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Besides this list, what books can I recommend to my 17 year old

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Besides this list, what books can I recommend to my 17 year old cousin to help him further himself for his last 2 years of high school and eventually university?
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>>8328824
Iliad and the Odyssey
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my diary desu
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>>8328828
Care to share?
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>>8328824
jesus, another one of these threads?

>START WITH THE GREEKS
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>>8328824

some poetry so he doesn't end up being a troglodyte. Dickinson, Plath, Sexton maybe?
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I'm not saying women are good writers but jeez one of those could be replaced. A woman has definitely written a better book than Fahrenheit-451.
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>>8328869
>not brave new shit
Fahrenheit is infinitely better than that shit
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>>8328824
>one flew over the cuckoo's nest
Nope.
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At least one epic
Paradise Lost maybe since it's English
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>>8328986
I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 but I've read pamphlets in megachurches that were better than everything Aldous Huxley ever wrote.
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>>8328824
When I was 17 I was already reading post-modern philosphers.

Also your 17 yo cousin is probably you yourself.
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>>8329196

Burned.
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