<p>so now that most of my summer if free i wish to read like 15-20 books in the two month period before starting college so i need to know what books to read.</p>
<p>I'm not only looking only for story books but non-fiction as well such as the philosophy of great thinkers and more of the such. </p>
<p>please give me a list of the books that everyone must read in their lifetime.</p>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears' New Baby</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Go to School</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears' Moving Day</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears in the Dark</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears and the Truth</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears and Mama's New Job</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears No Girls Allowed</h1>
<h1>The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday</h1>
<p>Oh geez not again. List your tastes, if such are present, i.e. what books you have enjoyed in the past. Don't read something you're not at all interested in, for it might become a long, tedious read.</p>
<p>can anyone serious and intelligent post a list or give me a link to a list of good books to read fiction d non-fiction?</p>
<p>I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera atm and I love it :) </p>
<p>Just go to amazon.com or something and choose whatever is popular</p>
<p>If you want to read about "the philosophy of great thinkers" just read umm... stuff by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, John Rawls, John Dewey, John Locke, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, Dostoevsky, blablabla the list goes on and on...</p>
<p>Edit: A little advice : I most definitely wouldn't attempt to read 15-20 books by 'great thinkers' in a period of 2 months :P</p>
<p>"please give me a list of the books that everyone must read in their lifetime."</p>
<p>The Bible.
The Republic of Plato, as well as the Dialogues (Meno, Crito, etc.).
The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius.
The Confessions and The City of God of St. Augustine.
The Proslogion and Monologion of St. Anselm.
The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The Summa Contra Gentiles of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes.
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.</p>
<p>add The Prince by Machiavelli</p>
<p>Death by Black Holes by Neil DeGrass Tyson</p>
<p>An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser</p>
<p>anything by salman rushdie, his books are usually rather challenging to read.</p>
<p>The Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar. Dive into the world of the spoiled offspring of that wealthy top 1% and have a good laugh while your at it. </p>
<p>You'll like it if you're a girl.</p>
<p>She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb. Guys might not like it, though.</p>
<p>Well, if you like sci-fi, I have great series for you: Ender's Game. There are 8 books in the series, but they're such fast reads. every time I read the books (and I reread them all the time, and then end up rereading the entire series), I finish in about a week.</p>
<p>Also, a great book if you haven't read it is 1984</p>
<p>As always:</p>
<p>We the Living -- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand</p>
<p>-Also-</p>
<p>Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Nietzsche
The Antichrist -- Nietzsche
The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde
Ragtime -- E.L. Doctorow
No Exit -- Sartre
The Miser -- Moli</p>
<p>I really want to read The Fountainhead!</p>
<p>the fountainhead is excellent but after reading it i couldn't read her other books, they were all the same story with different characters it seemed to me.</p>
<p>Haha, it's the same philosophy. She's consistent with that. I find them all appealing in different ways though -- Fountainhead more inspirational, Atlas Shrugged more motivational, and We the Living more emotional. They're different stories when you get deep down to it, just with individuals who hold the same values.</p>
<p>yeah i know, i had a friend write a research paper on objectivism lol. there's actually an objectivist convention this year in colorado somewhere...still like 15 tickets left i heard from my rand-obsessed friend lol.</p>
<p>I agree with an earlier poster. An American Tragedy is also a fantastic book. A bit long, but very interesting.</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and The Prince by Machiavelli mentioned by previous posters are great. Same for 1984, Utopia by Thomas More, and Brave New World by Huxley.</p>
<p>But if you want to read interesting but less... verbose stuff, add Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (nonfiction, but interesting), Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, The Kite Runner, House of Leaves, The Book Thief, etc.</p>