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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Classic literature suggestions for a 16 year old?Question: Classic literature suggestions for a 16 year old!? I'm 16 and I'm looking for some good classic literature - preferably anything up to 1990!. Any suggestions!? Please give the author's name and a bit of what it's about!.
Thanks!. Stuff I have read so far: The Scarlet Letter 1984 The Crucible Stuff I Want to read (please don't repeat): A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men The Pearl The Great Gatsby Brave New World Catch-22 Animal FarmWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Based on what you've listed!.!.!. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (Books are banned - one man wonders why) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Can't explain - just read) The Time Machine - HG Wells (Man builds Time Machine to the future - very deep) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (A child learning about prejudice) The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oliver Wilde (A man and his portrait and the psychological pain it drives him through) The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Only read part, but if you liked the Scarler Letter!.!.!.) Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller (A salesman and his poor family) Our Town - Thorton Wilder (Revealing observations of daily life) Lord of the Flies - William Golding (A group of boys get trapped on an island - kind of creepy, but very good) Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank (Nuclear bomb in America, and a group of survivors have to get through until help comes, if it ever will!. One of the best, in my opinion)Www@QuestionHome@Com Catcher in the rye by JD Salinger, and then make sure you read Nine Stories by him as well!. Of Human Bondage was really good, by Somerset Maugham!. also the Painted Veil!. Dandelion Wine-- so good THE BELL JAR --Sylvia Plath- oh my god!. this is my favorite book ever!. Jane Eyre also, read anything by Tolstoy Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway +the Sun also Rises A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ps: Grapes of Wrath, Tale of two cities, great expectations, of mice and men, the great gatsby: all REALLY goodWww@QuestionHome@Com I know of a few really good books!. 1!. The Vampire Lestat by: Anne Rice It is about, as the title says, the Vampire lestat!. It tells of his life story, his fledglings, his family, his friends!. His loves!. I adore the book with all my heart!. 2!. Secrets in the Attic by: V!.C!. Andrews It is about a girl,Zappora, who moves to a town, Sandburg, and befriends another girl,Karen!. Together they spend most of they're time in the attic!. Karen has a terrible secret and in the attic they share everything!. It's where the lies turn lethal!.!.!. 3!. Heart of the Hunter by: R!.L!. Stine It is about a boy of age 16-17, Jamie Fier!. He and his family are on they're way to the Kentucky Settlement!. Along the way a series of events occur and Jamie finds himself captured by the Shawnee indians!. He falls in love with one of them, but his love is not returned!. An old medicine women says she can help him gain the love of his beauty, Whispering Wind!. But the price is high!. When the full moon is high in the sky Jamie will have to give her his soul!. These are just a few books that come to mind!. I hope this helpsWww@QuestionHome@Com Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Dracula by Bram Stoker Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid UndsetWww@QuestionHome@Com Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne War of the Worlds by H!. G!. Wells The Time Machine by H!. G!. Wells The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre DumasWww@QuestionHome@Com The Good Earth by Pearl S!. Buck The Awakening by Kate Chopin My Antonia by Willa Cather Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand For Whom the Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonWww@QuestionHome@Com Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Catcher in the Rye The Pearl was GOD AWFUL! Though it is my opinion, i wouldnt waste time reading it!. But Of Mice and Men was great!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Judging by the books you listed, I think you would really enjoy Earth Abides by George R!. Stewart and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt VonnegutWww@QuestionHome@Com |