I like a lot of different books, so feel free to recommend anything!.
Thanks in advance!
also, please, nothing by Stephenie Meyer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Thanks in advance! also, please, nothing by Stephenie Meyer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Classic is so broad a term! Some great reads that you may want to check out: Jane Austen ~ Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northranger Abbey, Emma Charlotte Bronte ~ Jane Eyre Emily Bronte ~ Wuthering Heights Thomas Hardy ~ Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Ubervilles H!.G!. Wells ~ The Time Machine, The Island of Dr!. Moreau, The War of the Worlds D!.H!. Lawrence ~ Lady Chatterley's Lover Oscar Wilde ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest George Bernard Shaw ~ Pygmalion William Makepeace Thackeray ~ Vanity Fair Alexandre Dumas ~ The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers Henry James ~ The Portrait of a Lady George Eliot ~ Silas Marner, Middlemarch Kurt Vonnegut ~ Bluebird, Slaughterhouse Five Isaac Asimov ~ Foundation trilogy Philip K!. Dick ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep!? J!.R!.R!. Tolkien ~ The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings Trilogy Shakespeare ~ any plays or poetry you have not yet read or been exposed to- there is a lot that can you can learn from reading the social commentary of the time in Shakespeare's works!. I love them and you can find a deeper meaning when you read them yourself!. Just a few to get you started! Good luck and happy reading!Www@QuestionHome@Com A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing - A trilogy by Libba Bray!. Personally I loved these books and I couldn't get enough of them!. I was so sad when I finished the last book! Uglies Trilogy -By Scott Westerfield!. At first I was pretty skeptical about the content of this book, but it turns out that these books are actually very interesting!. A good read!. Inkheart and Inkspell -By Cornelia funke!. I adore Cornelia Funke, and these are amazing books!. The detail and thought she put into these books is great!. I reccommend these 2! Any thing by Eva Ibbotson!. She has a whimsical, sarcastic tone, and her stories are most always fantasy!. If you like historical fiction, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Count of Monte Cristo are brilliant!. They are fantastic, and Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books ever! Classics I love: Pride and Prejudice, Count of Monte Cristo, Dracula, Anna Karenina (rly long), Little Women (love it so much!), The swiss Family Robinson (must read), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (movie sucked but book is good), and To Kill a Mockingbird (must read!) hope this helps!.!.!.all of these books are rly good!Www@QuestionHome@Com aww man i was going to say the twilight series lol!.!.!.but ok have you read the harry potter series, or the inheritance series (eragon, eldest and soon brisinger) umm you can read the kite runner by kahled hosseni and a thousand splendid suns which is also by him, hes an amazing author i really enjoyed the two books, if your into mysteries i suggest you try books written by john grisham, if your religion allows you to then you should read books by dan brown, i really enjoyed angels and demons and deception point by him!.!.!.if your into romance then you should get books by nicholas sparks, im not going to suggest the classic the notebook but all give other books like dear john and the gaurdian a chance!.!.!.!.i guess i could give you better ideas if i new which types of books your interested in!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It would help if yeh gave yer age an' interests, but here goes: http://www!.life-after-harry-potter!.com Included is a list o' only the best sorcery fantasy books, grade readin' level, a short review o' each book along with a brief summary o' adult content!. There is also a "Reader's Choice" list o' favorite books, an' a list of heroine sorcery fantasy books!. also these: http://www!.interleaves!.org/~rteeter/grto!.!.!. !. Lots o' lists, but I 'specially like the Harvard Classics list - all the books that I shoulda read, but (mostly) never did!. Finally, these: http://www!.awardannals!.com/wiki/Honor_ro!.!.!. - pick yer genre, find the best books ranked by how many awards they've won!. I hope this helps!. HagridWww@QuestionHome@Com I recomend anything By Shannon Hale!. And the Books Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata!. I loved all these books!. Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata Shannon Hale-Books of Bayern Series The Goose Girl (not about a girl who is a goose!) Enna Burning River Secrets Non-Series Book Of a Thousand Days Austenland Princess Academy Good Luck and have fun reading!Www@QuestionHome@Com These are some that I really liked: **The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld The A-List series by Zoey Dean **The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares The Clique series by Lisi Harrison Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson **Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke and of course!.!.!. **Harry Potter by J!.K!. Rowling The ** ones are my favorites!. Hope this helps =)Www@QuestionHome@Com Stephen King Jonathon Kellerman Jeffery Deaver All are good mystery writersWww@QuestionHome@Com any sarah dessen books 13 reasons why by jay asherWww@QuestionHome@Com |