Fiction and non fiction suggestions would be appreciated.
2006-12-20 10:02:57 · 10 answers · asked by Puff 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Read anything and everything that interests you-anything about science, animals, math-whatever turns your fancy. Knowledge is best retained when it's something that you like....reading a bunch of lofty sounding titles that aren't interesting to you is a waste of your time.
2006-12-20 10:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by hoodoowoman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare has been demostrated to stimulate brain activity (and hence make it work better), so reading "the Bard" is a definate must. I don't know what your high school requires, but I'd start with:
Julius Ceasar
Romeo & Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth
Hamlet
Othello
Merchant of Venice
Henry V
Also, if you can, watch Shakespeare. Go to the theater, or failing that, rent a good version on DVD. Hearing the language really helps.
I also echo the suggestion about reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (or the original: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People).
Some other ones you should probably be familiar with include (in no particular order):
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - Mark Taiwan
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
All Quiet on the Western Front - E. M. Remarque
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
The Prince & The Pauper - Mark Twain
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
A Man For All Seasons - Robert Bolt
and at least part of the Bible -- I suggest the books of:
Genesis, Song of Solomon, Luke, Galatians, and Revelation
(whether you're Christian or not is not really relevant here. The Bible has had a great influence of on Western literature and therefore as a college-bound student, it's wise to be familiar with the stories and motifs contained therein)
2006-12-20 11:43:40 · answer #2 · answered by Elise K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot depends on your major. If that has not been decided I would go for motivational books. You will have to discover what "rings your bell". I personally like Tony Robbins and Gary Zukav.
The best advice I can give is to read, for pleasure, for knowledge for the heck of it. Keep your mind open the more variety you experience the better prepared you are for life.
I have retired so now I read mostly fiction detective and romance (gotta get a break from the blood and guts). I also throw in some philosophy and then the books I choose lead me to read some classics. It is a journey and open your mind to all paths.
Minds are like parachures; they only work if they are open.
L
2006-12-20 10:17:30 · answer #3 · answered by reddemonwi55 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Illiad and Odyssee,The Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's major works, Goethe's Faust. Selections from Plato, Aristotle, Freud, Descartes, Nietzsche, Kant, and Hume. The Bible. Books by Chaucer, Dostoevsky, Blake, Faulkner, Twain, Melville, Jung, Hawthorne, Hemmingway, Kerouac, etc.
That will keep you busy for awhile. (Slated toward humanities: literature, philosophy, and psychology material.)
2006-12-20 10:16:03 · answer #4 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 00:34:12 · answer #5 · answered by england 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are considering a specific school: Stanford, Colorado College, Earlham College, Texas A&M, etc., I'd go to their website
and look at any suggested reading lists.
Read the classics of any career (college major), biographies of famous people in the field: for Nursing - Nightingale's biographies, etc.
2006-12-20 11:23:15 · answer #6 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave, Harry Potter and Eragon would all be excellent choices
2006-12-21 06:12:48 · answer #7 · answered by Caveman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of the 100 listed below, I've read 35 of the books... I read a work by an additional 12 of the authors listed below, i.e. I read "A Room of One's Own", instead of Virginia Woolf's book, "To the Lighthouse"; Charles Dickens "David Copperfield" and Oliver Twist", etc
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice (English class & love)
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre (English class & love)
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights (English class & love story)
Camus, Albert The Stranger
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate The Awakening (women's classic)
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans (classic western)
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage (civil war)
Dante Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote (the true dreamer)
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe (stranded on a desert island)
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment (guilt)
Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers (adventure)
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man (black in America)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby (love class in America)
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Golding, William Lord of the Flies (isolated from society...)
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter (love and guilt)
Heller, Joseph Catch 22 (WW II effects)
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Homer The Iliad
Homer The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird (racism in America)
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman Moby Dick (classic obsession)
Miller, Arthur The Crucible
Morrison, Toni Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George Animal Farm (life from an animal's pov)
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago (Russian love/war story)
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar (insanity)
Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye (American teens)
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream (fun)
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet (love story)
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein (fantasy)
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles Antigone
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island (fun)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels (interesting fantasy)
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace (long, but interesting)
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fun)
Voltaire Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five (WWII & effects)
Walker, Alice The Color Purple (Black, female, poor in usa )
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie (American family)
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard Native Son (Black in America)
2006-12-20 16:19:23 · answer #8 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi a really good book for reference is 7 habits of highly effective teens, it teaches you how to manage your time, multi-task and develop a sense of maturity in approaching new challenges.
really good. we had a curriculum on this when i went to college.
2006-12-20 10:22:50 · answer #9 · answered by wewethegreat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any classical literature that you can get your hands on (ie: shakespeare, dickens, etc.).
2006-12-20 10:10:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋