Please Recommend me a good book! I need to do more reading?

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I like fantasy, But I also like drama, more drama lately actually. (not over the top days of our lives type drama)
but that aside recommend me anything you have enjoyed that you think should be a must read.
PLEASE
no one say Twilight or Harry potter. The page fairy's will give you paper cuts forever and pedobear will eat your teddy if you do.

Vannah{Sweet Simplicty} · Accepted Answer

A Painted House by John Grisham(It's about a boy growing up on a cotton farm during the 1950s.It has very strong characters and a good plot.)

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher(Is about a girl who commits suicide and leaves tapes behind explaining why she did it.She sends the tapes to 13 people who are all apart of the story.)

carolinagirl · Answer

The Green Mile by Stephen King
A Child Called It (1 of a series of 3) by Dave Pelzer
 #2 - The Lost Boy
 #3 - A Man Named Dave
That series is excellent.  Based on a true story, the Author is the child it happened to...Very Very good, but also can be graphic.
The Stand by Stephen King
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

KristaRulezD00d · Answer

The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

Lady Snowblossom · Answer

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Dune by Frank Herbert
Three Musketeers by Dumas
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe
So, you want to be a wizard by Diane Duane
Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr
President's lady by Irving Stone
My Thomas by Roberta Grimes
Rebecca by Du Maurier
Moonspinners by Mary Stewart
Foundation trilogy by Asimov
Lensmen series by E. E. 'Doc' Smith

Mac N Cheese · Answer

The Last Apprentice series by Joesph Delaney.
My Swordhand is Singing, The Book of the Dead Days and the sequel to that that I don't remember the name of by Marcus Sedgwick.
Bloodline & Bloodline: Reckoning by Kate Cary.
The Hobit & The Lord of The Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Anonymous · Answer

Three For The Clouds
The Chronicles of Narnia book series
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Trisha M · Answer

The Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin
http://www.talking-book-store.com/title.aspx?titleId=8699&aId=163761

I Am Legend by by Richard Matheson
http://www.talking-book-store.com/title.aspx?titleId=7797&aId=163761

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
http://www.talking-book-store.com/title.aspx?titleId=9483&aId=163761

? · Answer

The Inkheart trilogy, a little lengthy, but good; um, the Night World trilogy, the two Summoning books

sledhed67 · Answer

The Taking by Dean Koontz, Lake Monster by Joe Citro. A couple of my favorites.

Chiasottis · Answer

"1984" by George Orwell;
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell;
"Survival in Auschwitz" by Primo Levi;
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown;
"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes;
"The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare...

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Please Recommend me a good book! I need to do more reading?

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