Latest Lists

What is your recommended summer reading list?

I will be getting out of school in less than two weeks! I am very excited! I am making it my goal to read about 20 - 30+ books this summer, could you please give me a recommended list of what you've read or are going to read? Suggest anything! If it helps, I'm at an adult reading level. I'm 14 years old and 'big books' do not frighten me. (:

Public Comments

1. OK it depends on what your age is but i read yound adult and sdult fiction becasue i am thirteen but if you need a list follow this website. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bbyahome.cfm I use this list to order my books and the books are usually good a book i recomend that i just read is How it Happened on Peach Hill 'Enjoy your summer : )
2. personally, i would not waste my time reading, and instead go out and enjoy the weather. read in the wintertime when you are stuck inside.
3. The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen Pretty much all of Sarah Dessen's books are amazing, she has a new one coming out called Along for the Ride. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins This book was amazing, I lent it to a friend and eventually got all of my friends to read it- when you read the description you may think its gory and wrong, but it wasn't really! The sequel comes out in September.
4. I'm going to read all of Chuck Palahniuk books in order I have read Fight Club.
5. Crank, Glass, Burned, Impulse and Identical by Ellen Hopkins. The Summoning and The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong. The Mercy Thompson series; Moon Called, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed and Bone Crossed. Also Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Watchers by Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz. Frankenstein series by Dean Koontz. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous. The House of Night series; Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted and soon to come Tempted by P.C and Kristin Cast. Need by Carrie Jones. The Mortal Instruments series; City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause. Secret Circle by L.J Smith. Night World series by L.J Smith. Vampire Diaries series by L.J Smith. Wake and Fade by Lisa Mcmann. The Host by Stephanie Meyer. The Uglies, Pretties, Specials and Extras by Scott Westerfeld. Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr. Evermore by Alyson Noel. The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd by Heather Brewer The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. These books are amazing! I'm in love with this series. I finished all 5 of them 4 days after i got them. I couldn't put them down. They are incredible.
6. your school gets out in two weeks? mine got out like 2 weeks ago ok but here, shug rules twilight new moon eclipse breaking dawn blood on the river girl with a pearl earring marley and me
7. I really enjoyed The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Great book for all ages, Stephanie Meyers author of twilight recommended it and it was great, the second one comes out in Sept. You should check it out! I also love Kim Harrison's The hollows series. It's probably my favorite series :)
8. Well everyones taste is different. If your not scared of big books I would say you should try The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. They sell a three-in-one. yeah yeah it's a nerd book, but it sucks you in, no lies. I've read the Anne Rice vampire chronicles. There's like 10.. or 11 books in the series; I can't remember I read them when I was your age. . It's original, It's not fruity like twilight and all of that jazz. I'm starting to read some classics. Right now i'm workin my way through David Copperfield, Crime and Punishment, and Les Miserables. Another good one I read, which is not to say as difficult as the others, but still quite entertaining, is The Talisman by Peter Straub and Stehphen King. There's a second book to it too, but it's not as good. I would say look into some philosophy too if your keen on critical thinking, I recently had philosophy class at my community college and our professor was awesome! I'm gonna start on some old stuff like Plato soon.
9. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Crank by Ellen Hopkins The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Before I Die by Jenny Downham The Secret life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher White Oleander by Janet Fitch Paint it Black by Janet Fitch Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Blue is for Nightmares (collection of 4 books in the series) by Laurie Faria Stolarz http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det... Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1) by Kim Harrison http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Witch-Walking... Cut by Patricia McCormick The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Laurie-Hal... Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson Looking for Alaska by John Green http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Alaska-Joh... The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin Sweethearts by Sara Zarr Lost It by Kristen Tracy Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen Two-way Street by Lauren Barnholdt When It Happens by Susane Colasanti Before I Die by Jenny Downham Bloom by Elizabeth Scott Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Teenage-Am... Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott Harmless by Dana Reinhardt I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder Paper Towns by John Green http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Towns-John-G... Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The by E. Lockhart The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott Madapple by Christina Meldrum What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer Shift by Jennifer Bradbury The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Sweet Far Thing (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) by Libba Bray Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mi... by Kimberly Pauley The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Peeled by Joan Bauer and also the book Squashed Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman Looks by Madeleine George North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley Black Box by Julie Schumacher City of Glass (Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley Need by Carrie Jones http://www.amazon.com/Need-Carrie-Jones/... Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston Raven by Allison van Diepen A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb http://www.amazon.com/Certain-Slant-Ligh... Unwind by Neal Shusterman Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin Wake by Lisa McMann (Book 2 is Fade) Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires, Book 1) by Rachel Caine Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer, Book 1) by Karen Chance Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 1) by Jeaniene Frost http://www.amazon.com/Halfway-Grave-Nigh... Ill Wind by Rachel Caine Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1) by Charlaine Harris http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Until-Souther... THE book series that inspired the TRUE BLOOD show on HBO starring Anna Paquin!
10. I would suggest the Diary of Ann Frank, or another type of holocaust book. They are usually intersesting and you want to keep reading on and on. When you're done, go to the next!