<p>Summer is coming to a close, and i'm getting worried that I haven't read anything uhh educational. Can anyone recommended me good books/ books that you must read(for class or whatever) in high school? I will be a sophomore this year, and so far the only book i managed to read this summer was Things fall apart.</p>
<p>Here are 10 books that I have read (some for school and some on my own) that I would recommend. A lot of these are really cliche "good literature" reads, but I found them all to be excellent books. </p>
<ol>
<li>Brave New World - Aldous Huxley</li>
<li>The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien </li>
<li>1984 - George Orwell</li>
<li>Animal Farm - George Orwell</li>
<li>A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess</li>
<li>The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger</li>
<li>Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck </li>
<li>All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy</li>
<li>Atonement - Ian McEwan</li>
<li>Night - Elie Wiesel</li>
</ol>
<p>Read Harry Potter...sparknote everything else...</p>
<p>1984, The Great Gatsby, Catcher In The Rye are typically among the most popular "academic" reads.</p>
<p>the communist manifesto</p>
<p>war and peace</p>
<p>yes Night is a must-read, along with 1984, Brave New World, Invisible Man, The Chosen, Jane Eyre (if you like romantic cheese), Wuthering Heights, King Lear (Shakespeare)</p>
<p>All of the following are great suggestions but my I actually insert some of my own including: </p>
<p>Anthem, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy or for that fact anything from Tolstoy
If you have the time read everything and anything from Dostoevsky as well, and An Invitation to a Beheading, great reads.</p>
<p>As you can see my literary interest lies within Russian or Russian born authors.</p>
<p>we had to read jane eyre for freshman honors english.. WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.. sorry for those who liked it .. it was a total boree. Catcher In The Rye is verry good .. same with The Great Gatsby. & Brave New World was.. well interesting.</p>
<p>ah yes, yoshi, Ayn Rand is quite good.</p>
<p>I recommend reading Crime and Punishment, its an amazing book.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment has multiple translations. Which translator do you recommend?</p>
<p>I think just good literature and you'll be fine. Personally my favorite under that heading are:
War and Peace
Charles dickens (anything by him)
Jane Austen (same)
To kill a mocking bird
The oddessy
The Illiad
but there are plenty, as suggested earlier, BTW i <3 Jane Eyre, along with Wuthering Heights , i guess they are my kind of books??
hehe</p>
<p>Constance Garnett is the traditional Dostoevsky translator.</p>
<p>animal farm was dissapointing imo, and though its message maybe hs lvl, i read it in the 8th grade with no difficulty so if u want to enhance ur vocab animal farm is not for u</p>
<p>^^^the point of reading books is to improve your vocabulary?</p>
<p>I read Animal Farm in 6th grade and again in 9th grade, and I never want to think about it again. I like more uplifting reading material, I guess I could say to put it simply.</p>
<p>On the other hand, try Lorna Doone, by RD Blackmore. It's not one you see on lists very often, I don't think, but I'm reading it right now and enjoying it a lot.</p>
<p>E. Rutherford's Sarum. Fascinating: the interwoven stories of several families in England from the very beginning of human settlement of the British Isles to modern day. </p>
<p>A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin, is an excellent historical novel that I have loved dearly since I first read it. It was first published in 1992 or thereabouts, so it's not "literature" in the sense that it's a classic, but so what? :p</p>
<p>Well alot of people suggest reading books to improve your sat verbal. Either way i didn't like it so much.</p>
<p>I absolutely hated Animal Farm too. If you want to read an Orwell, 1984 would be a much better choice/</p>
<p>The World is Flat, I cannot stress more enough, is an EXTREMELY valued novel that will totally change your perspective of our world and societies.</p>