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[Orangeclaw]

So.. I have these projects for school I do,

they have to do with books.

I'm not sure what to read.

Do you guys have any ideas?

Please post title, author, and genre.

If you like this post, +1 my rep.

Thanks everyone!

[Unknown001]

You should read: Metro 2033
by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Genre: post-apocalyptic

[Analog Relevance]

Classics never hurt: 1984 by George Orwell, Science fiction; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Fiction; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Science fiction; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction.

[Wolfarheart]

here are some of my favorites that i can think of

The Circular Stair case By: Mary Roberts Rinehart   Genre: Murder Mystery

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by: Douglas Adams  Genre: Science Fiction I think, its  4 or 5 boks combined, you could always just pick the first one in it.

Dracula by: Bram Stoker Genre: It's a classic, it would be fantasy i believe unless they made vampire a genre

White Fang by: Jack London Genre: also a classic, not sure what it would be classified outside of that?

[16cadrian]

One book i read over the summer was Notes From the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick. Fantastic book, its about a teenage boy, (forget his exact age) who drives drunk because of some issues with his dad, ends up getting community service at an old persons home and has his life changed from crap to better. That's a terrible summary but you should look into it.

[Mikko_blu]

Micheal Crichton!!!
Timeline, Prey, Awesome books. Really. Andromeda Strain too! i loved them
Hunger games was great.

[Orangeclaw]

Alright, thanks guys I'll check out some of those books

[DarkPonzu]

• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  
• The Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
• The Leviathan trilogy by Scot Westerfeld
  
• Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
  
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  
• Original Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard
  
• Dune by Frank Herbert (if you like the first book, skip the sequels)

Other pulp fiction works such as Doc Savage, The Shadow, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, etc.
Also look up selected game based fiction such as the Warhammer 40k novel series, your teachers should love those

And if you must read classic literature, you can't go wrong with the translated Chinese classics, would also recommend Beowulf, the Iiliad, the Oddysey and for something a little closer to the last couple centuries, anything by H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and J.R.R. Tolkien

[Zerafina]

- Across The Nightingales floor by Lian Hearn
- Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates

[Shadowi99]

The Da vinci Code, Angels And Demons and the rest of that series by Dan Brown

[Orangeclaw]

Thanks Everyone! I will read some over break

[Travis]

Analog Relevance, on 19 December 2012 - 01:42 AM, said:

Classics never hurt: 1984 by George Orwell, Science fiction; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Fiction; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Science fiction; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction.

1984 isn't science fiction.

[MoutainDew2k11]

The Chaos Walking Trilogy, aimed at older teenagers. Books are long but worth the read, it also might be becoming a film to, soon.

[Analog Relevance]

Travis, on 21 December 2012 - 03:50 PM, said:

1984 isn't science fiction.

It could very well be perceived as science fiction. Extremely dystopian society, a seemingly omnipresent authoritarian figure, etc. Of course, the message of 1984 is more political than simply science fictional. But a lot of the elements in the book point to science fiction.

[Giltterwolf]

The Hush Hush Saga

[Homem Pigman]

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is probably the best book I've read, but Influence by Robert Cialdini, PhD, is one that will teach you a lot in any situation.

[Mute]

I'd suggest Tides of War or Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

DarkPonzu, on 19 December 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Personally I'd suggest Battle Royale over Hunger Games, their pretty similar to each other.

[Idris]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a classic science fiction novel. This may have been one of the best science fiction novels I have ever read in my life, so I would highly suggest you reading it.

[Machiavel]

Time to get deep and edgy.

I mean, come on man; you're a teenager -these are prime angst years that you'll never get back. Might as well make use of them.

So, on the fiction side:

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Trial by Franz Kafka (or, really, anything by Franz Kafka)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyesvky

And on the nonfiction side (look at how smart you are):

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand

The nice thing is that most of these are pretty short, and you probably don't even need to read them; just quote some of the stuff off of the back of the books and you'll probably be in good shape to start writing bad poetry and petulant essays about how we need to kill rich and/or poor people, depending on which books you scooped out of the Barnes and Noble sales bin.

[BodOwens]

The Graveyard book and Stardust are pretty interesting. Both made by the same author, Neil Gaiman

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series), Kane Chronicles (Series), and Heroes of Olympus (series) is also interesting, funny at the same time! written by Rick Riordan.