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Can you recommend some books to me?
I'll try anything once, I have read all the books in my house and need something else.
7 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The World According to Garp by John Irving is my personal favorite, but I recently read Atonement by Ian McEwan, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, which were both TERRIFIC. Also, I'm not usually attracted to YA fiction, but The Hunger Games was awesome. I read the sequel yesterday, and I loved it as well.
- DngrsAnglLv 71 decade ago
Persuasion by Jane Austen
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- AliceLv 61 decade ago
My favorite of the moment is Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole by Micco Mann. It has the defiant voice of a 17 year old girl who manages to overcome everything thrown at her in the course of the novel which is a lot-- and she does it in a way that would make all girls proud-- not in a superhuman way or through the assistance of some heroic act of a man but via her own means.
Cherry by Mary Karr. A memoir about teens, sex and growing up in rural Texas as told through the gritty, beautiful prose of one of America's best authors.
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. Another moving memoir recounting her earlier years (you should probably read this one first and then Cherry).
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Pulitzer Prize winner re a teen on a quest.
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Begins with the life of a school girl with no friends and follows her through many wrong turns until she makes a right one and finds love. The book gives us one of the most memorable characters in literature: Dolores Price.
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. It's a Norman Rockwell painting done in dark, mysterious tones about friendship between next door neighbors, relationships with fathers, books, libraries and a mysterious carnival that rolls into town in the middle of the night that changes everything that comes after it. Bradbury's best.
- ChristineLv 61 decade ago
Mary (above) seems to have the same taste in books as I do, would highly recommend any of her suggestions. Also try 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, or 'A Quiet Belief in Angels' byRJ Ellory, or 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel, which I believe they are making into a film, which somehow I just can't imagine how it would work.
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- 1 decade ago
Fallen by Lauren Kate :)
The Greatest show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
I heart New York
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Why don't you head to 'Shelfari'. If you sign up you can get lots of recommendations of books - from readers who like what you like. You also have your own personalised bookshelf so you can keep track of your books and what you've read. I love it! I'm constantly finding new books to read and expanding my literary scope.
The site is www.shelfari.com
Enjoy!
- 1 decade ago
THE TWILIGHT SAGE!!! IT IS VERY GOOD! IT'S AMAZING!
THE HARRY POTTER SERIES
KNIFE
SKELLING! ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVORITES!
THE LORD OF THE FLIES!!!
HOPE THIS HELPS
Source(s): 14 year old :p