<p>As you all know, summer is officially here and accompanying it is loads of free time. I was wondering if you guys had any good book recommendations for me. I have a long plane ride coming up, so I’d like to take a few books with me, but I don’t know what.</p>
<p>Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (it has my CC namesake in it!)
Kartography by Kamila Shamsie</p>
<p>anything by haruki murakami.. specifically norwegian wood and the wind-up bird chronicle</p>
<p>Things Fall Apart ~chinua achebe
Taras Bulba ~Nikolay Gogol' (might be impossibly hard to read in english; i think it only took like 200 years for them to come up with a translation)
any bodybuilding book by arnold schwartzenegger</p>
<p>Brave New World - Aldous Huxley</p>
<p>(or The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster if you wanna read an awesome kids book)</p>
<p>Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides (who happens to be a brown alum as well, so all the more relevant to this board)</p>
<p>House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski</p>
<p>the most bizarre and incredible read/experience you will ever have.</p>
<p>Definitely SnowCrash, by Neal Stephenson. Wow is that a fun book!</p>
<p>The Master and Margherita by Mixhail Bulgakov</p>
<p>High-Rise by JG Ballard
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garc</p>
<p>harry potter</p>
<p>I second Harry Potter.</p>
<p>And any of Ayn Rand's books (which will last you more than any plane ride, I can assure you), most specifically "The Fountainhead." Not a "fun" book, per se, but excellent.</p>
<p>harry potter BOOK 6...20 more days!!!</p>
<p>and i second 100 yrs of solitude :)</p>
<p>edit: ooohh, beat to the HP recommendation...good work SATs Suck (also, on your sn lol)</p>
<p>East of Eden by John Steinbeck, especially if you're into the whole biblical allegory thing. Also, I really enjoyed A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, which gives sheltered, middle class white males like me an opportunity to broaden one's horizons..</p>
<p>I just started Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand today. It's kind of slow-going so far, I hope it picks up as I progress...</p>
<p>Has anyone read The Human Stain by Phillip Roth? I want to know if it's just slow at the beginning, or if the whole book is like that.</p>
<p>If you haven't read it, try Lolita by Nabokov. Wonderful book.</p>
<p>"Discipline and Punish" Michel Foucault- have fun with the intro</p>
<p>The Kite Runner</p>
<p>Life of Pi by Yann Martel.</p>
<p>Tortilla Curtain is a great read. My S is liking the Historian as well.</p>