<p>Is anyone else a huge fan of Orhan Pamuk’s books?</p>
<p>I absolutely love him.</p>
<p>Ender’s Game, and every book in the Enderverse series.</p>
<p>I’m also really enjoying Atlas Shrugged. It may or may not end up being a favorite. I still have another 600 pages to go, and the book supposedly gets more intense/better later on… it’ll take another few weeks for me to reach my decision.</p>
<p>The Awakening by Kate Chopin</p>
<p>and </p>
<p>Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (I love Margaret Atwood in general)</p>
<p>The Riddles of Epsilon, the Mortal Instruments series, The Series of Unfortunate Events, The Immortal Secrets of Nicholas Flamel (all the books), Harry Potter (duh), the His Dark Materials trilogy. That’s about 30 books but I can’t narrow them down any farther.</p>
<p>Oh and Fly By Night.</p>
<p>Also, The Books of Pellinor.</p>
<p>And the Da Vinci Code.</p>
<p>Thats way more than one book lmao.</p>
<p>The Count of Monte Cristo is an amazing book, although the amount of characters introduced through out the novel became a little exhausting for me when I read it , that was sophomore year though</p>
<p>I loooove The Great Gatsby, I definitely need to read more of Fitzgerald’s novels
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is also one of my all time favs</p>
<p>Into the Wild is another book I really enjoyed</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
Hamlet </p>
<p>and a few others.</p>
<p>The Perks of Being a Wallflower was really cute. Just sayin’, wasn’t my fav though.</p>
<p>Really the Awakening?</p>
<p>I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max, and it’s sequel, *******s Finish First.</p>
<p>Yeah it’s not typical “reading material,” but its one of the few books that can actually keep me interested and motivated enough to finish it. I’ve actually read the first about four times through, a first for me when it comes to reading.</p>
<p>I see a lot of Faulkner fans out here. I loved The Sound and the Fury, but I prefer As I Lay Dying.</p>
<p>Another one of my favorite books is All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. Check this out if you’re a fan of Faulkner.</p>
<p>Oh, and can’t forget Catch 22… What a fantastic novel.</p>
<p>P.S. I forgot to mention all of the Rabbit books by John Updike. Those are simply stunning.</p>
<p>^^^The Awakening was amazing! although it might not be the most exciting, i loved the message of the story.</p>
<p>^I thought the book was a little depressing, but liked it nevertheless.</p>
<p>The Stepmother by Diana Diamond</p>
<p>The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas</p>
<p>Thanks for posting everybody. Since I made this thread I have read some books and can update my favorites: Still, The Odyssey and The Great Gatsby are on the list, along with A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Catch-22, and 1984. I’ll be sure to read others that you guys posted.</p>
<p>Roots by Alex Haley</p>
<p>Either Anna Karenina or 1984. Though East of Eden and Gone With the Wind are definitely up there. :D</p>
<p>I loved the Bell Jar 
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<p>Read ‘Brave New World’ last week…you guys liked that??? Crazy! Such a cliche sci fi book and it had no point - he just…died!</p>
<p>Books where the protagonist dies have no point?</p>
<p>No. I don’t want to go into much further detail because I don’t want to spoil the plot, but there’s a man who lives in this society without feelings, love, etc. and he’s virtually the only person possessing these feelings (minus the Savage Reservations, but that’s besides the point) so instead of trying to change this brainwashed society or get to the islands where less brainwashed people live he just kills himself. And that’s how it ends. Him killing himself, and the novel going on as if he had never existed. No point. I’m not saying that I want a sensationalistic novel about how one man changed the world with the power of emotion but I was expecting something a little more meaningful than that, especially because it sends the same message as every dystopia novel I’ve ever read</p>
<p>Although this probably isn’t a good conversation to get into this is the second time I’ve gotten into a debate over me disliking a classic…</p>