<p>The Stranger by Albert Camus. I seriously love this book. Read it for English class and I fell in love, read it about 10 more times as well as the rest of Camus's books. Its so amazing.</p>
<p>Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind (all of Enders saga) by Orson Scott Card!!</p>
<p>i used to read a lot. i dont anymore, its rather sad.</p>
<p>i love:
great gatsby
all jane austen
everything is illuminated
cats cradle
gone with the wind</p>
<p>wow...i need to get to a barnes and nobles...and fast</p>
<p>i don't read anymore either :(</p>
<p>wow, everyone honestly enjoy those profound classics? does no one here on CC like "modern trash" etc that are on New York Times list?</p>
<p>I have so many books but so little time to read them. :( </p>
<p>Just read The Things They Carried by O'Brien recently for my AP Lit research project - I could not have picked a better book to research; I LOVED it. Definitely my favorite book that I have ever read. It's so brilliant and it made me think about truth in a way that I never have before. It was just fabulous.</p>
<p>Other than that, I found The Kite Runner to be an extraordinary book.</p>
<p>There's obviously more books I've enjoyed, but those two I'd say are my favorites right now. I'm in the middle of 1984 and about 20 other books... I'll hopefully finish a few over winter break...</p>
<p>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Joy Luck Club - Tan
The House on Mango Street - Cisneros
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare</p>
<p>i love a tree grows in brooklyn. i saw the movie a really long time ago, and as i recall, i dont i liked it ver much
(when i was younger, i went through a phase of read the classics, watch the movies of them. now, im in a reality tv phase. wow, thats sad)</p>
<p>hm... most of my favorite books are trash... or sports related:</p>
<p>Summer Sisters- judy blume.. ahh so trashy but i love it. all girls should read it sometime
The Rapture of Canaan- someone reynolds
Better Than Running At Night- Hillary Frank
Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen
Gold in the Water- P.H. Mullen.. a must read for yr round swimmers
Once a Runner- John Parker
A Civil War: Army vs. Navy: A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry... figures this book would be the first ever to make me cry hahaha</p>
<p>"Catch-22"
"'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character)"
"The Elegant Universe"</p>
<p>bump cause you can never have too much to read ;]</p>
<p>i forgot me talk pretty one day by david sedaris
he's amazingly funny</p>
<p>ahhh i'm such a book dork!</p>
<p>diary/fight club/ survivors/ ANYTHING by chuck palahniuk
On The Road, The Dharma Bums, Sense and Sensibility, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Naked Lunch, Lolita, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1984, The Great Gatsby, skinny legs and all ( <3<3<3 tom robbins) oh and kurt vonnegut. </p>
<p>too many good books. too little time.</p>
<p>Series:
Ender's books-very good
LoTR-nuff said
Harry Potter( books 4-6 made me consider it my favorite series ever, the world she creates is just amazing)</p>
<p>Books:
Red Storm Rising
The Cardinal of the Kremlin(Clancy's best book imo)
Native Son
The Glory and the Dream-very interesting history of America 1932-72</p>
<p>Short Stories:
The Pit and The Pendulum-best language I have ever read</p>
<p>Shadow Divers - Robert Kurston
To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Nothing to Hide - Picabo Street</p>
<p>I have lots more....depends on my mood. Everyone loves To Kill A Mockingbird!!!</p>
<p>ps
just starting The Great Gatsby and it's good so far! Another I forgot is The Hearth and Eagle by Anya Seton. It's a GREAT piece of historical fiction.</p>
<p>My favorite types of books are realistic fiction and histoical fiction oh and mystery. But I dont like fantasy.</p>
<p>Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (my absolute favorite book of all time "a whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard")
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dracula - Bram Stoker</p>
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Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
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<p>You have great taste. I'm not one to laugh during reading (only the HP books have succeeded consistently in this regard), but boy, even after a hundred or so years, Wilde is fresh enough to make modern readers laugh. Pity it's only a play and not a full-length novel of 800 pages.</p>
<p>I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Great Expectations, which is IMHO Dickens' crowning achievement. Unlike in his other works, good and evil are not so clearly defined. Is Pip evil because he has ambition? Is Estella evil because she's a tool for Ms. Havisham? Is Ms. Havisham evil because she was wronged in the past and wants to take her revenge out on the rest of her world? In other books, there are characters of such impossible goodness and virtue that they fail you capture your interest as human beings, and instead entertain you as Dickensian caricatures.</p>
<p>Age of Innocence
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</p>
<p>bump......</p>