“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank

“1984” by George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" by J.K. Rowling

“The Lord of the Rings” (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott

“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell

“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain

“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins

“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe” by C.S. Lewis

“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck

“The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini

“Night” by Elie Wiesel

“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare

“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L'Engle

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck

“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens

“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare

“The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling

“The Giver” by Lois Lowry

“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein

“Wuthering Heights” Emily Bronte

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green

“Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain

“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare

“The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larrson  

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

“The Holy Bible: King James Version”

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

“East of Eden” by John Steinbeck

“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

“In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote

“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller

“The Stand” by Stephen King

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling

“Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

“Watership Down” by Richard Adams

“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens

“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling

“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel

“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis

“The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett

“Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

“Dracula” by Bram Stoker

“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman

“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd

“The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

“The Odyssey” by Homer

“The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)” by Pearl S. Buck

“Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)” by Suzanne Collins

“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie

“The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough

“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot

“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

“The Things They Carried” by Tim O'Brien

“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse

“Beloved” by Toni Morrison

“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

“Cutting For Stone” by Abraham Verghese

“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster

“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

here’s a masterpost of all the google chrome extensions that i use! i’ve seen a lot of these posts before, and they’re probably a lot more useful, but i’ve narrowed it down to my personal favourites here.

(header background Designed by Freepik)

focus:

stayfocusd - limits the time spent on time-wasting websites

news feed eradicator for facebook - replaces your facebook news feed with a quote (for those of you who actually use facebook!!)

homework/studying:

google dictionary - allows you to search up definitions faster

grammarly - “checks your spelling and grammar as you type”

ad blockers:

ublock origin - efficient ad blocker

adblock for youtube - blocks ads on youtube

tumblr related:

new xkit - includes useful features, such as finding inactive blogs, removing recommended posts, quick tags, scroll to bottom, and many other tweaks and enhancements.

tumblr follower checker - checks for mutuals

archive poster - “quickly reblog and queue from a blog’s archive”

eye dropper - allows you to pick out the colour from web pages (useful for html)

new tabs:

tab for a cause - donates money!!

music:

8tracks controller - “control your 8tracks music without leaving your tab”

animal crossing music - plays hourly music from animal crossing <33

other:

onetab - reduces tab clutter

floating for youtube - watch youtube videos outside of the browser

the rest of my posts can be found here.

please follow me for upcoming posts! 

      So, as promised. Here are 30 useful websites to change your life. There is so dang much websites that had made my life useful over the years! Here are all my favorites. (I decided to make a part 2 to the fun websites and this cuz I find A LOT more websites as I kept on researching rip)

Account Killer // Shows how to kill an account forever!!

Midomi //  Find a song by singing or humming.

join.me //  a good way to share screen with anyone.

Favorite and Forget // A collection of very useful links

Hemingway Editor // A free essay editor that has a LOT of features! Note: there are many pros and cons to this, so use carefully! Use: Polish my writing for grammar suggestions.

Random Useful Websites // take you to random useful websites.

10 minute mail // When you want to avoid spam but you gotta get that email. You can also  try  ThrowAwayMail

Cheatography // LIFE’S CHEAT SHEET FOR YOU

Duck Duck Go // an engine that doesn’t track you

This reddit thingy // a blessing.

Taste Profile // movie suggestions based on your music taste

Builder // tools to help you build your resume, logo, and websites.

Forvo // How to pronounce everything and anything

User Search // help you see if a username is available or naw!

Typing // teach you how to type

RipeTrack // tells you when a fruit is in season or not

Freedom // App and website blocking service

Honey // applies coupons immediately during check-out.

F.lux // changes display to suit time of day.

How Long to Read This // Find out how long it takes to read any book Two Foods // compare calories, fat, and other options in 2 different foods.

   And that’s it! I please inform me if somethings wrong (I wouldn’t be able to see it until 8/23/16 tho ) My Studyblr Games is on until 8/29! Enter while you can!!!

Other mps:

+ 

Studying for English:

AP english tips

How to do well in English class

7 tips for surviving an English class

How to score more than 90% in the English board

How to do well in English literature class

Get your essay analyzed

Analytical essay template

Augmentative essay template

Compare and contrast essay template

Expository essay template

Persuasive essay template

Reflective essay template

Research paper essay template

How to write a speech

10 keys to writing a speech

10 tips on writing a kick-ass speech

7 things to do when you have to present a short speech

How to give a great speech

10 ways to improve your creative writing

How to write a short story

5 steps to write a short story

5 secret tips to writing a short story

Crash course in literature

Studying foreign languages:

Duolingo

How diplomates learn foreign languages

12 rules for learning foreign languages

10 tips and tricks to learn foreign languages

22 for learning a foreign language

Tips for foreign langauge studies

Ten foreign language study tips

The best way to learn a foreign language

Learning a foreign language: five most common mistakes

Studying maths:

Get the answer to any maths problem

7 tips for solving maths problems

A guide for studying maths

Success in mathematics

Maths study tips

How to study for a maths test

Studying for a maths test

10 strategies to improve your math grades

Studying computer studies:

Codeacademy

5 things to remember when studying IT

3 ways to study computer studies

How to study for your computer studies exam

5 tips for computer science freshman

6 easy ways to learn coding and computer coding for free

Get a college level computer science education with these free courses

Studying science:

5 study techniques to master biology

Study tips for biology classes

How to get an A in biology

Crash course in biology

Crash course in astronomy

Crash course psychology

Crash course in ecology

Crash course in chemistry

Crash course in anatomy and physiology

Studying art:

Proko - drawing tutorials

Drawing with Jazza - drawing and animation tutorials

Markcrilley - drawing tutorials

Made to sew - sewing

DigitalRev TV - photography

Art journalling

General study tips:

9 best scientific study tips

How to use mind mapping

How to have a productive study time

How to study in college

9 apps to help shut off the internet and let you get back to work

Studying with mental illness:

How to deal with mental illness in college

How to study with a mental illness

Studying with mental illness in college

How to brainwash yourself to study while depressed

Managing depression while studying forum

6 tips to get motivated while depressed

How to deal with stress and anxiety

How to calm anxiety

Breathing technique to decrease anxiety

19 tips to break brain fog

10 tips for navigating through brain fog

10 websites to help you relax

6 ways to fight distractions

10 study tips for students with ADD/ADHD

ADHD students: 8 study tips

Study playlist:

Best music to help study

Study playlists on 8tracks

2 hour long piano music for studying

Study playlist masterlist

Study playlist

Note taking: 

How to take notes

How to take notes from a textbook

How to take notes in class

College note taking tips

Cornell note taking method

How to take lecture notes

How to take notes faster

Effective note taking for exams

Organization:

20 habits of organized people

How to stay organized in high school

45 tips for staying organized in college

Getting organized for the whole school year

10 ways to get organized this year

Monster study planners

5 planner tips

Beginner guide to bullet journaling

Easy DIY planner

Make your own planner

Exams:

How to prepare for exams

Don’t freak out over finals

Ultimate finals guide

Test anxiety tips

How to study for an exam

Last minute advice:

To help calm down anxiety or brain fog, try writing down all the things you need to do then organize them from mote important to least important or by due date.

Don’t be afraid to be funny when writing down your notes. If something funny will help remember a certain fact then do it.

If you fail something don’t panic. You are not the first and certainly not the last.

Find out which way you learn the best and try to learn through that.

My teacher once explained that she wrote all her notes down and placed them every where she would see them, even in the shower.

If you are worried about certain issues then don’t be afraid to talk to your teacher.

The internet is a gold mine of studying goodness so I thought i’d compile some resources i like / obvs not exhaustive this is too short for that..  // *** = fave

01 ; General??

Khanacademy (youtube) ; they have a LOT of videos and channels!!

***TED ; the talks are so interesting!!!

Futurelearn , Coursera , OpenLearn ; free online learning courses (i’m doing one on FutureLearn atm!! c’est fun!!) 

MIT Open Courseware ; online textbooks (scroll down for the pdf links)

Wolfram|Alpha ; it’s pretty neat okay + also its demos (u will need to install something for these to work but it’s free dw) 

Shmoop ; tbh v useful for book summaries! + a lot more

***Quizlet ; flashcards galore !

02 ; Tips!!

Wikipedia loophole ;) 

Bibliography tip!! ; by @afternoonsnoozebutton

Google skills ; by @19hf

03 ; STEMish (+geography which i consider a humanity but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) 

Hegartymaths (youtube) 

***Physicsandmathstutor ; my saviour for maths (it also has econ, chem, bio despite the name!) 

Coding ; online resources by @code-bug 

Coding free e books data base; rec by @deathofatroll 

Anatomy ;〃by @gracelearns

Biology; 〃 by @study-well

***Chemguide ; i always seem to end up here tbh O.o 

Royal Society of Chem ; has some decent resources! 

Chemistry ; by @study-well 

Geography ; by @learnal (wowsers yes dat me) 

04 ; Writing

Writing resources; by @studyquill

Hemingway Editor ; details here by @namaste-shay 

05 ; Languages 

***Lexicity ; for ancient languages eg. latin, greek etc EVERYTHING u will need is here!!!! (wish i had this when i was learning latin tbh) 

Bilinguis ; free bilingual books, more on them here by @loulanguages

French resources; by @teacupful-of-languages 

Free french books; by @cryptolingo

Huge list of e-books !!

Links to masterposts for like practically ALL THE LANGUAGES; by @wonderful-language-sounds

p.s yh this is v humanities deprived… i guess i don’t look out for those posts/resources cuz i don’t take any anymore (bar geography) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Helpful Links:

types of anxiety disorders

what causes anxiety?

calm breathing technique 

coping with a panic attack

counseling: does it work?

four As of stress management

grounding techniques

home tips to reduce anxiety

learning to say no without feeling guilty

ocd help

overcoming chest tightness

medication info

muscle relaxation

trick for social anxiety

rules for coping with anxiety & panic

self help strategies for PTSD

sleep aid kitten

social skills tips

more ptsd help

vitamin deficiency & anxiety

yoga poses for stress relief

12 foods for stress relief

9 steps to reduce anxiousness

Activities and DIY:

alpaca sock plushie

anxiety workbook for teens

anxiety relief - jar spell

calming glitter jar

comfort box

cute stress relief kit

panic workbook

stress relief bath and shower recipes

worksheet: learn to attack unhelpful thoughts

zen and anti stress colouring sheets

Interactives: 

100,000 stars

6 games for anxiety & depression

blahtherapy

boosterbuddy

disgruntle me

do nothing for 2 minutes

emotions wheel

make everything ok

mindshift phone app

neonflames

planetarium

rainymood

stress analyst

the thoughts room

the quiet place project

(via biancabraswell)

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.

Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

Overview: • year overview • month overview • week overview

Daily: • need to do • what happened • homework • revision • quote of the day • word of the day • sleep log • water log • how are you feeling • what made me smile

To Do: • to watch • to buy • to read • to listen • to visit • to organise

Life: • habit tracker • sleep log • spending log • dream journal • life goals • one smile a day

Collections: • fav films/actors/directors • fav songs/artists • fav quotes • fav image mood board

Ideas: • journal ideas • story prompts • character profiles • recipes • exercises • DIYS • doodle page • handwriting page • banners • layouts

School: • class timetable • homework tracker • revision timetable • revision techniques

hey guys! since summer is quickly approaching, i thought id share some of the things i hope to accomplish before school starts again. let me know your plans for enjoying a semi-productive summer and enjoy!