<p>Malcolm X made me really rethink some race issues. It didn’t change my life or anything, but parts were eye-opening. (Other parts put me to sleep, but that may just be due to the fact that I have not been on a normal sleeping schedule since June.)</p>
<p>Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, esp. since the year I read it was the year no one would talk to me lol. All of her other books are amazing: Twisted, Prom, and Catalyst were AMAZING and Fever 1796 (or whatever the year was) was OK but not as good as the others.
Night by Elie Wiesel is good, but definitely not for the faint of heart.
Grapes of Wrath is slow to read, but the language techniques used make it very powerful if you appreciate that kind of thing (AP English nerd me lol)</p>
<p>I second Malcolm X and Night, also Pride & Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Romeo & Juliet, The Kite Runner, Othello, and Hardball by Chris Matthews were knowledgeable.</p>
<p>Catch-22 (look at my username and location)</p>
<p>All Quiet on the Western Front</p>
<p>Fahrenheit-451 </p>
<p>And even though it doesn’t fit in with the OP’s constraints, Harry Potter = My childhood</p>
<p>Top three:</p>
<p>Ulysses (Joyce)
A Moveable Feast (Hemingway)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)</p>
<p>1984
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Grapes of Wrath</p>
<p>The Count of Monte Cristo (though I only read the abridged version)
Soldier X</p>
<p>Also Les Miserables</p>
<p>Big fan of Brave New World by Huxley.</p>
<p>Also enjoyed: The Kite Runner
Night
Wuthering Heights
The Jungle
Oliver Twist
Slaughterhouse 5</p>
<p>What is the What by Dave Eggers!!</p>
<p>just finished reading it and it really pulled at my heartstrings. conflict in Africa is too often brushed off because it’s so unfamiliar to us- it’s too far away, too abstract, its origins are too vague. but reading this really humanizes that and i was immediately ashamed of my complacency and my US citizenship and my greed and nothing is more humbling than this book.</p>
<p>^ my favorite dr. seuss is “the sleep book!”</p>
<p>Clifford the Big Red Dog…jk
i really liked Brave New World, Nectar in a Sieve, and Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>Whoever says Grapes of Wrath is BS!</p>
<p>Best books ever:
Scarlet Letter, Crucible, Great Gatsby, and The Inferno</p>
<p>to haikumarukuchan:
those books are hella good in spanish! i havent read them in english</p>
<p>-Jane Eyre
-Rebecca
-A Tale of Two Cities
-Harry Potter (childish, I know)
-Affluenza
**-we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families- also takes the prize for longest title ever. truly shook up my world for a while.</p>
<p>anything by chuck palahniuk</p>
<p>i heard song of solomon was an awesome book</p>
<p>The Road…</p>
<p>I really read minimally, but like a few on the top of my head that I actually that were decent (I’m going to stick to classics, and not count the couple of gaming/computer/other obscure stuff I"ve read) :</p>
<p>-Every single one of the pokemon series.
-Count of Monte Cristo (which is amazing, since I normally don’t touch books 1/2 the size of this, but oh well.)
-Peter Pan
-Utopia</p>
<p>I hope song of solomon is a good book. I think were going to have to read that for my AP lang class this year…</p>
<p>That, and House of Leaves… any input?</p>