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[*mishyerr*]

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TITLE: Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: romantics, vampire-lovers, females


TITLE: New Moon, sequel to Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: anyone who enjoyed the prequel


TITLE: Running with Scissors
AUTHOR: Augusten Burroughs
GENRE: Memoir
ABOUT: dysfunctional family, VERY strange life
RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone, someone who's bored


TITLE: The Vampire Armand
AUTHOR: Anne Rice
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: the life of the vampire Armand
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anne Rice fans, vampire-lovers, mature readers, not-homophobic readers


TITLE: Lirael sequel to Sabriel and prequel to Abhorsen (all very good books)
AUTHOR: Garth Nix
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: Lirael, a female and her adventures in an ice kingdom with magic
RECOMMENDED FOR: fantasy lovers, adventure lovers


TITLE: i can't tell you
AUTHOR: Hillary Frank
GENRE: Fiction
ABOUT: Jake, a guy who decides to stop talking. the book is all 'written' by him and the people he communicates with.

Through notes scribbled on napkins and in notebooks, on upside-down calculators, and on walls with pudding-covered fingers, Jake explores new ways to express himself.

RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone


TITLE: Ender's Game
AUTHOR: Orson Scott Card
GENRE: Sci-Fi
ABOUT: only a child, Ender is sent up to space for rough training to be the military genius of the world against 'Buggers' (alien enemies)

Andrew "Ender" Wiggen isn't just playing games at Battle School; he and the other children are being tested and trained for war. Ender is the most talented result of Earth's desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its strugle against an alien enemy... Ender Wiggen is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.

RECOMMENDED FOR: sci-fi / fantasy lovers

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[Jinny]

TITLE: Flipped
AUTHOR: Wendelin Van Draanen
GENRE: Romance, some humor
ABOUT: love [sort of], changing into a different person..
RECOMMENDED FOR: people who like preteen love stories?

TITLE: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
AUTHOR: Jordan Sonnenblick
GENRE: Fiction, Humor?, Sad?
ABOUT: an illness, changing, love + siblings
RECOMMENDED FOR: everybody. This book is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.


TITLE: The Transall Saga
AUTHOR: Gary Paulsen
GENRE: Adventure?
ABOUT: Adventure
RECOMMENDED FOR: Everybody. Good book.

[freeflow]

Title: One for the Money
Author: Janet Evanovich
Genre: Mystery (somewhat) , Comedy.
About: It tells the story of Stephanie Plum, who lost her job and becomes a bounty hunter. She is really inexperienced and she ends up going through a series of hilarious (well to me) events.
Recommended For: People who enjoy reading series and mystery type books. Not only that but Evanovich is able to capture your attention like no other. (I should know I read all 12 )

[*onewaysalcha*]

TITLE: Song of Solomon
AUTHOR: Toni Morrison
GENRE: Err...magical realism?
ABOUT: Adventure, love, sex, poetry, the black society versus the white community, murder, flying, freedom :)
RECOMMENDED FOR: The mature. There's A LOT of swearing and sex scenes.

TITLE: Watership Down
AUTHOR: Richard Adams
GENRE: Fiction/adventure
ABOUT: Basically the journey of a rabbit; an epic search for his new home.
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who is willing to sit down and read a (around) 500 pg book.

TITLE: The Historian
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Kostova
GENRE: Mystery
ABOUT: Vampires! :)
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who loved Da Vinci Code. Also anyone bored enough to read a 650 pg book...I haven't finished it yet.

[synthase]

TITLE: Cell
AUTHOR: Stephen King
GENRE: fiction
ABOUT: cell-phone zombies, a guy trying to find his son and survive through the zombies (CAUTION: some gruesome scenes )
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who loves Stephen King novels

[Simba]

This is a pretty good idea, so I'll go ahead and pin this.

I suppose if someone walked in here looking for something, they could just use CTRL+F to look for a key word.

I'm also going to post a code for the format in the initial post to make things easier.

[michellerrific]

Title: Fast Food Nation
Author: Eric Schlosser
Genre: Non fiction
About: The mysteries behind fast food.
Recommended For: People who have always wanted to know what's in their fries and burger.

[Mulder]

Title: Peeps
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Genre: Teen Fiction
About: Parasites (also known as vampires) that infect humans and...
Recommended For: Teens

[HakunaMatata]

Title: Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: It's like magical realism but...not.
About: Sethe, a former slave, and her life in Ohio.
Recommended For: Intensive reading. There is so much to the book; there are layers and layers and layers. It's extremely long and dense, but if you have the patience and time, well worth it.

[*salcha4u*]

TITLE: Song of Solomon
AUTHOR: Toni Morrison
GENRE: Err...magical realism?
ABOUT: Adventure, love, sex, poetry, the black society versus the white community, murder, flying, freedom :)
RECOMMENDED FOR: The mature. There's A LOT of swearing and sex scenes.

Title: Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: It's like magical realism but...not.
About: Sethe, a former slave, and her life in Ohio.
Recommended For: Intensive reading. There is so much to the book; there are layers and layers and layers. It's extremely long and dense, but if you have the patience and time, well worth it.

Yay, Toni Morrison :)

[alysaphobia]

Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: A classic novel.
About: The Bennet family's struggle to secure a prosperous, good marriage for their five daughters: beautiful Jane, intelligent Elizabeth, bookworm Mary, and the unrestrained Kitty and Lydia. It's essentially a love story, yet also captures the warmth of a family and brilliantly portrays the time era.
Recommended For: ROMANTICS- the story of Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy is amazing. Also, anybody who watched the movie + liked it.

Title: Flowers in the Attic
Author: V.C Andrews
Genre: Horror, suspense, fiction.
About: The Dollanganger family is perfect; blond and blue eyed, with four beautiful children. When the Dollanganger's father dies, however, the childrens' lives take a tragic turn for the worse, as their mother brings them to their grandmother's house and they soon become prisoners, locked away in an attic from the rest of the world...
Recommended For: Mature readers- there is incest sex, a LOT of inhumane child abuse and other upsetting topics covered, which is why the book was banned periodically from time to time. It's also a tad long- around 400 to 500 pages. However, if you're mature and used to reading long novels, I definitely recommend this book. It's extremely intriguing and really draws you in.

Title: Ella Enchanted
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Genre: Fantasy fiction.
About: It's a Cinderella story with the heroine being way, way more spunky! While Ella falls in love with her Prince Charming, she has to deal with a very unfortunate curse she'd recieved in her childhood- the curse of obedience. Ella must obey EVERY command one gives her; and she soon learns that between evil step sisters, helpless dad and enchanted creatures, obeying is NOT easy.
Recommended For: Middle schoolers. But if you haven't read the book yet, I recommend picking it up when you're on a road trip or going on a plane; it's a very sweet story nevertheless.

[KyleSchmidsGirl]

Title:Smoke and Mirrors
Author:Tanya Huff
Genre:Sci-Fi/Fantasy
About:Smoke and Mirrors is the 2nd novel in a brilliant new contemporary fantasy series that reintroduces us to two characters from Tanya Huff's beloved Blood Novels-vampire Henry Fitzroy and Tony Foster, a former street kid and "snitch" who is given a chance for a better life by Henry.
Relocating to Vancouver with Henry, and forced to get his act together, Tony lands a job as a Production Assistant at CB Productions. In an example of art echoing life, the syndicated TV series Tony works for is Darkest Night, a show about the adventures of a vampire detective.
Everything is going fine until shadowy forces from another dimension attack the crew, and Tony discovers he's a fledgling wizard.
Things have been quiet on the set since the defeat of the shadows. Then Chester Bane, head of CB Productions, rents Caulfield House, a long-desserted, turn-of-the-last-century mansion, to shoot an episode about a haunted house. It should be an easy week,with a perfect setting, the cast all in place, the script ready to go, but there's one little hitch that no one's counted on. Caulfield House really is haunted.
Recommended For:Vampire Lovers

Title:Blood Price
Author:Tanya Huff
Genre:Fantasy
About:Former homicide detective, now private investigator, Vicki Nelson witnessed the first attack by the force of dark magic that would soon wreak its reign of terror on Toronto. As death followed unspeakable death, Vicki became enmeshed in an investigation that would see her renew her stormy relationship with her former police partner Mike Celluci, even as she teamed up with writer Henry Fitzroy in a desperate attempt to track down the source of the attacks. For Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII, had knowledge of realms beyond the mortal acquired over the centuries he'd spent mastering his own insatiable need-the life-from-death cravings of a vampire.
Recommended For:Vampire Lovers

Title:Blood Trail
Author:Tanya Huff
Genre:Fantasy
About:For centuries they had coexisted with ordinary humans. But now death had invaded their London, Ontario farm. It was clear that someone had learned they were werewolves and was determined to destroy them. The only one they could turn to for help was vampire Henry Fitzroy. And, forced to hide from the light of day, Henry called upon Vicki Nelson for assistance. Yet, as silver bullets continued to take their ghastly toll, Henry and Vicki began to fear they might not be able to trace the blood trail of destruction down before it was too late.
Recommended For:Vampire and Werewolf lovers

Title:Bloodlines
Author:Tanya Huff
Genre:Fantasy
About:For Henry Fitzroy, 450-year-old vampire, it began with a haunting, inescapable image of the sun, a terrifying symbol of death to one such as he. Fearing for his sanity, he called upon his somtime-lover and comrade in supernatural investigations, ex-cop Vicki Nelson, for help. And even as the two struggled to cope with Henry's obsession, Vicki's closest friend and former partner, Police Detective Mike Celluci was following up on two mysterious deaths at the museum, certain he was looking at murders not accidents-and equally convinced that the killer was a mummy brought back from the dead!
Recommended For:Vampire Lovers

Title:Blood Pact
Author:Tanya Huff
Genre:Fantasy
About:It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waiting for her to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements. But what started as an all too normal personal tragedy soon became the most terrifying case of Vicki's career. For when Marjory Nelson's body mysteriously disappeared from the funeral home, Vicki, vampire Henry Fitzroy, and Detective-Sergeant Mike Celluci realized that there was something unnatural about her mother's demise. Vicki swore she'd find the culprit, and see that her mother was properly laid to rest. But what she hadn't counted on was that someone at Queen's University seemed determined to keep Mrs. Nelson on the job-alive or dead!
Recommended For:Vampire Lovers

Title:Blood Debt
Author:Tanya Huff
Genre:Fantasy
About:Henry Fitzroy, vampire, writer, and bastard son of Henry VIII, had survived for centuries by obeying the vampires' code. He did not slaughter needlessly, did not draw attention to himself, and never invaded another vampire's territory. But now Henry was about to do the unthinkable. He was going to break the code because if he didn't unsuspecting innocents would die-victims of vengeful ghost who were invading Henry's private sanctum, demanding that he help them to get revenge on their murderers. Henry could not find the source of these murders on his own, nor could he ignore his unwanted guests. He had only one choice. To call private investigator Vicki Nelson and ask for help. Henry only hoped that he and Vicki would both survive the experience.
Recommended For:Vampire Lovers

Title:Blood Bank
Author:Tanya Huff
Genre:Fantasy
About:Now, for the very first time, all eight of Tanya Huff's spellbinding short stories about Henry and Vicki have been gathered together in one volume. Included are: "This Town Ain't Big Enough, What Manner of Man, The Cards Also Say, The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea, Someone to Share the Night, Another Fine Nest, Sceleratus," and "Critical Analysis." Plus Tanya has written "So This is Christmas." a brand new Blood story created especially for this omnibus edition.
Recommended For:Vampire Lovers

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

Title: Rx
Author:Tracy Lynn
Genre: Teens> Social Issues> Drug Use
About: Thyme, 17, is stressed. She is trying to keep her grades up and maintain her status in The Twenty, a nickname for a group of overachieving, good-school-bound juniors. She steals a bottle of Ritalin from her friend Will, thinking it will improve her study habits. An A on a history exam confirms it. Soon, she becomes adept at stealing pills from purses and medicine cabinets, and begins to deal with other students. She even keeps a spreadsheet of classmates problems and pill preferences and who has merchandise she can buy or trade. At the same time, she begins a relationship with Will, continues in the National Honor Society, studies for her SATs, and applies to college. Following the overdose/suicide of a fellow honor student, Thyme finally decides to quit. Her recovery is a little too easy, but the descriptions of addiction and the stresses that cause it are accurate. Thyme observes the emptiness and materialism of the adults lives around her and their abuse of prescription medication, including her father. Given the situations and characters, the abundant use of graphic language is realistic. This quick read may warn some teens of the dangers of drugs.
Recommended For: people who love books about drug use





Title: Perks of being a wallflower
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Genre: Teens> Social Issues
About:What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

With the help of a teacher who recognizes his wisdom and intuition, and his two friends, seniors Samantha and Patrick, Charlie mostly manages to avoid the depression he feels creeping up like kudzu. When it all becomes too much, after a shocking realization about his beloved late Aunt Helen, Charlie retreats from reality for awhile. But he makes it back in due time, ready to face his sophomore year and all that it may bring. Charlie, sincerely searching for that feeling of "being infinite," is a kindred spirit to the generation that's been slapped with the label X.
Recommended For: Everyone

[lovefooled]

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Fiction/Romance
About: Henry is a time traveler but he can't control it. And during one of his travels, he meets Clare when she's 6 and he's 36. They're relationship starts and evolves over the years he travels to her. They meet in present day when she's 20 and he's 28 but he has no idea who she is because he doesn't time travel to her younger self until he's 36. It's a very original love story.
Recommended For: Anyone and everyone. There's a few sex scenes but it's not too bad. And it can get pretty confusing at times with all the time traveling but if you read the date and ages at the beginning of each section, you'll be good.

[audory]

Title: The Other Boleyn Girl
Author: Philippa Gregory
Genre: Historical fiction
About: the sibling rivalry between Mary Boleyn and the infamous Anne Boleyn.
Recommended For: an older audience I guess since there's a lot of what you would call "mature content" haha. Girls will probably enjoy it a lot more than guys.

[*MyMichelle*]

Title: The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath
Genre: Fiction
About: A woman named Esther Greenwood "falls into the grips of insanity." It's a very random story, but it's very compelling. It's from Esther's perspective. It kind of reminds me of Quentin's part in The Sound and the Fury.
Recommended For: Anyone

[sprezzatura]

Title: The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J. D. Salinger
Genre: Fiction
About: Basically, it's portraying Holden's psyche and describing the places and people he met in a flashback.
Recommended for: teenagers, or anyone who don't mind profanity

[orangelement]

Title:The Time Traveler's Wife
Author:Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Romance Fantasy
About:Henry first met Clare at 6 and they met again.
Recommended For:everyone!!! i love this book =]

*oops... didnt know it's already posted...=P

[voguelove]

Title: the secret life of bees
Author: sue monk kidd
Genre: fiction
About: 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother.
Recommended For: girls, mainly.

[laxumaster8]

i started reading "what remains" by carole radziwill [though not for a couple days cause of 8th grade exams]...its really good so far and it was a bestseller

[breakitdown247]

I have a request for somebody to read. I was blown away by this novel.

It's the pendragon series by D.J. McHale

[nosylilme]

Title: This Lullaby
Author: Sarah Dessen
Genre: Teen/Fiction/Romance
About: With her mother working on husband number five and her rock star father leaving before she was born, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a messy, disorganized musician.
Recommended For: Teenage girls mostly. But I'm sure other people would enjoy it.


Title:Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance
About: Kaye, a sixteen year old girl, travels everywhere with her mom's rock band. When strange events occur, they end up moving in with her Gram in New Jersey. Kaye soon finds herself between a war between two faerie kingdoms. And wait...she's a pixie?
Recommended For: Teens. There's language involved. I have a feeling girls would probably enjoy it more.


Title: Valiant:A Modern Tale of Faerie
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
About: Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City. With a new identity, she lives with a gang of teens who live in the city's twisted subway system. But there's something strange about her new friends, with their talk of monsters and un-seeable creatures. And what's with the woman with the goat hooves for feet?!
Recommended For: Same as above.

Title:Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
About: In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure only of one thing--her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to him, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can’t see or speak with Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn’t exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.
Recommended For: Same as above.

[JustAnotherTeena...]

Title: The Stolen Child
Author: Keith Donohue
Genre: Fantasy meets realism
About:Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings—an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left behind. He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature. In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who steals Henry’s life in the world. This new Henry Day must adjust to a modern culture while hiding his true identity from the Day family. But he can’t hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the true Henry never displayed), and his dazzling performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he ages the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. Of a time when he, too, had been a stolen child. Both Henry and Aniday obsessively search for who they once were before they changed places in the world.
Recommended For: Teens & young adults. There is language and a few sex scenes, but nothing too bad.

[JonnyMoseley]

Title - Skybreaker
Author - Kennith Oppel
Genre - Fiction/Fantasy/Pirates

About

Jacket: An enormous engine pod, its paint stripped away by the elements, glistening with frost. A control car almost entirely encased in ice, light flashing from a cracked window. Wind-blighted letters barely visible on her flayed skin: Hyperion. "It's her," I breathed.

Former cabin boy Matt Cruse, now a student at the prestigious Airship Academy, is first to identify the Hyperion, the private airship of a reclusive and fabulously wealthy inventor that disappeared forty years ago with its owner. Armed with the Hyperion's coordinates, which he only possesses, Matt, heiress Kate de Vries, and a Mysterious young gypsy board the Sagarmatha, an airship fitted with the new skybreaker engines that will allow them to reach the Hyperion, 20,000 feet above the earth's surface. Pursued by others who want the Hyperion and will stop at nothing to get it, and surrounded by dangerous high-altitude life forms, Mat and his companons are soon fighting not only for the Hyperion but for their very lives.

Copyright Page Summary: Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vriess, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
Recommended for - Teens/Young Adults

[JustAnotherTeena...]

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Fiction/Romance
About: Henry is a time traveler but he can't control it. And during one of his travels, he meets Clare when she's 6 and he's 36. They're relationship starts and evolves over the years he travels to her. They meet in present day when she's 20 and he's 28 but he has no idea who she is because he doesn't time travel to her younger self until he's 36. It's a very original love story.
Recommended For: Anyone and everyone. There's a few sex scenes but it's not too bad. And it can get pretty confusing at times with all the time traveling but if you read the date and ages at the beginning of each section, you'll be good.

That. Book. Is. AMAZING!!! <3 I just finished it and I loved it :] So I am double-recommending this one haha