<p>Does anyone have suggestions for summer reading? Hopefully I will have a lot of time to catch up on my reading this summer after a busy school year.</p>
<p>Do you have any books you're required to read for class? </p>
<p>What kind of books do you like?</p>
<p>I am very interested in classics and biographies. I only have 2 books I am required to read for class. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any great lists of books. I have seen the College Board list and plan on reading several from there, but if any other good lists exist, please let me know.</p>
<p>I don't know if this is a great list or not but it's what my teacher gave us: </p>
<p>Tuesdays With Morrie</p>
<p>Well, I can give you some suggestions of books in the vein of "classics" which I've personally enjoyed...</p>
<p>1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumont
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen</p>
<p>Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Devil and the White City by Erik Larson
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</p>
<p>Umm don't read Ayn Rand unless you plan on spending all of your time for a week or two reading it. Her books are ginormous.</p>
<p>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakeur - sort of a biography
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut</p>
<p>Tuesdays with Morrie was such a moving book.</p>
<p>It depends on what you like. Personally I like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. It is an amazing book written in stream of consciousness. I also recommend Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.</p>
<p>If you like biographies, there's a great one of Teddy Roosevelt. I can't remember who wrote it though.</p>
<p>Eisenhower and Churchill both have legendary memoirs (and boy does Churchill have alot of memoirs!). I know Kruschev Remembers is also notable th ough I've never read it.</p>
<p>I'm going to list here some of the most amazing and unforgetable books I've ever read:
Blindness by Jose Saramago
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Infante's Inferno by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
62: A Model Kit by Julio Cortazar</p>
<p>also, the books that East09 recommended are really good!</p>
<p>A Separate Peace=Only book I couldn't finish.</p>
<p>I want to read "Somebody's Gotta Say It!" and</p>
<p>A Separate Peace can be a boring book for some people... last year my language arts class suggested the teacher to remove it from our reading list for following years.</p>
<p>Here's my summer reading list (what i've put in so far anyway)</p>
<p>There are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (read it once and loved it. now its for class)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Tender Bar -
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
A Brief History of Time - Stephan Hawking
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene and Joost Elffers</p>
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<p>Maybe Lolita.</p>
<p>I've read East of Eden by John Steinbeck and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Both are fantastic</p>
<p>Oh my, yes! Must finish reading Lolita this summer!</p>
<p>I keep hearing about Reading Lolita, so I might pick that up.</p>
<p>Some fantastic books:</p>
<p>The Bonfire of the Vanities </p>
<p>A Confederacy of Dunces</p>
<p>The Milagro Beanfield War</p>
<p>Slaughterhouse-Five</p>
<p>Something Wicked This Way Comes</p>
<p>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</p>