Help me select 2 books please?

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<p>I have to pick one book from each list for my English class. Recommendations would be awesome. I'm an Asian male interested in suspense books, no lovey-dovey romantic stuff please >_>. Looking for an easy, smooth read.</p>

<p>1)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
A tale of Two Cities
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
All the Pretty Horses
Cold Mountain
Sons and Lovers</p>

<p>2)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Handmaiden's Tale
Mrs. Dalloway
London Fields
The English Patient
The Shipping News
Catch-22
On the Road
Going After Cacciato
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Midnight's Children</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>1) A Tale of Two Cities or Crime and Punishment. (CoP is a love-it-or-hate-it book - if you read the first fifteen pages and can't stand it, don't force yourself to read the rest.)</p>

<p>2) On the Road is great, as is Catch-22 if you like satire. I haven't read The English Patient but I've heard good things about it as well.</p>

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<p>1) A Tale of Two Cities
2) Catch-22</p>

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<p>1) a tale of two cities
2) the english patient</p>

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<p>Oh wow fast replies :)</p>

<p>I guess I'll go for Tale of Two Cities from list one - majority rules -.-</p>

<p>Any more opinions on list 2? I do like Satire (read The Onion fairly often) but we need to write an essay comparing & contrasting the two novels at the beginning of the year. I think it'd be more difficult to write a paper on satire?</p>

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<p>One Hundred Years of Solitude is incredible. I can't stress enough how much I love that book. </p>

<p>I'm not sure which one to recommend from the first list, but I agree with quaere about crime and punishment; if you don't like it at first, you won't like it at all.</p>

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<li>Tale of Two Cities - CLASSIC.<br></li>
<li>Catch-22 - I'm reading it right now just for some summer reading while I'm not doing anything, it's hilarious.</li>
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<p>FWIW, on this site posters have recommended Jane Eyre as a good book to read in preparation for critical reading on the SAT.</p>

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<p>TOTC and Catch-22...great minds think alike.</p>

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<p>Most if not all of those books would be good prep for the CR..</p>

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<p>a tale of two cities for sure.</p>

<p>jane eyre...most of my class hated it. boys especially tend to not enjoy it.</p>

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<p>Guess I'll be goin with ToTC & Catch-22</p>

<p>Thanks ya'll - I'm ready to own up these 1k pages -_- (/me is excited)</p>

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<p>Dont read the books, play more starcraft and build hydralisks!</p>

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<p>Tale of Two Cities <3
Catch 22</p>

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<p>I loveeee Catch-22</p>

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<p>I really like about 6 of the books on the first list. for what you described though, go with crime and punishment or tale of two cities.
(I know you already decided, but I felt like replying anyway!)</p>

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<p>I know that you've already chosen, too, but I just have to say....</p>

<p>Catch-22 is AMAAAAAZING.</p>

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<p>Haha aight, very enthusiastic eh guys ? :)</p>

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<p>I'd try Going After Cacciato, b/c I read The Things They Carried (same author, Tim O'Brien) and loved it.</p>

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<p>The Handmaid's Tale is pretty good...like a theocratic version of 1984, told from a woman's perspective. All the guys in my class hated it though...</p>

<p>One Hundred Years of Solitude is also great.</p>