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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

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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

[blacknailpolish]

Title: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom
Genre: Uhm...fiction? its hard to explain
About: This is the story about a man named Eddie. In the first chapter, Eddie is killed by a falling amusement park ride, and in the course of the rest of the book, he goes through heaven re-meeting five important people in his life as they each reveal something new to him about his own life and the secrets of heaven.
Recommended For: Anyone and Everyone. This is one of my absolute favorite books of all time

[*Michelle*]

Title: Harry Potter (the series)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Genre: Fantasy
About: Harry Potter and his friends in the magical / muggle world. It's a seven series book, and if you haven't read it, it is the most amazing series ever.
Recommended For: Anyone and EVERYONE

[EmoEyelinerx]

Title: Among The Hidden (Series)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Genre: Realistic Fiction?
About: A boy who lives in a world where only two children are aloud to be in a family. Hes the third. He cant go to school, cant go outside. He has no friends (until later in the series). If anyone finds about him they take him away from his family.
Recommended For: Anyone

Title:Freeze Tag
Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Genre: Fantacy/Romcance
About: A girl named Lannie can freeze people. She can freeze them to death. She woudlent unfreeze them until West promased to always like her best. West and Megan forgot all about the promas. Lannie hasnt. Shes determined to have West for her very own, even if she has to freeze megan..to death.
Recommended For: Kids/Teens

Title: Harry Potter (Series)
Author: J.K. Rowing
Genre: Fantasy
About: Wizards and Witches. Excellent book. If you havent read it yet you should.
Recommended For: Everyone.

Title: The Devils Teeth
Author: Susan Casey
Genre: IDK but its a true story.
About: Sharks.
Recommended For: Teens+. Animal violence.

Title: A Series Of Unfortunite Events (series)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Genre: Childrens
About: Three kids. Sunny, Violet and Klaus. Their parents left them with a huge fortune. A villian Count Olaf tryes numerious schemes to get his hands on their fortune.
Recommended For: Kids, Teens.

Title: House
Author: Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker
Genre: Thriller
About: A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Showdown.
Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker - two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers - have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House - where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way out is in.
The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman - or worse - could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn. The rules are: 1. God came into my house and I killed him. 2. I will kill anyone in my house like I killed god. 3. Give me one dead body and I might let rule #2 slide.
Recommended For: Teens+
House is one of the best suspence/thriller books I have ever read, serosley.

[reeenana]

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[DarkImpressions]

Title:A Child Called It
Author:Dave Pelzer
Genre:Non Fiction
About:Well its a true story about this man that was treated horribly by his mother when he was a child,I mean it was him and 2 other siblings,They got treated good,Until a time in their life me personally I think its when their mom became completely psychotic.
She mad him sleep in the garage, Eat regurgitated food,And like go to school with dirty clothes. I mean you would have to read it. Its so sad
Recommended For:Book Lovers Who Love a nice true story!

[xBUTTMUNCHx]

Title: Fantasy Lover
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
About: Juilen Of Macedon cursed by his brother is held captive in a book. He has to spend all enternity pleasing women when summons. Then he meets the first women who summons him, that doesn't want what he can give. This book is truly hilarious, sad and deep.
Recommended For: Fantasy book lovers! If you want to read a book that can make you laugh and cry, you have to read this one! Mature Young Adults PLEASE!

[Comptine]

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.

I loved that book! The other ones didn't capture my imagination like Tithe did though.

Title: Trickster's Choice
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance
About: Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne.
Recommended For: Teenage girls mostly.

Title: Trickster's Queen
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance
About: Aly’s adventure continues. . . . No longer a slave, Alanna’s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future. But Aly, who is usually adept at anticipating danger and changes, is in for a few nasty surprises.
Recommended For: Teenage girls mostly.

Title: Dawn Rochelle series
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Genre: Romance/Inspriational
About: Dawn Rochelle is 13 years old when she is diagnosed with cancer. Her journey through her first chemotherapy, her new close friendship with fellow cancer patient Sandy, and their journey together into remission is a moving story. But remission doesn't last forever for either girl. First Dawn has to face the possibility of Sandy's death. Then Dawn's cancer returns as well. Her only hope is a bone marrow transplant from her brother, but even then there's only a 50 percent chance of survival.

No matter what the outcome, Dawn is determined to live a normal life and use
her own fight with cancer as a way to help others in these four interconnected
poignant novels sure to inspire readers.
Recommended For: Mostly girls but it's a great and touching book about life, disease, and death.

[lostgrl16]

Title:A Child Called It
Author:Dave Pelzer
Genre:Non Fiction
About:Well its a true story about this man that was treated horribly by his mother when he was a child,I mean it was him and 2 other siblings,They got treated good,Until a time in their life me personally I think its when their mom became completely psychotic.
She mad him sleep in the garage, Eat regurgitated food,And like go to school with dirty clothes. I mean you would have to read it. Its so sad
Recommended For:Book Lovers Who Love a nice true story!

the next book in his series the lost boy is good too. its after he gets taken away, living with foster parents. both are really good reads!

[Jennifer]

Title: The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Author: Isobelle Carmody
Genre: Fantasy
About: There are currently 4 books in the series, and two more coming out later in the year.
The Obernewtyn Chronicles are a series of science fiction/fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. They have a post apocalyptic setting, and depict a world struggling to come to terms with the environmental, bodily and mental damage caused by global nuclear holocaust.

"In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. But for Elspeth Gordie, born with enhanced mental abilities that would see her sterilised or burned if discovered, it is also dangerous. There is only survival by secrecy, and so she determines never to use her forbidden Talent. But it is as if they have their own imperative, and their use inevitably brings her to the attention of the totalitarian Council that rules the Land. Sent to the remote mountain institution of Obernewtyn where escape is impossible, she must throw off her cloak of concealment and pit herself against those who would resurrect the terrible forces of the apocalypse.
Only then will she learn most truly who and what she is.."

Recommended For: Anyone into good fantasy.

Sorry about the length

[lojay]

Title: Looking For Alaska
Author: John Green
Genre: Fiction
About:

Green's debut YA novel follows a year in the life of high school junior Miles Halter, a friendless Floridian who begged his parents to enroll him in the Culver Creek boarding school. Miles dreams of starting anew at his elite Alabama prep school, of finding Francois Rabelais's "The Great Perhaps." At school, he falls in with a prankster of a roommate, the Colonel, and the sassy, sexy, messed-up Alaska Young. For an unforgettable 128 days, Miles learns life lessons in love, loyalty, friendship, literature, and poetry, as well as experiences the thrill of a first girlfriend. When tragedy strikes Culver Creek, Miles is forced to undertake an even closer examination of his own character and relationship with his friends.

Recommended For: Anyone, both genders.


Veryyy good book. It won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association.

[jilianceleste]

Title: Wicked, the life and times of the wicked witch of the west
Author: Gregory Maguire
Genre: Fiction
About: the other side of the wicked witch;;very good.
Recommended For: Romantics, Those with a good grip on History, 16 and up.

[letsgoxdisco]

Title: Tuesdays With Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Genre: non fiction
About: lessons learned of life from his old college professor.
Recommended For: anyone with a heart.

Title: The Truth About Forever
Author: Sarah Dessen
Genre: teen fiction
About: a girl who learns that it is okay to not be perfect.
Recommended For: teens
it really is a lovely book.

[arghrawr]

Title:Smashed: Growing Up A Drunk Girl
Author:Koren Zailckas
Genre:Non-Fiction
About:Koren Zailckas records her history of alcohol abuse starting from the age of 14 while providing statistics about her target audience (female drinkers) to back up her views on the alcohol industry.
Recommended For:Anyone who can handle a gritty novel such as this one. Males and females alike.

[31miracles]

Title: Millions Of Women Are Waiting To Meet You: A Memoiir
Author: Sean Thomas
Genre: Relationships
About: Interesting life story of a journalist about love, sex, and internet dating. Offers advice and tell things like how theyh really are.
"Thomas has done his generation of men a service by telling it
like it is" - Sunday Times
"There's a degree of self-awareness and honesty which means that,
rather scarily, he's written something that's revealing about all men" - Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday
Recommended For: anyone who want's to read something new/different and wants a laugh

[audory]

Title: Prep
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Genre: Fiction
About: The novel follows the life of Lee Fiora, a 14-year old, as she enters into Ault School, a boarding school in massachusetts.
Recommended For: High schoolers+; mainly targeted for female audiences.

Title: Forever Amber
Author: Kathleen Winsor
Genre: Historical Fiction
About: Amber St. Clare, mistress to Charles II.
Recommended For: High schoolers; once again, mainly female audience.

Title: My Sister's Keeper
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Fiction
About: Two sister, one of which has leukemia, and the other (the younger one) which is the first's donor. The novel goes into their relationship and how for her entire life, Anna, the younger sister, has been defined in terms of her sister. She decides to break away from this, and her decision "tears the family apart"
Recommended For: High schoolers.

Title: Speak
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Genre: Fiction
About: Can't say. it'll spoil it. (:
Recommended For: middle school+; it's an excellent read, so if you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it.

Title: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Fiction
About: This novel takes place in a future/odd republic of sorts where classes have been redifined. Handmaid's are women who are there only to serve as childbearers to the rich and powerful.
Recommended For: High schoolers. I love this book. Atwood takes the reader into an extremely interesting world and her writing is phenomenal.

Title: The Book of Lost Things
Author: John Connolly
Genre: Fiction
About: After his mom dies, David (12), begins hearing books talk to him. Soon, reality and imagination merge together as he steps into a world of twisted fairy tales and fantasy.
Recommended For: Anyone who liked The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe, although this novel is a more mature version. I just finished reading it and it definitely makes the list as one of my all-time favorites.

[Leosageheart]

Title: Shattered Glass
Author: Amelia At-Water Rhodes
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
About: Vampire Love.
Recommended For: Twilight Fans.

She writes several fantasy books that aren't bad. Actually can't tell you much because its been a few years. Might go buy them and catch up.

[Insurmountable]

Title: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom
Genre: Uhm...fiction? its hard to explain
About: This is the story about a man named Eddie. In the first chapter, Eddie is killed by a falling amusement park ride, and in the course of the rest of the book, he goes through heaven re-meeting five important people in his life as they each reveal something new to him about his own life and the secrets of heaven.
Recommended For: Anyone and Everyone. This is one of my absolute favorite books of all time

This was a pretty good book, I read it right before the premiere for the movie showed. I didn't get to watch the movie because I had to work but my sister said it was a good movie.


Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Genre: Teen Fiction
About: Tally has just turned 16 and when you turn 16 you get to turn 'Pretty' yet she finds out that becoming pretty really means...
Recommended For: Teens

[HideAndSecret]

TITLE: Northern Lights (1st of His Dark Materials trilogy)
AUTHOR: Philip Pullman
GENRE: fantasy, action, adventure
ABOUT: Deamons, ice-bears, witches, spies, etc
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who enjoyed the Golden Compass film, and wants to reads the book (which in my opinion is much more fulfilling.

[HideAndSecret]

Title: Wicked, the life and times of the wicked witch of the west
Author: Gregory Maguire
Genre: Fiction
About: the other side of the wicked witch;;very good.
Recommended For: Romantics, Those with a good grip on History, 16 and up.

I've read that book, it was fanastic, I'm re-reading it now :D

[MissFits]

Title: Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genre: Non Fiction
About: In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given 25000 in savings to charity abandoned his car and most of his possessions burned all the cash in his wallet and invented a new life for himself four moths later his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.
Recommended For: Anyone that has ever wanted to leave where they are to experience new and better things.

[NYCin2009]

Title:Running With Scissors
Author:Augusten Burroughs
Genre:Memoir
About:Story of the earlier life of Augusten. He is adopted by his mentally unstable mothers shrink whose family is dysfunctional beyond words. Everyone lives on prescription drugs and has their own problems within the main focus which is Augusten. An amazing page turner.
Recommended For:Pretty much anyone. Although the material is quite mature.

Title:Dry
Author:Augusten Burroughs
Genre:Memoir
About:A sequel to Running With Scissors, Augusten tells the story of his alcoholism, rehab, dying friend, crazy boyfriends, and his realization of what he is becoming and where he is going. His writing is very blunt but humorous. I love it.
Recommended For:Same

[beautifulxlies]

Title: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author: Libba Bray
Genre: Fiction, Gothic, Fantasy
About: Gemma Doyle was sent to Spence Acedemy after her mother was killed, there she found out about The Orders and another realm in which she could enter. The realm was like a magical place where anything can happen. Gemma must learn how to save the Orders. It's an amazing page turner.
Recommended For: Teens, or anyone who loves to read some fantasy

Title: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Author: Elizabeth Goerge Speare
Genre: Fiction
About: Katheine, or Kit, decided to go to live with her only alive relatives after her grandfather had died. There, she met Hannah Tupper. An old woman which the town call her a Quaker, or witch, because of her strange escape during floods and because of how she lives alone out by the sea. Kit befriends with Hannah until she also became known as a witch too. The town arruptly decided to burn them both down by the stake. Amazing book!
Recommended For: Possibly anyone...it's a good book

Title: Jacob Have I Loved
Author: Katherine Paterson
Genre: Fiction
About: Set in the early 1940s on an island called Rass Island in Chesapeake Bay, the novel follows the story of the Bradshaws, a family who depends on the father, Truitt, and his crabbing/fishing business, on his boat, the Portia Sue. Truitt's two daughters, Sara Louise and Caroline, are twins--and Caroline is always ahead. She is prettier, smarter, more talented, and kinder. Frail, artistic Caroline receives more attention from their parents, and others in the community.
The book traces Louise's attempts to free herself from Caroline's shadow, even as she grows into adulthood.
Recommended For: Anyone...this is one of the most wonderful book I've ever read.

[lkajsfklajskds]

Title: Angela's Ashes
Author: Frank McCourt
Genre: Autobiography/Memoir
About: The story of the first 19 years of McCourt's life is harrowing. His parents were poor. His father drank. In five and a half years, his mother had six children --- and three of them died. There was no indoor plumbing. Little food. And though it sounds depressing..oh, what the hell, it is depressing! But it's also funny =]
Recommended For: Anyone (but not too young)
Not Recommended For: People who don't like to cry. People who have difficulty reading um..sexual content.

[yilujayss]

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

^^^brilliant book!

TITLE: The Book Thief
AUTHOR: Markus Zusak
GENRE: Fiction - Historical Fiction
ABOUT: "Powerful teen novel about poor Germans in WWII."
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who likes a good read

[BillyShakespeare]

Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Genre: Teen Fiction
About: Tally has just turned 16 and when you turn 16 you get to turn 'Pretty' yet she finds out that becoming pretty really means...
Recommended For: Teens

AMAZING book. I just got into them this Christmas. Finished the whole series in a month. I love it so much. It must be because Scott writes like I do..

[achimongus]

Such, such, SUCH a good topic.

I'm going to double-recommend Ender's Game and The Time Traveller's Wife. These are my TOP TWOOO favorite books.

Title: I Am The Messenger
Author: Markus Zusack
Genre: GOOD.
About: I'm copying and pasting the back for this, I can't even begin to describe it: "When hapless cabdriver Ed Kennedy offhandedly stops a bank robbery, someone takes notice. The Ace of Diamonds appears in his mailbox with three addresses written on it. Ed is supposed to deliver a message to these addresses, but no one is telling him what that message is. All he is told is that his life depends on it...." ...just look it up C=
Recommended For: Any age, anyone C=


Title: Postcards from No Man's Land
Author: Aidan Chambers
Genre: err...I'm bad with genres...teen? kinda?
About: This book explores a young male teen and his trip overseas to Holland. He is trying to explore his grandparent's histories, and to visit their grave. Along the way he meets several new people and they challenge him to explore his sexuality and the way he views life. Very interesting read.
Recommended For: Anyone who isn't afraid to read things about homosexuality.

Title: Tamar
Author: Mal Peet
Genre: WWII =P
About: Intricate plot...this book takes place both during World War II and in the present. A girl's grandfather dies, and she begins to unearth secrets and his past. He was involved in a special secret agent operation, and had to live on a farm undercover with his best friend...and the love of his life happened to live on this farm, and they hide their love....
Recommended For: Anyone interested in World War II. I personally love to read books during this time period. Also, it's a good love story.


Title: Go Figure
Author: Jo Edwards
Genre: Teen
About: A girl struggling with her weight. She learns to navigate life loving the body she has.
Recommended For: Girls of all shapes and sizes. Guys would definately not like...


Title: Gossip Girl (any of them)
Author: er...Cecily something...google it.
Genre: Teen
About: These girls are rich and have the city as their own personal playground. Follow Blair, Serena, and Nate through their high school years as they explore eating disorders, drugs, drinking, sex, and life. A fun and shallow read, honestly, but good if you're bored and looking for drama.
Recommended For: anyone looking for dramaa and a good, quick, shallow read.


I have lots more, if anyone is interested in anything else. And I love to discuss books, especially Ender's Game and Time Traveler's Wife.

[lkajsfklajskds]

TITLE: Sold
AUTHOR: Patricia McCormick
GENRE: Realistic Fiction
ABOUT: Lakshmi is a 13-year old Nepali girl who lives in a small village in the Himalayas. Her family is just as poor, maybe less, than her other friends in the village. The other girls of the other families in the village are being sent to the city to work for a rich maid. When it doesn't rain for days and then suddenly rains non-stop, Lakshmi tells her parents if she may also go to work for the rich maid. Unfortunately, she doesn't know that she was being sold into prostitution.
RECOMMENDED FOR: Teens and Adults. Anyone who won't squirm and say "Eww, she did what?!"

[Teesa]

TITLE: Eat, Pray, Love
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Gilbert
GENRE: Non-fiction
ABOUT: A woman finds that she is unhappy with her life and decides to travel to three countries to discover herself.
RECOMMENDED FOR: adult women

And two of my most favorite books ever:

TITLE: The Kite Runner
AUTHOR: Khaled Hosseini
GENRE: Realistic fiction
ABOUT: The incredibly written story of a young boy who grows up in Afghanistan, while facing great struggles.
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone!

TITLE: A Thousand Splendid Suns
AUTHOR: Khaled Hosseini
GENRE: Realistic fiction
ABOUT: A heart-breaking story about the relationship of two women struggling to overcome unbelievable obstacles
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone, but I think it would especially affect women.

[ForgiveTheSinner]

Title: The Wheel of Time [series]
Author: Robert Jordan
Genre: fantasy
About: The Creator imprisoned Shai'tan, known as the Dark One, a powerful, evil being, at the moment of creation, sealing him away from the Wheel. At some point, however, the Dark One was given purchase in the world through the machinations of people who opened his prison, and began his efforts to conquer the world, creation, and even the Wheel itself. In response to this, the Wheel spun out the Dragon, a channeler of immense power, to be a champion for the Light. Due to the cyclical nature of the Wheel, there has been no definitive victory for the forces of the Light; the war has been fought innumerable times since the dawn of Creation. The Dragon would defeat Shai'tan and seal him from the Wheel, only to have him break out (or be released) several millennia later, forcing the Dragon to be reborn and repeat the entire process.
Recommended For: Fantasy lovers that like long books.

[Comptine]

Title:speak
Author: laurie halse anderson
Genre: fiction.
About: [cause the other person didn't write about it]

There's a reason. You don't find out what happens to the girl until the end. That's why it's called Speak. Because she refuses to tell people why she called the cops to the party.

[chrislagace]

battle royale for real this book is rad

[Teesa]

TITLE: Love in the Time of Cholera
AUTHOR: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
GENRE: romance
ABOUT: a girl and a boy fall in love when they are young, but the boy still reserves his heart for the girl even though she decides to marry a prominent doctor
RECOMMENDED FOR: anyone who is a fan of marquez's writing style and for any romantics :)

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR: anyone who cannot handle long-winded descriptions (think hemingway, but 10X more intense) and anyone who does not have a large vocabulary. lol.

[freeridefight]

Title:Night
Author:Elie Wiesel
Genre:Non-fiction
About: Elie's struggles as he overcomes the Nazi invasion of his home and the invasion of his life and how it is crushed and reborn. He and his family go through Auschwitz, one of Germany's most grueling concentration camps.
Recommended for: Anyone really. All of my friends have read it and say it is one of the best books they have read. Also, some parents have, and say it is amazing.
*also if you don't like reading alot, its barely over 100 pages I think, or even 92.

[vintage-toile]

Title: LUCAS
Author: Kevin Brooks
Genre: Not sure.
About: Caitlin's life changes from the moment she sees Lucas walking across the causeway one hot summer's day. He is the strangest, most beautiful boy she has ever seen - and when she meets him, her world comes alive. But to others, he quickly becomes an object of jealousy, prejudice and hatred. Caitlin tries to make sense of the injustice that lurks at every unexpected twist and turn, until she realises that she must do what she knows in her heart is right.
Recommended For: both guys and girls who like gripping books.


this is honestly my favourite book and author, his books are incredible.

[LoveToMySilas]

Title:Night
Author:Elie Wiesel
Genre:Non-fiction
About: Elie's struggles as he overcomes the Nazi invasion of his home and the invasion of his life and how it is crushed and reborn. He and his family go through Auschwitz, one of Germany's most grueling concentration camps.
Recommended for: Anyone really. All of my friends have read it and say it is one of the best books they have read. Also, some parents have, and say it is amazing.
*also if you don't like reading alot, its barely over 100 pages I think, or even 92.[/font]

My classmate did a report on this book today. It seemed pretty interesting. I think I might do it for my next report.