I need a good book to read....?

Question

i don't really care for mystery, magical/mythical books, scifi, modern books, religious, and political. I'm in 9th grade in honors classes...my boyfriend said that he has to read to get to sleep so i want to try it but i have no books to read. I really like time period books. the only mythical book i have read was: a great and terrible beauty. please help

please tell me what type of book it is and the basic plot of the story is.

Answer 1

I'm going to second the Philippa Gregory suggestion. When you mentioned time period, it made me think of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin Queen. I need to check out a few more of this type. I read others by her (Wideacre trilogy), but I think the historical fiction is much better. This is British royalty a few hundred years back, and it wasn't pretty.

What about Alice Sebold's works? She wrote Lucky, a memoir, and The Lovely Bones. They are both sort of haunting, but very well written. Lucky details the author's rape as a college student and what happened to her after and through the courts; The Lovely Bones is about a young girl that is killedm and it's told from her perspective.

Lately I've been reading Alice Hoffman. I started with Green Angel (a quick read) and have progressed through others like Fortune's Daughter and Second Nature. She has an interesting style - the stories have been a bit odd, but generally I like them. Fortune's Daughter ties an older woman to a younger one that comes to her for just that, her fortune. But she sees something in the tea leaves and can't tell the girl the child she is carrying is going to die. Second Nature a woman takes home a man that was raised by wolves after he survives a plane crash. She teaches him and learns valuable lessons herself.

Answer 2

Some of those are from feminine views, a few could also be a little bit "girly lady" in your liking however others will have to be k. I've left each style on and you'll be able to come to a decision. Meryll of the Stone (Brian Caswell) Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay) Stranger with my face (Lois Duncan) Playing Beattie Bow (Ruth Parks) My Sister Sif (Ruth Parks) Hitch hikers advisor to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Holes (Louis Sachar) Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit Eragorn trilogy Narnia The Golden Compass Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice) Requiem for a Princess (Ruth M Arthur) Looking for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) Angels Gate (Gary Crew) Sisterhood of the Travelling 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 within the South; Poor Man's Orange; Missus (Trilogy by way of Ruth Parks) Where the Heart is (Billie Letts) My Place (Sally Morgan) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Rebecca (Daphne De Maurier) The three Muskateers (Alexandre Dumas) Anything by way of the Bronte sisters or Jane Austen Whatever you do don’t run The December Boys (Robert Noonan)

Answer 3

Try "Into The Wild" or "Into Thin Air" by Jon Kraukauer. They are both true stories. "Into The Wild" is about a young boy who leaves his home and wealth in search of "true experiences" and the mountains of Alaska - with absolutely nothing (money, car) to get there or help him. "Into Thin Air" involves the 1996 expidition on Mt. Everest. I am normally a fiction reader, but these are brilliant books I think everyone should read. Both are sad, however.

Have you read "Tom Sawyer" or "Huck Finn" yet? Mark Twain is terrific. Another you may enjoy is "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. It's about the government taking control of people's minds by burning books and only speaking their version of the truth. Excellent. Oh, and "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" by Betty Davis and "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers are wonderful as well.

Or, just go with "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. It's a period piece in and of itself. You'll laugh. You'll cry, if only when it ends, and even then only because it is over. An absolutely brilliant work of art.

Hope these help!

Answer 4

For a fun read, try the Janet Evanovich series that has Stephani Plum in them. Their is not a lot of thinking involved in reading them, but they are a great way to spend an evening. Basically the main character, Stephani Plum, is laid off from her job as a womens undergarment buyer, and she ends up working for her cousin Vinnie as a Bounty Hunter. She has no experience in law enforcement, and the situations she gets herself involved in will make you laugh out loud. I had a hard time putting any of those books down after I started it.

A deeper book to read is "I know this much is True" by Wally Lamb. It is a fantastic book!!! It is about one of a set of twins. The twin whose perspective you see in the book is the "sane" twin, while the other is mentally ill. The book focuses on their family, and how you heal your self.

"In this Sign" by Joanne Greenberg is not a new book. A Friend told me about it and I actually have read it twice. It is about a hearing child and her deaf parents.

Another great series to read are the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is part of this series. They are about a different world called Narnia, and the constant fight between good and evil.

Well, have fun reading!! :-)

Answer 5

I like anything by Philippa Gregory that has to do with the Tudor period. They are: Constant Princess-Katherine of Aragon(henry VIII first wife), The Queen's Fool-about a girl who can see some future events that will happen to the royal family during the Tudor period, The Other Boylen Girl-about Mary Boylen; Ann Boylen's sister, The Vigin's Lover-Elizabeth I's llife
The First Princess of Wales by Karen Harper is also really good!! is set during Medival time period
and also read Rebel Angels!!! it is AGATB's sequal.

Answer 6

For good time period reading, try Alexander Dumas--especially The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. the first is in the early 1600's and involves uncovering a plot by a cardinal to displace the king. The second is a man screwed over by supposed friends and how he gets revenge. Both are quite gripping--don't be intimidated by their lengths. And no movie version comes close to doing them justice either.

Answer 7

Have you read any books by Jane Austen? Even though she wrote in the late 18th and early 19th century, her novels are filled with interesting dialogue and wonderful characters. You might try Pride and Prejudice, a tale of a young women who judges a young man harshly only to find that he is actually the great love of her life. There's more to the book than that of course, but Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darnley are the main characters.

Answer 8

Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley. The story of the marines and Corpsman who raised the flag on Mt. Surabachi. Required reading for 9th graders in high school here. Plus an easy read and interesting how the government used these guys for the War Bond Drive.

Answer 9

I'm not sure what you mean by "modern books," but "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson is a very good realistic fiction book, set in approximately the present time (it is a few years old).

"Ophelia" by Lisa Klein is set in the time of the play "Hamlet" by Wm. Shakespeare.

There's a whole series of books called "Dear America" that are diary-like and set in many different periods in American history.

Cynthia Voight has also written some books that are set in the past or a past-like setting.

Hope this helps!

Answer 10

Hello. You should not limit your areas of exploration in literature. Some excellent messages and readings may be found in many diverse genres. Naturally, since you asked, I shall recommend a book I wrote called: The Learning of Melton Way. http://www.mtaonline.net/~fom
If you can not perceive things in that genre, then try this book that you shall find very interesting indeed: The Least of Prophecy - available at www.i-proclaim.com ..
The only other advice I have is that you begin writing yourself. Try a diary that you enter in before you go to sleep.