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hey /lit/
18 year old girl, london, who used to read at least a book a week...but lately i haven't read anything. it's killing me and i need to get back into reading again.

here are some of my favourite novels and writers:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K Dick
On the Road, Oscar Wilde, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, Junky, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Patrick Süskind, The Bell Jar, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland, Sylvia Plath, Fight Club, etc

/lit/ PLEASE RECOMMEND ME SOMETHING THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN AND WILL MAKE ME RATE READING AGAIN

pic somewhat unrelated but i do like good science fiction

>> No.1203709

the female eunuch

>> No.1203717

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran-Froer
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

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>>1203709
D&E do you have a bff?

>> No.1203728

>18 year old girl
Twilight?

>> No.1203737

>>1203728
no.

>> No.1203742

Read Ada by Nabokov.

>> No.1203756

many thanks, these look treats.
and inb4 twilight cos i've already read every single book in the series DON'T KNOW WHY

>> No.1203784

go back to britain OP

>> No.1203789

Nobody cares that you're a woman. That's the entire fucking point of anonymity.

bitches and whores

>> No.1203887

The Bald Soprano

>> No.1203977

>>1203789

Now I want to know how many women regularly post in /lit/.

>> No.1203979

>>1203789
But you do care that she's an 18-year-old from London, I guess?

>> No.1203986

How about Looking for Alaska?
It's kind of The Perks, quite short, and even though it might not be a literary master piece, it's a pretty quick read and it'll surely get you back into reading again.
I remember staying up all night reading it.

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>>1203789
Exactly what I was thinking. You don't see guys getting on here "18 year old guy from Canada looking for book suggestions!". So unnecessary.

>>1203977
I bet it's more than you think.

>> No.1204015

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is some good sci-fi that you might enjoy, although it's not spaceships and aliens'n shit if that's what you're into.
If you liked Oscar Wilde, you might as well go ahead and read The Picture of Dorian Gray.

>> No.1204060

>>1203706
not a bad list. based on your burroughs, kerouac, nabokov, I recommend Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. you can ignore all his other books. Just read trainspotting, it's one of the greatest novels ever written by a man or a woman and deserves to sell more copies than the bible.

2nd rec: Charles Bukowski - Post Office, hilarious awesome novel.

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why the FUCK haven't you read any Vonnegut????
GO BUY TIMEQUAKE RIGHT NOW!