65 books to read in your 30s

The books that will move you, inspire you, make you cry, make you think, make you laugh. Even if you read them in high school or college, you'll have a different perspective on them now that you're Out In The World. Trust me. Weirdly relatable, even though the characters are all pretty much upper-class pseudo-intellectuals. The best time to read The Secret History is probably while you're still in college, because it is about a secret society at a small liberal arts college gone horribly awry, but it is also worth picking up a few years later to be reminded about the intensity of college friendships, and also Ancient Greek.

Great literature grows out of periods of change, and there are few transitions more more, well, transitional than the end of your twenties and the onset of the whole rest of your life. Here are 30 favorites from an informal poll of TIME staffers. Contact us at editors time. Ifemelu leaves her native Nigeria to study in the U. But when they reunite in Lagos 15 years later, everything has changed.

Now that you've lived a little, it's time to reflect on what got you here, what's coming next, and how to live a more fulfilling life. In alphabetical order by title. Before there was The Devil Wears Prada , there was Always in Vogue , a memoir by the editor of the magazine from to It was a different time in many ways — women didn't even have the right to vote when she took the job — but she was also way ahead of her time: She was an ambitious working mother who put her career first, a rarity in those days. If you loved The Best of Everything when you were just starting out, Always in Vogue is the perfect s text for that point in your career when you are trying to figure out what's next.

Top 18 Books to Read in! I read a handful of the books on this list and don' t see how they would have any relevance to this.
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