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Hey /lit/, my sisters birthday is coming up and I wish to get her a book.
She is however, turning 16.

What would be a good book for her to get into?

>> No.2942104

I hear 50 Shades of Gray is pretty popular with that age group.

>> No.2942124

>>2942104
>>2942104
>20 year old bro giving her sis a porn book
>Wink wink nudge nudge

>> No.2942235

Bumpin because I know /lit/ has to love children as much as the rest of 4chan does

>> No.2942285

Looking for Alaska.

Alternately, Atlas Shrugged.

>> No.2942298

>>2942285

>Atlas Shrugged.

Don't forget to write down the url of reddit's atheist subreddit on the book

>> No.2942300

I gave my sister the Picture of Dorian Gray when she turned 17.

>> No.2942303

The Sun Also Rises

>> No.2942305

wuthering heights

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2942306

>read The Stranger at 16
>become a deep and edgy teenager
>now I live in an eternal midlife crisis

thank you based Camus

>> No.2942311

Paradise Lost

>> No.2942315

>>2942300

i hope she never forgives you.

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2942313

>read The Stranger at 16
>become a deep and edgy teenager
>now I live in an eternal existential crisis

thank you based Camus

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2942310

Paint It Black by Janet Fitch
Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

>> No.2942320

Hunger Games Trilogy


then Jane Austen or something

>> No.2942327

I'm a girl and when I was sixteen I was really into...

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
Anything Kafka
The Age of Reason (Sartre)
Brave New World
Pablo Neruda's poetry, ee cummings' poetry
Waiting for Godot
Lolita
Revolutionary Road (Yates -- I know there was a terrible movie but the book is fucking brilliant)
Portnoy's Complaint
Cat's Eye (Atwood)
Of Love and Other Demons (Marquez)

If she's precocious and political, though, give her Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies and change her life forever.

>> No.2942334

>>2942310
I think she's a bit old to really get into Perks on an emotional level, although she'll be able to appreciate it. (says femanon who loved that book when she was young. There's a big difference between 12 and 16 when you're 16. I'm not 16.)

>> No.2942357

>>2942334
reported for being 16

>> No.2942362

Harriet the spy or some shit like that

>> No.2942377

>>2942327
Haha. Funny.

>> No.2942417

>>2942327
I don't think I've ever seen anyone mention Revolutionary Road on /lit/ before. It was one of the few books I read that left me thinking, "That was a giant waste of time."