What books do you think I'd like?

I'm 23.


I like historical fiction, like "Helen of Troy", not some cheap romance.


I like vampire stories, mystical things like that, but not space and aliens ;)


I loved "White Oleander"- maybe something along those lines. Maybe some other Oprah Book Club books?


I like "Wicked", so I'm thinking I'd like the other books he wrote about those type of characters.





Any suggestions? Thanks :)

What books do you think I'd like?
any books by Garth Nix, any books by Neil Gaiman.


"The Declaration" by Gemma Malley will freak you out of this world - it's about the far future, where immortality and has been achieved. And boy, is it a gripping novel...
Reply:2 weeks in grade 6 by mary k pershall
Reply:Wuthering Heights.


i cant remember the author.


but its very romantic and kinder histortical.
Reply:I liked the book White Oleander as well. I liked the book by James Patterson, The Quickie... it was a good mystery.





If you like vampire stories people are going to suggest Twilight but I like the series Betsy Taylor and a series also by Tate Halloway. The first one is Tall Dark and Dead.
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I think you would like "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. It's a terrific book and it is so different from the movies you may have seen.


Also I think you would like "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Again this book is so much more than any movie you may have seen.


TDCWH
Reply:I have two recommendations. First, "Land of A Thousand Hills" by Rosamond Carr. And "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. Both are stories (one true, one fiction) about young women your age, at least in part. Both of them are very moving stories, and I hope you like them.
Reply:If you haven't read Ken Follett's Pillars of Earth and World Without End, you should check those out. Very good historical fictions. And Gary Jennings has a really good historical fiction series. The first book is called "The Aztec." They can be a little slow moving but there's some really interesting stuff in there. :)





And I just finished listening to "Confessions of an Ugly Step-Sister", by Maguire, on audio book and I really really liked it. I liked it better than Wicked and Son of a Witch.
Reply:Here are some of the best vampire and/or werewolf works I have read:


Dracula by Bram Stoker


Mina by Marie Kiraly


The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova


Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles


Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series about a witch who is a bounty hunter and works with a vampire and a pixie


Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series about a werewolf radio talk show host


Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series about a wizard private investigator in Chicago


Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series about witches, werewolves, vampires, necromancers, ghosts, angels, and sorcerers.


Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series


Nora Roberts’s Circle Trilogy romance about vampires, witches, sorcerers, and shapeshifters: “Morrigan’s Cross”, “Dance of the Gods”, and “Valley of Silence”


Yasmine Galenorn’s “The Sisters of the Moon” series about three sisters: a witch, a vampire, and a werecat.





These are some of the best historical fiction I have read:


The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl


Girl With a Pearl Earring, Burning Bright, and The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier





If you want some controversial stuff, check out:


Politics (Utopias/Dystopias)-


1984 by George Orwell


Animal Farm by George Orwell


Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


Does This School Have Capital Punishment by Nat Hentoff


Lord of the Flies by William Golding


The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood


The Giver by Lois Lowry


Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry


Messenger by Lois Lowry





Censorship-


Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff


Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky





Discrimination (Racism, Anti-semitism, etc.)-


The War Between the Classes by Gloria D. Miklowitz


The Wave by Todd Strasser


Prank by Kathryn Lasky


Pageant by Kathryn Lasky


Witch Child by Celia Rees


Blood Secret by Kathryn Lasky (historical fiction)


Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky (historical fiction)


The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner (historical fiction)


The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (historical fiction)
Reply:for historical fiction, check out this website, you can search by era, time period,hero/heroine....www.historicalrom...





these websites for vampires....


www.vampirelibrary.com


www.vampireromancebooks.com


www.vampiregenre.com


www.white-wolf.com


www.lovevampires.com


www.vampirerealm.com





Some books I have read and enjoyed: Some are from the Oprah book club:





Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts.....


Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen


Paint it Black by Janet Fitch


Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz


Midwives: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian


While I Was Gone by Sue Miller


A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons


The Poinsonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Delinksy


Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons


Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden


We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates


The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage by Robert Morgan


Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes


Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio


The Reader by Bernhard Schlink


Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge


The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinksy


The Dog Who Spoke With Gods by Diane Jessup


Just Desserts by Barbara Bretton


Girls of Summer by Barbara Bretton


Seaview Inn by Sherryl Woods





Some of my favorite authors that never disappoint are:





Debbie Macomber


Danielle Steel


Robyn Carr


Eileen Goudge


Barbara Delinksy


Bentley Little.....horror


Joy Fielding...thriller


Sarah Addison Allen