Hi! I'm 14 & currently in High School. i love reading books. any suggestions of great books. i don't like fantasies. nor mysteries. THANKS
2007-01-31 10:40:16 · 19 answers · asked by kristy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hmm...David Copperfield books are really good (and classics) try RL Stine or the classic authors just go to the library and thumb along the books till something peaks your interest
2007-02-06 08:35:31 · answer #1 · answered by Fallon V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
East of Eden-John Steinbeck
If you're a historical fiction or romance buff Phillipa Gregory books are great.
Les Miserables: Victor Hugo
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
If You Like Older oriented books
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov or
Catcher in the Rye
A Separate Peace
East, West or the Satanic Verses: Salman Rushdie
Little Women
Jane Eyre
His Dark Materials (but it is fantasy)
James Patterson has some good books
The Stand
Gone With the Wind
The Thirteenth Tale
A Million Little Pieces
2007-01-31 19:35:48 · answer #2 · answered by Spoof 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though even I'm a 13-year old, I wonder how U don't like fiction. Anyways U can try the following best-selling classics
Hamlet
The Alchemist
The Merchant of Venice
David Copperfield
The Black Beauty
Christmas Carol
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
A Tale of 2 cities
The Wind in the Willows
Pride and Prejuidice
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Huckleberry Fin
2007-02-07 08:55:14 · answer #3 · answered by Shriya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Room of My Own
Little Women
A Gown of Spanish Lace
Of Mice and Men
Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood
Izzy, Willy, Nilly
The Face on the Milk Carton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Girl of the Limberlost
No Promises in the Wind
2007-01-31 18:59:33 · answer #4 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev
Both deal with 1996 Mount Everest disaster from different views.
2007-02-07 22:52:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recommend reading anything and everything by Sarah Dessen. My favorite is The Truth About Forever. Just Listen is her most recent book. All are good.
Joan Bauer is another favorite author of mine. Hope Was Here is my favorite...and Squashed is my second favorite.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
2007-01-31 19:12:17 · answer #6 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the English teachers at your school for a list of books they draw from and then ask for suggestions from them that compliment those lists.
You might also want to consider starting with a standard canon of literature so that you will be prepared to understand the nuances and references in more modern work.
2007-02-07 22:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by sarajschryver 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone To Love Me by Anne Schraff a Bluford high series
2007-01-31 18:48:56 · answer #8 · answered by soup 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pride and prejudice by jane Austin
Morning glory by lavyrle Spencer
toy soldiers by William p Kennedy
Not without my daughter by Betty mahmoody
2007-02-08 07:30:41 · answer #9 · answered by coolstar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
2007-02-07 17:30:14 · answer #10 · answered by Optimistic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋