Just want a few good books to read.....?

Question

I want good books to read. Preferably ones that catch a person's attention and don't ramble but have at least a little detail. Please don't recommend any of the following. I'm getting tired of these answers and have read them:

+Twilight(all)
+Harry Potter(all) (God, everyone feels the need to mention those two for some reason)
+Vampire Kisses(all)
+Marked, Betrayed, and Chosen
+The Silver Kiss
+Morganville Vampires
+Blue Bloods(all)
+Vampire Academy
+Vampire Diaries


You know what, let's put it this way. As long as it is a normal vampire's that never die and have supernatural powers, I'm fine. These neither, I'm am truly tired of just getting these as opinions. I know these books already exist, I'm looking for different ones:

+Uglies Series or any of Scott Westerfeld's books
+The Host
+A Great and Terrible Beauty or any of those
+Inkspell, Inkheart, Inkdeath
+Any others you repeatedly see under these questions


Any unusual books that most people don't even know about works perfectly actually. I'm really getting tired of hearing the same names over and over and over again when I've read most of the books, or if I haven't am planning too.

Answer 1

Maybe you'll like these-



The A List (series of 10) - Zoey Dean

About the goings on of the teenage children of the rich and famous, contains a wide variety of material - love, hate, jealousy etc. Loved it!



Girl Meets Boy, Guy Next Door, All American Girl, Avalon High, etc. - Meg Cabot

I absoloutly love Meg Cabot's books! I would especially recommend the Girl Meets Boy & Guy Next Door as well as the third in that series, I immensly enjoyed them! Some are intended for adults but most for youth and I love them all!



Lioness Quartet, Wild Magic Quartet, Trickster, etc. - Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce's books are mainly set in the land of Tortall in medieval times, they use the same characters just at different stages of their lives and different books/series' focus on different people. They consist of fighting, magic, love, etc.



The diaries of kelly ann (2 books) - by Liz Rettig

These recount the goings on of an older teenager as she strugles to make decisions and learn to trust in others. The second one, Now or Never is about her relationship with a boy and is funny but romantic and suspencful at the same time.



It's A Mall World After All - Not sure who wrote it though...

Comedy of a girl and how she falls in love with her best friend's boyfriend's bestfriend while stalking her friend's boyfriend in an attempt to prove he is a lying cheating scumbag. A very good read & lovey but funny at the same time.



I'd Tell You I Love You But I'd Have to Kill You - Ally Carter

About a girl brought up as a spy and enrolled in a leading spy school who falls in love with an ordinary boy and can’t tell him who she actually is. Funny. There is a second in the series called To Spy or Not to Spy, it’s just as good.



Possibly the S.A.S.S. series - Numerous Authors

About the travels of students and what happens to them on their stay - love etc. Not brill but an ok read



Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paloini

Love them, you have to read them, Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr!



Sweet Valley High Books - ???

I can’t remember who wrote these but they’re a pretty good read even if they are kind of old. If you’re into series’s these are good as their’s over 100 books



The Last Summer (Of You and Me) - Ann Brashares

A good book but immensly sad, it is probably better for older teens or adults.



I have more suggestions if you want to hear them, just contact me or check out my website, http://www.freewebs.com/greatteennovels/

Hope you find something you like here!

Answer 2

Try some of these:



Peeps - Scott Westerfield

Thicker Than Water - Carla Jablonski

Extras - Scott Westerfield

Pretties - Scott Westerfield

Specials - Scott Westerfield

Uglies - Scott Westerfield

The Fallen - Celia Thomson

Dear Zoe - Philip Beard

Disconnected - Sherry Ashworth

I Am Not Esther - Fleur Beale

Losing It - Lizzie Wilcock

Answer 3

Have you ever read any of John Green's books? They aren't really like the fantasy books you've mentioned, but you may like them. They are: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and his new book Paper Towns comes out soon.

Answer 4

Have you read anything by Darren Shan? his a good writer.

Also the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series?



Oh I know one thats a 'smaller' book, one that I havent seen mentioned 'Deadlight' by Troy Barnes, its truly great i recommend it. I couldn't put it down.

Answer 5

Books about Teen Issues:

A Child Called "IT" by David Pelzer (Abuse)

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Rape/murder of a teen)

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Suicide)

Crank and Glass (Drugs), Burned (Abuse), and Impulse (Suicide, Drugs, etc.) by Ellen Hopkins

The Pact (Suicide Pact), Nineteen Minutes (Columbine-Like), and My Sister's Keeper (Being a donor for a sick sister) by Jodi Picoult

Prom, Twisted, Speak (Rape), and Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

A Separate Peace by John Knowles



Historical Fiction:

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason - It's about the VietnamWar

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor - about blacks in America

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Pilots in WWII

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - WWII

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Other Boleyn Girl (and others) by Philippa Gregory



Romance:

Anything by Sarah Dessen, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, Nicholas Sparks, or Ellen Giffin

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion by Jane Austen



Books to Make You Think:

The Five People You Meet in Heaven; Tuesdays With Morrie; and For One More Day by Mitch Albom

Anything by Hermann Hesse

Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut



Fantasy:

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien

Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Brisingr in 9/2008)

Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey

Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett

The Sword of Shanarra Series by Terry Brooks

His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman

Mediator and 1-800 Series by Meg Cabot

Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson

Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz

Anything by Tamora Pierce or Donita K. Paul

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray

Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Wake and Fade by Lisa McMann



Science Fiction:

Anything by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Douglas Adams, Michael Crichton, or Orson Scott Card

Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras by Scott Westerfeld



Mysteries:

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything by Agatha Christie

Answer 6

i'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but Got Fangs? is a decent book and also the Sweep series if you want to read something about witches...:) hope i could help