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I'm at college level reading. 14 years old, female.
I'm looking for any really good reads that anybody knows of. I like basically anything, just no historical fiction.
Please don't tell me to google or look on the "myspace books section".
Thanks in advance.
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Well, you didn't post a genre, so I'll give you a little of each of what I can figure out.
SciFi/Fantasy:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
- Set in the future. There's a monastery dedicated to preserving books from the pre-nuclear war age. Pretty much everyone is illiterate. A monk from the monastery finds a bomb shelter with 'valuable documents' in it... and finds out they belonged to the guy who founded their monastery. Everyone thinks it's so valuable, but it's really just a shopping list! Really interesting.
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
- Set on a different planet which has 7 suns. They're in everlasting light (even indoors they always have lighting) and they find out that there's going to be an eclipse. Since these people have never been exposed to darkness (they sort of think of it as a taboo subject) it drives most of the population into madness.
The Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart
- The story of Merlin.
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fiction:
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Really famous story about a teenaged girl during the Civil War. I know you don't like historical fiction, but this one is a really good story, and doesn't focus too much on the actual history part so much.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- About a country girl whose family is really poor, so they send her off to some rich relations. It follows her life as things go wrong after that. Again, it's set in the 1800s because that's when it was written.
Mystery:
Susanna Gregory has some great books. I KNOW you said no historical fiction, but these ones are really neat. It's murder mysteries set in the middle ages, solved by a monk. I really liked them.
Give these a try. I was in the same position you were, and it was really rough. I know these aren't the type of books most teenaged girls read, but I personally hate the really girly stuff that's out now; it's not nearly enough of a challenge.
Good luck!
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Night by Elie Weisel
The Watchers by Dean Koontz
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Squashed by Joan Bauer
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer
With Their Eyes by Annie Thomas
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
That Summer by Sarah Dessen
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
One Of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
Hit the Road by Caroline B. Cooney
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies, Pretties, Specials)
Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
So Yesterday by scott Westerfeld
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (also Last Days)
Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
When it Happens by Susane Colasanti
First Impressions by Marilyn Sachs
I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter
The Girl Who Invented Romance by Caroline B. Cooney
King Dork by Frank Portman
Looking for Alaska by John Green
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you can try the 'Franklin' books....
p.s. u said yoi like everything!
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Meg Cabot puts out a good amount of books, read "Boy Meet Girl"
I read it, and It was very long, and I am only 13. Words were hard to understand, but I still loved it. It's an adult book, so I am assuming it at at LEAST college level. She is my favorite author.
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I asked my mom, and said when she was in college, her favorite book she read was "To Kill a Mockingbird" Which is by Harper Lee.
I never read it, but my mom has good taste.
Good luck :)
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-Battlefield earth - L Ron Hubbard(scifi)
-Books by Terry Brooks(fantasy)
-Books by JRR Tolkien(fantasy)
-Books by Issac Asimov(scifi)
You might also like the nonfiction books
-The millennial project:colonizing the galaxy in 8 easy steps - Marshal T Savage(philosophy/science)
-Imagining the tenth dimension - Rob Bryanton(science/physics)
Have fun!
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well it really depends on your interests but i like to erad mark twain and howthorn...or how ever you spell it i'm not sure what level thely are but you can look into it,
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