Good books for 15 yr old?

Question

I'm 15 and have run out of good books to read. I like historical fiction and mystery novels. I've enjoyed books such as Among the Hidden series and Running out of Time.

Any good suggestions for my next read?

if you have some time, please also give me a short description of the book

thanx

Answer 1

I love historical fiction to. There is a 3 book series called the "Supreme Gladiatrix" by Frances Hendry. It is set in ancient Rome and is basically about a irish girl who is brought up in Rome and she eventually becomes a female gladiator. It's really good series because it gives a great look into the Gladiators and ancient rome and ireland in general.
Another good book is "Mary, Bloody Mary" by Carolyn Meyer. It tells the story of King Henry the 8th from the view of his daughter from his first wife (Catherine of Aragon), Mary.
I noticed someone mentioned "Gathering Blue". It's not really in one of the genre you said you liked but it really good and I second the vote that you should read it.
"Angels and Deamons" by Dan Brown is a good mystery novel if you are in to that kind of thing (and its better than the "Da Vinci Code" which is also good if you haven't read it).
If you are a girl, then I also recommend "Twilight" and its sequels by Stephenie Meyer. They are just so *squee* inspiring. *sigh*

Hope that helps.

PS: I am so glad to see another teenager reading. Sometimes I feel like I am the only one. :D

Answer 2

Try some of the classics, which should take you into the past quite nicely. If they are translated, try the Penguin classics translations. The language is good and up to date.

A short list:
(1) Someone mentioned Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. This is set in France, from the times of Napoleon to the 1830s and deals with human struggles for existence in dignity in difficult times. One central character is the ex-convict Jena Valjean.
(2) Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I am an older person who read the book when I was about your age and have reread it a few more times during my lifetime. I see this as a great book, an absorbing and humorous story, which uses black humor to show up the folly of racism and the oppressive treatment of African Americans, when slaves were treated as property to be bought and sold, without consideration for family or anything else that is human.
(3) Alexander Dumas, Senior - The Three Musketeers series (17th century adventure; sequels are Twenty Years After and also a book about the Man in the Iron Mask).
(4) For your mysteries, read anything by Edgar Allen Poe, the inventor of the modern mystery story.
(5) If you haven't read them alredy, any of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes myseries.
(6) There is a new movie on the 300 Spartans who held the pass, and died, at Thermopylae. This used to be a story that everyone knew when they were in school (at least in Britain or Canada — I go back to the 1940s). I don't know where you find it — I first read it in a rewritten excerpt in a grade school reader. But I kind of think that it is in Herodotus. That suggests that you might try to read Greek myths and Greek and Roman writings, some of which are quite interesting, even gory. Again, there are good modern translations in Penguin editions. For example, Rex Warner on the myths; editions of Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey; and Vergil's Latin Aeneid. Ever since they stopped teaching them by rote at school, they have been left alone to be rediscovered and will interest some adventuresome readers.

I think if you sample around and find out what you like from some such list as this, your likes will grow wider and you will never have to wonder what book you are going to read next. And I'm so glad that you are a reader of good books!

Answer 3

I think you should read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

This book concerns the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of renowned curator Jacques Saunière (see Bérenger Saunière) of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the fact that Saunière's body is found in the Denon Wing of the Louvre naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentagram drawn on his stomach in his own blood. The interpretation of hidden messages inside Leonardo's famous works, (which relate to the concept of the Sacred feminine) including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, figure prominently in the solution to the mystery.

Answer 4

If you can understand the writing and the words, any book is a good book to read. Try anything by Matthew Reilly, James Rollins, Stuart Woods, J.A.Jance, Jack DuBrul, Clive Cussler, Ted Bell, Iris Johannsen, Tanya Huff, W.E.B. Griffon and son, Raymond Khoury, Chris Kuzneski, Dan Brown and so on. Just to get you started.

Answer 5

Like the flowing river by Paulo Coelho(Spiritual learning and asthetic value),Cat O' Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer,The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain,Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,Ulysses by James Joyce.

Answer 6

When I was growing up, I absolutely loved a book called The Island of the Blue Dolphins, which is based on a real person and real events. Its the story of a young Indian girl who is left completely alone on an island and she has to survive by making her own weapons to ward of wild animals, getting her own food etc. The descriptions of the sea and the island itself are so vividly beautiful. So good! : ) Another one similar is Call it Courage. Its a small book but it is one of the best books I have ever read. Its a story of a young boy who sets off on his own in a canoe across the ocean in order to prove to himself that he has courage and conquer his fear of the sea. Another book that I loved is The Sign of the Beaver. This is about a young boy is left alone to protect the log cabin that he and his father have made while his father goes to get the rest of his family. While going out one day he is attacked by a swarm of bees and he is rescued by an Indian man and his grandson. And one more book that was sooooooo good was called the Witch of Blackbird pond, a story of a rich young woman who comes to a Puritan community because she has no where else to go. She is looked down on by them because of her stubborness and free ideas. She makes friends with the quaker woman who lives out by herself and who the Puritans think is a witch. Hope this helps : )

Answer 7

hmm well I am very partial to fantasy but I;ve read some books that everyone should read.
Have you read "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue" and "The Messenger"? (read them in that order) They are really good and a bit more fantasy-ish i guess but not fantasy oriented really. Hmmm...... This is a little weird but my english class read "Les Miserables" and it was really good (although my book had poor abridgement). You may like that.
Umm...Hope I could help! I'm glad to see some people still read!

Answer 8

King Fortis the Brave!

Answer 9

well, isn't running out of time written by that gail levine lady? maybe i mispelled her name, but anyways. read her other books, they're good! there was something called "escape from memory" i liked that one.

other good authors:
stephanie meyer (i LOVE her books!)
lois lowry
forgot the name but the lady who wrote the gossip girl series?

Answer 10

Twilight and New Moon by stephenie meyer. There great.