I'm 15, my birthday's coming up and I told my parents I want to buy a lot of books since I'm a bookworm, you could say. The problem is I'm really confused on which books I should get. I already made a list, but I'm not quite sure if they would be good or not. I love Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror. I'm gonna list a few books I like so that no one suggests things that I have already read:
- Harry Potter
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Twlight (don't care if it's for girls!
- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Dark Tower
- The House of The Scorpion
- Anne Rice's Vampire Series
- The Bartimaues Trilogy
- Pendragon
2007-08-06 10:58:13 · 12 answers · asked by The Time Traveling Magician 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yes, I have also read Eragon and Artemis Fowl, and sorry for the people who love Lord of the Rings, but I hate it
2007-08-06 11:09:18 · update #1
mmk, heres my faves:
twilight(if youve read it, then try new moon, the sequel, or eclipse, coming out 2morr! [imso getting it])
harry potter series
maximum ride(all three)
cry of the icemark
any lois duncan book
eragon and eldest
inkheart(and inkspell)
cronicles of faerie(a series)
storm theif
and u cant go wrong w/ dracula ^^
im a bookworm too, and i gave all these books to my guy friend and he luved them all. ive read many more, but these were my faves. =]
hope i helped!
2007-08-06 13:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by oOoOoLaneyoOoOo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd suggest the following
Dresden Files: Jim Butcher Great stuff, detective adventure meets urban fantasy If the Giles (from buffy) series had been done, it might have looked a bit like this.
Diskworld: Terry Pratchett Until a certain teen age wizard came along, Pratchett was the best selling modern British author. 36 books in the series and no end in sight. Although characters and places reappear again and again, there's little connection between the books, certainly no great plot you need to read them all to get, though you might miss an inside joke or three.
Valdemar: Mercedes Lackey The most conventional fantasy of my recommendations . Start with Arrows of the Queen. Much of the series is tightly connected, reading out of order is not recommended.
Magician: Raymond Feist The first book of the Riftwar series, another fairly standard fantasy. Quite good stuff, once again a very linear series.
2007-08-06 13:01:23 · answer #2 · answered by leons1701 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb A Kiss In Time, Beastly, Cloaked - Alex Finn Anna Dressed in Blood - Blake Blood and Chocolate - Annette Klause Carrier of the Mark - Fallon Dark Lover – Ward Falling Under - Gwen Hayes Grave Mercy - LaFevers Haven - Kristi Cook Sea Witch - Kantra Sookie Stackhouse Series - Charlaine Harris Vampire Academy – Mead
2016-05-20 00:14:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eragon and Eldest (Christopher Paolini)
Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
The Keys to the Kingdom (Garth Nix)
2007-08-06 11:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by d4rknes_rising 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about Frank Herbert's Dune series? Or books by Robert A Heinlein or Isaac Asimov (not by his ghost writer) or books by Edgar Rice Burroughs - John Carter on Mars and the Tarzan series.
2007-08-06 11:09:32 · answer #5 · answered by Mawia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do I have a great award winning sci-fi/fantasy author for you!
Try the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. butler.
Octavia has won both Hugo and Nebula awards for her work. She also was the first sci-fi/fantasy writer to receive MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Here is a list of awards she has won:
2000: lifetime achievement award in writing from the PEN American Center
1999: Nebula Award for Best Novel - Parable of the Talents
1995: MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant
1985: Hugo Award for Best Novelette - Bloodchild
1985: Locus Award for Best Novelette - "Bloodchild"[9]
1985: Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Best Novelette - "Bloodchild"[10]
1984: Nebula Award for Best Novelette - Bloodchild
1984: Hugo Award for Best Short Story - Speech Sounds
1980: Creative Arts Award, L.A. YWCA
Nominated:
1994: Nebula Award for Best Novel - Parable of the Sower
1987: Nebula Award for Best Novelette - The Evening and the Morning and the Night
1967: Fifth Place, Writer's Digest Short Story Contest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenogenesis
2007-08-06 11:00:41 · answer #6 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have to say ask for Good Omens, Mort, and Thud. If you end up enjoying them ask for more Terry Pratchett, he writes a serious called Disc world. It has the whole sci-fi fantasy feel to them. but with the structure of our own reality. Neil Gaiman also wrote Good Omens, but I find him a little to dark. There never really seems to be a light at the end of his books.
Happy B-day.
2007-08-06 11:06:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
2007-08-06 12:26:22 · answer #8 · answered by AG98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yay, I love harry potter. Read Dracula (jk rowling got a lot of her ideas from that book)
also read:
Artemis Fowl
Harry Potter and Philosophy
Gone with the wind (omg, the best book ever)
2007-08-06 11:04:10 · answer #9 · answered by pinkviolinistofthelord 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lord of the Rings, a classic, though its a bit harder than the others on your list.
2007-08-06 11:04:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋