Originally Posted by anubhagat

Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

I've heard a bunch of good stuff about this one !!!

=)

The Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzerald - Mills 4th floor: PS 3511 .I9 T5

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway- PS 3515 .E37 O515

** The Razor's Edge by W. Sommorset Maghaum- PR 6025 .A86R3 2003 **

Island by Aldous Huxley- located in OPRIG office, 2nd floor MUSC

I've taken out these books from the library in the past year and I recommend reading one of them during the break and the rest when you get back! They are all great.

Originally Posted by Alvand

The Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzerald - Mills 4th floor: PS 3511 .I9 T5

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway- PS 3515 .E37 O515

** The Razor's Edge by W. Sommorset Maghaum- PR 6025 .A86R3 2003 **

Island by Aldous Huxley- located in OPRIG office, 2nd floor MUSC

I've taken out these books from the library in the past year and I recommend reading one of them during the break and the rest when you get back! They are all great.

Oh wow ! Thanks a lot for that bro ! =)

I'll second the Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam - amazing novel.

In the vein of suggesting Asian-themed novels, The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy is one of my favourites, and deals with Chinese immigrants to Canada before and during World War II.

The Count of Monte Cristo.

Originally Posted by reeves

The Count of Monte Cristo.

U sir have great taste !!!

The Aeneid, if you're up for some serious metaphor-chewing.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - a really good post-apocalyptic novel.

Dune by Frank Herbert; hurray for sci-fi!

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick.....again, three cheers for sci-fi! (and it's a mind-blowing read)

For non-fiction, I'd say War by Gwynne Dyer. Very interesting read (oh, and anything by Jared Diamond as well. Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel are quite good)

Originally Posted by Shmowen

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - a really good post-apocalyptic novel.

Really? I love reading, and I just could not get into this book. Maybe something a little less depressing for the holiday season. Here is a summary of that book "The road was grey, and it was dark, and they walked on the road."

No offence to people who like that book but thats my opinion, I guess it depends on what style books you like.

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Something Happened - Joseph Heller

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes was really good.

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn....very eye opening.

Anything by Stephen King, especially the Stand, Hearts in Atlantis, and the Tommyknockers

Kurt Vonnegut is also excellent. I wasn't a huge fan of Slaughterhouse Five, but Mother Night and Cat's cradle were really good.

Despite his failure among most critics I still find most of what Dan Brown writes enjoyable.

Im reading Freakonomics at the moment, its pretty interesting.

A friend of mine actually asked for input like this via Facebook for the same reason. Weird.

Sooo here is my list:
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (my favourite book since I was 12)
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
- Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnagut
- Cather in the Rye by JD Salinger
- White Fang/Call of the Wild by Jack London
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Maus/Maus II (technically graphic novels but shhh) by Art Speigalman
- In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton
- House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Hobbit & LOTR by JRR Tolkein
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welch
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Selbold
- Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
- Complete works of EA Poe
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Beautiful Joe by Margaret Marshall Saunders
- Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Maudgomery
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Complete works of Shakespeare
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- No Logo by Naomi Klein
- The Sin City books

To get you started...

Originally Posted by J-Met

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn....very eye opening.

Remember when I used to be obsessed with that book?

This talk of books is making me feel like join a book club, so cool ;p

WE COULD DO A MACINSIDERS BOOK CLUB!!!!!!

Next semester though, lol.

Originally Posted by A.Marlowe

WE COULD DO A MACINSIDERS BOOK CLUB!!!!!!

Next semester though, lol.

Me likey this idea !

so many books ... so lil time