<p>The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. :')</p>
<p>Academic: 1984
No-Academic: Either Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or Ender’s Game</p>
<p>When I first read The Catcher in the Rye I loved it. When I read it a second time, I didn’t like it so much. Hmmm. </p>
<p>But I have enjoyed 1984, The Lovely Bones, The Great Gatsby and The Picture of Dorian Gray. That’s all I can think of right now.</p>
<p>It’s a tie between Other Voices, Other Rooms by Capote and The City and the Pillar by Vidal.</p>
<p>You guys will probably all laugh at my favorite book because it’s so non-academic</p>
<p>Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen</p>
<p>Amazing.</p>
<p>Kama Sumtra by the ancient Indians. </p>
<p>JK LOL.</p>
<p>^LOL. 10chars</p>
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hahahaha. I can’t believe you :] I used to be obsessed with her books in 8th grade. </p>
<p>I agree with the Jane Austen comment. I can’t stand her books. Even Wuthering Heights was more enjoyable. </p>
<p>I can’t decide on my favorite book right now, but I remember that I really really liked The Book Thief. It’s narrated by a “sarcastic” Death during the Holocaust. The things he says are rather ironic. The first page was hilarious, but the rest of the book made me cry :[</p>
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It was an interesting book. I loved some of the things they said.
But the more she crammed her (strict) dogma into her books, the less human her characters became…</p>
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<p>Same. I stopped reading them though. They’re all the same setup. Jaded girl meets free spirit boy, he de-jadifies (that’s so a word.) her and they prance off into happy land.
I like Laurie Halse Anderson’s books still.</p>
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haha. It’s the naive suckers like us that keep that cliche alive. </p>
<p>Maybe I’ll check out Laurie Anderson. I’m not into “chick flick” books anymore though…</p>
<p>No, Laurie Halse Anderson isn’t really chick-lit, there’s rarely any romance in them.
She’s a great writer.</p>
<p>My favorite was Fever 1793 which was about the Yellow Fever in the 1700s.
Another is Speak, I can’t remember what that was about, I think a girl was raped and she stops speaking? Or something like that. I haven’t read that in years.
And then she just released Chains, a book about a girl who’s living in slavery, and Wintergirls, about an anorexic who blames herself for her friends death.</p>
<p>Leave it to me to summarize each book in ten words or less.</p>
<p>I totally remember Fever 1793. The cover scared me, but it was pretty good. I was into historical fiction in 9th grade.</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies.</p>
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<p>oooo, really good one desi… If sad, however… :(</p>