The Pathseeker by Imre Kertesz

That’s mine too. The people putting Mein Kampf and Ayn Rand on their profile will have surely weeded themselves out in other ways. Solely on the book, this is one that would tell me it wouldn’t work.

Women have been relating to male-created written work, films, etc. for a long time, partly because that’s what was on offer and partly because humans of any gender have a lot in common. And most people have both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine personality traits, interests and ways of thinking.

For Hemingway, I would probably never truly relate to his female characters since they are just stand-ins (at least in works that I’ve read) but I can easily relate to his male hero, maybe because of my experience as an immigrant and a bit of a nomad, maybe because of the writing style and underlying tone appealing to me.

I haven’t read Old Man and the Sea.

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar. It could work as an interactive audiobook maybe, but probably if a reread only and the reader knows the structure options. There are multiple ways to order the chapters.

Highly recommend continuing with his work. A lot of it is focused on the psychological and physical aftermath of WWI. The Arch of Triumph is my favorite.

Would Running with Scissors qualify here? I feel like for a bit there, it popularized memoirs about very dysfunctional and tragic but comically written memoirs and also transitioned stories about gay men’s lives away from purely focusing on the AIDS epidemic after it was published in 2002.