Literature Gimme Some Dank Books

[Edna]

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So I've been trying so hard to get into reading more. I read, but I normally do it because teachers command me to. Most books that I've read aren't so good. Well, they're good, but I'm pretty damn disappointed how they turned out, especially Divergent. At the moment, I'm just about finished with the Boy in Striped Pajamas. I highly recommend reading it, despite how short and simple the content is. My point is that I need MORE books! <img alt=" xD " data-emoticon="" height="20" src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh.png" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh@2x.png 2x" title=" xD " width="20" /> It's to only make school not as much as a living hell, so, if you got any, comment the titles below.


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[Tronethiel]

Do you have any genre preferences? Is there a particular sort of thing you really enjoy in a book?

 

[LocoMetal]

Necronomicon.

 

[Cross]

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater is oodles of good. Because of the writing. It's YA. Actually, all my suggestions are YA.


The Daughter of Smoke and Bone series because... the writing again.


The Winner's Curse is the first in a trilogy by Marie Rutkoski.


A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab.


All my favs.

 

[Saccharine Cyanide]

Since you mentioned Divergent and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, I'm gonna guess you're looking for YA novels?


If that's the case, here's a list of books I enjoyed as a young adult:


The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer - Set in a bleak dystopian Mexico, it's about a young boy growing up to learn about his horrific destiny. If you like this novel, you can also pick up The Sea of Trolls by the same author, set in the viking age, tinged by mythology.


Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones - You might have heard of the Studio Ghibli movie this book inspired. It features an intrepid heroine who's cursed into the body of an old woman until her true love breaks the spell.


The Giver, by Lois Lowry - A dystopian YA staple. In the future, one man holds the memories of an entire civilization. A young man's world changes when it's decided these memories will be passed on to him.


Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card - In the future, the human race is attacked by a ruthless alien species. Earth's only hope comes in the form of a genetically engineered super-soldier...who also happens to be a child. Personally, I'm not fond of the author, but the book itself is a good read. It's also part of a series, which I haven't read.


His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Philip Pullman - A young girl named Lyra lives in a world where people's souls live separately from their body, in the form of an animal spirit called a dæmon. Over the course of three books, she fights an evil corporation led by her own despotic mother, travels dimensions, escapes the underworld and helps overthrow a false god. It's pretty wild.


If you liked The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, you may like Night, by Elie Wiesel. Just so you're prepared, it's the actual account of the author's experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp. I very much recommend this one.


You might also like Maus, by Art Spiegelman. Through graphic novel format, a cartoonist chronicles the life of his father, a Holocaust surviver. Jewish people are portrayed as mice, and Nazis as cats in a format that is both lighthearted and heart-breaking.


I have more, but I don't want to get too overwhelming, haha.

 

[Edna]

Necronomicon.

Never heard of it before, but I'll still be sure to look.

[QUOTE="Cross_Rhodes]The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater is oodles of good. Because of the writing. It's YA. Actually, all my suggestions are YA.
The Daughter of Smoke and Bone series because... the writing again.


The Winner's Curse is the first in a trilogy by Marie Rutkoski.


A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab.


All my favs.

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I've heard of a few of those. In fact, maybe I actually bought the Raven Boys, but I never got the chance to read it. So many lone books are sitting on shelves.... I'm going to look.

[QUOTE="Saccharine Cyanide]Since you mentioned Divergent and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, I'm gonna guess you're looking for YA novels?
If that's the case, here's a list of books I enjoyed as a young adult:


The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer - Set in a bleak dystopian Mexico, it's about a young boy growing up to learn about his horrific destiny. If you like this novel, you can also pick up The Sea of Trolls by the same author, set in the viking age, tinged by mythology.


Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones - You might have heard of the Studio Ghibli movie this book inspired. It features an intrepid heroine who's cursed into the body of an old woman until her true love breaks the spell.


The Giver, by Lois Lowry - A dystopian YA staple. In the future, one man holds the memories of an entire civilization. A young man's world changes when it's decided these memories will be passed on to him.


Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card - In the future, the human race is attacked by a ruthless alien species. Earth's only hope comes in the form of a genetically engineered super-soldier...who also happens to be a child. Personally, I'm not fond of the author, but the book itself is a good read. It's also part of a series, which I haven't read.


His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Philip Pullman - A young girl named Lyra lives in a world where people's souls live separately from their body, in the form of an animal spirit called a dæmon. Over the course of three books, she fights an evil corporation led by her own despotic mother, travels dimensions, escapes the underworld and helps overthrow a false god. It's pretty wild.


If you liked The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, you may like Night, by Elie Wiesel. Just so you're prepared, it's the actual account of the author's experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp. I very much recommend this one.


You might also like Maus, by Art Spiegelman. Through graphic novel format, a cartoonist chronicles the life of his father, a Holocaust surviver. Jewish people are portrayed as mice, and Nazis as cats in a format that is both lighthearted and heart-breaking.


I have more, but I don't want to get too overwhelming, haha.

[/QUOTE]
Ah, the Giver. I read that book before, last year. I was very disappointed after I read it, not that I didn't like it. I thought it be as good as I anticipated, especially for receiving an award.


Night sounds VERY interesting. I enjoy reading any content that is associated with World Wad ll, from false stories to true events. The tragedies are unexplainable for me to describe, and that's what motivates me to read them.

 

[Edna]

Do you have any genre preferences? Is there a particular sort of thing you really enjoy in a book?

Historical Fiction without a doubt. I've always enjoyed that genre, and I can't recall why.


Fantasy is also enjoyable, depending on what the story may be.

 

[Negative Zone]

It's not strictly historical fiction (it falls more under alternate history) but I absolutely love the book My Real Children by Jo Walton. It's a story about an old woman in a nursing home who remembers two separate lives and two separate histories that diverge from the point of a phone call in her younger years. The book flips back and forth between the two lives and histories. The main character does grow up during World War II but the worldbuilding of the book kind of explores two different ways that the world could have advanced after that point, neither of which are our own modern world.

 

[Obito Uchiha]

The Outsiders


Basically anything by Stephen King, but especially the tower series and Firestarter


Rick Riodran books are alright if you don't mind children's books


The Inheritance cycle is amazing if you like dragons


Lord of the Rings <-----------


Harry Potter is a great series of books, must read

 

[Grimmlock]

The Divine Series. It's a five (maybe a six eventually?) book, self published series. It has an angel versus demo theme and the plot is very engulfing. The only drawback is that because it is self published, you have to buy paperback versions over amazon, or get it for the kindle.

 

[Edrondol]

Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. Great epic fantasy series that will appeal also to YA readers.


David Eddings - The Belgariad. Another great series that I read when I was in high school. Stay away from the sequel series The Mallorians, though. Same story with different people.


If you can find a copy, pick up a one-off book called Ariel. It's by Steven R. Boyett and it's pretty damned good.


Like others here, I could keep rattling stuff off for hours, but these would be my top choices.

 

[yukosumin]

A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini) - Though during the middle where character point of views went back and forth I was a uninterested, this book is so, so worth reading. The story follows two girls growing up in Afghanistan, and even now I'm incredibly attached to the characters.


The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) - I preferred A Thousand Splendid Suns by the time I finished both books, but there wasn't a moment while I was reading this that I got bored, tired, or sick of the story.


Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) - This book almost destroyed me; I was dazed and wallowing in my emotions for a while after finishing. This is based off a true story and is so touching.


The Sun Also Rises (Earnest Hemingway)


One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) - This book has such an interesting plot with intriguing characters. I also really liked the writing and with all those pros combined, I finished the book in one sitting.


Also, books by Kurt Vonnegut are amazing too. You may not like it initially because his style is unconventional, but if you want to try something new, try some of his works.

 

[Barbas]

The Ciaphas Cane book series is pretty good.

 

[ManicMuse]

The Emberverse series


Post apocalyptic awesomeness. It does run into some strong underlying religious tones in the later books though. Some people that had read the series were a little disappointed in that.

 

[Checkmate Huntress]

Graceling by Kristin Cashore, it has a great fantasy universe and great romance as well, with non-stereotypical characters and a unique plot that will make you think!

 

[M0N0]

I'd suggest Five Children on the Western front.


Make sure to read everything so you understand what's going on, It can get a bit hard to understand at parts but It's very good!


Historical Fiction as well, to suit your tastes.

 

[Axiom Days]

The Mortal Instruments.

 

[notasci]

If you want a really trippy experimental horror book that plays with text, font, placement, and layout in some extremely fascinating ways, read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsky. It's essentially a love story with the guise of being a horror story about a house that is bigger on the inside and horrifyingly impossible, in every single way; it's also about the narrator's experiences in trying to learn about the Navidson Record of the house, and his brokenness, and it's all wrapped together wonderfully. Make sure you get the full color version!


There's also the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy (all five books!), which is a hilarious read, and Terry Pratchett's Discworld is hilarious fantasy satire.


There's also the delightful Burton and Swineburne novels by Mark Hodder, alternate history novels about Victorian England following bizarre versions of real historical figures (There's steamwork robots! Analogue computers! Giant bugs used as cars! Cats that walk around dusting and then lick themselves clean like cuter rhoombas! Mystery! Psychics!) and begins with The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack. All really cool mystery novels exploring a history that never could have been.

 

[Average]

Time riders was a sci-fi historical fiction. Oh one really lovely series I just read is "Miss peregrines home for peculiar children". It's by far my favorite series of books ive read 2016

 

[JokerValentine]

Doctor Sleep by Steven King. It's a pretty nice book, so i guess it's...lit?

 

[Paper Turtle]

A few books I've really enjoyed are


Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie


Out Of My Mind (I forgot who by, but the cover had a fish on it)


The Percy Jackson Series/ Heroes Of Olympus Series


Just a few suggestions (I can't stand Divergent either, by the way. I've been disappointed by a lot of popular YA novels recently)

 

[Paranoid Android]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is funny as hell. And smart. I also liked the second book in the series almost as much as the first. But I got bored with the third and stopped reading them.


1984 is also really good. Can't think of any other books I liked so much. Maybe The Hobbit.

 

[Kestrel]

Divergent! *begins sobbing uncontrollably*


Recommendations:


Graceling series


Anything written by Rick Riordan


Life after the Undead

 

[whitefoxkiller]

[QUOTE="Cross_Rhodes]The Daughter of Smoke and Bone series

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fuck yes

 

[rainyri0t]

I'd definitely recommend anything by Stephen King; I've never been disappointed by any of his novels. My two favorites at the moment are Revival and Mister Mercedes. I'm currently reading the sequel to Mister Mercedes (which is titled Finder's Keepers) and there's a third book to it that he's recently released. I'd also recommend Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn.