Reading Personality Results: The Escapist Reader
If you were labeled as an escapist reader, you’re probably the one who hits up 50% off Saturdays at Goodwill so you can leave their bookshelves lookin’ like they got robbed! Or, maybe that’s just me…Whatever. The point is, you’re probably cool with reading anything, as long as you can enjoy it. While you have your favorite genres and preferences, you’re flexible when the cover is that good–because you are enticed by covers (admit it). Anyway, if any of this is remotely relating to you, here are some books that may be right up your alley.
Not sure of your reading personality? Take the quiz below.

“These 50 short, enticing novels are able to be read in one day” from Flavorwire.com.
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Speedboat by Renata Adler
- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
- Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
- The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovch
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Ghosts by Cesar Aira
- How to Get Into the Twin Palms by Karolina
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Lover by Marguerite Duras
- The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Candid by Voltaire
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
- Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
- The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
- The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
- Cheri by Colette
- The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
- Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
- The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
- We the Animals by Justin Torres
- Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim
- Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
- The King by Donald Barthelme
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Woman in the Dark by Dashiell Hammett
- Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
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“The 40 best film adaptations of a book” from the Shortlist Magazine
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- Empire of the Sun by J. B. Ballard
- The 39 Steps by John Buchan
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro
- Goodfellas (Wiseguy) by Nicolas Pileggi
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
- L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
- The Shining by Stephen King
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
- Jackie Brown by Elmore Leonard
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
- The Sheep-Pig (Babe) by Dick King-Smith
- Different Seasons (Stand by Me) by Stephen King
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Kes: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick
- Don’t Look Now: stories (Rebecca) by Daphne du Maurier
- Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
“The 10 greatest books of all-time” from Time Magazine
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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