If you want to be the most uninteresting form of interesting possible:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

If you want to seem interesting to male Creative Writing MFAs:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

If you want to seem interesting to female Creative Writing MFAs:

The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath

If you want your only-white friends to know you didn’t forget “everything that happened last summer”:

How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

If you never got over the weird crush you had on your English teacher in middle school and you hope maybe today is the day you run into her:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

If you really want to throw people off your scent:

Clown Training: A Practical Guide by Jon Davison