Where to start with classic literature & tips for beginners 📒 How to start reading classics

Yeah, I think Brave New World is really a good place to start. It's super accessible, super easy reads, so smoothly. The sentence structure is like very simple, very blunt.

I read this last year. It was one of my favorite books of 2020 and I seriously think like this is just such a beautiful place to start.

This book's really good at defining and outlining people's relationships to each other and how much gets misunderstood between people, what life really looks like. Yeah, I think Ethan Frome is just really, really good at relationships.

And then I grew up a little bit and I realized how cool this book is, and just how much I was into it and into the ideas and into the plot and how brilliant Mary Shelley is and all of the kind of science and the sci-fi and religion that went into this book as well. And now it's like a favorite classic.

Next up we have Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Also one of my favorite books of 2020. I just adored this.

First of all, Kawabata's writing is so blunt, so precise, so to the point. You aren't going to get those run-on sentences. You aren't going to get huge words that you don't know.

But then when I read it last year as well for the first time, it's now one of my favorite books of all time. That's The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

It's just like really good fun, and Kenneth Grahame's writing is just so cozy. It'll make you feel like you're just at home. Like you want to get so cozy.