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Can anyone help me with a book list? Tell me about the best books you have read.?

OK so i want to get a list of books to read before next june. I will be a junior in high school this fall so don't be afraid to give me hard books. I have read quite a bit but the best books i probably read was the harry potter series. I need more books though that will help my vocabulary, understanding of life etc... Basically i need great books, they can be classics or new. They can be about anything politics, romance, war, fantasy, fiction, non fiction etc... I would be really pleased if you can give me the top 10 books you have read. Please help. Thank You

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1. My Top 10 (In no particular order) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Professor's House by Willa Cather Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman The Children of Men by PD James Utopia by Thomas More The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Looking for Alaska by John Green How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Notable mentions: Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
2. The Time Travellers Wife. I have not seen the movie.
3. Sword of Shannara series by Terry Brooks Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (definitely read this one) Helter Skelter by Bugliosi - nonfiction about Charles Manson, very gripping, and I am not usually into these The Secret by Rhonda Byrne - the movie is sometimes easier to get than the book Anything by Dean Koontz or Chuck Palahniuk - fun, strange reads 1984 by George Orwell - even though 1984 has passed, think of it as 25 years in the future Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison - fantastic
4. i'm also in high school so i can see where your coming from with wanting good books :) the lovely bones - alice sebold white oleander - janet fitch tuesdays with morrie - mitch albom the catcher in the rye - J. D. salinger the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky the notebook - nicholas sparks dreamland - sarah dessen all sonya sones novels, harry potter series, twilight series
5. These are some of the many good books that I would recommend to you: 1.) The Collector--John Fowles. 2.) Tipping the Velvet--Sarah Waters. 3.) Affinity--Sarah Waters. 4.) The Blind Assassin--Margaret Atwood. 5.) Mr. Pip--Lloyd Jones. 6.) Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen. 7.) Any short stories written by H.P Lovecraft. (My favorites.) 8.)The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde. 9.) Waiting--Ha Jin. 10.) David Copperfield--Charles Dickens.
6. Hard Frost by R.D. Wingfield Deception Point by Dan Brown The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice The Chrysalids by John Wyndham Murder in Paradise by Ann Cleeves I love mystery so I'll stop here
7. Hey there :) Here are a few books/ series that i like: A million little pieces Left behind series Teen/kids left behind series I've only read the first Twilight book, but I believe people our age(15-18) have made it sort of overrated There are tons of books to like! Good job on wanting to improve your vocabulary!
8. Some of my personal favorites…………. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (has nothing to do with the military) An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser Catch-22 – Joseph Heller The Call of the Wild by Jack London To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Moby Dick – Herman Melville The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (although the story about a serial killer at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition is true, Larson sprinkles in his conjecture as fact along the way) On a personal, self-improvement level: How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie This is absolutely one of the hokiest and most derided titles of any book ever written. Don’t be fooled by it. If you want to be a better person, improve your human relation skills and make people like you, you can’t beat it. There is a reason this book has sold close to 40 million copies since it was first published in the early 1930s. Its message and lessons are timeless. Click the following links for three subjective lists of the 100 all-time best novels: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100rivallist.html Keep in mind that these lists are subjective, meaning the lists are nothing more than the opinions of a select group of literary pundits, not the opinion of the masses. You can work your way through the lists and yes, you may find a book or two that is pure drudgery, i.e., you can’t please everyone all of the time. If this is the case, get another book and move on. P.S. As a side benefit, your writing and writing skills will dramatically improve by default if you confine your reading to quality literature. If you come upon a new word, look up its definition.