Question:
Help! Any good books?
Alice's mistake
2008-09-02 21:34:17 UTC
Okay, so I'm someone who LOVES reading, and I have a couple of books in my posession, but it's just not enough for me. Can someone recomend as many good books you can think of?

Not like the book "Cut", because those types really don't help all that much with what I'm aiming for.

The story: If I'm going to get through High School in one piece, I need some distractions.

Please tell me a few recommendations; It doesn't matter if they're too long or too hard or complicated... doesn't really matter.

If you have any recommendations on:

-Fictional Novels
-Classic Literature
-Modern Novels and literature
-Any other good reads you can think of

So basically, my question is: Does anyone know about any good books? Fictional Novels are my Fav's btw. (Aliens, mermaids, vampires, romance etc.)

As many suggestions you can think of are welcome, I can read up to 9 chapter books in a week (Clearly, I need to get a life) <-- Oh well :)
Ten answers:
caring carer
2008-09-03 01:58:22 UTC
Try some of these



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 -------------------- Mermaids

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 -------- Roman and Greek gods trying to live in the 21st C

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 ------------------------ Mermaids

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
2008-09-02 21:49:31 UTC
I love reading also:) Right now I'm reading the immortal highlander by karen marie moning I saw that you like romance. Me too.



Its a highland series

1. Beyond the Highland Mist

2.To Tame a Highland Warrior

3.The Highlander's Touch

4.Kiss of the Highlander

5.The Dark Highlander

6.The Immortal Highlander

7.Spell of the Highlander

8. Into the dreaming In Tapestry



Dean Koontz- The good guy

Cassie Edwards- Savage series

Mary Higgins Clark- Where are the children?

JD Robb- In Death series

Sanda Hill- Viking series



Robin T Popp- Vampire romance

1.Out of the night

2.seduced by the night

3.Tempted by the night

4.Lord of the night



Kimberly Raye

1. Dead end dating

2. Dead and Dateless

3. Your coffin or mine?

4. Just one bite



Jennifer Rardin

1. Once bitten twice shy

2. Another one bites the dust

3. Biting the bullet

4. Bitten to death

5. one more bite 1/09



Yasmine Galenorn

1. Witchling

2 Changeling

3. Darkling

4. Dragon Wytch



Carrie Vaughn

1. Kitty and the midnight hour

2. Kitty goes to Washington

3. Kitty takes a holiday

4. Kitty and the silver bullet

5. Kitty and the dead man's hand

6. Kitty Raises hell



Charlaine Harris

1. Dead until dark

2. Living dead in Dallas

3. Club dead

4. Dead to the world

5. dead as a doornail

6. Definitely Dead

7. All together dead

8. From dead to worse



Laurell K. Hamilton

1. Guilty Pleasures

2. The laughing corpse

3. Circus of the damned

4. the lunatic cafe

5. Bloody bones

6. Killing dance

7. Burnt offerings

8. blue moon

9. obsidian butterfly

10. Narcissus in chains

11. cerulean sins

12. Incubus dreams

13. Micah

14. Danse Macabre

15. the harlequin

16. Blood noir
susie
2016-05-27 12:13:24 UTC
Historical Fiction: Both Sides of Time series- Caroline B. Cooney (also romance) Bloody Jack series-L. A. Meyer (also adventure) If I Should Die Before I Wake- Han Nolan The Great and Terrible Beauty series- Libba Bray (also fantasyish fiction) The Other Boleyn Girl- Philippa Gregory The Queen’s Fool- Philippa Gregory The Constant Princess- Philippa Gregory The Bolelyn Inheritance- Philippa Gregory The Book Thief- Markus Zusak Fantasyish Fiction Twilight series- Stephenie Meyer (also romance) The Mediator series- Meg Cabot (also romance) Avalon High- Meg Cabot (sorta) Uglies series-Scott Westerfeld Midnighters series- Scott Westerfeld Fiction: All American Girl- Meg Cabot Airhead- Meg Cabot The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler Fly on the Wall- E. Lockhart Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys- Kate Brian Lucky T- Kate Brian The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult Change of Heart- Jodi Picoult The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown Romance: The Angels Trilogy- Lurlene Mcdaniel The Pact- Jodi Picoult The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks Mystery: Stranger With My Face- Lois Duncan Down A Dark Hall- Lois Duncan Locked in Time-Lois Duncan Any book by R.L Stine Non- Fiction A Child Called It- Dave Pelzer Who Killed My Daughter- Louis Duncan Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
2008-09-02 21:41:42 UTC
Twilight Saga is really good

Maybe Sisterhood of the Traveling pants

If you are into SciFi, then Dune is a really good book.

Kay, so I asked a question a lot like this, and here is the best answer I chose:

Try a few of these



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

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

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

You can see why its the best answer!
bdaven123
2008-09-02 22:08:36 UTC
A mango shaped space - Mann

freaky green eyes - oates

gathering blue - lowery

Missing mom - oates (heavy)

A change of heart - Picoult (heavy)

Guilty Pleasures - Hamilton horror

if you could see me now - Ahern

Uglies, pretties - Westerfeld

twilight series - Meyers

Host - Meyers

A great and terrible beauty -Bray

The sisters grimm novels - Buckley (younger than you but still good)

Flowers for Algernon - Keys

The time travelers wife - Niffenegger

Wicked - Maguire fairy

Pride and Prejudice - Austen

Kushiel's Dart - Carey (R rated at points) espionage

Sarah Dessen Novels

The Note book - Sparks

me talk pretty one day - Sedaris

Art of racing in the rain - stein (told from the dogs point of view)

I was told there'd be cake Crosley
321zeggy
2008-09-03 07:19:41 UTC
Maximum Ride- James Patterson

Pendragon-D.J. MacHale

Warriors-by Erin Hunter

Redwall-Brian Jacques
?
2008-09-02 22:22:10 UTC
American Gods by Gaiman

Poison Study (Study) by Snyder

Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires) by Caine

City of Bones by Claire

Alien Secrets by Klause

Book Thief by Zuzak

Going Postal (Disc Worlds) by Pratchett

Green Mile by King



Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas

Jewel of the Seven Stars by Stoker

Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde

Beowulf by unknown

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Divine Comedy by Dante

Screwtape Letters by Lewis

Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare

My Antonia by Cather

The Invisible Man by Wells

Martian Chronicles by Bradbury

I, Robot by Asmov
miss
2008-09-02 22:25:48 UTC
the best fiction you can find is from Dan Brown

try Angels and Demons

Digital Fortress or

Deception Point

but if you like classical then try

charles dickens Great Expectations or

george Orwell's Animal Farm.
nobie
2008-09-02 21:52:55 UTC
veronica decides to die by paolo coelho

the alchemist by paolo coelho

by the river piedra i sat down and wept by paolo coelho

sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami

kafka on the shore by haruki murakami

norwegian wood by haruki murakami

the beach by alex garland

perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick suskind

the old man and the sea by ernest miller hemingway

anna karenina by leo tolstoy

pride and prejudice by jane austen

books by umberto eco

the wind up bird chronicle by haruki murakami

memoirs of a geisha by arthur golden

the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien

the little prince by antoine de saint exupery





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preface by Peter Ackroyd

General Editor

Peter Roxall
whiteharleytrike
2008-09-02 21:54:22 UTC
the harry potter series by j.k. rowling, the alchemist by paulo coelho and to kill a mockingbird by harper lee.


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