<p>Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (really liked this one)
Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas</p>
<p>I started on Catch 22 in 10th grade but stopped reading it 'cause it was kind of weird and confusing, but I'm thinking about giving it a try again.</p>
<p>"Sidenote Doris Kearns Goodwin is the best author period. Representing the hometown!"
I love her book "Wait Til Next Year". It's one of my favorites.</p>
<p>I am reading "Tale of Two Cities"(dickens) right now and I love it. I also enjoyed "Great Expectations" by Dickens. Two of my more modern favorites are "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" by Kesey and "Ragtime" by EL Doctorow.</p>
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All these books made me cry or boil with rage or fly into some sort of passion somewhere midway thru.
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Whoa, cool! I sometimes get all riled up too, especially reading Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife.</p>
<p>A couple of other good ones:
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard (actually this is a play :p)</p>
<p>I can*not* believe no one's said Middlemarch, Age of Innocence, Catcher in the Rye or Their Eyes Were Watching God. Tsk.</p>
<p>I agree with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern--very clever piece--and with anyone who likes Jane Austen (except Mansfield Park, bleh). Love Scarlet Letter, hate Dickens (sorry), revere Anne of Green Gables and anything by either Bronte. Russian authors get to me in general, but I love Ayn Rand and I'm sure I'll develop respect for Tolstoy and Dotoyevsky. Mother's trying to get me to read Life of Pi and Bee Season, but I have to make my Physics textbook my best friend at the moment :)</p>
<p>Ender's Game.</p>
<p>Anyone read(and like) Proust? curious......</p>
<p>East of Eden - Steinbeck (this is so awesome)
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Tortilla Flat - Steinbeck
1984 - Orwell
Ethan Frome - Edit Wharton
This side of paradie - Fitzgerald</p>
<p>I loved the Great Gatsby. Actually my common app essay referred to it.</p>
<p>Anyone mentioned Hermann Hesse? He's my second most favorite author besides Victor Hugo.
A random list:
Les Miserables
The Phantom of the Opera
Steppenwolf
Notes From Underground
The Lover
Swann's Way
Emerson's Essay
Robert Burns' Poetry
Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Burns's "To a Mouse" and "To a Louse" are fun to read.</p>
<p>Of course, those aren't really books... :p</p>
<p>The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Ulysses - James Joyce
Swann's Way - Marcel Proust</p>
<p>American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Monkey business - John Rolfe & Peter Troob</p>
<p>And loads of business magazines...read on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Orwell's 1984 was intense and gripping. Loved it!</p>
<p>So Fallinwater0328 and tchaikosvky: did you go on to read the next few (huh, not few indeed) volumes of Proust?</p>
<p>I don't particularly like Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, or perhaps I just need more exposure to sex description in literature</p>
<p>Hm.. well, I'm currently reading "À l'ombre de jeunes filles en fleurs" in my French class. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a good English translation of the 2nd volume.</p>
<p>Finnegans Wake- Joyce
<a href="http://www.kirbymountain.com/WordInEar-2up.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.kirbymountain.com/WordInEar-2up.pdf</a>
The Waking- Roethke (poem)
Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello - Shakespeare</p>
<p>I thought the Montcrief translation of Proust is already classic. I read a little bit of the newer translation while I was reading Montcrief - yeah, the newer one is easier to read, and the prose is probably more fresh and lively than Montcrief's sometime cumbersome sentences.
But I think I got used to Montcrief's style after half of the first volume and don't want to read the newer translations anymore. Afterall, I believe Proust purposely wrote long sentences in French. Even though they might seem awkward in English, I prefer they to be as close to the original as possible. </p>
<p>Proust is just wonderful. I wish someday I can rean Proust in French... what a distance dream. I just finished the 4th volume, and plan to start the 5th later this month.</p>
<p>1) Harry Potter - I don't care what anyone thinks about this, unless it's positive ;)
2) Pride and Prejudice
3) 1984
4) Farewell to Arms
5) Bridget Jones' Diary
6) On the Road</p>
<p>I'm kinda depressed, no one has listed a book ive liked yet, I guess I can't go to yale.</p>
<p>edit: actually harry potter is ok</p>
<p>I'm sure Harry Potter is the magic key that will get you in! I heard someone say, on this site, they chose Yale because it was most like Hogwarts.</p>