Good books for me to read.?

Question

Ok well I'm in the top set in my school - of 1800 pupils for english (and maths) I'm sitting my standard grades next year and I'm writing some really important essays this year:

There is five of them

- two fictional stories

- a personal essay

- three book reviews

We do loads more essays as well but only the five best ones get sent away. So I need to work really hard this year! I want to be an author so I'm looking to get an A - A +

I've been told that I'm capable of getting this, but I still don't want to take anything for granted. If I manage to get an A - A+ which everyone's saying I'll get easily- then I'll get into the top class the year after so that I'll be in the top class again to study for my highers. Then onto my advanced highers. So anyway I need to write some really high standard stuff this year, I'm looking to write a lot of book reviews so that when they are sent away I get a good mark

These essays are worth 1/3 of my whole grade. Another 1/3 is solo talks and the final 1/3 is the mark I get in the exam, so I'm looking for some really good books.

I enjoy reading classics - to kill a mockingbird was great!

Twilight was not really right for me to write about, English is my best subject and my teacher has extremely high expectations for me as do my parents. Does anyone have any books for me to read?

I need thick books or a series as I finish books really quickly

Sorry for making this so long

Thanks :)

Answer 1

I'm about  to start reading Along Came a Spider by James Patterson. It's the first of the Alex Cross series. I just finished one of his books called When the Wind Blows and it was awesome. He's a good author

Answer 2

Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde

Jewel of the Seven Stars by Stoker

Lord of the Rings series by Tolkien

My Antonia by Cather

Oedipus cycle by Sophocles

1984 by Orwell and V for Vendetta by Moore

My Sister's Keeper by Picoult

Stiff by Roach

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights by Bronte

A Room of One's Own by Woolf

Answer 3

Here's a list of books which I have chosen because they all offer the opportunity to write something in depth, beyond the surface of the story. They are all considered adult books and some of them are not yet classics but all of of them qualify as literature. Judging by your writing, you are up to the task of analyzing any of them. My primary concern is that the more contemporary novels are largely North American in origin. I hope that isn't a problem for you or your examining board.

Bel Canto ~ Ann Patchett

Cold Mountain ~ Charles Frazier

Empire Falls ~ Richard Russo

A Map Of the World ~ Jane Hmailton

Barn Blind ~ Jane Smiley

The Sparrow ~ Mary Doria Russell

Clockers ~ Richard Price

The House Of Sand and Fog ~ Andre Dubus III

For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Ernest Hemingway

Ship of Fools ~ Katherine Ann Porter

The Death of the Heart ~ Elizabeth Bowen

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ~ Carson McCullers

The Fountainhead ~ Ayn Rand

Lonesome Dove ~ Larry McMurtry

The Bonfire of the Vanities ~ Tom Wolfe

Anna Karenina ~ Leo Tolstoy

The First Circle ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Doctor Zhivago ~ Boris Pasternak

Gone With the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell

One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Death In the Family ~ James Agee

Sometimes A Great Notion ~ Ken Kesey

The Milagro Beanfield War ~ John Nichols

The Portrait of a Lady ~ Henry James

An American Tragedy ~ Theodore Dreiser

Main Street ~ Sinclair Lewis

Look Homeward Angel ~ Thomas Wolfe

All the King's Men ~ Robert Penn Warren

Vanity Fair ~ William M. Thackeray

The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton

Nana ~ Emile Zola

Madame Bovary ~ Gustave Flaubert

The Deptford Trilogy ~ Robertson Davies

East of Eden & The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck

And of course there is Austen and Dickens and Hardy and the Brontes, etc., etc., etc. I'll stop now. I hope you find some things here to interest you. Good luck with your studies!

Answer 4

"The Giver".

I wrote an essay about that book and the series following and i got 3 A+ on all. It's an amazing book to write about.

"The Alchemist" Same thing, 3 A+s. Amazing and quite philosophical

Answer 5

I understand completly, there is one good book that i personally liked. The book is called "My bloody life" its a great book and its great to write essays because u can relate to it through many standards. It's a non-fiction book; i dont know if u can read non fiction because u didn't mention it.

Answer 6

Persuasion by Jane Austen, and then all her other novels.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is absolutely magnificent.