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What are some light reading books that are not for manchildren? Sometimes I cannot devote a full brain to my book like if I'm tired on a plane or something, and don't want to open some dense treatise. Yet even still, I would not waste my time on genre fiction.

>> No.14470484

Short stories; young adult fiction. Because YA tends to be shorter and have simpler themes but, beware, finding good YA can be like sifting through a pile of shit to find a diamond.

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>>14470228
I finished the picture of Dorian Grey recently, it’s a good book and was a page turner

>> No.14470496

>>14470228
Poetry?

>> No.14470509

>>14470228
anything by hemingway

>> No.14472218

>>14470228
Boswell's Journals
Pepys' Diary

>> No.14472259

Ancients epistles and speeches.

>> No.14472359

Catcher in the Rye

>> No.14473663

>>14470228
Hesse or Max Frisch

>> No.14473937

Infinite Jest

>> No.14474359

count of Monte Cristo

>> No.14474439

>>14470228
Pynchon