<p>i love reading.....can onyone tell some good books that they never read in school.......
please not no
...to kill mocking bird
...catcher in the rye
...animal farm
...stranger
...siddartha
...a doll's house
...the great gatsby
...a seperate piece
..romeo and juliet
..much to do about nothing
...bluest eye
...harry potter
...curious incident of a dog in the night time
...chronicles of a death foretold
also please specify the author and genre</p>
<p>native son, the lovely bones</p>
<p>gone with the wind - margret mitchell
prince of tides, lords of discipline, and the great santini - pat conroy
prague - arthur phillips
jurassic park, lost world
the family ( about charles manson )
go ask alice ( haha )
reading lolita in tehran
a 100 little hitlers
the stand, it
ghandi the autobiography</p>
<p>there are plenty more i just can't think of them.</p>
<p>I, Claudius
and the sequal Claudius, The God.
Both by Robert Graves, they are two of the greatest books I have ever read, and I went from not giving a dman about history to being really interested.
Also, a book that is on a lot of high school reading lists that I need to mention anyway (I originally read it outside of school) is Catch 22. This book is hilarious, you will laugh out loud many times when you read this. ABout two thirds of the way through, it gets serious, and by then you will be to engrossed to put it down.</p>
<p>What kind of books do you like?</p>
<p>I went through a lit-nerd phase last summer so I feel guilty reading non-classical works, haha. But here are some:
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande Really good insight into the field
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Looong [1000+ pages] but interesting with adventures pirates swordfights etc. Actually, all of his stuff is quality.
Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein - Okay, here's where we get into the non-intellectual reading, lol. But these are quite good: aristicratic environment, knowledge-hounding, well-structured, reason for everything, logical characters.
Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles - Deborah Chester More guilty pleasures but these are probably among my favorite books ever.
Ender Series - Orson Scott Card If there are actually people there who haven't read these I'm totally shocked.
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield Fictional account of Thermopylae that goes into Spartan training and battle and society and stuff.
Anything by Steven Pinker or Richard Dawkins - Sciencey stuff. Top recs go to The Blank Slate and The Selfish Gene, respectively.</p>
<p>l like horrors, action, adventure....non fiction......all types</p>
<p>Well, I happen to have a lot of favorite books, but here are a few:</p>
<p>Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Pretty much the best book I have ever read.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
and finally....
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson.</p>
<p>A couple good ones:</p>
<p>Bel Canto by Ann Patchett--novel
Equus by Peter Shaffer--play (dark)</p>
<p>YES!!! I agree with corranged....Bel Canto is by far the one of the best I've read thus far. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson is awesome too.</p>
<p>Lolita - Nabokov
On the Road - Kerouac
Anna Karinina - Tolstoy
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Slaughter House Five - Vonnegut</p>
<p>didn't see great gatsby on your no list. i read it on my own in 9th grade, and i'm reading it in class this year.</p>
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hmm i guess i gotta go and check that out..........especially coming from a xc girl</p>
<p>Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote is excellent. Any Capote is excellent.</p>
<p>well i gotta check that out definitely....coming from you.......i know you wont let me donw......i hope its not a crappy book</p>
<p>It isn't. It's my favorite book.</p>
<p>well i hope its not some girly one though.....like someone in my school mentioned me to read memoirs of geisha....and i was like NO!!!!!</p>
<p>Nah, it's not very girly. It isn't a love story, there's a mafia subplot, and all of the characters are rather antiheroic.</p>
<p>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley negative utopia)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (WWII novel, satire, very funny)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vega by Hunter S. Thompson (journalism sort of, drug culture)
The Beach by Alex Garland (uptopianish, very easy read, read it yesterday)
In Our Time by Ernest Hemmingway (short stories)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (beat literature)
1984 by George Orwell (negative utop)</p>
<p>All of these are books I read this year on my own time, for no reason. Most I've actually read just in the past three weeks.</p>
<p>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (WWII novel, satire, very funny)
1984 by George Orwell (negative utop)
those are def......i was gonna read em anyways</p>