any favorites?
2007-02-13 13:29:20 · 23 answers · asked by Dana 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Phantom of the Opera by Leroux. I read that book when I was fifteen, and it became my favorite book instantly. I'm eighteen now, and have read many books since then, but that one still remains my all time favorite! It's romantic, dark, tragic, suspenseful, everything! It's a must read.
2007-02-13 14:39:03 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath--Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men--Steinbeck
East of Eden--Steinbeck
The Red Pony--Steinbeck
The Pearl--Steinbeck
War and Peace--Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment--Dostoevsty?
Pride and Prejudice--Austen
The Catcher in the Rye--Salinger
The Time Machine
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The First Men in the Moon
The War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tale of Two Cities
Ulyssess
Catch-22
The Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Treasure Island
Dracula
Frankenstein
Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
Don Quixote
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
The Three Musketeers
The Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Nicholas Nickelby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Last of the Mohicans
Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
Sense and Sensibility
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Slaughterhouse V
2007-02-13 13:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by Lucifer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Little Women
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Kirsten Lavransdottir
Little House on the Prairie
Sounder
Old Yeller
Doug Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Confessions, by Augustine
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
All Creatures Great & Small, by James Herriot
All Things Wise & Wonderful, James Herriot
All is Quiet on the Western Front, by Sinkewicz
The Diary of Anne Frank
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Robe
The Chalice
The Diaries of Lewis & Clark
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, by Cicero
Any work of Shakespeare
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
I have just pulled these out of my memory, as I sit and type. You could choose from any or all of these. Read them in whatever order you see fit. These are some of what I read when I was a teen, and even in middle school. There are also comic book versions of some of these.
2007-02-21 12:55:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis -
*If these books are read once as a child, once as a teen, and again as an adult, the reader will each time discover a familiar sense of wonder and a new depth of insight.
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
*A good read not only for girls, but for boys who do not understand girls :)
How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler
*I wish someone had introduced me to this book BEFORE I went to college. I did not discover it until grad school. It is great.
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
*A profound picture of the impact of grace imparted to an ordinary man through a simple act of kindness.
The Republic - Plato
*Much of our nation's government structure is founded on the ideas of Plato. The chief concern in this book is the answer to the question "What is justice?"
The Princess Bride - S. Morgenstern
*Okay, so being only thirty-ish years old, technically it is not a classic. However, the themes contained in it are. It's a good read.
2007-02-21 10:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by JaneA24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moby Dick
Little Women
Last of the Mohicans
Edgar Allen Poe works
Jules Vernes books
Michael Creighton's works
H.G.Wells works (Time Machine and Earth to Moon)
Lord of the Flies...classic and thought provoking
The Hobbit! A cult favorite
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy ...boring unless the Hobbit intrigues you
One Flew over the Cukoo's Nest
Tom Clancy books
Da Vinci Code for older teens
2007-02-13 13:41:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll branch out from "classic" classics:
Madeleine L'Engle: Wrinkle in Time
Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
Robin McKinley: Beauty
Garth Nix: Sabriel
The problem with those older classics is only that teen readers sometimes lack the patience to tackle the unfamiliar language, and the stories aren't always as compelling as our "immediate gratification" world. That being said, I still loved Jack London.
2007-02-13 13:38:52 · answer #6 · answered by sherrilyn1999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Moby Dick
Little Women
Treasure Island
Jules Verne's books
Jane Eyre
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Sherlock Holmes
The Great Gatsby
etc
I think those titles would suitable teens.
:)
2007-02-13 15:16:04 · answer #7 · answered by ira a 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Treasure Island
No Promises in the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Girl of the Limberlost
Christy
The Diary of Anne Frank
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Farenheight 451
The Hobbit
2007-02-14 02:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Outsiders
Briar Rose
The Catcher in the Rye
Girl, Interrupted
Watership Down
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Giver
Any of the Harry Potter books
Little Women
The Wooden Sea
James and the Giant Peach (a lot of people see this story as strictly children's, but Roald Dahl was quite a strange man and his stories are good for anyone. I didn't read this until I was a young adult, and it's one of my favorites.)
2007-02-13 15:55:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catcher in the Rye
To kill a Mockingbird
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Flies
Five People you Meet in Heaven (or any other Mitch Albom books)
2007-02-13 13:35:24 · answer #10 · answered by Karen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋