Which of these books should I read for a book report? Which ones are the best?

Question

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

As I Lay Dying William Faulkner

The Assistant Bernard Malamud

The Awakening Kate Chopin

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

Beloved Toni Morrison

Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo Anaya

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

Boon Island Kenneth Roberts

The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder

Call of the Wild Jack London

Cannery Row John Steinbeck

Catch-22 Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger

The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov

The Chosen Chaim Potok

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain

The Color Purple Alice Walker

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevski

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton

A Death in the Family James Agee

Doctor Zhvago Boris Pasternak

A Doll House Henrik Ibsen

East of Eden John Steinbeck

Emma Jane Austin

Enemies Isaac Bashevis Singer

An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

A Farewell o Arms Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway

Giants in the Earth Ole Rolvaag

The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams

Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin

The Good Earth Pearl Buck

The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee

Into the Wild Jon Krakauer

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo

The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan

Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

The Jungle Upton Sinclair

The Killer Angels Michael Shaara

Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper

Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Life of Pi Yann Martel

Looking Backward Ralph Bellamy

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

Lost Horizon James Hilton

M is for Malice Sue Grafton

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

Main Street Sinclair Lewis

A Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt

Marrying Mom Olivia Goldsmith

The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers

Mutiny on the Bounty Nordoff and Hall

My Antonia Willa Cather

Native Son Richard Wright

The Natural Bernard Malamud

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

On the Beach Neville Shute

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey

Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle

Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin

The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain

Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw

Siddhartha Hermann Hesse

Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

The Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

The Turn of the Screw Henry James

A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley

The Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas

To Dance with the White Dog Terry Kay

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne

Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett

Walkabout Vance Marshall

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Answer 1

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These are the best out of the list - and I've read about 80% of them.
The chosen - or anything else by Chaim Potok
Color purple - good, but you probably already know the story from the movie
The bluest eye - excellent - excellent excellent
Siddhartha - one of my all time faves - read it about 10 times
The Yellow Wallpaper - wierd but good (you either love it or hate it.

I hated the life of pi - at least the second part, some of the classics you have listed can be boring, so make sure you are committed to finishing them, or read them when you are older (I read war and peace as a teen, then again recently - so much better as an adult!)

edit - of course Anne Frank tops most people's lists and if you haven't read it should read it some day.

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Asker's Comment:

gave many choices : )

Answer 2

It's not on your lest, but a book I would recomend for a report is "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown. It is a very good book for reports because it has tons of different characters, settings, and all that other good stuff that teachers like to see on the reports.

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Answer 3

If i were you i would choose between:

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

I would do Wuthering Heights, but all of these three are pretty good.

I hope i helped! =]

Answer 4

The Diary of Anne Frank, I bawled when i read it, such a moving book, amazing story.

Answer 5

Definitely Anne Frank. Such an amazing book, I cried so hard.

Answer 6

haha...
that was my sophomore year reading list. Try The Diary of Ann Frank. It was pretty good, and it isn't that difficult of a read. There are a few other ones (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights) that were good, but they are much harder and will take longer to read. Plus, those are written in old english....

Answer 7

I recommend this book:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It is a funny book!

Answer 8

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. You won't regret this one.

Answer 9

OK...this list is way too long. lol.

My favorite book of all time is "Wuthering Heights". I would strongly recommend it. However, it can be a bit complex.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is also a fantastic story, and it's actually a short story. I read it again just the other day, in fact, after someone else asked a question on here about it.

"Jane Eyre" is also a wonderful book, and it's a really easy read.
Yeah...even though "Wuthering Heights" is my favorite book, I'd probably recommend "Jane Eyre" for a book report.