2006-12-23 14:01:52 · 16 answers · asked by ortheother 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
There are so many books out there. Just find the subject that intrests you. Try Barnes and Noble. Mary Higgins Clark has really good books so does Sue Grafton, pretty graphic though, David Baldachi is pretty good, The Da Vinci Code is alright.
2006-12-23 14:13:05 · answer #1 · answered by Dodge's lil girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here are a bunch, straight from a suggested reading list for a private school...
Suggested Readings
1776 David McCulloch
April 1865 Jay Winik
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
Bobos in Paradise David Brooks
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Brighton Rock Graham Greene
Clear Light of Day Anita Desai
The Complete Stories Flannery O’Connor
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Dante Club Matthew Pearl
Dead Man Walking Sister Helen Prejean
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh
The Glory and the Dream William Manchester
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Great Influenza John Barry
The Human Factor Graham Greene
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
King Leopold’s Ghost Adam Hochschild
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Last Gentleman Walker Percy
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
Lilith George MacDonald
The Moviegoer Walker Percy
Native Son Richard Wright
One Writer’s Beginnings Eudora Welty
Othello William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy
Rising Tide John Barry
Run with the Horseman Ferrol Sams
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Season of Blood Fergal Keane
The Second Coming Walker Percy
Sophie’s World Jostein Gaarder
The Stamp of Glory Tim Stafford
The Stranger Albert Camus
That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
Three Tales Gustav Flaubert
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
I would add all of the CS Lewis Books and all the Madeliene L'Engle Books, All the Brontes and the regular classics...with some Jane Austen as well thrown in...
2006-12-23 16:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by nackawicbean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really does depend on the system you do. Here, in Grade 11 Chem we learn all the basics, and Grade 12 we extend on it. Here, Chem is definitely one of the harder subjects, but if you pass well in Grace 11 you usually do well in Grade 12 because it's mainly the same course work. The best thing to do is to talk to your teacher and older students. Talking to these people helped me a lot, and I know they'll help you too. Plus, if you make a couple of older friends they can help you if you need any during the year. I can't tell you what to do when it comes to Chem - if you enjoy it and are willing to put the work in, then do it because Chem is very useful in all Science-based courses at uni/college. However, if you think you'll spend the year struggling and end up hating the subject, there's no point. Pick something you'll enjoy :) Good luck :)
2016-05-23 02:58:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really love The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. When I was a senior I had to read this book for a book report, and as soon as I finished it the first time I immediately flipped back to page 1 and started again. I bought it last year and read it again, and I can say that it is still one of the best books I have ever read.
I could also recommend Animal Farm by George Orwell, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck... all great books
2006-12-23 22:19:12 · answer #4 · answered by Rebecca A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At our high school, our students read these novels:
The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn
Pride and Prejudice.
Some classic British lit. novels include
1984
Brave New World
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
For American lit:
Sister Carrie
Maggie
The Scarlet Letter
For more contemporary lit.:
Life of Pi (don't read the ending first!)
The Handmaid's Tale
For nonfiction:
Fast Food Nation
Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America
In the Heart of the Sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
The Professor and the Madman
The Devil in the White City
So many books, so little time!
Happy reading--
Your friendly AP English teacher
2006-12-23 15:27:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (the movie, "Charly" was based on this book) or:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Animal Farm by George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2006-12-23 14:30:56 · answer #6 · answered by oscpressgirl66 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, War and Peace is good, but you're looking at around 1400 pages if you read that. Also, any really old literature, classics, I mean. Probably not from the 20th century, people like Orwell, Salinger, Steinbeck, are somewhat easy to read.
And Dickens is also long, but really hard to read.
2006-12-23 14:11:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Orwell,1984, hands down. Plus V for Vendetta makes a splendid accompanyment of a modern day Satire.
2006-12-23 14:59:16 · answer #8 · answered by Flugs 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We read these plays in senior english and I loved them:
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Our Town by Thorton Wilder
The Glass Menagerie by Tenessee Williams
2006-12-23 15:13:12 · answer #9 · answered by incandescent_poet 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heart of Darkness by Conrad (as previously mentioned)
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver (kind of slow in the beginning)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (if you can overlook the homoeroticism)
Anything by Ayn Rand
1984 by Orwell and Brave New World by Huxley for 2 dystopia novels viewing it from different perspectives
If in doubt just grab something from the Penguin Classics display at the bookstore.
2006-12-23 15:09:26 · answer #10 · answered by parrotsandgrog 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋