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16 Books Everyone In Their Early Twenties Should Read

Books that will make you feel less alone away from home.

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1. Freshers by Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison

2. How to Be a Grown Up by Daisy Buchanan

3. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

4. Open by Gemma Cairney

5. How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb

6. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

7. Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna

8. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young by Kurt Vonnegut

9. It's All in Your Head by Rae Earl

10. Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

11. Things to Shout Out Loud at Parties by Markus Almond

12. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

13. You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

14. ...And a Happy New Year? by Holly Bourne

15. The Opposite of Loneliness by Miranda Keegan

16. Almost Adulting by Arden Rose