What book should I get my 13 year old sister to turn her into a patrician...

What book should I get my 13 year old sister to turn her into a patrician? She is an avid reader but is mostly stuck on YA genre trash at the moment. Hoping to slowly wean her off and into more high-brow, yet age appropriate, lit.

Kama Sutra

kek but no

For reference, I've previously got her books like The Little Prince, and for her last birthday I got her the Hobbit which she loved, and subsequently read my copies of LOTR. I'd like to expand her horizons a little bit

>read LOTR
she's already a patrician. leave her alone.
but really id say
>redwall
>anything by roald dahl really
>the house of the scorpian

give her Anna Karenina, teenage girls (who read books) love it

If she has read LoTR, all those will be well below her reading bracket.

I absolutely adored Redwall myself at that age, but not really my sister's thing. She's pretty much got all the Roald Dahl stuff already.

I've never heard of the House of the Scorpion but I'll look into it. Anna Karenina is a good suggestion.

Codreanu's For My Legionaries

yeah get her this or something by Austen

something by austen or the bronte sisters

actually get her some of FlinFlan's short stories, they are easy to digest, well written, written by a women, seemingly edgy at first glance (I know some bookish girls of that age are into that), but are morally good

Aesop's Fables.
Discworld?

lolita :^)

Flowers for algernon is fucking great for teens who are into reading

maybe something light and contemporary like The Lovely Bones or Room, not fully patrisch, but a step in the right direction in any case

agreed, i don't even know what else to recommend her. tell her to move on to book of the new sun i guess kek.

Give her the Odyssey. It's easy to read and gives her a soft start with the greeks

Get her Hamilton's Mythology first

Byron's collected works

didn't mean to quote

real talk she might like murakami. He's not perfect but can be a good bridge between YA and lit

Get her Earthsea by Ursula le Guin

The Black Tulip by Dumas
The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Black Tulip - too violent, all that Protestant-Catholic bloodshed.
Red and Black - a story of a hypocrite piece of shit manipulator and liar.
Try again

That's the thing, you shouldn't *make* her read anything. Just gently and without judgement of what she does read, make it apparent that you think reading real literature is something worthy of respect. It doesn't even require you to do anything, if it's actually the case that you do. She'll see that and she'll get to doing it in his own time, so long as she feels you're someone who she wants the respect of.

Seconding Le Guin.

This.

And this.

And Fahrenheit 451.

My Twisted World by Eliot Rodgers
But, seriously, get her Le Guin

This, I wish I had read Wuthering Heights as 13.

this is solid advice desu, he has some decent literary themes that are digestable and pretty enjoyable

Aren’t they a little too sexual?

It's clear you haven't read either books. There's no bloodshed in the Black Tulip

Cortazar's short stories, I don't know if you can find it in english, but "Historias de cronopios y de famas" is great for a young people

She's 13. She's, most likely, going to become sexually active within the next 6 to 18 months.

Get her Naked Lunch

damn, I remember to pass near to a group of 11~12 yo girls and hear them talking about suck a dick. I felt old, sad and virgin...

Seconding Cortázar, any short story antology would be great.

Fanged Noumena by Nick Land.

if she actually liked the LotR she might like The Once and Future King.

lmao didn't you have 20$ in your pocket?

Tell her to Google Henry T. Laurency, books are free and I wish I read them at 13.

Watership Down

You're all fucking lefty turbo plebs

Give her one of the following; The Bell Curve, Thus Spoke Zathustra, Infinite Jest, The Fountainhead, Gravity's Rainbow, or Casino Royale.

Unless you want her to be Tyrone's little sjw cum rag

The Fountainhead is just plain bad writing, and this is coming from someone who legitimately agrees with Rand's ideology on quite a few fronts.
I'd say that her least shit fiction work is We the Living, but it's still not that good honestly.
I know you're just attempting a shitty meme though..

Great answer. Considered this.
She needs something she'll love.

How about The Invisible Man? She's at an age where she can start appreciating some of the themes explored in that.

I've decided to get her A Wizard of Earthsea, might pick up something else if I see it down the track.

A number of books mentioned were also great suggestions – she already has dipped into Austen, so I will be encouraging this further, but mum owns them so she can loan.

Some other suggestions are books I already own that I've made it clear she has access to my library and can loan from me if she wants, including Hamilton's Mythology, the Odyssey, Murakami, Fahrenheit, as well as Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow (lmao).

>the last unicorn.
>the once and future king
>the princess bride

Chronicles of Narnia
Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry Finn
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lord of the Flies

Ulysses obvs. That way you can derail this reading train early.

>>anything by roald dahl really
>>the house of the scorpian
>A Series of Unfortunate Events
>That's the thing, you shouldn't *make* her read anything. Just gently and without judgement

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The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies
They are still Young Adult but more complex than most shit Young Adult novels that 13 year olds would be reading

she won’t actually read anything you give her, op

just let her read what she likes, it’s good enough that a 13 year old is reading.

Not if she reads the right lit....

Don't mind the pretentious title, this is a great introduction to literature and poetry

Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, shit like that

Get the fuck off my image board

if she's already sort of intellectual this might be good

Senlin Ascends, Bancroft might be an ideal choice. It bridges the genre fiction/literary divide very well.

His dark materials is also good YA.

His Dark Materials is trash

A Wizard of Earthsea. A comfy epic, despite the writer being a bit of a social justice warrior.

Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

But seriously, Le Guin

Gentile is must for all ages desu