<p>I know a lot of schools ask about your favorite books either in the interviews or on the apps… So I was wondering, what are some of your favorite books? (I need some recommendations)</p>
<p>You’re not going to read some books just to have an answer for an interview, are you? Don’t you already have some books you’ve read that you really like?</p>
<p>my favorite books are gone with the wind, jane eyre, this side of paradise, the awakening, and freakonomics if that counts.</p>
<p>Well…the funny thing about this question is that they want to know what your favorite books are, not the ones that you think should be your favorites books, but aren’t–or worse, books that you haven’t read.</p>
<p>put a book that you’ve read that you like. a lot. you can’t just reach into the new york times book review - they’ll know if you’re lying. dont try to sound smarter than you are.</p>
<p>but i would refrain from putting down Captain Underpants. just as a note.</p>
<p>My favorite books are Slaughterhouse-Five, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Things They Carried, and a lot more. How many books are you supposed to put?</p>
<p>My favorite books are Jane Eyre, A Great and Terrible Beauty, The Last Unicorn, and the Harry Potter books. I can’t imagine talking about my last three in an interview…</p>
<p>haha wow that’s pathetic “(I need some recommendations)”…learn to have some personal opinion geez</p>
<p>“haha wow that’s pathetic “(I need some recommendations)”…learn to have some personal opinion geez”</p>
<p>Maybe he’s looking for a place to start? I read a lot and have a good idea of what my favorite books are, but I’m not above asking other people for book suggestions.</p>
<p>Read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. The Amber Spyglass has been my favorite book ever since it arrived, and I waited around for it after reading the first two books like many people did with the seventh Harry Potter book.</p>
<p>Green Eggs and Ham!</p>
<p>ahhhh was A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man good? I read some other James Joyce and loved it…</p>
<p>“ahhhh was A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man good? I read some other James Joyce and loved it…”
Yeah, it’s awesome. It’s probably one of Joyce’s easier books – if you liked his others, you will love this. I liked it more than his others because I can sort of relate to what Stephen’s going through, like his desire for freedom, and the sort of separation between him and those around him (no, I don’t think I’m the next James Joyce).</p>
<p>Talk about Mein Kampf in your interview and you should do just fine.</p>
<p>^The Anarchist’s Cookbook would also be a fine addition to one’s repertoire.</p>
<p>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray is good.</p>
<p>books?</p>
<p>what are those?</p>
<p>my favorites are the picture of dorian gray and the importance of being earnest although that’s a play… hm.</p>
<p>I loved Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Pillars of the Earth, Les Miserables, and Slaughterhouse-5. I think I’m partial to long books; 4/5 of those are (in some editions) 1000 pages long.</p>
<p>edit: And if you count plays, I like Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.</p>