Firedog
I'm on spring break and am in need of some great books! :)
So far, I'm planning to read the diary of anne frank and the secret life of bees.
What are some great classic books? :D
Im up for any genre, just no more non-fiction/biographies. (mom says i read too many of those...xD)
I've read the entire twilight saga...it was alright. I would prefer to stay away from the corny teenage romance books though. :x
Thanks for your help! (:
Answer
Huckle berry finn is quite good. these are the top 100 books more for girls
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (just parts, not in entirety)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (some titles, not all)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X,
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Huckle berry finn is quite good. these are the top 100 books more for girls
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (just parts, not in entirety)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (some titles, not all)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X,
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Could somebody tell me some good books?
haz baz ;)
Before I start, I'm a girl. I'm just using my brother's account :-)
Any way... I'm never usually into reading, but I've just read all of the Twilight Saga and I've loved every single one of them. Now I've finished them, I'm lonely :-( ha ha! So could anyone name some decent books? I'm into most things! Any thing that'll keep me interested. Nothing too, weird... Ha ha!
Thank you so much! I'm going to order some of the books from Amazon :-) Thank you for your help.xx
Answer
Wow. I've read over 100 books in my young life.
Vampire Academy sets up one of the most fascinating worlds I have come across in very long time. Richelle Mead's vision of vampires is fresh and intriguing. The story is well written with a gripping plot and characters that are both realistic and real. Not only do I feel as though I an starting to know these people and their world, I also find myself actually caring about what happens to them.
The novel is indeed darker than the average YA offering. But it is in no way traumatizing or depressing. It is simply placed in a world that is grittier and more dangerous than that of most people. It still covers common themes from high school. While not worrying about life and death, the leads still have to contend with attacks on their reputations and decisions of which is more important, staying good with the popular crowd or being true to your heart.
This new universe has seized my imagination and I am more than eager to see the next installment of this series.
I'm just going to give you a list of great books without my opinion on them:
I Am the Cheese (Laurel-Leaf Library) - Good book, sad but really makes you think
The Giver - Has a lot of political significance, also makes you think
Tangerine - Really upsetting but very realistic and moving
Hope Was Here (2001 Newbery Honor Book) - I can totally relate to Hope except I can't carry that many plates at one time.
Stargirl - A classic modern teen book about individuality
What My Mother Doesn't Know - Junk Book. (Everyone needs a few junk books like junk food.) It's about love and what we will do to get it! I didn't read it...
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies - J.B. (Junk Book) A perfect book for any sulking teen
Abarat (Abarat, 1) - GREAT FANTASTY WITHOUT DRAGONS! It's really long, so good for sick days.
This Lullaby - A really good love story without roses and sneaking off to enlope.
Bloomability - Good readaloud book, but it gets kinda boring
Anne of Green Gables (Unabridged Classics) - A great classic. The character seems so alive and vibrant. And she dies her hair green! OOO!
Gone With the Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie and the Legend - The first and best romance says our mom. I say a long book but very rewarding.
The Phantom Tollbooth - Amazing book! Great for pre-teens, but if you haven't read it yet, you should.
The Encounter (Animorphs#3) - This does not belong on this list, but it is a childhood favorite. P.S. Tobias rocks and don't buy this book
Eva - Creepy Chimps and other assorted mishaps. A girl gets turned into a chimp in the future.
House of Stairs - A really creepy book that'll make you doubt your existance. Or make you throw down the book in disgust and hide under your covers for dear life, of red machines.
Start Here (Have a Nice Life) - J.B. The "Have a Nice Life" Books. It features a Lenny Kravitz look-alike, 4 very insecure girls and a cow. Yes a cow.
The City of Ember: The First Book of Ember (Books of Ember) - A Science fiction that may take place in the past, future, is it even Earth???? P.S. Great thinker book, Sequel: Sparks
Chasing Vermeer - Great mystery says my sister. It's twu!
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism - About a disturbed orphan named after marshmallows who learns to hypnotize pEEEps
Breadwinner - A chica living in the middle east. "Great review Scarlett" says my sister
The Secret of Platform 13 - A great mix of fantasy, realistic fiction and witches! Mix in some switchin babies, are yur set to go!
The Key to the Golden Firebird - J.B. But it's very good! About 3 sisters with a car (thats the firebird bit.) One of the only realistic fiction book where the dad dies instead of the mom.
Of Two Minds (Point Fantasy) - Ladies of the court. Kinda a Nifer book if you know what I mean. Wait, you don't. Kinda predictable but fun.
Sights - not a good cover. It's a really interesting book about a girl in the 50's with PSYCHIC POWERS. More of realistic fiction then a fantasy.
Stardust - A great romance fantasy
Running Out of Time - Almost exactly the same plot as "The Village" movie, but it came first. Less scary though, belive you me.
Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel - 'Ello! I'm an english book! And I include circuses, Smarties and insane teens!
Wow. I've read over 100 books in my young life.
Vampire Academy sets up one of the most fascinating worlds I have come across in very long time. Richelle Mead's vision of vampires is fresh and intriguing. The story is well written with a gripping plot and characters that are both realistic and real. Not only do I feel as though I an starting to know these people and their world, I also find myself actually caring about what happens to them.
The novel is indeed darker than the average YA offering. But it is in no way traumatizing or depressing. It is simply placed in a world that is grittier and more dangerous than that of most people. It still covers common themes from high school. While not worrying about life and death, the leads still have to contend with attacks on their reputations and decisions of which is more important, staying good with the popular crowd or being true to your heart.
This new universe has seized my imagination and I am more than eager to see the next installment of this series.
I'm just going to give you a list of great books without my opinion on them:
I Am the Cheese (Laurel-Leaf Library) - Good book, sad but really makes you think
The Giver - Has a lot of political significance, also makes you think
Tangerine - Really upsetting but very realistic and moving
Hope Was Here (2001 Newbery Honor Book) - I can totally relate to Hope except I can't carry that many plates at one time.
Stargirl - A classic modern teen book about individuality
What My Mother Doesn't Know - Junk Book. (Everyone needs a few junk books like junk food.) It's about love and what we will do to get it! I didn't read it...
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies - J.B. (Junk Book) A perfect book for any sulking teen
Abarat (Abarat, 1) - GREAT FANTASTY WITHOUT DRAGONS! It's really long, so good for sick days.
This Lullaby - A really good love story without roses and sneaking off to enlope.
Bloomability - Good readaloud book, but it gets kinda boring
Anne of Green Gables (Unabridged Classics) - A great classic. The character seems so alive and vibrant. And she dies her hair green! OOO!
Gone With the Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie and the Legend - The first and best romance says our mom. I say a long book but very rewarding.
The Phantom Tollbooth - Amazing book! Great for pre-teens, but if you haven't read it yet, you should.
The Encounter (Animorphs#3) - This does not belong on this list, but it is a childhood favorite. P.S. Tobias rocks and don't buy this book
Eva - Creepy Chimps and other assorted mishaps. A girl gets turned into a chimp in the future.
House of Stairs - A really creepy book that'll make you doubt your existance. Or make you throw down the book in disgust and hide under your covers for dear life, of red machines.
Start Here (Have a Nice Life) - J.B. The "Have a Nice Life" Books. It features a Lenny Kravitz look-alike, 4 very insecure girls and a cow. Yes a cow.
The City of Ember: The First Book of Ember (Books of Ember) - A Science fiction that may take place in the past, future, is it even Earth???? P.S. Great thinker book, Sequel: Sparks
Chasing Vermeer - Great mystery says my sister. It's twu!
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism - About a disturbed orphan named after marshmallows who learns to hypnotize pEEEps
Breadwinner - A chica living in the middle east. "Great review Scarlett" says my sister
The Secret of Platform 13 - A great mix of fantasy, realistic fiction and witches! Mix in some switchin babies, are yur set to go!
The Key to the Golden Firebird - J.B. But it's very good! About 3 sisters with a car (thats the firebird bit.) One of the only realistic fiction book where the dad dies instead of the mom.
Of Two Minds (Point Fantasy) - Ladies of the court. Kinda a Nifer book if you know what I mean. Wait, you don't. Kinda predictable but fun.
Sights - not a good cover. It's a really interesting book about a girl in the 50's with PSYCHIC POWERS. More of realistic fiction then a fantasy.
Stardust - A great romance fantasy
Running Out of Time - Almost exactly the same plot as "The Village" movie, but it came first. Less scary though, belive you me.
Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel - 'Ello! I'm an english book! And I include circuses, Smarties and insane teens!
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