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If I had to choose one - Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse) As a teen I also remember: - Demian (Hesse) classic coming of age story - Siddhartha (Hesse) - On the Penal Colony (Kafka) - Rashomon (Akutagawa) - In a Grove (Akutagawa) - The Grand Inquisitor (Dostoevsky) - Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky) - Nausea (Sartre) As a tween: - Every single Harry Potter book - LOTR - Also not a novel but I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion (the whole series and the movie and I remember being really drawn to how wild it was compared to anything else I’d ever seen) In Hesse’s Demian, Demian talks about living a comfortable life in a “World of Light” as a child, and he sees the outside world of darkness. Similarly, Siddhartha starts out comfortably but must venture into the outside world full of darkness. Maybe this coming of age idea is what Hesse has a lot in his novels, but it resonated with me a lot at the time. I remember feeling it deeply. And the other novels I read that I listed here are still great too
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Great answer, Narcissus and Goldmund was also a favorite of mine as a late teen, there’s something about the surging Apollonian and Dionysian urges at that time of life that it just completely nails
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Agreed. I haven’t read Hesse a lot since tbh but Hesse and many of his books esp the ones I listed above are search for meaning, search for ones place in the universe, and it just fits that time / the Apollonian & Dionysian teenage years really well
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