Novellas or short novels to get my GF away from harry potter esque books

My GF is an average 21 year old. Here reading history includes works like harry potter, the outlander and shitwork such as those.

She wants to, and im trying to get her to, read better books but im at a lose when it comes to what I should recommend to her.

I want her to view reading as fun and not a chore. I dont wanna throw a tome at her and have her hate it because it feels like work.

Can anyone offer recommendations that would ease her into better lit? I was leaning towards shorter novels or novellas.

It doeskin have to be /litcore just some fun books a 21 year old girl with softer back-round in reading can enjoy.

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Any shows or movies she likes? Best to recommend something similar.

Sounds like she already views reading as fun and not a chore, and she has found books that she likes (Harry Potter and Outlander as you mentioned). Why do you want to change her? What books do you read?

Philip K Dick's short stories

i think that is pretty sad that you want to make your gf read the shit that you like to read even though you're probably a retarded midwit that lurks this god forsaken board, let people enjoy trash

Similar situation. My 19 year old second cousin (yes I do have sexual urges towards her) reads Harry Potter and I want to give her better taste. Hard mode: She's ESL. I was thinking of giving her The Picture of Dorian Gray. I don't know what else.

Extremely Reddit
Incredibly based. Consider Kafka.

If you can't answer questions other than phrases like reddit or based, you might have ADHD. Get some meds mate, sell em to friends even

I'll consider Kafka. I know women love Kafka. I'll look for an easy English translation of his short stories

Having a normie gf who likes harry potter is my dream

Sure, whatever makes you feel better Reddit

Seems like it's you who needs the self-soothing sperg :v)

having a gf is my dream

This post reeks of Reddit

I dont want to change her really. I want to recommend books that she might enjoy. She read True Grit the other day and enjoyed it.

Any recommendations would be great even if they are close or related to Harry Potter, hell that might be even better...

Might be stupid but Tao Lin's Shoplifting From American Apparel or Eeeee eee eeee. They're fun and short and easy. I think they also show a really odd side of lit. I didn't know you could publish something like them before I read em

Watch paperback dreams on YouTube. She reads a lot of girly shit that I'll probably never read but good for giving gifts to women.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. His gf won’t read shit unless she really wants to.

Fuck off Tao, your books are shit and my gf won't ran off to slob your cock after reading your crap like you're so deluded to think.

Red Dragon, it has it all;
>Baby's first prose reading level
>Homoerotic relationship between an old guy and his much younger protégé
>Mysteries that may as well have involved magic
>Way more popular film adaptation
It's got everything, pal

Sure thing, Reddit.

speaking to a girl is my dream.

Jane Eyre? its what gets most young girls into reading more high brow literature

The Count of Monte Cristo.

I dunno about Kafka, it's too ambiguous and girls hate ambiguity

Do you even talk to women? Kafka is one of the most popular literary writers among women.

Literally 90% of Kafka fans are women.

Or maybe something a little less intimidating?

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Try some mark twain

I don't talk to girls

>She's ESL
Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, Infinite Jest, Pale Fire, just give her the basics.
Btw you should consider marrying her

Give her the illustrated Earthsea collection.

Female Authors will probably be received more readily.
>The Need for Roots -- Simone Weil
>Book of Words -- Jenny Erpenbeck
Something Margaret Atwood (Poems/short stories particularly)
Vonnegut is turbo-accessible (Slaughterhouse, Cats, Sirens)

Longer
>Madame Bovary
>Anna Karenina
>Portrait of a Lady -- Henry James
Some Jane Austen, Emily Bronte

>Hard mode: She's ESL
Chromos -- Felipe Alfau. Best opening line(s)/pages, regarding the effect on ESL on non-native speaker's thought/worldview. Magical Realism as Noirish expatriot Spaniard's Ulysses.

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>Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, Infinite Jest, Pale Fire
Okay, I placed my order for all of those.
>Btw you should consider marrying her
I want to hug her and kiss her and marry her and impregnate her. I love her, dude.

heres a decent list i think would be good if you walk her through it correctly

1. great gatsby pretty easy read beautifull prose very vivid descriptions and of course relationship drama to cater to her feminine nature

2. LOLITA all pedo memes aside its a exceptional great read nabokov will properly enchant her within the first 5 pages plus the novel requires a second/third reading to catch everything so should help with memory retention, and prose absorbtion

3. don quixote a extremely fun read even in translation it is filled with such vitality it is a book of pure life and romanticism which she should probably like

4. hemingway short story collection/old man and the sea hemingway short story collection should be a fantastic start prose is easy enough to understand yet has enough tempting depth for her
to dig in to

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