I am looking for a good book that is realistic fiction or nonfiction, but not historical. I really like books that take place in cities, like NYC, and I like a lot of genres. It doesn't have to take place in a city, but if you know of any good books that I might like, please recomend them. Also, I'm a teenager, so any book from adult-teen is ok. I've already read the catcher in the rye, too.
2007-03-25 02:37:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
the catcher in the rye, by salinger
2007-03-25 02:40:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fight Club is a good one. It's better than the movie, and it's not the most outrageous of Chuck Palahniuk's books. (I own all except one.) His other novels are all might be a bit too harsh or sick for ya, if you're looking to limit just how bad they get, so I'd say stay away from his other novels until you think you can handle them.
His nonfiction is also great, and I'd definitely recommend his non-fic Stranger than Fiction. Incredible read.
Other than that, it depends on what style of writing you want to stay within. If you don't like science fiction/fantasy, that's fine since most of it is crap. If you do like science fiction, try out Arthur C. Clarke's books, most of them are great. (He wrote 2001:A Space Odyssey.) I'd say Childhood's End is a great one. I'd say that The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury is also a great one to check out as well.
The Lord of the Rings books are outstanding, why else would they make movies from them? Also, a great deal of Lord of the Rings was taken from British mythology by JRR Tolkien.
Anything by Mark Twain is a guaranteed good read. Everyone ends up reading Huck Finn in high school, but his short stories and non-fiction (ie Innocents Abroad, Roughing it, Travels on the Mississippi) are also incredible. Pudd'nhead Wilson is one of his best novels, and one of my favorites of all time is his short novel, The Mysterious Stranger. Be Warned: Stranger is perhaps the darkest things he ever wrote, so without a good sense of humor and the intelligence to handle some pretty bleak outlooks on the world, humanity, etc, it may be more than some can handle, and I even include many adults in on that one. Extremely cynical. Mark Twain obviously will be a bit on the historical side, but all literature/fiction is, in the end, an account of what is going on at that time and place in the world. You almost can't escape it, if you can read between the lines.
Stay away from Tom Clancy. His work is crap.
The Dark Tower Series by Steven King are incredible. The first and fourth (I'm partly through five) books are by far my favorite, and once they get their hooks in ya, it's near impossible to get them out. His best work, bar none.
I could put volumes more of suggestions in here, but finding out for yourself is far better, anyway.
BTW Catcher in the Rye is a great one. Really good stuff, except maybe for the fact that it inspired Mark David Chapman to kill John Lennon. (That and he was insane.)
2007-03-25 10:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by Prop Forward 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave
2007-03-25 09:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask a librarian! Here's a list from YALSA (Young Adult Library Service Association) for 2007.
(Also, I like the book, Tyrell by Coe Booth. Here's a bit of a review from Booklist: "*Starred Review* "You don't hardly get to have no kinda childhood in the hood." At 15, Tyrell is trying to keep his little brother in school and safe in their roach-infested shelter in the Bronx. He has dropped out of school, and Moms wants him to sell drugs to make money. But Tyrell is too smart. He doesn't want to end up in prison like his dad, so he tries to organize a neighborhood party to raise money. His girlfriend, Novisha, isn't happy that Tyrell has dropped out. She loves him, and they make out, but he respects her wish to remain a virgin. Booth, who was born and raised in the Bronx, is now a social worker there, and her first novel is heartbreakingly realistic.")
2007-03-26 11:04:48 · answer #4 · answered by Liberry-Lady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh...kinda vague question but...anything by Douglas Coupland. a biography on a hero or someone you're interested in. Michael Chabon. wow thats so vague a question. fiction or non (which means anything). I like cities but it doesn't have to take place in a city (which means anything). I work in a book store & you people frustrate me!
2007-03-25 09:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by Merk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any book by Janet Daily is fantastic, especially THE CALDER SERIES. She write romantic fiction.
2007-03-25 09:44:37 · answer #6 · answered by Ladybug II 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love to read, and i am a teen........ read My Sisters Keeper by Judy Piccoult (sp?) and it is really good. but I mostly read Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, and things of that nature : ) hope i helped!
2007-03-25 09:47:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chronicles of the vampires by anne rice
eragon by christopher paolini
hari kunzru - transmission (you gotta read this book!)
2007-03-25 16:03:38 · answer #8 · answered by kuka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A Scanner Darkly". Then again some
people wouldn't like the theme.
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2007-03-25 09:42:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try my book, you may enjoy it. It is about, love, magic, time travel and history.
2007-03-25 13:40:50 · answer #10 · answered by twentyeight7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋