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Dec 25 2007 06:29pm
So over the break we need to read a book, and she gave us a list of books, some I have read and some I have not, but let me know what books you think I should read, put 1-2 books of your choice.

But ya I like alot of books, but let me know what ones u think are good!
1984 – Orwell
A Doll’s House – Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
A Gesture of Life
A Lesson Before Dying – Gaines
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
A Passage to India
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
A Raisin in the Sun
A Separate Peace
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
A Thousand Acres – Smiley
Absalom, Absalom!
Adam Bede
Age of Innocence
Alias Grace – Atwood
All the King’s Men
All the Pretty Horses
An American Tragedy
An Enemy of the People
Anna Karenina
Antigone
As I Lay Dying
As You Like It – Shakespeare
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Beloved
Billy Budd
Black Boy
Bless Me Ultima
Brave New World – Huxley
Candide
Catch 22 – Heller
Ceremony
Crime and Punishment
Cry the Beloved Country
David Copperfield – Dickens
Death of a Salesman – Miller
Don Quixote
Dr. Faustus
East of Eden
Equus
Ethan Frome
Faust
Fences
Fifth Business
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frankenstein - Shelley
Ghosts
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck
Great Expectations – Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
Hamlet – Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness – Conrad
Hedda Gabler
Henry IV, parts 1 & 2 – Shakespeare
House Made of Dawn
In the Time of the Butterflies – Alverez
Invisible Man – Ellison
Jane Eyre
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Jude the Obscure
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
King Lear - Shakespeare
Light in August
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Lord Jim
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth – Shakespeare
Madame Bovary
Major Barbara
Mansfield Park
Medea
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Moll Flanders
Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf
Murder in the Cathedral
Native Son
Native Speaker
O Pioneers!
Obasan
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Orlando
Othello – Shakespeare
Our Town
Out of Africa
Pere Goriot
Persuasion
Phedre
Poccho
Pride and Prejudice
Ragtime
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Sent for You Yesterday
Sister Carrie
Song of Solomon
Sula
Surfacing – Atwood
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The American
The Awakening
The Bear
The Birthday Party
The Blind Assassin
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Cherry Orchard
The Color Purple – Walker
The Crucible – Miller
The Fixer
The Glass Menagerie
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
The Homecoming
The House of Mirth
The Kite Runner
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis
The Moor’s Last Sigh
The Piano Lesson
The Plague
The Portrait of a Lady
The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury
The Stranger
The Sun Also Rises
The Tempest – Shakespeare
The Things They Carried – O’Brien
The Turn of the Screw
The Vicar of Wakefield
The Way We Live Now
The Wide Sargasso Sea
The Winter’s Tale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart – Achebe
Tom Jones
Twelfth Night – Shakespeare
Typical American
Waiting for Godot
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wuthering Heights
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Dec 25 2007 08:18pm
1984 – Orwell
Faust
Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald

I picked these ones for the simple reason that they are all generall easy reads, with good plots, and typically appealing to a large audience. Your list was filled with plenty of books that I have read and enjoyed; but these few would be god for just about anyone (1984 is my favorite of that list).
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Dec 26 2007 09:48am
cry the beloved country
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Dec 26 2007 10:21pm
Lord of the Flies!

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Dec 26 2007 11:47pm
take some that have movies of them tongue.gif

u should read none of them
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Dec 27 2007 02:34am
"the metamorphosis" is this the one from kafka? its a good read.
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Dec 27 2007 09:37am
Quote (MyExitEmergency @ Wed, Dec 26 2007, 02:18am)
1984 – Orwell

Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald



i'd pick one of those..
Metomorphosis is quite depressing imo, had some struggle reading it..


@god_of_warz (lol )

You suck.
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Dec 27 2007 11:47pm
1984 and trash the rest.
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Dec 28 2007 03:31am
1984 – Orwell
Heart of Darkness – Conrad
Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
The Metamorphosis

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Dec 28 2007 03:58am
1984 – Orwell
Catch 22 – Heller
Don Quixote
Great Expectations – Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
Invisible Man – Ellison
Lord of the Flies
Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
The Kite Runner

Anyone of these are worth reading but I would suggest these three out overall.

1984 – Orwell
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
The Kite Runner

This post was edited by Conri on Dec 28 2007 04:00am
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