The website, InformationIsBeautiful.net put together the infographic below listing novels that all well-rounded adults should have read. Reading the classics brings increasing benefits over time. Here are a few.
- Reading classics makes you better at thinking, because they show complex problems and force you to follow cause and effect instead of simple good-guy/bad-guy stories.
- They improve how you speak and write, since great authors use clear, powerful language that trains your brain to communicate better.
- They teach life lessons without preaching, showing how pride, fear, courage, laziness, and responsibility actually play out in real life.
- They help you understand people, because the characters feel real and show how humans act under pressure, temptation, or hardship.
- They build mental toughness, because finishing challenging books trains focus, patience, and the ability to handle difficult ideas without quitting.
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For a similar list for non-fiction books, see my post: American Non-Fiction Books Worth Reading
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* Header image: Young Man Reading by Candlelight by Matthias Stom (1615-1649)
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