<p>With the exception of all these books</p>
<p>Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison**
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce**
Hamlet, Shakespeare*
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James**
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
King Lear, Shakespeare*
Paradise Lost, John Milton (Excerpts)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1984, George Orwell
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka</p>
<p>What book should I read? I have to do an IRP (Independent Reading project) and I need to atleast pick three books. I LOVED James Joyce (I know, total weirdo, because everyone else hated it). I didn't really enjoy Invisible Man and we are reading Hamlet now, which is ok. </p>
<p>I enjoy mystery and politics and romance and a lot of epiphanies. :D</p>
<p>We do IRP in my AP Lit class too. The two books I’ve chosen so far are The Scarlet Letter and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. I enjoyed both 
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<p>I wanted to do The Scarlet Letter too, but my teacher said she hated it and I was super scared to pick it. I was surprised that she actually wanted us to NOT read something. </p>
<p>@Tarahific But thank you for your recommendations!</p>
<p>The Goldfinch by Donna Tarrt (very long but is the epitome of what you described)
The Kite Runner
And the Mountains Echoed
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Mar u kami
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare (my fave of his)</p>
<p>@overachiever The Scarlet Letter is beautiful, so I wouldn’t let anyone else’s opinion of it deter you if you really are interested. I would also suggest some works by Dickens (most notably A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, and any of the Shakespeare tragedies. </p>
<p>The Goldfinch is a good suggestion if you have time! Also The Secret History by the same author. If you like plays, check out Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.</p>
<p>I just thought I’d pop in to say that I just finished Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky and I LOVED IT! He also wrote Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamozov–all of which are classics and a thriller-ish vibe (except Notes, which is just a tragedy of sorts).</p>