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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Book recomendations...?Question: Book recomendations!.!.!.!? i've just finished Breaking Dawn by stephenie meyer and am feeling a little fed up with it to be honest!.
i really want to try a completley new series of books and would love it if u could point me in the direction of some good ones!. can be any genre except non fiction!. (btw it doesnt HAVE to be a series but that would be preferable) thnx emz :)Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice!. You might have read them, but they are awsome!. It starts with "Interview with the Vampire!." Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Gemma Doyle series by Libba Bray!. ( A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing) The Pretty Little Liars series (kindof creepy but good) by Sara Shepard Avalon High by Meg Cabot *Mortal Instruments series: City of Bones (it's sequel is City of Ashes, and there's going to be a third one coming out next year!.!.!.they are amazing, honestly!!) They are by Cassandra Clare Www@QuestionHome@Com His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman: Book 1 - The Golden Compass Book 2 - The Subtle Knife Book 3 - The Amber Spyglass Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr Poison by Chris Wooding The Chronicles of Narnia by C!.S!. Lewis: Book 1 - The Magician's Nephew Book 2 - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Book 3 - The Horse and His Boy Book 4 - Prince Caspian Book 5 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Book 6 - The Silver Chair Book 7 - The Last Battle These are all fantasy!. The Chronicles of Narnia and His Dark Materials are series!. I gave you the order they are read in!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The website below is an amazing book review blog!. The newest post is called "Moving on After Twilight!." http://freakykikireviews!.blogspot!.com If that's not what you're looking for, I reccomend the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, and the Eleven series by Lauren Myracle!. I also reccomend Lovely Bones!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger Last Chance by Sarah Dessen Best of Fathers by Anne Baker The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood Cell by Stepohen King My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Before I Die by Jenny Downham Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, James Herbert and Alexander McCall Smith The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger Www@QuestionHome@Com Eragon Eldest by Christopher Paolini- are way better than the movies- Not sure your taste but the Dark Tower series by Stephen King is good!. edit: I forgot to add the Amber series Chronicles of Amber by Roger ZelaznyWww@QuestionHome@Com The Spiderwick Chronicles Lord of the Rings The Hobbit Series of Unfortunate Events Redwall by Brian JacquesWww@QuestionHome@Com I think you should turn to some classics for the time being!. Here's a complete list for you(some of them are not classics but books I've liked): Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner by George Eliot Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, A tale of Two Cities and Bleak House by Charles Dickens!. The Grapes of wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl,Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck Tess of the Duberville, Jude the Obscure, The return of the Native, Under the Greenwood tree, A Pair of Blue eyes,The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd and The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy Villette, Shirley, The Professor,and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Agnes Grey, The tenant of Windfell Hall by Anne Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Alchemist and Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute The Great Gatsby by F!. Scott Fitzgerald Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Diary of Anne Frank Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth and any other play by Shakespeare The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart and other stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemingway The Sound and the Fury and Light in August by William Faulkner All Quite on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque Night by Elie Wiesel Black Boy by Richard Wright The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, Salome, Vera Or The Nihilists,The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Don Quixote by Cervantes Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malroy The Metamorphosis by Kafka Candide by Voltaire Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Lost world and the Time Machine by H!.G!.Wells Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry and Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor A Grain Of Wheat, Matigari and Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe The Grass is Singing by Dorris Lessing Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe!. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London A Room with A View and A Passage to India by E!.M!.Forster Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez A House For Mr Biswas and Mr Stone and the Knights companion by V!.S!.Naipaul The Guide, The English Teacher, Waiting for the Mahatma and Malgudi Days by R!.K!.Narayan Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton( It's nothing like the film, it's a million times times more interesting) A Streetcar named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennesse Williams All My Sons, Death of A Salesman, The Crucible and A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Mary Barton and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James These are the most recent books I've read, you might check them out:- Swan by Frances Mayes Flight of the Archangel (sorry, I just can't bring to mind the name of the author) The Chase by Louisa May Alcott The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Hope this helps!Www@QuestionHome@Com |