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Any good books for an 19 year old coming of age? Could be genre fiction, poetry, self help, biographies etc

>> No.17835701

>>17835696
Full works of Aristotle

>> No.17835707
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17835707

The Symposium by Plato

>> No.17835722

>>17835701
This and then Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic and Discipline of Pure Reason

>> No.17835732

>>17835707
gay ass nigga

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>>17835696

>> No.17835830

Uhhh I’m 19 and Master and His Emissary was great for changing my worldview and making me appreciate life more

>> No.17835884

>>17835797
I ain’t gay nigga

>> No.17836022

>>17835696
christs samurai

>> No.17836222

homer

>> No.17836351

>>17835696
The Republic by Plato
The iliad
Letters from Seneca
Meditations by marcus aurelius

>> No.17836402

>>17835696
Zauberberg, Crime and Punishment

>> No.17836505

>>17836022
>christs samurai
Is this a meme or is it actually good

>> No.17836514

>>17835696
Yo read my book calked Synth-Pill at FictionPress. Fuck Aristotle!

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>>17835696
>Any good books for an 19 year old coming of age
Madame bovary

>> No.17836527

>>17835830
Thanks anon

>> No.17838012

>>17835696
Wizard of Earthsea, trust me on this one

>> No.17838025

>>17835696
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

>> No.17838668

Spinoza's Ethics and The Holy Bible

>> No.17838864

The Sun Also Rises
Mill on the Floss
Catcher in the Rye
Walden
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
On The Road
Dao Duh Jing
The Stranger
A Moveable Feast
The Beautiful and Damned
Romeo & Juliet
Zorba The Greek
Musics and Tricks (excellent)
Trainspotting
The Bell Jar
To The Lighthouse
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Siddhartha
Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke)
Collected Poems of Percy Shelley
Leaves of Grass
Anna Karenina
Emma
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Dandelion Wine
Time Enough for Love
Tom Sawyer
Of Mice and Men
Anne of Green Gables
The Hobbit
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Love Poetry (Sappho)
First Love & Other Stories (Turgenev)
Intimacy (Sartre)
Tales of the Jazz Age
Men Without Women
Dubliners
Amsterdam Stories
A Parisian Affair

>> No.17839171

>>17838864
Excellent list.

>> No.17839188

Atlas Shrugged and 12 Rules for Life, so that you’ll ruin your life and I get to bath in your tears

>> No.17839229

>>17835696
Jane austen, at least to understand how to treat young love. It’s spurious and should be enjoyed for exactly what it is, as actual love is quite rare and this bit of understanding is only acquired later in life.

>> No.17840208

>>17839229
Which one of her works should I read first?

>> No.17840261

>>17835696
the apology by plato and letters from a Stoic by seneca

>> No.17840386

Already mentioned but will mention again, Leaves of Grass is fantastic, especially for someone maturing.
I think I'll also throw in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

>> No.17840424

>>17839229
why is it spurious? I was about to read it but instead Sérotonine crossed my path.

>> No.17841632

>>17835696
I know of one, but it just got banned on amazon and ebay, so it might be hard to track down.

>> No.17841651

>>17836516
>Madame bovary
Good book.