Any good books...I'm a teen but like older material! I'm very mature so any really good books?

Answer 1

GO TO A BOOK STORE AND LOOK FOR YOURSELF!!!!

Answer 2

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Catch-22
A Tale of Two Cities
Candide
Godel, Escher, Bach
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Women in Love
The Brothers Karamazov
The Testament
Crime and Punishment
Gulag
Sybil
The Three Faces of Eve
Stupid White Men
The Race Myth
Be The Change!
Creating Mind
Seven Arrows
Be Here Now
Ender's Game (trilogy)
Time Enough for Love
Cat's Cradle

Answer 3

I recommend some stuff by Orson Scott Card. He writes mostly in the Science Fiction genre, but the stories are about the people, not the weird Sci-Fi stuff. Ender's Game is his most popular, which is very good. I would also recommend The Worthing Saga.

For a totally different kind of book, try "Run With the Horsemen" by Ferrol Sams... the language in that one is a bit hard for a younger reader, but it's a hilarious book about growing up in the rural south during the depression.

Answer 4

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

Think James Bond, but nineteenth century (the book was written in the 1800s). Anybody who wants excitement, but doesn't want to forgo the intellectual part of reading should pick up this book.

Maurice LeBlanc's Arsene Lupin series is also of the same vein as the above.

However, if you truly want mature (but engrossing) material, then try Flowers for Algernon. The themes are so heavy, the issues so grown-ups-only, you ought to be absorbed even when reading it for the third time around. I know I was. (come to think of it, Thomas Hardy's books are that, too, and you might want to try them also). This is definitely the kind of book whose power stays with you when you read it again.

And if you're up for love stories, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind should do very nicely. It's a Pulitzer Prize Winner, and for very good reasons, too - the story's one that keeps you on the edge of your seat for most of the 1024 pages that it lasts. However, what will probably draw you in the most is the controversial nature of the main character. The book is set in the time of the American Civil War, but you'll find the attitudes of Scarlett (the protagonist) about as modern as modern can be.

If you like asking questions, especially about morality and what actual value/application it holds in real life, then George Bernard Shaw is the playwright for you. My favorite: Arms and the Man. He's very well known for writing Pygmalion as well. If you like his plays, then you'll probably like Oscar Wilde, too., in which case you mustn't miss The Importance of Being Earnest or Lady Windermere's Fan.

I hope you find something worth reading, but most importantly, enjoy!

Answer 5

Enders Game is a good classic SCI FI book.
Johnny The Homicydal Manieak is a Great graphic novel.
Tao Te Ching is a 5000 year old Anarchist chinese book which IS AWSOME.
The Grapes Of Wrath by stienbeck is totally rad
The Future Of Life By Edward O Wilson is a good science read.
and A Short History Of Nearly Everything is also a good science read
ENJOY!

Answer 6

The most informative book I have ever read is Our Stolen Future. It is a nonfiction book that talks about how we have made ourselves the guinea pigs by using synthetic chemicals and poisoning ourselves, the environment, and our children. It isn't a bullshit book, but actually brings scientific facts. It is written with much passion and I believe everyone who reads this book gains a great knowledge on one of the most important and crucial issues today that has been hidden from the public. I am a biochemistry major at Berkeley and this book made me passionate about what I am studying.

Answer 7

Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway
The Third Man, by Graham Greene,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Twain
For some humorous non-fiction, try books by Bill Bryson.

Answer 8

You know I answer these questions all the time. Why do people have to categorize book reading. If you can understand what you read, it doesn't matter at what level you are supposed to be reading. Especially if you also enjoy what you read. I read sci-fi/fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, adventure, alternate history, just about anything that catches my fancy. And I urge all of you who enjoy reading to do the same. Go to you local library or book store and just browse the books in whatever genre you enjoy or think you could enjoy and buy or read those books that appeal to you. This does two things specifically. One, you acquire knowledge above and beyond what your peers are reading and two you see the differences that different writers employ when they write books and stories. So read what you want to read. In my opinion it will make you a wiser and more enjoyable person to be around.

Answer 9

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

As Simple As Snow by Gregory Calloway

Answer 10

Here are some of my favorites:

Lovely Bones
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Left Behind Series
Earth's Children Series by Jane Auel
Anything by Nicholas Sparks or Nicholas Evans

Answer 11

I'm 13, but I find that most YA fiction bores me as well. Here's what I read.
I like a lot of suspense. Legal thrillers are good too.
Dean Koontz
Perri O'Shaunessy
Stephen King
James Patterson
Jodi Picoult (though she's not really suspense...)
Richard North Patterson
John Grisham
And if you like horror (and I mean, GRUESOME horror), I'd check out Richard Laymon. After reading Endless Night, I couldn't sleep (or eat, really...) for a week. It was disgusting. But some people like that stuff, so...