CeciliaFranlund Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 To live by Yu Hua. It's a wonderful tale of a man who has everything, looses everything and still finds peace and happiness. Truly beautiful! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimson.threads Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire. Love that book to bits, did it for paper 2 and oh man... it was a beautiful text that I would've enjoyed even without IB English! Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried. This is the second one that comes to mind; mostly because of how simply yet vividly O'Brien describes the many things he sees in 'Nam. And basically everyone in my year either loves or hates Duffy's The World's Wife (of the former here) I liked the Worlds Wife, better than her freaking love poems, which are awful, and far too much lesbian innuendo for me I understand what you mean! Fortunately for me, I didn't have to study any of these since they weren't required texts for IB Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XimenaQ Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 I really loved "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1zD15R341 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 Antigone and The English Patient were amazingly written...but 1984 was certainly easier to analyze (for me at least) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 (edited) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It can completely change your outlook towards life. Edited November 10, 2014 by Knight 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellow_Jell-O Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 This is a book all of my friends, classmates, and people that aren't even in IB hated... but I am always the black sheep in anything: the booked I loved the most was the Odyssey. Just wow. Not only am I a mythology geek but damn is Homer a great writer! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 The Streetcar Named Desire & Crime and Punishment were my favourites in year 11. I hope that this year will bring more great literature Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimbabe2015 Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 I am currently loving "Things Fall Apart"(Achebe) and last year I fell in love with "The Nonexistent Knight"(Calvino) and "The Awakening" (Chopin) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucettafetta Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Brave New World has been my favourite so far. It is such a great dystopian novel. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjung1997 Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto was my favorite! Other writings i read were the fat black woman's poems by grace nichols, things fall apart by chinua achebe and Jump and other stories by nadine gordimer... these were all okay but not as good as Kitchen Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibprincess Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 George Owell's Essays, God of Small Things, Things Fall Apart, Woman at Point Zero Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howl Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 I really loved Never Let Me Go. I had read it before my class read it though, since my older brother did IB and he recommended it to me when he was reading it I think I'm going to focus my IOP on it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
khimberleigh Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 I loved William Blake poetry which I did for the oral commentary, and I found Death of a Salesman really powerful. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amirpouya Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 1984 (By GEORGE ORWELL) , from my opinion, was the best novel till now... The Great Gatsby (By FITZGERALD), the novel loved by almost everyone I saw, was not a beautiful one (compared to 1984), from my point of view ... 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
violetsholmes Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 We're reading Sense and Sensibility for Norwegian Language and Literature right now and I absolutely love it Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uther Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 The Great Gatsby. by far the best book i have ever read, even though i didnt read it in IB, read it in IGCSE. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinmayee Gidwani Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Chronicle of a Death Foretold was simply amazing. I also really enjoyed Ibsen's play, A Dolls House Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbTrojan Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 I love Persepolis (still reading it) and some MYP books that we read, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geiszlers Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) This isn't a novel, but I adored all of the T.S. Eliot we read. His poetry is so captivating. Rough when you're analyzing for meaning - the ideas are so disjointed - but for allusions it's a goldmine. Also not a novel, wow. But even though I had read it before, Hamlet never fails. Edited February 22, 2015 by Amber Christman Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrodinger's CAS Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 The Poisonwood Bible has got to be my favorite novel so far. In fact, I'm doing my IOP on it Pride and Prejudice is also a very well written novel. Although, I didn't enjoy reading it at all. I needed to listen to the audio book to get through the whole thing for the first time, and I almost cried when we had to read it again in class. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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