<p>If you're a sports nut like me, I'd reccomend these:</p>
<p>North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent
Ball Four by Jim Bouton</p>
<p>I have several more but these are my two favorite. If you want anymore suggestions just ask, I've read A LOT of books relating to sports.</p>
<p>Um...how about Chronicle of a Death Foretold?</p>
<p>if you like historical fiction, there is the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. They are really entertaining and I love them! Its a series of like 8 books, but each book can stand alone on its own.</p>
<p>Umm, The Rules of Attraction (really, reall funny by the way) and Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis are both amazing books about college. i'd recommend both, they also have corresponding films that are good. (but not nearly as good as the book).</p>
<p>Rosencrantz and Guilddenstern? Kind of a weird thing to read cause it's a play, and plus you must appreciate Hamlet to like sucha thing.</p>
<p>Brave New World is really good (and weird)</p>
<p>Also, Everyone Poops of course is a classic!</p>
<p>Brave New World is amazing</p>
<p>Freakanomics...Brief History of Time (have yet to read it, but next on my list), and Harry Potter is pretty much awesome.</p>
<p>Heh personally I thought Nausea was horribly boring ... </p>
<p>Brave New World is awesome though, as are the other political satires mentioned (Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, 1984, Handmaid's Tale ... all pretty easy reads, too.)</p>
<p>dharma bums</p>
<p>Middlesex- Eugenides
The Unbearable Lightness of being- kundera
On the road- kerouac
anything by gabriel garcia marquez
Shantaram- roberts
the color of water
my sister's keeper (duke summer reading, good book)
the fig eater
a tree grows in brooklyn
crime and punishment
5 people you meet in heaven
the pelican brief</p>
<p>Wait why does everyone like freakanomics? It's not even like a real book. I mean, it isn't a narrative really. It's more,like a collection of random facts, statistics and observations that are sometime(read: very rarely) intriguing. </p>
<p>Honestly is it reall a reveltion that people with ghetto or even ethnic-sounding names don't get hired as much? There are other topics in the book but they suck/ are silly too. It's boring people, I would not recommend it.</p>
<p>Guns, Germs, And Steel ( it actually falls into... anthropology... the development of civilization)</p>
<p>I second Memoirs of Geisha and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books or the ultimate addition)</p>
<p>Another great book is the french coming of age novel by Alain Fournier (called Les Grands Meaulnes in french) we read that in french and it was amazing and i know it's available in english somewhere. Another good read is The Alchemist. </p>
<p>And though it is really long... the Thornbirds is good as well</p>
<p>we should have a recommending movies thread as well...</p>
<p>I saw the French movie "Love me if you Dare" on IFC or Sundance a while back (don't play it anymore) and it's probably one of the best movies I've ever seen. These kids dare each other to do horrible things and it continues as they become adults and they end up getting married to different people even though they love each other b/c one dares the other...it's insane...ly good.</p>
<p>one of my favorite authors is Terry Pratchett. Fantasy, humor, and satire? I am so hooked.</p>
<p>the illustrated man by ray bradbury...or anything by him. he wrote farenheit 451, but I think his other books are better. Read the Holloween Tree, its interesting. and he also has alot of short stories taht are quick reads. </p>
<p>if you like sci fi, then try some Arthur C. Clark.</p>
<p>The last great book I read was “Everything is Illuminated” by Jonathon Safron Foer. I read it last year during school and it was just amazing! Foer is a very contemporary author, so it is a bit difficult to understand how the book is structured in the beginning, but once you get into it, this book will make you cry and laugh hysterically. I know a movie was made out of it, and I only saw clips, but I can already say that the movie can’t even compare.</p>
<p>Just some i would recommend,
Enders Game, Dune, Slaughterhouse 5, 1984, and anything by Phillip K. Dick.</p>
<p>Goosebumps- the difficultly level may be a bit high, but it will help you out in college because it uses a lot of complex vocabulary</p>
<p>Ok real books:
1984- one of my favorites
Profit over People- Noam Chomsky is full of crap and he's extremely liberal, but this is an interesting read
Carrie- pretty much a classic. It's funny how big of a pervert Stephen King is. I haven't seen the movie but I imagine that they had to edit out a lot of the content from the book.</p>
<p>I'm definitely going to also recommend The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Really interesting view of death and the afterlife, plus there's this whole murder-serial killer type thing going on. I thought it was amazing.</p>
<p>Just because you do not find economics interesting gives you no write to label a book or topic stupied and boring. People just have different interest. I personally find Ayn Rand very boring and a sad attempt at Russian Lit. Nabokov is much more to my liking.</p>
<p>I second the illustrated man by ray bradbury... interesting</p>