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Chooka92
Hey,
I'm really into reading and am looking for some good adventure/mystery books - for Teenagers!
Preferably with no romance but a little bit is fine! It's best if there is some kind of mystery/adventure in the books.
Would really like to hear what great books you have read and reccomend!
Thanks so much
Answer
Expect: Romance, Drama, Fashion, History, Fantasy, Classics, Non-Fiction, Fiction, Suspense
1.Thanks For the Memories â Cecelia Ahern
2.A Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
3.Undead Series â MaryJanice Davidson
4.The Land of Elyon Series â Patrick Carman
5.Poseur: a novel â Rachel Maude
6.The Nanny Diaries: a novel â Emma McLaughlin
7.Private Series â Kate Brian
8.The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette â Carolly Erickson
9.Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire â Amanda Foreman
10.Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
11.The Clique Series â Lisi Harrison
12.Aquamarine âAlice Hoffman
13.Animal Farm - George Orwell
14.The Midnight Twins Series â Jacquelyn Mitchard
15.The Alchemyst Series - Michael Scott
16.Fallout â Ellen Hopkins
17.A Tale of Two Cities â Charles Dickens
18.A.B.C. Murders â Agatha Christie
19.Towards Zero â Agatha Christie
20.The Host â Stephenie Meyer
21.The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
22.Paisley Hanover Acts Out - Cameron Tuttle
23.Mediator Series â Meg Cabot
24.What I saw and How I lied â Judy Blundell
25.Stealing Heaven â Elizabeth Scott
26. Picture Perfect by Catherine Clark
27.Wings â Aprilynne Pike
28.L.A. Candy â Lauren Conrad
29. The Market â J.M. Steele
30.The Faerie Path- Frewin Jones
31.Boys Series â Meg Cabot
32.Gone With The Wind â Margaret Mitchell
33.Splendor â Anna Godbersen
34.The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
35.Sleeping With The Fishes â MaryJanice Davidson
36.Dead until Dark - Charlaine Harris
37.The Mortal Instruments Series- Cassandra Clare
38.The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
39.A Great and Terrible Beauty Series â Libba Bray
40.Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld
41.Vegan Virgin Valentine - Carolyn Mackler
42.The Tea Rose series - Jennifer Donnelly
43.Madapple â Christina Meldrum
44.A Countess Below Stairs â Eva Ibottson
45.The Devil Wears Prada â Lauren Weisengberger
46.Tiger Rising â Kate DiCamillo
47.Educating Carolina â Patricia Cabot
48.The Fetchâ Laura Whitcomb
49.Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler
50.Bride Quartet Series â Nora Roberts
51.Ivy â Julie Hearn
52.Secrets of the Tudor court : pleasure palace - Kate Emerson
53.King's Rose - Alisa M Libby
54.Just Ella - Margaret Peterson Haddix
55.Virgin's secret - Victoria Alexander
56.This is Chick-Lit â Lots of people
57.The Breakdown Lane - Jacquelyn Mitchard
58.Stray â Stacy Goldblatt
59.Summer After â Carrie Karasyou
60. A reliable wife : a novel - Robert Goolrick
61.The Alphas â Lisi Harrison
62.Secrets of my Hollywood Life â Jen Calonita
63.Crash Into Me - Albert Borris
64.Coffeehouse Angel - Suzanne Selfors
65.Perfumes â Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez
66.Elements of Writing Fiction-Beginnings, Middles, & Ends â Nancy Kress <series>
67.The Luxe Series - Anna Godbersen
68.How to Be Good - Nick Hornby
69.Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin
70.Princess Diaries â Meg Cabot
71.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society â Mary Ann Shaffer
72.Organize Yourself! â Kate Kelly, Ronni Eisenberg
73.Organize Your Life: free yourself from clutter & find more personal time â Kate Kelly, Ronni Eisenberg
74.Graceling â Kristen Cashore
75.Jane Eyre â Charlotte Bronte
76.Peony In Love â Lisa See
77.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan â Lisa See
78.Woman In The Wall â Patrice Kindl
79.TTYL Series â Lauren Myracie
80.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Jeff Kinney
81.The Debutante - Kathryn Williams
82.The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
83.Daughters of the sea : Hannah - Kathryn Lasky
84.Ransome My Heard â Meg Cabot
85.Julie & Julia [My Year of Cooking Dangerously] â Julie Powell
86.Snowed In â Rachel Hawthorne
87.Once A Witch â Carolyn MacCullough
88.Sussanah Morrow â Megan Chance
89.How Not To Be Popular â Jennifer Ziegler
90.The Red Necklace â Sally Gardner
91.Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials â Marc Aronson
92.The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History â Peter Charles Hoffer
93.Vanishing Acts: A Novel â Jodi Picoult
94.Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World â Vicki Myron
95.Autobiography Of A Wardrobe: a memoir - Elizabeth Kendall
96.The Magicianâs Elephant â Kate Dicamillo
97.Cheri and The Last of Cheri - Colette
98.Wish I Might: from the life of Willa Havisham - Coleen Paratore
99.Summer Intern- Carrie Karasyov
100.Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
101.501 Must See Movies - Niel Randles
102.The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner
103.The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley
104.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
105.A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
106.Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
107.Nobody's Boy - Hector Malot
108.The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
109.The Moonstone: a Romance - Wilkie Collins
110.The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
111.Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
112.The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
113.Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Expect: Romance, Drama, Fashion, History, Fantasy, Classics, Non-Fiction, Fiction, Suspense
1.Thanks For the Memories â Cecelia Ahern
2.A Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
3.Undead Series â MaryJanice Davidson
4.The Land of Elyon Series â Patrick Carman
5.Poseur: a novel â Rachel Maude
6.The Nanny Diaries: a novel â Emma McLaughlin
7.Private Series â Kate Brian
8.The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette â Carolly Erickson
9.Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire â Amanda Foreman
10.Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
11.The Clique Series â Lisi Harrison
12.Aquamarine âAlice Hoffman
13.Animal Farm - George Orwell
14.The Midnight Twins Series â Jacquelyn Mitchard
15.The Alchemyst Series - Michael Scott
16.Fallout â Ellen Hopkins
17.A Tale of Two Cities â Charles Dickens
18.A.B.C. Murders â Agatha Christie
19.Towards Zero â Agatha Christie
20.The Host â Stephenie Meyer
21.The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
22.Paisley Hanover Acts Out - Cameron Tuttle
23.Mediator Series â Meg Cabot
24.What I saw and How I lied â Judy Blundell
25.Stealing Heaven â Elizabeth Scott
26. Picture Perfect by Catherine Clark
27.Wings â Aprilynne Pike
28.L.A. Candy â Lauren Conrad
29. The Market â J.M. Steele
30.The Faerie Path- Frewin Jones
31.Boys Series â Meg Cabot
32.Gone With The Wind â Margaret Mitchell
33.Splendor â Anna Godbersen
34.The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
35.Sleeping With The Fishes â MaryJanice Davidson
36.Dead until Dark - Charlaine Harris
37.The Mortal Instruments Series- Cassandra Clare
38.The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
39.A Great and Terrible Beauty Series â Libba Bray
40.Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld
41.Vegan Virgin Valentine - Carolyn Mackler
42.The Tea Rose series - Jennifer Donnelly
43.Madapple â Christina Meldrum
44.A Countess Below Stairs â Eva Ibottson
45.The Devil Wears Prada â Lauren Weisengberger
46.Tiger Rising â Kate DiCamillo
47.Educating Carolina â Patricia Cabot
48.The Fetchâ Laura Whitcomb
49.Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler
50.Bride Quartet Series â Nora Roberts
51.Ivy â Julie Hearn
52.Secrets of the Tudor court : pleasure palace - Kate Emerson
53.King's Rose - Alisa M Libby
54.Just Ella - Margaret Peterson Haddix
55.Virgin's secret - Victoria Alexander
56.This is Chick-Lit â Lots of people
57.The Breakdown Lane - Jacquelyn Mitchard
58.Stray â Stacy Goldblatt
59.Summer After â Carrie Karasyou
60. A reliable wife : a novel - Robert Goolrick
61.The Alphas â Lisi Harrison
62.Secrets of my Hollywood Life â Jen Calonita
63.Crash Into Me - Albert Borris
64.Coffeehouse Angel - Suzanne Selfors
65.Perfumes â Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez
66.Elements of Writing Fiction-Beginnings, Middles, & Ends â Nancy Kress <series>
67.The Luxe Series - Anna Godbersen
68.How to Be Good - Nick Hornby
69.Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin
70.Princess Diaries â Meg Cabot
71.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society â Mary Ann Shaffer
72.Organize Yourself! â Kate Kelly, Ronni Eisenberg
73.Organize Your Life: free yourself from clutter & find more personal time â Kate Kelly, Ronni Eisenberg
74.Graceling â Kristen Cashore
75.Jane Eyre â Charlotte Bronte
76.Peony In Love â Lisa See
77.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan â Lisa See
78.Woman In The Wall â Patrice Kindl
79.TTYL Series â Lauren Myracie
80.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Jeff Kinney
81.The Debutante - Kathryn Williams
82.The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
83.Daughters of the sea : Hannah - Kathryn Lasky
84.Ransome My Heard â Meg Cabot
85.Julie & Julia [My Year of Cooking Dangerously] â Julie Powell
86.Snowed In â Rachel Hawthorne
87.Once A Witch â Carolyn MacCullough
88.Sussanah Morrow â Megan Chance
89.How Not To Be Popular â Jennifer Ziegler
90.The Red Necklace â Sally Gardner
91.Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials â Marc Aronson
92.The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History â Peter Charles Hoffer
93.Vanishing Acts: A Novel â Jodi Picoult
94.Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World â Vicki Myron
95.Autobiography Of A Wardrobe: a memoir - Elizabeth Kendall
96.The Magicianâs Elephant â Kate Dicamillo
97.Cheri and The Last of Cheri - Colette
98.Wish I Might: from the life of Willa Havisham - Coleen Paratore
99.Summer Intern- Carrie Karasyov
100.Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
101.501 Must See Movies - Niel Randles
102.The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner
103.The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley
104.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
105.A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
106.Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
107.Nobody's Boy - Hector Malot
108.The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
109.The Moonstone: a Romance - Wilkie Collins
110.The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
111.Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
112.The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
113.Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Who writes in a style similar to Chuck Palahniuk?
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I've read Diary, Rant and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, are there any other books he wrote and what authors write in a similiar fasion? For example, in a nihilistic or mind-bending fashion.
Answer
Read-alikes:
George Saunders's short stories make all too evident the poignant absurdity and rancidity of the ersatz American Dream. One barely knows whether to laugh, gasp or cry at dehumanized Everymen who struggle against the breathtaking artificiality all around them in subtle dystopias that feel all too familiar. In the title story of Pastoralia, for example, we meet a poor sap employed to behave as a caveman in the prehistoric section of a colossal theme park where he whiles away his days dragging his knuckles and eating goat, only to be pressured by his corporate masters to inform against his cavewoman coworker for her bad attitude, which manifests itself in anachronistic cigarette sneaking and swearing. Readers who appreciate Palahniuk's satiric barbs will love Saunders's masterful filleting of American mores.
In Sam Lipsyte's mordantly funny Home Land, Lewis Miner â aka Teabag â is so fed up with the cheerful banalities of his status-conscious High School alumni bulletin that he endeavors to set the collective record straight with a succession of scathing, outrageously profane letters about his actual crappy life presented with eye-opening candor. The upcoming reunion of the class of '89 promises to be one for the books. Lipsyte's irreverent, black humor and vitriolic jeremiads against modern society should strike the right chord â or discord â with Palahniuk fans.
With their offbeat characters, stylistic inventiveness, and ironic, self-conscious musings on the hollowness of contemporary culture and our prefab zeitgeist, many of Douglas Coupland's works will appeal to Palahniuk's fans. Try Girlfriend in a Coma, or All Families are Psychotic, which presents the reunion of the Drummonds, a family that could provide a month's worth of Jerry Springer guests, or Hey Nostradamus!, in which the surreal tragedy of a high school shooting is related by a young victim and her less-fortunate survivors. Coupland's message is somewhat more affirmative that Palahniuk's, as evidenced by Eleanor Rigby, which tells the moving and funny story about the surprising joys that lie in wait for the loneliest woman on earth.
Perhaps the clearest precursor to Fight Club is J. G. Ballard's disturbing cult classic, Crash. The novel, which explores in great detail the erotic charge of automobile accidents, is as controversial today as when it first came out over thirty years ago, and in subsequent works such as Concrete Island and Cocaine Nights, Ballard has continued to explore the dark underbelly and grotesque efflorescence of society in stories that defy convention and assault the status quo with ruthless, perverse glee.
Readers who have enjoyed Palahniuk's later horror titles may want to step into the strange, unnerving fictional worlds of Bentley Little, who excels in gradually mutating life as we know it into something horrifying yet eerily recognizable. For example, the title character in The Mailman is able to drive an entire town crazy by simply tampering with their mail; and in The Ignored Bob Jones is beginning to feel as though nobody at his office notices or acknowledges him, even after he shows up to work dressed as a homicidal circus clown. Little probes and satirizes many of the social inanities and uncertainties that pique Palahniuk, with unforgettable, nightmarish results.
Read-alikes:
George Saunders's short stories make all too evident the poignant absurdity and rancidity of the ersatz American Dream. One barely knows whether to laugh, gasp or cry at dehumanized Everymen who struggle against the breathtaking artificiality all around them in subtle dystopias that feel all too familiar. In the title story of Pastoralia, for example, we meet a poor sap employed to behave as a caveman in the prehistoric section of a colossal theme park where he whiles away his days dragging his knuckles and eating goat, only to be pressured by his corporate masters to inform against his cavewoman coworker for her bad attitude, which manifests itself in anachronistic cigarette sneaking and swearing. Readers who appreciate Palahniuk's satiric barbs will love Saunders's masterful filleting of American mores.
In Sam Lipsyte's mordantly funny Home Land, Lewis Miner â aka Teabag â is so fed up with the cheerful banalities of his status-conscious High School alumni bulletin that he endeavors to set the collective record straight with a succession of scathing, outrageously profane letters about his actual crappy life presented with eye-opening candor. The upcoming reunion of the class of '89 promises to be one for the books. Lipsyte's irreverent, black humor and vitriolic jeremiads against modern society should strike the right chord â or discord â with Palahniuk fans.
With their offbeat characters, stylistic inventiveness, and ironic, self-conscious musings on the hollowness of contemporary culture and our prefab zeitgeist, many of Douglas Coupland's works will appeal to Palahniuk's fans. Try Girlfriend in a Coma, or All Families are Psychotic, which presents the reunion of the Drummonds, a family that could provide a month's worth of Jerry Springer guests, or Hey Nostradamus!, in which the surreal tragedy of a high school shooting is related by a young victim and her less-fortunate survivors. Coupland's message is somewhat more affirmative that Palahniuk's, as evidenced by Eleanor Rigby, which tells the moving and funny story about the surprising joys that lie in wait for the loneliest woman on earth.
Perhaps the clearest precursor to Fight Club is J. G. Ballard's disturbing cult classic, Crash. The novel, which explores in great detail the erotic charge of automobile accidents, is as controversial today as when it first came out over thirty years ago, and in subsequent works such as Concrete Island and Cocaine Nights, Ballard has continued to explore the dark underbelly and grotesque efflorescence of society in stories that defy convention and assault the status quo with ruthless, perverse glee.
Readers who have enjoyed Palahniuk's later horror titles may want to step into the strange, unnerving fictional worlds of Bentley Little, who excels in gradually mutating life as we know it into something horrifying yet eerily recognizable. For example, the title character in The Mailman is able to drive an entire town crazy by simply tampering with their mail; and in The Ignored Bob Jones is beginning to feel as though nobody at his office notices or acknowledges him, even after he shows up to work dressed as a homicidal circus clown. Little probes and satirizes many of the social inanities and uncertainties that pique Palahniuk, with unforgettable, nightmarish results.
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