I am a literature pleb. Where should I start if I want to get

>>8671047
Read that book in your OP and tell me if it's good. I figure pulizer prize winners are a good place for plebs.

>>8671058
I have read it. I thought it was really good.

>>8671062
Oh. I missed that.

Read American Psycho. It's very funny in an absurd kind of way.

>>8671047

Do you want to read to be considered well-read? Or do you want to read because you enjoy reading?

If you want to be "well-read" continue to browse /lit/, go to the /lit/ recommended wiki, and read all the books on the /lit/ top 100. Then you'll be ready to have pretentious conversations about how you didn't like a book because it didn't "challenge" you.

If you want to read because you enjoy reading, go use GoodReads.

>>8671083
Both

I also liked reading the Goosebumps books when I was a kid. They were v comfy

>>8671047
So you like picaresque literature. Start with Lazarillo of Tormes and after go for Moll Flanders.

>>8671047
Read The Hobbit. Don't read LotR, tho. It's not as good

Read Orwell's 1984 and stuff by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Marquez is kind of wordy, though-but not nearly as much so as DFW.

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Pick some of these based on their cover and read them. Once you know what you like, look up books from the same author/movement/epoch/country and read those. Keep doing this and refining your taste. Reading books that are "important" only matters if it helps you to contemplate the books you are truly interested in. Trying to be "well read" is inane, having unique and compelling opinions on what you have read is much more important.

>>8671047
You'll probably really enjoy Catch-22