I'm an 18 year old male eager to get into reading...

I'm an 18 year old male eager to get into reading. Does anyone have any beginner books which would be good to ease me into it?

Try Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I'm not even kidding. It's a great stepping stone to literature because it makes you feel smart even if you aren't, is known for difficulty but is actually very easy to read, and probably relates to the problems that you're going through right now, so will be a relatively meaningful experience at least. You will soon grow out of it once you realize it's not all that incredible when compared to other works, and when you begin to recognize more and more of DFW's bullshit, but it's a fine place to start.

Seconding this

easy-ish interesting reads 101:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Grendel by John Gardner
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (if you're not afraid of Young adults shit)
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

And Finally, after all that shit,
Every boy should read Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky at some point (even though he has better works)

Also these guys are meming you. They're trying to create a barrier to learning because their fucking halfwits, trying to destroy the board with humor that you probably wont understand unless you lurk here instead of reading the actual fucking books
INFINITE JEST FUCKING BLOWS

pluto - the greeks

The sticky has a starter kit chart for beginners. have fun

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is just trying to meme you, IJ is a great book IMO but if you're trying to get into reading an 1100 page behemoth is a bad choice

no he isn't meming him, he's right.
it's literally how it actually works.

1. start with infinite jest
2. love it because ur a Veeky Forums neckbeard
3. realize that you're not cool and well-read as Hal
4. start reading actual literature
5. start shitposting online and advising beginners to start with the Greeks even though it's the worst possible advice, and pretending you hated infinite jest

all you faggots have read IJ and loved it and you know it

I'll probably start with The Stranger by Albert Camus, do you think that's a good choice?