Any one read 'And then there were none' By Agatha Christy
It's a very good murder mystery, for people who like that kinda thing. But I have to warn you people die kind of suddenly in this book.

the latest book that i read was "Night over water" by Ken Follett who i just found out is a really good writer! he wrote the pillars of the earth and just not to long ago another one of his books came out which is supposed to be a best seller! he is a really awesome writer but there are some contents which are not for people who dont like adult content. but he is worth reading its all fiction, except for the time period that he writes his stories in. for example in night over water it has to do with these passengers in the first pan american airplane which was like a limo in an airplane, which was real but the people never really existed. did anyone ever read any of his books?

The book Eragon definitely deserves a review. it is sort of similar to Harry POtter but with a twist. there is magic, dragons and supernatural things, but the story is fabulous and you just cant help falling in love with the character Eragon because he is described so handsomely .

--Fleur

Anybody who likes realistic fiction books for teens will LOVE these books by Meg Cabot

Jinx- about a girl who tries to get away from this "curse" that's following her by going to visit her aunt and uncle in NY. There she meets her cousin Tory, and falls in love with a boy named Zach. She also finds out something else about her past and why this "jinx" is following her....

All American Girl- about a girl who saves the President of the USA and becomes totally famous. But she's an artist and doesn't want the fame. Also falls in love with the President's son, but didn't know it until the end.

Teen Idol- About a girl (of course) who has to take care of the biggest celebrity ever, because he wants to see what a normal high school is like. He gets disguised and everything but...will it last? Also falls in love (again, of course) with a boy named Scott.

I know my descriptions aren't the best but trust me, the books are ten times better!

<3 Rachel

I recently read the book Always and Forever which includes two novels, Too young to Die and goodbye doesn't mean forever.If you feel like having I good cry I suggest you read it. It makes you value your health and friends.

lol bookworm101 im sorry lol but i have to say that all of these books seem the same like really girly cheesy books sorry dont want you to be mad or anything.

laughingirl_92 lol i have to say that i wont be reading that book (have other books to read) but i have to say that i really liked how you posted. it made me smile

Thirteen Reasons Why

It's about a girl who commits suicide and she wants the people that affected her to know it, so she sends out tapes, thirteen to be exact. They must pass them on or everyone will know about it.

It's kind of a general audience book, young adults though, most likely. It's not a "classic" girly book, although I am a girl so maybe it is a girly book, although the girl who commits suicide is Hannah, a girl. The story is told from the view of a boy, Clay, a good student who somehow gets into her story. The characters are all 17, 18ish. Seniors in high school.

I say you read it. It's upsetting how much the little things that people joke about get to her, combined with other things, but it's almost makes you determined not to let your life happen and turn out the way hers did.

Great topic: it shows the real culture of a person... i like it
Well my favourite book is "Alice in wonderland" by Lewis Carrol...i think it's crazy and rebel... the freedom of immagination against the victorian grey puritanism: an epic battle!... And then:
-"The Picture of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde (handsome and diabolic)
-"Siddharta" by Hermann Hesse
-"The Lord of the rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien (a masterpiece)
-"Matildhe" by Roald Dahl (the book of my childhood!)
-"La coscienza di Zeno" by Italo Svevo (an italian book written by a friend of Joyce and Freud; it's the confession of the protagonist, under the freudian cure of psychoanalysis)
-"Nada" by Carmen Laforet (the incredible story of a spanish girl, after the civil war and under the Franco's dictature)
-"Emma" by Jane Austin
- the novels by Edgar Allan Poe (i'm reading it for an exam at the university and...I'm lovin' it!!)

I love to read poetry too, for example the Shakespeare's "Sonnets" and the Federico Garcìa Lorca's "Romancero Gitano" (it sends shivers down your spine)
I also love to read "Macbeth" and "A midsummer night's dream"...when i was at the elementary school i've played that comedy...I'm very fond of it

Polandbaby, they aren't the same at all, and they totally aren't cheesy. Well, mostly. A little bit. A teeny tiny bit. Okay they're a LITTLE cheesy, except for Jinx, which I totally love.

krazy4kreacher, that book seems kind of depressing. it sounds good but sort of a bring me down. Is it? Because if it isn't, I'm definetly reading it.

<3 Rachel

bookworm 101 i agree about the book that krazy4kreacher is talking about if its like "im going to kill myself and i want all of you people to know about it" then i dont want to read it, it will just make me all bumbed out lol.

right now i am about to start reading "Hitler's Pope" lol i hope that just by the title you will know what it is about. i am in ib history and we have to write a historcal investigation and since i have no idea what to pick im going to read this book that i just happened to have, and if i find it interesting i will write my essay about it. if anyone has any historical investigation ideas please tell me.

Nina

I have his collected works. Everything he has ever written.

I am fond of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. I also think Among the Thugs by Bill Buford is a fair read (it is nonfiction). One horrifying nonfiction "biography" is King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild.

Mod Note ~ The point of this thread is not to discuss the books that you like, rather to suggest books for the admin team to review as stated in the first post.

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Use this thread to let us know which books you'd like us to review next. They can be absolutely anything. They don't have to be at all related to Harry Potter. Feel free to suggest books ranging from His Dark Materials to The Audacity of Hope -- there's something in a book for everyone!

If you wish to discuus your favourite books, I suggest you go into the Favourite books thread pr even the Least favourite thread. The only books being reviewed and therefore up for discussion in this forum are The Alchemist and The Sphere.

So I will repeat, please leave your suggestions for books to be reviewed here, but use the other threads in the Just Get Away From Life forum to discuss your favourite and to recommend them to other members to read.

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Okay before I start to tell you about some of the amazing books that I have read I am going to apologize because I don't remember all the authors. Between my friends and I we've probably got more books than our town's public libariy, and we are constantly trading books so I can't just go look at the book.

I know What You Did Last Summer is a great book. It is really different from the movie, they made the it into a horror when the book really isn't that scary.

I also love The City of Ember by Jeanne duPrau, there are two sequels People of Sparks and The Prophet of Yonwood but I've haven't read them yet.

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen is a sweet, yet kind of confusing, love story of two kids, Bryce and Julianne.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit was on of the first novels I ever read and to this day it is still one of my favorite books ever.

The Shadow Children Sequence(Aong the...) by Margret Peterson Haddix is also an amazing story.(I'm really into futureistic stuff like that if anyone has any suggestions!=]). I also love her book Double Identity.

The Barcode Tattoo and The Barcode Rebellion are two more futureistic novels that I love, the are a bit confusing but if you don't speed through them and take in everything they make perfect sense. (Plus the first one mentions Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone! lol!).

My Literature class at school is curently reading The Giver by Lois Lowery. It is an okay book. I hope it gets better.

Inkheart and Inkspell by Corneila Funle are two unbelievablely amazingly great books. I like Inkspell better, but I think Inkdeath, the last one, will be the best. It makes me want to learn German so I could read it sooner, but that will never happen. lol!

Jade Green is also a good book, a bit creepy, but good.

Little Secrets is a story of a beautiful rich family with some dirty little secrets.

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket is a really cool Series of thirteen books that I love!!

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are some of the best books ever written! they are soooo amazing!

I finished Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, last night. OH MY GOD!! That is one of the best books I have ever read! They give Harry Potter a run for his money. I read the first chapter of New Moon and for those of you who have read it, itis an extreme cliff-hanger! And I can't get the book until Tuesday! I is driving me crazy!!
I LOVE Edward Cullen!i!i!i! He is amazing!i!i!i!

Hi,
I like the idea of this forum. Of course the books I'm into at the moment or have been into in the last couple of years are pretty different from HP to say the least, but I can also think of books I enjoyed reading when a kid, around the same age as when I found out about HP... I really used to read a lot of books! Don't so much anymore, 'cause now I need to read scientific articles for my studies, or the books I read are in polish/czech, so obviously the reading doesn't go as fast as if it was in english or in my mother tongue (french).

I must say I'm pretty much into classics. I absolutely adore Salinger & Gombrowicz, and enjoy Camus, Saint-Exupéry, Vian, Goethe, Hesse, Brecht, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Austen, Brontë, Alcott, Steinbeck, McCullers...

So I agree with already made suggestions about: the Catcher in the Rye, Pride & Prejudice (my personal Austen favourite has to be "Emma", though), Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Of Mice and Men, Little Women etc.

So are we, like, allowed to post our own review of the afore-mentioned books if we've read them?

Also, books of my childhood which I still love as a grown-up: "Arthur, High King of Britain" by Michael Morpurgo; the Flicka series by Mary O'Hara, esp. "Green Grass of Wymoming"; "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" by Jack London...

As a French native, I can tell you that Dumas's style is baaad. LOL. But I understand you might enjoy reading him. So did I when I was 11 and read "Les trois mousquetaires". Last summer however I read "Le comte de Monte-Christo" and it was so terrible I needed to skip some passages... Then again that was his first novel, and as he used to publish it as a feuilleton (as did Dickens with his Pickwick Papers; seems to me this mode of publication has a lamentable effect on later reunited novels), so he pretty often required the assistance of ghostwriters to keep the story going and send the new episode on time. Well what I meant to say is that you feel it in the writing. It gets horribly lengthy and irrelevant at times.

i would say that i have to agree with fleur the inheratince series which is earagon and the book i am currently reading eldest that is followed by brisingr but the third book doesnt come out untill september 20th...

i also have to agree with fleur that eragon is like harry potter. i am almost done reading the second book and just earlier today i was thinking wow this reminds me a lot of harry...

i also recently read the His Dark Materials trillogy which includes... the Golden Compass the Subtle Knife and the Amber Spy Glass. they were very good also

How about Notes from the Midnight Driver or Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Both by the same author (David Sonnenblick), short, and interesting to read.

*EDIT*

I would also suggest Moby D*** , War and Peace, and The Count of Monte Cristo
these books are a fair length but tell of some very interesting things and would make for good discussions: Moby D*** the story of Ishmael and his voyage at sea with the insane Captain Ahab, War and Peace a story that takes place during a war (set in Europe), The Count of Montecristo a jailbreak, a friend that betrays a friend, and some mystery and 'romance'.

~Veritaserum14~

I advice everyone to read "Don Quijote"...it's far from our days, but it explains perfectly the conflict between the singular personality and the society all around us...it can be funny bue the meaning is very deep

I just recently read Ps I love you by Cicely Ahern. It was really really good, if you have seen the movie I would recomend it because it is pretty different but just as good.

A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C Bunce is also really amazing, its basically Rumplestiltskin retold. Its a more indepth version about a girl who is running a mill and will do anything to keep it alive, its also got a bit of magic in it.

I had to read Great Gatsby for school. I loved it, it is amazingly descriptive and it is very real. Anyone can relate to it really.

And I dont know if anyone has heard of Blue Bloodsby Melissa De La Cruz, but its a vampire novel set in NYC in this day and it revolves around the upper crust rich kids, its pretty awesome, it kind of reminds me of Gossip Girl, only vampire style.

I have a couple that I'd like to see reviewed, but I'm not sure if they're repeats.

Anything by Tamora Pierce is good, I especially liked The Protector of the Small Quartet. They are all centered on female knights/warriors in a fantasized Mideval-type Era. I see them as incredibly feminist, with powerful messages that females can be as strong and influencial as males. They are mainly action, with a little bit of romance, but it's very underlying.

I really enjoyed the series, Sweep, by Cate Tiernan. It's about a teenage girl who meets the alluring "new guy" who introduces her to Wicca, and she finds out that she's the remaining heir to a long line of powerful "bloodwitches" and discovers that she is extremely powerful herself, which ends up putting her in compromising, dangerous positions. A lot of romance, some drama, and ample amounts of action, magic, and mystery.

Another good series is The Guardians of Time by Marriane Curley. This one is about a group of people called "The Guard" who travel through time to protecty history from being tampered with by their enemies, "The Order of Chaos." It has everything from romance, mystery, action, drama, and magic, and is simply amazing. One of my favorites.

Also, The Pellinor Trilogy by Alison Croggon. It's about a slave who is rescued by a mysteriously magical man, and learns that she is a Bard and is fated to have the power to defeat "The Nameless One." Actually, when I read this (I still have to read the third one) I noticed a few similarities between its plotline and that of Harry Potter. Not necessarily within the finer details, but the main outline. It's hard to explain, but if you read it, you'll understand. It's a little more difficult to read, so you probably will enjoy it more if you're older, but it's still good. It's also a bit slow-moving and kind of repetitive, but the description is so intricate, that you'll feel as if you're actually there. It's mainly action and mystery, but there is a hint of romance, especially in the second book.

I've also read a series that I borrowed from a friend, so I can't remember who wrote it, but the books are called Blue Is For Nightmares, White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance. These are also about a girl who practices Wicca, but has less of the fantasy factor and more reality. It has romance, mystery, and action. Warning: they can also be classified as horrors, so if you don't like scary movies, you might not like these too much. I loved them, though, and highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys a thriller every now and then.

Besides exhausting the recommendation for Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (I am in love with those books, but I know that they've been mentioned plenty of times before, so I won't say much more), that's all I have for now. I might think of more later, or if I read anything good then I'll add more, but for now that's all. haha.

i would recommend ' A Thousand Splendid Suns'

A book about a 15 year old girl who is sent to Kabul to marry a bitter man who is 30 years her senior. Two decades later, in a climate of unrest, tragedy strikes 15 year old Laila who is shot and must leave her home to join the other girl who is now old. They find consolation in each other, their friendship grows as deep as the bond between sisters, and as strong as the ties between mother and daughter.

Taliban comes to rule afghanistan, and life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways and in the end Love triumphs over death and destruction.

[i picked out parts of the blurb and typed it up]

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^^ thats from the author's website.

not very smart i was going to say the Harry Potter books but we all know that

A really good book that I've read is Inkspell and Inkheart.At the moment i can't remember which one comes the first book but i do know that it's red if you ever want to check it out.It's about a father who has this magical voice and whenever he reads objects or people from the book come out of the book into the real world and theres this whole adventure and basically when you get to the end of the book you find out what the next book is about.I don't really remember why i got into it but i did and it's a very good book.It's about as lond as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix maybe a little shorter

Wow! The panel is going to have a difficult time chooseing which to review next.

Vampire novels seem to be popular so I will suggest a few.

Interview With A Vampire
Vampire Lestat
Queen Of The Damned*This is a trilogy that have also been converted into movies...the books are better.

Another book that is interesting, especially if you like history and think that women can do a job just as good as a man is Night Witches. This is a book based on the women pilots in the former Soviet Union during WWII. They actually fought in combat as fighter pilots, bomber pilots, navigators...basically anything the men did, brave women did as well. You would love Lily's story.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is an excellent story based on true events of a gruesome murder of a home invasion back in the 1950s. It may not make you feel safe in your small town anymore though.

I recently started reading the "Soldier Son" trilogy by Robin Hobb. The set includes Shaman's Crossing, Forest Mage and Renegade's Magic. I haven't read the last one yet; I'm waiting for it to be returned to our library so I can check it out. But, I loved the first two. Definately great reading for anyone that likes action/adventure in a slightly alternate world of science fiction.

I have to agree that Sarah Dessen books are really good. I have only read two, but they are amazing. It might not be an average Harry Potter fan choice, but I believe they are good books for teenage girls in particular because you can relate to some of the things that happens.

Hello, well right now I'm working on a book called Song in the Silence. My cousin bought it for me two years ago and I tried to read it but the font and the pages were to small. I just started rereading it and it's hard for me to put the book down. I don't know if any of you guys read it, but it's awesome and should be reviewed.

I would recommend the series "A song of ice and fire", by George R.R. Martin, it would be very nice to talk about those. Specially recommended for people who like medieval-like literature, similar to Tolkien but with a bit(just a bit) less fantasy and much more reality.

I would recommend for review the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It is beautifully written, and historically accurate to a point whilst still allowing for poetic licence. I've been recommending it to everyone I've come across in the last couple of weeks.

i recently finished the twilight series and those books are amazing!!!!!

im also a big fan of agatha christie my favorites are and then there were none, death on the nile, and murder on the orient express

Oh yes I sugested 'And then there were none' a while ago, there's so much to discuss on that, it's really good and well written!

Oh my goodness! I just read 'Felicity James' by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. It was really, really good- or I thought so, at least. Here's one of the many resumes I found:



So basically, it's about a girl, Felicity 'Lissy' James, who has the power to see people's auras. She can identify people's feelings and personnalities from the intensity, brightness, opacity, etc. of their auras, and soon starts to see connectinos between people. She moves to Oklahoma and learns that high school there is pretty complicated; either you're a Golden or a Non.

One aura color means evil and she sees it in her school, and that's when things get complicated. Apparently it doesn't have amazing reviews, but I liked it.

I read it in French though, but I plan to reread it in English, the original version. I liked the suspense.

EDIT I just found out that the book's name is actually 'Golden' by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. I think that's because the title's different in French.

I have another one to add to my list.

I just finished reading A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. I'd like to see it reviewed because it contains a lot of powerful messages. Like, for instance, the title refers to power, in that it is both a great thing, but a terrible burden. In an interview that is included in my version of the book at the end, the author said that she thought of the Spiderman quote, "with great power comes great responsibility." It's along those lines. It's a gothic novel about four girls living in the victorian era at a boarding school whose sole purpose is to prepare them to be good wives. They're sort of the rebellious ones who escape every night to these caves in the woods and form a club. The protagonist, Gemma, realizes that she is the portal to "the realms" a world between this one and the next (the afterlife), and that she has a connection to a group called "The Order." It was really interesting, thrilling, and inspiring. I think it is a trilogy, but don't quote me on that. Oh, and they are supposedly making a movie on it that should come out later this year, though I looked it up on imdb, and it doesn't even have the cast-list, so I'm not sure if that's really the case.

I realize i have already mentioned this book but im doing a game board project for the book and then there were none (the indian island version, not the solider, or any other version) and i was wondering if anyone who had read it had any ideas for something i can put on my board any suggestions would be appreciated.

thank you


also i have a couple of books to add the hobbit and the rest of the lord of the rings novels, watership down (which just to give you fair warning i hated it until about the last 150-200 pages but i can never stop a book once started but i loved the end of the book), animal farm, and many more

Three words:

Life Of Pi.

A series I just can't quit reading is the series The Last Apprentice. It is an excellently written and fun group of books, even if it does seem to be for the younger audience.

I am going to my other home all the way across the country soon, and I was wondering if there are any books that I should buy? I have a ton of gift cards I would like to use up!

Has anyone read the Artemus Fowl series? So far there are four, and they're really good for the whole magical/sci-fi element. Also has a young boy as the main character (almost like a Harry Potter figure, although not quite the same...)

The Dark Materials series (Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman is another great one to keep up with a slightly magical thread. Not too confusing, but lots of action.

I'd also definitely recommend the Maximum Ride books by James Patterson, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer which others have already suggested.

I haven't read the Artemis Fowl series although I have had it recommended to me before. By the way we have a twilight thread on the forums so you should check it out when you find it.

Basically I just wanted to add another book to my list, it's called Go Ask Alice. It is about a girl who gets caught up in drugs and it starts to control her life, it is really sad and I read it about two or three years ago.

Not sure if anyone's mentioned them because for one they aren't very well known but I like The Warrior Heir and The Wizard Heir part of "The Heir" Series by Cinda Williams Chima. I just bought the first one at Target looking for something to read after Harry Potter and got hooked. They are a fantasy series that are in their own way similar to Harry Potter which Cinda admitted was one of her biggest influences. The 3rd book The Dragon Heir is out in August. Just thought I'd weigh in.

I read that book! I loved it so much then I read Crank right after & now I'm reading Glass, I read Impulse & later after I'm done with Glass I'm going to finish it with Burn

Crank is usually read after Go Ask Alice. & then it will tell you at the end recommended books to read after. But now not only am I reading that but I just got into the Twilight series & I bought the book today. So I am reading many books at the moment but I can't complain I love to read !

I started reading crank and I was like 200 pages in and then I went to a swim meet for a while and when I came back I couldn't find it. The other day I found it again but I haven't got around to reading it yet.

Right now I'm reading The Host but soon I need to start Bless Me, Ultima because it is my academic decathlon book and I have to do quizzes and stuff on it, I am really not looking forward to it.

oh boy wow : / and when you say its your academic decathlon you mean like having to read it for school?? if so i know what you mean. i am reading so many books right now, for the pleasure of it of course. i'm reading glass at the moment & i for some odd reason have got this huge interest in reading twilight that i went out today & bought the book & so im in the middle of two books fun though<3 i wish you the best of luck with all that you have to read

TWILIGHT series!
by Stephenie Meyer.
i'm now waiting for..Breaking Dawn.

Academic Decathlon is a select group of students and each team is made up of 9 students but more people battle for a spot on the team and still do the work even if they don't make the team. You are also allowed an alternate at every level, you can have 3 team members and an alternate with an A average, B average, and C average. You compete with other schools on tests in certain categories about a topic, last year it was the civil war, this year it is Latin America. This is my first year trying out for academic decathlon and last year my school took state in the small school division and ranked in the top ten in the national competition.

WOW! Pretty impressive. Completely not what I thought lol & Latin America? Good luck. I really do wish you the best of luck

The chronicles of Faerie is really good, as well as City of Bones.  They aren't the typical fantasy novel, with all the cutesy little fauns and talking animals, which I find refreshing.  They're definitely aimed at teens, with their concepts and writing style.  They show that fantasies can be more grown-up, and that faeries, dracons, and demon stories aren't just meant as bedtime stories for little kids.  In fact, you'd have to be a really weird kid (or me as a little kid) to like this story and want it as a bedtime story!

I love Markus Zusak...a lot. So far I've read The Book Theif, I Am the Messenger, and Getting the Girl, although I think I Am the Messenger is my favorite. It's one of those books, that, to quote Holden Caulfield, after reading "you wish you could call up the author and talk to them."

i wouldn't say the book i have literally JUST started reading is for young people i'd say about 15+
5 pages in and i am hooked
its called 'teacher's dead' by benjamin zephaniah

i'm posting this really quickly so i can continue reading
its great already but content like i said i dont think it's suitable for me to discuss here

If anybody else here is a history nerd like me Tim O'Brien's books are really amazing. He's a Vietnam vet. and his books are really good because he's not an english major...as weird as that sounds. He writes the way you would think, not the way you get taught to write in school. So far I've read The Things They Carried, If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up And Ship Me Home, and Going after Cacciato and all three were amazing.

I've finished a book recently that I really enjoyed. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen is an amazing book that tells an original story. It's about a girl who reuintes with her older sister after her mother abandons her and her whole life gets turned around. She has a wealthy life and a neighbour who wants to be her friend but has a secret of his own. However she makes mistakes but she grows as a person. It's not a happily ever after story but it really isn't a good read that I recommend to anyone who loves a story you might be able to relate to.

--x Lauren

Hey all!

Well i dont know if many of you take a trip down the Christian Fiction section in your local bookstore. But there is a author there by the name of Ted Dekker. I really enjoy his Novels. Many tell about ordianry people that come across miraculous stuff and within all action that is inside of the book it still gets the message of the Good Lord through.

If you all want a recommendation I would go with either House (with Frank Peretti ad Ted Dekker writting), Obsessed, or Saint. All are great reads and im sure many people that read Harry Potter may really like these kind of books!

_Andrew_

Obviously I completely recommend everyone to read the Twilight series. I have read all three books in a week and half becuase thats how good it is. and the fourth is coming out on august 2nd. I promise you that you wont regrett reading it