<p>Theucydides</p>
<p>Our teacher photocopied the family tree to A5 size and tacked it on the wall when we began reading the book. :)</p>
<p>(For One Hundred Years of Solitude)</p>
<p>Animal Farm </p>
<p>GAME. SET. MATCH.</p>
<p>YES One Hundred Years of Solitude definitely, I'm so glad that other students besides me love the book. Or you could go the mainstream route...Pride and Prejudice is also a favorite of mine.</p>
<p>I took a course on Gabriel Garcia Marquez last semester. It was pretty cool...we read almost all his works (and spent a significant amount of time on One Hundred Years of Solitude, as you can imagine).</p>
<p>We had to do a senior research paper on a book last year. I did "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. I don't know if it's old enough to rightfully be considered a classic yet, but it did have quite an impact on popular culture and counterculture that followed it. It was a really interesting and fun paper to research.</p>
<p>I know a lot of people aren't fans of "Catcher in the Rye," but that's one of my favorite books. I like Salinger's writing. I'm reading "Franny and Zooey" right now.</p>
<p>I definitely recommend Crime and Punishment. If you are thinking about going to a "top-notch" school, everyone there has read it or at least familiar with the text. However, the other books mentioned are also worthwhile to read. I will warn you that it is a LONG book..</p>
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<p>Good choice.</p>
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While I agree that his history is a classic, I wish you had spelled his name right. :p</p>
<p>My personal favorites (I'm partial to British lit):
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront</p>
<p>The Count of Monte Cristo</p>
<p>I'm in the middle of that and it's real good :)</p>
<p>Pretty long though 1200+ pages my edition.</p>
<p>Has anybody read Cry, the Beloved Country? If so, how is it?</p>
<p>I recomment Lord of the Flies. To Kill a Mockingbird was alright...</p>
<p>Cry, the Beloved Country is quite possibly the single most boring book I have read- and this comes from a prospective English major.</p>
<p>The overall concept of the book is good, and the motifs are well developed, but the author spends far too much time with description and cultural flashbacks.</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies was kind of creepy, I thought. Great literature, but I found it very disturbing.</p>
<p>I loved To Kill a Mocking Bird,
Maybe the original Alice in Wonderland, by Louis Carroll, one of my favorite books - its a classic and a great read.</p>
<p>warblersrule86..........I think either spelling is accepted but heres to you:
Thucydides</p>
<p>Oh and i forgot to recommend Night. READ IT.</p>
<p>aw,Cry is boring? great. just great. another boring English 10 book that will complement my severe ADD... -_-.</p>
<p>To Kill a Mocking bird
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Little Women
Three Musketeers </p>
<p>i too found lord of the flies kind of disturbing.</p>
<p>It is a shame that high schools neglect such great literary works. I read Lord of the Flies and found it to be quite dull and ridiculous. Rarely do high schools require Wuthering Heights as part of the required reading list, nor Jane Eyre. Has anyone ever read The Canterbury Tales. Was it good? I think I am going to read this one soon.</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies is, like Heart of Darkness, full of symbolism and hints about the dark side of human nature. The book can be considered a microcosm of the larger world and is thus very insightful. Jane Eyre<a href="which%20we%20did%20read%20in%20my%20IB%20English%20class,%20btw">/i</a> and *Wuthering Heights are excellent books, but they are written more for amusement than thematic elements. </p>
<p>Canterbury Tales is, in my opinion, a work of genius. I haven't read another book than manages to combine satire, corruption, comedy, and tragedy so adeptly (The Miller is hilarious! :)). Be careful which edition you get; some people don't like the Middle English.</p>
<p>any1 who has read the count of monte cristo and loved it...what other books would u recommend that could compete with Dumas' incredible storytelling?</p>
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Les Miserables, The Three Musketeers</p>
<p>I don't normally like classics but:
Twain, Dracula, 1984, Animal Farm, My Antonia, The Jungle, Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, and some of Sophocles' plays (Antigone, Oedipus) are all good.</p>