<p>I know that most of us are usually overwhelmed with reading material for our college courses, but I still try to find time for leisure reading. So I am calling on my fellow CCers to ask if anyone can recommend any must read books. I just finished Atul Gawande's book "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" which was amazing! Thanks all.</p>
<p>I like this thread already. I’m reading “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac right now. It’s pretty good. (it’s fiction, and it’s about a man’s travels through the U.S. in the 50’s)</p>
<p>My English literature teacher is giving us a summer reading list within the next two weeks…xD. Currently, I’m just reading some Japanese novels…^^</p>
<p>Just a footnote… Could everyone please give the title and author of the book as well as the category/subject.</p>
<p>Fountainhead-Ayn Rand. Philosophy of objectivism in novel form.
Word to the wise–read it with “a grain of salt” or the philosophy can consume you.</p>
<p>Peter Pan<----</p>
<p>deadeye dick by kurt vonnegut
novel
</p>
<p>karol! On the Road is on my summer book list! </p>
<p>I am so excited to be able to read for fun!!!</p>
<p>And… I love this thread. Good topic!</p>
<p>oh cool! I have about 40 pages left and I’m really enjoying it. Oh and I made a mistake, it takes place in the late forties.</p>
<p>“Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It” By Zachary Karabell, somewhat boring at some parts, but a lot of its a well of knowledge.</p>
<p>“The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?” By Ian Bremmer’s up next =D</p>
<p>Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche</p>
<p>The Bell Curve- Herrnstein and Murray</p>
<p>Good statistics refresher and an interesting (and very controversial) social science book.</p>
<p>I’m taking my 15 most favorite books to Agnes Scott this fall (don’t worry; I’ve arranged for storage space). They are all must-reads. </p>
<ol>
<li>The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann</li>
<li>The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut</li>
<li>The Danzig Trilogy (The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years) in one volume - Gunter Grass</li>
<li>Moby-Dick - Herman Melville</li>
<li>Demian - Herman Hesse </li>
<li>Survival in Auschwitz (known in Europe as If This is a Man) - Primo Levi</li>
<li>The Reawakening (known in Europe as The Truce) - Primo Levi</li>
<li>The Periodic Table - Primo Levi</li>
<li>The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene</li>
<li>The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver</li>
<li>Cat’s Eye - Maragaret Atwood</li>
<li>H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction </li>
<li>Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens</li>
<li>Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens</li>
<li>Great Expectations - Charles Dickens</li>
</ol>
<p>I couldn’t bear to leave them behind.</p>
<p>Jason Bourne Novels</p>
<p>Spy-related novels by David Morrell.</p>
<p>“The Job” by Douglas Kennedy. This book is soooooooo good!</p>
<p>what a circlejerk…</p>
<p>Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_(novel[/url])”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_(novel)</a>
All Quiet on the Western Front
Anything by Chekhov
I haven’t read One Hundred Years of Solitude yet, but I heard it was incredible</p>
<p>Bear with me; this is going to appear all over the place. Who would’ve thought that a few months of free time before starting grad school will gift me the most precious thing in the world? Time to read…</p>
<p>Reading now:
Tolstoy- The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
Michael Lewis- The Big Short
Steven Pinker- The Blank Slate</p>
<p>To-read list:
Mitchell- Cloud Atlas
Kurosawa- Something Like An Autobiography
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
The Gesualdo Hex</p>
<p>Recently Finished:
Pink- Drive
Christakis and Fowler: Connected</p>
<p>I f-n love Vonnegut.</p>
<p>Currently reading a very rare book called “The Rape of the Ape” by Allan Sherman. If I were to categorize it, I would need a hyphen and call it “semi-nonfiction”. It’s about the history of the sex revolution.</p>
<p>If you can make it through, War and Peace (Tolstoy) is wonderful.<br>
All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren is interesting, particularly if you enjoy politics
A Death in the Family by James Agee is sad, but consuming
I’m only partway through Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell, but so far it is a nice escape from college books.</p>
<p>I just finished these 2 novels. Both were enjoyable reads, with occasional laugh out loud moments. They also are quite thought provoking.
- Little Bee, by Chris Cleave, provides a British perspective on the issue of illegal immigration. It also deals with some disturbing practices in Nigeria that, I wager, most are unaware of.
- How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby examines an ordinary family who turn their middle class lives upside down in their efforts to be truly good people.</p>