I love to read but don't know what I should read next! I'm in my teens but have a pretty high reading level. I love classics, fantasy, am a HUGE Harry Potter fan, and any historical fiction. Any suggestions are welcome!
2007-03-18 13:52:30 · 19 answers · asked by holly golightly 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Brave New World by aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
any book by Dan Brown
The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
all the books by Tolkien
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Romeo and Juliet
Antigone
Caesar
A collection of poems and short stories by Edgar Allen Poe
There are many more to mention and many of which that I cannot think. Talk to your school librarian. He or she may be able to help you. Delve into something you may have never heard of before. Broaden your horizons and find something that is obscure and that provokes thought. Things by Albert Camus and Franz Kafka may help with that, though you may end up feeling slightly lost afterwards. (Don't worry, we all do with some books.) Read what comes to mind and what you want to. Don't let someone else choose your reading list for you. Your teachers do enough of that during high school and college.
2007-03-18 14:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by Artemis 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For historical (war) fiction, try Bernard Cornwell. He has a few serries one of which should hit a time period you enjoy reading about. Sharpe is his best known character, who fights for the British during the Napoleonic Wars; but he has other series set in the U.S. Civil War, The Hundred Years War and a very good adaptation of King Arthur ("The Winter King" series).
Douglas Preston's "The Codex" is a good adventure. The plot revolves around the Broadbent boys as they search for their father, a former tomb robber, who has decided to take his wealth and be burried with it. If they want an inheritance, the must track their father deep into the wilds of South America. The follow up "Tyranasaur Canyon" is also very good.
For something a little more fun, try Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum stories. The first book in the series, "One For The Money" is a lot darker and more serious than the rest of the series. Another good book by her is "Metro Girl."
2007-03-18 21:16:36 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Room of My Own by Ann Tatlock
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
The Joy Luck Club by Tan
The FAce on the Milk Carton by Cooney
The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Gilman
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Marley and Me by Grogan
A Dog's Life by Mayle
Girl of the Limberlost by Porter
The Shunning by Lewis
The Hobbit by Tolkien
2007-03-19 11:10:12 · answer #3 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Separate Peace, Da Vinci Code, 1984
2007-03-18 21:06:39 · answer #4 · answered by Cmr10372 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest Too Heavy a Load by Dehorah Cray White...very intersting book and it is a historical book
2007-03-18 21:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by Dr.Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well I'm not a very big reader myself, but I do like a few. so here they are.
The catcher and the Rye (a classic and a great story)
I am also a fan of the book "the woods out back" (fantasy)
those are my suggestions and I hope they help.
2007-03-18 21:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by psych_creations 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hobbit if you haven't read it yet.
Robert Jordan's wheel of time series is a great fantasy series. May take you a while though.
Eragorn is a fun easier book.
The dragonriders of pern by Anne McCaffrey are the next on my to read list.
2007-03-18 21:04:36 · answer #7 · answered by ToSunnyMexico 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you like really good fantasy, I would suggest The Belgariad, Eragon, anything by Anne Mccaffery, The Lord of the Rings, and any other small fantasy series you will can find at your library.
2007-03-18 21:00:58 · answer #8 · answered by Mat 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Siddhartha, the entire Sword of Truth Series, and Great Gatsby!
2007-03-18 21:00:14 · answer #9 · answered by Jai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a great and terrible beauty by libba bray. it is historical and has some magical related stuff intertwined with the plot. very fast moving and entrancing. i couldn't put it down. it is part of a series.
or twilight by stephanie meyer. it is also part of a series, they are planning to make a movie of it. amazing! about a vampire falling in love with a regular girl. very sweet and not scary one bit.
these are two of my favorite series ever! enjoy!
2007-03-18 22:07:48 · answer #10 · answered by j c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋