2006-07-21 01:06:28 · 33 answers · asked by monkey jacket 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
War and Peace, by Tolstoy.
2006-07-21 02:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by Joe 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My teacher told me to read a lot but did not recommend any books. I usually read classic novels. My favourites are The Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo, Ivanhoe, A Tal of Two Cities, Valley of Fear, Hound of Baskervile, Sign of four, Treasure Island, short stories of O'Henry. Among epics I love the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, the Iliad. Yet to read the Odyssey. Among new books i like River God, The Warlock and Catch 22.
2006-07-21 02:04:00 · answer #2 · answered by patty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I loved a lot of books I had to read in high school. In the 9th grade, we had to read "Night" by Elie Wiesel, which was about his life in a concentration camp. It was such a great book.
In the 10th grade we read "The Grapes of Wrath" which took me a little longer to get into because of the dialect, but once I did, it made my list of favorite books.
And the 11th grade we read "Lord of the Flies" which was about a group of kids on a deserted island and the anarchy that ensues when there is no central order. That was an amazing book.
2006-07-21 01:29:45 · answer #3 · answered by EvilFairies 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Toss up between George Orwell's 1984 and Joesph Heller's Catch-22
2006-07-21 20:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by Hidden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
2006-07-21 02:16:45 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I didn't like any of the books we had to read - they were always seemed hard going and fantasy and science fiction wasn't considered a proper genre to study. So I'll change the question (sorry) the worse was 'To Kill a Mockingbird' good story line - but I thought it was written terribly.
2006-07-21 01:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by Ekpyrotic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. We read quite a few books in high school that I really enjoyed but this is the only one that I was dead set against reading when he assigned it! I don't really remember why I was so hesitant to read it, but I really, really liked it. I can't pick a Penny off the street without remembering it. And Kafir Boy by Mark Mathabane. Our principal (who was very old fashioned) flipped when she heard we were reading it, but it was ... really interesting.
2006-07-21 04:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by kasar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Junk
When I was 16, our teacher had a box of books, read out the title and we had to put our hand up for it.
Its basically about two teenagers who run away to Bristol (based in the UK) and end up heroine addicts with a baby. Read it, its actually much better than my description!
2006-07-21 01:43:39 · answer #8 · answered by H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animal Farm
2006-07-22 18:35:08 · answer #9 · answered by Call Me Babs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a three way tie:
Chaim Potok's "The Chosen"
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
2006-07-21 06:22:44 · answer #10 · answered by poohba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any books by Nathaniel Hawthorne or Edgar Allan Poe
"Lotta Honey"
2006-07-21 03:44:08 · answer #11 · answered by mincharbrooks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋