please no teenage type fiction.i am also not a fan of romance. i feel like i am running out of good books, help!
2007-10-14 16:51:56 · 20 answers · asked by sweetie3.14 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
snarf- a tree grows in brooklyn was great
2007-10-14 17:07:48 · update #1
imaweiner-i agree, frost is BRILLIANT. i am looking for a novel though.
2007-10-14 17:09:28 · update #2
corona- i read those as a teen, but thank you for your answer.
2007-10-14 17:10:55 · update #3
carly-fantastic suggestions, but i have read them-everyone you can e-mail me with suggestions whenever. please do!!!
2007-10-14 17:13:15 · update #4
"Slaughter House Five" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is good. I also have a soft spot for SK's "The Stand" Also, if you like SF try anything by William Gibson...
2007-10-14 17:02:12 · answer #1 · answered by Ralph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That question is pretty impossible, but since you've read a lot of the suggestions,
I recommend We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. It looks at Columbine-type events from a mother's perspective. That said, I'm not a teenager. I'm not a parent. I can't identify in any obvious way with the characters, but this book is such a good read. Shriver has a tone that's different from any other writer I've tried, and this book turned me on to the rest of her stuff. I guess I just need to start a fan club, because I keep mentioning her books on here.
2007-10-14 17:59:16 · answer #2 · answered by aggylu 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Have you read Faulkner? His books are challenging but incredibly rewarding. My favorites:
Absalom, Absalom!
The Unvanquished
The Sound and the Fury
Go Down Moses
Other options
"All the King's Men" - Robert Penn Warren
"The Road" - Cormac McCarthy
"A Confederacy of Dunces" - John Kennedy O'Toole
"Lancelot" - Walker Percy
"Oral History" - Lee Smith
"A Prayer for Owen Meany" - John Irving
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" - Tom Wolfe
2007-10-15 02:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by truefirstedition 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
2007-10-14 17:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
All Quiet on the Western Front-I've read it three times, love it.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch-the true story of a prisoner in a Russian prison camp. GOOD book.
A Child Called It and the two that came after it telling the true story of one boy's life of abuse and takes you through to the last book, when he's a man.
The Grapes of Wrath is always a good one.
2007-10-15 03:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2007-10-14 17:05:43 · answer #6 · answered by nashvillekat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dune by Frank Herbert.
Excellent book, first of a series of six.
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse Dune.
They are the best books I've read. Second would be the Lord of the Rings trilogy, far superior compared to the films.
2007-10-14 18:16:14 · answer #7 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Wanderlost" Ben Olson
"Slaughterhouse Five", "Welcome to the Monkey House" actually, anything by Vonnegut.
"My Sister's Keeper" Jodi Picoult
"A Fool's Progress" Edward Abbey
"The Bell Jar" Sylvia Plath
"The Kiterunner" Khaled Hosseini
"Diamond Grill" Fred Wah
"Jarhead" Anthony Swofford
Everything by Haruki Murakami.
2007-10-14 19:00:51 · answer #8 · answered by anon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although you said no teenage type fiction, I read this series of books when I was a teen and re-read them again during my adult life because they were so good...not written for teens but I had read them anyway back in highschool. Anyway, V.C. Andrews had "Flowers in the Attic" which was a great book. Once you read that one, if you feel the same way, you can continue with the others. Petals on the Wind, If There be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday.
2007-10-14 16:59:42 · answer #9 · answered by Corona 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Stranger, Albert Camus.
2007-10-14 16:56:24 · answer #10 · answered by danbibbins@sbcglobal.net 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋