I've been reading the books my daughter brought home for her summer reading list. So far I've read Animal Farm, (hated the ending), and The Road, (loved it). She also has Catcher in the Rye and The Invisible Man. I work in the laundry dept at the local nursing home, evening shift, and I have a couple hours of down time most nights, great for reading. I think I'll read Catcher next.
Those are all great books! You will LOVE Catcher! Any book Cormac McCarthy writes is wonderful, one of the few authors where I have to look up maybe 2 or 3 words each chapter, then go back and re-read. It is very rich and compelling prose by a master wordsmith. Good on you! You'l LOVE talking to your daughter about them too.
if you listen to audible books you might be able to listen for your whole shift.
Joseph Andrews changed my life - it deals with affectation.
Try the Rainbow, the Awakening, O’ Pioneers , The Sad Cafe or Desert Solitaire
Do the kids ever get to read any foreigner writers? The leader of our book club (she is a librarian) asked us to suggest titles / writers. I gave to her Borges, Cortázar, Lope de Vega, Pérez Galdós, Croning and few others. She didn't know who Borges, Cortázar and Rosario Ferré were. Sadly amazing.
@SouthernHell Is not a matter of "newer" but different stuff. Do they read Shakespeare, Moliere, Cervantes, Cela, Berceo, Joyce, Dumas, Rulfo.....?
@SouthernHell No to read ""Don Quijote"" (Cervantes) is beyond all words.