Recommended Book List

[Leigh]

So, the Harry Potter books are done (and wasn't that short little prequel cute?? I love Sirius and James!) and now... well... we need something else to read to fill that unfillable void. I say we all make a list of books we suggest to one another. =)

Here are mine. =)

Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, which I think most of you have read.
The Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan
Song of the Lioness Series - Tamora Pierce
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series - Rick Riordan (really funny with a lot of Greek mythology)
Looking for Alaska - John Green (amazingly awesome!)
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
The Twelve Kingdoms Series - Fuyumi Ono (interesting, once you get into it.)
Morganville Vampire Series - Rachel Caine (fairly amusing.)
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher (a really good look at how little things you do affect other people.)

Okay... that's all I'm going to do for now.
Gah, I read a lot of series. =/

[nutz4hpotter6]

Oh I like this section.

Now I don't know if I would necessarily list series that I like because I read single books too. Right now the book series that I am interested in is The Lord of the Rings. It is hard to get into but once you get rolling it is hard to put down. I really do enjoy it.

The Twilight series is the next one I am going to read.
Eragon Cycle the third book is to be released Sept. 2008. Love the books.
I haven't read the Golden Compass books yet.

Those are only a few of the series that I have read. That I think are appropriate for this site. I also read Romance novels but I think most of the members on here are a little to young to read them.

[Leigh]

Yeah, sorry. I mainly read series, which is the only reason most of them up there are series.

I'm waiting for John Green's newest book, Paper Towns. I cannot wait. He's a pretty amazing author. At the moment, I'm still reading the 4th in the WoT series, and then Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

Okay, I have some additions. I'll be adding more as I pack up my books tonight. (Mom won't be happy about that, since I have to go to work in the morning, but, still...)

Enthusiasm - Polly Shulman. That's really good and funny if you like Jane Austen. (The two main girl characters are also named Ashleigh and Julia, which is funny to me because my name is Ashleigh and I have a really good friend named Julia. Although the personalities aren't right.) Also, I confess I've been leaving out Classics... which is pretty much because you have all heard of them before.

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy - Libba Bray
A Wrinkle in Time Series - Madeleine L'Engle
Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba (if anyone likes Manga)
The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
Hacking Harvard - Robin Wasserman (pretty funny.)

AGH! I just found a second copy of HBP in my bookcase. Hahahahaha. I'll have to give that to my mom. (Yes, my house has three HBP copies, and four DH... not to mention at least two of all of the others. I'm a nerd, it's true.) Okay, on with the list!

A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly

Okay, box 1 is filled! WOO! Box 2

For Freedom - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Taking Liberty - Ann Rinaldi

Okay, that's all I have for now. Sadly, those (as in, all that are in the two big boxes, not only just the ones I listed) aren't nearly all of my books... most of my books are at various friends' houses...

[Te§§a™]

I have read so many books this year, but I can't remember half of them. I got he reading award, for reading like eighty in the school year.

Twilight Series
Stephanie Meyer
♥
Shadow Children Series
Margaret Peterson Hadix
[]
♥
Double Identity
Margaret Peterson Hadix
♥
Devilish
Maureen Johnson
♥
Avalon High
Meg Cabot
♥
Jinx
Meg Cabot
♥
Diva
Alex Flinn
♥
Silent Room
Walter Sorrells
♥
Hunted Series
Walter Sorrells
[[Club Dread rocks! This is a really good mystery book]]
♥
Diary of a Teenage Girl: Becoming Me
Melody Carlson
♥
The Secret Life of Samantha McGregor Series
Melody Carlson
♥
Just Listen
Sarah Dessen
♥
This Lullaby
Sarah Dessen
♥
Dreamland
Sarah Dessen
♥
Gallagher Girls Series
Ally Carter
[[I'd tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You is an awesome book with a long title]]
♥
Prom
Laurie Halse Anderson
♥
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
♥
Catalyst
Laurie Halse Anderson
♥

[[Sadly that is all I can remember!]]

[hUfflEPUff ♥ PRidE]

i adore the Twilight series & Thirteen Reasons Why (it made me cry).
here are some books that i've read recently & enjoyed:
The Uglies Series -- Scott Westerfeld
The Bloodline Series -- Kate Cary
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac -- Gabrielle Zevin (this book turned out to be different than I expected, but different in a good way)
Somewhere Between Life and Death -- Lurlene McDaniel
Time to Let Go -- Lurlene McDaniel
(those 2 books are really good & i absolutely loved them. i cried when i read both of them)

[nutz4hpotter6]

Wow great list of books everyone. There are quite a few that you guys listed that I have never heard of. I think I will have to start copying the lists and looking up the books to see if I would be interested in any of them.

[RoxyRocks]

I heart this thread btw

I love series also but mainly teen young adult stuff is my thing and medicla books are amazing but i wontlis those

I read the clique series when I was a sophmore and the are good

The It girl series are cool too

and then I mainly read medical stuff other people wouldnt like. like the Hot Zone is amazing by Robert

[Leigh]

Tessa, gah.
We don't get credits for reading anymore. ='(
Sarah Dessen is pretty much amazing. I have every book of hers EXCEPT Lock and Key... which I want, desperately. The Shadow Children Series is really good, I agree. Have you read Margaret Peterson Haddix's "Running Out of Time"? Catalyst was good, and the Gallagher Girls Series is rather funny. Also, Maureen Johnson's "Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes." I adored that, though the lead guy got on my nerves a bit.


Okay, some more

Witch Child - Celia Rees

And I've just finished reading these three:
Newes From the Dead - Mary Hooper
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Geek High - Piper Banks (I didn't like this one as much.)

[nutz4hpotter6]

Okay you guys are adding to my reading list.

I should say my list of books to look at possibly reading some day.

I do want to read the books by Stephanie Meyers.

[Te§§a™]

No, but I want to. Every time I go to get it, its not at the library, or at the Borders in St.Joe. Although, I can't say much on that Borders, because there isn't much selection. If we want to get a big selection we have to go to the B&N in K.C. *sigh* Sarah Dessen rocks, that is all there is too it! The Gallagher Girls Series is funny, I agree.

Has anyone read The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson? I'm only on chapter 7, and it is getting a little weird. I can't describe it very well. Kind of like a cross between depressing, weird and psychotic.

[nutz4hpotter6]

I know I started a list of all the books you guys have recommended just don't know when I will get around to checking them all out. I did start reading the Twilight series and I have say that I am enthralled by the book already.. I am only on chapter 4 and already I don't want to put it down.

Thanks for all the recommendations guys....

[Te§§a™]

You're welcome! I finish Christopher Killer, and once you got past the weird darkness it was a good book. Now I have to wait until I go to Borders and hopefully they have book two, but I won't get my hopes up.

[nutz4hpotter6]

Ah I know what you mean. I have to go to borders to buy number 2&3 of the Twilight series. I ordered the 4th book already so I may pick them all up at the same time. I think I may just finish this book with in a weeks time.