So I'll get this list started:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Okay students, you're up.
I don't read for fun.. but my favorite book was The Great Gatsby. The ending was so awesome because it was just sudden and dramatic. I don't know but it's just that feeling.
ReplyDeleteIn middle school, my friend suggested The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. I bought the book and never got a chance to read it. I was going to this summer but I was so preoccupied with work. I'll be sure to read it soon!
Jodi Picoult books! She has a bunch and I always cry for every one.
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Holy hell, I don't know where to even begin. This question excites me to the point of busting a lung(and perhaps my liver). I will have to post later on, my list of favorite books(and book like objects), before I succumb to barotrauma .
ReplyDeleteBTW Mr. Ferencz, The internal clock on the comment permalinks is off by 3 hours and it is really annoying (for some reason).
ReplyDeletePhantoms in the Brain is really fascinating, although I'm not quite finished with it yet.
ReplyDeletePersonal favorites:
Flowers for Algernon
Of Mice and Men
Snow Falling on Cedars
Q & A
Animal Farm
Norwegian Wood
Vlad here...Forget mildly interesting 'Classics'. Here's an incredible book that I found by accident and it may be the best book I will have ever read: Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt. And don't judge by the title, it's not what it sounds like. Really, I doubt many of you have read a book like this so if you're in the mood for something funny and brilliant check it out. Some other personal favorites:
ReplyDeleteTales of the MADMAN Underground by John Barnes (excellent, clever teen novel about the 70's)
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (awesome witty action story that's so good that it's being adapted into a movie with Leo DiCaprio)
How To Rob an Armored Car by Iain Levison (Lol-inducing)
Carter Finally Gets It and Carter's Big Break (not really what a Stuy student would read but I found them hilarious even though they're pretty typical teen novels)
King Dork by Frank Portman (like a modern Catcher in the Rye except funnier, way more explicit, has a plot, and worth reading)
Stuy can be depressing at times so pretty much everything I read for pleasure is humorous, entertaining and enthralling.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Bluest Eye
The Last Lecture - Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Pride & Prejudice
I Am The Messenger
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Bad Seed by William March
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Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
TWILIGHT by Stephanie Meyers (jk... sort of..........)
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
Here's my list:
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (it's a trilogy/series)
Uglies series by Scott Westerfield
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan (Must-read series!)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
the girl with the dragon tattoo, the girl who played with fire and the girl who kicked the hornets nest by Stieg Larsson
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ~ Mortimer J. Adler
ReplyDeleteEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
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Lord of the flies
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Harry potter series
Unwound
Dracula, Stoker
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Siddhartha, Hesse
These are all books I read last year in "Modern European lit" class (the non-full year one), but I don't think everyone read the same ones.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
ReplyDeleteIm not a fan of reading but i still found these books pretty interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe Grasslands Trilogy: Beyond the Mask, Behind the mask, i forgot the other one.
Robinson Crusoe
Gregor the Overlander Series
Call of the Wild
The Last of the Mohecans
Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
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Heroes of Olympus,
All by Rick Riordan, basically any book he write is just pure gold
Also I was going to put East of Eden, its already on the initial post, real good book, with a strong message,
and i agree with momohaque Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck and pretty good author too
-Mohammed Ismail
Fahrenheit 451
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
Unfortunately I don't have nearly as much time to read as I used to. My list of favorites is extremely short, since any book can be good, but it's extremely difficult to find a book that is brilliant. With that said, my favorite book of all time is Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Probably the most intelligent book I've read in my entire life.
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ReplyDeleteHow beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken- Daniel Mendelsohn (It's a collection of essays, which might seem kinda boring, but I think it's super duper interesting cause he talks about movies and stuff we all know!!!!!!)
And I can lend it to anyone if they want harharhar
Through the Children's Gate: A Home in NY - Adam Gopnik (I have it at home! I haven't started it yet, but all my friends say it's super awesome. And we can all identify with it cause we're all New Yorkers!
the Harry Potter Series
STARGIRL (!!!) By Jerry Spinelli
I don't have that much time to read, but those are my favorites!
Yeah, Ender's Game, actually. +1 William.
ReplyDeleteAlso García Márquez. Maybe I'll read that in Spanish some day.
Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash in particular, and Cryptonomicon as a side note.
Michael Pollan's stuff. Nonfiction and not outstanding for the writing quality, but everyone should read The Omnivore's Dilemma.-jack
whew, its been a while since I've read for enjoyment, but i like a good read that has elements of paranormal phenomena or fantasy. Years back i read "The Last Apprentice" series by Joseph Delaney and found the setting, detail and visuals to be interesting. Another series I read growing up was the "Septimus Heap" series by Angie sage and "Artemis Fowl" by Eion Colfer. But if you're short on time, one book I'd recommend is "The Giver" by Lois Lowery. I found that the plot was simple and analyzing the society that it takes place in interesting.
ReplyDeleteCan't really think of a favorite but a good book is, Fragile Things (book of short stories but whatever).
ReplyDeleteI also like "The Last Apprentice" series, "His Dark Material" trilogy by Phillip Pullman, "Beka Cooper" series by Tamora Pierce, and "Fearless FBI" series by Francine Pascal.
ReplyDeleteI prefer series but I also like Sherlock Holmes, The Color of Water by James McBride, and King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green.
-Soulin Haque, Period 2
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The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
Mitch Albom's For One More Day and The Five People You Meet in Heaven
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I have to say my favorite book and series of all time is
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but these are some of my other favorites
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell- Sussana Clarke
Shade's Children- Garth Nix
The Sea of Trolls- Nancy Farmer
Summerland- Micheal Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
A visit from the Goon Squad (My brother read in English and passed it on to me. Very unique style of storytelling) -Jennifer Egan
As said before all the Ender's Games books by Orson Scott Card
-Remy Carr Pd 10
Inheritance Cycle- aka Eragon
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Ender's Game Series
Runelords + Series
Animal Farm
Redwall Series
Mostly sci-fi here, but a little fantasy and some comedy
ReplyDeleteStarship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman (never get tired of this book)
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (another book that I never grow tired of)
The Shadow Series - Orson Scott Card (follows the events on earth after Ender Wiggin's departure)
A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R.R. Martin
The Fran Lebowitz Reader- Fran Lebowitz
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Douglass Adams
John O'Donnell, pd 10
The knife of never letting go (chaos walking trilogy) by Patrick Ness (Really good)
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and the hunger games series by suzanne collins
-Artemis Fowl series
ReplyDelete-Howl's moving castle, Castle in the Air, House of Many Ways(same series)
-Grey Griffins series+second series
-Seven Realms series+Heir chronicles(Warrior Heir, Wizard Heir, Dragon Heir) by Cinda Williams Chima
-Septimus Heap series
-the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
-Eragon Series
-Last Apprentice series
-Percy Jackson and the Olympians+next series
-Kane chronicles
-Dresden Files series
-Codex Alera series
-The Familiars series
-Lorien Legacies(I am Number four+Power of Six so far)
-Ranger's Apprentice series
-Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
Those are all I can remember right now, but there are a lot more, just cannot think of more right now. Enjoy, they're all really good books.
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There have been very few novels I've ever really liked, the few exceptions are The Kite Runner and anything I've read by Dostoevsky (Demons, Crime and Punishment)... I really like novels that make you think about you're own life and that are very philosophical.... I also love short stories because i feel like because there short stories (i especially like kurt vonnegut) every little detail is important to it, so every little abstract reference usually has a deeper meaning, perhaps not so obvious, and I like being able to think about every little aspects of a story and form my own opinions on it. I'm also really into creative non-fiction such as David Sedaris, as well as essays (I like the collection in "Consider The Lobster") and magazine articles (GQ, Esquire, The New Yorker, etc.)
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The Grapes of Wrath
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1984
-Eric Xiao
Harry Potter series
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Pride and Prejudice
The Tiffany Aching Adventures by Terry Pratchett
Vampire Academy series
-Yong Shi Liang pd 7
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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ReplyDeletethese are all nonfiction but really interesting
ReplyDelete"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
"Freakonomics" by Steven D Levitt
"How randomness ruins our lives" by Leonard Mlodinow
The Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling
ReplyDeleteEragon series by Christopher Paolini (I still need to read the last book)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
O'Henry's short stories
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
After the First Death by Robert Cormier
Andrew Xie Pd10
Oh to add onto my list, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is also one of my favorites.
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Um I never read this book but I heard it was really good, I watched the movie though… I kind of forgot what it was called but I think the title was something scissorhand…………Edward Scissorhand?
ReplyDeleteAny book by Alexander Dumas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Charles Dickens.
ReplyDeleteSUBWAYLAND: Adventures in the World Beneath NY
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I absolutely love writing to do with the subways!
IT'S A FABULOUS BOOK
EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT
@David, I'm pretty sure "Consider the Lobster" is David Foster Wallace, not David Sedaris
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
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