<p>I'm looking for book recommendations for this summer, and a lot of people on CC seem to have ideas for what to read. </p>
<p>I enjoyed:</p>
<p>Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe</p>
<p>I disliked:</p>
<p>Great Expectations
Romeo and Juliet</p>
<p>Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>By all means, if you liked Animal Farm, continue in that vein. Read 1984 by George Orwell.</p>
<p>I hated everything you disliked too... </p>
<p>For book recommendations, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS!!! WOO!!!</p>
<p>read some fiction, short stories by famous fiction writers, 1984.</p>
<p>If you enjoy teenage fantasy better, try the Pendragon series, Maximum Ride, Alex Rider, and Among the Hidden. CC'ers do not appreciate good teenage literature...</p>
<p>LOL. I feel sorta awkward taking books from the the "Teen Section" of the library now. I finished the whole John Grishman collection this past summer (took forever but was entertaining). But I'm totally obsessed with HP. Can't wait until July 21!</p>
<p>-The Awkward Coot66</p>
<p>To kill a mockingbird. Lord of the flies? Great Gatsby? There are a ton of classic books, that are awesome.</p>
<p>I loved everything you disliked and hated everything you liked. In fact, great expectations and romeo and juliet are sitting a top my dresser right now. =/<br>
So, I'll suggest books i hated. </p>
<p>East of Eden- John Steinbeck
The Color Purple
The Jungle- upton sinclair
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
and of course the new harry potter book (i'm not saying i dislike this since I haven't even read it yet.)</p>
<p>siddhartha. angela's ashes. cry the beloved country.</p>
<p>The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck</p>
<p>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley</p>
<p>A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole</p>
<p>Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury</p>
<p>Read some Tolstoy, Anna Karenina and War and Peace are challenging to read but definitely worth it.</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury</p>
<p>Of Mice and Men
Anthem</p>
<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange. And other than that I agree with a lot of others: Catch-22, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World.</p>
<p>As for things others haven't suggested, these are great and a little less classic, more fun:
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Wheel of Time series
A Song of Fire and Ice series
Legends - and by that I mean these: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_%28book%29%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_%28book%29</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_II_%28book%29%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_II_%28book%29</a></p>
<p>Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner</p>
<p>Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas </p>
<p>(not based on your likes and dislikes but on the fact that everyone I've talked to who has read the whole book has loved it)</p>
<p>Well, since you liked The Pearl definitely read East of Eden and Of Mice and Men- those are my favorite Steinbeck books</p>