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Minimal reading for EE1 and EA...brain is so overwhelmed
But for leisure, planning on reading lots of non-fiction (find it easier to get into than fiction), particularly biographies and stuff about real-life events (esp. pop culture!)
 

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Read the bolded, good luck on your goal! Currently a third of the way into my third book of the year. Oh Murakami <3
Yeah I tried to read the Hobbit before but only got so far before I found another book that caught my interest. It's a really bad habit of mine, reading one book and then moving onto the next just completely forgetting about the previous one. My next on the list after Sherlock is Great Gatsby so I'll tell you what I think of it when I'm done

My cousin said that Jose Saramago is a good author so I'm excited to read her book :D
 

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My to-read list:

  • Wuthering Heights
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Allegiant
  • 1984
  • Brave New World
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Catch-22
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • The Life of Pi
  • The Book Thief
  • World After
  • The Snow Child
  • The Master and Margarita
  • Never Let Me Go
  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
 

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My to-read list:

  • Wuthering Heights
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Allegiant
    [*]1984
  • Brave New World
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Catch-22
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • The Life of Pi
  • The Book Thief
  • World After
  • The Snow Child
  • The Master and Margarita
  • Never Let Me Go
  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
1984 is a really great book. Had to read it for Year 11 and I loved it. A bit on the depressing side at times though in my opinion
 

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My to-read list:

  • Wuthering Heights
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Allegiant
  • 1984
  • Brave New World
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Catch-22
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • The Life of Pi
  • The Book Thief
  • World After
  • The Snow Child
  • The Master and Margarita
  • Never Let Me Go
  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
I've read the bolded, and want to read the italics!

Book Thief is one of my all time fave books. I read it because this enigma of a boy chose it for his reading assignment and talked about in great depth at the end of Yr 8. Never Let Me Go was right up there as well for me, I read it start of 2012 and actually used it for a belonging portfolio exercise. Catch 22 I read for ATB and I couldn't stand the thing, one of those love or hate books. Read GG and Catcher in the Rye start of this year, liked GG a lot, Catcher in the Rye was okay, I just wasn't sympathetic at all for the protagonist which made the middle a little tedious.
 

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I've read the bolded, and want to read the italics!

Book Thief is one of my all time fave books. I read it because this enigma of a boy chose it for his reading assignment and talked about in great depth at the end of Yr 8. Never Let Me Go was right up there as well for me, I read it start of 2012 and actually used it for a belonging portfolio exercise. Catch 22 I read for ATB and I couldn't stand the thing, one of those love or hate books. Read GG and Catcher in the Rye start of this year, liked GG a lot, Catcher in the Rye was okay, I just wasn't sympathetic at all for the protagonist which made the middle a little tedious.
I loved Catch-22, read the whole book three times throughout the year-no skipping mind you, initially, I didn't understand what it was on about since there are so many characters and the time line is anything but chronological, but I think the second or third time when I read it, I enjoy the book more and more. I think it will be one of my favourite books of all times. I should read the Book Thief very soon-I heard so much about the book and movie it is quite tempting to read it.
 

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I've read the bolded, and want to read the italics!

Book Thief is one of my all time fave books. I read it because this enigma of a boy chose it for his reading assignment and talked about in great depth at the end of Yr 8. Never Let Me Go was right up there as well for me, I read it start of 2012 and actually used it for a belonging portfolio exercise. Catch 22 I read for ATB and I couldn't stand the thing, one of those love or hate books. Read GG and Catcher in the Rye start of this year, liked GG a lot, Catcher in the Rye was okay, I just wasn't sympathetic at all for the protagonist which made the middle a little tedious.
You know how you haven't bolded Wuthering Heights...?

Don't bother.
 

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These are the books that are on my list so far:

- The Histories by Herodotus
- The Gallic Wars and The Civil War by Julius Caesar
- The Second World War by Antony Beevor
 

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1) GoT series

Finished and started . I am also planning to reread Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
 

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My to-read list:

  • Wuthering Heights
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Allegiant
  • 1984
  • Brave New World
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Catch-22
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • The Life of Pi
  • The Book Thief
  • World After
  • The Snow Child
  • The Master and Margarita
  • Never Let Me Go
  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
    [*]The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
so much yes
 

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Thank you for telling me your thoughts on the above books; I'm even more excited to read them but unfortunately I haven't had much time. I've only read a chapter of Wuthering Heights and it's alright so far. Can't wait to see which novels we'll be studying in English this year! :)
 

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Thank you for telling me your thoughts on the above books; I'm even more excited to read them but unfortunately I haven't had much time. I've only read a chapter of Wuthering Heights and it's alright so far. Can't wait to see which novels we'll be studying in English this year! :)
The book thief is amaze balls :3
 

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My to-read list:

  • Wuthering Heights
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Allegiant
  • 1984
  • Brave New World
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Catch-22
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • The Life of Pi
  • The Book Thief
  • World After
  • The Snow Child
  • The Master and Margarita
  • Never Let Me Go
  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
I really enjoyed 1984/Brave new world/ and extremely loud and incredibly close. Personally thought 'The Book Thief' was really over rated
 

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I haven't made a list (not sure I can commit to it) but I want to read " a clockwork orange" and "battle royale".
 

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I've been aiming to read a book a week. So far I've read:

W2 Temeraire - Naomi Novik
W2 Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik

W3 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
W3 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
W3 Black Powder War - Naomi Novik

W4 A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
W4 Sparkling Cyanide - Agatha Christie
W4 After Dark - Haruki Murakami

W5 Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
W5 The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

W6 Dune - Frank Herbert
W6 The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer
W6 The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney

W7 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
W7 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
W7 I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

W9 Ringworld - Larry Nevin
W9 Mistborn - Brandon Anderson

I want to read some more Haruki Murakami and Isaac Asimov books, as well as the rest of the Dune series, just there aren't available in my local library right now.

Do you guys know any other good scifi books? I really loved Ringworld and Dune.
 

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I've been aiming to read a book a week. So far I've read:

W2 Temeraire - Naomi Novik
W2 Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik

W3 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
W3 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
W3 Black Powder War - Naomi Novik

W4 A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
W4 Sparkling Cyanide - Agatha Christie
W4 After Dark - Haruki Murakami

W5 Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
W5 The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

W6 Dune - Frank Herbert
W6 The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer
W6 The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney

W7 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
W7 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
W7 I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

W9 Ringworld - Larry Nevin
W9 Mistborn - Brandon Anderson

I want to read some more Haruki Murakami and Isaac Asimov books, as well as the rest of the Dune series, just there aren't available in my local library right now.

Do you guys know any other good scifi books? I really loved Ringworld and Dune.
What an impressive list so far :) Nice to see a Murakami fan, need to read A Clockwork Orange and a Handmaiden's Tale, how were they?

Unfortunately I don't read much sci-fi to suggest!
 

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What an impressive list so far :) Nice to see a Murakami fan, need to read A Clockwork Orange and a Handmaiden's Tale, how were they?

Unfortunately I don't read much sci-fi to suggest!
They were both excellent books, I really loved a Handmaiden's Tale especially. I found A Clockwork Orange a bit hard to get into at first (and nearly stopped reading it) since the author partially made up a language for the characters (e.g. "horrorshow" means "good"), but I once I got used to the new vocab it was pretty decent.
 

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I've just started Infinite Jest, so there goes the next two months.
 

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