Can you recommend some books to read?

Question

I like to read everything except mysteries and horror/thriller.

Answer 1

i know that feeling for sure.

i'm twenty and i swear i've read enough teen fiction for a million teens.

but i still love it.

here are my favorites:

harry potter - jk rowling

twilight - stephenie meyer

the host - stephenie meyer

the neverending story - michael ende

sweep - cate tiernan

lord of the rings - tolkien

the chronicles of narnia -cs lewis

jane eyre - charlotte bronte

wuthering heights - emily bronte

fahrenhiet 451 - ray bradbury

to kill a mockingbird - harper lee

of mice and men - steinbeck

staying fat for sarah byrnes - chris crutcher

stotan! - chris crutcher

uglies, pretties, specials - scott westerfeld

peeps - scott westerfeld

ender's game, speaker for the dead, xenocide - orson scott card

the davinci code - dan brown

the giver - lois lowry

anna karenina - tolstoy

sophie's world - jostein gaarder

the vampire chronicles - anne rice

obsidian butterfly - laurel k hamilton

angry moon - terrill - lanford

speak - laurie halse anderson

sisterhood of the traveling pants - ann brashers

you don't know me - david klass

a great and terrible beauty, rebel angels, the sweet far thing - libba bray

eragon - christopher paolini

oliver twist - dickens

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

wicked, son of a witch - gregory maguire

the golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass - phillip pullman

izzy willy-nilly - cynthia voigt

matilda - roald dahl

thinner - stephen king

tangerine - edward bloor

stargirl - jerry spinelli

the dollanganger series  - vc andrews

a million little peices - james fray

burned - ellen hopkins

crank - ellen hopkins

go ask alice

anything by shakespeare

but especially

a midsummer night's dream

hamlet

julius caesar

much ado about nothing

and romeo and juliet

some of them are obviously teen fiction, but i like them all.

happy reading!

Answer 2

These books were recommended to me

Fantasy that I recommend....

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (sequel to Twilight)

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyrer (sequel to New Moon)

Wicked LOvely by Melissa Marr

Marked by P.C and Kristen Cast

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Tithe by Holly Black

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Rebel Angels by LIbba Bray (seqeuel to A Great and Terrible Beauty)

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (sequel to Uglies)

Specials Scott Westerfeld (sequel to Pretties)

Extras (sequel to Specials)

Betrayed by P.C and Kristen Cast (sequel to Marked)

Chosen by P.C and Krisetn Caste (sequel to Betrayed)

The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

Vampire Diaries by L. J Smith

-The Awakening (1st book)

- The Struggle (2nd book)

- The Fury (3rd book)

- The Dark Reunion (4th book)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

*Note: Amazing book but slow at first

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Gift by Alison Croggon

The Riddle by Alison Croggon (sequel to The Riddle)

The Crow by Alison Croggon (sequel to The Crow)

Classics I recommend....

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

White Fang by Jack London

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Poets I recommend....

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Frost

Realistic fiction I recommend...

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Patron Saint of the Butterflies by Cecilia Galante

All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Now You See Her by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes

Historical Fiction I recommend...

The River Between Us by Richard Peck

A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

Brooklyn Rose by Ann Rinaldi

Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

i love all of them and i hope i helped. happy reading.

Answer 3

Twilight and Tweak are pretty good.

Answer 4

Try some classics like Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens or Persuasion by Austen.  Also, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, and Herman Wouk have some good offerings for readers.

If you're getting ready for college, check out some Max Shulman from the public library.  Barefoot boy with cheek, Potatoes are Cheaper and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis will make you laugh out loud.

Find books at the library by visiting http://www.worldcat.org.

Happy Reading!

Answer 5

Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes, My Sisters Keepers, Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle, Picture Perfect, Harvesting the Heart, Keeping Faith

Jennifer Weiner - Good In Bed, In Her Shoes, Little Earth Quakes, Certain Girls

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons

Anything by John Grisham

Answer 6

Historical Fiction:

Both Sides of Time series- Caroline B. Cooney (also romance)

Bloody Jack series-L. A. Meyer (also adventure)

If I Should Die Before I Wake- Han Nolan

The Great and Terrible Beauty series- Libba Bray (also fantasyish fiction)

The Other Boleyn Girl- Philippa Gregory

The Queen’s Fool- Philippa Gregory

The Constant Princess- Philippa Gregory

The Bolelyn Inheritance- Philippa Gregory

The Book Thief- Markus Zusak

Fantasyish Fiction

Twilight series- Stephenie Meyer (also romance)

The Mediator series- Meg Cabot (also romance)

Avalon High- Meg Cabot (sorta)

Uglies series-Scott Westerfeld

Midnighters series- Scott Westerfeld

Fiction:

All American Girl- Meg Cabot

Airhead- Meg Cabot

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler

Fly on the Wall- E. Lockhart

Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys- Kate Brian

Lucky T- Kate Brian

The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom

My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult

Change of Heart- Jodi Picoult

The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown

Romance:

The Angels Trilogy- Lurlene Mcdaniel

The Pact- Jodi Picoult

The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks

Mystery:

Stranger With My Face- Lois Duncan

Down A Dark Hall- Lois Duncan

Locked in Time-Lois Duncan

Any book by R.L Stine

Non- Fiction

A Child Called It- Dave Pelzer

Who Killed My Daughter- Louis Duncan

Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank