What is your favorite book...Any good recommendations of books for me to read?

Question

I am starting to read more books so I wanted to know What books do you recommend? Can u give me a little summary of them?

I am 17 years old and am mostly interested in fiction and romance I would say...or books with twists :)

Answer 1

What's your favorite genre?

Some good classics: Mutiny on the Bounty, about, obviously, a mutiny against a cruel captain. Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer, about some children in the Slavery-era South.

Some good sci-fi: The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.

Answer 2

Given I read so much, here is a decent booklist:

Chocolat – Joanne Harris (the gypsy was based on me)

Unusual Point of View:

Skepticism – Bo Fowler (main character is a supermarket trolley)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – J. Safran Foer (main character is a boy whose dad called from World Trade Centre and left an answer phone message)

British:

Hemmingway’s Chair – Michael Palin
Not the End of the World – Christopher Brookmyre
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Making History – Stephen Fry
Popcorn – Ben Elton

International:

The Ringmaster’s Daughter – Jostein Gaarder
Memoirs of a Geisha – Authur Golden

Well paced:

Jonathon Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach*
The Beach – Alex Garland
Life of Pi – Yarn Merkel
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway *
Flud – Hilary Mantel

Non Fiction:

Round Ireland with a Fridge – Tony Hawks
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
Playing the Moldavian’s at Tennis – Tony Hawks
Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby

Classics:

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll *
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Madame Bouvary – Gustave Flaubert
Gormenghast Trilogy – Mervin Peake
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

Humor:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1st three books in the trilogy) – Douglas Adams
A Book of Nonsense – Mervin Peake *

Detective:

Complicity – Iain Banks
Filth – Irvine Welsh
Inspector Rebus novels – Ian Rankin

* books that I read cover to cover without putting down

Source(s):

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Answer 3

My favorite book is Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, it's basically about a disinherited knight who is trying to regain his honor by fighting in a joust. Meanwhile, he is also trying to earn his Love's heart, but an evil Templar and another knight kidnapped Ivanhoe's love and a Jewess who is in love with Ivanhoe, but can never be with him because their different religions. It's a wonderfully written book and I highly recommend it, I've like read it seven time already! It's a pretty big book, it's four hundred fifty pages long (not including the author's notes). My second favorite is the Lord of the Rings series by J. R. Tolkien, you've probably already seen the movies, but I also recommend this series because there's a lot in the books that they didn't put in the movie, like Tom Bombadil and the romance between Eowyn and Faramir. So, if your not into the medieval ages, try Lord of the Rings.

Answer 4

H.R.H. by Danielle Steel- A princess has yearnings for more freedom and ends up going to Africa to help the Red Cross and falls in love with a doctor there. Complications ensue because the Doctor is not royalty.

Left Behind series- It is a series of 15 books including the three prequels that are centered around a group of those left behind after the Rapture that become Christians and fight the Anti-Christ

Answer 5

My Favorite books change but right now I would have to say The Kiterunner, about a boy and his best friend who grow up in Afghanistan...and Girl with a pearl earring which is a fictional story about the girl pictured in Vermeer's painting of the same name...
and you can't beat Harry Potter...everyone should read this, I think it appeals to everyone no matter what age, gender, etc.
Here are some other good ones:
The Lovely Bones
How to be Lost
The Memory Keepers daughter
The secret life of bees

Answer 6

John Connolly's Book of Lost Things if you like fantasy. Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind if you like fiction or Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses if you like fiction and you aren't a very strict Muslim. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre if you like something classic. Victor Hugo's Les Miserable if you have a lot of time on your hands (I've read the unabridged version, so I don't know what they've taken out on the abriged one). Rule of Four for mystery (I think one of the authors' names is Ian Caldwell, but it could be Campbell, I get confused). The King Alfred the Great series by Bernard Cornwell for historical fiction. Lian Hearn's Otori series (Across the Nightingale Floor is the first) also for historical fiction/fantasy type stuff. Go to Amazon.com for summaries of any of the above.

Answer 7

Nicholas Sparks - Author
Writes romance like Message in a Bottle and Notebook which are now movies. Once you start I promise you will have to finish, they are so heart touching. I just read one that was amazing. It's called " The Rescue", to be honest the summary on the back of the book sounds very corney but I promise the book isn't.

Piers Anthony - Author
Xanth Series
These are fantasy books. They are very funny. It is a fantasy world set in Xanth. They go on adventures like all fantasy books and they characters are all connected if you keep reading more books. It is humurous, they make fun of "our world" and call it mundania menaing boring. They use lots of puns as well if you like that kind of humor.

Sherman Alexie - Author
He writes books about Native American culture. One of his stories became the move Smoke Signals. He has books that are entire novels or are a bunch of short stories. "Lone Ranger and Tonto: Fist Fight in Heaven" is great!

I know lots more cultural books if you are interested in that, just email me.

Answer 8

I'd have to say The Mists Of Avalon. It's an extremely long book, and it's about life in this girl's world. In her religion she has to follow certain things. Cheating on her husband, lying to everyone, getting around. It's a really great book and I've read it twice. I also like The Stand by Stephen King, its about a disease that kills almost all of the world's population. Then the remaining members form a dark side and a light side and battle it out! I loved that book too!

Answer 9

If you are a teenage girl:

Any of the books by Sarah Dessen, specifically Someone Like You, This Lullaby, and The Truth About Forever

Romance/Love Stories: Authors:

Nicholas Sparks

Nora Roberts

Danielle Steel

Specific books- Message In A Bottle (A MUST READ!), THe Notebook, Chesepeake Blue, Fine Things, Changes, Once in a Lifetime

Fantasy:

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (MUST READS!)

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (MUST READS!)

HP Series by J.K. Rowling

Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini

The Seventh Tower Series by Garth Nix

Hero's Song and Fire Arrow by Edith Pattou

Other books that I really enjoyed:

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (A MUST READ!)

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (A MUST READ!)

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

East by Edith Pattou

Any of the books by Dan Brown, specifically Angels & Demons

If you want any further suggestions by genre or author or type or anything...Or even if you want to discuss contemporary books, feel free to click on my name and send me an email..! I'd be interested to hear your recommendations as well!!


Hope this helps!! :)

Answer 10

my favorite genre is historical fiction. My favorites are The Blue Bottle Club by Penelope Stokes, Christy by Catherine Marshall, The Shunning by Beverly Lewis, A Long Way From Chicago by Peck, No Promises in the Wind by Hunt, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, and Julie by Catherine Marshall.