Have any suggestions for a good book?

Question

I like realistic fiction. do NOT like scary books, or sci fi. or anything with vampires or a large amount of war or sports. i like girly easy reads ie shopoholic, the chliche, the alice series, LOVE caroline B cooney. any suggestions?

so i have had someone say to raise the bar. and i do read some higher level books...little women and the sequels, watership down, some dickens so my point is i am looking for a book to read on a plane that will move fast and that i can read with all the distractions in a plane and in an airport

ok so quick note...i am thirteen. so nothing to inapropriate!! yeah i know shopoholic not exactly age appropriate but i love that series!!

Answer 1

Yes!

Meg Cabot is a great author for teen girls! They are really funny and you can relate to them! I highly recommend hers! I like the same books you do actually! I read all of Meg Cabot's books. They are fab.

Alyson Noel- She wrote these books, "Art Geeks and Prom Queens", "Faking 19" and "Laguna Cove". These are GREAT BOOKS! Art Geeks and Prom Queens & Faking 19 are my favorites.

Art Geeks and Prom Queens is about a girl who moves to Cali and has to make new friends. She becomes friends with the popular crowd and they are really mean. She becomes really popular and incounters all of these problems. She also has friends who are art geeks and realized those were her real and true friends all along.

Faking 19 is about a girl who is flunking school and is really tired of her life and she gets a boyfriend who is way older than her and she pretends she is alot older than she really is. She incounters problems with her friends, school, and life outside of school! Great reads, :)

The "It Girl" is by the same author as "The Clique" books. The main character is older than the girls in the clique. So, in It Girl, this girl goes to a bording school and becomes really popular. I am still reading it so I can't sum it up any more. Lol.

These are my personal favs! I know a really great site that has book suggestions on it if you want that also. They have great books, :) Here is the link to it: www.freewebs.com/tinahakimbaba

Answer 2

Would you do historical fiction? You might like Philippa Gregory. Many of the books take place during Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. I liked The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. I'd like to check out others by her that have gotten some excellent reviews, like Katherine and The Boleyn Inheritance.

What about any of the mystery series out there? Part of the "cozy" mystery genre - books that are fun with a female on the case and wild titles. They are NOT serious murder/mysteries, although most of the time someone has died. I read Don of the Dead, the first of a new series with Pepper Martin as the protagonist. She works in a cemetary, giving tours, and hits her head. After that she can see and converse with spirits who, of course, have some mystery that needs to be solved. Some other series include titles like Permed to Death, a Bad Hair mystery, Charmed to Death, An Ophelia and Abby mystery, Poppy Done to Death, an Aurora Teagarden mystery and Manor of Death, a Domestic Bliss myster and Crime Scene, a Psychic Eye mystery. I sell books on-line and have had these come through. I know my mother reads a lot of these and thoroughly enjoys them. Crazy titles, fun books.

And I know you said no vampires, but I think the series by Mary Janice Davidson is part of this genre, too-with titles like Undead and Unwed and Undead and Unemployed. The protagonist is a former model who loves shoes, gets fired from her secretarial job and is killed in a car crash all on the same day, her birthday. She wakes up in a funeral home and finds she isn't quite dead. When I list them, they sell pretty quick.

Answer 3

I LOVE the alice books too. Meg Cabot is a great author for teen girls too. The Princess Diaries will do great. The movies are based on them but are different.American Girl is good too. For older readers there is Queen of Babble, all by meg.
Confessions of A Teen Nanny should work well too. Its basically about 2 teen girls babysitting for 2 separate rich families. There is also gossip, dating, and babysitting too.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books are also excellent. It's filled wiht love, happiness, life, and sadness.
However you should also start reading others like To Kill A Mockingbird, And Then There Were None, Pride and Prejudice and stuff. I read the Da Vinci Code this summer and it was great.
Good Luck! :D

Answer 4

Try the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. It does have vampires in it, but it's not horror, it's a romance novel. This girl named Bella moves to Washington and attends a new high school. There, she meets a GORGEOUS boy named Edward. She soon finds out that he's a vampire, but that they love each other. It's a story that just emphasizes what two people are willing to do to be able to stay together. It has absolutely no horror involving the vampires.

Answer 5

This is a classic novel, romantic theme, acclaimed
work. I thought it was on a high difficulty level
in terms of a literary work. I have read a lot
of classic works, and did well with most.
This novel, by William Styron, was recommended
to me by an English teacher who is also an
accomplished drama teacher. I got halfway
through "Sophie's Choice", because I just got
tired. His sentences go on forever. But you
might like it. Written in 1979.

Answer 6

Nicholas Sparks's books are always great.
The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and The Guardian are really good.

Answer 7

Try some Jane Austen. They're a little thick, but if you can make it through Dickens, Austen should be a snap. I recommend Pride and Prejudice especially.

Answer 8

David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
Born on a Blue Day - Daniel Tammet

Answer 9

Ok this is gonna sound weird, but oh well i would do a research kinda book on and this should be the name "Why Fat people order 7 Big Macs w/ A Diet Coke"Its one of the mysteries of the world

Answer 10

anything by Danielle Steel
anything by James Patterson
anything by Janette Oke
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo