favorite book that youve read or book recommendation for a beginner literature reader

I'd recommend everything by Jules Verne and Mark Twain.:wave:

14? You must read Twain--Huck Finn, at least. And Stevenson's Kidnapped! The Scarlet Pimpernel. Ender's Game. Hammett's The Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon. Chandler's The Big Sleep. The Three Musketeers. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Kipling's Captain's Courageous and Kim. King Solomon's Mines. All of the Jules Verne stuff.

Or at least use these to balance out other "weightier" material. At it's essence reading literature ought to be fun!

I would also suggest Catch 22

I would suggest The Stranger by Camus, The Picture of Dorian Grey by Wilde, Siddhartha by Hesse, and Metamorphosis by Kafka. They are all fairly short reads but they're all quite good.

if youre looking for a good book try Amos Oz "A Tale of Love and Darkness" and The Prophet from Khalil Gibran and Brothers Karmazova from Fydor Dostovesky

Anything from Dostovesky is pure Art in my opinion

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Originally Posted by bazarov

I think you're a little bit young for Russians...

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Depends on the Russians! Try Tolstoy's "The Cossacks" to start...

If you never finished them, I would suggest the Odyssey over the Iliad, even though it is a sort of 'sequel' - it's much easier to get through (and I enjoyed it more ;))

There's been some great suggestions, such as Catch-22, Great Expectations and The Three Musketeers (though I preferred The Count of Monte Cristo myself) - so thought I'd add my vote to those :D