What books should I read before I die?

Question

I just got my first library card and I'm excited to read ,but don't know where to start. Subject? Open to any.

Answer 1

The Bible

The Complete Works of Shakespeare (don't laugh, I read it as a kid)

Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit

The entire Harry Potter Series

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

AlI I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarden

The entire series of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers

And The Joy of Cooking

This is everything you will ever need to know about life from love, friendship, laughing, eating, good & evil, imagination, history, your place in the world, the greater good, fun, bravery, you name, whatever you will need on life's little journey...you will find in one of those books!

My favorite book isn't on that list, it's Katherine Neville's The Eight.

Answer 2

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn- It will change your perspective on nature and people's relationship with the environment.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand- It will change your perspective on society and culture.

These books are two of my favorite partly because they have such contradictory messages.  The trick is to find a way of life in between the two.

Answer 3

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Harry Potter by J.K Rowling

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Sahn

Uglies by Scott Westerfield

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice(Interview with a vampire)

The vaampire Diaries

Answer 4

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Wuthering Heights

The Great Gatsby

And Then There Were None

A Long Way Down

The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman

Sophie's World

Answer 5

lord of the flies

Cherub series by Robert Muchamore

The Hobbit

cant think of any more at the moment but those are good to be going on with, the cherub series will take aa few weeks if you dont read all day, like me.

Answer 6

everybody is giving you some pretty good books, so i just want to comment on one recommended by sara ray(?).

[no ofence to her]

do not read the heart is a lonely hunter. i repeat: do NOT read it. unless you like depressing books. normally i wouldn't tell someone to not read. it's just that i really hated this book. i thought it would be good (good title and it received Oprah's seal of approval). it was not. the only reason i finished it was because i had a book report about it due the next day.

mere words can not express my loathing for it.

Answer 7

Classics:

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Young Adult

twilight - Stephenie Meyer

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Answer 8

Books you must read:

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

A little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Once – Moris Gleitzman

Tales of the Otori series – Lian Hearn

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor and prequel The Land

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

Dear Nobody – Berlie Doherty

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

Alone on a wide wide sea – Michael Morpurgo

Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah

The Declaration – Gemma Malley

The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

The Star of Kazan – Eva Ibbotson

Marley and Me – John Grogan

A girl called Blue – Marita Conlon-McKenna

Under the Hawthorn Tree – Marita Conlon-McKenna

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

Matilda – Roald Dahl

Enjoy!

Answer 9

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer 10

I've read Kristin Hannah books, I loved them! Also PS. I love you by Cecelia Ahern - I thought the movie was a total let down, the book is wicked! Monica McInerney is also really good! Cecelia Ahern's new book Thanks for the Memories, great! Also, I've just started reading Marian Keyes for the first time, Anybody Out There, has a twist at the end of the first part, which is really good.

If you're not into these kinda books, then they won't be of any interest, but I love them! =)

Answer 11

To Kill A Mockingbird

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Answer 12

I absolutely adore Jodi Picoult as an author, along with Sarah Dessen.  Shakespeare's are classics, my favorite is A Midsummer Night's Dream.  

Don't read Twilight, it's absolutely horrid.  The characters are agressively vapid and have absolutely no traits whatsoever.

Meg Cabot has some good books as well, and 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson.