What are some recommended books for college students?

Question: What are some recommended books for college students!?

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Not many books for college students, unless medical or another science, have illustrations!. Not that I read to get an Eng!. Lit!. degree years ago, anyway!. Here's list for you:

The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Possession: A Romance by A!.S!. Byatt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
CosmiComics by Italo Calvino
The Norton Anthology of American Literature
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: the story of Cynthia Ann Parker by Carolyn Meyer
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Silas Marner by George Elliot
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K!. LeGuin
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Shakespeare's sonnets

!.!.!.and lots more!.!.!. I hit on just about every author I recalled, and every one who has written a terrific book that will be/is classic since I graduated!.!.!. it's overwhelming, but just !.!.!.
!.!.!.*Pick a Few*!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Speaking as someone who has graduated from two colleges, you will have plenty of class books to read!.

Now if you are looking for books that are handy for a group of classes for writing papers several books have been used in more than one of my classes!.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
The Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe
Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorn(e)
Collected Poetry of Emily Dickens
and more!.

But if you are just looking for entertainment:

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman-the first in the Dragonlance Series
The Girl Code by Diane Farr
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (rated R+) the first chapter is very graphic in detail about a sexual encounter
Many of my college friends are reading Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini
The Harry Potter Series
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
And many more!. It all depends on what you feel like reading!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Read books from all genres!.

Try the kite runner
the book thief or the diary of anne frank
Poetry by Edgar Allen Poe or Emily Dickson

Make sure you have read some shakepeare
romeo& juliet or hamlet!. something

Some other books I would suggest are
Gone with the wind (this story is mentioned and used alot in the literature world)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
a midsummer nights dream
catcher and the rye
wuthering heights or pride&prejudiceWww@QuestionHome@Com

The books I have had to read while in college are :

Think on these things by Krisnamurti
The Three Thebian Plays by Sophecles
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
A Child called "It" by Dave Pelzer
Black in School : Afrocentric reform, urban youth and the hip hop generation by Sean Ginwright
A rock and a hard place by Anthony Godby Johnson

There were more I just can't remember them all and those were mostly read my freshman year!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

What are you trying to learn!? Or are you just wanting to read for fun!?

There is a website called www!.goodreads!.com and it has book reviews!.!.!. you can also join (for free) and post books you've read or want to read!. I think it's a good way to keep a list of what you want to read!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Although it is written for children you can't go wrong with reading "The Chronicles of Narnia" Sega!. They are my all time favorite books!. I am always finding something new!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Depends on what you like!.!.!. I loved the book "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://www!.collegeboard!.com/parents/plan!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com