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"Evolve" can be a loaded term, as people tend to see it as moving toward some higher state as opposed to just adapting to changing circumstances over time. Still, there are going to be works you can't get much out of until you have the life experience and/or prior reading to put them in context. Other works, once you can see them in context (influences, contemporaries, philosophical or political underpinnings) there's just not much to them, even if they seemed novel before you knew where they came from, or what other people have done with the same source material.
Hopefully, everything you read broadens your experience at least a little bit, and it's only natural that certain authors or whole genres will get checked off your list as "been there, done that," while others will lead you into territory you never knew existed.
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