Help me choose my summer reading books?

Question

Over the summer I have to read four books. Two from one list and two from another. From one of the lists, I chose "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown and "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. I have not heard of any of the books on the other lists, though, so I don't know what to choose. Here is the list I have to choose from:

Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart"
Allende, Isabel "Daughters of Fortune"
Atwood, Margaret "The Handmaid’s Tale"
Doctorow, E. L. "Ragtime"
Hardy, Thomas "The Mayor of Casterbridge"
Heller, Joseph "Catch 22"
Kingston, Maxine Hong "Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts"
Lewis, C.S. "Till We Have Faces"
Paton, Alan "Cry the Beloved Country"
Wharton, Edith "The Age of Innocence"

Answer 1

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Depends on how much you want to stretch yourself. Paton's book will give you a good insight into another culture. Atwood is a disturbing view into a possible future for humankind. Heller's book is a great parable for the absurdity of war--I once acted in a play based on the book. Your teacher gave you quite a variety of choices!!

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Thanks for the suggestions. It wasn't my teacher that gave us choices, it was the school. Same difference, I still have to read and have a huge in-class essay about the books the first week back at school. Oh well.

Answer 2

I would definately choose CS lewis, because he is an amazing author.

Not sure about another one though!

Answer 3

Catch 22 is amazing and i've heard that Woman Warrier is good.

Answer 4

I remember reading Ragtime as a teenager - read it about three times. I haven't read the others, and personally, I couldn't get through Catch 22, but I would recommend Ragtime. It is partly based upon true events and is quite scandalous at times. I believe that you would probably enjoy it.

Answer 5

I've read Things Fall Apart.... it was great, you should read it. I've tried to get through Catch 22 too... I stopped somewhere around the 100s but I've been told it was a good read.

Answer 6

Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart"
Allende, Isabel "Daughters of Fortune"

read the Achebe book and its amazing. It's about africa and how people colonized it and changed the lives of the people. It's pretty short and good.

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Read in 10th grade