Which book would you recommend for a high schooler?

Question

First off, I hate reading and have to do this for a report.

Pick out of this list please!

Author - Title



Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart

Agee, James - Death in the Family

Anaya, Rudolfo, A. - Bless Me, Ultima

Arnow, Harriet - The Dollmaker

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Azuala, Mariano - The Underdogs

Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain

Borland, Hal - When the Legends Die

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights

Brookner, Anita - Look at Me

Bryant, Dorothy - Miss Giardino

Buck, Pearl - The Good Earth

Camus, Albert - The Stranger

Candelaria, Nash - Memories of the Alhambra

Carroll, Lewis - Alice in Wonderland

Cather, Willa - My Antonia

Chopin, Kate - The Awakening

Cisneros, Sandra - The House on Mango Street

Clark, Walter V. - Ox-Bow Incident

Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness

Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage

Craven, Margaret - I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities

Doerr, Harriet - Stones for Ibarra

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment

Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man

Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine

Faulkner, William - The Bear

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary

Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India

Frank, Rudolf - No Hero for the Kaiser

Gaines, Ernest J. - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Love in the Time of Cholera

Golding, William - Lord of the Flies

Green, Hannah - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Greene, Bette - Summer of My German Soldier

Guest, Judith - Ordinary People

Hale, Janet Campbell - The Owl's Song

Hammet, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon

Hardy, Thomas - The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hawthrone, Nathaniel - Scarlet Letter

Heinlein, Robert A. - Stranger in a Strange Land

Heller, Jospeh - Catch Twenty-Two

Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea

Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha

Hinojosa, Rolando - Dear Rafe

Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables

Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World

Islas, Arturo The Rain God

Jackson, Helen Hunt - Ramona

James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw

Jolley, Elizabeth - Miss Peabody's Inheritance

Joyce, James - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kawabata, Yasunari - Snow Country

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algermon

Kim, Richard E. - Martyred

Kincaid, Jamaica - Annie John

Kinsella, W.P. - Shoeless Joe

Knowles, John - Separate Peace

LaFarge, Oliver - Sons and Lovers

Leffland, Ella - Rumors of Peace

LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness

Lewis, Sinclair -

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

ok, from the ones ive read i would reccomend:

The Stranger by Albert Camus
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Hights
The Great Gatsby (although i read this book in 8th grade. it doesnt seem to be high school level)
The Owl's Song
Brave New World!!!!------awsome book!!best book off the list
Flowers for Algernon-although a really great sad story, i read it in 6 grade...
A Separate Peace----i personally hated the book with a passion, but many others in my class loved it

Source(s):

read 80% of the books

and most of the books on the list i read in middle school...

Answer 2

Well, since you don't like to read, you could always go with a short book like The Awakening by Kate Chopin. It's considered a "novella." It's close to 100 pages long. The Old Man and the Sea is short, but terrible. Don't read it. The Great Gatsby is absolutely wonderful. I would highly recommend it. Summer of My German Soldier is a really easy read, and an enjoyable story. I think I read it in 7th grade.

Source(s):

Avid reader, former English teacher

Answer 3

My Antonia by Willa Cather
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Source(s):

http://books4teensandadults.googlepages.…

Answer 4

Chocolate War.... Hehe! Well I like Jane Austin but of course I am not a boy so... Shoeless Joe? I think that was a baseball player...

I think these sound interesting, I might even look into them now...

Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World

Hawthrone, Nathaniel - Scarlet Letter

Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights

HAHA!!! Alice in Wonderland? Wow! lol!

Hope that helps!!! :)

Answer 5

i've read most of the books on your list. i found these four to be the most interesting.

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
Knowles, John - Separate Peace
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algermon

Answer 6

Long list there but id choose these:

Knowles, John - Separate Peace
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness
Arnow, Harriet - The Dollmaker
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Azuala, Mariano - The Underdogs

Answer 7

The Chocolate War and Fahrenheit 451 would both be good books for someone who doesn't like reading. The Awakening is really short, but you'd probably find it tedious to get through.

Answer 8

Austen, Bradbury, Dickens and Fitzgerald are really good books and quite interesting. Hope I helped.

Answer 9

i havnt heard of most of these. Plus i dont know what kind of book you are interested in. since you dont really like reading, id choose one of the shorter ones.

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Answer 10

NOT alice in wonderland

Answer 11

Far. 451 or Lord of the Flies

Answer 12

Well I am a high schooler and I have read many of those books so here are my suggestions:

Austen, Jane-- Pride and Prejudice -- Absolutely loved reading this book and it is a must read on my list. But, it can be difficult for some people to get into , so just push through and you won't be ddisappointed

Cisneros , Sandra-- house on mango street-- I had to read this book for school earlier this year and it wasn't my favorite but if you are looking for a quick easy read this would be the book for you.

Hemmingway, Ernest-- Old Man and the Sea-- This book again is a quick and easy read but the story is really good and even though it is a tiny book it has strong themes. This would be better if you are more adventure oriented.

Bradbury, Ray-- Farenheit 451-- Another good read with awesome themes but again, it can be hard to get into.

Well I hope that helped

Happy Reading!!!

Answer 13

I'd go with "Lord of the Flies"

No one at my High School likes reading, but when we read that book everyone was interested. We read a couple of the others on that list as well, but none of them quite kept my classmates interest as much as "Lord of the Flies"

Also, there are two movie versions to clarify things...If you don't like reading I'd definitely choose one with a movie version. The Lord of the Flies movies aren't great, but they follow the book pretty well. The Great Gatsby is an awesome movie, but none of my peers really liked the book, although it is short.

My personal favourite on that list is "Fahrenheit 451" but since you don't like books the story won't be that upsetting to you (it's about burning books after all)