Book recommendations?

Question

Please recommend great books that you've read in your life, I want to get into reading. I like anything really.

Answer 1

The first book I ever read that I really got into and got me hooked to reading was A Series Of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket and I just went down the series. Read the books. Do not EVER watch the movie. The movie is absolutely horrible.



The Saga of Darren Shan (The 1st 3 books were really good. After that, it got a little tiring)

Lord Loss and Demon Thief by Darren Shan (I much prefer these 2 books from Darren Shan as compared to the Saga. They are really scary if you have an over active imagination like I do. I especially love the concepts of Lord Loss himself and the boy who sees shapes and colours everywhere)



I took literature in school and our book was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It started off brilliantly and I was so engrossed in it my teacher scolded me after he saw me reading while crossing the road. But the 2nd half of the book really pissed me off because it was like a completely different story from a mystery novel, to a drama that I found boring. (It's funny because I was doing so well in literature but the moment the book started annoying me my grades crashed. Everyone else seemed to love it though. The second part more than the first.)

So I went to read my brother's literature book instead. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Which I strongly recommend.



A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (I didn't get to read So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, but I should)



Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix (Love the concepts that these 7 books are based on. The 7 "baddies" are named after the different days of the week and they each had the characteristics of one of the 7 deadly sins. For example, Mister Monday is a sloth)



The Tuesday Cafe by Dan Trembath was an interesting quick read about a teen who gets into trouble with the law and so his mother signs him up for a writing class (not realising the class she signed him up for was catered to adults with learning disabilities)



I'm reading Coraline now by Neil Gaiman. Though, I watched the movie before I read the book so I keep picturing the movie while I'm reading. Read the book, don't watch the movie until after.



Go to the library. It is really enjoyable and calming and relaxing to just spend hours browsing through books.

Answer 2

The Great Divorce

Expecting Adam

West with the Night

Paper Towns

The Path of the Higher Self

Carry On, Jeeves

In a Sunburned Country

Bridge to Terabithia

The Giver

The Neverending Story

The Pickwick Papers

The Little Prince

Being George Washington

Hidden Camera

Animal Farm

From Dawn to Decadence

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Answer 3

These are the best of books I selected from each genre:



British Classic: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson

Children: The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo

Classic: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Comedy: Confessions Of A Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella

Contemporary: The Snow Queen - Sarah Addison Allen

Cooking: Julie & Julia [My Year of Cooking Dangerously] – Julie Powell

Crime: The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz

Drama: A Reliable Wife : a novel - Robert Goolrick

Dystopian: All These Things I've Done - Gabrielle Zevin

Education: The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History – Peter Charles Hoffer

Entertainment: 501 Must See Movies - Niel Randles

Fashion: The Fashion-Foward Adventures of Imogene Series - Lisa Barham

Fantasy: The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern/ Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke

Fiction: The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon/ A Reliable Wife - Goolrick

Historical: The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette - Carolly Erickson

Inspiring: Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson

Modern Classic: The Perks of Being A Wallflower

Non-Fiction: Model: a memoir - Cherly Diamond

Romance: Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers

Self-Help: Don Miguel Ruiz's books!

Series: The Luxe - Anna Godbersen

Spiritual: The Great Divorce

Supernatural: A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb

Thriller: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

Teen: Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld

Tween: The Wedding Planner's Daughter Series - Coleen Paratore

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Well, I'll just list my favourites:

Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling

Percy Jackson, by Rick Riordan

Heroes of Olympus, by Rick Riordan

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

The Mortal Instruments, by Cassandra Clare

The Infernal Devices, by Cassandra Clare

Dragons of Starlight, by Bryan Davis

Lorien Legacies, by Pittacus Lore

Space Demons, by Gillian Rubenstein



Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Voltaire--Candide

Leo Tolstoy--Anna Karenina

Herman Melville--Moby D!ck

Oscar Wilde--Ballad of Reading Gaol

George Bernhard Shaw--Man & Superman

Lawrence Durrell--Justine

Celine--Journey to the End of the Night

Flaubert--Sentimental Education

Franz Kafka--The Trial

Thomas Mann--Doctor Faustus

Marcel Proust--Swann's Way

Gabriel Garcia Marquez--Love in the Time of Cholera

Patrick O'Brien--Master and Commander

Dostoevsky--Crime & Punishment

DH Lawrence--The Rainbow; Women in Love

Erica Jong--Fear of Flying

Cervantes--Don Quixote

Philip Roth--Portnoy's Complaint

Thomas Woolf--You Can't Go Home Again

Jane Austen--Emma

Samuel Beckett--How It Is

James Joyce--Finnegans Wake

Petronius--Satyricon

John Toland--The Rising Sun

Mishima--Confessions of a Mask

Lady murasaki--Tale of Genii

Thomas Malory--Le Morte d'Arthur

Thomas Hardy--Jude the Obscure

Henry James--Portrait of a Lady

Theodore Dreiser--An American Tragedy

Turgenev--Fathers and Sons

Chinua Achebe--Things Fall Apart

Henry Miller--Tropic of Capricorn

Lawrence Sterne--Tristram Shandy

Hermann Hesse--Narcissus and Goldmund

Charles Dickens--Little Dorrit

Ernest Hemingway--Collected Short Stories

Toni Morrison--Song of Solomon

Joseph Conrad--Heart of Darkness

Nathaniel Hawthorne--House of the Seven Gables

Friedrich Nietzsche--Thus Spake Zarathustra

Nikos Kazantzakis--Zorba the Greek

Thackeray--Vanity Fair

Henry David Thoreau--Walden

Aldous Huxley--Point Counterpoint

Marguerite Duras--The Lover

Malcolm Cowly--Under the Volcano

Alexandre Dumas--Count of Monte Cristo

Victor Hugo--Les Miserables

Jack London--Call of the Wild

Djuna Barnes--Nightwood

Mark Twain--Life on the Mississippi

Manzoni--The Betrothed

Henry Roth--Call It Sleep

Saul Bellow--Adventures of Augie March

Andre Gide--Strait is the Gate

Answer 7

Plato's Republic.

Answer 8

WARNING, I got a bit crazy with this, but I hope it helps you find at least one book you love.





A few depending on your age group:



13-16 years old

- Unwind by Neal Shusterman (**slightly morbid but one of my favs as a kid, the sequel just came out)

In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthday, they can't be harmed -- but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.



-Eragon the first book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct.



I also loved the Artemis Fowl books (Younger readers, a genius boy who finds an advanced race of fairies) and The City of Ember (A city lost underground, with two young kids finding a way to the surface).

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16+ Age

-The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (**As tastes refine you learn to love the classics. This one is wild and crazy, one of my favorites.)



-Dune by Frank Herbert (**If you're into Sci-Fi, this is considered to be one of the greatest Science Fiction books ever written)

Set in the far future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides as his family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the "spice" melange.



I also loved

-The Mortal Instruments series and it's prequel (When her mom is attacked and taken from their home in New York City by a demon, a seemingly ordinary teenage girl, Clary Fray, finds out truths about her past and bloodline on her quest to get her back, that changes her entire life.),

-Life As We Knew it (A take on the real-life problems that teens would experience if the world we know came to an end),

-The Host (The novel introduces an alien race, called Souls, which takes over the Earth and its inhabitants. The book describes one Soul's predicament when the mind of its human host refuses to cooperate with her takeover. x1000 better then Twilight)

-The Lightning Thief (Any fan of Harry Potter or Greek Mythology will love this, The adventures of modern-day twelve-year-old Percy Jackson as he discovers he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and the Greek god Poseidon. Percy and his friends go on a quest to prevent a war between the gods Zeus, Poseidon and Hades)

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And I beg you to read ANYTHING by Ray Bradbury, he's amazing.