<p>Ok, Chicago's a bookish school. So what are some of our favorite books? I'll go first:</p>
<p>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chaos by James Gleick
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.</p>
<p>1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
The Dark Child by Camara Laye
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
...and my IB Theory of Knowledge book!</p>
<p>For a comparison, the top ten favorite books compiled from UofC facebook entries:</p>
<ol>
<li> Harry Potter<br></li>
<li> 1984<br></li>
<li> The Great Gatsby<br></li>
<li> Catch-22<br></li>
<li> Catcher in the Rye<br></li>
<li> Pride and Prejudice </li>
<li> Lord of the Rings<br></li>
<li> Crime and Punishment<br></li>
<li> Brave New World </li>
<li>The Da Vinci Code</li>
</ol>
<p>ffftpha...I'm sorry but I can't see the greatness in Pride and Prejudice. I know I will get killed for this from most females, but really, a book about the trials and travesties of a 19th century caucasian female? What's so great about that. Otherwise, I would have to agree with the list, it makes sense. Well, Dan Brown can write good thrillers, but they all seem repeptitive after a while. I failed to see much of a difference between The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. It just seems like Dan Brown is writing quasi-Hardy Boys novels for grown-ups.</p>
<p>Haha, cool. I can't believe I forgot Catch-22 and Pride and Prejudice. Harry Potter and Da Vinci Code I like, but they aren't books I keep returning to. And Dostoevsky is not my cup of tea, to say the least.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice isn't meant to be read at face value, but I can understand when people say they don't like that kind of novel...</p>
<p>My favorite novels include...</p>
<p>A Farewell to Arms-- Hemingway
Out of Africa-- Isak Dinesen
Matilda-- Roald Dahl
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-- Carson McCullers
Native Son-- Richard Wright
Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations
How to be Alone-- Jonathan Franzen
Bonfire of the Vanities-- Tom Wolfe</p>
<p>Here's my go...</p>
<p>Angels and Demons -- Brown
The Stranger -- Camus
Crime and Punishment -- Dostoevsky
Being and Time -- Heidegger
Beyond Good and Evil -- Nietzsche
For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Hemingway
Chronicle of A Death Foretold -- Marquez
HARRY POTTER -- Rowling
1984 -- Orwell
Brave New World -- Huxley
Timeline -- Crichton</p>
<p>Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Brothers Karamazov - The big D.
Ulysses - James Joyce
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Oedipus Rex (novel?) - Soph.
Beowulf
Harry Potter</p>
<p>And the all-time favorite...
GODEL, ESCHER, BACH, An Eternal Golden Braid</p>
<p>(anything by the Brontes should be burnt)</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Hollywood- Bukowski
Ficciones- Borges
Catch-22- Heller
Siddhartha- Hesse
Tropic of Cancer- Miller</p>
<p>mattr, you have made a powerful enemy today...</p>
<p>YES! I second GEB (re asiaknight). I am just finishing it. </p>
<p>Otherwise...
Anything Stephen King or Sue Grafton
Animorphs
Marmadukes and Family Circus compilations</p>
<p>... the first line was honest</p>
<p>Tolkien is great, as is much fantasy - Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin are up there.</p>
<p>Ayn Rand is my favorite author, and her book "Atlas Shrugged" is my favorite book.</p>
<p>Guys...you've got to represent! </p>
<p>Freakonomics - Steven Levitt</p>
<p>Hello Everyone. I feel like a bad person for not joining CC Forums earlier but I've been extremely busy and then extremely lazy in quick succesion. I got in early action at uchicago and am excited. I went to RIBS this past summer. Anyway with regards to books, my choices are somewhat repetitive and must pale in comparison to some of yours. But I will try nonetheless.</p>
<p>The Sun Also Rises by Hemnigway
Pride and Prejudice by Austen
The Awakening by Chopin
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Harry Potter books (I can't help it)
Anything Tolkien
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Rushdie</p>
<p>My taste is so cliche...whatever</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, I Claudius, The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</p>
<p>brave new world. case closed</p>
<p>amykins and scrapiron- good choices! I loved "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" (I have a good Haroun story if you're interested) and "The Sun Also Rises"
I can't really say my favorites because I'm horribly indecisive and I know I'll regret any real list- but the book I've returned to more than any other is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." I've read it three times and every time I've gotten something new out of it and it's left me haunted in a new way.
thrills4ever- ahh- It pains me to see you put a chump like Dan Brown in such company. I kid- do what you like. I can tough it. I'll just silently supress the weeps.</p>
<p>Cool. I just finished reading Emma. Does anyone know by the way what book they will ask us to read over the summer so I can get a head start? I know last year was the Illiad. I bought that and the republic at a used book store and will read them both soon. I figure that I probably will have to sometime at Chicago anyway. It is inevitable. Those and Dante. </p>
<p>Anyway I also went to Borders after my acceptance letter came and bought books by an author who went to the University of Chicago. I chose Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America". I know that Bellow also went to the U of C and Vonnegut eventually got his masters from here after like twenty years for cat's cradle. Does anyone else know of other U of C Alum authors?</p>
<p>i cant believe no one has said </p>
<p>heart of darkness-conrad
or
the picture of dorian gray-wilde</p>
<p>Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Being Logical by DQ McInerny</p>