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Please could you recommend me some thought provoking fiction?! I just want to reaaad but i don't know where to start

Books that will make you think about what a book is:

Artful, Ali Smithtrigger warning: death, loss, depression

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

Ulysses, James Joyce (this book is hard going [i read it at a rate of about 10-15 pages an hour] so maybe don’t start with this, but it’s worth the pain — check out the online guide at infiniteulysses.com) 

“Days of Reading”, Marcel Proust (an essay)

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallacetrigger warning: discusses depression, drug addiction, institutionalization

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

Lowboy, John Wraytrigger warning: schizophrenia

NW, Zadie Smith

Books that will make you think about art and intelligence:

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations by Adrienne Rich

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience, Ann Lauterbach

My Poets, Maureen McLane

Reality Hunger, David Shields

The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young

Books that will make you think about history:

The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebaldtrigger warning: somewhat graphic descriptions of world war II

Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf

Washington Square, Henry James

Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, Leonard Shlain

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Maus, Art Spiegelmantrigger warning: graphic holocaust descriptions

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, Ida Finktrigger warning: graphic holocaust descriptions; violence

The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

Books that will make you think about life, the human condition, etc.:

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

The End of Vandalism, Tom Drury

The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

Neon Vernacular, Yusef Komunyakka

Lit, Mary Karrtrigger warning: alcoholism, depression

Sinners Welcome, Mary Karrtrigger warning: depression

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky trigger warning: graphic descriptions of murder, brief description of attempted sexual assault

The Empathy Exams: Essays, Leslie Jamison trigger warning: explicit descriptions of violence and assault

This is Water, David Foster Wallace

The Tenth of December, George Saunders

The Road, Cormac McCarthytrigger warning: apocalyptic narrative (this sets some people off idk!)

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee trigger warning: graphic rape

An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamisontrigger warning: discussions of bipolar depression

Books that will make you think about love:

Coeur de Lion, Ariana Reines

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (trans. Anne Carson)

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The Beast in the Jungle”, Henry James (short story)

Just Kids, Patti Smithtrigger warning: drug use

Eat Quite Everything You See, Leslie Adrienne Miller

Morning in the Burned House, Margaret Atwood

Bough Down, Karen Greentrigger warning: depression, grief, suicide

Never Let Me Go, Kashuo Ishiguro 

This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz

The Wings of the Dove, Henry James

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokovtrigger warning: pedophilia. this is under the love category because despite the absolutely appalling subject it’s one of the most beautifully written testaments to obsessive love and desire, ever.

The Rehearsal, Eleanor Catton

Nothing Was the Sametrigger warning: death, grief, mental illness

Books that will make you think about humour and laughter:

The First Bad Man, Miranda Julytrigger warning: disturbing content, mental illness

The Liar’s Club, Mary Karr trigger warning: all kinds of mental illness, sexual assault, violence

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace

The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace trigger warning: sexual assault if I’m not recalling incorrectly

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P, Adelle Waldmann

Civilwarland in Bad Decline, George Saunders 

Orlando, Virginia Woolf

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson

Books that will make you think about the books that almost never were:

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

Literary Women, Ellen Moers

My Emily Dickinson, Susan Howe

Heroines, Kate Zambreno

A Literature of Their Own, Elaine Showalter

The Madwoman in the Attic, Gilbert & Gubar

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwoodtrigger warning: gendered violence

Beloved, Toni Morrisontrigger warning: explicit discussions of slavery, murder

Women and Writing, Virginia Woolf

I am an Emotional Creature, Eve Enslertrigger warning: discussions of sexual assault

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i don't know how old people can be so mean to younger people...

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Myself~

I just hate the fact that people think that I'm young and childish. Especially when they think I don't know adult feeling. You don't know what's inside a person brain.