looking for a good book to read, any sugestions?

Question

im looking for a good book to read and i cant find any... im 14 almost 15, i like micheal chriton as an author.... i like mysteries,,not nacy drew, and science themed books like jurassic park and prey....

Answer 1

Any of Tolkien's. The Hobbitt is the first.

Answer 2

I know the feeling. I'm the same age and I've had the same problem. I resorted to reading All Quiet On the Western Front for my World History class. Its a book about WW1, and its AMAZINGLY well written. The Theif Lord, by Cornelia Funke, is a really good fantasy. The Big Empty series, J.B. Stephens, is great for a thriller. There are only four books in the series and read really quickly. There's Bloody Jack, by L.A. Meyer. Its kind of a typical book about a teenage girl that sneaks onto a ship in England during the 1800s, but you'll get hooked. There are four books so far, with more coming out in the future. And Stargirl, by Jerri Spinelli, is good. As well as Holes by Louis Schar, and Hoot, by Carl Hiassen.

Answer 3

Well i always suggest these books to everyone: The Inheritance Trilogy By:Christopher Paoini, The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, The series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket, and finally Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte(this is more for 16 yrs old). Well hope i helped.

Answer 4

I just told someone else here to read Madeline L'Engle, and I'm telling the same to you. It's about a family - mom is a scientist, dad is a physicist. Some of the kids travel through time. It's a brilliant YA novel. It won a Newbury award, I think, in the '60s. And there are follow-up books. A series is great if you loved the first one. Thinking about them makes me want to read them again, and I'm twice your age.

Answer 5

Dan Brown, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown ) the author of the DaVinci Code, has written a few novels all loosely based on science and history that I think might be just what you are looking for.

Otherwise, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and The Giver by Lois Lowry are classic young adult novels you may enjoy.

Answer 6

The Carpetbaggers by Ernest Hemmingway. Awesome read.

Answer 7

I would like to recommend The door to december by Dean Koontz.But I think it is a bit too dark for your age.I'll give the plot here.

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.

Read Odd thomas,Forever odd and Brother Odd by Dean Koontz.These books are about Odd Thomas who see dead people and is compelled to solve crimes.

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.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad past.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Answer 8

Sounds like you like a variety of reading. I think you would really like Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This book is satire/sci-fi and is written by a man who is considered one of the best American authors of all time.

I read this book during college and was instantley hooked on Vonnegut.

Answer 9

Okay, this may not be exactly up your alley, but then again, I thought it wasn't up mine. I would suggest My Sister's Keeper by: Jodi Picoult. That book is so good, I have read it almost three times. It is a tear-jerker, but sooo good. You can take my advice or not, but this is a good one.

Answer 10

read steve martin's the pleasure of my company. not many people know about it but it is by far the best book ive ever read. you might need to order it from the library theres a high chance that they don't carry it