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Question: Book recommendation! Easy ten points!?
Well, it is my birthday fast approaching and I need to tell my Mum a book that I would like!. So I thought I would ask what book you would recommend, considering the following:
*I do not enjoy Sci-Fi
*I have already read Twilight!!!
*My favourite books are: The Book Thief, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Bronze Horseman, Night, Pride and Prejudice, anything my Jane Austen, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Tess of the D'Ubervilles, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn!.
*So I guess the only trend I can see in those books is that I generally like books which were not published about this generation best!.
*I enjoy reading boos around WW2, that have historical information about the war but also some kind of fictional story (as is seen in The Book Thief, The Guernsey Literary!.!.!., Suite Francaise and The Bronze Horseman)
*also, I am sixteen, but I don't like teenage fiction books, generally, unless they are very very good and not revolving around the same old Girl at school meets boy at school and so on!.
So any suggestions!?
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
1984 is sci-fi, you silly girl :P

If you really did like 1984, I would recommend either The Handmaiden's Tale (An excellent feminist novel set in the future, I highly recommend), or Brave New World!.
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I read a lot!. I'm your age, and I read this book first in 4th grade!. It's only a 5th grade reading level or something like that, But I still like it a lot!. It's called Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, It's about WW2Www@QuestionHome@Com

One of my favorites is "The World According to Garp" by John Irving!. All of his books are really great!. It has a lot of detail and is a fairly long book, but all of his characters are so interestingWww@QuestionHome@Com

You might enjoy "When I Lived In Modern Times" by Linda Grant!. It won the Orange prize in 2000!. It's a great book that's a little under the radar of popularity!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

tomorrow when the war began
easy
its legendary!!
i no u said no war but its fiction and not too much about reall war stuff
its by john marsden and it is a series of seven i adore them and i hope u will 2Www@QuestionHome@Com

This Present Darkness
Frank Peretti

Great author, great story

or you can just read my blogs

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Haven't you read HARRY POTTER!?!?!?!? You have read Twlight and not Harry Potter!!!!
You should so read HP!Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Guns of NavaroneWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think, Veronika Decides To Die is a nice bookk from Paolo Coelho!.

I liked it!!.!. Hope you would too!Www@QuestionHome@Com

House of Leaves!.

We have near identical taste in books!. You'll love it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

War and Peace

Can't go wrong with TolstoyWww@QuestionHome@Com

Try some of these

Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follet – historical fiction, some romance
Ingo Series by Helen Dunmore 1-4 – fantasy mermaid story
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwen - romance
Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind – fantasy, a spin off from Sword of Truth series
Welcome to the Dead House – Goosebumps
Confessor by Terry Goodkind – last of the Sword of Truth series book 1 is Wizards First Rule - fantasy
Twilight series 1-3 – vampire fantasy/romance
Before I Die by Jenny Downham – Young adult – some romance
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Only human by Jenny Diske – story of Abraham
The Four Feathers by AEW Mason – War
Shakespear by Bill Bryson - Humour
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood – General fiction
The Dolls House by Rumer Godden – Children’s story
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee - classic
A Wayne in a Manger by Gervase Phinn – Humour
Sorting out Billy by Jo Brand – Adult Romance
The Best of Fathers by Anne Baker - Romance
Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder – take on Shakespeare – young adult
Ultimate Peter Rabbit - story of Beatrix Potter - biography
Carnarvon and Carter by 8th Countess of Carnarvon - biography
The Sunday Philosophers Club by Alexander McCall Smith – general fiction
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskill - classic
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips – Humour/fantasy –some romance
Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger – fantasy romance
American Gods by Neil Gainham - fantasy
5th Child by Doris Lessing – weird!
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill – Horror/ghost story
The Pest House by Jim Crace – historical fiction
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift – fantasy/Teen
Swimming with Fishes and Swimming without a Net by MaryJanice Davidson – fantasy romance – features mermaids
No! I don't want to join a book club by Virgina Ironside – general fiction/humorous
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult – Family crisis
21/2 Pillars of Wisdom by Alexander McCall Smith - humourous
The Inheritors by William Golding - classic
My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle – romance from guys view point
The Pearl by Steinbeck - classic
Whistling for Elephants by Sandi Toksvic – fiction – suitable for young adult
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd – fiction – suitable for your adult
Song of the Sound by Adam Armstrong – Environment-protecting dolphins/romance
A Room with a View by E M Forster - classic
Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanne Clark – fantasy/magic
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks - romance
6th Wife by Suzanna Dunn – historical fiction
Maximum Ride Angel Experiment by James Patterson – young adult fantasy
Inkheart by Cornelia Funkte – fantasy – pre-teens onward
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album – fantasy
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote - classic
The Trouble With Angels by Debbie Macomber – fantasy/christmas
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz – fantasy horror
Girl with a Pen – story of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Kyle - biography
The Road by Cormac McCarthy – fantasy/horror
Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanne Clark – fantasy magic
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzack – Young adult – world war 2
My Best Friend’s Girl by Dorothy Koomson - romance
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks - classic
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - Romance
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James – classic/ghost story
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations by Alexander McCall Smith – humour
Mr Commitment by Mike Gayle – romance and funny
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Aesop’s Fables
Jane Eyre
The Hobbit
Maximum Ride – Schools out forever by James Patterson
Maximum Ride – Saving the World and other extreme sports by James Patterson
Maximum Ride – The Final Warning by James Patterson
The Children of Hurin by J R R Tolkien
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Watership Down
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Even before the last part of the serial was published, critics hailed the work as a literary treasure!. Although the critics were superlative in their praise, they expressed disappointment at the unremittingly dark portrayal of human nature, fearing Thackeray had taken his dismal metaphor too far!. In response to his critics, Thackeray explained that he saw people for the most part "abominably foolish and selfish"!. [1] The unhappy ending was intended to inspire readers to look inward at their own shortcomings!.



The subtitle, A Novel without a Hero, is apt because the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree; even the most sympathetic have weaknesses
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