Books you just have to read.

[The Morrigan]

Okay well there's some books that you just have to read. I want everyone to post books that they think everyone should read, not just the classics like Dracula etc. but some modern books too.

Okay well I think everyone should read:

Of Mice and Men (if it wasn't for school I never would have picked this book up, I'm glad I did now though I really enjoyed the book)

Frankenstein (Thanks to school again I read another awesome book)

Harry Potter (Just because it's Harry Potter, although the last book wasn't as good as I expected)

I think that's all at the moment.

[i_am_me_again]

I recommend a book;

"A Boy Called It."

Its a true story about child abuse & its so disturbing & horrible, it actually made me cry.

[BrittneyNicole]

Each and every one of Jodi Picoult's books. Every single one.

Update! I thought of more!
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Bones
-A Thousand Splendid Suns
-The Kite Runner
-Any book by Lurlene McDaniel

[Fictional]

I'm dying to read Double Cross, by Malorie Blackman. It's the last in the Noughts And Crosses series, and I just know it's amazing.


I recomend :

• The Noughts And Crosses series - Malorie Blackman
• The Little Friend - Donna Tart
• The Handmaids Tale - Margret Atwood
• anything by Philip Pullman

[losing touch.]

i know it's already been said.. but "a boy called it."

Also, my favourite book of all time is Lance Armstrongs autobiography, "it's not about the bike." That book helped me so much and arrgh, it's just amazing.

[Barbed Lungs]

The boy in the striped pyjamas - John Boyne

Scarred - Sophie Andrews

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

And Dracula - Bram Stoker of course

[asyoulikeit]

I'm a personal fan of Ellen Hopkins (Crank, Glass, Identical, Burned, Impulse) and Daniel Quinn (specifically the book Ishmael). I also love The Tao of Pooh.

[in/flux]

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (I absolutely love this book. It's just so beautifully written). I highly recommend the annotated version.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (a quick, but very eery read!)

For more modern reads, I quite like Haruki Murakami's books. I've also just finished Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, which was enjoyable.

[Hyper Sonic]

Of Mice and Men is an awesome book, I love the ending too!

[Magical Forest.]

Originally Posted by BrittneyNicole

Each and every one of Jodi Picoult's books. Every single one.

I TOTALLY agree with you there!

[Stacey]

Anything by Ellen Hopkins, her style of writing is so unique.
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
A million little pieces- James Fray, There is a lot of controversy around the subject matter of the book and whether it is completely true or not, but a good book is a good book nonetheless, I honestly couldn't put it down and it has made him one of my favourite authors.

[almostinvisible]

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Harry Potter- the whole series by J.K. Rowling

[Smile!]

1. Harry Potter (I mean come on, its harry potter :P )
and also I think everyone should read A Thousand Splendid Suns its about two women in Afghanistan and its an amazing book, I'd recommend it to anyone!

[somerandomkidmike]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[tears_of_the_sun]

any thing by sonia sones...the only one i havent read of hers is her first one and thats cuz i cant find it (ugh)

scribbler of dreams (awesome one of the only books i have read more than once)

twisted

thats all for now i believe...

[udontno]

Originally Posted by elstarr05

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Harry Potter- the whole series by J.K. Rowling

That Jay Asher book was one of the best ones I've ever read in my entire life. I started reading it at nine that night and stayed up after midnight so I could finish it. It was just that good.

[Kyle11]

Well lets see here.
I will put them together with an American Year of High school.
Oh how I wish I had my way, haha.

Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury (Freshman year.) and an Analysis of the book Sophomore Year

The Wanting Seed ~ Anthony Burgess (Senior Year) Due to it's graphic nature, BUT great things can be learned from it.

Night ~ Elie Wiesel (Freshman Year) Read with the study of the Holocaust

To Kill A Mocking Bird ~ Harper Lee (Junior Year) With a deep analysis of coarse

The Great Gatsby ~F. Scott Fitzgerald (Junior year) Okay, a lot of people think its boring, but it needs to be read carefully and analyzed deeply. Thus junior year.

[Clover]

-Harry Potter ~J.K. Rowling (of course)
-The Picture of Dorian Gray ~Oscar Wilde
-The Alchemist ~Paulo Choelho

[somerandomkidmike]

I'm going to have to say "The story of Psychology"

it gives a complete history of the development of modern pychology

[Angilea.]

Originally Posted by BrittneyNicole

-A Thousand Splendid Suns

I loved it. (:

[sushi_error]

- The Kite Runner (I need to read this!)
- To Kill a Mocking Bird
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- The Color Purple

[TheWhiteTornado]

Just started reading it for school, but so far it seems really good:

Hard Times- Charles Dickens

[Toast]

Originally Posted by i_am_me_again

I recommend a book;

"A Boy Called It."

Its a true story about child abuse & its so disturbing & horrible, it actually made me cry.

Sorry but I just had to add this: Weren't those books proven fake? May be a good story anyway, but I thought you should know. I kind of want to read it anyway though.

Hmmm I can't think of any books that "everyone should read". I could recommend a lot of good books but none for this thread so far....

[star_crossd]

Definitely Ellen Hopkins (Crank, Glass, Impulse, Burned) They're great.

Janet Evanovich is really good too, her Stephanie Plum books are hilarious.

And PRETTY LITTLE MISTAKES is amazing, I recommend for everyone.

[Toast]

Originally Posted by star_crossd

Janet Evanovich is really good too, her Stephanie Plum books are hilarious.

I LOVE those books! They're just amazing. I read them all in order without anything else in between All 14 of them.

[sphynx]

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk. Anything. The man's an absolute genius! My favourites of his would have to be Invisible Monsters and Survivor.

xo Claire

[Jennifer]

I can make a huge list but I was told to puck up Russian Fiction books.

[InSovietRussiaORGASMGotU]

Well, I'm doing a paper for 2nd year abnormal psychology on a book I re-re-read, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Dr. Robert Hare (taking a neurobiological approach to the paper). Anyways, it's pretty awesome as I have a large fascination with psychopaths. I share plenty of traits with them but they have a few I don't think I do. Anyways, I consider them to be the future humans, the better humans, so that makes me almost one of them, a future human.

[The Morrigan]

Originally Posted by Toast

Sorry but I just had to add this: Weren't those books proven fake? May be a good story anyway, but I thought you should know. I kind of want to read it anyway though.

Hmmm I can't think of any books that "everyone should read". I could recommend a lot of good books but none for this thread so far....

What? They're fake? I did hear rumors about a lot of those sort of books being fake but I always got told that A Child Called It was real.

[Katieeee]

The Book Thief-Markus Zusak

It's the most amazing thing ever.

[Gidig]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

[eunoia]

Black Like Me.

Flowers for Algernon.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

The Giver.

[Anna]

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom... I swear it changed my life (for the better).

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is also completely amazing, but... I'm not sure, but I think it could be really hard for some people to read. But either way, it's incredible.

[Grizabella]

The Virgin's Tale...I don't know why, I just absolutely loved it.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (The book that Bladerunner was based off of)

[atelyn-kayy]

Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
I find it hard to get into books, but this one
really got me interested. I think it's the use of reality
to create fiction.

[Kathey]

The Rainbow by DH Lawrence

[Lady Stripey]

Crank
Glass
Burned
Impulse
[not out yet but still..] Tricks
[not out yet but still..] Fallout
-- all by Ellen Hopkins <3

Thirteen Reasons Why -- Jay Asher
Their eyes were watching God -- Zora Neal Hurtson (?)
The Kite Runner
Hard Love
Massive

Inkheart
Inkspell
Inkdeath

[Through-Glass]

Originally Posted by BrittneyNicole

Each and every one of Jodi Picoult's books. Every single one.

I absolutely agree! My favorite author of all time. =]

"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (it's a play, not technically a book, but still a great read).

"Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson (possibly triggering...I've read this one about four or five times )

"Prozac Nation" by Elizabeth Wurtzel (possibly triggering)

"Just Listen" by Sarah Dessen

There are many more, but I suppose this is enough for now.

[~Emma~]

Originally Posted by Katieeee

The Book Thief-Markus Zusak

It's the most amazing thing ever.

Agreed.
Also, I've seen a couple of her books mentioned, but literally anything by Laurie Halse Anderson.
She is amazing beyond words.
Especially her new book, Wintergirls.
About a girl with an eating disorder, had to stay up all night reading it, absolutely great.

[i_am_me_again]

Soon you'll all have to read my own book