<p>To Kill a Mockingbird
The Iliad (I'll kill myself if I have to read that book again)
Night
A Separate Peace</p>
<p>The only decent ones were "Night" and "A Separate Peace."</p>
<p>I usually read books by Dan Brown, but one book that I really liked was "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. That book took me 2 years to finish....it's very long, but I only read it on weekends, so that's why it took me a long time.</p>
<p>I haven't read many classics in English over the last two years. Most of the time we have to read a book out loud in class, and I can not comprehend the story at all when we do that.</p>
<p>I agree with dank. When it's read aloud in class, I sometimes have trouble following, but if I read it silently on my own while they're reading, I usually get it.
Oh! And Brave New World! One of my favorite books..SO good. :)</p>
<p>I second Middlemarch by George Eliot. I've never finished it but it sounds good.
I also recommend The House of the Spirits. It isn't my type of book but it is certainly very interesting. It's by Isabel Allende or something.</p>
<p>Just search the net and I believe there are cool lists of classic books, so it depends upon u choice--romantic, science fiction, philosophical, patriotic...........My list would be small one though
Cry, the Beloved Country,
Ayn Rand's Books (Any one, I simply love her objectivism)
Frankestein (rereading)
Wuther Heights
Man in the Iron Mask
etc................I mean I said short but it actually is Big one (since I can't really decide which book to take up! I usu just pick one up and go on w/ it!)</p>
<p>atlas shrugged!
if you would like a break from novels, a lot of big name poets are fabulously fun and enriching (vocabulary, critical reading, if that's what you're into)whitman, sexton....just pick one.</p>
<p>War and Peace? ahahaa...
Don Qixote
Moby Dick
anything by Truman Capte, PG Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Douglas Adams...
If you like Japanese stuff - Musashi by Toshikawa</p>
<p>comfy, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, is reallllly good. You gotta love Pirsig. If you haven't done so yet, read "Lila: An Inquiry into Morals". It's pretty damn good.</p>
<p>Anyway, anything by Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita is my favorite, and I'm currently reading Ada. </p>
<p>Also try Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata". I loved it. His wife hated it, lol.</p>
<p>Anything by Jane Austen is great. </p>
<p>Although it's not yet a "classic", read "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien; it's a really quick read. I'm not a huge fan of Vietnam, but I just couldn't put this book down when I picked it up.</p>
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<p>Read Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand first. Then at least you'll know what's being driven into your head. Or for that matter, pick up any of Rand's nonfiction, which is pretty interesting reading if you are selfish enough. Her fiction is okay if you skip around and don't read it chronologically.</p>
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is very, very good.
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<p>I have to read this book second semester...I've heard it changes people's lives.</p>