kklisbeth Posted May 3, 2013 Report Share Posted May 3, 2013 I loved Brave New World, Great Gatsby, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah:) Posted May 3, 2013 Report Share Posted May 3, 2013 A Dolls House Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matsu Posted May 4, 2013 Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 I loved The Stranger by Camus so much that I made my WA on it Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychologystudent501 Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 I really enjoyed The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, which surprised me! At first it bored me a little, as I guess it wasn't a book I'd automatically want to pick up and read, but towards the end of it I was really enjoying it and was quite sad when it was all over Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelionwoman Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera became my favourite even though in the beginning I did not like it one bit, but I ended up doing my internal assessment on it! Love in the Time of Cholera by G.G.Marquez and Brighton Rock by Graham Greene were also pretty snazzy Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatPumpkin Posted May 14, 2013 Report Share Posted May 14, 2013 I loved The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. It was really dark and pretty sexual but we always ended up having amazing discussions in class about it. I also really liked Antigone, but I am not sure why. I think those are probably the best books I have read so far in Lit. 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IB King Fason Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 1984 and great gatsby Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matsu Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 I loved The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. It was really dark and pretty sexual but we always ended up having amazing discussions in class about it. I also really liked Antigone, but I am not sure why. I think those are probably the best books I have read so far in Lit.Great book, we read that too for lit Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggan.turner Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 We're reading A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistri, and so far it's amazing. It's the best book we've read so far, I'm so glad we get to use it for our exams! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBfreakingout! Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 I liked reading "The Outsider or "The Stranger" (albert camus) as people here have been calling it but we havent yet analysed it and im a bit unsure on how that'll turn out. But I also liked "Like Water for Chocolate" (Laura Esquivel) with all the magic realism and the speeches by MLK are amazing to read! He has brilliant technique. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Azder Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 I love my Pearson Baccalaureate Book for Math HL. Very Helpful!! Unless you mean for English Literature, then I am not sure, we haven't done much novels yet, just short stories and drama. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MainRostand Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 I absolutely loved Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patric Süskind, especially the end! And when he brewed his perfumes it was so realistic and amazing. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro9604 Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Souless Grandmotherby Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe metamorphosis by kafkaShort story: The feather pillow by Horacio Quiorga and the decapitated chicken by horacio quiroga too Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
100%Workaholic Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Time of the Butterflies byIt is about the Mirabelle sisters in the Dominican Republic when Trujillo was a dictator.Great Read! Frustrating though, because you know Dede's sisters are going to die from the first chapter!The author also writes it in an interesting way, it skips from each of the four sisters, though Dede is reminiscing. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninnielle Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 Jane Eyre! Even though I had read it various times before the IB and it was already one of my favourite books so I don't really know if it classifies as an "IB book" for me I did like studying The Songs of Innocence and Experience as well. Unfortunately neither of these was an actual exam book.I was also really pleased with the works we picked for the translated works requirement of Finnish A course, such as The Master and Margarita and Hamlet. They certainly made the course more interesting; a downside of taking Finnish SL is the fact most people there wish to study the shortest works (or the ones that are cheapest to buy/easiest to get) and totally ignore the whole boredom factor, so most of the works we studied were incredibly dull. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayush Goyal Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 I loved "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie and "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. I was a big fan of Roy's book even before IB. Both of these books were not there in my school's course; I have done my EE on them. From my school's course, I enjoyed reading "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison and "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgnieszkaG Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being along with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment became the books that made my life. Funny enough, though I'm interested in psychiatry, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest left me confused. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolutely Positively Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Alessandro Baricco - NovecentoAlbert Camus - L'Étranger (The Stranger)Charles Dickens - Oliver TwistFriedrich Dürrenmatt - Der Verdacht (Suspicion | also known as The Quarry)Goethe - Faust IFriedrich Schiller - Die Räuber (The Robbers)Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina | War and Peace Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood. I've read many critical opinions on the novel by other IB students, but it's one of my personal favourites. I really enjoy dystopian novels, and it offered a fresh approach to the often redundant Orwell influence. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 The New curriculum Guide to English Literature. I can't think of a more gripping read. It kept me awake for hours and yearning for more. Highly recommended. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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