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Good recs of entry-level books/authors for newfags? Bring up relevant stuff that really adds to a repertory, not some some tiktok white girl slop

i recommend this in every such thread, and see no reason to stop

>>24672700 (OP)
>that cover
Anyway OP, give The Great Gatsby a shot, it was pretty important for modernism and a good way to assess if you like that era of prose

>>24672700 (OP)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
kinda makes you think about what a utopian society or civilization would look like, maybe eugenics isn't a bad thing, maybe a one world government isn't a bad thing

>>24672700 (OP)
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway.
The Day Of The Triffids - Wyndham.
West with the Night - Beryl Markham.
All fun and not difficult reads.

>>24672700 (OP)
>A Moveable Feast -- Hemingway
>Train Dreams -- Denis Johnson (good to get some contemporary shit in there)
>The Great Gatsby -- Fitzgerald
>Silence -- Shukaso Endo
>The Sailor Who Fell With Grace From The Sea -- Mishima

>>24672700 (OP)
picture of dorian gray, metamorphosis, notes from the underground, edgarn allan poe's short stories
all short and good

>>24672700 (OP)
I just started Tarzan. It's pretty good so far.

Sticky should have chart of beginner/lit/, which is basically a high school reading list, books with enough literary value you can get into discussion of shit like prose, characters, themes, motifs, etc but without being dense enough you're like
>fuck learning the fifth russian title for this mfer just call him sasha

>>24672700 (OP)
It covers some heavy ideas about social class and identity while also being a “fun” crime story.

Fahrenheit 451

>>24672700 (OP)
these are good

>>24672700 (OP)
Brave New World > 1984

>>24672763
better verison of 1984 in every way

>>24677386
i think so too

>>24676351
just read both one after the other and i disagree. 1984 hits me in a very visceral way, BNW feels a bit stiff and dull

>>24677909
are you british?