4.47 avg rating — 27,281 ratings

"Classic Mystery and the smartest twists and turns you'll ever find."

4.17 avg rating — 154,337 ratings

"Author went to MBA. Supposedly based on his experiences here."

3.76 avg rating — 137,717 ratings

"Irish writer - good to mix things up."

3.96 avg rating — 121,726 ratings

"Your mom loved this. Light reading and interesting perspective on the world around you."

4.09 avg rating — 265,884 ratings

"If you're just reading classics now, maybe you missed some history too."

4.01 avg rating — 896,856 ratings

"Same as Black Swan - interesting insight in the way our world turns."

4.07 avg rating — 117,694 ratings

"This is actually on my list too. Think "Sword in the Stone." King Arthur as a a little boy."

4.27 avg rating — 144,499 ratings

"I know you're not really into baseball, but a good view of the business/statistics side to how he changed the game."

3.79 avg rating — 493,315 ratings

"You need to read Hemingway just to see if you like him. I actually am not a huge fan. . . . "

4.14 avg rating — 66,592 ratings

"Think past the tv show. This was written long before it. Fascinating expose as to how High School football can run a town in the middle of Texas."

3.93 avg rating — 75,191 ratings

"Short read. Curious to see what you make of Bartleby's "humanity.""

3.57 avg rating — 615,220 ratings

"The ultimate conquest - lots of metaphors here. More than just a man trying to find a whale."

4.04 avg rating — 92,980 ratings

"Light and funny play. Quirky as all get out."

3.91 avg rating — 237,209 ratings

"Most palatable for guys, I think. A King asks his daughters to profess their undying love. A bastard son feels resentful that the legitimate son is the heir . . . Lots of themes."

4.17 avg rating — 405,281 ratings

"Also a play - hilarious and light. Wilde is well, wild. Can be crude, but witty and fully of puns and double entendres."

3.61 avg rating — 12,442 ratings

"More baseball, sorry. But again, more about the man and his quest and what gets in his way than just baseball."

4.39 avg rating — 996,943 ratings

"Louis Zamperini is just a beast. Period. He came to MBA and spoke after we all read this book for the all school read."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,034,525 ratings

"This is actually hard to read/emotionally difficult at times. But a father and son and their journey to no where in post apocalyptic America. Gosh, I cried and cried. . . . "

3.83 avg rating — 1,190,467 ratings

"Staple. So many allusions to this in life. You're not really educated if you haven't read it. "

4.32 avg rating — 1,021,707 ratings

"You'll like this book more than the movie. But the movie is great too."

4.16 avg rating — 34,667 ratings

"Hard relationship between father and son. But Pat Conroy writes so beautifully and poignantly. I also love the setting here. "

4.34 avg rating — 30,093 ratings

"More Conroy, based on his experience in all boys and military academies."

4.03 avg rating — 373,638 ratings

"You'll be surprised how well written this is and how much you missed from just watching Disney."

3.89 avg rating — 436,215 ratings

"Inter-racial marriage, betrayal, an evil Iago spinning a web of lies: Shakespeare was so ahead of his time. . . "

3.71 avg rating — 219,163 ratings

"Important for allusions and some of the most stately monologues in all of literature. A good lesson for ambition and greed."

4.40 avg rating — 463,734 ratings

"As GOOD as the movie is, the book gives you so much more. "

4.27 avg rating — 1,611,244 ratings

"Great mystery. Easy read. Classic."

3.60 avg rating — 232,160 ratings

"Internal dialogue of a boy that loses his childhood friend and how he processes."

4.15 avg rating — 344,454 ratings

"Like "All Quiet on the Western Front," a front lines look at what Vietnam was like as you meet several different characters and what life was like. "

4.10 avg rating — 346,531 ratings

"All the things of camaraderie and the male bond."

4.23 avg rating — 328,638 ratings

"Deep and philosophical. Makes you think."

4.19 avg rating — 244,632 ratings

"Read at Halloween or at Capon, where apparently he wrote. . . "

3.80 avg rating — 873,078 ratings

"A boy's ambition and his obsession with the girl that drives that ambition. Let me know when you read this. I'll have to tell you something about the ending. . . "

3.89 avg rating — 1,018,818 ratings

"Allusions, greed, ambition, "Don't listen to women." Ha HA."

3.91 avg rating — 304,890 ratings

"I need to read this too."

3.92 avg rating — 1,017,496 ratings

"Mischievous, but brilliant young boy and how he manages the world around him. You may be more like Tom Sawyer than any boy I know. . . "

4.03 avg rating — 1,049,164 ratings

"Plagued with the tragic flaw of indecisiveness. See what happens when you don't ACT."

3.83 avg rating — 1,336,219 ratings

"More boyhood tales, but a little more complex in social inequality and exposition of the life and times."

3.88 avg rating — 1,011,687 ratings

"OK, this is hard to start, and it's not for everyone. But if you can get going, the pay off is tremendous. It's also a good look at the French Revolution. One of my top five, ever."

4.06 avg rating — 258,353 ratings

"My favorite Shakespeare. Hilarious and plays beautifully on human insecurities, tendencies, and idiosyncratic nonsense."

4.14 avg rating — 1,598,937 ratings

"Classic look at high school cliques and how far they can go - for better and worse."

4.11 avg rating — 519,452 ratings

"World War I high school boys and their stories. Ending made my mouth drop to the floor."

4.24 avg rating — 336,876 ratings

"An adult read that I think you can handle. You should sample Irving and see what you think. This was the first book that I read in high school that wasn't for school. (I think my boyfriend told me to.) Again, the pay-off is mind blowing. "

4.20 avg rating — 779,314 ratings

"Well developed characters in a corrupt insane asylum. Think Shawshank Redemption in a hospital not a prison and minus the redemption. . . Then see the movie with Jack Nicholson."

4.44 avg rating — 636,190 ratings

"Your mom put me on the spot once and asked what my favorite book was. This was it. It's a hard claim to make. But it has everything. First three or four chapters are a looooot of background and exposition. Maybe too much. But you have to understand where they all came from to appreciate where they go."

3.99 avg rating — 885,956 ratings

"This is oddly a funny, satirical look at war. It is well-written and the characters are memorable, even when they die."

4.30 avg rating — 4,448,948 ratings

"Seriously?"

4.24 avg rating — 3,148,995 ratings

"So much more important than the movie. And you have to remember that so much is allegory. Read this since you haven't been to church in years."

4.03 avg rating — 993,096 ratings

"Steinbeck again who is a great writer. But I'll warn you this one is so, so depressing. But an important look at how America migrated west."

3.93 avg rating — 5,905,705 ratings

"It's actually pretty light, I think. You'll appreciate the East Egg, West Egg lavishness (read - the Hamptons) and the whole desperation he has for "the girl.""

3.80 avg rating — 3,888,388 ratings

"I'd be surprised if you didn't like this when you read it in high school. But important for you to read now just AFTER high school and see how angry we all become at the world when we're going through crap."

4.26 avg rating — 6,873,702 ratings

"Just beautifully written, beautifully told, and tragically heroic characters. This is magic."

3.97 avg rating — 16,419 ratings

"This is the book that led to "Field of Dreams." WP Kinsella is my all time favorite writer. He has a way of wording the most simple and mundane things with such profound consequence. LOVE HIM."

3.95 avg rating — 633 ratings

"See my Shoeless Joe explanation. LOVE this writer. This is his collection of short stories, so if you just need a quick read before bed. Or short stories . . . . "

4.76 avg rating — 1,350 ratings

"When you're ready to dive into an epic adventure. . . . "