What book should I read?

You haven't read Harry Potter OR Series of Unfortunate Events? Get away from me! Go on, shoo!

Just kidding. But seriously. GO READ THEM. NOW. Your fantasy mind will thank you for it forever.

Okay. Um. You mentioned liking Avatar. That's an anime. So have you ever read manga?

Here are some decent series that you'll like:

Fullmetal Alchemist - Hiromu Arakawa. DEVASTATINGLY good. I cried after I read a certain chapter.

Soul Eater - Atsushi Okhubo. An amazing action-adventure story.

Fruits Basket - Natsuki Takaya. It gets kinda romance-y though.

As for normal books...

Try Nick Shadow's books; they're scary as hell, but you'll love them.

Have you read the Darren Shan series? It is awesome. No lie.

Fullmetal Alchemist and the Land of Sand is a novel version of the already mentioned Fullmetal Alchemist manga.

Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie. My all-time favourite book.

For that matter, ANYTHING by Agatha Christie.

Ooh..!! Yes to Harry Potter, The Hunger Games Trilogy, Eragon and Series Of Unfortunate Events. Lord of the Rings can get pretty lengthy and some of the stuff in it is just pointless. And Narnia is kinda childish(?), the writing style is definitely more suited to younger readers.

My Recommendations:

Percy Jackson & The Olympians....Lots of magic, madness and greeky-ness!! I really enjoyed reading the series.

The Heroes Of Olympus - Sequel to the previous series, but even better!

The Kane Chronicles - Kinda Percy Jackson-y, but this time its Egyptians!

The Maximum Ride Series....lots of adventure.....and mutants!!

The Mortal Instruments!! Definitely my favourites on this list....nephilim, demons and angels clash in this epic series!!

The Infernal Devices!! Written by the same author as the Mortal Instruments, but it's set in England.

EDIT: Okay I just finished reading the Alex Rider series, and I have to admit its like reading about a 14 year old James Bond (without the girls)!!! The plots are really intricate, and just mind-boggling!!

Ok, I've read and enjoyed most of the books on your list, and I suggest the Alex Rider series for the action and AWESOMENESS, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series because 99% of it is just plain GREAT. Look up more info about them and I'm sure you'll enjoy the books, especially Percy Jackson. Also, since Avatar is anime, you might want to try reading some manga. My favorite is Naruto, but I would also suggest One Piece, Bleach, or any Yu-gi-oh manga. (Yu-gi-oh can be hard to understand if you've never played the trading card game.)

a number of those are from lady perspectives, some would be slightly "girly lady" on your liking yet others must be ok. i've got left the two form on and you're able to pick. Meryll of the Stone (Brian Caswell) Picnic at awesome Rock (Joan Lindsay) Stranger with my face (Lois Duncan) enjoying Beattie Bow (Ruth Parks) My Sister Sif (Ruth Parks) Hitch hikers instruction manual to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Holes (Louis Sachar) Lord of the jewelry / The Hobbit Eragorn trilogy Narnia The Golden Compass Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice) Requiem for a Princess (Ruth M Arthur) finding for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) Angels Gate (Gary group) Sisterhood of the vacationing Pants Pelican's Creek (Maureen Pople) The Diary of Anne Frank To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) The Shiralee (Dárcy Niland) Into the Wild (John Krakauer) Chocolat (Joanne Harris) Harp in the South; undesirable guy's Orange; Missus (Trilogy via Ruth Parks) the place the middle is (Billie Letts) My place (Sally Morgan) Little women human beings (Louisa would Alcott) Rebecca (Daphne De Maurier) the three Muskateers (Alexandre Dumas) something via the Bronte sisters or Jane Austen regardless of you do don’t run The December Boys (Robert Noonan)

First read all the ones you have planned to read, they are all awesome! (Apart from Fablehaven because I haven't read it yet but I think it looks good) And Avatar is awesome, have you heard? Nickelodeon are going to make a new series about Aang and Katara's child

The Keys to The Kingdom series, first one is Mister Monday by Garth Nix

Mortal Engines series by Phillip Reeve

Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz is good but for a kids spy book I'd prefer CHERUB by Robert Muchamore

Percy Jackson series as mentioned aboveme and Heroes of Olympus.

I'd also recomend The Edge Chronicles (love it)

Try:

Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

(if you enjoy this first book within the series....three more books after this one....you'll enjoy the entertaining adventures of this group of friends and the various quests in which they pursue)

mysteries:

Agatha Christie:

A murder is announced

Death on the Nile

The body in the library

Five little pigs

The moving finger

I love the books that Joan Lowery Nixon wrote they are a very good series,

You need only one recommendation. A fairly unknown book of strange and different writings called The Book of Jack by, J.K.Gandesbery. Its short stories with a slant. i personally guarantee you will find something there you love.

G.A. Aiken's Dragon Kin Series is really good ... but it does have some x-rated "romance" in it (I know you said no to romance, which is why I'm mentioning it).