Reading Personality Results: The Inspiration Seeker

Inspiration seeker? I would imagine you’re trying to “be the good you want to see in the world”? Books inspire you and give you hope and ideas, right? The open your world perspective so you can act according to civility, tolerance, and understanding. You probably buy your books, too, so you can share and re-read these timeless books that help you understand what you normally wouldn’t. I applaud you in your efforts to better understand the world and yourself. Maybe these books below can help you in your endeavor.

Not sure of your reading personality? Take the quiz below.

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“These are considered the 30 books every adult should read before they die” from Museums, Libraries, and Archives Society

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Bible
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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“The 20 young adult novels that every actual adult should read” from Flavorwire

• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Dead to Me by Mary McCoy
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
• Unteachable by Leah Raeder
• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Sabriel by Garth Nix
• Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Alire Saenz
• All the Rage by Courtney Summers
• The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Jellicoe Road by Melissa Marchetta
• Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
• The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd

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