Make them Classics, if possible
2006-12-23 13:05:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
here is my list of book recommendations: pick me as best answer since i gave the story lines of most of them. HAPPY HOLIDAYS :)!!!
twilight
new moon
by stephenie meyer
great teen vampire love story that is set in this century and not like those dracula ones
stepheniemeyer.com
silver kiss
blood and chocolate
by annette curtis klause
silver kiss is like twilight and blood and chocolate is about werewolves, the movie will be out on jan. 26, 2007
cirque du freak series 1 to 12
by darren shan
a great series about a boy who gave up his humanity to become a vampire's assistant to save his best friends' life, who later thinks of him as a traitor, since he wanted to be a vampire, but his friend became the vampire instead
demonata series 1-10
currently 3 books out
like cirque du freak but with werewolves and demons
www.darrenshan.com
vampire kisses
kissing coffins
vampireville
by ellen schreiber
a goth girl falls for a vampire teen that just moved down the mansion of her boring city
harry potter series 1-6
by j.k. rowling
alex rider series 1-6
by anthony horowitz
stormbreaker movie out now
its about a british teen, who was forced to work for m16, like the cia, but british. since his only companion, an american was going to be deported and he'd be all alone since his uncle "died" and he'd end up in an orphanage
2006-12-23 13:26:35 · answer #1 · answered by ALESANA 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Old Classic: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
New Classic: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Play: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Just a good book: The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Good "children's" book: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Good sci-fi trilogy: The Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher
2006-12-23 23:20:56 · answer #2 · answered by incandescent_poet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't get any more classic than Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged". It's an old book, but still immensely relevant today. If I'm not mistaken, it's been listed as the second most controversial book in the world, after the Bible, and I haven't met a person who's read it who ever felt tepid about it. You'll either love the ideas inside it or hate them, but it will arouse your passions.
Seriously- I think everybody should be forced to read this book when they turn 17- it makes you think, not to mention it simply being a grand, epic, brilliant story.
Try it!
2006-12-24 00:13:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern American Classics - Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut was actually captured in WW II during the Battle of the Bulge and held prisoner in Dresden, when the Allied Forces dropped 1,000 tons of bombs on the city. Slaughter House Five will be an American Classic for years to come. Another Modern American Classic is Goodbye Columbus or Zuckerman Bound by Philip Roth. Vonnegut and Roth specialize in dark comedy.
2006-12-23 21:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the Rings would make for a good read. As with any story that was first in a book, then in a movie, the book is so much better!
But you did say classic and I'm not sure that one qualifies yet. So I'd say Great Expectations would be my recommendation. It has mystery, romance, suspence, a rags to riches story and a lesson in life.
2006-12-23 21:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by WillBib 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to recommend these five books:
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
3. The Stranger by Albert Camus
4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, etc.
Moreover, please visit the web site below, I hope some titles may interest you there. Find some to read and enjoy!
2006-12-24 02:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paradise Lost by John Milton
World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schoepenhauer
Anything by Somerset Maughm
anything by John Steinbach
anything by Tennessee Williams
anything by the Bronte sisters
anything by Leon Uris, especially "Exodus"
2006-12-23 21:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering Heights
The Chronicles of Narnia
Novels by Tolstoy or Tolkien
Terry Pratchett books
I don't think Harry Potter can really be counted as a classic.
2006-12-23 21:09:33 · answer #8 · answered by sereneicequeen 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jane Eyre
Phantom of the Opera
Rebecca
The Thorn Birds
2006-12-23 21:08:39 · answer #9 · answered by Empy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a good classic book, and I think it’s full of good ideas to contemplate (such as whether to hide your faults or to reveal them, and the consequences of whichever way you choose).
2006-12-23 21:19:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋