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.

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“These 50 short, enticing novels are able to be read in one day” from Flavorwire.com.

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
6. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
7. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
9. The Stranger by Albert Camus
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
11. Speedboat by Renata Adler
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
14. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
15. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
16. Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
17. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
18. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
19. The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovch
20. Sula by Toni Morrison
21. Ghosts by Cesar Aira
22. How to Get Into the Twin Palms by Karolina
23. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
24. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
25. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
26. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
27. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
28. The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon
29. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
30. Candid by Voltaire
31. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
32. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
33. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
35. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
36. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
37. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
38. Cheri by Colette
39. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
40. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
41. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
42. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
43. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
44. Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
45. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
46. We the Animals by Justin Torres
47. Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim
48. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
49. The King by Donald Barthelme
50. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
51. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
52. Woman in the Dark by Dashiell Hammett
53. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan

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“The 40 best film adaptations of a book” from the Shortlist Magazine

1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
5. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
6. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
7. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
8. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
10. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
11. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
12. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
13. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
14. Empire of the Sun by J. B. Ballard
15. The 39 Steps by John Buchan
16. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
17. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
18. The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro
19. Goodfellas (Wiseguy) by Nicolas Pileggi
20. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
21. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
22. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
23. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
24. The Shining by Stephen King
25. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
26. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
27. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
28. Jackie Brown by Elmore Leonard
29. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
30. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
31. True Grit by Charles Portis
32. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
33. The Sheep-Pig (Babe) by Dick King-Smith
34. Different Seasons (Stand by Me) by Stephen King
35. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
36. Kes: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
37. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick
38. Don’t Look Now: stories (Rebecca) by Daphne du Maurier
39. Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
40. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

“The 10 greatest books of all-time” from Time Magazine

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
8. Middlemarch by George Eliot
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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