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"Harry Potter. I've read the fourth one twice and I'm reading the fifth one twice and I'm gonna read all of them a couple times. I just have gotten so hooked on them."
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"This book makes me sound so, like, pretentious, but it's Ignorance by Milan Kundera. My mom read it, so she gave it to me. Before that [I read] Breakfast at Tiffany's (by Truman Capote)."
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"Right now, I am reading a book called The Alchemist (by Paul Coelho). It is all about following your dreams and paying attention to the world, because everything is working for you, and everything aspires to help you on your way to find your personal legend."
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" Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This books shows the good that can come out of friendship and male bonding, even in tragic circumstances. Dreams can help a person keep on going. Maybe bringing a friend along on a dream can be a part of fulfilling the dream itself."
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"In my psychology class, I just finished reading Schopenhauer's Porcupines by Deborah Luepnitz, which I found very interesting and insightful. Also, I am about to begin reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and I am very excited about it."
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"I just read Interstellar Pig by William Sleator. It's being developed into a movie right now. It is a very fun book about an interstellar treasure hunt game. It has aliens, suspense and some comedy too. I really liked it."
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"The Harry Potter series is great. It sometimes takes a lot to grab my attention and with the Harry Potter books they took me to this totally different world and I could totally envision it and imagine it. I would hate coming back to my world. I would go, 'I wish something like this existed. I wish I was a witch!' It's magical. Another one is The Giver (by Lois Lowry) that I read in school. The beginning was 'Oh here's another book I have to read that I'm not going to like.' But I liked it. It was such a neat story. It's about this town and there's a man called The Giver. And also A Child Called "It" (by David Pelzer), which is about child abuse from [a] boy's eyes."
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"I just finished a (Franz) Kafka book called The Metamorphosis, [for school] which is kind of interesting. I'm moving on to Hamlet, (by William Shakespeare) which is going to be extremely boring, but I'm going to try!"
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"I'm getting ready to start a book called Eldest , which is the sequel to Eragon (both by Christopher Paolini). It's adventure and fantasy."
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"The Alex series by Tessa Duder."
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"Right now I'm reading the book Wicked (by Gregory Maguire), which inspired the idea of the Broadway musical. It is basically a prequel to The Wizard of Oz (by L. Frank Baum), but it shows you the story behind the witches of Oz. I just started reading it, but I'm already getting into it! It's very mystical but real at the same time. I'm super excited to read the whole thing!"
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"I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It shows that you never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view; until you climb into their skin and walk around in it."
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"I recently read the autobiography of Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some. Here is a little tidbit that I liked: "When you have nothing but dreams, that's all you think about, all that matters, all that takes you away from humdrummery..."
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"My favorite authors when I was a child were Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl and also Zilpher Keatley Snyder. They were probably my three favorites."
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"I am currently reading A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. It's a powerful narrative about the small island of Antigua written by a woman who witnessed the corruption and mistreatment of her beloved homeland. The book is written in a very blunt and sarcastic tone. Kincaid is very passionate about the subject, which makes it such an interesting read."
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“Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by Mark Twain) had a big effect on me. Those were always ones I re-read a couple of times. There was a series called
The Great Brain series (By John D. Fitzgerald) - those were really interesting. They were about a kid growing up in a Mormon family in Utah. Then, those S.E. Hinton books. I’d always get those from Owen [Wilson, Luke’s older brother] – I’d see him reading The Outsiders and things like that.”
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"What I've been secretly enjoying lately is the entire collection of Aesop's Fables and the original German translation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It's so fun reading the early stories on some of our country's most popular fairy tales. They were much darker then and were originally used to scare kids instead of entertain them!"
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"It might be a little "kid-ish," but my favorite book is Cave Boy (by Cathy East Dubowski). It was the first book that I'd ever read. It has pictures and everything, because a 14-year-old boy can't read a book without pictures in it!"
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"I just finished a book from a long time ago called The Lovely Bones (by Alice Sebold)."
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"Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. I guess I like his philosophy on life, so that would be my favorite book. Now, I'm reading Bel Canto (by Ann Patchett), which is interesting."
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"I just finished the book The Dogs of Winter (by Kem Nunn). It was an amazing, amazing book."
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"Ender's Game (by Orson Scott Card). I'm going to re-buy and re-read it!"
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"I just finished, for my English class, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (by Mildred D. Taylor). It was a really depressing book, but the writing was amazing. It kind of made me tear up at some points. I think the whole class [did tear up] at some parts of the book, but it was really good."
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"What's a book that I've read that I love? I love Robinson Crusoe (by Daniel Defoe)."
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