Hi. Today is my 18th birthday and I wanted to use it to finally post on Veeky Forums without breaking the rules. I'm heading off to college in a few months. What would you recommend to a novice reader like me?
Summer reading before college
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Jackson Roberts
Have you checked the Veeky Forums wiki in the sticky yet? It's full of Veeky Forums starter kit recommendations and easily accessible classics.
Also happy birthday, user.
I'll briefly recommend some books that helped me get more involved in reading - they're accessible and fairly easy to read, but they're also of classic status and well-renowned:
George Orwell's 1984 (you probably know of this one - if you like it, also try out Huxley's Brave New World and Zamyatin's We)
John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy Of Dunces
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double (probably one of his most accessible works, but Notes From Underground is great too if you're new to his work)
Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho
Also if you already own a few books (which you probably do), I'd recommend reading those if you haven't already, just so you get yourself more used to reading frequently and to help build your reading speed. If those books are crap, I guess that's what charity shops are for.
Christopher Parker
Try some philosophy!
Maybe some Plato
www.amazon.com/dp/0872206335
Or some Descartes (meditations, objections and replies, and maybe the discourse on method)
amazon.com
Followed by Hume
www.amazon.com/dp/0872202291
Jayden Lewis
Steinbeck is accessible, beautiful and sometimes profound. East of Eden especially is a good stepping stone into literature.
Alexander Phillips
Happy birthday!
read the sticky
Ryan Harris
Do Infinite Summer.
Alexander Sanders
women and men
life and fate
Europe central
mason and Dixon
JR
the recognitions
gravity's rainbow
against the day
Jose Long
Somewhat related, I'm also going of to college this fall and have been working through this: sonic.net
Nathan Cook
against the day is an easy read, so is the recognitions, remove them from this meme list