<p>I read Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane its a really great book!!
I highly recommend it to everyone..</p>
<p>it really depends on what you like...
i personally love reading french classic novels. dumas, hugo--count of monte cristo, three musketeers, les miserables.
but for more normal fun:
im reading brave new world. so far, it seems very interesting.
as i see this is mentioned earlier: enders game is awesome.</p>
<p>Read The Great Gatsby. It's usually taught in every high school, but in case you haven't read it, it's one of my favorites.</p>
<p>I would NOT recommend Brave New World for outside reading, it does have interesting ideas, but Huxley's writing is flat and the characters (Lenina, esp.) are pretty dull. If you're looking for a dystopic novel, go with 1984, Orwell did a better literary job with the utopia topic</p>
<p>"Read The Great Gatsby. It's usually taught in every high school, but in case you haven't read it, it's one of my favorites."</p>
<p>Yeah, we read it in my C.A. class, and there is so much symbolism in that book! I really made you reflect on life...pretty deep.</p>
<p>Vonnegut is an amazing writer...</p>
<p>one of the great american authors of all time</p>
<p>RIP Vonnegut...we will miss him. The Sirens of Titan is one of my all time favs!</p>
<p>And yeah, The Road isn't "light" summer reading, but it's incredible and deep and moving and brilliant all the same.</p>
<p>The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. It's so beautifully written and easy to relate to (well, for me anyway). A MUST read!!</p>
<p>Has anyone here read Crime and Punishment or House of Mirth? Or any books by Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez? If so, I'd like some feedback on it.</p>
<p>Mama Day - Gloria Naylor
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides</p>
<p>1984-George Orwell
The Chosen-Chaim Potok
The Stand-Stephen King</p>
<p>cosine 45!! Trig was a beast!</p>
<p>Oh..God..crime and punishment was unreadable for me...then again I read it while a freshmen..maybe Dostoevsky makes more sense when you're older...Its purely psychological...makes me think of the tell tale heart...But I could be remembering it wrong.</p>
<p>The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez (AMAZING)
On The Road - Kerouac
Tuesdays with Morrie - Albom
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
The Count Monte Cristo - Dumas (the movie sucks compared to the book...seriously.)</p>
<p>^^ Oh I definitely agree about the Count of Monte Cristo movie to book thing. I watched the movie when I was about 3/4 through the book and hated it so much.</p>
<p>The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, all Dan Brown books, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and Beloved by Toni Morrison (a challenge)</p>
<p>art_star:</p>
<p>I really liked The Joy Luck Club too! :]</p>
<p>My friend read my copy of Crime and Punishment (which I have yet to read), and she liked it. . .a bunch of people I know have read One Hundred Years of Solitude, and say it's amazing. (I actually have to read that this summer for IB English.)</p>
<p>oooh ... no a really good vampire book is TWILIGHT HUNGER</p>
<p>one hundred years of solitude and love in the time of cholorea both AMAZING
kite runner, namesake,
Vampire books- Anne Rice is great!
Cold Sassy Tree-Olive Ann Burns
Anything by Anna Quindlan</p>
<p>read Proust..lol It will take you years...
read Kafka..</p>
<p>If you hate the world
Read The world as will and representaion By Arthur Schenpenhour
Beyond Good And Evil by Frederick Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche
Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
Anti-Christ By Nietzche
Twilight Of the Idols by Nietzsche
and everything else by Nietzsche</p>
<p>If you have a really high IQ and knows everything
Try to read Derrida and Heidegger.
Writing and Differences
Being And Time </p>
<p>If you are really into logic and language
"The limit of my language is the limit of my reality"
Read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittengstein</p>
<p>And if you are interesting in book like lolita read Georges Bataille's Story of the eye.</p>
<p>People already recommended Lolita, The Great Gatsby, and the Stranger. But I give my kudos for those as well.</p>
<p>Personally, anything by Nick Hornby is a good, quick read. As is "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer and "The History of Love" by Nicole Kraus.</p>