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Go Ask Alice
The Great Gatsby
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Giving Tree
The Giver, The Gathering Blue, The Messenger Trilogy
Night, Dawn, The Accident Trilogy
Cry, The Beloved Country
The Hobbit
Watership Down
Things They CarriedWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Robert A!. Heinlein!.

Start with the early Juveniles, (Podkayne, Rolling Stones, etc!.) and as you get a feel for his style, move in to the later, more adult-themed novels!.

WARNING: Heinlein just might make you start thinking for yourself, a potentially subversive thing, given the times!.

Louise Cooper wrote a series of books about a teenaged girl's quest for atonement: the Indigo series!.

Julian May wrote a series of books collectively called the Saga of the Pliocene Exiles!. It is stuffed with interesting Archetypal characters and reads well!.

Anything by Larry Niven and/or Jerry Pournelle!.

As you can see, all of my recommendations are in the SF/Speculative fiction/Fantasy genre!. In my not-so-humble opinion, this genre is just the trick to open up an inquisitive, 15-year-old mind!.

I know that sounds rather pompous, but I was about 15 when I discovered many of these books, and I turned out OK!.

I think!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Hmmm!. It sounds like we have similar reading tastes! Some of my favorite books (from your above) are The Catcher in the Rye, Water for Elephants, and Atonement!. I also really really liked Pride and Prejudice, The Historian, and Farenheit 451, and I have A Certain Slant of Light, The Host, and The Book Thief around here somewhere!.!.!.

The His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman is really great!. Really special and unique fantasy!.

What about Gone With the Wind!? So long, but so good, especially if you like historical fiction!.

Some others it sounds like you might like are The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, A Farewell to Arms!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It sounds like you'd like Nancy Farmer's "The House of the Scorpian"!. That is one of my all-time favorite books!. You should also read her other books, specifically "The Sea of Trolls" and it's sequel, "The Land of the Silver Apples"!.

All of those books are really good!. I think you'd like them a lot!. Happy reading!. :DWww@QuestionHome@Com

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The Life of Pi (INCREDIBLE! MUST READ)

A Fine Balance

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lord of the Flies

Dracula

Life on the Refrigerator Door
(its not a hard book at all, but its makes you think!. the book is written entirely in post-it notes!. The theme of the book is so amazing and the entire thing is incredibly written and i TOTALLY recommend it!. i cried! its amazing!)

Go Ask Alice
(once again, it really makes you think!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh!. Its probably taken me the longest to finish(still not quite finished but I know its good) but I'll blame that on the good weather louring me outside!.
1984 by Orwell!. Recently started that again, and its probably better than I remember!.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a fairly good book aswel!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Well I was just sorta in the same situation as you, my advise is to switch from hard books (Les Miserables) to an easyer (or reread book):
It
Hamlet
Don Quixote
War and Peace- very hard
Jurassic Park
Lord of the Flies
The Stand
Huck Finn

For in between (easy) novels definatly the lightning thief -RiordanWww@QuestionHome@Com

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One Hundred Years Of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez!. Any thing by him really!. He has won the Nobel prize for literature and it was well deserved!. There is a wealth of literature out there, you can't go too wrong with Thomas Hardy, Dickens any of the Brontes!. The list can just go on!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Four Feathers by AEW Mason
Shakespear by Bill Bryson
The Knitting Club by Ann Hood
The Best of Fathers by Anne Baker
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
Nocturnes by John Connolly!.
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Anything by Stephen King although The Stand is brilliant
Anything by John Saul
Innocent Traitor or The Lady Elizabeth or Elizabeth the Queen by Alison Weir
Chocolat and Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwenWww@QuestionHome@Com

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I'm 16 and i read Robert Jordan's series- A Wheel of Time is an epic!. Give it a try or maybe George R!. R!. Martin's series- A Song of Fire and Ice!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Try :

Eragon & Eldest - Christoher Paolini
One more River - Lynne Reid Banks
Down to a Sunless Sea - David Graham
Lord of the Rings - forget the movie read the book!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Lord of the Flies
Edit: I agree with some of the other people!. The Stand, It, and the Dark Tower series are all very enjoyable if you like that kind of genre!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Frankenstein
1984
Dune
Genius: a biography of Richard Feynman
A Tour of the Calculus
UlyssesWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Norwegian Wood - Harumi Murakami
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Being and Nothingness or No Exit - SartreWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Twilight by stephenie meyer
to kill a mocking bird

i think you will really like twilight give it a shotWww@QuestionHome@Com

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"The Doors of Perception", by Aldous Huxley!. Peace!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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i loved a separate peace its one of my all time favorite books and i also really like jane austen's persuasionWww@QuestionHome@Com

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try reading vampiratsWww@QuestionHome@Com

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If you like fantasy, you should read Wicked!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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You must try Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder - a complete run through of the history of Philosophy in a novel!.

also, Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones - a fantastic story with a dark undercurrent to be discovered by the more advanced reader!.

I am a school Librarian and this is a selection of my 6th Form (16+) recommended reading list - hope there is something here for you!.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Silas Marner - George Eliot
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Portait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Beach - Alex Garland
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela CarterWww@QuestionHome@Com

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There you go spreading vile and malicious truths about Twilight!.!.!.(wink)!.

I see Fahrenheit 451 on your list!. Good choice! Go with The Martian Chronicles, and The Illistrated Man, both by Ray Bradburry!. BTW you MUST read this
http://www!.laweekly!.com/news/news/ray-br!.!.!.
It is Ray Bradburry himself saying what that story is about!.!.!.!."Now, Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his iconographic work and what he really meant!. Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship!. Nor was it a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands!.

This, despite the fact that reviews, critiques and essays over the decades say that is precisely what it is all about!. Even Bradbury’s authorized biographer, Sam Weller, in The Bradbury Chronicles, refers to Fahrenheit 451 as a book about censorship!.

Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature!."

In any case read more of his stuff!. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS is without a doubt the most haunting story I have ever read!.!.!.but when you get to it, have a hanky ready!. It doesn't make you cry, but it is SO overwhelmingly sad!.!.!.!. I will never forget what the side of the house looked like!.!.!.!.I see that in my mind as clearly as I can see my fingers typing this!.

Sorry for the aside!.!.!.

I'd bet dollars to donuts that you have already read C!.S!. Lewis' Narnia books!.!.!.so I'd suggest THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS and THE GREAT DIVORCE!. Both are more grown up works by Lewis!. The Great Divorce is my favorite!.!.!.you go through that book looking at the people the author meets, saying "Oh I know someone just like him", and "Oh that one is just like Jill" and "Oh!.!.!.that is SO totally Ben!.!." till just when you are feeling totally morally superior to everyone you know!.!.!.you hit one and go "OMG! That's ME!" and you have to put the book down and think for a half an hour!.

Kudos on Animal Farm as well!. I'd recomend 1984 but A) it is horribly depressing and B) NONE of the "comentary" on that book ever gets it right!. It's not about Bush, it's not about anything to do with any part of America!.!.!.it's about Stalinism and Socialisim!.!.!.!.but most academics are socialist at heart, so they don't like to admit that!.!.!.just like Farenheit 451!.!.!.

Ayn Rand is good!.!.!.IF you can get past the fact that her writing style is heavier than a ton of bricks, her carachters tend to go off on long, long, long speeches at the drop of a hat, and she does not understand the idea of "beating a dead horse"!. I liked Atlas Shrugged!.!.!.though I skipped over large parts of it, and still do each time I re-read it!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Wow - had a lot of the books you've mentioned im my list!. Here is a revised list!. hopefully I didn't miss any!.

Series:

Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
City Of Bones series by Cassandra Clare
The Xenogenesis series by Octavia E!. Butler
Everworld series by Katherine Applegate
Daughter of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
Lemony Snickett - A series Of Unfortunate Events
Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson
Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The Border Trilogy: (All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain) by Cormac McCarthy!.
Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer
Lord of the Rings series by J!.R!.R Tolkien
Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

Non Series:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E!. Butler
Tangerine by Edward Bloor and Danny De Vito
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac, Howard Cunnell, Joshua Kupetz, and George Mouratidis
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr!.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Postman by David Brin
Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr!.
Stick by Elmore Leonard
What to Keep by Rachel Cline
The Lizards Tail by Marc Brandel
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Vision Quest by Terry Davis
Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged by Rebecca Fjelland Davis
On Writing by Stephen King
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Fire Starter by Stephen King (more thriller than horror)
Blue Is for Nightmares By Laurie Faria Stolarz
Abarat by Clive Barker
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K!. Dick

Young Reader:

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Are You There God!? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume
James Patterson's Maximum Ride series
Tangerine by Edward Bloor and Danny De Vito
Abarat by Clive Barker
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Super Fudge by Judy Bloom
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke


Chick Lit:

Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
Love Over Scotland by Alexander Mccall Smith
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
Magic Study (Study Series) by Maria V!. Snyder
Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Love the One You're With Hardcover by Emily Giffin
Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
Tangerine by Edward Bloor and Danny De Vito
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
What to Keep by Rachel Cline
The Lizards Tail by Marc Brandel
On Writing by Stephen King
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Fire Starter by Stephen King (more thriller than horror)
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Where the Heart Is is a 1995 novel by Billie Letts
Vision Quest by Terry Davis
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Fledgling by Octavia E!. Butler

Vampire:

Fledgling by Octavia E!. Butler
Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruze
Boys That Bite by Marianne Mancusi
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Life Force by Colin Wilson (Space Vampires)
Midnighters By Scott Westerfeld
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
Belinda by Anne Rampling
The Beast Within by Edward Levi (vampireesq)
The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
The Vampire Companion by Katherine Ramsland
Exit to Eden by Anne Rampling
Communion by Whitley Strieber
I am Legend by Richard MathesonWww@QuestionHome@Com

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I see that you have read “Pride & Prejudice” by Jane Austen; I suggest you read her “Northanger Abby,” the book is about a women who is invited to stay at an Estate and starts to believe that a murder had taken place years before!. Other classics I have liked are “The Time Machine” - H!.G!. Wells, “The Three Musketeers” - Alexandre Dumas, and “The Tempest”- William Shakespear!. My favorite mystery books so far have been by Agatha Christie, especially the ones about the character Hercule Poirot!. Another good mystery series are the Nero Wolf books by Rex Stout!. I also really like the books by Brock and Bodie Thoene, they write historical fiction!. A really cool thing about the books by the Thoene’s is that all of the characters are based on actual people!. All of the famous characters (for example, Winston Churchill) are based on known true events, and the other characters are based on the true events of one or more persons!. The first series of theirs that I ever read was the Zion Covenant Series, it takes place in Europe at the beginning of World War II; it can be very hard to put the books down at times!. The books by Frank Peretti are supposed to be suspenseful supernatural thrillers, I recommend This Present Darkness!. also “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C!.S!. Lewis are really good!.
Let me know if you want more suggestions!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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