Anything to do with history. I like contoversial stuff on religion, government issues, christianity, science, astology, anything!! Please give me some suggestions on some material that I may have overlooked or haven't come across.
2007-02-18 11:36:32 · 5 answers · asked by Deadboy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Dianetics by L Ron Hubbard.
2007-02-18 12:56:40 · answer #1 · answered by Candi Apples 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
These are some of the best historical fiction I have read:
Matthew Pearl's "The Dante Club" and "The Poe Shadow"
Tracy Chevalier's "Girl With a Pearl Earring"
If you want some controversial stuff, check out:
Politics (Utopias/Dysutopais)-
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Does This School Have Capital Punishment by Nat Hentoff
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Censorship-
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff
Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky
Discrimination (Racism, Anti-semitism, etc.)-
The War Between the Classes by Gloria D. Miklowitz
The Wave by Todd Strasser
Prank by Kathryn Lasky
Pageant by Kathryn Lasky
Blood Secret by Kathryn Lasky (historical fiction)
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky (historical fiction)
The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner (historical fiction)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (historical fiction)
2007-02-19 09:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Locket by Evans
Christy by Catherine Marshall
The Great Divide by T.Davis Bunn ( I haven't read it yet, but plan too. I heard it's a great suspenseful legal novel)
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
2007-02-18 19:46:46 · answer #3 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I, too like those topics. I love history. Some interesting topics may include: the covering up of the female pope(saw it on the tv), why humans evolved with no tail, and the Mayan calendar(I think it ends soon.)
2007-02-18 19:53:28 · answer #4 · answered by sara_p_14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dan brown books
2007-02-18 19:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Kelso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋