I am 16 years old
2007-01-21 15:09:17 · 17 answers · asked by Nicole 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Go get a library card and ask the librarian to help you select quality reading material.
2007-01-21 15:12:21 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas K 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Here are some of my favorite books:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Goldenrod by Herbert Harker
Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly
2007-01-21 23:28:13 · answer #2 · answered by Junebug 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 vols, paper) are high on my list, but too heavy for a 16-year-old. So I'll recommend Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale, and you can find out how the world got populated with the species existing today.
2007-01-21 23:42:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 20 years old and I have loved reading/re-reading harry potter since I was your age. It's too great and jkrowling is a fantastic writer. more recently I read the first two books in the inkheart trilogy (the third book is set to come out soon i think). I also read an awesome trilogy last month by scott westerfeld- uglies, pretties, and specials. i don't consider myself a fan of that type of book- in the future/big brother kind of situation but it was really fun, I read each book in a day. another book that has been getting a lot of attention recently even though it's been out forever is ender's game. a lot of high schools are adding it to their required reading. it is also sci-fi but my bf talked me into reading it and it was amazing. the character development in that book is insane. i'm also a bit of a hobbit/lotr nerd but i guess you could argue that those books are sort of religious.
2007-01-21 23:15:18 · answer #4 · answered by infomonger 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like to read novels that shed some light on an event in history. This way I learn about the world, cultures, etc.. but they don't feel like text books. It's also refreshing to see that people all over the world experience the same things I do.
Examples: "We regret to inform you that tomorrow we will be Killed with our families" and "Sunday at the pool in Kigali": Both of those books are about the genocide in Rwanda.
"The spirit catches you and you fall down": This tells you about the hmong people-- but really a particular families fight with an epileptic child and their experience in the us.
"Stolen Lives"- a story about a Persian family jailed for 20 yrs.
2007-01-21 23:15:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Harriot
This has to be one of my favorite books, written by a country veterinarian from Yorkshire, England. The book is a compilation of anecdotes from his practice. It's both hilarious and inspiring at the same time. Seriously, if you could only read one book in your entire life, it would be this one.
2007-01-21 23:13:37 · answer #6 · answered by Daniel A: Zionist Pig 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a 40 year old and I fully enjoy reading the Harry Potter series. Every one knows what the books are about and that there are 7 in the series.
2007-01-21 23:13:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cats Cradle by Kurt Vongut jr. (I think I spelled his name right.) He also wrote Breakfast of Champions, Animal Farm, Slaughter House 5.
Cat's Cradle combines suspence, comedy, action and its about the end of the world in a non-religous way.
also The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon... once again its about the End of the World.
2007-01-21 23:17:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I loved Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. They are classics and have great twists in the storyline. Charles Dickens' Tale of Two cities is great also. I hate to say this b/c of the lasted hype and I HATE fads but J.R.R. Tolkein's stuff is great, childhood favorites. I never got around to it but the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis are good.
2007-01-21 23:16:19 · answer #9 · answered by kittymimm 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any of the classics will be good (that's why they've lasted for o long). For instance, "Don Quijote" is very entertaining, or any by Jules Verne or Johnathan Swift. Or closer to our time: John Steinbeck or Patrick Suskind
2007-01-21 23:14:14 · answer #10 · answered by although71 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A book that changed the way I think about a lot of things is "Braided Lives" by Marge Piercy. I read it when I was a senior in high school. She's a feminist writer, sort of a radical--- she really makes you think.
2007-01-21 23:12:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋