anyone know of any EXTREMELY good books?

<p>The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
anything Vonnegut
House of Leaves by ???</p>

<p>any robin cook book is excellent</p>

<p>Rising Sun by Michael Crichton is not doctor related but is a great, light-novel read. Mystery elements plus action equals literary goodness.</p>

<p>my sister is reading some of vonneguts for english.</p>

<p>ne way i really like disclosure by michael cricthon. its a business thriller type, pretty interesting.</p>

<p>i'm able to appreciate JD salinger's "catcher in the rye" more after reading it, because i find that holden's observations about society are sad but true.</p>

<p>right now, i'm reading The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald. if you're anti-status quo like me, you'd have great respect for the book. it's good to read something that makes you angry.</p>

<p>rebel<em>by</em>choice, those are two of my all-time favorite books. :)</p>

<p>how about any historical fiction thats like the scarlet letter or the crucible? i love puritan stuff...salem witch trial stuff</p>

<p>Catcher in the Rye............J D Salinger......not everybody's cup of tea though</p>

<p>If you like science fiction, then you must read The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.</p>

<p>Another good (but sometimes sort of gruesome) one is A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. The story and the style are phenomenal. </p>

<p>And, if you're up for an intellectual (and more challenging) read, definitely check out Paradise Lost by Milton. I love that book.</p>

<p>PS - I just finished Da Vinci Code and I must say that it was a great book. I read it instead of studying for AP exams it was that good. I would definitely recommend it.</p>

<p>Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is a fantastic book. It won him a pulitzer prize. Its hilarious in a kind of depressing and intellectual way. Probably the funniest book I've ever read, excluding Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, which is another amazing book.</p>

<p>FLLV is awesome, nice choice. Anything by Hunter S. Thompson is great in general.</p>

<p>On a side note, were you at Coventry?</p>

<p>Catch-22</p>

<p>One of the best books I've ever read.</p>

<p>Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari</p>

<p>What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari</p>

<p>Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche</p>

<p>Discpine and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault</p>

<p>History of Sexuality Parts I, II, III by Michel Foucault</p>

<p>Lacan and the Political by Slavoj Zizek</p>

<p>If you like Doctor stuff, look no further than Robin Cook. Michael Crichton has some good stuff as well.</p>

<p>As for really great books, I like Steinbeck (especially Mice and Men and East of Eden) and Hemingway. Hemingway is a man's man.</p>

<p>Brave New World..</p>

<p>My name is Asher Lev - Potok
Struggle b/t genious and tradition stirs up some powerful emotions</p>

<p>Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Kundera</p>

<p>Look Homeward, Angel -- Wolfe</p>

<p>Housekeeping -- Robinson</p>

<p>Anna Karenina -- Tolstoy</p>

<p>Anything by Edith Wharton</p>

<p>My Antonia -- Willa Cather</p>

<p>D-M, Anna Karenina is an all-time favorite. I got so excited when I saw you recommended it!</p>

<p>Also,</p>

<p>--This Side of Paradise - another amazing Fitzgerald book, if you read Gatsby in school and are ready for something new
--Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
--The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James</p>

<p>round out my list. Hope you have found something you can sink into, JPF!</p>

<p>for my literature classes, i had a lot of stuff to read. about the only things i enjoyed were...</p>

<p>lysistrata - ?
frankenstein - mary shelley
sorrows of young werther - goethe
candide - voltaire (would make a great terry gilliam film)
pride and prejudice - jane austen
the importance of being earnest - oscar wilde
don quixote de la mancha - something cervantes</p>

<p>for regular stuff...
books by judy blume
the m.y.t.h. series by robert asprin
the fletch series by gregory mcdonald
and flowers for algernon by daniel keyes</p>

<p>heh. i'm not much of a reader. (though i'm a literature major...go figure)</p>

<p>ieatglue: no I wasn't an coventry. I wish I had been, but then again, I was in Alaska at Denali National Park, so it wasn't all bad. A lot of my friends went. It was like an hour from where I live. Did you go?</p>