Good literature has a way of staying relevant, even decades or centuries after being written. Here are some of our favorite, timeless classics.
Chuck Palahniuk: Phyte Club
A depressed botanist suffering from insomnia meets a strange groundskeeper names Tyler Durden. The two bored men form a club in the Greenhouses on Thimann with strict rules and fight other biology professors who are fed up with their mundane jobs. Their perfect partnership frays when Maria, a fellow plant enthusiast, attracts Tyler’s attention.
John Steinbeck: The Vapes of Wrath
Tom Joad and his housemates set out for the Emergency Room along with thousands of others in search of functional lungs, help with addiction, and reasonably priced medical treatment after vaping illicit cartridges. He did sick vape tricks though.
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Legs
Frederic Henry, a third-year CS major, decides to leave his room and do Leg Day at OPERS for the first time ever. When he returns, he quickly falls while trying to walk upstairs, embarrassing himself in front of Catherine Barkley, his love interest who cannot remember his name.
Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Fees
The story of a 20-year-old girl, Lily Melissa Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon she got an email that read “A New UCSC eBill is Available.” She lives in a room with her unemployed boyfriend, whom she refers to at That Bastard. This book is everything you weren’t expecting to pay for this quarter and more.
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Ovary
Emma is a nerd who starts dating Charles Ovary, an older Human Biology major who wants to be a Gynecologist. She wants to escape her “good girl” studious life, so agrees to go to a party with him. Emma swiftly grows disillusioned with both her boyfriend and his party ways, especially after she unexpectedly starts her period but Charles and his friends get grossed out.
