Some book help from book fans? thanks!?

Question

I'm 18 1/2 and was wondering if anyone can reccommend some good books for me because I love to read, I'd appreciate it thanks!

I'm not a sophisticated reader. i like fun stuff or mysteries, not classics or ADULT books if that makes sense lol

Answer 1

Here are some good teen/young adult books:
Departures by Robin Jones Gunn
A Long Way From Chicago by Peck
Because of Wynn Dixie by Kate DeCamillo
Julie by Catherine Marshall
Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
Going on Sixteen by Cavanna
I Want To Go Home! by Gordon Korman
Go Jump in the Pool by Gordan Kormon
Marley and Me (non fiction, but hilarious!)
My Side of the Mountain
Pollyanna
Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood
Treasure Island
Anne of Green Gables
The Secret Garden
The Hobbit
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Emily Ever After by Ann Dayton
A Gown of Spanish Lace by J.Oke
When Calls the Heart by J. Oke
The Day of the Storm by Pilcher
Cute is a Four Letter Word by Stella Pevsner (sp?)
One Hundred and One Famous Poems
Chicken Soup For the Girlfriends Soul(non fiction)

Answer 2

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, was one of the best books I've read in a while, it will be made into a movie with Johnny Depp as the lead in the near future.

Also the Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards was a really good book.

I would suggest going to a bookstore like Barnes and Nobel and looking on their best seller rack, or just asking for book recommendations at the information desk or any employee at the bookstore for that matter, most bookstore employees are avid readers and will have some good suggestions.

Answer 3

Hehe that is kind of a silly thing to get in an argument over does it really matter? (the whole death being a boy or girl I mean). Not all anime fans hate comics, and the ones who do usually don't know anything other than the standard super hero comics. The whole argument about comics being unrealistic, unreliable, horrible art, and cliché can all be said of manga too it just depends on peoples personal tastes. I will however say that as a girl the anime/manga community is nicer and there isn’t the whole, “You’re a girl so you have to proof to me that you really are a fan before I accept you,” crap that the comic and gamer fandoms have. I like both, but I generally prefer manga.

Answer 4

I agree with alot of the other replies, I've read most everything. Sometimes, what works well, is to read the book that goes with your favorite movies. For example, I liked the Bourne series that just came out with Matt Damon, so I got the book series by Robert Ludlum. There are excellent and not at all like the movies. Maybe try reading that way.

P.S. Books are more fun when read upside down!!!

Answer 5

Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

Answer 6

I like books with great well developed charecters I can relate to. Currentley I am reading Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1. The Wold According to Garp by John Irving
2. Fire Starter by Stephen King
3. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
4.The Stand by Stephen King
5. Jurassic Park by Michael Cricton
6. The Language of God by Francis S. Collins
7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
8. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
9. Blue Beard by Kurt Vonnegut
10. Sideways by Rex Pickett

Answer 7

Sure thing. It's great that you love to read! One thing I'd recommend is going to your local library, as librarians there will be able to show you new books and classics, and find books that are like ones you have read and enjoyed.

My favourite book when I was about your age was Alice in Wonderland.

Of newer books, I really love Varjak Paw, and its sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, by SF Said. If you like cats, you will love these books!

Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet is a sequel to Peter Pan that has just been published. It's really wonderful.

Hilary MacKay's books about the Casson family are great, too!

Answer 8

You don't say how sophisticated a reader you are or if you like mysteries or what.
some of my favorite writers
Elizabeth George ...mystery
Anne Rice...mystery
Anne Tyler...general interest
John Irving...
more intense: Tim Winton, Jonathan Fouer, Saul Bellow,
Or read New York Times book review and pick something interesting

Answer 9

Some great suggestions so far - yes, librarians and book-store workers love to recommend books!

I loved 'The Dark is Rising' books by Susan Cooper (check your library; the first in the series is 'Over Sea, Under Stone').
If you like sci-fi or fantasy, C.J. Cherryh is my current favourite in both genres, and Robert A. Heinlein was my introduction to sci-fi.
Dick Francis writes good, well-researched thrillers - early ones based in the horse-racing world, but he's been branching out.

Here are some I've not yet read, but want to check out for my daughter (good excuse! Actually, I love to read, too!):
- 'Dreamhunter' by Elizabeth Knox,
- 'Kaitangata Twitch' by Margaret Mahy (yes she writes children's books, but also books for young adults),
- 'Hunter' by Joy Cowley.

Good luck!

Answer 10

here are some of the ones i enjoyed. the asian books are translated of course. i don't know what you interest are however. happy reading!

Black/ African American:
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass..."
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" Harioet Jacobs
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
"Invisible Man" Ralph Ellison
"The Black Bard or North Carolina" George Moses Horton

Native America:
"The Sun Came Down" - Bullchild
"Black Hawk" Donald Jackson
"Lakota Woman" - Mary Crow-Dog

Japanese:
"Naomi" Junichiro Tanazaki
"Kokoro" - Soseki Natsume
"Autobiography of a Geisha" Sayo Masuda
"Out" Natsuo Kirino *graphic violence/sex
"In The Miso Soup" Ryu Murakami *graphic violence

Chinese:
"Rickshaw" Lao She

"As I lay dying" or "A Light in August" - William Faulkner
"L'Assommoir" - Emile Zola
"Born on the 4th of July" Ron Kovic (true and a bit graphic)
"The Father" (short play)- Strindburg
"My Drowning" Jim Grimsley
"The Nature of Blood" CarylPhillips