<p>Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam… for all you future physicians out there… cop that book…</p>
<p>Yah Andromeda Strain was a good book+movie… good for chem lovers as well (touches a little on chem, more on bio… but combines both… chem knowledge saves them by the end)</p>
<p>wow i love CC. i just picked up Andromeda Strain and The Hot Zone from the library and i made a list of all ur suggestions. Hopefulyy i get to read all before summer is over.</p>
<p>Artofmind - yes, there’s rape in it, but The Lovely Bones is an amazing book (and very well written). Sebold’s autobiography Lucky is also really good.</p>
<p>Iirokotree, I thought I was the only one who had ever read It’s Kind of a Funny Story!</p>
<p>The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende is a perspective-changing book. I second 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is also amazing.</p>
<p>Anything by Hawthorne is great for vocabulary building. I recently finished The House of the Seven Gables and I learned quite a bit from it. Admittedly, it was a little hard to get through. </p>
<p>You HAVE TO read The House of Spirits. You won’t regret it.</p>
<p>Any books with lots of good vocab?</p>
<p>Dune</p>
<p>(if the story hasn’t been ruined for you by a tv or movie version)</p>
<p>Everything by Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott is good for vocab words.</p>
<p>Oooh, I just read another one I really liked:</p>
<p>The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It reads like a film noir script. I love it!</p>
<p>If anyone’s interested in politics or US history (preferably both), either of Obama’s books are good bets. I’ve only read the second (Audacity of Hope), but I’ve head the first is also good. It really taught me a lot about him as well as about the history of our government, and he managed to explain a lot of his positions really well. And it’s not a very difficult read. I highly recommend it.</p>
<p>notes from underground - dostoevsky </p>
<p>anything from him really (the brothers karamazov, the idiot, crime and punishment)</p>
<p>Firebringer by David Clement-Davies</p>
<p>The Sight by David Clement-Davies</p>
<p>AMAZING books. Read them.</p>
<p>Oh, and I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it, but Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is wonderful, though really long.</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> In at the Beginnings: A Physicist’s Life: Philip M. Morse: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/at-Beginnings-Physicists-Life/dp/0262131242/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213932073&sr=8-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/at-Beginnings-Physicists-Life/dp/0262131242/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213932073&sr=8-1) is a fantastic book if you’re interested in becoming a scientist or an engineer. Morse was a fairly influential scientist who was friends with just about every name you’ll read about in your textbooks covering physics from the early/mid 1900s. He started as a kid in a small town working his way through college to a full fellowship at a major university, to being a professor, to traveling Europe to study, to organizing wartime research for the Navy in WWII, and helping start the OR and CS departments at MIT. He writes very eloquently, and the book is a pleasure to read (unlike his brutally rigorous book on thermodynamics).</p>
<p>I’m currently reading Cell by Stephen King.</p>
<p>Candy by Kevin Brooks <3</p>
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<p>James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake … lol.</p>
<p>i just started the Andromeda strain…its ok so far im like 40 pages into the book.</p>
<p>I liked Andromeda Strain until the very end of the book. That ending made it so I’d never read another Crichton book again.</p>
<p>hmmm… i wont be reading per-say this summer… rather studying… philosophy is a passion of mine that id like to expand on… If you want, you should pick up works by Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, and my favourite Rene Descartes</p>