<p>Any four books? </p>
<p>Can I list more than four? </p>
<p>Does it matter which ones I list?</p>
<p>Well it does matter which you list. </p>
<p>You have to have read them. =P</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you can list more than four. They give you a good amount of room to write more. Maybe some titles are extremely long.</p>
<p>Well, obviously. The fault is mine though, it was poor phrasing. </p>
<p>Any four books I’ve read?</p>
<p>I don’t have any experience but to me I would pick 4 books that really summed up your reading style this year. Like if you read Harry Potter (the last one) I wouldn’t list 3 other fantasy books? Maybe you read a classic you read in school that you really liked, maybe you read a good analytical thriller, maybe you read an autobiography of your favorite athlete. </p>
<p>Whatever your interests, try to capture them with the 4 books. But don’t put something that you didn’t read/didn’t like just to sound “smart”. Don’t put 4 Shakespeare histories just to sound “college-y”. </p>
<p>Just my $.02</p>
<p>I read a lot of books in Spanish, on my own, and as part of a college literature class I took this fall. Should I put an extra note that they were read in Spanish, or would just putting the title in Spanish make it obvious enough?</p>
<p>I would put the Spanish name, with the English translation in parenthesis.</p>
<p>I second Tubaman93’s suggestion. I’ve always wanted to try reading some of the books I already love in Spanish, but wasn’t sure if I’d enjoy it/be capable of it…</p>
<p>I put down Native Son by Wright, The Selfish Gene by Dawkins, Robot Visions by Asimov and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Dick.</p>
<p>Put down any books you read this year, and you’ll do just fine. Just pick the four that summarize your reading tastes most.</p>
<p>I like your list Theotherguy. I know my son had a sci fi novel or two and computer science theory book on his list last year.</p>
<p>I am going to list</p>
<p>Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov;
Just For Fun, Linus Torvalds;
Introduction to Airborne Radar,George Stimson;
The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin;</p>
<p>I put in books that each illustrated a different facet of me. That seems to me to be most effective. </p>
<ol>
<li>Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett</li>
<li>Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter</li>
<li>Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card</li>
<li>Between a Rock and a Hard Place, by Aron Ralston</li>
</ol>
<p>^^ yeah, that’s a good idea. : )</p>
<p>i listed:
siddhartha by hermann hesse
the penelopiad by margaret atwood
le petit prince by antoine de saint-exupery
the god delusion by richard dawkins</p>
<p>i was trying to convey that i read the french version of le petit prince, i hope that’s the message they got!</p>
<p>The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
Never Give Up: My Stroke, My Recovery, and My Return to the NFL - Tedy Bruschi
Bringing Down The House - Ben Mezrich</p>
<p>good list?</p>
<p>Kayleigh, </p>
<p>If you’ve read and you like Harry Potter, you could try translations. I think the first one is pretty readable. If you live in an area with a decent sized hispanic population, you might be able to pick up a copy at your local Borders or Barnes&Noble.</p>
<p>I also recently read El Alquimista, by Paulo Coelho, which was really good. I bought it for a friend of mine who is in Spanish 4 for Christmas, and I think she’ll be capable of reading it.</p>
<p>Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera</p>
<p>I remember the fourth book, Mathson listed now - it was Freakonomics.</p>
<p>The Last Tycoons- Secret History of Lazard Freres - Willam Cohen
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets - John J. Murphy
Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker</p>
<p>Emma (jane austen), how to read literature like a professor (?), Handmaid’s Tale, (mar attwood), Fade (kyle mills)</p>
<p>i put </p>
<p>black dog of fate by peter balakian
flyboys - james bradley
savage inequalities: children in america’s schools - forgot the author momentarily
harry potter - jk rowling</p>
<p>I actually left it blank, was nearing the deadline.</p>
<p>Probably doesn’t have much bearing on the application, since I still got in…</p>