Ryoika Posted December 15, 2013 Report Share Posted December 15, 2013 I loved Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", I fell in love with "The Wars" by Timothy Findley, love Jane Austin (too bad I wont get to read her books at all ) love and am looking forward to "The Stranger" by Camus.What about you? what books do you need for IB that you absolutely want to read?Brave New World A hero of our time Perfume were the best books that I read in I.B. so far! I really hope that our teacher chose "Crime and Punishment" .. I love the theme presented in that book and it would have been AMAZING to read that book in school I also heard that Haruki's books are put into I.B. cirriculum. I did not read any of his books, but in my country, Haruki is really popular and widely read, so it would have been awesome to read his books too~! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marioti Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 The Handmaid's Tale. turned out to be pretty interesting Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
julivertomas Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 A Bird In The House Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsoshewrote Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 MAUS (A comic about the Holocaust, I recommend it to everyone!) and The Kite Runner. The Fire Next Time I've recently started to appreciate. 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munich Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 The one book that I've read in Lit. so far and really loved was Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Marquez. Year two we're reading pretty much only plays though, which I really do not enjoy. My teacher says it's because plays are often shorter, but I'm sure there are many very good novellas out there we could read. Plays are for watching, not reading in my opinion. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amer Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I enjoyed the book mostly due to the states Raskolnikov goes through throughout the novel - I'm fairly interested in psychology and philosophy, so Raskolnikov's dwelling about the role or murder in a society was extremely interesting to me. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tze-Kiu Ha Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 I'll be real honest, I used to really hate English at the start of IB.But I grew to like the subject even more over time. I especially enjoyed reading the Importance of Being Earnest, Streetcar Named Desire and Othello.I also really like Duffy's poems. It's a shame I didn't take Lang / Lit. I kinda missed doing creative writing. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormySky Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 MAUS (A comic about the Holocaust, I recommend it to everyone!) and The Kite Runner. The Fire Next Time I've recently started to appreciate.I really want to read Maus. Isn't it a graphic novel? It's supposed to be fantastic. It was the basis of ToK question.To answer the question - Half of a Yellow Sun surely. Loved Kainene to bits. The characters are very... real. Like, how nobody is really ideal - they have their flaws but that doesn't make them any less of a good person. Ismat Chughtai's short stories were fantastic too. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
karolyon3 Posted May 18, 2014 Report Share Posted May 18, 2014 (edited) Pretty much all the books we read in English Lang & Lit for Part 3: Hedda Gabler, Oranges are not the Only Fruit and The House on Mango Street. In particular the last one. I also adored Persepolis, Jane Eyre and The Stranger. Edited May 18, 2014 by karolyon3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliepants Posted May 19, 2014 Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 In Norwegian: "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind, "Pan" by Knut Hamsun and "The Sharks" by Jens Bjørneboe! All books that I would highly recommend! They're all amazing and I will gladly read them again! In English: "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw, "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi and "The Garden Party and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield! These books are the best and I'm so glad I got to read them in the IB. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechnight Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 For Serbian it's been Camus' The Stranger and Kafka's Metamorphosis. For English, for now, The Kite Runner (K. Hosseini) and Gatsby. I think I know half of the book by heart now, didn't like it at first, but after some discussion with the fellow IB 2 students, absolutely fell in love with it. I also loved Die Physiker in German B, and now looking forward to 1984 in English and The Reader/Der Vorleser in both English in German, we have the same teacher for both, so we're gonna work on both of them at the same time. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork Posted May 26, 2014 Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 MAUS (A comic about the Holocaust, I recommend it to everyone!) and The Kite Runner. The Fire Next Time I've recently started to appreciate.I really want to read Maus. Isn't it a graphic novel? It's supposed to be fantastic. It was the basis of ToK question.To answer the question - Half of a Yellow Sun surely. Loved Kainene to bits. The characters are very... real. Like, how nobody is really ideal - they have their flaws but that doesn't make them any less of a good person. Ismat Chughtai's short stories were fantastic too.Maus is a graphic novel, it is definitely without question one of the greatest graphic novel ever created in my opinion. It is gripping and worth reading. Our English teacher spent a whole lesson discussing about this graphic novel. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
helerrrn Posted May 27, 2014 Report Share Posted May 27, 2014 The Diving Bell & The Butterfly was the only book I enjoyed. Then again I'm nosey and love "true stories".Absolutely despised reading A Handmaids Tale, and Enduring Love was definitely tough to get through. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatislife Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 I really enjoyed Freedom of the City and the Great Gatsby Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sceptyczka Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 I'm still in IB1 so we haven't analysed all of them but I really enjoyed Maus and Persepolis. They're both graphic novels, very moving and wonderfully ilustrated. As for the pre-IB books - I was strongly affected by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. It's absolutely greatly written! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMo Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 As for 'absolutely loved,' I can't recall any...but Pride and Prejudice and Chronicle of a Death Foretold have probably been my favorites. In sophomore year we read The Book Thief, which, although not an IB book (I don't think?), I LOVED, and also The Great Gatsby, which wasn't bad either. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Lolita and The Leopard. Loved both for different reasons. Poems of Ted Kooser, Atwood, Ted Hughes, Langston Hughes. We were also lucky to have a teacher that opted for non-fction literature: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hoose Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Death in the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman was our work in translation, and it was pretty great. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimson.threads Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire. Love that book to bits, did it for paper 2 and oh man... it was a beautiful text that I would've enjoyed even without IB English! Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried.This is the second one that comes to mind; mostly because of how simply yet vividly O'Brien describes the many things he sees in 'Nam. And basically everyone in my year either loves or hates Duffy's The World's Wife (of the former here) 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjy Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire. Love that book to bits, did it for paper 2 and oh man... it was a beautiful text that I would've enjoyed even without IB English! Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried.This is the second one that comes to mind; mostly because of how simply yet vividly O'Brien describes the many things he sees in 'Nam. And basically everyone in my year either loves or hates Duffy's The World's Wife (of the former here)I liked the Worlds Wife, better than her freaking love poems, which are awful, and far too much lesbian innuendo for me 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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