Like when you go in a bookstore, which author will you always pick up because you know they will have a good story!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Books about Teen Issues: A Child Called "IT" by David Pelzer (Abuse) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Rape/murder of a teen) Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Suicide) Crank and Glass (Drugs), Burned (Abuse), and Impulse (Suicide, drugs, etc!.) by Ellen Hopkins The Pact (Suicide Pact), Nineteen Minutes (Columbine-Like), and My Sister's Keeper (Being a donor for a sick sister) by Jodi Picoult Prom, Twisted, Speak (Rape), and Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith A Separate Peace by John Knowles Historical Fiction: In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason - It's about the VietnamWar Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor - about blacks in America Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Pilots in WWII The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - WWII Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier The Other Boleyn Girl (and others) by Philippa Gregory Romance: Anything by Sarah Dessen, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, Nicholas Sparks, or Ellen Giffin Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion by Jane Austen Books to Make You Think: The Five People You Meet in Heaven; Tuesdays With Morrie; and For One More Day by Mitch Albom Anything by Hermann Hesse Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Fantasy: The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Brisingr in 9/2008) Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett The Sword of Shanarra Series by Terry Brooks His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman Mediator and 1-800 Series by Meg Cabot Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz Anything by Tamora Pierce or Donita K!. Paul A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Wake by Lisa McMann Science Fiction: Anything by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C!. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Douglas Adams, Michael Crichton, or Orson Scott Card Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras by Scott Westerfeld Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Anything by Agatha Christie Www@QuestionHome@Com Bret Easton Ellis, Joe McGinniss Jr!., Jasper Fforde, sometimes Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Junot Diaz!. All are fantastic authors in their own right!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Robin McKinley (fantasy) Stephen King (horror) Anne Rice (fantasy) Edgar Allan Poe (horror)Www@QuestionHome@Com Diana Gabaldon, but her books take soooo long to come out, that I very rarely get the opportunity to pick one up that I haven't read! Www@QuestionHome@Com Cornelia Funke! n Rick Riorden!!!! i luv d fiction they rite!!!!! mindblowin! their books capture u n never let go! lol have a try :)Www@QuestionHome@Com Stephen King, Terry brooks, RA SalvatoreWww@QuestionHome@Com diana palmer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Dean KoontzWww@QuestionHome@Com |