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.
Reply:Zzz,

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