I want to read some books.?

Question

Can somebody please recommend some books. I don't really have a particular taste, something that might be considered a classic, or...I don't know just some books please!

Answer 1

I would recommend "Candide" by Voltaire. It is a satire.It is not very long, and it is very entertaining. You will enjoy Voltaire's sharp wit, as he puts his main character (Candide) through all kinds of horrible experiences, in order to refute a claim by Leibniz, a German philosopher, that we lived in the best of all possible worlds.

I would also recommend "The Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald. It is not very long, but it is very incisive.It illustrates the social class structure ot the "Roaring Twenties", and the vacuity of its denizens.

If you want to read something a little longer I would recommend "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert.

Madame Bovary marries a country doctor, but she is unhappy in her marriage. She aspires to mingle with the aristocracy. Thus, she meets this aristocrat and has an affair with him. Needless to say, her love was betrayed. I will not say anymore. It is a sad but exquisite novel.

All these books are classics. I would venture to say that they are "jewels of wisdom".

Answer 2

Classic?

-Rebecca

-Princess bride

-Pride and Prejudice

-count of Monte Cristo (gets a bit dull in the middle for a while)

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

the twilight series by stephenie myer is amazing

Answer 5

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

1984 by George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Needful Things by Stephen King

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Answer 6

Ha! It's like they don't even read what other people post before reposting the same question every five seconds.

Whatever.

A new classic for young adults is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and it is an interesting concept book that is more true to life.

A futuristic book series that I found fun is "Uglies" which follows a girl named Tally Youngblood.

Overly popular at the moment is the "Twilight" series.

"Jinx" is a little less known but by a well known author.

Answer 7

The singers crown! I loved this book it was awesome!

Detail:

When his uncle murders his family to take over the kingdom, Prince Kattanan duRhys is the only one of royal blood left alive...at a terrible cost. Mutilated, he can neither longer claim his throne, nor sire heirs to reign against the tyrannous new ruler. Trained as a harmless singer, Kattanan falls into an impossible, secret love with the Princess Melisande. But her jealous fiance has his own nefarious plans, including a dark conspiracy with Kattanan's traitor...and a sinister magic that could destroy the kingdom. Banished, betrayed, rescued and revealed, Kattanan becomes the focal point of his grandmother's obsessive plot to depose his uncle. But can he gain the throne? And at what price? With the help of a disgraced prince, a female wizard, a powerful magic-breaker, a fiancé he doesn't want, and the man in love with her, Kattanan finds an unorthodox way to reclaim his kingdom and win the heart of his love. Well-realized characters, lush storytelling, and riveting intrigue make The Singer's Crown a remarkable debut from an author with a strong new voice.

Answer 8

I love classics!

Here are my favorites:

+The works of Jane Austen: "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield Park," "Emma," "Sense and Sensibility," "Northanger Abbey," "Persuasion," and "Lady Susan."

+"The Picture of Dorian Gray," by Oscar Wilde

+"Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley

+"Rebecca," by Daphne du Maurier

+"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain

+"The Awakening," by Kate Chopin

+"Siddhartha," by Herman Hesse

+"Dracula," by Bram Stoker

+"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," by Robert Louis Stevenson

+"The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald

+"The Age of Innocence," by Edith Wharton

+"The Crucible," by Arthur Miller

+"Taming of the Shrew," by Shakespeare

+The works of Edgar Allen Poe, most especially his stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Hop Frog," as well as his poems "The Raven" and "Annabell Lee"

Those are just a few, but I hope you find them worth reading!

Answer 9

You might want to try:

-Frankenstein

-Little Women

-Watership Down

-Pride and Prejudice

-I capture the castle

-Tragedy of pudd'nhead wilson

-Dracula

Fahrenheit 451

And if you haven't read any postsecret books, those are fun, check out there site.

Answer 10

Classics

Indian

Mahabharata

Russian

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Brother Karamazov  

MOther Gorky

Three sisters

Japanese

TOtto Chan _  Japnee woman remembers her teacher

German

Siddhartha Hermann Hesse

Outsider, Trial, Metamorphosis   Camus  

English

JOhn Galsworthy

Arthur Miller  Death of a Sales man ,

All my Sons

Poetry

Shakespeare, Shelley, Basho,  T S Eliot, Sylvia Plath

Any folk poetry

Inspirational

Zen and Art of Motorcycle Repairing

Tueday with Morrie