Hi, this is my first post here. I’ve lurked for a while but hadn’t have the courage to ask. I come from a third world country and reading is not encouraged at all. In fact, I’m 100% sure both my elementary school and high school did not have libraries. Then I moved to Canada and people read, for fun!. I didn’t get it at first but now with my kids, I really do see how you can love reading. Even my son who leans more toward numbers reads a lot because he really enjoys it and I would like that too. I have started with celebrity memoirs (Anna Kendrick and Britney Spears) but I would like to do more from actual authors.

So what would you recommend for someone who hasn’t done much reading but wants to. Are there reading lists online? Or suggestion websites? Should I start with classics? What are the classics?

  • TheScarletwitchhh@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fictional recs: For classics go for something short around 250 pages like The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The stranger by Albert camus. For something contemporary but on same line go for the perks of being a wallflower. Then maybe try Shakespeare, Jane Austen Charles Dickens etc. For Russian classics start from books like Notes from the underground by Dostoevsky, death of ivan Ilyach by Tolstoy these are under 150 pages but they are quite challenging. And slowly you will find other authors and books. Good luck with your reading journey. You might feel bored in beginning and it might takes months to complete that one book but you will get there and you won’t regret it.