reading/novels... what should i read??

1984 by George Orwell

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Protector of the Small Series by Tamora Pierce

Darkness Visible by William Styron

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Ulysses by James Joyce

A Dove of the East and other stories by Mark Helprin

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Beka Cooper by Tamora Pierce

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Blood and Chocolate by Annete Curtis Klause

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

The Shack by William P. Young

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Dosadi Experiment - by Frank Herbert

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Illustated Man - by Ray Bradbury

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Life and Death in Shanghai - by Betty Lord Bao

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

People Like Us - by Dominick Dunne

Infidel - by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Stand by Stephen King

The Giver by Lois Lowry

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Atonement by Ian McEwan

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Light in August by William Faulkner

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

Dracula by Bram Stoker

And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Term Limits by Vince Flynn

The Face by Dean Koontz

Sorry guys, but some of those books you have suggested are really hard going for a non-reader!!!!!

I am an avid reader and love books that just compel me to turn page after page after page...

I think you might like some books by Matthew Reilly -

Hover Car Racer is one that is going to be made into a movie by Disney one of these days. it is the story of a kid who races hover cars (futuristic versions of go karts - that go at 600kph). He is poor and young, and his side kick is younger than he. They go to a Hover Car school to be tutored in hover car racing by an expert, and they don't get along wtih the other kids in the school particularly well, There is one kid who is the bad guy, who always dresses in black and is typically bad. The book is extremely fast paced and very easy reading.

Another great Matthew Reilly book that is a little harder to read and a little more demanding, yet just as exciting is Ice Station. I can't actually remember exactly waht it is about, but Matthew Reilly's goal was to write an action book from start to finish, and that's what he did. It has a number of characters that are easily identifiable so you won't get confused with them.

Dan Brown writes excellent books that are easy to read, too. The Da Vinci Code is about a museum curator who gets murdered. A man called Robert Langdon is brought in to solve the mystery. The curator's body is laid out like a Da Vinci drawing. Basically it is a story of finding the holy grail, and is full of action and adventure. Great to read but I found the ending a bit of a let down.

Deception Point by Dan Brown is great! it is set in the Arctic and some scientists discover a meteorite that has been embedded in the ice, that has ancient fossils in it. An amazing scientific discovery!!! Then the scientists discover more sinister things about this fossil. It is a fast paced, and exciting book!!!

Best of luck, and I hope you find something to read.

If you have trouble concentrating on adult books, why not try some young adult books from the library.

BB

If you like the Shawshank Redemption, you should read The Rainmaker, or anything else by John Grisham - he used to be a lawyer and so the stories are usually about the law and court cases or organised crime. Or you could look up the books of your favourite films and read those - like the Star Wars books, Lord of the Rings, etc.

I would have to suggest the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. Harry is a Los Angeles Homicide Detective and they are great books. Well written and pretty easy reads.

If you can read them in order, start with The Black Echo.

Here is a link to his web site.

http://www.michaelconnelly.com/

Upon further review I would also suggest Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, or Fahrenheit 451.

For a horror novel nothing beats Pet Cemetery, by Stephen King, or Misery by the same author.

Michael Connelly is edgy and quite popular in the UK. For something really fun try Lawrence Block, the Bernie Rohdenbar series. Nothing beats a Burglar in trouble.

Enjoy.

There are many different reasons why i read First it helps me relax and dive into another world It helps me escape reaility for a little bit It broadens my imgination I learn a lot about life after reading a good novel Some novels make me laugh, gasp, and even sob Novels teach me values and make me realize things i have never thought of before And lastly they are just plain fun to read :)

I have no idea how old you are, of course, or your reading level. I am going to assume you are a teen for purposes of answering your question, but the ONLY reason I assume that is because you say you have only read one book.

Try the 'Twilight' series by Stephenie Meyer. See this page for reviews of the first one:

http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Saga-Book-1/dp/0316...

As for the fact the books are aimed at teens, don't be discouraged: I am 40 years old, read 50-100 books every *year*, and I am reading these books also, mostly because it seems every teen around is obsessed with them. I want to know what it's all about. And I'm really enjoying the first one!

So read up and enjoy!

I'm guessing that you're probably a teenager. If that's the case, here are some pretty surefire choices.

The Giver by Lois Lowry

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

1984 by George Orwell

I hope this helps. Read on!!

I'm not going to ask you about your reading level, cause, seriously..you may never answer that (you'd have to e-mail people and it complicates things more, which is not the point of yahoo answers) so, I'm just going to offer help and recommend good, not painfully hard, or boring, books :3

I have recently discovered the work of Diana Wynne Jones, and fell in love with it. Yes, she's a children's/teen's book author, but I believe her stories are enjoyable for grown ups too (Hey, I'm 20, and still laugh with delight when I read Harry Potter.) I highly recommend "Howl's Moving Castle" (if you've seen the movie and liked it...you'll LOVE the book, it's so much better.) and it's sequel "Castle in the air". Diana W Jones shows her enormous creativity and talent in these two witty, engaging novels in which you learn nothing is as it seems. The characters are simply unforgettable, and trully human, in my humble opinion.

Here you can find a synopsis:

HMC : http://www.amazon.com/Howls-Moving-Castle-Diana-Wy...

CitA: http://www.amazon.com/Castle-Air-Diana-Wynne-Jones...

Then, there's Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "100 years of Solitude", which is a bit complicated since a lot of the character's name are repeated, but it's worth it. Magic Realism at it's best. If you read a summary it might sound boring, but it isn't. It's a really special book, not only the particular story but also the way it's written (it goes back and forth in time) and the use of language and- I could go on and on...XD

http://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Years-Solitude-P...

Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa, is said to be the Ugandan version of 100 years of solitude, I haven't finished reading yet, but so far I think it's quite different, but equally genially written, a bit slow at the beginning, though.

http://www.amazon.com/Abyssinian-Chronicles-Novel-...

The House of the Spirits is a more approachable option to Magic realism if you find it interesting, but challenging in the form of "100 years.." or "Abyssinian Chronicles". Although I prefer Gabriel G Marquez work over Isabel Allende's any day, I thought House of the Spirits was a fun, "light" book. Political, romantic, mystical, mysterious. Fun.

http://www.amazon.com/House-Spirits-Isabel-Allende...

I've also enjoyed Valerio Massimo Manfredi's "Alexander" trilogy. It's a historical novel about Alexander the Great. Not your typical boring historic novel, luckily. I thought it was quite fast paced, and thrilling. This was one of the books I couldn't put down once I started reading it. I remember finishing the first book of the trilogy and running out to a book shop to buy the following two ^^

http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Child-Valerio-Mass...

Hope this helps! You can find more info of all the books in wikipedia, I've search and thought it had good, complete info. Thought the amazon links were better though because they have this "search inside" thing, and you can read a bit of the books before you decide on one (if you decide to read one of these that is)

My suggestion are Agatha Christie collection, the Labyrinth or some Paulo Coelho books.

What reading level and what genre? "i have only read one book on my own" Do you mean you've only read one book outside of school, or that you've only read one book your entire life? The info would help a lot.

Anyways, I recommend The Body, by Stephen King.

Watership Down, by Adams

Rabbits must find a new home when developers take their field. Includes fighting, mysticism, and great writing.