When things fall apart- Pema Chodron

Tamora Pierce
Song of the Lioness Quartet
Protector of the Small Quartet
The Immortals Quartet
The Circle Quartet
The Circle Opens Quartet
Trickster's Choice & Trickster's Queen
Will of the Empress

Hemingway was a good writer.

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The Old Man and the Sea-Hemmingway

Good lord! How is it that The Old Man and the Sea has ended up on a list of good books.

*SPOILER WARNING*

A man sets out to sea and sails for three days. He catches the biggest fish he has ever seen. Then it is eaten by sharks. He returns home no better off for having gone in the first place. I detest that book.

I'd like to add:
The Woodlanders- Thomas Hardy
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Collected Poems - W.H.Auden
On Love and Barley- Basho
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Of Suicide - David Hume
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (anything else by him will be good)

I've read everything I can get my hands on by Chuck Palahnuik and John Irving, which sadly wasn't that much. So far, I'd recommend anything by either of them.

Another tragically good book:
Tess of the d'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy

Nothing wrong with sticking to an author.

I stick with an author until I have read all their books or some other book I have been waiting for has been released. *cough*HarryPotter*cough*

I read Chuck Palahnuik, then moved on to JD Salinger, and now I am reading Kurt Vonnegut.

All are amazing.

You people should branch out with your authors there.

Hmm...good books...

Vanishing Acts, by Jodi Picoult.

My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult.

The Pact, but Jodi Picoult.

...And pretty much anything else by Jodi Picoult.

I just started reading books;

Candy by kevin brooks

Gangsta rap by benjamin z

Refugee by benjamin z

Face by bejamin z



I prefer candy by kevin brooks as it's about in the hood bewteen a normal boy becoming more involved with a girl whose becoming more important in the boy's life but it appers that candy can be dangerous and a strong book to read about.

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A Farewell to Arms-Erenst Hemmingway

you really liked that? I know it's a classic and all but I really did not like that book. Maybe it's because I had to over analyze it for school or something but...I don't know. I think it's over rated. Then again, what the hell do I know.

Interesting books I just read: "When things fall apart"- Pema Chodron
"Going to pieces without falling apart"- Marc Epstein

Augusten Burroughs- Magical Thinking

( nothing to do with magic, just an odd title)

How Could I Forget?!
If you like justified intergalactic crime, read this:
The Stainless Steel Rat is Born by Harry Harrison

Speed, that is the best book in the whole damn world.

But go for the second best.

If you like speculative fiction read these:
Dreamer in Discord by Craig Mills
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis
Dune by Frank Herbert
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

If you like dark fantasy read these:
Nightlife by Rob Thurman
The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt

If you are questioning the existance of God read this:
Rumors of Another World (what on earth are we missing?) by Philip Yancey

If you are into angel/god theory read this:
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice

If you like books that have lots of meaning read this:
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

If you read manga read these:
Rurouni Kenshin
Angel Sanctuary
Hellsing

oh so many...
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger

Franny & Zooey- J.D. Salinger

Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of Mice and Men-John Steinback

Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad

Why We Can't Wait-MLK

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed With Our Families:Stories From Rwanda- Philip G...something

A Farewell to Arms-Erenst Hemmingway

The Old Man and the Sea-Hemmingway

sooo many more. the next book im reading is probably going to be the brothers karamazov-Dostoevsky and lord jim-joseph conrad.

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

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Voice, The Giver is an AMAZING book! Haha

It is indeed. And you called me Voice, no one calls me Voice. Ohh it sounds cool. Like I'm a voice coming from an unknown and mysterious place...okay not really, but it would be nice now wouldn't it.

And The Perks Of Being A Wallflower!

Unbelievably written book- it's hard NOT to enjoy.

Voice, The Giver is an AMAZING book! Haha.

I just finished The Pawnbroker with my class- it's a slow moving book but it's touching and very sad. It's about a holocaust survivor and his life after.

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The Giver,

That book made me cry!

Although, some may claim that's not a hard thing to make me though...*cough*...yeah....

A good book that I've read (but I think no teen would read, even though I read it when I was 13) is called "The Soul of A Butterfly" by Muhammad Ali. I read it twice. It was about Muhammad Ali's philosophy of life, which is really special to read.