I'm looking for book suggestions please!?

Question

Favorite authors: Nicholas Sparks and Jodi Picoult

Favorite books: My Sister's Keeper, Vanishing Acts, Speak, To Kill A Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Warriors Don't Cry, Life For Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair, Of Mice and Men, The Pact, Catcher in the Rye, Go Ask Alice, Wild Swans, Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Wedding, Scar Tissue, Mercy Unbound

I like books about struggle, books with suspense, books with romance...

Thanks!

Answer 1

Alas Babylon - it will change how you look at the world!! and it is highly entertaining  :)

Answer 2

A really good book that I have recently read is The World According To Garp by John Irving. It's got a really good plot line and its interesting. I highly recommend it.

Answer 3

What my mother doesn't know. OMG! it is a great book.it won entertainment weekly

Answer 4

Some of my favorites are...

The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer [The first one is Twilight]

The Mortal Instruments Trilogy by Cassandra Clare [The first one is called City of Bones [its not about a city of bones or anything lol i don't really think that's the best name for it.. but its a really interesting book with a really big plot twist]

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray [The first one is called A Great and Terrible Beauty]

they're all great!

Oh and they all integrate love interests/romance into them :)

You should deffinitely read them!! Especially Twilight and the Mortal Instruments :]

Hope that helped!!

Answer 5

try FOREVER AMBER by kathleen winsor.  

Answer 6

try reading the clique books, o there so good

Answer 7

Instead of reading "Twilight" consider the new suspense/thriller, "Blood Prophecy."

Literary critics have said that Blood Prophecy ". . . impales the competition!" and ". . . leaves you breathless and gasping for more!"

In addition, there are STRONG FEMALE characters like Elsa and Ana, that will inspire you with their courage and unyielding determination to survive.

The story's intriguing prologue is pretty tough and gritty in places, but is based upon actual events that have been largely forgotten by history. Vlad the Impaler . . . ?

To read a synopsis, visit the authors' website:

http://www.bloodprophecy.com

Answer 8

did you read nineteen minutes-jodi picoult. it is one of my favourite books. the host- stephenie meyer is really good too.

Answer 9

have you read twilight. it has adventure and romance and has 4 books in the series and has more books coming out.

Answer 10

Try all the Billy Hopkins books.

http://www.billysbooks.info/

You have to start with Kate's Story, and the Our Kid, and so on. It's a fictional story and it's very good. I've read all of them but the last one. (Whatever Next) I will be buying that soon!

You can also try "A Women of Substance" by Barbara Taylor Thomas. It's fantastic. The first half has A LOT of description, but it's fantastic. The sequels are c**p though.

Seriously though, Billy Hopkins are fantastic books.

Answer 11

P.S. I love you (<- even if you saw the movie), A time for dancing, Three Eggs on a Stick, and Lonley bones

Answer 12

you would probably really enjoy the book Snow Falling On Cedars by  David Guterson... its based in the 50's i believe and its about a trial of the death of a fisherman, it also has a lot of history about the japanese during the second world war and a secret love affair between a japanese girl and white boy.... very good book... i hope you pick it up, it falls right into the categories that you said you liked

Answer 13

Uncle Tom's Cabin. Its a long and hard book, might be a bit out of your reading level but give it a try. It will change your life

Answer 14

Here are a few:

Blue is fr Nightmares - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Is_for...

There is the link and you can look it up and there are other books in the series.

Twilight-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(n...

this is also a series so I hope you like the.

Answer 15

Twilight and all the books by nicholas sparks

Answer 16

TWILIGHT

Answer 17

ha that's easy........ i would suggest any of the twilight books! if you do i guarantee you will be completely attached! =]

Answer 18

As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann is my all time favorite book. It's a dark, tragic but somewhat romantic adult fiction (although I was 13 when I first read it, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone under 16.)

It's about the life of a young man named Jacob Cullen, who is a little touched in the head. We see the story from his eyes, so are sympathetic when he does acts that would normally be seen as evil.

The story starts in his home, where he works as a servant with his two brothers and a friend, Caro, who he falls in love with. On the evening of Jacob's and Caro's wedding, they have to flee with Jacob's older brother, because Jacob has committed a terrible crime. After escaping, Jacob tells Caro of the crime, and because she doesn't take it the way he expected, he gets angry and rapes her. The next day, she is gone with his brother, leaving him alone in the forest. Even though he has committed such a horrible act, it's so hard to despise Jacob for it, because he still loves Caro with all his heart.

Jacob is later picked up by the army, who are traveling past the forest just as he emerges days later. A young man, Christopher Ferris, befriends him and Jacob soon decides that he needs no one else but Ferris in his life. However, Ferris has other friends, and Jacob becomes jealous and violent.  Because of his violence, Ferris leaves the army, taking Jacob with him. He is afraid of what Jacob might do to his friends.

They move to Ferris' old home in London, and live with his Aunt. Jacob falls in love with Ferris, and becomes more and more of a gentleman. Their love life is secret, because in those times they would be hung if they were caught together.

Ferris has a dream - to build a community and live as a farmer. They move out into the country, to live off the land with a select group of Ferris' friends. Things go fairly smoothly for several months, building their own homes and raising their own livestock, until the authorites of the local town threaten to burn them out. They ignore them, and continue to live as farmers.

However, despite the obvious positive changes in Jacob, he still struggles to control his temper. Eventually, out of anger and in a situation not unlike the one with Caro, he rapes Ferris, and their relationship crumbles. And then Caro turns up, pregnant with a baby that could only be Jacob's or his brothers. She has a new name, and refuses to admit to Jacob that she knows him. They both know that it is just an act, but no one believes Jacob when he says that she was his wife. He begins to suspect that Ferris is sleeping with Caro - he is still hopelessly in love with Ferris. When he returns from town that day, he finds the community being attacked and burned. Ferris is unconscious, Caro is screaming. Some people are dead. However, Jacob's mind is poisoned by jealously and anger, and he leaves them, knowing full well that he could save them, to their fate.

It's such a tragic story because throughout it, we know that Jacob is just misunderstood, and that he can't help doing what he does. We understand him better than anyone, and we want to help him. But no one else understands. We also understand that Ferris and Caro are not in love, and Ferris still loves Jacob. We can see what a terrible mistake Jacob is making, leaving them to die or to be imprisoned, but there is nothing we can do!

As Meat Loves Salt is the most powerful story that I've ever read. I strongly suggest that you read it too.

Answer 19

This is a list of my favourites:

Fiction:

Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Justin Hogg

1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Way the Dead Live - Will Self

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Nice - Jen Sacks

An Instance of Fingerpost - Iain Pears

The Midwich Cuckoos & Day of the Triffids - John Wydham

The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

The English Passengers - Matthew Kneale

Death & the Penguin - Andrey Kurkev

The Way we Live Now - Anthony Trollope

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Brief & Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders

The Missing Piece - Shel Silverstein

Non-fiction

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang

The World We're In - Will Hutton

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser, the scariest book I have ever read.

The Riddle and The Knight - Giles Milton (anything by him)

Answer 20

While I hate to cop out on Dean Koontz, you'd probably like him quite a bit.

People relate him to Stephen King, while SK is a great author, that's complete c**p, as they're entirely different. Dean Koontz is more of a suspense novelist, his books all include struggle, heavy suspense, thrills, and almost always a touch of romance. He isn't morbid and twisted as some may be afraid of, rather he's insightful and pretty d**n funny at times.

Fast paced books I'd recommend from him:

-The Good Guy

-The Husband

-Intensity

-Velocity

Longer, or thought provoking novels:

-From the Corner of His Eye

-False Memory

-Sole Survivor

-Darkest Evening of the Year

"Scary" or horror:

-Tick Tock

-The Mask

-Darkfall

-Midnight

Series:

- Christopher Snow series* 1) Fear Nothing 2) Seize the Night

- Frankenstein 1) Prodigal Son 2) City of Night

- Odd Thomas 1) Odd Thomas 2) Forever Odd 3) Brother Odd 4) Odd hours

*My all time favorite books, ever, the atmosphere of these novels is amazing.

Those are just off the top of my head, and I can honestly say that Dean Koontz is one of my all time favorite authors, if you're someone who needs a happy ending, you won't be disappointed, though that's not why I read him =P

I highly suggest picking up any of his books, as I've yet to read one I didn't absolutely love.

I hope this helps.

Answer 21

any twilight book!!

Answer 22

If you like those books (along with Nicolas Sparks), then you're going to ADORE author Tyler Ramsay, who wrote the book "Gamma229 and the Battle for Earth." It's a book about a soldier in the United States Space Force who fights the evil army of Monlarus Octavius. This book is a must-read and is becoming increasingly popular (for good reason, too), but the only downside to purchasing this book is that it is only available on Amazon.com and Bn.com, but it is DEFINITELY worth the trouble to get it! Go Gamma229!  

Answer 23

any ellen hopkins book

impulse

burned

crank

glass

Answer 24

Dont listen to them, dont become a crazy twilighter!!!  uh artemis fowl is good, but for something a little more challenging you could try sherlock holmes.