What are the first ten books you'd suggest to a novice reader

Just print out a reading list of an honors high school curriculum and whing a dart at it.

>>9722146
>>9722146
1. Brave New World
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Stranger
4. Animal Farm
5. Flowers for Algernon
6. Lord of the Flies
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. The Catcher in the Rye
9. The Bell Jar
10. Lolita

Should give you a solid foundation of basic lit

>inb4 /lit/ shits on this whole list

>>9722459
My list is pretty much the same lol

>>9722548
Haha lol

>>9722459

>no dickens

jesus fucking christ ignore this stupid nigger.

1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. 1984
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
5. The Catcher in the Rye
6. Lord of the Flies
7. The Silver Sword
8. Hard Times
9. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
10. The Bible

>>9722548
>>9722459
>>9722645

Brave New world is shit.

>>9722672
so are you, we all know which will get more recognition though, don't we?

>>9722650
>Novice Reader
>Suggesting the Complete Shakespeare

>>9722693
They don't have to go through the whole volume, but i don't see the problem recommending shakespeare to even a novice reader (unless their native language isn't english maybe)

School children are assigned Shakespeare

>>9722731
True, but in school they go through it at a snails pace with a teacher, so it's not the best comparison

>>9722693
"Shakespeare is hard" is a meme. Yes, the complete works cover to cover is a bit much, but if a novice reader picks and chooses the ones they have already heard of they shouldn't have a problem.

1. High Fidelity
2. Stephen King's 11/22/63
3. Stormbreaker
4. xXx: The return of Xander Cage Official Novelisation
5. The Two Towers
6. Collins English Dictionary
7. Just William
8. The Stranger
9. Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
10. The Elves and the Shoemaker

>>9722777
>Collins English Dictionary
Unironically a good advice, i remember Malcolm X studying a whole dictionary word for word to make better speeches

>Collins English Dictionary
>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
>The Bible
Do you recommend the everst to mountain climbers novices?

>>9722146
1. The Bible (KJV)
2. The Iliad (Pope's trans)
3. Moby Dick
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. Blood Meridian
6. Lord of the Flies
7. Flannery O'Connor The Complete Short Stories
8. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (nod to other lists)
9. Paradise Lost
10. Leaves of Grass

>>9722760
No, Shakespeare is hard, even by the standards of early modern drama

>>9722813
The Bible was taught to school children about 100 years ago. I was reciting poetry in my 5th grade class about 40 years ago. So, yes, The Bible is for a beginner reader.

>>9722828
>The Iliad (Pope's trans)
Why not recommend Homer?

>>9722842
I like Bart better

Why is /lit/ so accepting of these threads when there are several good charts in the sticky OP could have followed? Just curious.

Start with the greeks

>>9722749

>implying teachers make things easier and not 100x harder

>>9722840
That's not an argument, it is taught for brainwashing purpouses. I bet none of them knew more that one or two passages about the life of Jesus.

>>9722869
I've read it through multiple times. It's a great book.

Meet with the Mesopotamians, enlighten yourself on the Egyptians, and then finally start with the Greeks, while betting on the Bible.

It's not hard, OP.

basically a high school reading list. great but accessible/easy books.

1 Huck Finn
2 Animal Farm
3 To Kill a Mockingbird
4 The Great Gatsby
5 All Quiet on a Western Front
6 Brave New World
7 Catcher in the Rye
8 Lord of the Flies
9. The Old Man and the Sea
10. Grapes of Wrath

ugh...really want to add a handful of flannery O'Connor's short stories but not sure where to fit it.

>>9722835
Some of it yes.

But MacBeth? Much Ado? Midsummer Night's Dream? Romeo and Juliette?

They all have deeper meanings and references that may only become apparent on a later read, but they aren't exactly difficult first time around.

>>9722869
The Bible isn't taught for brainwashing purposes. People use liberal and conservative thought for brainwashing purposes, it doesn't mean that those things are exclusively that.

dense motherfucker.