QOTD: What books to read

[W]e ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? ... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

-- Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak

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