sodom

>>17641388
Culture of Critique

PR trilogy

Catcher in the Rye
Dune
One Flew over the cuckoos nest
Great Gatsby
Storm of Steel

>>17641388
my parting gift to you, underage-kun

>>17641905
The best answer

>>17641388
The Bible
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Illiad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
The Republic by Plato
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (or at least Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth)

A lot of people just recommend varius 20th and 19th century classics and those are good but if your goal is to provide the young person with a decent foundation for further literary exploration, I don't think they will be as helpful as these. These books help you to understand the references you will encounter in many if not most of the books you read. I'd also personally recommend Industrial Society and Its Future by Uncle Ted but that's really not a must read.

>>17641713
This

And if you're a pro: all of Dostoyevsky's books

>>17641388
Gravity's Rainbow

>>17641388
The only 'must reads' before you turn 18 are the ones that lose relatability as you age. As an example, 'Catcher in the Rye' is best enjoyed when you're around that same period of your life. As you get older, the protagonist just comes off as irritating.

>>17643461
He came off as irritating even when I was 16

>>17641388
Robert's Rules of Order
Summa Theologica
Organic Syntheses, all volumes
Shrek, 1st Edition

>>17641388
If you haven’t had a teenaged hunter thompson phase you haven’t lived. On a more serious note I think The Brothers Karamazov is a great novel to read while you’re pretty young. Inspiring

The Dead Sea Scrolls

>>17643784
Why?

>>17641388
Learn Greek and Latin. Read the Greeks.

>>17641388
No, not really. Maybe some childrens books or whatever your parents see as appropriate for you. I don't think humans should take up serious intellectuality until they're already seasoned adults. We need to step away from this cultish love of reading for its own sake, only caring of the quantity read, not of the substance. While I don't agree with there being any "must read" books for the youth, I will say that Plato and Aristotle are essential to sharpening a developing mind; and that authors such as Hermann Hesse can be a valuable experience to young adults who feel frustrated and confused by the world.

>>17644723
How's your Greek and Latin going, Anon?

>>17641388
Learn Spanish and French, for their godtier prose and poetry

>>17644817
I actually read and speak modern greek very well. No latin though.

How useful is this? is reading the greeks in modern greek any better than reading them in English?

>>17641388
Siddharta and Hesse books in general

>>17641388
underage b&

>>17643272
This is quite good, though I don't know that you need all of "The Republic" and think that you could get by with just the section on the cave (obviously it would be worthwhile to read the whole thing, but it's not as essential as that one metaphor). I would probably add Leer and Merchant of Venice to Shakespeare. And some general history.

>>17646081
edgy and cringe teens will understand Hesse in many wrong ways.

I've just finished The Stranger and it seems like something I would write when I was 12 and think I was a genius. I still read it in it's entirety pretty quickly...

>>17647672
What's the right way to understand Hesse?

>>17647672
>you're only allowed to interpret the book one way

>>17641755
>>17641388
yes there is, the bible

>>17646081
Was going to say Hesse, Demian in particular since its well known as one of those "I read it when I was young and it changed my thinking" books. Helps that its short af

>>17641701
lol

>>17641388
If you're going to read the bible make sure you get a proper untainted edition.

>>17641388
White Fragility
Impeach: The Case Against Trump
How to be an Antiracist
The End of White Politics
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal

These should be all you need till you're at least 40