dandoon96 Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Anyone have a good list of books one MUST read at one point?I want to read a lot of books over the summer to improve my vocab, and have a wider persopective! So if yu could kindly list the books in chronological order( easy vocab-> hard) i'd really appreciate it.Books i have in mind are : Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, and to kill a mocking bird. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Award Winning Boss Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Read Animal Farm by George Orwell. Erm there's a lot more but I don't want to look through my reading list right now. I might update this post later. Have fun Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmi Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Read Hamlet. It's brilliant. Some people struggle to understand his language considering it was written hundreds of years ago, but it's a very good work that I recommend people to read. That and The House of the Spirits. It's long, but it's beautiful Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Stark Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 I don't do much (i.e. any) reading not related to school these days, but these are works of Literature I've read that I've truly enjoyed.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by SolzhenitsynFathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevThe Outsider by Albert CamusFly Away Peter and An Imaginary Life by David MaloufAll Quiet on the Western Front by RemarqueOf course, you shouldn't limit yourself to solely novels, variety is always a must. I'm not a massive fan of plays or poetry in general, however Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman stood out to me as a dramatic work, and I love Wilfred Owen's War Poetry. Dulce et Decorum est is beautiful. As for non-fiction works, I've found books like Robert Solomon's What Is Justice? and Lloyd's Introduction to Jursidprudence particularly interesting, as they feature extracts and commentary from a vast number of renowned sources from different temporal and geographical contexts(think, Plato to the Bible to Camus and the Founding Fathers), allowing an insight into how great minds reasonedNonetheless, ultimately everything comes down to personal preference.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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