Help me find a good book to read. . .?

Question

I need to read books written by AMERICAN authors. I prefer that you choose books that are between 200-350 pages [They're easier to remember that's why]. Make sure they're not boring books and make sure it's something that a high schooler should be reading. Don't recommend Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Crucible, & The Bluest Eye [I'm already reading them in school, but you choose the authors though]. I need to read at least 600 pages to get an A... so this is really important :)

Answer 1

Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Chosen by Chaim Potok...


"make sure it's something that a high schooler should be reading"

a 'high schooler' should be reading everything under the sun....What exactly shouldn't you be reading?.
Why would anyone censor what a teenager reads?
Besides Hard core porn, possibly...

Answer 2

Thunder From The Sea is good. The author is American and it`s a sad funny hard book! I liked it and it`s 238 pages and it`s a good book. But i`m not sure it`s for a high schooler. Pride and Prejudice is GREAT!! I enjoyed it very much. It`s a good one for high schoolers to read and it`s a sad romantic funny book. It`s about 367 pages more than u asked 4 but it`s a good book.

Answer 3

I read Gone with the Wind when I was in high school. It's thicker than 200-350 pgs, but it's good and you could probably get your page requirement done in one book. Mark Twain is an American author you could explore. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are both fun characters to read about.

Answer 4

Well, John Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors. If you're interested in history at all, you might try "Travels With Charley". In 1962, Steinbeck decided he'd been away from his roots in America for too long, so he bought a camper truck and set out from New York to travel across the country. The eponymous "Charley" was his dog. He talks about the people he met along the way, including a stop in New Orleans during the school desegregation fights. It's the first thing of his I ever read, and I've gone back to reread it five or six times since then.

Answer 5

a number of those are from woman perspectives, some could be a sprint "girly female" on your liking yet others could desire to be ok. i've got left the two type on and you will ascertain. Meryll of the Stone (Brian Caswell) Picnic at stunning Rock (Joan Lindsay) Stranger with my face (Lois Duncan) enjoying Beattie Bow (Ruth Parks) My Sister Sif (Ruth Parks) Hitch hikers handbook to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Holes (Louis Sachar) Lord of the jewellery / The Hobbit Eragorn trilogy Narnia The Golden Compass Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice) Requiem for a Princess (Ruth M Arthur) searching for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) Angels Gate (Gary group) Sisterhood of the vacationing Pants Pelican's Creek (Maureen Pople) The Diary of Anne Frank To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) The Shiralee (Dárcy Niland) Into the Wild (John Krakauer) Chocolat (Joanne Harris) Harp in the South; undesirable guy's Orange; Missus (Trilogy via Ruth Parks) the place the midsection is (Billie Letts) My place (Sally Morgan) Little females (Louisa could Alcott) Rebecca (Daphne De Maurier) the three Muskateers (Alexandre Dumas) something via the Bronte sisters or Jane Austen despite you do don’t run The December Boys (Robert Noonan)

Answer 6

Gregory McGuire books. I think he's an American. (Actually, I'm pretty sure he's an American)

He wrote:
Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- I read this and I liked it. It's the other side of The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch's side.

Mirror Mirror
- I've yet to read it

Son of a Witch
- I've yet to read it. It's the sequal to Wicked

Ugly Stepsister
- I think that's the name of the book.

But basicly he writes fairytales from another perspective. They most definently(sp) aren't for little kids.

I'm not sure of the book pages. One way to remember what you read for long books is to write a small summary of the important events in each chapter (or every 2-3 chapters) as you read them.

Answer 7

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie

The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck - This one is one of my favorites and should have been read in h.s.

Both take place in china, so if you are at all interested in a non-western culture, check them out. Easy read - more than 200 pgs. You will not regret them

Answer 8

Where children run by Karen J EMILSON GREAT book, I give it a 9½ out of 10

Answer 9

One of America's best writers was James Michener (Colorado, Hawaii, The Covenant, Poland, etc.). Who will never regret reading on of his novels. I must warn you, the books are thick.

Answer 10

OOH! i know JUST the book you're looking for! it's called "I Love You, Kate" and it's a WONDERFUL TEN star book by Juli Norris and it's incredible and good.

sorry for the lame vocab i used i am just trying to put emphasis on my love for this book. lol. it's definately for people high school and up. it has great reviews and i highly recommend it :)