Why Read Novels Reading novels make our life more vividly. Here are my thoughts. From stories, we experience the world we could have never experienced. In that world, which is away from our daily life, we find something we fully sympathize with. And our understanding of being extended. Then, we recognize ourselves as an individual of human history. Some people might think the past is useless because the reality is always changing. But, we can find the same destiny in their life which existed in the past. Sometimes life is beautiful and affluent, but sometimes life is miserable and pitiful. Our understanding of when life would be like that or not is fully improved by going through reading novels.