Any book suggestions?

[barngirlsrule]

Anybody know any good books for a teen/young adult? Im trying to make a list of books to read this summer and i was wondering if anyone has any good suggestions.

I love :
Sci fiction
fantasy
*history
mysterys
thrillers
action
comedy

I hate :

*** "girly" books that are about over-dramatic popular girls trying to "get that hunky guy" ( no offense to teens that like those books, but i think those are kinda pathetic)

 

[Ec_Prokta]

The Golden Goblet by Eloise McGraw is very good. It's a historical fiction book about an Egyptian goldsmith.

 

[okiron]

If you like historical drama you might like Nefertiti and The Heretic Queen, both by Michelle Moran.

 

[ranchhand]

Anne McCaffrey's "Dragons of Pern" series- it combines sci-fi and fantasy, and makes you want to be there.

Mysteries? Agatha Christie was Mistress of the genre- seems a bit old and stuffy, but really is a series of classics.

Anything by Dashiell Hammett.

 

[Lady Henevere]

Try the Bayern trilogy, starting with The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale. Also try Spindle's End by Robin McKinley. Both are really well-written and very good.

 

[barngirlsrule]

thanks for the awesome suggestions guys!!!

 

[gritsar]

Dean Koontz's Darkest Evening of the Year or Odd Thomas

Not gory, spooky but not gory.

 

[LA~Poulet]

I hate :

*** "girly" books that are about over-dramatic popular girls trying to "get that hunky guy"

So I'm guessing the Twilight series is out?

I never got into historical fiction but I LOVED the works of Madeline L'engle (Wrinkle in Time, Wind in the Door, Arm of the Starfish, etc.) and C.S. Lewis (Silent Planet Trilogy)... They have so much going on in different levels.

Clan of the Cave Bear is not exactly historical as much as anthropological, but the first in a series that I really enjoyed.

I liked a lot of animal/wildlife themed books as well, All things bright and beautiful, Jack London's works like White Fang, but those might not be your taste.


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[WriterofWords]

Till We Have Faces or anything at all by C.S. Lewis.

 

[FunnyFarmer]

For sci-fi/fantasy--anything by Lois McMaster Bujold, or Elizabeth Moon. Mercedes Lackey and Marion Zimmer Bradley are good as well.

Mystery-- Catherine Coulter has written a series of FBI thrillers that are really good & have really strong female characters. Rita Mae Brown has written a bunch of mysteries set in rural Virginia where pets are also characters--they're really enjoyable reads.

Clan of the Cave Bear is a good book, but do be aware that the later books in the series are very sexually explicit. They're good, but they do have that element.

Madeleine L'Engle is one of my very favorite authors.