The attitude of young people to reading in recent years is beginning to change in a positive way. Contribute to this gadgets that offer young people more convenient electronic versions of books. About what books young people are reading today and why the choice is based on them and will be discussed later.
What is the youth reading now?
The list of "Top 10 most popular books for young people" to date includes the following works:
1. Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
Roman Bulgakov has long become a classic of literature. The product is quite complex, but at the same time interesting due to the intertwining of a lot of literary genres. Attracts young people inherent in the story of a fantastic note, a love line and a lot of subtle satire.
2. Stephanie Meyer "Twilight. Saga"
A screened novel by a writer from America about love between a vampire and a simple girl has long won the recognition of even those young people who prefer not to read books. The popularity of the "saga" is largely due to a series of feature films.
3. Paulo Coelho "The Alchemist"
"Alchemist", however, like the rest of the works of the Brazilian writer, is full of philosophical concepts. The protagonist, in search of the possibility of realizing his own dream, wanders a lot and reflects on life and its meaning. The theme of the search for the meaning of being is actual and not only for the works of Coelho. It is she who is able to attract young people to reading, searching for the meaning of life.
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
The choice of this work by young people is more a tribute to fashion than an informed choice. However, the book is able to lure readers and those of them who could understand the essence of the philosophy of a person described in it, after reading repeatedly return to it. The book is noteworthy in that when it is re-read it is not the first time, a person discovers new facets and meanings that he did not understand before.
5. Janusz Wisniewski "Loneliness in the Network"
The novel attracts many youth representatives with the relevance of this topic in the modern world. Indirectly, the book makes it clear why young people read little: there was easy access to information, including about other people. However, having received such opportunities, a person still remains sometimes lonely, despite the "megabytes of flirting" and "sparks" that flash between Internet users.
6. Joanne Rowling "Harry Potter"
The story of a small wizard, fighting against evil, completely immerses the reader in a world of fantasy, magic and childhood. Great popularity was acquired not only by the book, but also based on her full-length paintings.
7. Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince"
The book fully reveals the theme of unused opportunities, the art of mutual understanding and loyalty, which a person must preserve for himself.
8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment"
Classics of literature about the student Raskolnikov, the image of which was opened by the Russian writer is very bright and lively.
9. Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the Wind"
The work of Margaret Mitchell was not only a novel about a couple in love and torment from the feelings experienced. The book has managed to absorb completely the image of the era in which events take place.
10. "The Diary of Anne Frank"
The diary of the Jewish girl Anne Frank, who was taken to a concentration camp in Amsterdam. She described in her notebooks all the horrors of the war and what had happened to her herself until the moment, the code tragically cut short her life. "The Diary of Anne Frank" became not only a bestseller, but also a reminder to all mankind of the value of peace between countries.