What are some great books to read?

Question

I'd like to broaden my reading a bit and am looking for suggestions to some really great books.

Any genre will do except horror. I don't mind sci-fi as long as it's not too deep into the genre. Something exciting and interesting (not a bore to read or takes a long time to get into). I'd like some romance to be in it but the whole thing doesn't have to revolve around it.

I've read the LOTR trilogy, the Harry Potter series, Ella Enchanted, Tuck Everlasting, Twilight, the Martian Chronicles, a few books by Robert Heinlein and some others. They don't have to necessarily be fantasy or anything, I just thought I'd include things I've already read.

So any book/genre will do. Thanks to everyone for any suggestions you can give!

Also, if you could tell me very briefly what the book's about without giving anything away, that would be great.

Answer 1

-Scott Westerfeld.

-Francesca Lia Block and Melissa Marr (it's sci-fi/fantasy, but darker)

-Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Um...kind of hard to explain. Girls at an all girls school way back in the day can enter in a weird, other-wordly realm. Great ending. Amazing ending, actually.

-Guardians of Time Trilogy

People have powers and are able to travel back in time to create others from changing the past, if that makes since. Not amazing, but entertaining, and pretty sad, but great ending.

-The Book of Lost Things

Absolutely great. One of my favorites. If you like Pan's Labyrinth, you should read it. If you didn't like it, well, you should still read it.

-Narnia, of course. Genius books. (And C.S. Lewis was Tolkien's bff! Wild, huh?)

-A Wrinkle in Time.

It's a classic book, though not as popular as Narnia or LOTR. But it's in my top 5!

-White Oleander but something Fitch

Mind-numbingly amazing. Truly. It's about a girl who is thrown into foster care and deals with suicide, sexual abuse, starvation, and whatnot.

-Anything by Sarah Dessen, Deb Calleti, Maureen Johnson, Sonya Sones.

These are all authors that write young adult fiction about everyday girls and thier lives. Though they usually have romance, the girls deal with other stuff like being overweight, death, and real-life problems.

-Speak

A girl is raped and ostracized by her peers.

-How I Live Now

A girl is sent to her aunt's house over in the London-esqu area. Then things get wild. Incest is involved, and a war. (modern time!)

-Amazing Grace by Megan Shull

Girl gives up her celeb life, sneaks off to Alaska, makes great friends, while keeping her real identity a secret. (I know it sounds like Hannah Montana, but I promise, it's not!;) )

-Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Vampire Series

Great. Creative. Interesting. She wrote each book from a different character's point of view, so you get to see a ton of different perspectives. And she wrote them back in the 90s when she was only 14-18 but they're very mature and not like a teen wrote them.

Answer 2

I could go on forever, but I guess I'll limit myself to really, really great books that I loved: Saving Fish from Drowning Slaughterhouse-Five The Hundred Secret Senses The Joy Luck Club The Bonesetter's Daughter Mother Night God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Cat's Cradle Three Cups of Tea Sherlock Holmes And She Was Memoirs of a Geisha Siddhartha Water for Elephants Like Water for Chocolate And Then There Were None The ABC Murders Man's Search for Meaning A Fine Balance 1984 Brave New World Animal Farm Homage to Catalonia Fahrenheit 451 Sherazade Cyrano de Bergerac Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns And Then We Came to the End

Answer 3

Evermore The Immortals series by Alyson Noel.Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste… Ever sees Damen and feels an instant recognition. He is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy, and he holds many secrets. Damen is able to make things appear and disappear, he always seems to know what she’s thinking—and he’s the only one who can silence the noise and the random energy in her head. She doesn’t know who he really is—or what he is. Damen is equal parts light and darkness, and he belongs to an enchanted new world where no one ever dies..



If you liked Twilight,you'll love Evermore.There will b 5 books in the whole series.

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Gabriele Caccini:The Vampire Gene by Paigan Stone



I'm looking for a girl - and not just any girl will do. You see I'm no ordinary student at Manchester University and the lovely Carolyn is exactly what I want. Tall, dark and androgynous; she resembles my cousin and first love. All my girls do... I didn't bank on the beautiful Lilly, of course. She's blonde, curvy; has thrown me with her lyrical voice. I admit she's gorgeous even though she is not my type! But despite my protests my dreams are filled with Lilly and even a Seventeenth Century vampire has trouble controlling his urges. Especially when drugged by a fellow student with Ecstasy. Over four hundred women have died because of my uncontrollable passion, so why is Lilly the only woman in centuries to survive my fatal kiss?



Gabriele Caccini is a vampire who wants to be loved and share an eternity with a girl that can feed off of and love her at the same time and spend eternity with her.But evertime he comes close to loving a girl he kills her and all he wants is someone to survive so they can b with him forever.This is the best book I ever read and there is going to b a 2nd book in the series called Furtile Flame that comes out the end of June can't wait. Also he is the protagonist of the story.

Answer 4

invisible man- just starting to read it, about racial injustice...seems interesting to me...



memoirs of a geisha-takes you into the beautiful and cruel world of a Japanese geisha



stargirl- a romance between two unlikely people



leaving paradise- another romance :]



to kill a mockingbird-racial injustices in the early south...moving book



The Color of Water is my favorite- figuring out the important things....very interesting...:]



The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants- good friendship, romance, humor book.

Answer 5

Hey,



Try the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. first book is Mistborn: the final empire. Its a really great read. Great pacing and not a difficult read compared to other fantasy books. It's a little hard to give a brief description but i'll get the description he used in his website "it's a hybrid fantasy, heist story and kung fu epic."



It's really cool. Action is really good and the magic type powers are really interesting and unique. so try it out. let me know what you think. i also have a couple of others books to recommend if you want. just let me know

Answer 6

You should try the vampire academy series by Richelle Mead



xoxo

Answer 7

if your looking for great book to read go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-content-search/results?ie=UTF8&flatten=1&search-alias=rp-listmania&query=vampires



here you put a topic on search and it gives you a bunch of list people made with books that are of that subject of you can pu the tittle of your fav. book and it gives you a list of books that people thought went great together w/ that one

Answer 8

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer,.



The Abhorsen series by Garth Nix