Books to read??

Question

Im 16 and i want to know if theres any suggestions on books that i should read or books that is interesting. Im really into mystery and i dont mind reading really long books lol
Thanks

Answer 1

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.Each novel in the series is told from the fictional perspective of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden (named by his father after Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and David Copperfield). Dresden is the only professional wizard in modern-day Chicago (he is in the phone book, under "Wizards").In the world of The Dresden Files, magic is real, along with vampires, demons, spirits, faeries, werewolves, and more. The general public that Harry Dresden works to protect does not believe in magic or the large array of dark forces which regularly conspire against them. This makes it tough for Harry to get by as a working wizard and private eye.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

Rebecca Paisley-A basket of wishes.
Its about a fairy Splendour who is ordered to marry a human( a duke).The poor hero is confused by the woman who will shrink if not kissed regularly,drinks apricot face lotion.On top of that he is harassed by splendour's sister who even turns him into a snail.His cousin Emil thinks that Splendour is exactly what the doctor ordered for the staid ,boring Jordan.

Mercedes Lackey's Take a Thief is the tale of Skif, a young orphan reminiscent of Oliver Twist, making his way in the knock-and-tumble neighborhood between two of Haven's outermost walls. Skif is intelligent, good-hearted and creative enough to forage up three meals a day in a place where food is scarce and kindness almost unheard of. After a chain of events leave him homeless, Skif lands in the lair of Bazie, an Faginish ex-mercenary who trains thieves...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.

Dragonjousters book series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. That is only the beginning.The rest of the books are about how he gets a dragon of his own,his escape to Alta,how the war between the two kingdoms is stopped etc.

The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.


Brother Odd by Dean Koontz is the third book in his Odd Thomas series. Poor Odd has been through so much in the last couple of years. He lost Stormy, the love of his life, he's given up his job and his home to move into seclusion at a California mountainside monastery in hopes that his "gift" for seeing the dead won't be an issue up there. Instead he finds a poltergeist monk and evil spirits gathering around the young disabled children the monks (and nuns) care for. Odd knows that trouble is coming, and as usual he's the only one to recognize it.Can Odd mitigate the coming cataclysm? Of course he can, despite the arrival of murderous bone creatures and grim Death itself, for the monks include quite a contingent of reformed martial sinners, most memorably Brother Knuckles, formerly of the New Jersey Mob, and another guest, a mysterious Russian librarian from Indianapolis, who is more and different than Odd thinks he is.

Answer 2

General Fiction:

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Steppenwolf, Siddartha, Demian & Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises & The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway
East of Eden, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday & The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Call of the Wild, White Fang & The Sea Wolf - Jack London
Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow
The Lost Weekend - Charles Jackson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguru
The Bonfire of the Vanities & A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Vanity of Duluoz, Big Sur, & Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Burden of Proof & Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow

Science Fiction:

Methuselah's Children, Time Enough For Love, The Door Into Summer, Stranger In a Strange Land, Farnham's Freehold, Orphans of the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein
To Open the Sky, Up the Line, To Live Again, Dying Inside, Tower of Glass, Hawksbill Station, The Book of Skulls, The Stochastic Man - Robert Silverberg
Moon Children - Jack Williamson
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Time After Time - Jack Finney
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, & Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Coma & Outbreak - Robin Cook
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
The First Immortal - James L. Halperin

Mysteries & detective stories by the following authors: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Joseph Wambaugh, Archer Mayor, Philip R. Craig & Kinky Friedman

Non-Fiction:

Life On the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac
Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac - Gerald Nicosia
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 - Jim Lovell
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test & The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
America Alone - Mark Steyn
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
Marley and Me - John Grogan
Bias - Bernard Goldberg
The Immortalist - Alan Harrington
Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond - Michio Kaku
The Singularity is Near & Fantastic Voyage - Ray Kurzweil

Answer 3

Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
Black Taxi by James Moloney
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
I'd Tell you I Love you but then I'd have to Kill you by Allie Carter
Mary Higgins Clark are good mystery books
Tamora Pierce books aren't exactly mysteries but are really good books
The Inkheart books by Cornelia Funke
The Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini
Those are all very good books! I've enjoyed all of them, I hope you will too!

Answer 4

A Gown of Spanish Lace by Oke
A Room of My Own by Tatlock
Girl of the Limberlost by Porter
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
The Face on the Milk Carton by Cooney
The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Gilman
The Locket by Evans
A Walk to Remember by Sparks
Christy by Marshall
A Long Way from Chicago by Peck
No Promises in the Wind by Hunt

Answer 5

Authors I'd suggest are Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardner, Carlene Thompson, etc. You might also look into Yahoo Groups that discuss mystery books to get other ideas.

Answer 6

I love mystery books. One of my favorite series is by Anne George. She has a series out with the "Southern Sisters" as the main characters. The books are also funny and keep you trying to figure out who did it. They aren't too long and are a fast read.

Answer 7

Check out:
The Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale (excellent books!)
Gone with the Wind
Any books by Mary Higgins Clark
Any books by Sarah Dessen
I'd tell you I love you but then I'd have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Inkhear and Inkspell by Funke

These are all really good books. Hope these help!

Answer 8

Meggin Cabot is good. She has a mystery series set in a college.
This is a link to see what books she has.
You may be a bit old for them but they are the loveliest, sweetest books that I still love (I am 32 years old)- the Ann of Green Gables series.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-0187479-3484812?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=meg+cabot

Answer 9

If you like controversy read books by Anne Rice, also read Impulse, and Burned by Ellen Hopkins. There is also Twilight and New Moon by Estepheny Meyers.

Answer 10

Anything by Marian Keyes is brilliant for girls, she has an awesome sense of humour. My favourite books by her are Rachel's Holiday and Last Chance Saloon. Although they aren't mystery, I guarantee you will be hooked once you start reading.

Answer 11

She's a bit out of date but Victoria Holt is fantastic and mystery/suspense. Most libraries carry her books but I've never seen them in a bookstore.