Is there a way to learn to appreciate literature more?

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I've read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, The Plague by Albert Camus, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck just recently and I don't find them 'anything special'. I mean, sure, I enjoyed most of them but I don't consider them that great, and I don't understand all the praise given towards those books.
Also, I clearly understood them.

I would just like to appreciate reading those classic books more.
I'm planning to move onto books by Kurt Vonnegut and the like as well.
What are your thoughts?
Do you think I'm reading the 'wrong' type of books?

I'm 16 and consider myself relatively intellectual.

Thanks in advance! Really appreciate your thoughts.
 
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