This book is completely saturated with symbolism. It describes the journey taken by an Englishman ordered to work for a Belgian trading company in the Congo. The book is highly critical of colonialist policies and the treatment of the indigenous African peoples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four 1984, written by George Orwell in 1949, predicts a dystopian future. The world is controlled by "Big Brother," an all-seeing force. The book warns of the consequences of war and exposes a corrupt government.
http://www.nelsondemille.net/books/plum_island.asp?id=desc Plum island – Nelson Demille It’s about a detective recovering from a gunshot wound, and in his recovery he takes up a double homicide. The victims were scientists on Plum Island studding diseases such as Ebola, the nature of their jobs gets the US governments involved because of the possibility of them selling diseases to be used for biological warfare. - David Ristau
Towelhead by Alicia Erian- Towelhead is a 13 year old girl’s story in 1991 as she enters womanhood. The reviews have said that the book it funny, but also dark and very honest. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-074324494x-2
The Awakening by Kate Chopin- The Awakening is set in the south and was written in the late 1800s. It’s about a southern women who finds her independence which is why it is recognized as one of the first feminist pieces of literature. http://www.katechopin.org/the-awakening.shtml
This story follows two different characters trying to rebuild their lives after the Great Depression of 1939 and WWII. The story focuses on the culture clash between them, one being a Southern belle and the other being a rising member of the industrial class.
The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this future, means "bookburner"). The novel's title refers to the supposed temperature at which book paper combusts. Although sources contemporary with the novel's writing gave the temperature as 450 °C (842 °F),[1] Bradbury is believed to have thought "Fahrenheit" made for a better title;[2][page needed] however, in an introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of the novel, Bradbury states that a person he spoke with at the local fire department said "Book-paper catches fire at 451 degrees Fahrenheit". The "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era
About a guy who awakens from a coma and can't really figure out whats going on. He is at his friend's house but neither he nor his friends know how he got there. It appears to him that he may be having an affair with his secretary. It's possible that he is simply not awake.
Catch-22 is satirical novel taking place near the end of WWII following Yossarian and other characters of the US Army Air Force. The style is such that it will repeat many of the event, but from different peoples points of view. The novel explores the theme of what it right to do when confronted with a moral dilemma.
1984 by George Orwell In 1984, the protagonist is Winston Smith who is a civil servant, rebels against the Big Brother which eventually leads to his arrest, torture and reconversion. -Lauren
Run,Rabbit, Run Updike, modern American literature's smoothest and most limber stylist, chose an unlikely soul for his great fictional hero: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, an ignorant, philandering 20-something ex-jock, long past his high school glory days and feeling trapped in a job, a marriage, a town, a family that bore him. In a situation like that, running away is exactly what comes naturally to him. Rabbit is not a character calculated to inspire affection, but he is an unflinchingly authentic specimen of American manhood, and his boorishness makes his rare moments of vulnerability and empathy that much more heartbreaking.
Vonnegut is still more cult favorite than literary lion (and he probably prefers it that way), but he deserves full canonical marks for this kaleidoscopic koan of a novel about Billy Pilgrim, a man who has "become unstuck in time." Pilgrim ricochets helplessly from decade to decade, living the episodes of his life in no particular sequence, not excluding his own death, his capture by aliens called Tralfamadorians, and his traumatic service in World War II, when he lives through the firebombing of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five is a cynical novel, but beneath the bitter, grim-jawed humor is a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront
Catch 22 follows the story of a US air force bombardier who is trapped by "Catch 22", a rule that prevents anyone from going home. It satirizes bureaucratic operation and reasoning.
The Da Vinci Code follows a symbolist who investigates a murder in Paris. The book sparks a debate concerning the Holy Grail legend. The book has been denounced by Christian denominations as an attack on the catholic church. The book has widespread popularity and was the bestseller of 2009, selling 80 million copies.
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 Invisible Man: A Novel - Ralph Ellison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God
The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef, with the protagonist's descent into mental illness paralleling Plath's own experiences with what may have been either bipolar disorder or clinical depression. Plath committed suicide a month after its first UK publication. The novel was published under Plath's name for the first time in 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, pursuant to the wishes of Plath's husband Ted Hughes and her mother.
Running with Scissors A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Fight Club Music for Torching House of Leaves We Don’t Live Here Anymore The Road Rules of Attraction Strong Motion The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Infinite Jest One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest A Clockwork Orange Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test In Cold Blood
A classic book set in the Great Depression about a family of sharecroppers forced from their home by the economic conditions. Not only a great book that won several awards, it was also turned into a movie!
This is a story about African American maids working in the white household. It's told by three character's perspectives to get the full spectrum of opinion. Miss. Skeeter (A white wealthy female) Abigail (a maid) and Minny (a stubborn, sassy maid) It truly is a story of standing up to society in new ways. You will fall in love with the characters as they compile a group of anonymous stories about the maids and their employers to show the world what really happens in the south.
Stardust- Neil Gaiman
Tristan Thorn will do anything for his true love Victoria, even if that means searching for a fallen star. This story has a large amount of science fiction mixed with the all so real emotions of fear, bravery, and love.
Takes many of past aspects of life around the country and puts it into a school in space with many cultures and ideas. This book was a depiction of many countries views and ideas from around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck A classic about workers in the Great Depression. I don't know much about it, but I've heard it's good... So I think I'll give it a shot. Andy
This book is an American classic and is important for every American to read. This book is also very popular with teenage readers, as they tend to find its themes relatable. (sorry this is a little late, when I tried to turn it in over the weekend, there was nowhere to post it)
Running with Scissors: A memoir of a boy whose mother leaves him in the care of her psychiatrist Fight Club: Self explanatory Music for Torching: Two married people with two suburban boys do drugs, have affairs and try to burn down house in their search for happiness. House of Leaves: A family moves into a house and find that it is haunted. The house is basically alive. We Don’t Live Here Anymore: Desperation, love and marriage. Shows decisions in the real world The Road: A man and his son attempt to survive in a post apocalyptic world Rules of Attraction: Sex, drugs, horribly incomplete people at a fictional college in New England. People are despicable and immoral Strong Motion: Two main characters: One is lonely and the other The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Oscar’s mother is a beautiful heartbreaker and she falls in love with a gangster One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Men in an insane asylum in the 60s, one man is most likely pretending to be insane to get out of prison. They are all ruled by a cruel nurse A Clockwork Orange: Protagonist arrested in futuristic Britain Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: About the beginning of the psychedelic 60s In Cold Blood: A multiple murder of family members in Kansas
Catcher in the Rye: T he Catcher in the Rye is set around the 1950s and is narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden is not specific about his location while he’s telling the story, but he makes it clear that he is undergoing treatment in a mental hospital or sanatorium. The events he narrates take place in the few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas, when Holden is sixteen years old.
Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, language, and rebellion The story commences with Holden Caulfield describing encounters he has had with students and faculty of Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. He criticizes them for being superficial. After being expelled from the school for his poor academic performance, Holden packs up and leaves the school in the middle of the night after a physical altercation with his roommate. He takes a train to New York and checks into a hotel....etc
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Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
This book is completely saturated with symbolism. It describes the journey taken by an Englishman ordered to work for a Belgian trading company in the Congo. The book is highly critical of colonialist policies and the treatment of the indigenous African peoples.
-Ibad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
1984, written by George Orwell in 1949, predicts a dystopian future. The world is controlled by "Big Brother," an all-seeing force. The book warns of the consequences of war and exposes a corrupt government.
http://www.nelsondemille.net/books/plum_island.asp?id=desc
Plum island – Nelson Demille
It’s about a detective recovering from a gunshot wound, and in his recovery he takes up a double homicide. The victims were scientists on Plum Island studding diseases such as Ebola, the nature of their jobs gets the US governments involved because of the possibility of them selling diseases to be used for biological warfare.
- David Ristau
Towelhead by Alicia Erian-
Towelhead is a 13 year old girl’s story in 1991 as she enters womanhood. The reviews have said that the book it funny, but also dark and very honest.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-074324494x-2
The Awakening by Kate Chopin-
The Awakening is set in the south and was written in the late 1800s. It’s about a southern women who finds her independence which is why it is recognized as one of the first feminist pieces of literature.
http://www.katechopin.org/the-awakening.shtml
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
This story follows two different characters trying to rebuild their lives after the Great Depression of 1939 and WWII. The story focuses on the culture clash between them, one being a Southern belle and the other being a rising member of the industrial class.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this future, means "bookburner"). The novel's title refers to the supposed temperature at which book paper combusts. Although sources contemporary with the novel's writing gave the temperature as 450 °C (842 °F),[1] Bradbury is believed to have thought "Fahrenheit" made for a better title;[2][page needed] however, in an introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of the novel, Bradbury states that a person he spoke with at the local fire department said "Book-paper catches fire at 451 degrees Fahrenheit". The "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
The Coma- Alex Garland
About a guy who awakens from a coma and can't really figure out whats going on. He is at his friend's house but neither he nor his friends know how he got there. It appears to him that he may be having an affair with his secretary. It's possible that he is simply not awake.
http://thesleeplessreader.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-coma-by-alex-garland/
Danny O'Shea
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Catch-22 is satirical novel taking place near the end of WWII following Yossarian and other characters of the US Army Air Force. The style is such that it will repeat many of the event, but from different peoples points of view. The novel explores the theme of what it right to do when confronted with a moral dilemma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
1984 by George Orwell
In 1984, the protagonist is Winston Smith who is a civil servant, rebels against the Big Brother which eventually leads to his arrest, torture and reconversion.
-Lauren
Run,Rabbit, Run
Updike, modern American literature's smoothest and most limber stylist, chose an unlikely soul for his great fictional hero: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, an ignorant, philandering 20-something ex-jock, long past his high school glory days and feeling trapped in a job, a marriage, a town, a family that bore him. In a situation like that, running away is exactly what comes naturally to him. Rabbit is not a character calculated to inspire affection, but he is an unflinchingly authentic specimen of American manhood, and his boorishness makes his rare moments of vulnerability and empathy that much more heartbreaking.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951944_1952642,00.html #ixzz1FE7FtZX9
Slaughterhouse five
Vonnegut is still more cult favorite than literary lion (and he probably prefers it that way), but he deserves full canonical marks for this kaleidoscopic koan of a novel about Billy Pilgrim, a man who has "become unstuck in time." Pilgrim ricochets helplessly from decade to decade, living the episodes of his life in no particular sequence, not excluding his own death, his capture by aliens called Tralfamadorians, and his traumatic service in World War II, when he lives through the firebombing of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five is a cynical novel, but beneath the bitter, grim-jawed humor is a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951945_1952664,00.html #ixzz1FE814xTK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catch 22 follows the story of a US air force bombardier who is trapped by "Catch 22", a rule that prevents anyone from going home. It satirizes bureaucratic operation and reasoning.
Matthew Fiedler...
Davinci Code
by Dan Brown
Matthew Fiedler...
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code follows a symbolist who investigates a murder in Paris. The book sparks a debate concerning the Holy Grail legend. The book has been denounced by Christian denominations as an attack on the catholic church. The book has widespread popularity and was the bestseller of 2009, selling 80 million copies.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Road is a book written in 2006 Cormac McCarthy about a father and his son, and their journey through a post-apocalyptic world.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Road is a book written in 2006 Cormac McCarthy about a father and his son, and their journey through a post-apocalyptic world.
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Revolutionary Road
- Secret Life of Bees
Michelle Cass
Fahrenheit 451
- Ray Bradbury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
Invisible Man: A Novel
- Ralph Ellison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man
The Grapes of Wrath
- John Steinbeck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath
Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Zora Neale Hurston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God
I would like to read the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef, with the protagonist's descent into mental illness paralleling Plath's own experiences with what may have been either bipolar disorder or clinical depression. Plath committed suicide a month after its first UK publication. The novel was published under Plath's name for the first time in 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, pursuant to the wishes of Plath's husband Ted Hughes and her mother.
-Maddie
The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Running with Scissors
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Fight Club
Music for Torching
House of Leaves
We Don’t Live Here Anymore
The Road
Rules of Attraction
Strong Motion
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Infinite Jest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
In Cold Blood
Laura Goetz
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
A classic book set in the Great Depression about a family of sharecroppers forced from their home by the economic conditions. Not only a great book that won several awards, it was also turned into a movie!
Francesco Di Caprio
The Help- Kathryn Stockett
This is a story about African American maids working in the white household. It's told by three character's perspectives to get the full spectrum of opinion. Miss. Skeeter (A white wealthy female) Abigail (a maid) and Minny (a stubborn, sassy maid) It truly is a story of standing up to society in new ways.
You will fall in love with the characters as they compile a group of anonymous stories about the maids and their employers to show the world what really happens in the south.
Stardust- Neil Gaiman
Tristan Thorn will do anything for his true love Victoria, even if that means searching for a fallen star. This story has a large amount of science fiction mixed with the all so real emotions of fear, bravery, and love.
-Lily
Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game
Takes many of past aspects of life around the country and puts it into a school in space with many cultures and ideas. This book was a depiction of many countries views and ideas from around the world.
-Peter D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
A classic about workers in the Great Depression. I don't know much about it, but I've heard it's good... So I think I'll give it a shot.
Andy
Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
This book is an American classic and is important for every American to read. This book is also very popular with teenage readers, as they tend to find its themes relatable.
(sorry this is a little late, when I tried to turn it in over the weekend, there was nowhere to post it)
Running with Scissors: A memoir of a boy whose mother leaves him in the care of her psychiatrist
Fight Club: Self explanatory
Music for Torching: Two married people with two suburban boys do drugs, have affairs and try to burn down house in their search for happiness.
House of Leaves: A family moves into a house and find that it is haunted. The house is basically alive.
We Don’t Live Here Anymore: Desperation, love and marriage. Shows decisions in the real world
The Road: A man and his son attempt to survive in a post apocalyptic world
Rules of Attraction: Sex, drugs, horribly incomplete people at a fictional college in New England. People are despicable and immoral
Strong Motion: Two main characters: One is lonely and the other
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Oscar’s mother is a beautiful heartbreaker and she falls in love with a gangster
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Men in an insane asylum in the 60s, one man is most likely pretending to be insane to get out of prison. They are all ruled by a cruel nurse
A Clockwork Orange: Protagonist arrested in futuristic Britain
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: About the beginning of the psychedelic 60s
In Cold Blood: A multiple murder of family members in Kansas
Laura Goetz (again)
Lolita-Victor Nabokov
Strange, disturbing book about a Pedophile who moves from France, and meets a child who he falls in love with.
-Tommy
Catcher in the Rye:
T he Catcher in the Rye is set around the 1950s and is narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden is not specific about his location while he’s telling the story, but he makes it clear that he is undergoing treatment in a mental hospital or sanatorium. The events he narrates take place in the few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas, when Holden is sixteen years old.
Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, language, and rebellion
The story commences with Holden Caulfield describing encounters he has had with students and faculty of Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. He criticizes them for being superficial. After being expelled from the school for his poor academic performance, Holden packs up and leaves the school in the middle of the night after a physical altercation with his roommate. He takes a train to New York and checks into a hotel....etc
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