I need book recommendations.

[bohemiangel]

I know I should do a proper update but being back at school has just turned my brain to mush and I'm not sure I could manage anything coherent right now. It's been intense to say the least for various reasons

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[jadedparadoja]

http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Sassy-Tree-Olive-Burns/dp/038531258X/ref=sr_1_5/002-1834754-0315210?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189022745&sr=8-5... )

[jadedparadoja]

ps: I hoped that helped and that I didn't just drive you crazy with a million suggestions. But, seriously, all those books are ones that I read over and over and over. Hell, I'll still pick them up and read them (and I'm 21!!). Each time I read them, I pick more things out from them.

[dazeddaisy]

Tomorrow When the War began series by John Marsden (even if its only book 1). It was one of the few books everyone I know loved when it was set as a book. Its a little "australian"in terms of some of the language or so I have been told, but still a good read. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tomorrow-When-War-Began/dp/0439829100/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-4284008-8166046?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189032815&sr=8-1) You can get them faster via Pan Macmillan. If you are interested I can lend you my well worn copy. Its basically about a group of teenagers that go camping and when they come back Australia has been taken over (you never find out by whom which is nice) and their entire familys have either been killed or are being held hostage. It explores how these teenagers are suddenly thrown into an adult world and how they cope. Other than a few australian jargon terms ie chook, landy, it

[icedbun]

I like "To Kill A Mockingbird"... it sort of challenges your beliefs and assumptions. Plus its easy to read...

I always found "Great Expectations" a good book at school...

Also another very short but interesting read is "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" written by a former editor of French Vogue who had a stroke and then suffered 'locked in' syndrome. He "wrote" the book with one eye by blinking. It gives an interesting perspective on the world, he could have given up, but he kind of kept 'living' in his own way until the end.

[toivoton]

Well I would recommend Jonathan Safran Foer and his books "everything is illuminated" and " Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[toivoton]

And what i of course forgot, but which I definitly recommend is of course Sergej Lukianenko and the Watch Series. Night Watch and Day Watch are defintily available in English. And I think this year the third part "Twilight Watch" was released in English as well.

[bossythecow]

Posessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker - sex, female circumsision, religion, politics, murder: what more could you want for teenagers. My art teacher recommended it to me when I was 15 and I walked to school, round the playground, sat up till 1am and woke up at 6am to read it as fast as possible. The Color Purple is the Alice Walker schools always get kids to read but Posessing the Secret of Joy is far better

[khakiprincess]

Ok - I'm just probably gonna be agreeing with some of the above but:

A clockwork Orange - I love the way that it's written! Lolita - not what you expect! Of course Everything is Illuminated, Animal Farm (let's get a bit of knowledge in those young heads so they can recognise propoganda when they see it!) and Catcher in the Rye - cliched yes but still a great book!

Oooh I love books!

[ladycatherina]

I agree with the Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - excellently written mystery which explores the world of autism.