Good Books to Read? (especially classics)?
I will be a 9th Grader in September and am creating a summer reading list.
I have already read and enjoyed:
Harry Potter series
Warriors series
Tuesday's with Morrie
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
For One More Day
Sounder
Crispin
Tuck Everlasting
Tangerine
Keeper
The Secret Garden
Lionboy Trilogy
Eragon
Eldest
Inkheart
Bud, Not Buddy
The Watson's Go to Birmingham
Stargirl
Love, Stargirl
The Tale of Despereaux
Because of Winn-Dixie
Oliver Twist
Hardy Boys series
Marley and Me
Old Yeller
Hoot
Flush
The Secret of Platform 13
To Kill a Mockingbird
Number the Stars
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Messenger
Travel Team
Summer Ball
Heat
Miracle on 49th St.
QBQ
Silverwing Trilogy
Bridge to Terabithia
The Great Gilly Hopkins
A Year Down Yonder
A Long Way From Chicago
Where the Red Fern Grows
Summer of the Monkeys
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
Under the Baseball Moon
Holes/Small Steps
The Notebook/A Wallk to Remember
New Policeman
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i have a list that i'm trying to read by the time i graduate high school, i started in 8th grade and i'm in 10th now, it has 120 books and i'm not even half way done, hah wait till you get to high school, you won't have too much time to read
anyways some of my faves from my list i've read so far are:
Life of Pi
The Kite Runner
The Secret Life of Bees
The Namesake
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Night
Bee Season
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
How to Breathe Underwater
The Nanny Diaries
The Lovely Bones
i read a lot of the books you read too, i read the secret of platform 13 a looong time and remember loving it, also the watsons go to.., and Holes
good luck with your list!
Well Ben B, you read a lot. In my experience with books, anything by John Grisham is Great. My favoriate book by him is the street lawyer. It is really good. He has written 21 really good books. Some other books that are good are:
Bringing Down The House(a true story, the movie 21 is based off the book and true life tale)
The Perfect Storm
Airframe
The Giver
Any stephen king books
Chromicles of Narnia(long)
On my honor(this is short but good)
DownRiver and ThunderRiver (by Will Hobbs he is also a good author
The Hobbit
Among the hidden series
Lord of the rings
Deadline
Journey to the center of the earth
Glory Road
Gone with the wind
A tale of two cities
Mobey Dick
The golden compass
Eye of the world series
There are a lot of good books, I hope this helps Good Luck
Twilight Series
Uglies Series
Vampire Diaries
Vampire Kisses
Speak
All Amercian Girl
Wicked Lovely
Tithe
Old Magic
Elsewhere
The Third Eye
Sweep Series (15 books)
Balefire Series (4 books)
Valint
Ironside
Daughters of the Moon
I Know What You did Last Summer
Lost in Time
Angels in Pink
Daughters of Eve
Paperquake
Crooked
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Calico Captive and The Witch of Blackbird Pond (both by Elizabeth George Speare)
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet Series (3 in all) by C.S.Lewis
A Company of Swans, Song for Summer, and A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriot (5 in all)
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Hobbit (prequel to the Lord of the Rings series) by JRR Tolkien
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Happy Reading!
Well, I'm a girl, and I always enjoy a good romance... you're probably not like that seeing as you're a boy. However, I love anything from Charlotte Bronte or Edith Wharton.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a love story about a woman's journey through her own life, from her youth to her adulthood. It's sort of like the ultimate female adventure book.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a surprisingly depressing novel on the doings of a woman in early 20th century New York City. The ending is amazing and really sad.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray is a 800 page novel that is really long and tedious but actually kinda good. It's about the superficiality of society.
I know it's girly stuff but it's really good. =(
For classics, try Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
For more modern ones, try The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer, and the Gemma Doyle Series by Libba Bray.
It's really great that you like to read and are making a summer reading list. Most kids won't even read in school for an assignment!
Happy reading!
Wow! You're an avid reader. I would recommend reading the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. It was my favorite book as a kid. Also try, The Man with the Iron Mask and The Count of Monte Cristo. They're all great adventure books.
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- 'The Iliad' by Homer = an Ancient Greek classics, about the Trojan War its BRILLIANT! The sequel is called 'The Odyssey', about Odysseus' journey home from the war, its also BRILLIANT! Both have fantasy elements, like gods/goddesses, mythical creatures, battles, romance, and are really good reads.
- 'Interview with the Vampire' by Anne Rice (and the rest of the Anne Rice vampire series) all really good gripping reads!
- 'Labyrinth' by Kate Mosse
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Chronicles of Narnia, by Lewis Carrol
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien