<p>again, sorry to be cliche, but...</p>
<p>jane eyre, catcher in the rye, life of pi, hamlet, 100 years of solitude,where the red fern grows, harry potter, anthem (ayn rand), anything by raymond smullyan; those books are really entertaining, freakonomics.</p>
<p>brooke: Ayn Rand is awesome :)</p>
<p>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Prince, Machiavelli
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald</p>
<p>Some of my favorites:</p>
<p>-The Count of Monte Cristo
-The Giver
-Hamlet
-The Old Man and the Sea
-Catch-22
-A Tale of Two Cities
-Brave New World
-Beowulf
-Any anything written by Stephen King</p>
<p>Oh yeah! And A Tale of Two Cities.</p>
<p>The Infinite Plan - Allende
House of the Spirits - Allende
The Once and Future King - White
Beloved - Morrison
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
The Awakening - Chopin
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Dracula - Stoker
The Fountainhead - Rand
Angels and Demons - Brown</p>
<p>I read alot...</p>
<p>Beowulf
The Iliad
The Metamorphosis
Siddhartha
Heart of Darkness
Brave New World
Gilgamesh
The Things They Carried</p>
<p>and im reading The Plot Against America right now and I gotta say that Im really liking it.</p>
<p>Ewwww...you guys all like Wuthering Heights?</p>
<p>i LOOOVE the metamorphosis... but im too lazy to list anything else</p>
<p>Was that book list from above which inluded Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter straight from the college as the top favorite books? If so, they're going to love me as the question on the app that said How did you first hear of UChicago? I literally told them that I'd heard it looked like Hogwarts, so I researched it! </p>
<p>Also, is everyone posting about the books they listed in that sorta-essay question? If so, mine was of course, Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird, White Oleander, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Lord of the Rings. I also mentione that I love Sense and Sensibility, both book and movie. I went into great detail on that essay. Lots of reading for them. Couldn't help it. Personality shined, I think. Pointed out about Col. Brandon being the greatest man ever, regardless of the fact that he's fiction. Also mentioned that Snape is awesome in the Harry Potter books. Trust me, I typed a lot for that essay! And East to Eden--almost forgot that one!</p>
<p>don't forget Song of Solomon</p>
<p>plus l like chinese books</p>
<p>"a dream of red chamber"
journey to the west
romance of three kingdom
water margins</p>
<p>anything tokin</p>
<p>reading catch-22 omg this book is wild. it's hard to remeber everythng lol</p>
<p>Haha, I love Catch-22. So absurdly funny, yet so critical of war, bureaucracy, and patriotism. Yossarian made for a great common app. essay. He has to be one of the best literary characters of all time.</p>
<p>God Bless You Dr. Kavorkian - Kurt Vonnegut...actually most of Vonnegut's works</p>
<p>March Violets - Phillip Kerr</p>
<p>Harry Potter is good</p>
<p>I really enjoyed the Great Gatsby, which is odd considering I'm not too fond of Hemmingway</p>
<p>Brave New World was good with a pinch of depressing</p>
<p>Haha, 1984 was terribly difficult to read - Orwell has good ideas, but writes like a text book</p>
<p>Beowulf was good, but better because it preludes John Gardner's contemporary piece Grendel, which was quite funny and parodied Beowulf's idea of chivalry well - has anybody else read it or am I a loser?</p>
<p>"I really enjoyed the Great Gatsby, which is odd considering I'm not too fond of Hemmingway"</p>
<p>Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and not Ernest Hemingway.</p>
<p>Yes....yes it was. Well done.</p>
<p>Fitzgerald, however, knew Hemingway...In fact I believe he made an appearence in one of Hemingway's novels (I want to say A Moveable Feast). They are both apart of the Lost Generation and thus have similar writing styles. </p>
<p>Therefore, It is odd that i should like Fitzgerald, but not Hemingway because the two are often compared.</p>
<p>Maybe I just have a permentantly ingrained idea that Hemingway is over-rated.</p>
<p>I apologize for my lack of clarity.</p>
<p>^Yeah. Sometimes, I get annoyed by his concise, declarative sentences.</p>
<p>aww... I love the Hemingway. Partly, because of the titles- "The Sun also Rises", "A farewell to Arms", "The Old Man and the Sea", "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
I usually hate titles and tend to resort to such creative attempts as "Analysis of (insert novel)" or "argumentative essay on (insert prompt)" in my school work. But Hemingway's titles are just so beautiful and simple- they just capture so much in a few scant words (kinda like the actual novels).....or maybe it's just me?</p>
<p>The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Dark Tower books by Stephen King
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson (2nd book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen)
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin, particularly A Storm of Swords</p>
<p>^just a little bit of a fantasy fan lol.</p>
<p>Holes
Animal Farm
Billy Bud
Goosebumps
Clifford the Big Red Dog</p>
<p>ONLY BOOKS WORTH READING..seriously</p>
<p>Few of My Favourites:
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Invisible Man - Ellison
The Chosen - Potok
The Promise - Potok
Wuthering Heights - Bronte</p>
<p>Hated List:
Animal Farm - Orwell
A Seperate Peace - Knowles
The Pearl - Steinbeck
Bean Trees - Kingsolver
Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
The Color Purple - Walker</p>