65 books you need to read in your 20s — 65 книг

The best 9/11 novel that’s much more than a 9/11 novel. Weirdly relatable, even though the characters are all pretty much upper-class pseudo-intellectuals.

Can_be_fun 18 мая 2013 г., 13:36

Important twenties life lesson: Dating losers is not a life sentence. (Thank god.)

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:49

A wondrously insane and magical (in that it is actually about a magician) three-book series.
Книга первая. Царство тьмы
Книга вторая. Хрустальная темница
Книга третья. Последняя битва

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:49

The best time to read The Secret History is probably while you’re still in college, because it is about a secret society at a small liberal arts college gone horribly awry, but it is also worth picking up a few years later to be reminded about the intensity of college friendships, and also Ancient Greek.

Донна Тартт - Тайная история

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:50

These interwoven narratives (some of which were published as stand-alone stories in magazines such as the New Yorker) are brilliantly crafted, wryly tender portraits of life and love and the small tragedies of everyday modern life.

Время смеется последним

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:51

A book about the search for meaning even when life might be meaningless. (Also, my colleague Ariane says: “Yunior is also the dopest narrator you will ever encounter.”)

Короткая фантастическая жизнь Оскара Вау

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:52

A powerful coming-of-age story of an introspective 19-year-old girl from the West Indies who becomes an au pair in the U.S.

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:53

The story of Binx Bolling is kind of like what might have happened if Dick Whitman never became Don Draper, and instead started wandering around first New Orleans, and then the country, on a neverending spiritual and existential quest.

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:53

In addition to White Teeth being perhaps the ultimate 20th century British immigrant novel, it will also, possibly, inspire you to greatness: Smith finished it during her final year at Cambridge and was 24 (!!!) when it was published

Белые зубы

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 07:54

Jews, New York, World War II, superheroes, comics, Nazis, love: It’s all here, in spades. One of the leading contenders for Great American Novel status.

Приключения Кавалера и Клея

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:13

Because you’ll never have time to read it later.

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:14

You read this book because even though they used typewriters and did way more cocaine than is even remotely healthy, it’s still a perfectly told story about being young and thinking you’re way too smart for what you’re doing. Also it’s possibly the only book ever written in the second person that actually works.

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:15

A beautifully told coming-of-age story that is also about how to reconcile in-betweenness: of culture, of place, of time.

Тезка

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:15

Says my friend Chris: “Super-duper gay sexy but also gorgeous.”

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:16

The Rachel Papers is “a fairly essential ‘leaving adolescence and discovering that everything is still confusing and awful’ kind of novel,” says my colleague Jack, which seems like a pretty decent recommendation.

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:17

You almost definitely read this in high school English class, but you will almost definitely also have a much different perspective on Milkman and his family and their struggles a few years later.

Песнь Соломона

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:17

Another English syllabus special, Hemingway’s tight prose and peerless storytelling are somehow more resonant when you are reading it on your own. Or as my colleague Matt put it: “I couldn’t keep my eyes open for more than five pages of Hemingway growing up, but for some reason I picked this up in my post-graduation haze and was mesmerized.”

И восходит солнце

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:18

The ultimate dystopian love story. If it doesn’t make you cry, your heart may be made of stone.

Не отпускай меня

Can_be_fun 19 мая 2013 г., 11:19