I need to find seven more books for my summer reading list. Please do not suggest books like Twilight or Harry Potter. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Below is my summer reading list so far (93 books), you can skip it, read part or read the whole thing. Thanks.
1984 by George Orwell
A Company Of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Aftermath by Charles Sheffield
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Atlantis Endgame by Sherwood Smith
Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
Betrayal by Aaron Allston
Bloodlines by Karen Traviss
Book Of A Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Circus Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy by Ally Carter
Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Dark As Day by Charles Sheffield
Dark Watch by Clive Cussler
Death On The Nile by Agatha Christie
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda
East Of Eden by John Steinbeck
Echoes In Time by Sherwood Smith
Emma by Jane Austen
Exile by Aaron Allston
Fire Hand by Andre Norton
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Fury by Aaron Allston
Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Higher Education by Charles Sheffield
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
In The Days Of The Comets by HG Wells
Inferno by Troy Denning
Invincible by Troy Denning
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Key Out Of Time by Andre Norton
King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Movie Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Night Train To Rigel by Timothy Zahn
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
Outward Bound by James P Hogan
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Polar Shift by Clive Cussler
Putting Up Roots by Charles Sheffield
Revelation by Karen Traviss
Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler
Sacrifice by Karen Traviss
Stargate: Blood Ties by Sonny Whitelaw
Stargate: Casualties Of War by Elizabeth Christiansen
Stargate: Do No Harm by Karen Miller
Stargate: Entanglement by Martha Wells
Stargate: Exogenesis by Sonny Whitelaw
Stargate: Halcyon by James Swallow
Stargate Reliquary by Martha Wells
Stargate: The Chosen by Sonny Whitelaw
Stargate: Rising by Sally Malcom
Starswarm by Jerry Pournelle
Tempest by Troy Denning
The Best Short Stories Of O Henry by O Henry
The Billion Dollar Boy by Charles Sheffield
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Cyborg From Earth by Charles Sheffield
The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton
The First Men In The Moon by HG Wells
The Food Of The Gods by HG Wells
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Invisible Man by HG Wells
The Island Of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Mabinogion
The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Once And Future King by TH White
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Prince And The Pauper by Mark Twain
The Tale Of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The Time Trader’s by Andre Norton
Theater Shoes by Noel Streatfield
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tomorrow And Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
Traveling Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
War Of The Worlds by HG Wells
Help with finding books for my summer reading list?
OK.
You definitely need to add Dracula to the list. Really excellent classic, free online. (Personally, I found Frankenstein a bore, but some people seem to like it).
"The Once and Future King" is great, but the first part, "The Sword in the Stone", is severely altered - which is unfortunate, as this is the best section of the book by far. You can buy "The Sword in the Stone" under separate cover, and when you do it follows the original text - which includes, among other things, the wizard's duel with Madam Mim and the hilarious defeat of Galapas the Giant.
I'm very glad to see you including Norton. My favorite (by far) is "Star Man's Son", also titled "Daybreak: 2250 A.D." Key out of time is also excellent, though.
"The First Men in the Moon" by Wells is not up to his usual standards.
"The Mabinogion" is excellent. I recommend the Jones translation, though you can probably find the Lady Guest translation free online.
If you haven't read it, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is my favorite scifi, by Verne, free online.
You really need to add Steinbeck's "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights". It's a rewrite of Mallory, and it is the best serious King Arthur story I have ever read.
Finally, my must reads:
"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH". A really excellent book aimed at younger readers.
"The Hobbit" - ditto.
"The Jungle Books" - ditto. Free online.
Jim
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Reply:(Cont). So Dracula might be a bit much to begin with, I know my library has both books/versions of TH White so that's good, but they didn't have Star Man's Son (this is when I really wish I had a lot of money for buying books) (Cont). Report It
Reply:Mabinogion is on the list, I own a collection of HG Wells novels so that's why The First Men In The Moon is on the list, not much into animal fiction (like the Jungle Book) but I might eventually read it. Journey To The Center Of The Earth is definitely something I'm planning on reading. Report It
Reply:So thanks! And now I have a list of books to read after I've finished my summer reading list! (Which I started last night, and since I've already finished two books and I'm halfway through the third book, shouldn't take too long). Thanks again. Report It
Reply:13 reason why by Jay Asher.
Reply:YOUR READING THESE ALL!!!!!!!!!!! and i thought 4 books was a lot.
Reply:peeps: scott westerfeld
the last days: scott westerfeld
uglies: scott westerfeld
pretties; scott westerfeld
specials: scott westerfeld
maximum ride: the angel expertimet: james patterson
maximum ride: school's out forever: james patterson
maximu ride: saving the world and other extreme sports: james patterson
vampire academy: richelle mead
the host: stephenie meyer
cry of the icemark: stuart hill
blade of fire: stuart hill
the named: marianne curley
the dark: marianne curley
the key: marianne curley
i hope this helped! i gave trilogies and sequels becaus it's easier to read them!
Reply:I read a LOT too...so I'm not surprised...my mom gets mad when I check out over 10 books from the library each week...little does she know I finish them in like 3 days...
Try the homecoming series by Orson Scott Card...I have a bunch more too that I'll dig up...
Princess Ben – Catherine Murdock
Septimus Heap series – Angie Sage
Peter and the Starcatchers series – Dave Barry
Faerie Wars series – Herbie Brennan
Airman – Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer
Goose Girl series – Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
Princess Academy - Shannon Hale
Fablehaven – Brandon Mull
The Giver series- Lois Lowry
Down the Rabbit Hole series – Peter Abrahams
May Bird series - Jodi Lynn Anderson
Unicorn Chronicles – Bruce Coville
Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin
- View of the afterlife
Fahrenheit 471 – Ray Bradbury
- VERY good classic...about books being burned
Flowers for Algernon – David Keyes
All Tamora Pierce books
The Sisters Grimm series – Michael Buckley
Heir Apparent – Vivian Vande Velde
Wind Singer series – William Nicholson
Warriors series – Erin Hunter
I'll send more if I find them
Found More
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Birdwing – Rafe Martin
Land of Eloyn series – Patrick Carmen
Tales of the Frog Princess – E.D. Baker
Chasing Vermeer Series – Blue Balliett
Sender Unknown – Sallie Lowenstein
Coraline – Neil Gaiman
Matilda – Roald Dahl
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Holes – Louis Sachar
Riding Freedon – Pam Munoz Ryan
Case of the Missing Marquess series – Nancy Springer
Rowan Hood Series – Nancy Springer
I am Mordred – Nancy Springer
I am Morgan le Fay – Nancy Springer
101 Dalmatians series – Dodie Smith
Phantom Tolbooth – Norton Juster
Shakespeare’s Secret – Elsie Broach
Bella at Midnight – Diane Stanley
Code Orange – Caroline B. Cooney
Obsidian Trilogy – Mercedes Lackey
Mage Wars Series – Mercedes Lackey
Hope these help...If you're still looking for some, let me know...if it's classics you want...I'll try to help...
Reply:I just picked up of Mice and Men, Frankenstein and Catcher in the Rye from the library. but one I just finished is Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park... Loved it! others I love are Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen and The Client by John Grisham. All movies but all great books! Out of those my favorit was Girl, Interrupted and it's a nice fast book at a mere 169 pages!
Reply:WEBSITE BELOW HAS OTHER LISTS.
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968; American):
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961; American):
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell To Arms (1929)
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892; American):
Leaves of Grass - A Collection of Poetry
George Eliot (1819 - 1880; English):
Silas Marner (1861)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951; American):
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)
Elmer Gantry (1927)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940; American):
The Great Gatsby (1925)
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962; American):
Light in August (1932)
Absalom, Absalom (1936)
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968; American):
The Jungle (1906)
John Updike (1932 - ; American):
Rabbit, Run (1960)
Rabbit Redux (1971)
Rabbit is Rich (1981)
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Rabbit Remembered (2001)
Virginia Woolf:
To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
The Voyage Out
Jacob's Room
The Waves
Orlando
A Room of One's Own
Three Guineas
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832; Scot):
Rob Roy (1818)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832; German):
Faust (2 Parts; 1808 and 1832)
Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906; Norwegian):
A Doll's House (1879)
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960; French-Algerian):
The Stranger (1942)
The Plague (1947)
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885; French):
Les Miserables (1862)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
Moliere (1622 - 1673; French):
Tartuffe or The Imposter (1664)
The Misanthrope (1666)
The Miser (1668)
The Imaginary Invalid (1673)
The Bourgeois Gentlemen (1670)
Leon Uris (1924 - 2003; Jewish-American):
Exodus (1958)
Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960; Russian):
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904; Russian):
The Seagull (1896)
Uncle Vanya (1899-1900)
The Three Sisters (1901)
The Cherry Tree (1904)
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910; Russian):
Anna Karenina (1877)
War and Peace (1869)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ; Russian):
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
The First Circle (1968)
The Cancer Ward (1968)
The Gulag Archipelago (3 Volumes; 1973 - 1978)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881; Russian):
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Crime and Punishment (1866)
The Idiot (1869)
Reply:Whoa! You read A LOT!!!! (But that's a good thing!)
Here are some of my favorite teen and some adult-ish novels:
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It's about a girl named Bella who moves to Forks, Washington and runs into a group of vampires. VERY VERY good! I REALLY think you should give it a chance because I'm not into vampire stuff, but it was AMAZING!
http://stepheniemeyer.com/twilight.html
Pants On Fire by Meg Cabot. It's about a girl who basically has everything (popular best friend, good grades... and TWO boyfriends.) It's really funny because then her friend from eighth grade come back to town (everyone hates him) and she falls head over heals for him too.
http://www.megcabot.com/
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. It's about four girls who where born as friends. They go through ups and downs together.
The Last Summer (Of You and Me) by Ann Brashares was amazing. It may be more of an adult book, but it was fairly good.
All-American Girl and All-American Girl Ready Or Not by Meg Cabot. It's about an outcast girl who happens to save the presidents life. Suddenly everyone at school wants to be her friend, but she doesn't really care... What she does care about is the presidents son...
Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot. It's about a girl who goes over seas with her boyfriend after (almost!) finishing college. After a bad break up with him, she goes with her friend and runs into someone.... It's a very good adult book!
How To Be Popular by Meg Cabot. It's about a girl who comes across an old book in her grandma'a attic called how to be popular. So, she follows the rules of the book hoping to become popular.
Jinx by Meg Cabot. If you liked Twilight, then you'll like this book. It's about a girl who has bad luck all the time so she moves in with her aunt and uncle. He sister is into witchcraft and I don't want to spoil the rest, but it fairly good.
Teen Idol by Meg Cabot. This is about a girl who has an advice column in her school newspaper. So, when a famous actor comes to her school and she's the only one who knows about it, chaos occurs!
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen is also pretty good. It's about two girls that are best friends who are having a few issues in the love department.
http://www.sarahdessen.com/?q=books
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen is one of my favorites! It's about a girl who had something terrible happen to her and she's learning how to cope with it and befriends an outcast boy.
The Mediator series by Meg Cabot. I've only read the first two, but they are VERY good. It's about a girl named Suze who moves to California from New York because her mother just remarried. Oh, and Suze can see ghosts...
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. It's about a guy named Clay who gets these tapes in the mail about why a girl named Hannah killed herself. It's very good and a great page-turner!
http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/
She Went All The Way by Meg Cabot. This is a book for more mature people, but it's very good. It's about two people who get stranded in the wilderness.
Forever... by Judy Bloom is also pretty good. It's about a girl getting a boyfriend and going through sensual things. It's a little mature.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is okay. My friends LOVED it! I don't wanna tell you what it's about because it'll just give it all away.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer. It's about how these things called souls invade Earth, as well as humans. It's based on a soul named Wanda who is placed into Melanie, who refuses to fade away like she's suppose too. It's very interesting and I totally recommend it!
http://stepheniemeyer.com/thehost.html
Good luck with finding a book! I hope these help!
Reply:Fantasy that I recommend....
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (sequel to Twilight)
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyrer (sequel to New Moon)
Wicked LOvely by Melissa Marr
Marked by P.C and Kristen Cast
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Tithe by Holly Black
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Rebel Angels by LIbba Bray (seqeuel to A Great and Terrible Beauty)
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (sequel to Uglies)
Specials Scott Westerfeld (sequel to Pretties)
Extras (sequel to Specials)
Betrayed by P.C and Kristen Cast (sequel to Marked)
Chosen by P.C and Krisetn Caste (sequel to Betrayed)
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
Vampire Diaries by L. J Smith
-The Awakening (1st book)
- The Struggle (2nd book)
- The Fury (3rd book)
- The Dark Reunion (4th book)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
*Note: Amazing book but slow at first
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Gift by Alison Croggon
The Riddle by Alison Croggon (sequel to The Riddle)
The Crow by Alison Croggon (sequel to The Crow)
Classics I recommend....
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
White Fang by Jack London
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Poets I recommend....
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
Realistic fiction I recommend...
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Patron Saint of the Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Now You See Her by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
Historical Fiction I recommend...
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
Brooklyn Rose by Ann Rinaldi
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Sites I recommend for teen books....
www.teenreads.com
-there you can find reviews, awarded books, search authors and books you like, lists of books teens would like and so on
www.whatshouldireadnext.com
- where you can type in a book you like and then it will come up with results of another books you may like. You may also create an account there where you can add books that you have read and liked or disliked so the list gets more detailed to your likings.
You might just want to search "YA books" or maybe add your favorite genre in Example: Google search "YA fantasy books".
Hope I was helpful. I would be forever grateful if you choose me for best answer. Happy reading!
~Onicere~
Reply:I love Meg Cabot (Heather Wells %26amp; Queen of Babble) and Sophie Kinsella's (Shopaholic [soon to be movie] %26amp; Remember Me) books. I am in the process of reading Emily Giffin's (Something Borrowed %26amp; Something Blue, Baby Proof) books. They are all great authors!
For a young adult/teen I recommend Meg Cabot's young adult books. She is the best author. Also best selling. She wrote tons of books including the Princess Diaries (Movies based on her books), Mediator (upcoming movie), 1-800-Missing (TV show based on her books), Jinx, and more. She has adult books too, so you can grow with her.
If you want more info or meg cabot's website email me.
Reply:HOW MUCH TIME A DAY DO YOU PLAN ON READING..I LOVE TO READ BUT WOW...
NOW THATS CRAZY...IS THIS PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL...ONLY ABOUT 7 OR SO OF THESE IS WHAT I LIKE...ARE YOU BUYING ALL OF THESE OR TRYING TO CHECK SOME OUT??
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