i'd rather it not be a novel, but some sort of nonfiction, factious book, based on actual events or something like that, but i am also trying to read harry potter so whatever you like i guess.
2007-07-01 17:17:58 · 16 answers · asked by serrsly 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
anything is fine, even fiction, just whatever you have enjoyed.
2007-07-01 17:33:51 · update #1
Devil in The White City by Erik Larson (usually in the American History section of bookstores). It tells the story of Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and America's first serial killer H.H. Holmes. If you want something lighter, try The Know It All by A.J. Jacobs. It's the true story of one man's quest to read the entire Enclyclopedia Britannica. It's a great book to read while you are ready something else because the whole book is broken down into small chapters (in alphabetical order of course). It is the lightest, funniest piece of non-fiction I have read.
Channa
2007-07-01 17:36:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Joe’s Boys by L. M. Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter by J. K Rowling
Sophie's World and Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Lemony Snicket’s series of Unfortunate Events
The Catcher in The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of The Flies
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Old Man and The Sea
2007-07-02 01:44:31 · answer #2 · answered by ~ ANGEL ~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't say what age you are, but if you like real life crime books try reading Lisa Scottoline. Her books are about a lawyer's group all ladies. there are three of them and as it solves or takes a case to court you also get a look in their regular lives. My favorite is mistaken indentity. There was a new one that came out called Daddy's Girl and it too was really good. It was more about her life then the lawyers. Another good book is Sisters by Danielle Steel. It was a great book.
2007-07-08 22:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by nisawrite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but here are some that I've read in the past couple of years that I've enjoyed:
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas, about an Iranian girl growing up in California.
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin, about the terrible blizzard of 1888 that came suddenly across the US plains, catching children outside walking home from school. Many of them froze to death.
Mortified by David Nadelberg, which is excerpts out of real life diaries and journals of teenagers, most of them people who grew up in the 1980s.
Hiroshima by John Hersey follows the lives of some Japanese people who survived the atomic bomb blast.
You should be able to find most of these at your public library -- maybe not Mortified, though; I had to get that one from amazon.
Enjoy!
2007-07-08 23:23:46 · answer #4 · answered by The Skin Horse (formerly ll2) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG!!
Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon is my FAVORITE book
WAIT
Anything by Sidney Sheldon is a great book.... try Bloodline
If you want to experiment a little... an African American author Eric Jerome Dickey is AMAZING
I recommend, Genevieve, The Other Woman, Chasing Destiny, ANYTHING you pick up you will enjoy
2007-07-09 10:52:49 · answer #5 · answered by J j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try 'Che' and 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. Two fiction books 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'Jesus, The Man No One Knows' I'm not sure of the title of the last book. There are four very good and interesting books. One of them was a movie.
2007-07-09 00:25:07 · answer #6 · answered by Coop 366 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twilight by Stephenie Meyers is the best book ever written, but another amazing book is Gifted Touch which is actually part of a series called Fingerprints.
2007-07-02 00:22:31 · answer #7 · answered by VampiresPlayBaseball 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree - Twilight is an amazing book. It's got just a dab of fantasy, but it's so realistic it might as well be nonfiction.
Umm...I'm not big on nonfiction, so...I guess I can't help you.
~Taisi
2007-07-02 00:28:08 · answer #8 · answered by Taisi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
It's about moss. It's a wonderful book.
2007-07-02 00:44:09 · answer #9 · answered by treebird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Search for Robert T. Kiyosaki. Just amazing!
Alot of important things to learn about money.
Easy to read, and helpful.
Personal finance would appreciate.
2007-07-02 12:36:53 · answer #10 · answered by Murphycr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋