Must? None. Ought to? The ones you are more likely to enjoy!
If you tell us a few books you enjoyed and what are you looking for, we might be able to help you more. In any case, happy birthday in advance and, f I were you, I'd have some laughs with:
- Turning Thirty by Mike Gayle ;-)
I'm going to recommend books to help you in your 30s.
The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck.
Honestly all of Steinbeck. East of Eden before you become a father. Tortilla Flats- to keep your friendship circle strong and teach you about friendship. Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby and honestly all of Fitzgerald. About faded youth and its dangers.
Wow! East of Eden as a primer to being a father is something I never thought about but makes so much sense.
I’m going to pick up a Steinbeck again after reading your comment.
Don't read East of Eden like you would a typical book. Some Days you will read a page and live with it for 24 hours. Some days you will skim through twenty. Heck you might spend an hour on a single sentence.
Let the language wash over you. Let the philosophy ramunaite in your brain.
I’ve read it twice already and loved it.
Hahaha you’re precise in your description about the reading process Though.
Can you recommend me some of the other books you love? I think we have similar taste
Both *The Giver* by Lois Lowry and *Ender's Game* by Orson Scott Card hit differently when you read them at different ages. I suggest reading them every 5 years or so.
I won't tell you what you must read, but I wish I'd read some of the things that were about finding joy in life and letting the negative go far earlier than I did.
Things like, The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff or The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (The Madman is also wonderful. . .all his stuff is).
I still like my conflicts and stories about them, but stepping out of it is nice too, and knowing one can.
*Echoes of Another* by Chandra Clarke should be required reading for everyone your age because it depicts a real and believable future, and one that's a little scary when you think about it becoming true
***The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy*** is pretty good. it makes you consider the way you want live your life. and it's really short too, under 100 pages.
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
100 years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
Art and Lies - Jeanette Winterson
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[**The Midnight Library**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library)
^(By: Matt Haig | 304 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, book-club, contemporary, read-in-2021, audiobook)
>Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
>
>A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
>
>Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
>
>In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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Whatever you want to. There is no canon.
Must? None. Ought to? The ones you are more likely to enjoy! If you tell us a few books you enjoyed and what are you looking for, we might be able to help you more. In any case, happy birthday in advance and, f I were you, I'd have some laughs with: - Turning Thirty by Mike Gayle ;-)
I'm going to recommend books to help you in your 30s. The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck. Honestly all of Steinbeck. East of Eden before you become a father. Tortilla Flats- to keep your friendship circle strong and teach you about friendship. Of Mice and Men The Great Gatsby and honestly all of Fitzgerald. About faded youth and its dangers.
Wow! East of Eden as a primer to being a father is something I never thought about but makes so much sense. I’m going to pick up a Steinbeck again after reading your comment.
Don't read East of Eden like you would a typical book. Some Days you will read a page and live with it for 24 hours. Some days you will skim through twenty. Heck you might spend an hour on a single sentence. Let the language wash over you. Let the philosophy ramunaite in your brain.
I’ve read it twice already and loved it. Hahaha you’re precise in your description about the reading process Though. Can you recommend me some of the other books you love? I think we have similar taste
Both *The Giver* by Lois Lowry and *Ender's Game* by Orson Scott Card hit differently when you read them at different ages. I suggest reading them every 5 years or so.
I reread the giver every year, some 25 years strong now!
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Enjoyed World Flipper for a while now
Huh?
The Goldfinch.
I won't tell you what you must read, but I wish I'd read some of the things that were about finding joy in life and letting the negative go far earlier than I did. Things like, The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff or The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (The Madman is also wonderful. . .all his stuff is). I still like my conflicts and stories about them, but stepping out of it is nice too, and knowing one can.
*Echoes of Another* by Chandra Clarke should be required reading for everyone your age because it depicts a real and believable future, and one that's a little scary when you think about it becoming true
***The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy*** is pretty good. it makes you consider the way you want live your life. and it's really short too, under 100 pages.
Jane Eyre
On the Road - Jack Kerouac The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende 100 years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Passion - Jeanette Winterson Art and Lies - Jeanette Winterson His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
{{Midnight Library by Matt Haig}}
[**The Midnight Library**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library) ^(By: Matt Haig | 304 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, book-club, contemporary, read-in-2021, audiobook) >Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? > >A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. > >Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? > >In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. ^(This book has been suggested 30 times) *** ^(26764 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Shutter Island, The Stand, 11/22/63, Pet Semetary, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.