Difficult & significant literature suggestions

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<p>Hi all. Let’s start a compilation of ratings for difficult & significant (as in a must-read in order to achieve a meaningful and fulfilling life :smiley: ) literature. The goal of this thread will be to help students select books to read for SAT & AP English preparation and adults for self-improvement in general.</p>

<p>Simply suggest one or several book(s) and author and add it to the list. Or, add 1 in parenthesis to each existing book suggestion that you second. </p>

<p>Example:</p>

<p>Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce (2)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1)
Walden by Thoreau (5)</p>

<p>I’ll start:</p>

<p>Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce (1)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1)
Walden by Henry Thoreau (1)
Sound and Fury by William Faulkner (1)</p>

<p>Please copy and paste list.</p>

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<p>There was a thread like this not too long ago. You might get some ideas from there.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=369940&highlight=Mariama[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=369940&highlight=Mariama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon
“Giles Goat Boy” by John Barth</p>

<p>both are challenging but very rewarding</p>

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<p>Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce (1)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1)
Walden by Henry Thoreau (1)
Sound and Fury by William Faulkner (1)
“Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon
“Giles Goat Boy” by John Barth
“To the Lighthouse”(novel) or “A Room of One’s Own”(essay) by Virginia Woolf
“Night” by Elie Wiesel (new edition, translation by his wife)
“Beloved” or “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison</p>