<p>I plan on reading...
The Stranger By Albert Camus (already started)
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
and One L by Scott Turow, but I probably won't start that until a bit into the school year.</p>
<p>you?</p>
<p>"Les Miserables" Victor Hugo
Perhaps "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer</p>
<p>Three only, yet all are very long books. Gosh, I am only on page 156 out of 796 pages of Les Miserables. Still a good book, though!</p>
<p>Anna Karenina...bleh...</p>
<p>I am planning on reading(all in my free time):</p>
<p>Portrait in Sephia by Isabel Allende
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison(I really want to read this!!!)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</p>
<p>Genji Monogatari, Lady Murasaki
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt (AP Macroeconomics)
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies (AP Composition)
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (AP Composition)
Bold books are required per department policy</p>
<p>hamlet retellings</p>
<p>People read in their free time?</p>
<p>i plan on reading The American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips, The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth and probably Brave New World by Huxley</p>
<p>kman1456- freakonomics is an awesome book and a quick reading, you can easily finish it in 2-3 days.</p>
<p>I'm probably gonna start
godel, escher bach
the idiot
hopefully I'll find some more david sedaris books, he cracks me up.</p>
<p>^^you like david sedaris??</p>
<p>can we be friends? haha he's brilliant..after i read me talk pretty one day, i was hooked.</p>
<p>Im only reading the one book I'm forced to read...Guns, Steel, and Germs..idk who wrote it either. Colleges shouldnt make engineering majors read</p>
<p>hamlet
count of monte cristo
give me a break
pandora</p>
<p>
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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A lot of things in that book are so true, unfortunately. Pretty good accuracy, but the storyline... eh. Didn't really go anywhere.</p>
<p>leah377- hahah yeah sedaris is great. I started out with me talk pretty one day too, it was so funny. I recently read dress your family in corduroy and denim, its hilarious.</p>
<p>Return of the Native- Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
Freakonomics- Steven Levitt
The World is Flat- Thomas Friedman
Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris
La Casa de los Espiritus- Isabel Allende
Zorro- Isabel Allende
Yellow- don't know who it's by... it's required by my college</p>
<p>I'll probably read a lot more but just pick up random things. I read Jane Eyre in a day a few days ago so I need lots of books to go through.</p>
<p>I read the Canterbury Tales for AP Lit. my senior year liked it
Anna Karenina, thats pretty lengthy and vey rich I hear </p>
<p>At the moment Im planning to read/reading: Living to Tell the Tale, the autobiography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Im getting into Russian literature so anything worth reading that I can find, with that said Im starting Madame Bovary. Conferderacy of Dunces (book is hilarious no matter how many times I read it) other books by Jhumpa Lahiri (I read Namesake and REALLY liked the book and her style of writing), The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, and attempting to start East of Eden by Jhon Steinbeck.</p>
<p>Required:
Before We Were Free by Julie Alvarez
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
Free-time:
im not sure but a lot of mystery and some other ones.</p>
<p>i'm not required to do any reading, but..</p>
<p>life of pi - yann martel (just finished)
you shall know our velocity! - dave eggers (halfway done)
the unbeable lightness of being - milan kundera
the world is flat - thomas friedman
cat's cradle - kurt vonnegut
atlas shrugged - ayn rand (if i have time)</p>
<p>I wanna read Freakonomics and The Feminine Mystique.</p>
<p>This summer I am in the middle of reading my first romance novel. I thought those types are books are stupid and women waste their time reading them. But they are fun. Just finished a hard freshman year and I need to read...junk.</p>
<p>I'm reading War and Peace right now, I'm on page 450 or so. So good...
Also, The Adolescent by Dostoyevsky.</p>