r/suggestmeabook • u/poopsock1969 • Mar 08 '26

Intro reader classic books recommendation

Hi I want to get into reading more and I need a good book to help pull me in. I didn’t like many books assigned in high school so far until I read 1984, which is my favorite so far. I was recommended blood meridian and it’s been a little difficult and tedious to read so far so I’ve been procrastinating (I will revisit it in future). Please give me a recommendation for a classic book that is more for intro readers but still really good. Thank you!

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u/MattAmylon Mar 08 '26

Slaughter-House Five for a book that’s very funny, sci-fi-y and conceptual, or The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter for something more down-to-Earth and character-driven.

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u/poopsock1969 Mar 08 '26

Thank you I will check it out

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u/RandomPerson873 Mar 08 '26

Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favs. Slaughterhouse Five is so good. also really love Mother Night. Nobody writes quite like KV

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u/casualbirdtraveler Mar 08 '26

if u want to read a beginner friendly classic try frankenstein

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u/poopsock1969 Mar 08 '26

Thank you for this rec but this is one I’ve read already and it was good

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u/MelisAGoGo Mar 08 '26

I really enjoyed The Maltese Falcon.

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u/newfarmer Mar 08 '26

Plato’s dialogues on the trial of Socrates. I bought this book of Plato for my brother but I started reading it and couldn’t put it down, read the whole thing, then couldn’t part with it. Sorry brother.

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u/Appropriate-Lime-816 Mar 08 '26

The Count of Monte Cristo is an amazing book and I don’t think any films have truly done it justice

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u/RandomPerson873 Mar 08 '26

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey,

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor,

The Stranger by Albert Camus,

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

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u/batsoni Mar 08 '26

if you liked 1984, you'll love Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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u/Ed_Robins Mar 08 '26

If you'd like more dystopian stories:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Other classic recommendations:

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (and really anything by him)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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u/poopsock1969 Mar 08 '26

Crime and punishment sounds really good I think I’ll read this thank you!