What's a meme gift to get my non Veeky Forums inclined sister for her 18th. She'll read anything but mainly reads YA.
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In general what books should I recommend to people like this? They won't want to start with the Greeks and would probably give up easily.
Lolita
120 Days of Sodom.
Siddhartha, obviously
The Iliad.
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Naked Lunch.
Germinal
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
But you won't because you're a wuss
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Classic children's books she should have already read but hasn't, in nice editions. Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Little Women, etc.
Honestly? Something that's cute but of merit. Perhaps a short Tolstoy, a few plays by Ibsen, Lolita, etc.
Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights if she hasn't read them.
The full set of the Sookie Stackhouse "true blood" books
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Master and Margarita held my interest when I was 18 and I wasn't really much into reading back then. It's got a crazy enough story that it's an entertaining read and can be gone back to once she's better read to analyse it.
Murakami. Bitches love Murakami.
Seconded
Norwegian Wood by Murakami
The Bell Jar by Plath
Love Poems by Neruda (if you think she can dig poetry)
Maybe something by Austen or the Bronte sisters but that is pushing it
If you get her these three she will like them
Oh, I also forgot about the Neapolitan Novels by Ferrante. She will like this
But you shouldn't buy her that drivel
minus Lolita
all these are good
something that is nice, might make her consider an English degree or at least catch her attention for a little bit -- Woolf, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Or just get her a nice fountain pen and a journal.
Book of the New Sun of course
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