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This is an awesome question! It’s also a challenging one. Let’s see if I can limit myself to five.
1) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. It’s a fantastic book that is highly overlooked in favor of new titles and books with smutty content. All of L’Engle’s works are natural and show a story as opposed to telling one.
2) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It’s a classic for a reason. There is a lot of radical thinking in it, and it will without a doubt make people uncomfortable. But I think that it’s the things that make us uncomfortable that we should pay more attention to.
3) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. It’s a book similar to L’Engle’s Wrikle in Time, only not content-wise. The two books are similar because they are overlooked and labeled as “children’s stories” so people roll their eyes. But this book (and the rest of Taylor’s works) are powerful and true and engaging.
4) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It’s a beautiful and gripping tale that I think needs to be read around 12-14 years old and then reread several years later and reread several years later. I think it makes the story all the more powerful.
5) The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. It’s a short book with short words and a lot of pictures, but it has a beautiful message. It’s not just for little kids. Everyone should read it and appreciate it and, hopefully, take something from it.
Russian literature:
The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
Magical Realism:
100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
Gothic romanticism
7 Gothic Tales – Isak Dinesen
Pure romance (at least to me)
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
I wanted to give books or stories that are world literature rather than just American and English literature, although D.H. Lawrence is English, of course. Also, I wanted to give you something different rather than the usual suspects.
Happy reading!
I don’t get what everyone has against Twilight. It is actually a very good series.
1. Harry Potter-Any of the books but it would make more sense if you read them all
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
3. My Sister’s Keeper-If you are close to your siblings this one will pull at your heart strings
4. Wuthering Heights
5. Kite Runner
…Twilight series! Lolz, sry. I’m a major twi-hard.
Back to business: To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher In The Rye, HP series, The Hunger Games, Dracula, Jurassic Park, anything by Shakespeare, Fahrenheit 451, anything by Scott Westerfeld.
Peace and Love!! =]
This is a tough one!
A few years ago, my answer would’ve been different and, who knows, maybe in a few years, my top 5 will be different.
Right now, I’d suggest:
HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
THE BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA by Katherine Paterson
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen
JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brönte
Harry Potter series
The Demonata Series
Skulduggery Series
Percy Jackson Series
The Lord of the Rings Series
Captain Underpants Series
The Inheritance Series
EDIT: Oh you said Books …
Any of the Harry Potter books
Any of the lord of the rings books
Salem’s lot by Stephen King
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Edit: Loads of people are doing series so ignore my last “EdIt”
1- At least one harry potter book(i loved goblet of fire and deathly hallows)
2.Da Vinci Code
3. The Hunger Games
4. To kill a Mockingbird
5. Another Harry Potter Book
or maybe the HP series-
1,2,4,6,7 books.
well this is a tough one but some of my faves or recommendations are:
jane eyre
the count of monte cristo
les miserables
pride and prejudice
emma
persuasion
dracula
the sherlock holmes series
the scarlet letter
to kill a mockingbird
catch 22
slaughterhouse five
HOPE U READ SOME OF THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. of course, harry potter and the DH
2. the outsiders
3. a wrinkle in time
4. Marley and Me
5. little women
Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Eminems: The Way I Am, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and Steven Kings: Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Where The Red Fern Grows
To Kill A Mocking Bird
The Secret Garden
Bridge to Terabithia
Summer of the Monkeys
(Bonus Book) The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J R R Tolkien
Harry Potter, definitely.
Okay:
The Westing Game
Water for Elephants
The Samurai’s Garden
Life of Pi
The Bell Jar
Maybe you should try the twilight series if you wanted to.
but anyway…without those books i would say the upstairs room and the child called it