Book Recommendations?
I’m going to Barnes and Noble today, and I’d love some recommendations!
Here’s a little bit about my book preferences. I enjoy juvenile fiction books (especially fantasy). I love Agatha Christie, and I’ve read about 35 of her books. My all-time favorite book series is Harry Potter. I’m also an Austen fan (my favorite book of hers is Persuasion).
Any suggestions?
P.S. I have already read The Host, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and the partial draft of Midnight Sun. I would really appreciate it if you would refrain from recommending Stephenie Meyer.
Thanks, everyone!
- Phoenix Tears
Tags: Book Recommendations, Fantasy, Fiction Books, Partial Draft, Stephenie Meyer
April 7th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Try out some of these its a mixed bag of books!
Children/Young Adult
Last Chance by Sarah Dessen
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt
Ingo series by Helen Dunmore
Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic
The Book Thief by Markus Zusack
All the Harry Potter books
Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
The Railway Children – E Nesbit
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carol
Treasure Island and Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder
Adult
No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir……and her other books
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger
Best of Fathers by Anne Baker
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
Cell by Stephen King
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Song of the Sound by Adam Armstrong
My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others
Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh
Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett
Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert
Classics
Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift
Sons and Lovers – D H Lawrence
Great Gatsby – Scot Fitzgerald
1984 and Animal Farm – GeorgeOorwell
Mrs Dalloway – Virgina Wolfe
I Claudius – Robert Graves
Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love – D H Lawrence
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man – James Joyce
Goodbye to all That – Robert Graves
Shirley – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Brave New World – Aldais Huxley
Anna Karnina – Tolstoy
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Lolita – Vladimer Naborkov
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Burning Bright – John Steinbeck
Travels with my Aunt – Graham Greene
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
A Room With a View – E M Forster
Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Les Miseriables – Victor Hugo
Lorna Doon – R D Blackmore
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Brideshead Revisted – Evelyn Waugh
War and Peace – Tolstoy
Anything by Jane Austin
Series
Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch
April 9th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Well I suggest Eragon by Christopher Paolini if you want mystical. Maybe the Chronicles of Narnia.
More sci-fi, Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series– or Midnighters. You’d probably like Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, as well.
Romance and mystical? Meg Cabot’s Jinx. Or one of her other works.
Plain human romance, Sarah Dessen. Or one of the Bronte sister’s novels. Or Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
If you’re looking for something more heavy that’s kind of a mix of all above topics, I suggest Immortal by Traci L. Slatton. It’s a great book by a new author.
I’ve read all the books you’ve listed above, and I think you’d like all of the one’s I’ve listed here.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr – it’s fantasy, very good and addicting.
non fantasy book:
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
I just read it, it’s amazing I tell you. AMAZING. Rachel Cohn and Levithan are hilarious. And it was made into a movie that’s coming out in October. And Nick is Michael Cera. So yes, read it! =)
April 12th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
If you like fanasty I would recommend Penedragon by D.J. MacHale, Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix, and The Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix. (All three are serieses actually) And honestly anything by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a good read. Another good author is Cynthia Voight, especially the Tillerman Cycle (another serious)
If you want a more light-heart fanasty series I’d check out the Princess Frog series (that’s all the name of first book) by E.D. Baker.
Ella Enchanted is really good too, don’t let the movie fool you because the book is so much better.
If you like sci-fi as well as fanasty I’d check out Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game series and the companion series Ender’s Shadow. (both have 4 books and Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow take place together they’re just from different POV’s, after that you get to see how the 2 sides of the story complete themselves.)
Hope that helps. They’re all really good books, or at least I think so.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Everlost by Neil Shusterman
April 17th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
caring carer: they said no Stephenie Meyer.
Why not try some Kenneth Oppel, he wrote a bunch of great action/fantasy series. Airborn Triliogy (all about two characters and their flying adventures) or the “Wing series” (funny enough, they’re a series of books about bats).
If you like classics try some Jules Verne books (Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea). Or Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Homes.
April 19th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
My favorite book series is Harry Potter also.
I think the Daughters of the Moon series is excellent by Lynne Ewing. Also the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. Have you tried any books by Nora Roberts?? She has some really good books that are suspenseful but also have a bit of romance in them. Hope this helps, I wish I was going to Barnes and Noble today!! Happy Reading~
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Coraline by Neal Gaiman: A girl finds a door in her house that leads to a strange world. But there’s an Other Mother, who wants to keep her there forever. (Actually, try just about any one of Gaiman’s books. I’ve only read two so far, and am currently reading a third, but that’s enough to know he’s a great author)
Half-Magic by Edward Eager: Four children find a charm that looks like a nickel and can grant them half a wish (eg, if they wish for twenty dollars, they get ten. Or half of a twenty-dollar bill.) (There’s also “Magic by the Lake”, the sequel, about the children making wishes by touching magic lakewater, but the wishes have to be water-related. And he has a bunch of other fantasy books. If you want I’ll tell you more about them.)
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux: At the Paris Opera, young soprano Christine Daae is being trained by an “Angel of Music”, a corpse-like man who loves her and wants to keep her with him forever. (A classic horror-romance. One of my favorite books ever. If you’re a fan of the play, I especially recommend this one.)
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April 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
try artemis fowl by eoin colfer.
also eragon by christopher paolini.