Why Do I Always Hear People Saying They Never Do Their Homework?

Recently I’ve heard a lot of kids at my school commenting that they never do their homework. I go to a private school with small classes and the teachers know their students. If kids weren’t doing their homework, wouldn’t they not be doing well? Are these kids full of crap or is there some secret magic trick I missed out on that gets you a good grade without doing homework?

What Book Out Of This List Should I Read For My Summer Reading Homework?

*100 Years of Solitude, by Marquez
*1984, by Orwell
Absalom, Absalom!, by Faulkner
The Adventures of Augie March, by Bellow
After This, by McDermott
The Age of Innocence, by Wharton
Agnes Grey, by Bronte
Alias Grace, by Atwood
All the King’s Men, by Warren
All Souls, by Schutt
All the Pretty Horses, by McCarthy
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Chabon
American Pastoral, by Roth
An American Tragedy, by Dreiser
Amsterdam, by McEwan
*Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner
Babbitt, by Lewis
The Beautiful and Damned, by Fitzgerald
*Bel Canto, by Patchett
*Beloved, by Morrison
*Black Boy, by Wright
Bleak House, by Dickens
Bless Me Ultima, by Anaya
*The Blind Assassin, by Atwood
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Tan
Brave New World, by Huxley
Brick Lane, by Ali
Brideshead Revisited, by Waugh
Bridge of Sighs, by Russo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Diaz
Catch 22, by Heller
Ceremony, by Silko
Clear Light of Day, by Desai
Cloudsplitter, by Banks
Cold Mountain, by Frazier
The Color Purple, by Walker
*A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
The Corrections, by Franzen
*The Count of Monte Cristo, by Dumas
*Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Paton
David Copperfield, by Dickens
Dead Souls, by Gogol
Death in Venice, by Mann
The Deerslayer, by Cooper
Doctor Zhivago, by Pasternak
Don Quixote, by Cervantes
*Dracula, by Stoker
*Drop City, by Boyle
East of Eden, by Steinbeck
The Echo Maker, by Powers
Emma, by Austen
Empire Falls, by Russo
The English Patient, by Ondaatje
Ethan Frome, by Wharton
Europe Central, by Vollmann
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Foer
Far from the Madding Crowd, by Hardy
A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway
Fathers and Sons, by Turgenev
Fieldwork, by Berlinski
Fifth Business, by Davies
The Fixer, by Malamud
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Hemingway
Frankenstein, by Shelley
The Gathering, by Enright
Germinal, by Zola
A Gesture Life, by Chang-rae Lee
Gilead, by Robinson
The God of Small Things, by Roy
The Good Earth, by Buck
The Good Soldier, by Ford
*The Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck
The Gravedigger’s Daughter, by Oates
*Great Expectations, by Dickens
Great Fire, by Hazzard
Gulliver’s Travels, by Swift
A Handful of Dust, by Waugh
Hard Times, by Dickens
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by McCullers
The Heart of the Matter, by Greene
Henderson and the Rain King, by Bellow
The Hours, by Cunningham
House Made of Dawn, by Momaday
The House of Mirth, by Wharton
The House of Seven Gables, by Hawthorne
The House on Mango Street, by Cisneros
Howards End, by Forster
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Hugo
The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
In Country, by Mason
In the Country of Men, by Matar
*In the Lake of the Woods, by O’Brien
In the Time of Butterflies, by Alvarez
Inferno, by Dante
The Inheritance of Loss, by Desai
Intruder in the Dust, by Faulkner
Invisible Man, by Ellison
Ivanhoe, by Scott
*Jane Eyre, by Bronte
Jude the Obscure, by Hardy
The Jungle, by Sinclair
The Known World, by Jones
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by Lawrence
The Last of the Mohicans, by Cooper
The Lazarus Project, by Hemon
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), by Laclos
Les Misérable, by Hugo
*Life of Pi, by Martel
Light in August, by Faulkner
*Lolita, by Nabokov
Look at Me, by Egan
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Marquez
Love Medicine, by Erdrich
Mansfield Park, by Austen
March, by Brooks
The March, by Doctorow
*The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Erdrich
The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Hardy
Middle Passage, by Johnson
Middlemarch, by Eliot
*Middlesex, by Eugenides
Moby-Dick, by Melville
Moll Flanders, by Defoe
Moonstone, by Collins
Mrs. Dalloway, by Woolf
My Ántonia, by Cather
*The Namesake, by Lahiri
Nana, by Zola
Native Son, by Wright
Native Speaker, by Chang-rae Lee
Never Let Me Go, by Ishiguro
Nicholas Nickleby, by Dickens
Northanger Abbey, by Austen
O Pioneers!, by Cather
Obasan, by Kogawa
A Passage to India, by Forster
People of the Book, by Brooks
Pére Goriot, by Balzac
Persuasion, by Austen
Plague of Doves, by Erdrich
The Plot against America, by Roth
*The Poisonwood Bible, by Kingsolver
The Power and the Glory, by Greene
*A Prayer for Owen Meany, by Irving
Ragtime, by Doctorow
The Remains of the Day, by Ishiguro
Reservation Blues, by Alexie
The Return of the Native, by Hardy
*The Road, by McCarthy
Robber Bride, by Atwood
A Room with a View, by Forster
Saint Maybe, by Tyler
*The Scarlet Letter, by Hawthorne
The Sea, by Banville
Sense and Sensibility, by Austen
Shadow Country, by Matthiessen
The Shipping News, by Proulx
Silas Marner, by Eliot
Sister Carrie, by Dreiser
Snow, by Pamuk
Song of Solomon, by Morrison
Song Yet Sung, by McBride
Sons and Lovers, by Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice, by Styron
The Sound and the Fury, by Faulkner
The Stone Diaries, by Shields
*The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway
The Sweet Hereafter, by Banks
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Which Books Should I Read For My Summer Homework?

One I just have to read. The other, I have to answer some questions about.
I’d rather not have to read two monsterously long books, nor would I care to read two boring books.
Alan Paton – Cry the Beloved Country
George Eliot – Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda
Charles Dickens – Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield
Nevil Shute – On the Beach
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’urbanvilles
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Fodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
Chinue Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
Aleksandr Solzenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

Holiday Homework Help….can You Tell Me Which Is The Best And The Shortest Book Out Of These?

Well, I’m in 7th grade and I’ve to read one of these books and then write a review on it. I don’t have much time left so can you tell me which of these books is the best, shortest and the easiest to understand.
These are the books –
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- David Copperfield
- A tale of two cities
- Great expectations
Thanks for reading!