2006-08-08 10:21:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
if you want to go a bit dark - His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman
2006-08-08 11:44:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (and the soon-to-be-published New Moon)
Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies; Pretties; Specials)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (also Prom; Catalyst)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (and sequels)
Angus Thongs & Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison (Georgia Nicholson series--7 books so far)
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (also One of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies)
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (also The Truth About Forever, Someone Like You, Keeping The Moon, This Lullaby, That Summer)
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer (also its sequel Best Foot Forward)
Hit the Road by Caroline Cooney (also The Girl Who Invented Romance)
Pepperland by Mark DeLaney
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Candy by Kevin Brooks
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler (also Vegan, Virgin, Valentine)
The above is what comes to mind off the top of my head...for even more try browsing the American Library Association's best lists...(BBYA)...the site goes back to 1994...although printed journals would have older lists.
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bestbooksyoung.htm
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/06bbya.htm
2006-08-08 18:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello dear!
Well, there is not enough space and time to present all the good books I know, thus, I will put some of them:
[Precaution: These are dangerous books! Who reads them will start thinking!
1. Epicurus
2. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
3. Works and Days, of Hesiod
4. WHo killed Homer?
5. Plato's: Republic, Euthyphron, Symposium, Timeos, Critias, ...
6. Aesop's Fables
8. Plays of Euripides
9. Plays of Sophocles
10. Plays of Aeschylus....
11. Comedies of Aristophanes
12. Empedocle
13. Heraclitus
14.
2006-08-08 17:48:37 · answer #3 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Expections-By Charles Dickens
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman
Macbeth-Shakespear
Lord of the Flies
To kill a Mockingbird
The Da Vinci code
The Canterbury tales
Beowulf
Artemis fowl
The Giver
2006-08-08 17:30:05 · answer #4 · answered by curious george!?!? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter
The Adrian Mole series
Mathilda by Roald Dahl
2006-08-08 18:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by alternative_be 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can understand a book as written, any book is good for teens.
2006-08-09 11:13:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Giver by Lois Lowry
2006-08-08 18:22:23 · answer #7 · answered by wls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter
King Fortis the Brave
Eragon
Chronicles of Narnia
to name just a few
2006-08-08 18:47:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello cliquecrazygurl, I can definitely recommend you Night of Wishes from Michael Ende. It's a terrific story of New Years Eve, super!
2006-08-08 17:35:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Last Vampire Series by Christopher Pike. Very intriguing, very eye opening...
2006-08-08 17:34:40 · answer #10 · answered by Golden Scepter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats Cradle, classic amazing book, I read it first when I was 16 and to this day, after a couple reads, it remains my favorite book! Its by Kurt Vonegutt.
2006-08-08 17:26:36 · answer #11 · answered by asdf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋