<p>I wanna read some good books before entering my school</p>
<p>1984 is a good book. Gone With the Wind, All the King's Men, Wuthering Heights, Alice series by Phyllis Naylor something, Black Boy, The Jungle, Pudden' head Wilson, In Cold Blood, Jailbird, Slaughterhouse Five, A Rumor of War, and of course Harry Potter series just to name a few. </p>
<p>Whatever you do, do not read Scarlett. Worse book in the history of this physical world.</p>
<p>The Godfather, The Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, The Namesake, The Alchemist, Veronika Decides to Die, Atlus Shrugged, Da Vinci Code, Fountainhead.</p>
<p>Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, among the other amazing books of the Ender series</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby. Tolstoy stuff.</p>
<p>adding to naturefreaks:</p>
<p>Vonnegut:
-Slaughterhouse Five
-Cat's Cradle
-Welcome to the Monkey House (Short Stories)
-Mother Night</p>
<p>-In addition to 1984- Animal Farm is another great Orwell book... and its short</p>
<p>-If you like 1984 you can try out Fahrenheit 451 as well as Brave New World</p>
<p>Oh and saketm put Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged... I've only read Fountainhead which was LONG winded... I have heard Atlas Shrugged is better... Ayn Rand thinks she is the greatest thing ever to happen to humanity so that kind of grinded on me while I read it... I liked the book though and it is "classic" college student reading type stuff.</p>
<p>Oh speaking of classic college stuff... check out Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
...so many good books... what do you like? War Stories? Black Humor? Non-fiction? Fantasy? Sci Fi?</p>
<p>do you know some good fantasy books?</p>
<p>The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman is a must read for college bound people.</p>
<p>I second the Ender motion.</p>
<p>Also, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams. My own personal bible. Titles are, in this order, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long And Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.</p>
<p>Erm...if you like fantasy, Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Legacy" trilogy is good. But probably not for the faint of heart.</p>
<p>Other than that, 1984, Animal Farm, anything by Dan Brown (yes, Angels and Demons was good too), The Scarlet Letter, Oryx and Crake, The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time (my brothers are both autistic), Exiting Nirvana, The Catcher In the Rye...a whole host of others. For a complete listing of books I've loved, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/adamsfrood42%5B/url%5D">www.myspace.com/adamsfrood42</a>.</p>
<p>Oh, and Of Mice and Men SUCKS. Don't waste your time.</p>
<p>Untitled: That's one great book. And the author is from my college-to-be: Brandeis.</p>
<p>naseau - jean-paul sartre</p>
<p>lies and the lying liars who tell them</p>
<p>I disagree. I liked Of Mice and Men. Although I usually don't like reading some of Steinbeck's books.
Also read some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories. They're lovely.
And The Old Man and The Sea is boring. I'd say read it sometime in your high school years but it's isn't fun.</p>
<p>Farienheit 451 is probably my top pick here. If your high school banned Catcher in the Rye you should read it, as it is excellent. (My high school didn't ban it!) Also, anything by Robin Cook is usually pretty good if you like medical thrillers.</p>
<p>(I'm assuming you mean academic-type books and not reading for pleasure.)</p>
<p>Skim a bit on Sartre and Camus, but don't get too into it unless you really love existentialism (well Camus SAYS he wasn't an existentialist, but we all know he was...)</p>
<p>If you haven't read these in HS already...
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World... and along with that... George Orwell - 1984
one of the following (Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Flaubert - Madame Bovary, Chopin - The Awakening), you get the idea of the others
either (Hugo - Les Miserables, Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo) not only are they epic, but very fun to read!
there are other essential "classics" too...</p>
<p>oh yeah, and don't forget to read contemporary books of literary merit.</p>
<p>this site is really awesome - <a href="http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/</a>
enter a book and it spits out recommendations. also, if you click on the "What Have I Read" test, there are lists of books organized into categories (popular, fantasy, classic, contemp, non-fiction, etc). It should be a pretty good list :)</p>
<p>We can all give better recommendations if you tell us what you want to get out of the books you read, what you have already read and really liked...</p>
<p>Love Story is an awesome book. Also, The Lord of The Rings Triology.</p>
<p>The Old Man and the Sea is actually amazingly awesome, one of my favorites, but tends to be a book that you either love or hate. Most girls hate it.</p>
<p>Gatsby, Catch-22, The elegant universe, Tuesdays with Morrie, Unequal Childhoods, Freakonomics</p>
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<p>English Grammar for Dummies</p>
<p>Native Son by Richard Wright</p>
<p>Life of Pi by Yann Martel</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald</p>
<p>Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris</p>
<p>The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini</p>
<p>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (yeah, yeah, so it's a kid's book, but it's also quite lovely and everyone should read it at least once, regardless of age)</p>
<p>And... anything by Hemingway (try "The Sun Also Rises" or "The Old Man and the Sea")</p>