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Question: Book recommendations!? QUICK!!?
I am headed to the library soon ,and I need some good books to check out!. I like happy books that arent depressing, but I also like serious books that I can learn from!. I have attention problems, so I really need books that can capture my attention!. I have read MANY books in my short lifetime, so its hard to find good material!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Stephanie Meyer:
Brilliance excellence,
A must read!. Best author of the decade!. No jokes
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn (to be released)
JK Rowling
Well no duh I mean come on you have to if you haven’t already
Harry Potter
I’m just going to say 1 though 7 cos they have seriously looooong titles
Eoin Colfer
It’s a classic!. I’m not sure if you can outgrow Artemis Fowl!. I hope not…!.!.
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl and the arctic incident
Artemis Fowl and the eternity code
You get my drift…!.
AF and the opal deception
AF and the lost colony
The Wish List (also really good, not an Artemis Fowl though)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
A vampire book, there are a few of them but they’re all brilliant and really quick reads!. Good for when you have an afternoon of nothing to do but cant get too committed to a project!.
Shattered Mirror
Demon in my View
In the Forrest of the Night
Janet Evanovich
Well these are a little girly but still brilliant, it’s about a bounty hunter ok well not really but a girl pretending o be an well just read it its self explanatory and really hilarious
Stephanie Plum Series
One for the money
Two for the dough
Three to get deadly
You get my drift!? If you like the first few I reckon you’ll read the rest in your own time
Laurell K Hamilton
Ok my advice here is ditto to the Stephanie Plum series!. They’re brilliant, not as funny but better in a different way!. Very cool books……
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series
Nuff said
Anne Rice
Ok I know I know the queen of Goth literature, the pioneer of the gothic vampiric subculture…!.sue me, her stuff is good
Pandora
I’m not going to give you a whole list here, just try Pandora, ok!? Its good, and one of her newest ones and a completely different series to lestat!. I promise
Carolyn Mackler
This is more a fun inspirational must read!. I read it when I was younger like 12
And then again at the end of last year!. I really liked it!. It’s very…!. Just read it!?
The Earth, my butt and other big round things
Ignore the title; you’ll understand when you read it
James Clemens
A very well done/set out, extremely clever and ok really fun characters even though it’s scary at times
Wit'ch Fire
Wit'ch Storm
Wit'ch War
Wit'ch Gate
Wit'ch Star
Holly Black
Ok I know she wrote the spidewicks but this series is good, more grown up but still magical!.its got a great blend of normal everyday modern life with ancient faerie courts and the sidhe etc…!.its good and also quick read
Tithe
Valiant
Ironside
Rick Riordan
Ok actually one of the coolest series I've read in a really long time, it’s seriously original!. Just if u don’t like the sound pf a single one of the books I recommend, well you still have to read this!. And Twilight!. But yea
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
The lightning thief
The sea of monsters
The titans curse
The battle for the labyrinth
Cecelia Reece
Witch child
Pirates
Ok more girl orientated but still really good reads!. Just viewed through a girls perspective, that’s all
Teri Geritsen
That’s how you spell her surname…but it’s a really good read that then becomes a series…I know it sounds gory but its still totally awesome If!.
The Surgeon
Dan Brown
Angel and demons
The da vinci code
Yes you have to read it…all of it!. You will even enjoy it!. I did and I debated reading it for a month before actual talking myself into it!. Its intimidating in the same way the simarillion is (if that’s how you spell simarillion…!.)
Meg Cabot
No I could not resist throwing these in
Tommy Sullivan is a Freak
She went all the way
Guy next door
Boy meets girl
Every guys got one
Sharon Creech
Walk two moons
I read it ages ago, you should have too
Malory Blackman
Hacker
Naught and crosses
On knifes edge
Checkmate
Just read them, no comment, just read
Christopher Paolini
I know I know but he’s going down anyway!. Eragon rox! Ok!? I know you agree
Eragon
Eldest
Brisingr
Libba Bray
A Great ant terrible beauty
Rebel angels
The sweet far thing
Ignore the girly titles just read it!. Its all magic and adventure set in like the 1920s or whenever and it’s really cool
Ted Dekker
…is a genius!. Read enjoy read again
Black
Red
White
Heavens wager
Garth nix
Excellent, excellent excellent nuff said just reeeeead!!!!
Sabriel
Lirael
Abhorsen
New series
Mister Monday
Grim Tuesday
Drowned Wednesday
Sir Thursday
Lady Friday
Superior Saturday
Lord Sunday
Anne Brashares
Girl of lost things
Totally a must read!. Very…!.soul searchy
Sarah dessen
Ok a girly read I get but trust me they are absolutely brilliant and totally ok for a guy to read too!. The message is the same for everyone
The truth about forever
Just listen
Cassandra Clare
Read it read it read it!!!
City of bones
City of ashes
Melissa marr
Wicked Lovely
Ditto
Cynthia leitich smith
Tantalize
Again ditto or is that an oxymoron…!?
Ok so here come the books you have to read but whose authors I can’t remember!. Oh well…!.!.
Evil genius
Spandau phoenix
The five people you meet in heaven
The lovely bones
The dream merchant
Utopia
Inkheart
Hoot
The star of KazanWww@QuestionHome@Com
These are some really good books that I've read and thoroughly enjoyed:
-the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud*****
-the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Coffer*
-The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen(any book by her)
-Hawksong(series) by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes(any book by her)
-The Shannara series by Terry Brooks*****
-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
-Watership Down by Richard Adams
-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens*
-Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter
-The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
-The Princess Bride by William Goldman*
-Discworld series by Terry Pratchet*****
*s are the ones I really REALLY recommend for anyone to read, and the ones with five *s are the best books I've ever read in my life!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Oh that's simply easy to answer!.
Twilight!.
Read that and if you love it (like most girls/women) then go out and buy New Moon!.
And then Eclipse!.
The last of the books comes out Aug!. 2
Breaking Dawn is the title!.
You'll love it!.
I don't know you but i know for a fact every one of the chicks i know that read it absolutely LOVE it!
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The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray
1st book- A Great and Terrible Beauty
2nd book- Rebel Angels
3rd book- The Sweet Far Thing
These books are excellent and guaranteed to catch your attention!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
the Dirk Pitt, Kurt Austen, NUMA Files and Oregon Files series by Clive Cussler
anything by James Rollins
the Mercer series by Jack Du BrulWww@QuestionHome@Com
The twilight Saga
funny but serius
romance and action
it has a great story line and u will fall in love with it
along with the lead male charactor EdwardWww@QuestionHome@Com
Song of the Beast by Carol Berg
It gets right to the story!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
lock and key- sarah dessen
the chinese cinderella
the book thief (one of the books that would be sad and you could learn from!. still funny though)
<3<3<3Www@QuestionHome@Com
Twilight series by stephenie meyer-twilight,new moon,eclipse(twilight first)Www@QuestionHome@Com
Nora Roberts
Three Sisters Island Trilogy
Dances Upon The Air
Heaven And Earth
Face The FireWww@QuestionHome@Com
Twilight seriesWww@QuestionHome@Com
the perks of being a wallflower!. it has a few sad parts but its really good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
The Twilight Series: (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn)
The Host
Stephenie Meyer
Blue is for Nightmares Series
(Blue is for Nightmares
White is for Magic
Silver is for Secrets
Red is for Remembrance)
Project 17
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
The Harry Potter Series by J!.K!. Rowling
Things Change
Nailed
Chasing Tail Lights
Cheated
By Patrick Jones
A Walk to Remember
A Bend in the Road
The Notebook
The Wedding
The Guardian
Nights in Rodanthe
Dear John
Message in a Bottle
True Believer
At First Sight
By Nicholas Sparks
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Running With Scissors
Dry
By Augusten Burroughs
Wicked by Gregory MacGuire
Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky
Go Ask Alice: anonymous
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Sam's Letters for Jennifer
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
You've Been Warned
by James Patterson
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Catcher in the Rye by J!.D!. Salinger
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Vampire Diaries Series
(The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion)
by L!.J!. Smith
Homefree by Nina Wright
Prep
Lovesick
by Jake Coburn
Slaughterhouse-Five
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Chronicles of Narnia by C!.S!. Lewis
The Trumpet of the Swan by E!.B!. White
Carrie by Stephen King
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Watcher by James Howe
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
In My Enemy's House
Daniel's Story
By Carol Matas
The Outsiders
That Was Then, This is Now
By S!.E!. Hinton
Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennet and Jeff Gottesfeld
The Other Shepards by Adele Griffin
The Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osbourne
Goosebumps by R!.L!. Stine
What Kind of Love!? by Sheila Cole
The Giver
Gathering Blue
by Lois Lowry
Harmless
A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life
By Dana Reinhardt
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Cesear
By William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The Pigman
The Pigman's Legacy
The Pigman and Me
My Darling, My Hamburger
by Paul Zindel
Sweethearts
Story of a Girl
By Sara Zarr
Peeps
The Last Days
by Scott Westerfeld
Bloom
by Elizabeth Scott
Speak
By Laurie Halse Anderson
What Happened To Cass McBride
by Gail Giles
Remembering Raquel
By Vivian Vande Velde
Hiroshima
By John Hersey
Elsewhere: Gabrielle Zevin
Sweet Blood: Pete Hautman
Lucas: Kevin Brooks
Uninvited: Amanda Marrone
A Certain Slant of Light: Laura Whitcomb
Nothing But The Truth: AVI
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
By Roald Dahl
Hope this helps!Www@QuestionHome@Com