I REALLY need a good book. HELP!?

Question

ok

i love those books about nothing. you know like gossip girl twilight ect.

i want some books that actually let you learn something. but i dont want ON DEC 5 1985 THIS Blah blah blah. you know what i mean?

either way put your favorite picks on books either it has meaning or nothingness because i really need a book!

Answer 1

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Answer 2

Well, I am personally a fantasy girl, so I would suggest:

'Ingo' (tetraliogy; The Tide Knot, The Deep & The crossing of Ingo) Helen Dunmore

"Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet Of Samarkand" (Trilogy; The Golem's Eye & Ptomely's Gate) by Jonathon Stroud

"Septimus Heap: Magyk" (sept...? I dont know, seven books, Flyte, Physik & Queste [more to come]) Angie Sage

"Pellinor: The gift" (Tetraliogy:The Riddle, The Crow & the Song [I think]) By Alison Croggon

"Uglies" (Trilogy: Pretties & Special [Plus a related book by the same author, Extras]) By Scott Westerfeld

"Fearless" By Tim Lott

"Artemis Fowl" (Six Books; ~ Artic Incident; ~ eternity code; ~ Opal Deception; ~ Lost colony & ~Time paradox) By Eoin Colfer

"My Story" (Too many to list, [not fantasy btw]) {Several Authors}

"Missing Persons; The Rose Queen" (Tetraliogy: Chocolate Lover; Ventian Policeman & unsuspecting gourmet) by M.E.Rabb

"The Chain of Charms; The gypsy crown" (Six books; The silver horse, oh, I'm too tired to list them all.) By Kate Forsyth

Anything By Diana Wynne Jones

"Stormbreaker" (Alex rider series, ugg, sleepy) Anthony Horowitz

"Parvana" (Trilogy? Sequel A: Parvana's Journey [From Parvana's view] Sequel B: Shauzia [from Paravana's friends view])

"Dragonkeeper" (Trilogy; Dragon of the Purple Dragon & Dragonmoon) by Carole Wilkonson

"Juggling With Manadrins" (a sequel, Shooting the moon) By V.M.Jones {Not Fantasy}

"Angel's in Pink: Kathleen's Story" (Trilogy: Raina's Story & Holly's Story) by Lurlene McDaniel {Not Fantasy}

Ugg! I'm sleepy, thats all I got!

Answer 3

I love Harry Potter books lol

Answer 4

anything that Sarah Dessen wrote,

joyride,

boy2girl,

An Abundance of Katherines,

a great and terrible beauty by libba bray

umm thats all i can think of now.

Answer 5

I suggest you read anything by Jodi Picoult.

Her writing is amazing.

My favorites are: Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle, Harvesting the Heart, and My sister's Keeper. Another good one is Nineteen Minutes.

Also, people just love The Twilight Love Saga Series.

I also love it myself.

Have you read the Clique Series by Lisi Harrison?

It's like Gossip Girl.

Only I kind of like it better.

Its about girls in 7th grade and its not so involved with stuff (like drugs etc) as Gossip Girl.

Also I read anything by Nicholas Sparks.

His writing just takes my breath away.

My favorites by him are: The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, True Believer, and At First Sight.

But if you like classic's, these are my favorites:

To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

I hope I helped :]

I just love to read its my escape.

Answer 6

Try some of these its a mixed bag!Children/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

All the Harry Potter books

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children - E Nesbit

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol

Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder

Adult

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Song of the Sound by Adam Armstrong

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch

Answer 7

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

A Break With Charity by Ann Rinaldi

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Beowulf (the Seamus Heaney translation)

Grendel by John Gardner

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (it's a play)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1984 by George Orwell

The Wast Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Any Kurt Vonnegut book

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Some of them are a bit slower than others, but overall they are all amazing books--especially great "think" books to get your mind going, and to learn about the psychology of others and, inevitably, yourself. A few are fluffier than some of the others which hold great weight, but overall I think they will leave your mind feeling fulfilled. Or confused. But confusion is just as good as clarity, it shows that your mind is actually working and interested=)

Answer 8

1984 by George Orwell. It's about what would happen to the world if hitler won the war. Very interesting, because it's like everyone's a prizoner- there are cameras watching your every move and people monitoring what you say! It's a really good book.  

Answer 9

Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore

The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

Good Omens The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett

Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time -Mark Haddon

Dangerous Angels The Weetzie Bat Books - Francesca Lia Block

High Society - Ben Elton

Idlewild - Nick Sagan

The Onion Girl - Charles De Lint

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Answer 10

the alchemist by paulo coelho, the harry potter series by j. k. rowling, to kill a mockingbird by harper lee and johnny tremain by esther forbes.  

Answer 11

well my one of my favourite books are

on the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta - the same author who write looking for alibrandi.

other wise i love the harry potter books. also, on the jetty road. but i cant remember the author. i found these books fun to read but on the Jellicoe road the most challenging and interesting.

good luck

Answer 12

insomnia by Stephen King... read

Answer 13

How Few Remain

how history should've gone

Answer 14

All of your nothingness and meaningful talk confused me lol  Regardless, one of my favorite books - and a mostly light, enjoyable read - is A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky.  Another of my favorites is 1984 by George Orwell.

Answer 15

try the black magician trilogy by trudi canavan. the first book in the series is called the magician's guild.

or you could try the artemis fowl books by eoin colfer. first book is called artemis fowl. lol.

Answer 16

A Clockwork Orange!!

Answer 17

white oleander-Janet Fitch

1984-George Orwell

Harry Potter books