13 year old: Dune, Herbert, the institutions are bad, but you can trick them 16 : The stranger, Camus, you dont have to care about the world 17 : Les fleurs du mal, Baudelaire, women and cities are beautiful 18 : The golem, Meyrink.. cities are dreamlike at night 19 : Les nuits de Paris, Restif de la Bretonne, Paris in medieval time at night, was almost like it is in modern time, some things never changes 20 : The world according to Garp, Irving , there is so many randomness in the live of a guy, you should accept it 21 : A History of Eternity, Borges ; reality can be enhanced by fiction, or the other way around, or they just are the same (still my favorite) 22 : Less than zero, Ellis (it tickle the same spot as The Stranger, with more energy) 24 : La recherche du temps Perdu, Proust (funnier writer ever, just a lot to skip in between funny bits) 25 : Whatever , Houellebeck (same itch as The stanger, with a gloomer but somehow funnier approach) Nothing since then.. So it mean, I'm brain dead Beside Houellebeck, I read all of them twice. More for Herbert. And Way more for Borges
A Collection of Short Stories comprised of Jorge Luis Borges would be one of my first choices as well. Labyrinths in particular was what impacted me the most.