what books have you read this year?

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>Princeton, if i remember correctly, is the only one of the Ivies that asks this question. so, what DID you read this year?</p>

<p>i have really eclectic taste in books - here’s my list (and this is strictly stuff i’ve read outside school, if i included all my English class books this list’d obviously be longer)</p>

<p>The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Chocky
Ignorant Armies: Sliding in War in Iraq
Much Ado About Nothing
The Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter (#1-3)
Beowulf
Dante’s Inferno
The Bad Seed
Absolute Power
The Gunslinger
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (excepts from)
Mediations (by Marcus Aureleas)
The Satyricon of Petronius
Beaches
The Exorcist</p>

<p>plus some fanfiction on the side, which i will not mention on my app.
i also started re-reading The Golden Compass today. </p>

<p>so, what have you been reading?</p>

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<p>Inferno
God Makers
Angels and Demons (sucky)
Davinci Code (wast eof time)
The Chosen
Ender’s Game
All the Ender’s Game’s Sequel
Pride and Prejudice
Holes! Yay
Life of Pi
Einstein’s dreams
Martian Chronicles
Possession-Malachi Martin
Steal this book
Bless me Ultima
Prayer for Owen Meany
and a couple more.</p>

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<p>Cryptonomicon, that’s it. And I haven’t even finish the first half! how sad!!</p>

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<p>Umm actually, princeton doesn’t ask this question, only columbia does. Princeton asks for your favorite, that’s it.</p>

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<p>you read the satyricon!? I read bits of that in latin</p>

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<p>I read a lot of those books too actually. Pride and Prejudice ahh <3 <3
and all John Irving, so good. I hated Life of Pi though.</p>

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<p>Autobiography of a Yogi
read part/all of Beowulf, El Cid, Roland, Dante’s Inferno, and Perceval in school
The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
The Da Vinci Code
A Short History of Nearly Everything
America (the book)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
many books of the The Master and Commander Series</p>

<p>and more books that I can’t remember, including quite a few history books, plus some that I reread, like Swiss Family Robinson and Lord of the Rings.</p>

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<p>I have read each of the Lord of the Rings five times…working on six.</p>

<p>How in the heck do you have time for so much reading?</p>

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<p>Crime and Punishment
Hamlet (play)
Long Day’s Journey into Night (play)
Oedipus Rex (play)
The Rule of Four
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code
Beloved
Jude the Obscure
The Little Prince (in French)
The Golden Compass
The Sun Also Rises</p>

<p>There’s probably more, but I can’t think of them.</p>

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<p>Good play: Hamlet.</p>

<p>Time to get working on that project due in 8 hours.</p>