book recommendations?

Question

im looking for books to read, im open to pretty much everything.

Answer 1

i don't know how old you are but if you like girrly teenage books Andus thongs and full frontal snogging is awesome Gossip girls is another fun one
theres always harry potter if you haven't alrerady read it
if you like weird books anything buy kurt vonoget or anthem by ayn rand
i also sugussest you rewad some shakespere commidies if you get the no fear shakespere from sparknotes it gives a modern english version of the whole play (12th night is a great one)
give a boy a gun is a great book about school shottings and it's a short book. if you like poitlics inherit the wind is a easy amd short play about separation of church and state

Answer 2

I don't know whether youre looking for a waste-of-time pulp fiction novel (like Stephen King) or something that's going to change your life (like Tolstoy).

My favorite book of all time is Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It incorporates elements of both of those ideas into it. It has a base storyline that is easy to follow, and yet underneath the text there is a serious matter that Golding chose to carefully weave into the fabric of it all.
If you read it in school and hated it, please read it again. It's always better the second time around.

In terms of a long read, I have to suggest Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. It's a very heavy novel (both physically and content-wise). But it's one that you can read and then have your friends read and I swear you will all be discussing the themes of it for the next year.

If you want something trippy and different, consider the Beat Generation: Tim Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction); William Borroughs (The Naked Lunch, Junkie); Jack Kerouac (On the Road). It's something entirely different from anything else you've ever read. The language can be confusing, but the point is not to understand the storyline but rather to get lost in the colorful imagery and imaginative ideas.
And if you want to go even deeper, I love who I like to call the original beat poet: James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake). He wrote in stream of consciousness, and I think everyone should read at least one of his works sometime in life.

For a good piece of American political allegory, I turn to Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It's really fun to point out all the parallels between that book and 20th Century American history.

And if you really want a piece of mindless pulp fiction, I recently read A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett. It's nice, like a tropical afternoon in the sands of the Caribbean. It's an easy read and a fun good time.

Answer 3

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Narrated by a 6 year old white girl. He dad's a lawyer & he's defending a black man who is charged for rape. This is taken back in the day. It's a great book.

Nathan McCall - Makes Me Wanna Holler
Biography. Man talks about how he entered life as a gangster. Then he talks about his experience while in prison & in the white man's world.

I'm making these books sound really boring & vague but they're awesome, trust me. These are the kind of books that get you thinking. They're not those low leveled reading books that repeat their own sentences either. It's just amazing, try reading it.

Answer 4

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and all of its sequels, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (technically a play, but hillarious), The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston. Those are all over the place as far as genres go, but all awesome.

Answer 5

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards; anything by Tracey Chevalier or Elisabeth Ashton. Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his own words. The Diary of Anne Frank

Answer 6

I was really in the mood to read lately and couldn't find anything I thought would be interesting. There wasn't a big selection at Wal-Mart and then my son starts screaming so I grabbed a copy of Eragon and threw it in the buggy. I loved the book (tried to watch the movie, but NO). It's a trilogy and I was hooked so I had to buy Eldest. Now I'm waiting for the next one.

Answer 7

Fantasy: Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter
Horror/Thriller: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Classic: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Answer 8

Um some good books are, Harry Potter, lotr, eragon & eldest and a really good author is vaginia andrews i believe her best story is flowers in the attic which is based on a true story and will leave you wondering how someone so terrible could ever be forced to do such a thing.

Answer 9

My best recommendation would be King Fortis the Brave

Answer 10

Eragon, It is a veary good book, I would also reccomend what daddy did and a child called it.