I like Politics, Crime sort of books. Any would do but please no Fantasy!! LOL
2007-10-18 11:20:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The ALA - American Library Assn. has the best lists.
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They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.
Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.
Pax - C
2007-10-18 11:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may enjoy the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (you can read some of them here: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/results ) and his The Hound of the Baskervilles which you can read here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2852
You may also appreciate Wilkie Collins' works like The Woman in White http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/583 or The Moonstone http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/155 or some others of his http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a98
The Father Brown detective stories by G.K. Chesterton http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/results are excellent, too.
You don't like fantasy, but does this mean you don't enjoy horror? If you do, Edgar Allan Poe has some classic horror stories and poems. You can read them at http://www.online-literature.com/poe/ or look up certain titles like The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders at the Rue Morgue and others at gutenberg.org.
How about Dracula by Bram Stoker http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/345 or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/84 or The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14152 or The Phantom of the Opera http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/175 by Gaston Leroux or The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/174
If you just want a list of good teen books - which you won't be able to read online for free as they'd be under copyright - you can search several lists. Fantasy will most likely be among those listed, but just ignore them. Here are some of them:
http://www.mysterynet.com/edgars/previous/youngadult.shtml
http://www.seemore.mi.org/booklists/fiction.html
http://www.bookspot.com/youngadultfeature.htm
http://www.pburglib.org/horror-suspense.htm
http://www.pburglib.org/humorous.htm
http://www.library.org.nz/teens-zone/teennovels.html
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-paolini-christopher.asp
http://www.rochesterpubliclibrary.org/apps/fmm/book_lovers.cfm
http://www.fictiondb.com/
http://www.bookbrowse.com/category/
I hope this helps.
2007-10-18 19:42:09 · answer #2 · answered by ck1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aw man, no fantasy? That's pretty hard, considering I read alot of those. *cough* Twilight series and Daughters of the Moon *cough*
Try Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen.
2007-10-18 18:35:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go look at some books by Elizabeth Moon.
2007-10-18 18:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try classic books like wilkie collins(crime novels with easy to understand english) the link is
http://getebooks4free.com/fiction_ebooks.html
http://manybooks.net/
http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php?tag=pp
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs
on these sites u will get free books on politics and crime books.Enjoy
ps:u can even load these books on ur mobile phone and on any handheld device.
2007-10-18 19:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by Elinor A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my favorite book when i was 14 was White Oleander by Janet Fitch
2007-10-18 18:26:56 · answer #6 · answered by sprikles_777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like book twilight and new moon and eclipse, they are all by stephanie meyer. they are about vampires. it is an amazing book, i am sure you will love it! best of luck
2007-10-18 18:30:46 · answer #7 · answered by :D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋