<p>Grapes of Wrath- pick six quotes and explain their significance to the book's plot, highlight, and annotate book
Secret Life of Bees- answer questions
5 Steps to a 5 (AP Lit)- read first two chapters</p>
<p>I guess this isn't much compared to what some of ya'll are doing!! But I plan on reading the books listed in 5 steps to a 5.</p>
<p>MANDATORY LIST:
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift</p>
<p>STUDENT CHOICE LIST (Read one from EACH sub list):</p>
<p>British and Canadian Novels
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness or Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
Robinson Crusoe or Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
The Mill on the Floss or Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding
The African Queen, by C.S. Forrester
A Passage to India or Howard's End, by E.M. Forster
The Spire, by William Golding
The Return of the Native or The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham
The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, by Michael Ondaatje
1984, by George Orwell
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
Vanity Fair, by William Thackeray
The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope
The Time Machine or War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf </p>
<p>World Novels
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, by J. Amado
Not of This Time, Not of This Place, by Y. Amichai
Pere Goriot, by H. Balzac
The Plague, by A. Camus
The Brothers Karamazov, by F. Dostoyevsky
Aura, by C. Fuentes
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by G. Garcia Marquez
The Tin Drum, by G. Grass
Hunger, by K. Hamsun
Steppenwolf, by H. Hesse
Snow Country, by Y. Kawabata
Zorba the Greek, by N. Kazantzakis
The Painted Bird , by J. Kosinski
Cairo Trilogy, by N. Mahfouz
Death in Venice, by T. Mann
The Betrothed, by A. Manzoni
The Wheel of Fortune, by A. Moravia
The Tale of Genji, by S. Murasaki
Dangerous Love, by Ben Okri
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy
Doctor Zivago, by B. Pasternak
Cry, the Beloved Country, by A. Paton
Joshua Then and Now, by M. Richler
The God of Small Things, by A. Roy
Meek Heritage, by F. Sillanpaa
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by A. Solzhenitsyn
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
Anna Karenina, by L. Tolstoy
Fathers and Sons, by I. Turgenev
The Devil's Advocate, by M. West
Nana, by E. Zola </p>
<p>World Drama
The Frogs or Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
The Captives, by Plautus
Mandragola, by N. Machiavelli
The Misanthrope, by J. Moliere
The School Scandal, by R. Sheridan
The Lady of the Camellias, by A. Dumas
Faust (Part I and II), by W. Goethe
Boris Godunov, by A. Pushkin
Cyrano de Bergerac, by E. Rostand
The Maid of Orleans, by F. Shiller
Miss Julie, by A. Strindberg
The Power of Darkness, by L. Tolstoy
The Importance of Being Earnest, by O. Wilde
Antigone, by J. Anouilh
Mother Courage and Her Children, by B. Brecht
The Three Sisters, by A. Chekhov
The Garden Party, by V. Havel
The Madwoman of Chaillot, by J. Giraudoux
Six Characters in Search of an Author, by L. Pirandello
The Playboy of the Western World, by J. Synge </p>
<p>Anyone have any suggestions as to what I should read?
And koolmaria139, which books are listed in 5 steps to a 5?</p>
<p>These are the ones I've read and would recommend--</p>
<p>British and Canadian Novels
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
1984, by George Orwell </p>
<p>World Novels
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by G. Garcia Marquez
Doctor Zivago, by B. Pasternak
Cry, the Beloved Country, by A. Paton </p>
<p>World Drama
Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
The Importance of Being Earnest, by O. Wilde </p>
<p>Crime and Punishment is the summer reading at my school for AP Lit. We read it once in the summer and then reread it together in class.</p>
<p>English: I love Tom Jones, Of Human Bondage (love Maugham, and has a great film too), and Mrs. Dalloway. Ivanhoe is very important ntoo. </p>
<p>World: Any of the german novelists (Grass, HESSE PARTICULARLY), One Hundred Years of Solitude, and God of Small Things. Arundhati Roy is an amazing writer, which she'd write more. Balzac is good too. Read him in en francais. </p>
<p>Drama: FAUST!!!! Faust is quintessential to recognizing...well, anything. It's a hugely popular allusion; Dorian Gray is based off of it. I also love Brecht.</p>
<p>Oedipus Rex
Jane Eyre
The Importance of Being Ernest
As You Like It
Hamlet
The Crystal Frontier
Interpreter of Maladies
The Conquest</p>
<p>The Invisible Man by Ellison
Beloved by Morrison
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Housekeeping by Robinson</p>
<p>I have to read:
*The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
*A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
*A Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
*Either: Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini or Pearl Diver - Jeff Talarigo
*One book by either Isabel Allende , Gabrielle Garcia Marques, or Amy Tan</p>
<p>Last summer we had to read two plays and write 3 journal entries on interesting scenes on each. The two plays were:</p>
<p>A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Antigone by Sophocles.</p>
<p>My bad that would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez.</p>
<p>I have no summer reading list, but I'm going to read:
100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anthem, and Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
and East of Eden, by Steinbeck</p>
<p>Some of you are lucky...
Others not, I have 4 (It was originally 5, but they docked one. YES!)
They are
Othello (done!)
Pride and Prejudice (working on..sorta..)
Heart of Darkness
Huck Finn</p>
<p>I'm currently on right now to avoid reading Pride and Prejudice...
I should get back to that, oh well.
We need to write a small essay about each one, and then one really big essay about how they share a common theme or something like a that.</p>
<p>Catch 22 (Already read it)
Great Expectations</p>
<p>Write an essay on the latter.</p>
<p>1) the Handmaid's Tale
2) The Grass is Singing
3) The color Purple
4) The Portait of the artist as a young man
5) As I lay dying (I wish he just died)
6) Harry Potter 7 </p>
<p>(jk jk, I wish though, about HP7 )</p>
<p>^ silent scholar is, you'll like Interpreter of Maladies. It's so good, and easy to read</p>
<p>I'm not in AP next year, but I'm reading their books for fun (along with my honours lvl summer reading) So here's my list:</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights<a href="God,%20do%20I%20despise%20this%20book">/b</a>
*Tristan and Isolde
Pride and Prejudice<strong>*
Canterbury Tales*</strong>*
Beowulf****</p>
<p>******AP</p>
<p>I have 20+ books I'm reading this summer (the rest are just for fun). But that shouldn't be hard. This list includes HP7, On the Road, Slaughter-House Five, Shadow of the Giant<a href="The%20last%20book%20of%20the%20Ender's%20Game%20Series">/i</a>, *The Call of the Wild, Artemis Fowl<a href="the%20first%20book,%20and%20if%20I%20like%20it,%20the%20whole%20series">/i</a> and *Nickel & Dimed.</p>
<p>fast27: Really? Hmm, okay, I'll read that second after I finish The Importance of Being Earnest. Thanks for the information.</p>
<p>Here are the books listed in 5 Steps to a 5 that I plan to read (most of them have already been listed)
Classics (Bible, Iliad, Odyssey, Medea)
Candide
Gulliver's Travels
The Canterbury Tales
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Cherry Orchard
The Sun Also Rises
A Doll's House
Beowulf
The Decameron
Faust
Jane Eyre
Gargantua
Don Quixote
The American (Henry James)
The Awakening
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Octopus
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
The Jungle</p>
<p>The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene. That's it. However, I've got this huge-ass mother****ing project that goes along with it, involving exhaustingly extensive journal-keeping, article-collecting, poster-making, museum-visiting, etc...actually, I'm hoping to learn a lot from it, so it should be fun.</p>
<p>Stuff I'm reading just for me: a biography of John Adams, On the Road, HP 7, Persuasion, Catch-22, Shirly (by Charlotte Bronte), full Les Mis (I read the abridged version as a sophomore), a novel on german attemps to develop the bomb during WWII, finishing up Sylvia Plath's journals, The Red and the Black, Snow Country, Rites of Passage (William Golding), A Passage to India, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Twenty Years After (the 2nd musketeer novel), Grapes of Wrath, probably some stuff over middle east politics, re-reading my biology, physics, and chemistry college textbooks, more Dostoyevsky if I feel like it and/or have time, and a book on the history of Soviet gulags. </p>
<p>It should be fun.</p>
<p>D has to read In Country by Bobbie Mason and one "classic" of their choice</p>
<p>i have to read how to read literature like a proffessor( like everyone else on the board) and grapes of wrath. </p>
<p>there are a LOT of good books that ppl are reading.... othelle, jane eyre, huck finn, kite-runner,. poisonwood bible....</p>
<p>its wierd though how some ppl are reading stuff that other ppl read years ago.. like i read of mice and men in 8th grade, but it's on someone's list.....</p>