This could be from any age really. I remember reading lots of books like Harry Potter as a 4th grader to seem smart to the teachers looking at me but I didn’t understand any of it. When the big YA dystopian boom was happening, I read tons of terrible YA dystopias to seem cool but many of them frustrated me.
Unabridged classics. English is my 2nd language and we studied classic lit in school but they were abridged version. So between 12-16, I would get my hands on the unabridged books and other “classics” just so people go wow.
Most of them were boring or way over my understanding of the world. I read Handmaid’s Tale at 15yo(2002) and I had no idea what the hell was going on but hey I get to tell people I read Margaret Atwood eventhough NO ONE ASKED 🤣 I read it again at 30yo with more appreciation.