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What books does your mom read /lit/?
It's my mom birthday soon and I want to buy her a fiction book and looking for inspiration or recommendations.
Doesn't need to be high brow or anything, but she's not into sappy romance shit or anything like that. She's just a normal woman in her 50s I guess. She's hardly an intellectual but she did an Arts degree back in the day so she's not retarded.
She has no particular interests I can discern (believe me I've tried, maybe I'm autistic?). I guess she likes East Asian culture if you need something to help you decide but any suggestion is appreciated.

Feel free to post any opinion you have on women and their reading habits since that might also help me make a decision.

>> No.16093585

My mom likes those world war 2 books like the nightingale and the zookeepers wife. But if your mom is smart,just get her Jane Austin or somethin

>> No.16093615

>>16093585
Thanks I'll look into those. Jane Austin might be a bit heady for her. The last thing she read and enjoyed was Hillbilly Elegy although I guess that's not fiction.

>> No.16093667

Has she read Paulo Coehlo?, if not try to get her one of his books

>> No.16093709

>>16093667
No she hasn't. Thanks for the recommendation.
I just read the Wikipedia for The Alchemist and I'm not sure if she will enjoy. Maybe it's just me being sexist but don't women enjoy books about #relatable things? The Alchemist seems like more of an "epic" that appeals to the male desire to have a great purpose/journey in life.
Again maybe I'm just being sexist.

>> No.16093757

>>16093574
My mom reads way more than me, mostly scifi and old russian literature

>> No.16093764

>>16093574
One of my mom’s favorite novels is The Awakening by Kate Chopin. She also loves several by Truman Capote, as well as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. She loves classic Japanese novels too by Soseki (Kokoro) and Mishima. She’s also read several by Nabokov, but felt that Lolita was his best work.

>> No.16093805

>>16093709
not at all, sexism based on previous experience works most of the time, also, try Little Prince and Heart (Amicis)

>> No.16093809

>>16093764
Your mom sounds smart. I would say she sounds smarter than mine but I could never dishonour my mother like that. Thanks for the recommendations though, particularly Kokoro, she might like that.
From the Wikipedia:
>exploring the friendship between a young man and an older man he calls "Sensei" (or teacher).
If I give my mom this book she's not going to think I'm trying to tell her I'm gay is she? She's liable to think that for reasons (I'm not ) and so any book that a worried mother could interpret as having homosexual undertones is immediately excluded. Lolita is out of the question for similar reasons.

>> No.16093828

>>16093805
Thanks. I will probably buy this one and read it and if I think she'll like it I'll pass it on to her.

>> No.16095134

>>16093574
My mom is reading white fragility. What do I do anons?

>> No.16095152
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>>16093574
the number one ladies detective agency series by alexander mccall smith
there is no woman in her 50s in the world that does not love them

>> No.16095157

Mary Higgins Clark

>> No.16095162

>>16093574
My mom reads crime thrillers and sometimes supernatural romance shit, but mostly crime thrillers. I don't know why she's so obsessed with that shit, she watches all those true crime shows and specials every week too and is always telling me about gruesome redneck murders and serial killers.

>> No.16095261

>>16093574

My mother (retired English teacher, not illiterate) loves The Far Pavillions by M.M.Kaye. It's set in 19th-century India so it's vaguely eastern I suppose. However, it might appeal much more to people from England than America.

>> No.16096133

>>16095152
>>16095157
>>16095261
All great suggestions. Glad I came back to check this thread.
Cheers boys.

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>>16093574
>She's hardly an intellectual
>but she did an Arts degree back in the day so she's not retarded.
Anon, I...
my mom fucking loves "The Girl on the Train"

>> No.16098634

mom bump