List of books to read after the HSC..? (1 Viewer)

[MrKite]

I started reading Wuthering Heights just before the exams but had to stop because i needed to re-read the english texts. Now i'm REALLY looking foward to starting it again..

Can I just say that you don't want to read Wuthering Heights.. It is quite possibly the most boring book I've ever read in my life.. If you like reading about mindless individuals walking back and forth through the countryside than this is the book for you!!
Read books from authors like:-
Tara Moss
Patricia Cromwell
Mathew Reily
Mary Higgins Clark (only one or two cause she gets repetitative)
Gabrielle Lord
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
and you MUST read:-
Lord of The Rings Trilogy + The Hobbit
Harry Potters
To Kill A Mockingbird
Frankenstein
Da Vinci Code

 

[angeee]

my sister's keeper was by jodi picoult. i have to agree- that was a really good read.

i really wanted to read the new obernewtyn book which would have coincided with finishing the hsc, except its delayed until february apparently!

 

[Tulipa]

I'm in the middle of compiling a summer reading list and here are a few that look really good:

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
JPod - Douglas Coupland
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Only Forward - Michael M. Smith
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Assault - Harry Mulisch
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
The Architect - John Scott

and more:

The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Old Man & the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Junkie - William Burroughs
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Rabbit Run - John Updike
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
them - Joyce Carol Oates
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Yes - Thomas Bernhard
Nineteen Seventy-Seven - David Peace

 

[Chris.]

are u really gona finish all those in 3 months?

 

[black_kat_meow]

are u really gona finish all those in 3 months?

Lol, how slow do you read?

 

[Chris.]

Lol, how slow do you read?

lol now that i think about it i am pretty slow

when i read i only read like 2 chapters from one book a day, unless its like near the end and you just cant put the book down because you need to know what happens.

 

[Tulipa]

are u really gona finish all those in 3 months?

I was planning on finishing half of them when I go away for a week...

I can read a few books in a day.

w00t speed reader

 

[black_kat_meow]

lol now that i think about it i am pretty slow

when i read i only read like 2 chapters from one book a day, unless its like near the end and you just cant put the book down because you need to know what happens.

Ok, ok. If I read a book, I have to finish it that day, lol! I read really fast thank god, otherwise that would screw me over, haha!

 

[walrusbear]

I was planning on finishing half of them when I go away for a week...

I can read a few books in a day.

w00t speed reader

most of those books deserve more than a 'speed read'
especially the likes of lolita - you should enjoy each phrase

 

[davidbarnes]

Might finally get around to reading book 6/7 of Harry Potter, and The Davinci Code, as well as any Tom Clancy/Ludlum ,etc novels I ain't read yet.

 

[R3volver]

Read anything by John Steinbeck.

The man is a genius!

Also, read Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and without a doubt, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger.

 

[GreenLeaf]

Has anyone read these two books and can tell me if it's worth the time:

* The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
* The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
(and also The Chaser's version of The Secret)

 

[Tulipa]

Has anyone read these two books and can tell me if it's worth the time:

* The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
* The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
(and also The Chaser's version of The Secret)

The Memory Keeper's Daughter isn't bad but why bother with "The Secret"?

 

[GreenLeaf]

only because it had a nice cover

 

[Cheap Thrills]

i currently have sitting on my shelf...

gallipoli - les carlyon
great war - les carlyon
kokoda - peter fitzsimons
somme mud - epf lynch
inside little britain
blood diamonds - greg campbell
athiest manifesto - michel onfray
motorcycle diaries - che guevara
absalom, absalom - william faulkner
colour purple - alice walker
iliad - homer
fiftieth gate - mark raphael baker
portrait of a lady - henry james
utopia - thomas more
frankenstein - mary shelley
dracula - bram stoker
huck finn - mark twain
castle of otranto - horace walpole
in cold blood - truman capote
other voices, other rooms - truman capote
brave new world - aldous huxley
the skull beneath the skin - pd james
animal farm - geroge orwell
deja dead - kathy reichs
satanic verses - salman rushdie
catcher in the rye - jd salinger
of mice and men - john steinbeck
streetcar named desire - tennessee williams
shake hands with the devil - romeo dellaire
dead men do tell tales - william maples
caged virgin - ayaan hirsi ali

*coughs*
i need a job to pay for all these books i like to buy

 

[live.fast]

the wheel of timeee!!!!

 

[CromptonChanan]

The Memory Keeper's Daughter isn't bad but why bother with "The Secret"?

the memory keepers daughter was good especially if you like easy reads
the secret?????? i agree please don't waste your time