Can you give me a list of good books?

Question

I'm trying to create a list of 20 books to read before this year ends. The books I usually read are very easy, and, well, I'm now looking for classics. I'm in middle school, but I read on a 10th grade level. The books they hold in the school library are far from interesting.
So far on my list I have:
-To Kill a Mocking Bird By Harper Lee
-The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
-Go Ask Alice
-Book Of A Thousand Days By Shannon Hale
-Flowers for Algernon By Daniel Keys
-How I Live Now By Meg Rosoff
-Someone Like You By Sarah Desson

I know some of the titles aren't considered "classics" but they where recommended on about three different websites.
I'd prefer classic, but as long as the books contain some interesting elements, I'd be happy to read them.

Answer 1

These are the best of books I selected from each genre:



The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Fiction)

The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn (Inspiring)

Perfect Chemistry – Simone Elkeles (Romance)

Stealing Heaven – Elizabeth Scott (Teen)

Beastly - Alex Flinn (Fantasy)

Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers(Drama)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (Mystery)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series- Jeff Kinney (Comedy)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson (Classic)

Model: a memoir - Cherly Diamond (Non-Fiction)

The Tale of Despereaux - Kate Dicamillo (Children) DO NOT LET THAT HINDER YOU.



My list (That I read and thought others should):



Autobiography Of A Wardrobe: a memoir - Elizabeth Kendall

Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire – Amanda Foreman

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette – Carolly Erickson

Model: a memoir - Cherly Diamond

Anastasia - Stewart

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

Aquamarine –Alice Hoffman

Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen

Graceling – Kristin Cashore

Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

Tiger Rising – Kate DiCamillo

Woman In The Wall – Patrice Kindl

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Cheri and the Last of Cheri - Colette

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Darcy's Passion - Regina Jeffers

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson

Nobody's Boy - Hector Malot

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

The Moonstone: a Romance - Wilkie Collins

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series- Jeff Kinney

Undead Series – MaryJanice Davidson

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

A Reliable Wife : a novel - Robert Goolrick

A Womans Place: a novel by Lynn Austin

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

How to Be Good - Nick Hornby

The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

The Tea Rose series - Jennifer Donnelly

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

Vanishing Acts: A Novel – Jodi Picoult

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

501 Must See Movies - Niel Randles

Julie & Julia [My Year of Cooking Dangerously] – Julie Powell

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb

A Great and Terrible Beauty Series – Libba Bray

Beastly - Alex Flinn

Blood and Chocolate - Annette Klause

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Mediator Series – Meg Cabot

Sookie Stackhouse Series - Charlaine Harris

The Alchemyst Series - Michael Scott

The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

The Fetch– Laura Whitcomb

The Host – Stephenie Meyer

The Midnight Twins Series – Jacquelyn Mitchard

Wings – Aprilynne Pike

A Novel Idea – Aimee Friedman

Breakfast At Bloomingdale's – Kristen Kemp

How Not To Be Popular – Jennifer Ziegler

L.A. Candy – Lauren Conrad

Paisley Hanover Acts Out - Cameron Tuttle

Picture Perfect by Catherine Clark

Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld

Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot

Secrets of my Hollywood Life – Jen Calonita

Snowed In – Rachel Hawthorne

Stealing Heaven – Elizabeth Scott

Summer Intern- Carrie Karasyov

TTYL Series – Lauren Myracie

The Wedding Planner's Daughter Series - Coleen Paratore

A Countess Below Stairs – Eva Ibotson

Boys Series – Meg Cabot

Educating Carolina – Patricia Cabot

Peony In Love – Lisa See

Perfect Chemistry – Simone Elkeles

Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers

Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin

The Luxe Series by Anna Godbersen

Where Roses Grow by Patricia Cabot

Perfumes – Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez

The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History – Peter Charles Hoffer

Answer 2

It's a little more than 20 but here goes:



* The Little Prince

* All The Harry Potters

* The Alchemist

* Angels And Demons

* The Da Vinci Code

* The Lost Symbol

* All The A Series Of Unfortunate Events

* Of Mice And Men

* To Kill A Mockingbird

* A Guide For Grown-Ups

* The Knife Of Never Letting Go [Chaos Walking Trilogy]

* The Ask And The Answer [Chaos Walking Trilogy]

* Monsters Of Men [Chaos Walking Trilogy]

* The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time

* The Time Travelers Wife

* A Child Called It

* The Lost Boy

* A Man Named Dave

* The Entire Chlorincles Of Narnia

* Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

* The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo [Millennium Trilogy]

* The Girl Who Played With Fire [Millennium Trilogy]

* The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest [Millennium Trilogy]

* The Kite Runner

* Ruby Red

* A Thousand Splendid Suns

* The Lovely Bones

* The Tales Of Beedle The Bard

* The Notebook



If you want me to brief you on any of the books and/or tell you the genres, age range etc. just ask! Hope that helps =] A.S.K

Answer 3

Wow, I thought that in China people were still very limited as to what they can and can't read as dictated by the government. I'm going to assume this is wrong and give you my list. I'm also going to assume that by advanced, you actually mean ADVANCED: Oxford English Dictionary - Essential for anyone who reads or writes English Oxford English Grammar or Fowler's Guide to Modern English Usage - Either one is essential for anyone who writes seriously. The Hannibal Lecter Trilogy - The best work of modern fiction. James Joyce's Ulysses - A classic of poetry merged with prose. For the really advanced reader. The Complete Works of Plato - The works of one of the most widely known, diverse but still accessible philosophers. The Complete Works of Shakespeare - Timeless, boundless. You can usually get a one volume edition of all the plays and poems for less than £5, which is about what you pay for one play printed on it's own if you buy them separately. Moby Dick - An American Classic. Dracula - A British Classic. Frankenstein - Another British Classic which is much studied in English colleges. Notes on the Underground by Dostoyevsky - A post modernist classic - well before it's time. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a beautiful and sad novel. It is the poet's only novel and is regarded as a semi-autobiographical Roman a Clef. Life of Pi - Booker prize award winning novel about faith and perseverance. If you're interested in poetry; how about The Complete Works of Lord Byron, as he suits a wide range of audiences. Baudelaire is good but obviously the original is in French, English translations are available. I'd also recommend checking out a publishing company called Dover Thrift. They produce books on cheap recycled paper, with small fonts to save pages and they're incredibly cheap. You can get a whole range of classics for around £1 a copy. Then ALL of your students can have a copy to read, or you could make your budget stretch beyond 200 books. Hopefully that will get you started. You might also want to look at some guides to some of these books. Especially Shakespeare and Joyce. You'll have no trouble finding several of those. They should make the teaching a bit easier as well as pointing out things you yourself might not spot. Good luck!

Answer 4

I loved all the books by Cynthia Voigt, starting with

Bullet, then going on to the Tillerman Series

the first one being Homecoming.



I also really liked the Redwall books by Brian Jaques.



King of the Wind by Marguarite Henry



The Ship who Sang (and sequels) by Anne McCaffrey



The Crysalids by John Wyndham



Any book by Ray Bradbury



Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee



Whistle Down the Wind by Mary Hayley Bell



The Harry Potter books by JK Rowling



The Once and Future King by TH White

Answer 5

The Secret Life Of Bees

Distant Waves

Sold

Wuthering Heights

Moby Dick

The Hunger Games

Answer 6

Go ask alice and secret garden are some of my favorites!



Pillars of the Earth By Ken Follet is good



The Winner by David Balducci



Sense and Sensibility

Pride and Predjudice both by Jane Austen. they may be a little advanced now (i tried them in 9th grade when i had a college level reading and i still had to wait a year or 2 to fully appriciate them)



Gossip Girl, books are sooooooooo much better then the show



Singularity, forgot the author, but its about twin boys who have to house sit together, it ends up being kinda sci-fi, but not to Start Trek lengths on anything



Anything by John Grisham

Answer 7

1984, by George Orwell

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley



A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier



Any by Jane Austen

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Answer 8

Little Women



The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson



Shift - Jennifer Bradbury

Answer 9

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton



Token of Darkness by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes



Paranormalcy by Kiersten White



Intertwined (#1) and Unraveled (#2) by Gena Showalter



Shiver (#1) and Linger (#2) by Maggie Stiefvater



Clockwork Angel (#1) (Prequel series to Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare



City of Bones (#1), City of Ashes (#2) and City of Glass (#3) (The Mortal Instruments series) by Cassandra Clare



Hush Hush (#1) and Crescendo (#2) by Becca Fitzpatrick



The Angel Experiment (#1), School’s Out Forever (#2), Saving The World and Other Extreme Sports (#3), The Final Warning (#4), MAX (#5), FANG (#6), ANGEL (#7) [Maximum Ride series by James Patterson]



GONE (#1), HUNGER (#2), LIES (#3), PLAGUE (#4) [GONE series] by Michael Grant



Unwind by Neal Shusterman



13 Days To Midnight by Patrick Carman



Beastly by Alex Flinn



Willow by Julia Hoban

Answer 10

Try Jane Eyre by By Charlotte Bronte. It's one of my favorite classics, along with Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen.

Answer 11

try Rick Riordans books but they are a little bit harder

Answer 12

puddinhead wilson by mark twain.