<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I am growing tired of watching TV, going to movies, and even going online. Whenever I am done with my studies, I just want some to enjoy the time left over. </p>
<p>Therefore, which specific book titles do you recommend I should read? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>The Naked Lunch (Burroughs).
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess).
Post Office, Ham on Rye, Women, Hollywood (all by Bukowski).</p>
<p>catch-22 (heller)
to kill a mockingbird (lee)
unwind (shusterman)</p>
<p>In order of the books I enjoyed the most…</p>
<p>The Mortal Instruments (Book one is City of Bones) AMAZING!</p>
<p>"When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder – much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing – not even a smear of blood – to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?</p>
<p>This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .</p>
<p>Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare’s ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end."</p>
<p>The Percy Jackson Series (Book one is The Lightning Thief) Hilarious!</p>
<p>"Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.</p>
<p>Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves."</p>
<p>The Inheritance Cycle (Book one is Eragon) </p>
<p>“Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire.”</p>
<p>The Hunger Games</p>
<p>“In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games,” a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.”</p>
<p>Note: All summaries are in quotes for a reason! A stole 'em from Amazon.com</p>
<p>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace</p>
<p>Ender’s Game (Card)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
Siddhartha (Hesse)
Blink (Gladwell)
Brave New World (Huxley)</p>
<p>I second Ender’s Game and Catch 22. Some of the other suggestions are good, and I dont recognize others, but those were really great.</p>
<p>Catch-22 is an obvious choice. I’d advise against stuff like Percy Jackson or most teen science fiction/fantasy series, but I don’t want to start arguments and if you like them you should read them.</p>
<p>I third Ender’s Game.</p>
<p>I second TKAM and Brave New World, third Catch-22, and quatro Ender’s Game. </p>
<p>I offer up 1984 and The Road.</p>
<p>I fifth (?) Ender’s Game (the prequel Ender’s Shadow is even better IMO, but read Ender’s Game first)</p>
<p>And I’d suggest The Kite Runner and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and anything by Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm are the most obvious choices but his essays are super awesome)</p>
<p>I second The Kite Runner, The Hunger Games, and add to Ender’ Game (but yeah, also read Ender’s Shadow after.)
Water for Elephants.
And uh, any and all of Dan Brown’s books. My favorites are Angels & Demons and Digital Fortress!</p>
<p>Read The Hunger Games only if you’re ready to be addicted! I love The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Freakonomics & Superfreakonomics by Steven Dubner. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. The Inheritance Trilogy. Fahrenheit 411. I second Angels & Demons.</p>
<p>anything by Orwell
Cannery Row, The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck). enjoyed both</p>
<p>i’m into non fiction atm so im not really much of a help unless you want some nonfiction titles</p>
<p>I already read Ender’s Game, and it is one of my favorite books. </p>
<p>Personally, I like books that take place in a “fictional world.” </p>
<p>I never read Hunger’s Games, but I heard the plot is similiar to that of Battle Royale…</p>
<p>Brave New World. Huxley is a genius. Seriously, if you have not read it yet, read it. Its very good.</p>
<p>I would highly recommend the Gone series by Michael Grant. It’s my all-time favorite series and the books are quite lengthy (which I love) but I can finish them in about 2 days because they are just so suspenseful and exciting. A word of warning, though: they have some gory and frightening descriptions especially as you get further in the series, so only read them if you have a strong stomach.</p>
<p>Basically, the premise of Gone is that a bunch of people live in this nice little town called Perdido Beach in Southern California when suddenly, everyone over the age of 15 disappears. There is an impenetrable force field that surrounds the area within a 20 mile radius so no one can get in or out, and the kids inside have no idea what is outside the force field.</p>
<p>The kids then begin to develop mutations due to a nuclear power plant incident that caused the water to be tainted with uranium and gives them super powers. The kids form a divide between bullies and the “good guys” and it gets really bloody and violent. Then they have trouble getting food and dealing with other animals mutating, etc.</p>
<p>It’s a really great book that I think only gets better as the series go on. READ IT.</p>
<p>Catch 22 was actually really annoying for me. Stick to Orwell and his essays! Also don’t be afraid to delve into Shakespeare’s sonnets! (Or go into literature from other parts of the world like Dostoevsky or ancient Romans like Ovid Catullus Cicero Vergil and Lucretius )</p>
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<p>Being able to read for funsies as a first semester senior is amazing. :]</p>
<p>I recommend almost anything by Kurt Vonnegut if you like contemporary sci-fi and something a little unconventional. I love his short works, but I recommend starting with Cat’s Cradle.</p>
<p>What’s Catch-22 about, anyways?</p>
<p>Just read the plot to Battle Royale, and it sounds similar to The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games books are definitely worth reading, though!</p>