Loving Donnie Darko and laughing at Twilight... well, that sounds like something I'd do
So with that in mind, some of my fave books at 17 were:
- Pretty much anything by Stephen King, but especially the Dark Tower series and short story collections (The Mist is still one of my favorite short stories)
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (short story)
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandana
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- You May Plow Here by Sara Brooks (edited by Thordis Simonsen)
- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (short story collection that I recently read)
and maybe introduce her to the movie Equilibrium - it's underrated in my opinion
Less tragic, but still beloved by me:
- Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (first in the Wheel of Time series)
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card