Not Your School’s Reading List 3: Fiction for the Ages

This week’s entries include fictional stories with timeless themes and insight into reality, in addition to being enjoyable tales in their own right. - Intellectual Takeout
Read the previous list here.

1. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. 1899.

“From humble beginnings as the son of a dissident in Poland, to a life of adventure on the far corners of the globe, to at last a dignified position as an elder statesman of the English literary community, Conrad’s personal story is as engaging as his writing. … His incredible stories and the characters in them captured the human condition with a degree technical and artistic perfection often imitated but never full captured again.”

2. Norman Mailer. The Naked and the Dead. 1948.

“Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. … Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.”

3. Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. 1953...