<p>Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Absolutely fascinating. Read it three times so far and am still surprised by Rand's ingenuity. READ IT, READ IT, READ IT!</p>
<p>Regeneration, Pat Barker</p>
<p>Its so powerful!</p>
<p>Some favorites of mine:</p>
<p>Women in Love or anything else by DH Lawrence
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Diary of Anais Nin</p>
<p>The Jungle is the best protest/social commentary ever.
Modern version is Fast Food Nation.
I like most of modern philosophy (ie. Communism, Anarchism, Transcendentalism, etc...)
Dickens is one of the best authors ever.</p>
<p>modern books...hmmm
Atonement, Beloved, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Power of One, to name a few</p>
<p>Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
On the Road - Jack Kerouac</p>
<p>gulliver's travels</p>
<p>Go Lilliputians!...Go Brobs..</p>
<p>Great Expectations </p>
<p>OP: Search the forum - this thread has been done several times before. Check in the (kids)Cafe. Also, I think the Parents had their own list going on at some point.</p>
<p>Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
anything by Ray Bradbury
anything by George Orwell
The Scarlet Letter</p>
<p>Some of my favorites:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (easy read, but still good)
Angels & Demons
The Baron in the Trees
Ishmael
The Hot Zone</p>
<p>Schindler's List
This Boy's Life
The Plot Against America<--- if you like historical fiction</p>
<p>The Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen
Maus I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Lifton
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Reawakening by Primo Levi </p>
<p>The Journal of a Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Wit by Margaret Edson
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Plague by Albert Camus
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
Smack by Melvin Burgess </p>
<p>Native North Americans by Larry J. Zimmerman
Native Roots by Jack Weatherford
The Trail of Tears by Gloria Jahoda
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed The World by Jack Weatherford</p>
<p>The above is part of my online book list which has not been finished yet.</p>
<p>The Prince
Utopia
Animal Farm
A Tale of Two Cities
The Giver
Harry Potter</p>
<p>The Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle - one of the funniest books (actually 3 books) I have ever read
1984, Orwell - a book I think every American must read
Brave New World, Huxley - another must-read
Bringing Down the House, Mezrich - entertaining, like mental TV</p>
<p>Farenheit 451 by Bradbury
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beloved by Toni Morrison (that lady is crazy... great books though)
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The House of Sand and Fog By Andre Dubus
Wit by Margaret Edson (bluealien! You're like the 3rd person i know who has read Wit... the other two being the english teachers that recommended it to me)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harry Potter (Harry has been annoying me in the later books, though)</p>
<p>Im sure theres more... cant think of them though....</p>
<p>Favorite book of all time: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom-- A best-seller book that should definitely be added to your reading list if you haven't read it yet.</p>
<p>I just finished Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and really liked it. I would also recommend anything by Irwin Shaw, particularly The Young Lions and Rich Man, Poor Man.</p>
<p>The Kushiel's Legacy series- Jacqueline Carey
Daughter of the Forest-Juliet Marillier
Son of The Shadows-Juliet Marillier
Child of the Prophecy-juliet Mariller
All books by Tamora Pierce
Harry Potter (ALL OF THEM!!)
the royal diaries
The Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan
Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings-Megan McCafferty
to Kill a Mockingbird
A Midsummer's Night Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (yea, i kno, not really books, but still cool0
The Pelican Brief-John Grisham</p>
<p>A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations, actually anything by Dickens
anything by Ayn Rand
1984
I just read Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston and it was really good!!!
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jane Eyre
Brave New World
The da Vinci Code</p>
<p>It really escapes me how anyone can enjoy Dan Brown... or Harry Potter. </p>
<p>The Trial by Franz Kafka - Without a doubt a great work of literature, it is the defining work of absurdist existentialism </p>
<p>Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce - Infinitely complex book in terms of linguistics, Joyce defined and redefined the English language in much the same way as Shakespeare </p>
<p>The Western Canon by Harold Bloom - A general analysis of the great Western authors by the world's last living authority on creative literature. </p>
<p>La Comedia Divina by Date Alighieri - Without a doubt one of the great pieces of literature, I really don't feel this one needs explaining. </p>
<p>A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift - A highly complex prose satire that essentially consists of digression upon digression. It's a pretty entertaining read, but sort of hard to get into because there's no real defined purpose or object of the satire. </p>
<p>Dickens... well, yeah, Dickens is amazing. David Copperfield forever!</p>