Whats an entertaining book i could read over the summer?

Question

I know, reading isnt fun to many of you, but a lot of times i get into a book, and really enjoy it. I do have summer reading for my school, but i want to know a good book to read for "fun" that is going to be entertainning.
These are some books i really enjoyed, maybe it would help...
All the Harry Potters
Eragon/Eldest
The Sea of Trolls-BY Nancy Farmer
Pendragon (series)
Charlie Bone ( i think thats what its called)
Emperor: The Gates of Rome

And different books like that.
Action,Fantasy, i enjoy books with Magic (like harry potter type magic)
and books that took place when there were kings and knights, and fights with swords and mystical creatures.


So if you have any good book suggestions based off the above info or that you enjoyed that i might like, i would appreciate it.

*I am a fast and excellent reader, the longest book on that list took my 9 days, and that was The Sea of Trolls, so i can handle big books =)*
thanks

Answer 1

Good fantasy books... got plenty of those ;)

Just a quick selection of the best...
-A Shadow on the Glass - Ian Irvine (boring start, but good ending, and the start of his first set of 4 books).

-Geomancer - Ian Irvine (fantastic book, and the start of his 2nd set of 4 books).

-Waywalkers - Catherine Webb (aimed at teenagers, but its a fantastic book non-the-less)

-The Magicians Guild - Trudi Canavan

Just some books there, but if you want to just try random books, try charity shops or market places, look in the fantasy section, read the blurb, and buy if you like it, they will be cheap. Thats what I do, and you can find some true gems in those places, at a fraction of the price :)

Answer 2

Old Rank Author/Editor Title Year Amazon
1 1 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965
2 2 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game [S1] 1985
3 3 Isaac Asimov Foundation [S1-3] 1951
4 4 Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] 1979
5 5 George Orwell 1984 1949
6 6 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961
7 7 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932
9 8 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950
8 9 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959
10 10 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954
12 11 William Gibson Neuromancer 1984
13 12 Larry Niven Ringworld 1970
11 13 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
14 14 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968
15 15 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895
17 16 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898
16 17 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973
18 18 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966
19 19 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1] 1989
20 20 Arthur C Clarke Childhood's End 1954
21 21 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974
23 22 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969
22 23 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2] 1986
24 24 Ray Bradbury [C] The Martian Chronicles 1950
26 25 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992
25 26 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye 1975
27 27 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969
28 28 Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow [S1] 1999
29 29 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954
30 30 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967
31 31 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962
32 32 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977
33 33 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870
34 34 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961
35 35 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962
40 36 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990
36 37 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973
37 38 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962
39 39 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
38 40 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972
42 41 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956
44 42 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951
41 43 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966
43 44 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963
45 45 Philip K Dick UBIK 1969
46 46 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
47 47 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959
48 48 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity 1955
49 49 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep 1991
50 50 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars [S1] 1992
52 51 Carl Sagan Contact 1985
51 52 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977
53 53 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth 1982
54 54 Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain 1969
56 55 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864
55 56 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974
58 57 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
57 58 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995
59 59 Iain M Banks Player Of Games [S2] 1988
60 60 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] 1961
66 61 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983
63 62 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953
61 63 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] 1980
62 64 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons [S3] 1990
64 65 Greg Bear Eon 1985
67 66 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1] 1996
65 67 Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964
70 68 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956
69 69 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951
68 70 Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971
72 71 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955
73 72 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956
71 73 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit - Will Travel 1958
74 74 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992
75 75 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale 1985
76 76 H G Wells The Invisible Man 1897
77 77 David Brin The Uplift War [S3] 1987
78 78 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy 1957
79 79 William Gibson [C] Burning Chrome 1986
80 80 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971
81 81 Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court 1889
82 82 Robert A Heinlein [C] The Past Through Tomorrow 1967
84 83 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963
87 84 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1] 1938
83 85 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003
86 86 Clifford Simak [C] City 1952
85 87 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912
89 88 David Brin The Postman 1985
88 89 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981
90 90 Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human 1953
94 91 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 1979
91 92 Greg Bear Blood Music 1985
96 93 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969
92 94 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar [S3] 1991
95 95 George R Stewart Earth Abides 1949
98 96 E E 'Doc' Smith Grey Lensman [S4] 1951
97 97 Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife 2003
93 98 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974
99 99 John Varley Titan 1979
102 100 Julian May The Many-Colored Land [S1] 1981

Answer 3

I agree that if you haven't already read Phillip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials Trilogy' you should definitely do so this Summer. It's considered a slightly more adult Harry Potter, but don't let that put you off. It's a perfect step up from the HP books. I read the trilogy after the Harry Potters and now i fight in my head which i like best.

Also, you haven't got to wait long for the new book being hyped as the next Harry Potter. A book called Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. It's published July 2nd. I'm excited. :)

Answer 4

A very entertaining Trilogy is The Door Within Trilogy. It is very well written and very good. The 3 books are
1. The Door Within 2. The Rise of the Wyrm Lord. 3. The Final Storm.
It is about a boy named Aiden. he can travel between the real world and The Relm like his grandfather did before him. A King is calling him and he is a Knight to protect the Relm. It is very Intreging and will keep you reading.

Answer 5

I'm recycling one of my previous answers, but here ya go:P

Raymond E. Feist's books are pretty good.

The Riftwar-Series:
Magician (1982)
Silverthorn (1985)
A Darkness at Sethanon (1986)

Serpentwar-Series:
Prince of the Blood (1989)
The King's Buccaneer (1992)

The Empire-Sequence:
written with Janny Wurts
Daughter of the Empire (1987)
Servant of the Empire (1990)
Mistress of the Empire (1992)

The Serpentwar-Saga:
Shadow of a Dark Queen (1994)
Rise of a Merchant Prince (1995)
Rage of a Demon King (1997)
Shards of a Broken Crown (1998)

The Riftwar Legacy:
Krondor the Betrayal (1998)
Krondor: the Assassins (September 1999)
Krondor: Tear of the Gods (2000)

The Conclave of Shadows:
Talon of the Silver Hawk (2003)
King of Foxes (2004)
Exile's Return (2005)

The Darkwar Saga
Flight of the Nighthawks(2006)
Into a Dark Room(2007)

Other books:
Faerie Tale (1988)

Answer 6

The ones I've read by Stephen King that ARE scary.. Cell, Misery, The Shining, The Stand, Bag Of Bones The one that I'm reading now by Stephen King: IT (One of the scariest books I've read by him) The one book I recommend even though it's not that scary.. The Green Mile I haven't read any of the Hannibal books but I saw the movies so I imagine they are good: Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising

Answer 7

I suggest The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.
I just finished the book and really enjoyed it, plus I would suggest reading it before the movie comes out later this year.

Answer 8

I think you should read the uglies trilogy, I know it might take you only a few days, its a good book. about 400 pages or so.
You can also read Inkheart and Inkspell. After that there is the Midnighters trilogy and Twilight. twilight has another book after it called new moon and another comes out after that.

Answer 9

I suggest The Divide by Nicholas Evans. He is the author of The Horse Whisperer. The Divide is about a girl who gets involved in demonstrating for various ecological causes, and gets charged with murder. It's very interesting.

Answer 10

I recommend the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I started by reading Small Gods, which is a good place to start because it doesn't recquire that you read any of the others (at my last count there were 25)