I like reading teen fiction, but i know its a waste of my time, sooo?

Question

what can I read that is good for me, but something i'm interested in? I dont want to go from reading Kate Brian to Charles Dickens. Im looking for a little of both :D Thank you.

Answer 1

There is so much great teen fiction out there right now, if you enjoy it, read it. If you mean you need to read something over the summer that your teachers will like you can still read Lois Lowry, Jerry Spinelli, Caroline Cooney, Ann Rinaldi, Sharon Creech, Judy Blume and do a good report. If you want to kind of ease into the classics I would suggest Ernest Hemingway, I read The Old Man in the Sea when I was an 8th grader, I also loved The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and Animal Farm is another good one.

Answer 2

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
The Time Traveler's Wife
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsoler
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

I'm a teenage girl as well so I know what you mean. Teen fiction is great and it's not a waste of your time. It's interesting and fun and sometimes you need something that's not deathly serious, but at the same time you want something that you feel is nourishing to your mind. If teen fiction makes you happy, don't stop reading it. At the same time I think it's cool that you're checking out other types of literature, and it's gonna take a while before you find adult literature that's to your taste. Out of all the books, I recommend Persepolis the most. It's a graphic novel but it deals with serious issues. The main character is just a normal Irani girl from a progressive Irani family when the ruler of Iran is overthrown. She then has to emigrate to Europe without her family. Her family is unable to leave Iran. Although tragic, Persepolis is really funny.

Answer 3

Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace are two of the classics I really liked in high school. I also loved Old Man and the Sea (which someone else mentioned) and the Fountainhead, The Razor's Edge. Other good books that are more recent: The Red Tent, Life of Pi, The Mists of Avalon.

p.s. I also loved Great Expectations!

Answer 4

You should read books by Meg Cabot. After I read her books I usually want to read other books that she uses as references in her books. Also books that are re-telling of fairytales, like books by Cameron Dokey, Suzanne Weyn, Debbie Viguie, and others, they are also good books that will reference towards classics like Charles Dickens--but I have never read, nor do I want to, his books. Ever since I saw that movie about the orphan I couldn't.

Also, there are a lot of great teen fiction authors, and reading them can help you in many ways. Trust me. It is weird but sometimes I'll read a book and the next week in my science class we talk about it and it feels really awesome to have some background knowledge on what you're learning. So, no matter what, you should continue reading teen fiction, but maybe expand your reading interest even just a little for a while.
Hope it helped. 1o :D o1

Answer 5

Why do you necessarily think it's a waste of your time? Granted, I don't think it's great for a steady diet any more than living off chocolate is a good idea for your body, but it's good to just have a little fun now and then too, just as an occasional bit of candy won't hurt you at all. Keep a good balance, and most importantly, KEEP READING, and you'll be fine :-)

Btw - Dickens isn't all that tough to read ;-)

Answer 6

Like many, I would not agree that ANY reading is a waste of time. Throughout your life, you will read professional material, current event/pop interests, literary, bestsellers. They all have value. Quite honestly, YA authors are often the first to explore topics not publihsed in adult books because YA publishers are willing to take risk and be on the cutting edge of issues because their reading base is.

That said, a nice in between YA and adult book is Center of Everything by Laura Moriarity. The main character is a girl growing up in the 80s so it is speckled with 80s references, but deals with growing up in a less than satisfactory environment. Another book I would suggest is Leif Enger's Peace Like a River. Like Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the main character is a kid narrating his more than unusual life.

Hope you take these suggestions, but I think you'll find you'll return to the Chris Cruthchers, Walter Dean Myers, Robert Cormiers, Lois Lowrys, Joan Lowry Nixons of the world again later on in life....

Answer 7

There's nothing wrong with reading what you like. I read a lot of that stuff when I was young and I still love to read. I really love nonfiction. You can pick up a book on a place or person and expand your horizons.

A young adult classic I like is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Jane Austen books are great.

Answer 8

Maybe you should give Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte a try. Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre are both romance stories. They happen to be classic literature, but are all about women falling in love with men, the trouble along the way, and happy ever after.

Answer 9

Never ever ever let anyone dictate to you what you should read outside your assigned novels in school. Reading should be something you enjoy, not a chore or something you dread because you don't like the book you are reading. It's great if someone wants to read classic novels, or the works of Shakespeare but they may not be what you like or enjoy.

Answer 10

It's not a waste of time! If it's teen fiction that you enjoy, read it! even if ur not a teen it's okay. The more u read, the better you'll write as well.