has anyone read a good book lately?

Question

I read books really fast i just finished my 3rd book this month, they were all 300 to 400 pages, i have a very high reading level, college, and i am in middle skool. so suggest good books!

Answer 1

It's not exactly the longest book on earth, but it does take a while to read. Plus this book is in small text so it just looks really thin.

The book is: FOR FREEDOM, By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

My friend said that the first chapter was so boring that she almost fell asleep, and it is a little slow on the action, but it gets so much better so please give it a chance!

Plus, this book is a Nutmeg Nominee, so it must be pretty good, huh?! It's about a famous girl, who lives and France during World War II. She helps fight against the Nazis by becoming a spy and sending messages all over the town without anybody knowing. She becomes a famous opera singer, so if you love acting or singing you'll love this book. It's historical yet not at the same time, so you could like either one and still like the book.

Also, Snow-Walker is pretty thick and entertaining.

Harry Potter books are HUGE if you haven't read all of them yet.

TTYL is good if you're interested in older topics.

Peaches is very interesting and action-packed.

Finally, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books are so good!! They all have realistic storylines. It's about friendship, love, fun, adventure.

I think that you could read all of these books in over a month or two. Have fun and I hope you enjoy these great books!

Answer 2

I'll tell you a book that I considered to be really disappointing: The Shipping News. It won a Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1993, which made me think, ah ha, it will be a great book. But I found the writing style of Annie Proulx to be so off-putting that I put it down after a few chapters and never really got into it...I've never read a book BECAUSE it was a Pulitzer winner, but usually those books get a great deal of attention and often amazingly-well written. (My favorite book ever is Lonesome Dove, which won the prize for lit in 1985) Some of my other favorite books are Pulitzer winners, too...John Updike's Rabbit at Rest and A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. Now, a secret confession: Some of my MOST favorite books are the Peanuts hardbacks that the late cartoonist Charles Schultz's wife Jeanne is printing, about four per year. Sometimes I sit at my desk and giggle away, which gets me some very strange looks from time-to-time! Every like needs a little Snoopy & Charlie Brown and Gang in it, methinks!

Answer 3

If you haven't already, read The Lord of the Rings (all three) and read The Hobbit and The Simarillion as well, all by J.R.R. Tolkien.

They are written at about a middle school level, so you might blow through them pretty quickly, but (again, if you haven't already) pick up Madeline L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time", "A Wind in the Door", "Many Waters", "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" and "An Acceptable Time." You should read the whole series; they're good.

Then pick up Stephen R. Lawhead. His series (two trilogies actually) on the Arthur legend is facinating. The books are: Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, Pendragon, Grail, and Avalon.

Also, you really shouldn't miss Mark Twain:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Happy Reading!

Answer 4

I don't consider myself a fast reader and I read about thirty to forty 450 to 600 page books a month. I enjoy reading, I don't read just to say I read a million books in twenty minutes. Reading should be enjoyed and I do it well. I read all of the classics; or what are considered the classics today and taught in college; before I was out of elementary school. Try reading SIGN OF THE CROSS by Chris Kuzneski. Or AMAZONIA by James Rollins or even either or both of these novels TEMPLE and THE SEVEN DEADLY WONDERS by Matthew Reilly. Or email me sometime and I will recommend other books that I found fascinating and enjoyable reads when I was a lot younger than I am now; and books that are still great reads today.

Answer 5

I just finished Brother Odd by Dean Koontz.It is the third book in his Odd Thomas series.Poor Odd has been through so much in the last couple of years. He lost Stormy, the love of his life, he's given up his job and his home to move into seclusion at a California mountainside monastery in hopes that his "gift" for seeing the dead won't be an issue up there. Instead he finds a poltergeist monk and evil spirits gathering around the young disabled children the monks (and nuns) care for. Odd knows that trouble is coming, and as usual he's the only one to recognize it.Can Odd mitigate the coming cataclysm? Of course he can, despite the arrival of murderous bone creatures and grim Death itself, for the monks include quite a contingent of reformed martial sinners, most memorably Brother Knuckles, formerly of the New Jersey Mob, and another guest, a mysterious Russian librarian from Indianapolis, who is more and different than Odd thinks he is.

Answer 6

The Revelation of John: A Spiritual Novel

Answer 7

You might like Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (try the translation by Tina Nunnally rather than Charles Archer, it's much more readable.) Its a three-part story (Part I: The Wreath, Part II: The Wife, Part III: The Cross) about a headstrong Norwegian girl in the middle ages. Her father wants her to marry one person, but she falls in love with someone else. She gets her way, but there are consequences. Undset won the Nobel prize for literature.

Answer 8

These are some of the books I've read this past week:

Shug by Jenny Han
Brand X the Boyfriend Account by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Returnable Girl by Pamela Lowell
It's Kind of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Storm Thief by Chris Wooding
Markus +Diana by Klaus Hagerup

As far as recommendations for you...
Book Thief by Markus Zusak (long and intense)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson (also very long) I typically don't recommend Octavian, but it looks like you like a challenge so it may be just right for you.

Other books...
Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies, Pretties, Specials)
Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (the first two in a series)

Answer 9

I'd suggest the book Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman. It has a nice twist at the end and I'm in middle school too so I think you might enjoy it.

Answer 10

The Legend of Nightfall and The Return of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reichert

Books by Andre Norton

Guy Gavriel Kay's novels. He sorta writes similar to Tolkien