Aging is inevitable, but the quarter-life crisis — a deep, career-anxious worry that strikes sometime in your mid-20s — doesn't have to be.
Books can protect you.
Here are a handful of titles the librarians from the Reader Services department of the New York Public Library have shared to help people keep their sanity as they enter their fourth decade.
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"1984" by George Orwell
The high school classic is well worth a re-read, the librarians say.
People who are either just entering or getting settled into their careers are likely to relate a little differently to "1984" than they might have at 16 or 17.
It's a story of "power and brutality," the librarians say, and it should resonate as power structures start to become more visible in a newly-employed person's life.
"Adulthood Is a Myth" by Sarah Andersen
It's a nice idea, that entering your 20s means somehow graduating into adulthood. But as every young-at-heart baby boomer or senior will tell you, adulthood never really arrives.
At some point you just start doing "adult" things.
Sarah Andersen's collection of comics, "Adulthood Is a Myth," cleverly illustrates the small but nagging growing pains that many of us feel as adult life creeps closer.
"Attachments" by Rainbow Rowell
"Attachments" is a great primer for entering the strange, sometimes unforgiving seas of the working world.
It's about two friends sending each other email at work, while an IT guy monitors their messages and ends up falling for one of the women.
"Rowell and her characters truly get what it means to be out of college, growing up, and in a 'real' job for the first time," the librarians say. "Plus, you'll get an understanding of what all those Gen-Xers were going through around the turn of the millennium."
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