Question:
Book Recommendations?
Paty
2009-11-29 21:06:21 UTC
Hi, I love reading and am always on the look for new suggestions. If anyone has ever similar tastes to mine and has read a good book - I'd love to hear about it. Thanks in advance!

Books:
HP Series [J.K. Rowling]
Pride & Prejudice [J. Austen]
Like Water for Chocolate [L. Esquivel]
Bloom [E. Scott]
Blood and Chocolate [A. Klause]
Perks of being a Wallflower [S. Chbosky]
Anything by S. Dessen
The Things They Carried [T. O'Brien]
The Blog of War [M. Burden]
Sookie Stackhouse Series by [C. Harris]
The Count of Monte Cristo [A. Dumas]


The thing with Twilight...
I've read all four books and in all honestly, really really enjoyed Twilight and New Moon, but not so much the last two. The only reason I enjoyed New Moon was because of Jacob Black and the wolfpack. I love the possibilites with them, and really enjoyed Jacob's character. Bella and Edward are [sorry sorry sorry Twihards] probably two of my least favorite literary characters, ever. I enjoyed the books...just did not enjoy Bella and how she handled everything with Edward and Jacob.

Saying that, if anyone knew of any good books involving werewolves or skin-walker legends, that'd be awesome. Even if they were books with information solely on the legends.

Thanks again and have a great day, guys!
Three answers:
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2009-11-30 04:57:11 UTC
The hunger games trilogy-Suzanne collins-

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district(12) of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Katniss's sister primrose is chosen, Katiss steps up to go in her place.



Noughts and crosses series-Malorie blackman

Noughts are white people, and they are considered inferior and are generally of a lower class.

Crosses are black people, and they hold the power, they are in government, they are the rich people and have only the best jobs. The story that takes place in this world is between Callum (a nought) and Sephy (a Cross). They've been friends all their life. They become closer when Callum starts at Sephy's school (an all Cross school), due to a government policy that says noughts be allowed into Cross schools.

Over time, they fall in love, breaking all social boundaries: noughts and Crosses do not mix, they aren't friends and they definitely don't fall in love.

We follow their story as they grow older, and are driven apart by societies prejudices.



The black magician trilogy-Trudi Canavan

Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. Sonea, angry, frustrated and outraged by the treatment of her family and friends, hurls a stone at the shield, putting all her rage behind it. To the amazement of all who bear witness, the stone passes unhindered through the barrier and renders a magician unconscious. The guild's worst fear has been realised ...There is an untrained magician loose on the streets. She must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her, and the city that is her home.



Annie on my mind-Nancy garden

Liza meets annie, she is unlike anyoune else she has ever met and they quiickly form a close bond, but is it just friendship, or something else entirely.



Miss-Understanding My year in agony- lara fox

Miss understanding has no trouble giving out advice on her school websites agony column, so why can't she sort out her own messes? Like her mums mid-life crisis, her best friends betrayal... Not to mention her tortured on-off relationship with a commitment-phobe. Is it all a disaster waiting to happen, or can Miss understanding learn to read between the lines.



All american girl(1&2)-Meg cabot

Sam had slways been totally ordinary. But then she does something completley out of the ordinary-she stops a crazy psycho from assasinating the president.

Now she is instantly world famous. Dining at the whitehouse issnt easy for someone who only eats hamburgers and lives in combat boots, in fact, there is only one compensation-David, the presidents son...



Teen idol-Meg cabot

Jen greenly is everybodys best friend, but being the worlds best listener doesn't always get you very far. Until the day jen is asked to ook after the new 'transfer student' called 'lucas smith' otherwise known as luke striker-hollywoods most famous teen movie star. Can she keep lukes identity secret?



How to be popular-Meg cabot

Everyone wants to be popular-but steph landry wants it more than most. Steph has been the most unpopuar girl in school ever since she spilt a drink on a popular girls miniskirt 5 years ago. Steph finds a book in the attic called 'how to be popular'. could this be her key to success?



The guy next door(1st book in the boy series)-Meg cabot

Melissa fuller finds her elderly neighbor unconscious in her apartment after apparently being attacked. Her neighbors nephew comes to look after the apartment until his aunt comes out of her coma. But little does mel know that the man living across the hall from her is not her neighbors nephew at all.



Girl 15/16 series-Sue limb

Jess is in a fix. She has to write a letter to Edouard, her French exchange, before he comes to visit, and her normal ability to write charismatic, charming and seductive letters has deserted her. But there is an even worse problem. She has to send a photo. The idea fills Jess with a special sort of fear. But she has a solution - a digitally enhanced solution - and who better to ask to help than her best mate Fred!



Hush hush-Becca Fitzpatrick

Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim, and super-alluring bad boy, Patch, now her deskmate in biology class. Together they find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel and a Nephilim...Forced to sit next to Patch in science clas
2016-05-25 04:17:25 UTC
SCIENCE FICTION Everyone ignores sci-fi but the truth is that some books are nearly half philosophy. Read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Prey by Michael Crichton, and 2001: A Space Odyssey or Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Plus, I agree that Agatha Christie is a must-read. After Shakespeare and the Bible, she has sold the most number of books worldwide ever. Her best are And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express
Nerdzilla Cindy
2009-11-29 21:21:41 UTC
Hi :)



I have a whole heaps of book recommendations, but they're mostly YA.



CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore

Henderson's Boys series by Robert Muchamore

Kiki Strike series by Kirsten Miller

Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawrenece

The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen

Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz

Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine

Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel



Broken Soup and Saving Zoe are really good novels. They're also very sad (you might cry!)

Also, Meg Cabot has written a lot of books for older readers too (eg. Queen of Babble).



:)


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