<p>The Godfather by Mario Puzo.</p>
<p>Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham</p>
<p>I was searching for this again and I finally found it!
I also recommend A Fine Balance.</p>
<p>Ender’s Game Quartet
by Orson Scott Card</p>
<p>Travels with Charley in Search of America
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck</p>
<p>And a lot of the books previously mentioned (favorites being Catcher in the Rye and Cuckoo’s Nest).</p>
<p>On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Read it. Now.</p>
<p>catcher in the rye. it’s probably unhealthy how much i love that book</p>
<p>and 1984…SO GOOD</p>
<p>^Haha, I just bought it, now I have to read it:)</p>
<p>I just finished 1984 yesterday. That book is absolutely amazing. It is also quite terrifying, though not in the traditional sense. I’m about to start Brave New World tomorrow.</p>
<p>I also recommend Catcher in the Rye, especially if you’re a male.</p>
<p>Also, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is another book that I quite liked. It’s by Mark Twain.</p>
<p>^Really? I’m reading it now! I think it’s very good:>(1984)</p>
<p>THE COLLEGE BOSS LIST:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens</p></li>
<li><p>The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand</p></li>
<li><p>Mastery by George Leonard</p></li>
<li><p>YOU: The Owner’s Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition by Mehmet Oz & Michael Roizen</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Agree with sigurros.</p>
<p>Dostoevsky definitely. No one knows human psychology better than Dostoevsky. If you want to know how the human mind works and how to understand yourself, don’t go to a psychology textbook.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment obviously, if you haven’t already been assigned that</p>
<p>Raskolnikov is probably my favorite literary character of all times. His moods and feelings are so real and familiar, in a way. The tale of Marmeladov is sordid but intensely realistic.
Dostoevsky can present you a character like Svidrigailov, an unscrupulous libertine, who, if you’re like me, would usually just enjoy hating, and actually get you to understand him and see yourself as him. </p>
<p>Notes from Underground is also very good. It’s this sort of perversely introspective monologue of an Romantic antihero, intelligent yet unwilling to act, isolated formerly idealistic, but now cynical and saturnine; he contradicts himself every couple of paragraphs; he seems to loathe himself yet feels superior to everyone else. </p>
<p>I also like some of his shorter works like Dream of the Ridiculous Man.</p>
<p>And the Brothers Karamazov. I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t gotten to read this one yet, but I’m planning to soon; it’s supposed to be Dostoevsky’s best.</p>
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<p>Other than that, I would agree that Catcher of the Rye is definitely a good one.</p>
<p>This is starting to sound like a cliche, but Catcher in the Rye.</p>
<p>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen</p>
<p>The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova</p>
<p>my favorites:)</p>
<p>I third the Dostoevsky recommendation. My favorites are The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot.</p>