Does anyone have any good book recommendations?

Question

I feel like a total nerd ha ha.
but i haven't read a good book in a long time.
I enjoy books by Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Dan Brown.
some of my favorite books include: The Perks of Being a Wallflower,Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Pure Sunshine, The Bell Jar, Angels & Demons, A Million Little Pieces.


any suggestions?

Answer 1

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Here are a couple you might enjoy:

- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It’s about a reality TV show where two people from each state, called ‘tributes,’ must go on this TV show and are made to kill the each other until one survivor is left. They are not allowed to bring anything with them, and must make weapons by themselves out of the tress, rocks etc. They must learn to hide from others, camouflage themselves, hunt wild animals for food and kill the other people. The problem is, a main character, Peeter, is in love with one of the other girls who has been picked for the hunger games, and he does not want to kill her – he is madly in love with her, but she doesn’t know it. It’s an extremely gripping novel, and you see how people turn on each other for survival, and how they hide (they even climb trees and sleep in the branches to be away from other enemies). Here’s the blurb on the back of the book if you want to know more:

In a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality tv show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

- ‘Tomorrow when the war began’ by John Marsden which is about a group of teenagers who go camping for a while in the holidays, and when they return home, they find their whole town captured and that they are at war. All telephone lines have been cut and there is no way out of the town without facing thousands of guards. They are the town’s only hope to freedom. It’s really moving to see what they have to go through (people die, become injured and captured, and they still have to keep fighting!) Blurb on back of the book:

Ellie and her friends leave home one quiet morning, wave goodbye to their parents and head up to the hills to camp out for a while; seven teenagers filling in time during the school holidays.

The world is about to change forever. Their lives will never be the same again.

Would you fight? Would you give up everything? Would you sacrifice even life itself?

Tomorrow when the war began asks the biggest questions you will ever have to answer.

- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett. Blurb on the back of the book:

On a warm October night in Chicago, three deliveries were made in the same neighbourhood. A plump tangereen moon had just risen over Lake Michigan. The doorbell had been rung at each place, and an envelope propped outside...The same letter went out to all three:

Dear Friend,
I would like your help in identifying a crime that is now centuries old. This crime has wronged one of the world's greatest painters. As those in positions of authority are not brave enough to correct this error, I have taken it upon myself to reveal the truth. I have chosen you because of your discriminating eye, your intelligence, and your ability to think outside of convention...Although you may never meet, the three of you will work together in ways none of us can predict. If you show this to the authorities, you will most certainly be placing your life in danger...

The letter was not signed, and it had no return address.

Anyway, those are some of my favourite books. I hope I helped!

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Asker's Comment:

thank you all for your recommendations.
i will try to read all those books you suggested.

i chose your answer as the best because you told me what the books were about.

thank you all.

Answer 2

City of ember By Jeanne duprau

Answer 3

twilight books are amazing
and the outsiders is really good
and so is the two princesses of bamare

Answer 4

That you like Dan Brown and yet enjoy Vonnegut, Palahniuk and Plath puzzles me. But him notwithstanding, I think you'd really like Douglas Coupland's JPod, Life After God, or Hey Nostradamus! Life After God's the best of the three; JPod's the funniest.

Chinua Achebe's Man of the People might also be worth a look.

Answer 5

Hi there! I'm an author, and I just wanted to humbly suggest my fantasy/adventure novel, The Other Side of the Gate. It's about a 14 year old boy who is mysteriously spirited away to a strange world where humans have been taken for generations, and he's determined to discover why.

If it sounds interesting, you can find out more about the book on my writer's blog listed below.

Thanks!

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http://craigmcurtis.blogspot.com/

Answer 6

The Named
The Dark
The Key By Marianne Curley
The Silver Kiss By A.Klause
Morganville Vampires Series By R.Caine
Vampire Kisses Series By E.Schrieber
The Mortal Instruments By C.Clare
Blue Bloods Series By M.De La Cruz
Tithe,Ironside,Valiant By H.Black
Harry Potter Series By JKR.
Evermore, Bluemoon By A.Noel
Enjoyy!!

Answer 7

just wanna c the answers

Answer 8

"West with the Night," Beryl Markham,
"The Giver," Lois Lowry,
"Bridge to Terabithia," K. Paterson,
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock,
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck,
"The Overachievers," Alexandra Robbins,
"Stranger in a Strange Land," Robert Heinlein,
"Momo," Michael Ende,
"Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians," Brandon Sanderson,
"Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov,
"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi,
"Transcendent Sex," Jenny Wade, and
"Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

Reviews at http://www.amazon.com

Answer 9

If you like Vonnegut you might like Thomas Pynchon's latest, Inherent Vice.

You will need to turn off all distractions to get absorbed in this book.

Answer 10

For your reading taste, the best thing right now is en vogue Swedish author Stieg Larsson; his Millenium Trilogy, which comprises the titles: “The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo,” “The Girl who Played with Fire,” and “The Girl who Kicked the Hornets”.
It’s the latest craze on reading right now; everybody’s been going nuts about it for the past ten months in Europe; and now, also in the US, with books running off the shelves and a huge frenzy.
People define Larsson’s writing as “addictive literature”; and literally: you just can’t put it down, there’s no way.
Here you may find some interesting comments from fans of Larsson’s trilogy: http://www.stieglarsson.com/
Hope you enjoy Larsson’s world.
Have fun!

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I'm a literature reviewer.