im 13 and i love to read!
2007-12-15 23:52:58 · 21 answers · asked by FENCEMAN 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
For all you readers read Noughts and crosses by malorie Blackman one of the best trilogies ever! Sad but an amazing book
2007-12-15 23:58:51 · update #1
I did read jurassic Park and loved not like the movie at all!
2007-12-15 23:59:59 · update #2
at your age I really loved Piers Anthony's fantasy books -- great comedy, full of ridiculous, funny characters plays on words and ideas.
Lord of the Rings is great, and Phillip Pullman's "Golden Compass" trilogy. I'll assume you've read "Harry Potter"
I really enjoyed "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman and "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie (but Rushdie's other stuff is more for university graduates -- it was even hard for me when I was 25)
I agree with the one who recommended Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" books, and I also suggest Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (that one has a bunch of sequels, too)
If you're gonna aim a little higher and get more literary, Treasure Island, Edgar Allan Poe or Sherlock Holmes, (I was never fond of him, but many people like) Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and also, I strongly recommend you go get your hands on some old Greek and Roman mythology -- find a readable translation of the Iliad, The Odyssey, and some of the other old myths, because as you get older and read more difficult books, you'll hear references to those stories again and again and again, so it's useful to know them, and those stories are just awesome!
Find a shortened version of Don Quixote or Les Miserables (the full length versions are about a thousand pages each)
Also: do a search online and look up "Newberry Award Winners" -- the Newberry Award is an award given to the best books written for people exactly your age, and any book that was a Newberry Award winner or finalist will be a really worthwhile book to read.
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberywinners/medalwinners.htm
2007-12-16 01:10:09 · answer #1 · answered by roboseyo 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Michael Crichton wrote a lot of other good books too. I like "Congo" and "Timeline" a lot by him, also "The Terminal Man," which made him popular years ago...and a couple of the others, but I can't recall the names just now. (He wrote "Jurassic Park," as you know)
"The Catcher in the Rye" is a classic by J.D. Salinger.
I am just not thinking very well now, it seems... have got to put on coffee and watch the sun come up. Time for a break!
Others will tell you some more great books to read, I'm sure.
2007-12-16 00:18:28 · answer #2 · answered by LK 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jurassic Park. The book contained all sorts of mathmatical models that didn't come out in the movie.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Borroughs. It's a classic series and a total page turner. First page and your addicted!! Very symbolic reading.
Sherlock Holms Series.
Anything by Ursela K LeGuin. (Sci/Fi Fantasy).
Try some straight out technical books. Pick a subject you like, anything, and read up on the facts.
2007-12-15 23:57:40 · answer #3 · answered by Fancy That 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Christy by Marshall
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith
Also, read biographies. They're so inspiring.
Try:
The Autobiography of Rosa Parks
The Diary of Anne Frank
Helen Keller's teacher, the story of Anne Sullivan
A Special Kind of Hero:The Biography of actor Chris Burke by Jobeth Williams
Rise and Walk:The Autobiography of Dennis Byrd
2007-12-16 03:51:40 · answer #4 · answered by Puff 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go to your public library and ask the librarian for reading lists of the award winning books for your age. There are lists of the best books for your age and he/she will have them. Sometimes libraries even put these lists up on their website. For example here is one from the State of Kansas that has the best reading for your age. All of the past winners of this award would also be quality reading, not just the current list. This is just an example, there are many other lists out there.
2007-12-16 01:43:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't mess about. Read Charles Dickens, start with the Pickwick Papers then Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, Bleak House.
Now get onto Moby Dick, supposedly the best novel in the English language.
Finished that? Read Middlemarch by George Eliot, the best English novel.
2007-12-15 23:59:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Don't miss The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. And, for that matter, Member of the Wedding by the same author.
2007-12-16 04:22:04 · answer #7 · answered by Warren Gates 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Godfather book
2007-12-15 23:56:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You go Fenceman i also love reading since an young age. Start reading Jonathan Kellerman books, nice action and detective work
2007-12-15 23:56:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
His Dark Materials Trilogy, Lord of The Rings Trilogy.
2007-12-16 00:02:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋