What is on your must read list???

JANE EYRE! never read it - I keep avoiding it.

Night by Eli Wiesel..... I start reading it and then stop.

Night is a great book and pretty quick too.

I want to read The Handmaiden's Tale.

I'm Gonna lay my burdens down by Mary Monroe

'God don't like ugly - Mary Monroe

'The Upper Room'

Next it's 'PG County' by Connie Briscoe.

'Acting Out' by Benilde Little.

'Good Hair'

'The Itch'

Fifth born by Zelda Lockhart

God's Gift to women - Michael Baisden

Property by Valerie Martin.

Kindred - Octavia Butler

John Grisham's new book

James Patterson's new book

Baby Mama's Drama

Church Folks

No matter how educated I become, I still just can not appreciate the classic books. I find them (with some exceptions) so boring and drawn out!

Maybe in 10 years :D

I just bought Good In Bed to read on vacation in a few weeks. I also want to read Martha Stewarts unauthorized bio as well as Saturday Nights Lives behind the scences book (yes, they have a book about it!). Im all about trashy books :D

Also getting some photography books since that is my new interest.

on top of my list is:

Stephen Ambrose's memoirs (the US's formost historian who just died...but wrote is memoirs when he was diagnosed with cancer)

according to prentice hall... classics?

Suggested Reading for High School (Grades 9–12)


Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
Alvarez, Julia. How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg,Ohio.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Bagdad.
Austin, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Baker, Russell. Growing Up.
Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Brooke, Polly Schoyer. Queen Eleanor, Independent Spirit of The Medieval World: Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth.
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers.
Cervantes. Adventures of Don Quixote.
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.
Cooper, James F. Last of the Mohicans.
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years.
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield.
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.
Dickens, Charles. Tale of Two Cities.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie.
duMaurier, Daphne. Rebecca.
Eliot, George. Silas Marner.
Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man.
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face.
Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.
Haley, Alex. Roots.
Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Heinlein, Robert. Stranger in a Strange Land.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
Homer. The Illiad.
Homer. The Odyssey.
Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.
Kuralt, Charles. Charles Kuralt's America.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
London, Jack. The Sea Wolf.
Malamud, Bernard. The Natural.
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong.
McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible.
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.
Myers, Walter Dean. The Glory Field.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
Orwell, George. 1984.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems.
Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev.
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen.
Remarque, Erich. All Quiet on the Western Front.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William. King Lear.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Shepard, Alan and Deke Slayton. Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon.
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach.
Silko, Leslie. Ceremony.
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl.
Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, R.L. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil.
Swift, Johnathan. Gulliver's Travels.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Thoreau, Henry D. Walden.
Thurber, James. My Life and Hard Times.
Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival.
Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn.
Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
Wright, Richard. Native Son.

I second Natasha --

bump for shamma

thanks Helene