i need a good book, I'm 16 and taking AP English, recommendations?

Question

my favorites are wuthering heights,
a tale of 2 cities, catcher in the rye,
and Night.
looking for non fiction but i will take a few fiction ones.
also books that have won pulitzer prize or, booker prize.

sorry i didnt specify AP, its Advanced Placement.

Answer 1

here are some highlights from my ap classes and college reading lists:
1. frankenstein
2. the scarlet letter
3. 8 stories
4. huckleberry finn
5. the rise and fall of silas lapham (really sucks, don't read it unless you can't find anything else.)
6. Maggie, girl of the streets
7. the stranger
8. 100 years of solitude (great read, the author won a nobel peace price. chapter 1 is probably the best introductory chapter i've ever read.)

Answer 2

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Evelina by Frances Burney
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

For holocaust nonfiction I'd recommend
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke

Answer 3

My perfect buddy took AP English final twelve months and between the books he study replaced into Invisible guy. He stated it replaced into an exciting e book, so as that is a stable decision. As for the others, i'm uncertain. yet another techniques: the abode of Spirits The Handmaid's tale The Sound of Fury For Whom the Bell tolls of Human Bondange Foxfire My call Is Asher Lev the abode of Mirth

Answer 4

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Jane Eyre (goodie if you liked Wuthering Heights) by Charlotte Bronte
Paula by Isabel Allende (memoir about the death of her daughter, with some magical realism)
anything by Kurt Vonnegut

Oh, and I one million second the nomination for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Answer 5

Here's some of my fave books from those days:
Crime and Punishment
To the Lighthouse
Zorba the Greek
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (my favorite book of all time)

Answer 6

For an eye-opening fiction read, try "The Great Book of Amber" by Roger Zelazny. Easily the best first-person narrative series in the history of american fiction.

Answer 7

okay , ummm...i don't know what AP means but you seem to like more series books so i recumend you trying something new, maybe the Clique series ( chick book) or the A- list (a trashy novel) Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (just a funny siries.) or i think you would really like these they are are all in one series: The ugglies, The Pretties, and The Speciles.

ENJOY!

Answer 8

"Roughing It," by Mark Twain. It's a mix of non-fiction and fiction, it's a good history lesson about certain times and places in this country, and it shows you that a lot of the problems we face today have been with us for a long, long time.

"Following the Equator" is another good Twain book. It chronicles a round-the-world trip he took to rebuild his fortune. Like "Roughing It," it combines history, humor, and Twain's characteristically keen insights regarding humanity's strengths and weaknesses.

JMB

Answer 9

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (fiction)
Tuesdays with Morrie (non-fiction)

Both are good books that I think you would like given the books you have mentioned.

Answer 10

You AP students are hard to serve. I suggest visiting your public library and ask for Books for the College Bound. Its a book about books for your type. This book includes a list of books for you to choose from. It includes the title, author and a little information about the book to help you decide what you want to read

Below in online information as well