[CrazyPyramid]

(Original post by alaska.)
Awesome book, but quite depressing. It was one of the books I felt most uncomfartable reading because the dystopia created was beyond my imagination. Maybe not the best book to read when you are not feeling well yourself. A very great read though. Interesting and awesome as I said. I really liked it!

Yeah I've heard it's really good from quite a few people. My two favourite books are 1984 and Brave New World so I get the feeling that dystopia novels are kind of my thing.

After American Psycho I'm not sure what I'd now need to read to make me feel uncomfortable.

[sebastienlewis]

'The Princeton Companion to Mathematics'.

[sinfonietta]

• Ant & Dec:
  Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: Our Story
  
  
• Jay Bell:
  Language Lessons
  
  
• Lewis Carroll:
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  
  
• Saikaku Ihara
  The Great Mirror of Male Love
  
  
• Keigo Higashino:
  The Devotion of Suspect X
  
  
• Haruki Murakami:
  1Q84 (Book 1+2)
  1Q84 (Book 3)
  Norwegian Wood
  
  
• Vladimir Nobokov:
  Lolita
  
  
• Natsume Sōseki:
  I Am a Cat
  
  
• Koushun Takami:
  Battle Royale
  
  
• Oscar Wilde:
  The Picture of Dorian Gray (finished 25/05)
  
  
• Eiji Yoskikawa:
  Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan (20% through this monster of a book. Around 750 pages to go!)

[Athenia]

Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Wasteland and Other Poems - TS Eliot
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Atleast 1 Shakespeare
Emma - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R Tolkien
Game of Thrones - George R.R Martin
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronté

Yep, I'm going for the classics this summer!

[chinaberry]

I have a little cupboard full of books to read and a shelf of them. So I'll be working my way through those...the ones I can see from here:

Arabian Nights (kids version, I think)
biography of John Lennon
Brideshead Revisited
Happy to Be Here- Garrison Keillor
The Master and Margarita
Goncourt journal of 1870 siege
Various history books about the French revolution, siege and commune etc
The House of Mitford
Affluenza
Balletomania- Arnold Haskell
Various children's books I got cheap from the school library


Well, I won't type them all out, though it's fun looking at them!

[alaska.]

I have finished reading "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua a few days ago. I knew it was a very controversial topic, but I absolutely loved the book. It was so interesting and there was so much hidden irony that I sometimes only found reading it twice. Anybody interested in the topic should give it a read, it was a lot different than I initially thought

[InsaneFandom]

Tempted to try and finish reading all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books... although I've only read about 8 of them, which leaves me with 31 books to read ahaa

&They are..
Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Eric, Moving Pictures, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Maskerade, Feet of Clay, Hogfather, Jingo, The Last Continent, Carpe Jungulum, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Theif of Time, The Last Hero, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Night Watch, The Wee Free Men, Monstrous Regiment, A Hat Full of Sky, Thud!, Wintersmith, Unseen Academicals, I Shall Wear Midnight, Snuff

Plus there's the short stories too...

[biffyclyro27]

(Original post by CrazyPyramid)
Yeah I've heard it's really good from quite a few people. My two favourite books are 1984 and Brave New World so I get the feeling that dystopia novels are kind of my thing.

After American Psycho I'm not sure what I'd now need to read to make me feel uncomfortable.

If you like 1984 and Brave New World, try Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The Sleeper Awakes by H.G Wells is worth a read too. Dystopian novel's are some of my favourites too

[Emmie3303]

I've decided to read a book from every decade between 1840 and 1990 (I know the dates are strange but I wanted to stop at the 90s since I read a lot of 00s fiction and I don't really need any encouragement to do that ).

If you're interested the books I've chosen are in the list below. Some I already had and one I've read before. I originally had some more obscure books on there but I found it impossible to get hold of them without spending lots of money and our library isn't exactly very well stocked. So hopefully I'll manage to read all of these this summer and a few more in between.

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1840s (1848): The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
1850s (1855): North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
1860s (1868): Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1870s (1872): Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
1880s (1881): The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
1890s (1897): Dracula by Bram Stoker
1900s (1908): A Room With a View by E.M Forster
1910s (1910): The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
1920s (1929): All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
1930s (1932): Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
1940s (1944): Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
1950s (1956): My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
1960s (1968): A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
1970s (1973): The Princess Bride by William Goldman
1980s (1980): Rites of Passage by William Golding
1990s (1992): The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

[ballroombabe]

(Original post by monica95)
I think I'm going to try look for some classic novels such as great expectations, moby dick, oliver twist, peter pan (which, is one of my favourite disney movies and I've read the 'spin off' book peter pan in scarlett), the picture of dorian gray (I think it's called), pride and prejudice and other classics like that which I've always heard about but never actually read. I'm gonna try read them before college starts

I definitely recommend Wuthering Heights Such a great book!

[bananafish]

The Brothers Karamazov
Visions of Cody
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mrs Dalloway
In Cold Blood
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[monica95]

(Original post by ballroombabe)
I definitely recommend Wuthering Heights Such a great book!

Thanks! I'll add it to the bucket list I almost forgot such a classic

[ladymarshmallow]

I don't have many specific books which I'll be reading. I think I'm just going to continue ploughing through the many books on my bookcase, most of which I received many years ago but still haven't read (I went through a phase where I didn't read much). However, seeing as I've also got £50 worth of Amazon vouchers, I'll buy some books for my Kindle. I also want to get more into the classics, so I'll probably make use of Project Gutenberg where you can get them for free. Oh, and I want to reread the HP series, seeing as the last time I read them was many, many years ago (I'm such a loyal fan, aren't I?

[toreilly102]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Series - Stieg Larsson
Harry Potter Series (4-7) (Didn't read the last two books when they came back so now I am catching up! :L ) - J.K. Rowling
Brisingr- Paolini
Possibly "Things Fall Apart"- Chinua Achebe, but I read half of it and I thought it was a pretty dark novel :L

[priya8D]

The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

Oh I can't wait to devour them all!

[Daydreamer18]

The Help (half way through atm).
The Bell Jar.
11/22/63 - Stephen King.
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini.
The Kite Runner.
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger.
Room - Emma Donoghue.

I also want to make my way through The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks) which I started last summer, and if I get through all that then want to read some classics, namely Wuthering Heights, A Tale of Two Cities and The Woman in White.

[Arran44]

Game of Thrones series - George R.R Martin (Re-reading)
The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
The Kingkiller Chronicle- Patrick Rothfuss
The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman
We Need To Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver
The Shining - Stephen King (Re-reading for the fifth/sixth time, just because it's sequel is out next year!).
Existence- David Brin
The Killing Moon- N.K Jemsin
The First Law trilogy- Joe Abercrombie
Dolores Clairborne- Stephen King

[alexsasg]

(Original post by Arran44)
Game of Thrones series - George R.R Martin (Re-reading)
The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
The Kingkiller Chronicle- Patrick Rothfuss
The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman
We Need To Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver
The Shining - Stephen King (Re-reading for the fifth/sixth time, just because it's sequel is out next year!).
Existence- David Brin
The Killing Moon- N.K Jemsin
The First Law trilogy- Joe Abercrombie
Dolores Clairborne- Stephen King

We Need To Talk About Kevin is really good! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd like to read some of Lionel Shriver's other stuff in the summer to see how it compares.

[DannyW94]

(Original post by Emmie3303)
I've decided to read a book from every decade between 1840 and 1990 (I know the dates are strange but I wanted to stop at the 90s since I read a lot of 00s fiction and I don't really need any encouragement to do that ).

If you're interested the books I've chosen are in the list below. Some I already had and one I've read before. I originally had some more obscure books on there but I found it impossible to get hold of them without spending lots of money and our library isn't exactly very well stocked. So hopefully I'll manage to read all of these this summer and a few more in between.

Love that idea! Good luck with reading them all

(Original post by toreilly102)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Series - Stieg Larsson
Harry Potter Series (4-7) (Didn't read the last two books when they came back so now I am catching up! :L ) - J.K. Rowling
Brisingr- Paolini
Possibly "Things Fall Apart"- Chinua Achebe, but I read half of it and I thought it was a pretty dark novel :L

I thought 'Things Fall Apart' was fantastic. Definitely try and finish it

[Emmie3303]

(Original post by DannyW94)
Love that idea! Good luck with reading them all

Thanks! I'm going to start after I've finished the book I'm reading at the moment .