Can someone recomend a good book?

Question

Im 15 and LOVE to read but im having trouble finding another book. I really like action books and fairly sad ones (like ones that have meaning lthat make me think like child abuse, saving lives, poverly, Sarny...ever heard of it?). I read fairly advanced books for my age and i need some advice on a good book. Thank You

Answer 1

Hi,



Okay I am also a 15 year old and LOVE to READ! These are some of the BEST books I have EVER READ! I recommend each and everyone!



TEEN:



Kissing Doorknobs by: Terry Spencer Hesser



The Midnight Club by: Christopher Pike



The Decoding of Lana Morris by: Laura McNeal & Tom McNeal



Zipped by: Laura McNeal & Tom McNeal



Crushed by: Laura McNeal & Tom McNeal



Janeys Girl by: Gayle Friesen



Crooked by: Laura McNeal & Tom McNeal



Claws by: Will Weaver



Star Girl by: Jerry Spinelli



Sharing Sam by: Katherine Applegate



The Truth About Forever by: Sarah Dessen



Someone Like you by: Sarah Dessen



Looking for Alaska by: John Green



Beating Heart A Ghost Story by: A. M. Jenkins



Noah Confessions by: Barbara Hall



Breaking Rank by: Kristen D. Randle



Slumming by: Kristen D. Randle



The Only Alien on the Planet by: Kristen D. Randle





ADULT Romance/Adventure:



Tea Rose by: Jennifer Donnelly



Samantha and the Cowboy by: Loraine Heath



Amelia and the Outlaw by: Loraine Heath



Janet Dailey's Calder series



Emma and the Outlaw by: Linda Lael Miller



Lily and the Major by: Linda lael Miller



Caroline and the Raider by: Linda Lael Miller



Linda Lael Miller's the McKentrick series





HORROR:



House by: Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker



Thr3e by: Ted Dekker



Velocity by: Dean Koontz



Angles and Demons by: Dan Brown



They are all really good books! I highly recommend each and everyone!



Hope I helped and happy reading!

Answer 2

Here are some great books with a real message:

Night-Elie Wiesel

First They Killed My Father- Loung Ung

Deception Point- Dan Brown

The Diary of Anne Frank- Anne Frank

1984- George Orwell

Reading Lolita in Tehran- Azar Nafisi

The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

Seabiscut: An American Legend- Laura Hillenbrand

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare

The Iliad- Homer

All-American Girl- Meg Cabot

Emma- Jane Austen

Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck

Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens

Sun Also Rises- Earnest Hemingway



This should be a good list to start with. These were a few of the books that I read when I was 13-16 years old.

Answer 3

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane-- it's a really beautiful story about a haughty toy rabbit who learns to love

Peter Pan-- enchanting, lots have seen the movie, not so many have read the book.

There's more, I'm to lazy to add even a short description:

The Cay, The Giver, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Black Beauty (one of my all time favorites!!), Heidi (I love this book too), the Secret Garden, Treasure Island, Where the Red Fern Grows... for some reason I forget the rest.

From saddest to least saddest:

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry,

Where the red Fern Grows

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (now it's a happy kind of sad)

The Secret Garden,

Black Beauty

Peter Pan

Treasure Island

Would Treasure Island count as action heheh it's like an adventure book.

And I'm sorry if these books are too kiddy for you, I'm only ten so yeah.

Answer 4

Have you read White Oleander by Janet Fitch? It is about a girl in foster care. It was made into a movie. It is an adult book, but I think it would be right for you.



Also, Where the Heart is by Billie Letts. It's about a girl who gives birth in Wal Mart. It has also been made into a movie.



Another book that is very powerful is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. I listened to it on tape, and I highly recommend listening to at least a part of it in order to really hear how the characters speak.



Neither is an action book, but really good stories about girls.



Enjoy!

Answer 5

There is a series of books by an author with the last name of HADDIX. I think the first book is called Among the Hidden. My son really got into this book. That is saying a lot because he doesn't like to read and he was forced to do so by his teacher. He liked it so much he had me go out and get the subsequent books that have come out. Its basically about a world where families are only allowed to have two children and it starts off with this boy who is a "third" child and what he goes through and so forth. I think you might like it.

Answer 6

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Made in the USA by Billie Letts

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Paper Hearts by Debrah Williamson

Singing With the Top Down by Debrah Williamson

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Trash by Dorothy Allison

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons



Non-Fiction:

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer



They Cage Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch



Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her by Torey Hayden



Just Another Child by Torey Hayden



The Tiger's Child by Torey Hayden



One Child by Torey Hayden



Murphy's Boy by Torey Hayden



Sickened; The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory



Yes Mother by Margaret Gomez



Cut by Patricia McCormick



Go Adk Alice by Anonymous

Answer 7

A fascinating biography that is getting great reviews is "Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist" by Bradley Steffens. It tells the inspiring, true story of a medieval Muslim scholar who overcame bouts of mental illness to develop the scientific method two hundred years before the Europeans learned of it—by reading his books. The author just received the Theodor S. Geisel Award for the best book by a San Diego County author last year. You can find reviews of the book and a sample chapter at http://www.ibnalhaytham.net

Answer 8

Read the Bible, starting with the New Testament. it's the number one best seller. It's an action book but this is a book unlike any other one. It was written for you. It will give you answer to all of your questions and wisdom. In it you can find the will of God for your life and the purpose He had when He created you. Human life is more than flesh and mind, is spirit, and it needs to be nurtured in a spiritual way. Man should not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from God. The Bible is food for your soul. Reading what men wrote is O.k. but reading what God wrote is best. "The words I have given you are spirit and are life."

Answer 9

Crank

Ellen Hopkins



Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

Answer 10

Well.. I'm 15 too but if you don't mind reading books that are targeted at the 13 and below, try the Boxcar Children series. It's about some kids who are orphaned and struggle to keep on.. and soon they were fostered by their grandpa. Sweet stories, yo.

BTW the author is Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Answer 11

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Crank and it's sequel Glass by Ellen Hopkins

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Misery by Stephen King

The Forest in The Hallway by Gordon Smith

The Skin I'm in by Sharon Flake

Cut by Patricia McCormick

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

The Wave by Todd Strasser

Nancy Drew Books

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe short stories and poems

The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

The Body Of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum Ucci

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Breaking Point by Alex Flinn

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Forever by Judy Blume

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hostage by Willo Davis Roberts

Sold by Patricia McCormick

Cell by Stephen King

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Slam by Nick Hornby

Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan



Check out these websites, they have a lot of book recommendations



http://whatshouldireadnext.com/search



http://teenreads.com/features/ultimate-reading-list.asp



http://teenink.com/Books/

Answer 12

Blackhearts the omnibus. It is a Warhammer book but it is well worth it. I do not involve myself with any of the other aspects of the Warhammer universe but I must say this book stood out.



"Under threat of death for their crimes, Reiner and his companions are forced to carry out the most desperate and suicidal secret missions, all for the good of the Empire. Chaos cultists, ratmen, dark elves, rogue army commanders and more - time and again the Blackhearts are pitted against impossible odds and survive - yet what they most what is their freedom."



I know it sounds odd, it did to me as well, but it is fully worth it and easy to grasp without knowing anything about Warhammer.. The characters are what make this book so great. None of them are the square jawed heroes most books have. They are genuanly human and react as such.

Answer 13

Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman.

It is a really good read and makes you think.

Its very sad, particularly at the end, its not cliched and is very much about real life.

I love this book and i think you will too, its defeintly worth a read.

Answer 14

The last book I read was "The Last Lecture". It was written by Randy Pausch. He is dying from pancreatic cancer. He is a professor and before he died he gave his last lecture. It doesn't dwell on death and he isn't looking for sympathy. It is a very moving story about his life, and it makes you want to be a better person. I highly recommend it.

Answer 15

Ted Dekker, Frank Peretti, Melody Carlson, Rene Gutteridge, Karen Kingsbury, these authors are very good. I currently reccomend that you read Adam by Ted Dekker, very good book. I couldn't put it down.

Answer 16

Palace of Illusions by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni was a great book that I read recently.

Answer 17

If you haven't already, read the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, they are the best books i have ever read! They also have a little bit of everything: romance, comedy, action, suspense...

Answer 18

I'm not much of a fiction reader. I typically read motivational books. The one I'm on now is the Procrastinator's Handbook

Answer 19

Dean Koontz write really good books. Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti are also good.

Answer 20

There is a book called Reincarnation that is very good, and the Stephenie Meyer Twighlight Series are great also. It all depends on your style. Good luck.

Answer 21

I hope they serve beer in hell by Tucker Max is one of the funniest books ever written.



My other favorite book is the catcher in the rye by JD Salenger (sp?).

Answer 22

well a good book i've read is called the recruit its within the cherub series and is based on boy who goes to a top secret campus after his mother dies and is seperated from his little sis. you can buy it in waterstones in the teenage fiction section £5.99

Answer 23

Gingerbread.



Summary:

Cyd Charisse, age 16, was named for the movie star, and she certainly has sought out drama in her own life: "I will be as wild as I wanna be," she declares. As the book opens, sassy Cyd is living in San Francisco with her mother and stepfather after being kicked out of boarding school. She is involved with a sensitive surfer named Shrimp and working at his brother's beachside cafe, Java the Hut. She argues ferociously with her mother, and longs to be reunited with her real father, Frank, who she hasn't seen in many years. Her parents finally decide to send Cyd off to New York City to get reacquainted with Frank. He is not quite the warm, welcoming parent of her dreams--he tries to introduce her as his niece, at first--but Cyd does connect with her kind stepbrother Danny and her initially hostile stepsister. She helps out Danny and his gay partner at their cafe in the Village, and makes a pass at the handsome young driver her father hired for her. She also runs into the boyfriend who was responsible for her leaving the boarding school, and for the abortion she had concealed from her family. In the end, returning to San Francisco, spoiled, naive Cyd has come to understand much more about herself and her family.

Answer 24

Have you read any Jodi Picoult books? Try My Sisters Keeper. You'll love it.

Answer 25

White Oleander was a good book - I read it, then watched the movie. The book was much better...

Answer 26

the outsides



very good book

Answer 27

-Chinese Cinderella - sad yet good book



If you like books that are action packed and OBSESSIVE [lol] then i recomend



-The Outsiders

-Shattered Mirror

Answer 28

Pride and Predjudice.

Answer 29

The Judas Strain. i loved it

Answer 30

hit and run Lurlene McDaniel

i cried.

and i liked the boy who couldnt die by William Sleator

Answer 31

the dictionary, its educational and you learn new words, just not very useful ones

Answer 32

anything john grisham, or james patterson

Answer 33

cold mountain