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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What are some good books to read for teens?Question: What are some good books to read for teens!? i dont want anything to read like gossip girl or simmilar because ive read all of the gossip girls since i was like 10 and not twilight or blublood because i read those a long time ago and not the host because i read that
it dosent have to be a teen book it cn be a adult book i dont careWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: couple of good books: Crown Duel/Court Duel by Sherwood Smith On Fortune's wheel by cynthia voight I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan The Velvet room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Blue castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery Emily of New moon trilogy also by LM Montgomery ("childrens" but not really I still read LM's books and love em!.!.!.!.) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte North and South by!.!.!.!.!.Elizabeth Gaskell Just to name a few!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Exceptionally great series every teen girl should read!. By Stephenie Meyer: Grade level: 7+ #1 Twilight: 554 pages #2 New Moon: 608 pages #3 Eclipse: 640 pages #4 Breaking Dawn: 768 pages Comment: Probably the best book series I have ever read!. By Libba Bray: Grade level: 7+ #1 A Great and Terrible Beauty: 416 pages #2 Rebel angels: 560 pages #3 The Sweet Far Thing: 832 pages Comment: Takes place in the Victorian Era!. Really interesting!. Original!. By P!.C Cast and Kristin Cast: Grade level: 7+ #1 Marked: 320 pages #2 Betrayed: 320 pages #3 Chosen: 320 pages #4 Untamed: 352 pages (release date: sept!. 28 2008) #5 Hunted: 320 pages (release date: mar!. 3rd 2009) Comment: Book goes by really fast and leaves you wanting more!. By Sarah Mlynowski: Grade level: 6+ #1 Bra's and Broomsticks: 320 pages #2 Frogs and French Kisses: 304 pages #3 Spells and Sleeping Bags: 320 pages #4 Parties and Potions: 352 pages (release date: Dec!. 23rd 2008) Comment: Hysterically funny and easy to relate to!. By Zoey Dean: Grade level: 8+ #1 The A-List: 228 pages (already in John Marshall Library) #2 Girls on Film: 256 pages #3 Blonde Ambition: 240 pages (already in John Marshall Library) #4 Tall Cool One: 304 pages #5 Back in Black: 304 pages #6 Some Like It Hot: 320 pages #7 American Beauty: 288 pages #8 Heart of Glass: 320 pages #9 Beautiful Stranger: 304 pages #10 California Dreaming: 304 pages Comment: Kind of like the Gossip Girl series, only better and with more substance!. By Melissa de la Cruz: Grade level: 7+ #1 Blue Bloods: 336 pages #2 Masquerade: 336 pages #3 Revelations: 272 pages (Release date: Oct!. 28 2008) Comment: Very great series!. Keeps you turning pages until the book(s) finished!. By Kate Brian: Grade level: 7+ #1 Private: 240 pages #2 Invitation Only: 272 pages #3 Untouchable: 240 pages #4 Confessions: 240 pages #5 Inner Circle: 224 pages #6 Legacy: 256 pages #7 Ambition: 288 pages #8 Revelation: 288 pages #9 Last Christmas: 272 pages (release date: unannounced) #10 Paradise Lost: 208 pages (release date: unannounced) #11 Suspicion: Unknown ( release date: unknown #12 Privileged: 304 pages (release date: Dec!. 30th 2008) Comment: Keeps you on the edge of your seat!. Jam packed with mystery and adventure!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Try some of these, all read recently and very good! Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follet Ingo Series by Helen Dunmore 1-4 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwen Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind Welcome to the Dead House Confessor by Terry Goodkind Twilight series 1-3 Before I die by Jenny Downham Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Only human by Jenny Diske The Four Feathers by AEW Mason Shakespear by Bill Bryson The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood The Dolls House by Rumer Godden To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee A Wayne in a Manger by Gervase Phinn Sorting out Billy by Jo Brand The Best of Fathers by Anne Baker Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder Ultimate Peter Rabbit - story of Beatrix Potter Carnarvon and Carter by 8th Countess of Carnarvon The Sunday Philosophers Club by Alexander McCall Smith Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskill Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger American Gods by Neil Gainham 5th Child by Doris Lessing Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill The Pest House by Jim Crace Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift Swimming with Fishes and Swimming without a Net by MaryJanice Davidson No! I don't want to join a book club by Virgina Ironside My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult 21/2 Pillars of Wisdom by Alexander McCall Smith The Inheriters by Golding My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle The Pearl by Steinbeck Whistling for Elephants by Sandi Toksvic Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Song of the Sound by Adam Armstrong A Room with a View by E M Forster Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanne Clark A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks 6th Wife by Suzanna Dunn Maximum Ride Angel Experiment by James Patterson Inkheart by Cornelia Funkte The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote The Trouble With Angels by Debbie Macomber Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz Girl with a Pen - Story of Charolotte Bronte by Elizabeth Kyle The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanne Clarke Www@QuestionHome@Com Reach for the stars! Read the classics - Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen!. But adolescence is often such an abysmal period, read plenty of humor, too - P!.G!. Wodehouse, Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens columns in the magazine Vanity Fair, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, tho Vonnegut was often more dark than light!. Mad magazine remains classic fare, too!. Best Books section bar none is the Irish Times Weekend edition and don't miss the New York Times weekly magazine!. The New Yorker has terrible fiction these days and the poetry goes from bad to worse but the columnists except rock girl Frere-Something are excellent, esp theatre critic John Lahr!. That oughta keep you busy for awhile!Www@QuestionHome@Com Three different authors I would recommend!. Douglas Coupland (wrote Generation X, and several other good books such as Miss Wyoming) Chuck Klosterman (Media writer, columnist for Spin Magazine, writes about music and pop culture!.) and Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, writes with a dark sense of humor!. Most of his characters will make you compelled to read!. Good if you like to read into strange personalities!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com to kill a mockingbird by harper lee and the alchemist by paulo coelho!. you might also like victoria holt!. her other pen names are jean plaidy and phillippa carr!. you might also like gwen bristow!. i read holt and bristow when i was your age, but that was many, many yrs ago!. give them a try anyway!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Try!.!.!.!.!.: The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot 21 Proms by 21 different authors (Meg Cabot, etc!.) Prom Nights from Hell by about 5 different authors (Stephanie Meyer, Meg Cabot, etc!.) HOPE I HELPED!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Gregor & the procephcy of bane & that series of ghregor books or harry potter !.!. lol sorry i wasnt much of a help!. http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index!?!.!.!. please help me i need help!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Sarah Dessen writes really good books, there's a whole series i!.e- Just Listen, Someone Like You, This Lullaby, That SUmmer, Lock and KEyWww@QuestionHome@Com the twilight seriesWww@QuestionHome@Com |