Can you please recommend me a book?!?!

[tyuan11]

Yea I'm 14 and have to do some summer reading. I have to chose 3 books

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Guide to Success, Stephen Covey
About A Boy, Nicholas Hornby
Adoration of Jenna Fox, The, Mary E. Pearson
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Animal Dreams Barbara King-Solver
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Bluest Eye, The Toni Morrison
Book Thief, The, Markus Zukas
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The, John Boyne
Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
Cesar’s Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems Cesar Millan
Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother, The, James McBride
Color Purple, The, Alice Walker
Confederacy of Dunces, A, John Kennedy O’Toole
Crime and Punishment (available on planet ebooks), Fyodor Dostoevsky
DaVinci Code, The, Dan Brown
Define “Normal” , Julie Anne Peters
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The, Jean Dominique Bauby
Dracula (available on planet ebooks), Bram Stoker
Dreamland, Sarah Dessen
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Barack Obama
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
For One More Day, Mitch Albom
Freedom Writer’s Diary, Erin Gruwell
Friday Lights, H.G. Bissinger
Game, The Walter Dean Meyers
Glass Castle, The, Jeannette Walls
God of Small Things, Arhundati Roy
Golden Compass, The, Phillip Pullman
Good Earth, The, Pearl S. Buck
Handmaid’s Tale, The, Margaret Atwood
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A, Dave Eggers
Heaven V.C. Andrews
High Fidelity, Nicholas Hornby
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (available on planet ebooks), Arthur Conan Doyle
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
Impossible, Nancy Werlin
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Inconvenient Truth, An, Al Gore
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle, Madeleine Blais
Jump Ball, Mel Glenn
Just Listen, Sarah Dessen
Juvie Three, The, Gordon Korman
Killer Angels, The, Michael Shaara
Last Lecture, The, Randy Pausch
Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza
Lesson Before Dying, A, Ernest J. Gaines
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Little Women (available on planet ebooks), Louisa May Alcott
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
Maximum Ride (series), James Patterson
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Native Son, Richard Wright
No More Dead Dogs, Gordon Korman
Notebook, The Nicholas Sparks
Pact: A Love Story, The Jodi Piccoult
Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream, The, Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt
Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (available on planet ebooks), Oscar Wilde
Prayer for Owen Meany, A, John Irving
Primavera Mary Jane Beaufrand
Red Badge of Courage (available on books.google.com), Stephen Crane
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The, Ann Brashares
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Strangers in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Thousand Splendid Suns, A, Khaled Hosseini
Time Traveler’s Wife, The, Audrey Niffenegger
Tipping Point, The Malcolm Gladwell
Truancy, Isamu Fukui
Turnabout, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Twilight Series, Stephenie Meyer
War of the Worlds (available on planet ebooks), H.G. Wells
What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell
World According to Garp, The, John Irving
Wrinkle in Time, A, Madeleine L ‘Engle

Can you recommend any excitng page turners? Also, please don't recommend books that are massive (for me at least) like 300 plus pages.

THANKS!!!

P.S. I don't want to read twilight...

[MoreCowbell]

Wow, you have some great choices! In order I think you should read:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak...it started off a bit odd but I really got caught up in the story and characters. It is very real and you'll especially like it if you're interested in WWII/Holocaust stories.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke...very exciting, you'll want to read the other two books in the series and you definitely should (the 3rd is my favorite)...it has magic, adventure, love, etc

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman...another exciting story of adventure where you'll want to read the other two books in the series...I think Book 2 is my favorite...again, adventure, love, magic, evil

The Da Vinci code is great and fast-paced but may be too much for you. I love both Nick Hornby books, Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood but I think you would appreciate them a lot more in 2-5 years.

If you're a girl, you will really like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, it was a good one. The 3 I suggested are a lot more meaningful and much faster paced though.

[atrixa]

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audery Niffinegger is great, but may be too long. You might like things such as Sisterhood of the Travelling pants and Bridget Jones.

On another note, I'm outraged that crap such as Twilight is on a recommended reading list! It's so badly written...

[Scott]

I read The Time Traveler's Wife and enjoyed it very much too. I recommend it.

[Moderation note: Thread moved to general section because all new threads started in the "Reviews, Recommendations and Warnings" section must be limited to one book or series per thread, as stated by the forum rules for that section.]

Thanks,
Scott

[Gary Delfino]

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: I've got a great book for you to read

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Conscience of a Dead Killer: Although the title suggests morbid death and carnage, there really is none. It hosts no adult situations or even profanity. It even has a happy ending.

The story: A killer's ghost is forced to go back in time and witness the lives of his victims with a conscience, until he meets an FBI agent who can see him where no one else can.

It can be found on Amazon or ordered through about a million other places.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did

Gary

[Randy E. Harnshire]

Try 'The book of thief'

[Randy E. Harnshire]

Eclipse is also very good too

[rachel]

being 14 i think hard love by wittlinger would be a good read for you

[rachel]

also i think you should really consider twilight, it popular for a reason

[prettyvicky]

^ yeah. twilight is a good novel.

[cascol]

i also just finished "the time traveler's wife" by audrey niffenegger..
my version is 536 pages but its worth it. give it a shot.

[Bowlie]

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell was really interesting. It makes you look at the world differently. It's pretty short and easy as well.

Ender's Game is a great science fiction novel. It's also quite easy to read and moves fast.

Life of Pi is one of my favorite books of all time, but it is a slow read at the beginning. It picks up later once Pi is at sea though.

[pmaterial4]

Either The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert, or Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld.

I'm a coming-of-age buff and these are some really solid ones. Seriously consider them because they're fabulous! The first is about a young boy in high school, the second is about a girl in the punk rock scene, and the third is about a girl going to a boarding school for high school. Amazing!

[StephenBPearl]

War of the Worlds. H.G. Wells has become a little dated but he is still great. Just remember that it was written in the early 1900s. Still in all the action and human drama are every bit as real today as the day it was published.

[jennabelle91]

I love the selection.
I agree with recommending The Book Thief.
But for your age I think the Maximum Ride series is good. I enjoyed them. In my opinion much better than twilight. But, that's just my opinion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an interesting story line but a little weird. But if you are looking for something a little different/ New I would reccommend it.
Also do the books you read have to be off that particular list?