Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)<p>Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)<p>The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Zindel)<p>The Things They Carried (Tim O&#x27; Brien)<p>This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)<p>Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
<i>Essentially a children&#x27;s sci-fi novel, but it doesn&#x27;t read that way.<p>A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)
</i>My personal favorite (along with his short stories, which I highly recommend), but if it&#x27;s your first time reading Hemingway, might be better to go with The Sun Also Rises.<p>Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)<p>On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
*One of my personal favorites, but most people either love or hate it, so maybe save this towards the end.<p>On my own reading list:<p>Speedboat (Renata Adler)<p>Money (Martin Amis)<p>Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)