I need something to read because im very bored. Some of my favorite books are To Kill A Mockingbird,The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, and the Davinci Code. I'm fifteen and i have a fairly high reading level so anything goes
2007-01-07 14:44:45 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Read "Watchers" by Dean Koontz. One of the best books I've ever read...
I also recommend "The Lords of Discipline" by Pat Conroy.
2007-01-07 14:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like reading books surrounded with historical content. Catcher in Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird are two of my favorites also. Try "Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass" by Fredrick Douglass and "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. Maybe "No One Here Gets Out Alive" which is a biography about Jim Morrison.
2007-01-07 22:49:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jimmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein,
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings... and if you want a challenge, the Silmarillion all by Tolkien.
The Hunt for Red October - by Clancy as I recall, was pretty good.
Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Isaac Asimov is an excellent science piece.
Historically, At Dawn We Slept (about Pearl Harbor) and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (a very tough read..) are groundbreaking and definitive.
Pretty much anything in print by Asimov, Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Glenn Cooke... all are at least readable, many are considered classics.
Oh, and may not be in your age range, but I actually have enjoyed all but one of the Harry Potter books...
Scope out amazon.com, input the books you've liked so far, and see what kind of matches come up...
-dh
2007-01-07 22:55:11 · answer #3 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about "I know why the caged bird sings" ?
Clear and Present Danger
The Outsiders
The Hobbit
Anne of Green Gables
Seven Alone
Somewhere in Time (if you can find it)
The Love Letter-the movie is by Hallmark (if you can find it in a book It would be awesome. Good story.
Any Harry Potter book if you like that kind of stuff
The Victors (Great history book if you can stand it)
The Secret lives of Marlyn Monroe
Ten Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know
(If you are male you can still benifit from reading this)
Freakenomics
Fast Food Nation (Be careful, this book may make you want to stay away from fast food since it is graphic-but you may like the tiny details!)
Who wrote the Bible Code by Randall Ingermanson PhD.
One Flew Over the KooKoo's Nest. (Sad story)
If you want to read something really interesting read
Karl Marx's "The Communist Manefesto".
If you like Animal Farm look for books about politics.
If you like the Davinci Code-look for books on History or Bible History.
I read primary non-fiction due to college reading text books and I find that business books (non-text books) are very interesting to me.
Since you didn't let us know if you are male or female, I can't really lead you in the right derection. (Girls usually like romance novels...)
Do you like reading about animals? Look for books about them.
Hope this helped
2007-01-07 23:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by Beth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal favorites run to Terry Pratchett's humorous fantasy series of Discworld. No need to follow the volumes sequentially, just grab a random book and read. Very funny and very intelligent.
And any compilation by Dave Barry, a former humor columnist for Miami Herald, is pretty entertaining.
You're pretty brainy, you say? Michael Crichton's thriller "next" might be your thing. I jsut finished it, very hard to put down.
2007-01-07 22:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by jont 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like books by George Sand, the French author
anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Guy de Maupassant
The Decameron by Boccaccio
anything by Emile Zola
2007-01-08 01:36:59 · answer #6 · answered by daryavaush 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has become my teenager's favorite book recently. One of my teenage nieces' favorite's is The Girl With the Pearl Earring. Glad to see you're reading a lot - keep it up and don't be afraid to read a little of everything!
2007-01-07 22:55:36 · answer #7 · answered by J m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How to survive a Robot uprising by Daniel H Wilson. Take a break from the serious stuff and enjoy this one.
Anything by Albert Camus is awesome.
William Burroughs.
Pablo Neruda.
These authors are amazing and any book by them is great.
2007-01-07 22:51:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three of my favorite books:
"1984" by George Orwell
"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
Enjoy your reading!
2007-01-07 22:52:07 · answer #9 · answered by lions_mc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer" by William Gibson alot. And "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving is a much better book than movie.
2007-01-07 22:59:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋