books you should force yourself to read but dont feel forced

Discover essential books you should push yourself to read—without feeling forced. This curated list highlights must-read titles that challenge and inspire, making growth feel natural.

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Choke

by Chuck Palahniuk

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious …
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Survivor

by Chuck Palahniuk

From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor. …
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Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

This underground classic first published in 1996 tells the darkly funny story of a god-forsaken man who discovers that his rage at living in a …
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Lullaby

by Chuck Palahniuk

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the …
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The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the …
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The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice

#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero …
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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to …
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A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to a Master Wizard.
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Invisible Monsters: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk

The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new …