Book recommendation for newbie

>>9609334
The Quran.

>>9609334
Well, what do you want to read? Do you want to discover the great fictions humanity wrote? Do you want to understand philosophy? Do you want a powerful aesthetic experience? You should read things you think you might enjoy and start from there.

I'll still give you my personal advice: people always say "Start with the greeks", and it's kind of a meme, but there's some truth to it. Plato is a great and fun introduction to philosophy if you want to go in that way. I should also add that, at least in France, a lot of young people who have an interest in literature read The Stranger (at least half of the /lit/ guys I know had some kind of "click" by reading The Stranger). Finally, I've always thought Confederacy of Dunces is a fun read and might be a good "newbie book". But that's only advices from my own experience, maybe they're bullshit.

>>9609334
Look up one of our charts on the lit wiki

>>9609334

There's no single book everybody ought to read just like there's no exercise everyone ought to do. The important thing is that you read, just like the important thing is that you exercise. Unless you have concrete goals, nobody can tell you what to read.

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>>9609334

>>9609744
You're telling someone who's never read past Harry Potter to go read Plato?

>>9610763
He's clearly not an intellectual. It's not like it's Aristotle or anything.