<p>Be the Dream: Prep for Prep Graduates</p>
<p>Very moving, profound and inspirational. Has different graduates of an organization called Prep for Prep (organization helps prepare disadvantaged students of color for boarding and prep schools) share their experiences while in Ivy-league institutions and boarding schools. It's really good and you have to read it! </p>
<p>I don't know who the author is off the top of my head but the title will help you find it.</p>
<p>"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller, "All But My Life" by Gerda Weismann-Klein...I don't like naming favorites...I have a lot...</p>
<p>anne lammat books</p>
<p>the da vinci code. it's great (but you've probably already read it)</p>
<p>Ok, Da Vinci Code is a great book, with zero plot and a whole lot of made up garbage in it, but as far as a personal rec. goes, I just finished "On Bulls**t", by Harry Frankfurt. It's obviously about how people tend to b.s. and how to actually catagorize it. This is a real book, so I hope my post doesn't go poof off the board, lol.</p>
<p>The Great Divorce
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down<br>
Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman)
Catch 22
House of God
A Prayer For Owen Meany
The Bell Jar
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
anything by Asimov</p>
<p>Div, Grad, Curl and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus and Asimov's Understanding Physics books are great reading also.
Hey, I can't help it, I'm in engineering school. :)</p>
<p>Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy!</p>
<p>Atonement by Ian McEwan
Ender's Game series, if no one has mentioned it yet. by orson scott card.
oh, and The Things They Carried by tim o'brien.
lots of other books, too. :D</p>
<p>harry potter</p>
<p>IS GOOD</p>
<p>for speed reading
it's a soft fiction</p>
<p>If you want fiction, anything by Dan Brown (like Angels and Demons) or by Vince Flynn (like Memorial Day).</p>
<p>For non-fiction, How to Talk to a Liberal (if you must) by Ann Coulter is really, really great!!</p>
<p>I'm mostly into sci-fi stuff (the good stuff):
By Robert Heinlein:
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress</p>
<p>I second the Asimov reccomendations from earlier in the thread. I picked up American Gods by Neil Gaiman the other day and am half way through it. Excellent book so far. A couple other reccomendations:</p>
<p>Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (MIT's blackjack team)
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
LOTR</p>
<p>I've heard that Heinlien stuff is good too.</p>
<p>I'm surprised no one's mentioned 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov.. or White Oleander by Janet Fitch</p>
<p>So far, I've really enjoyed:
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, for the Hamlet-lovers out there</p>
<p>and I'm currently reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which has been pretty good so far.</p>
<p>You also can't go wrong with classics like Tuesdays with Morrie, The Giver, and one of my personal favorites, Flowers for Algernon. The last is one of the few books (I'm talking like two) that I've ever cried because of.</p>
<p>Chanman, I agree about "Harry Potter"...I read the fifth one (almost 900 pages) in four days...</p>
<p>ha! i read it in 12 hours flat :p</p>
<p>I like The Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger</p>
<p>How I Paid for College : A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
by Marc Acito</p>
<p>I dont know if you would call it valuable but its a good book to read if you want to laugh. Its hilarious and cute and a great read for spring break!</p>
<p>Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Second Sex
Emerson's Essays
Being and Nothingness
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography
The Good Earth</p>
<p>Sophies World, Inherit The Wind, and Brave New World</p>
<p>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon!!!!</p>