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Book crisis, need suggestions
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Hey, anyone who is currently reading this, PLEASE give me some books/series to read. I went to the library today, and I got 5 books. FIVE books. That isn't good, and that's when I figured out I was in the middle of a book crisis. I usually have like 20 books or more when I leave the library. So I need more suggestions on what to read.

I don't really care what genre, but I prefer fantasy, adventure, romance, and fictional things over all others. I'm not sure if I should list some of the books I have already read, tell me if I should, and I will. Thank you VERY much!

submitted by Hawkstar, age fourteen, ReAdInG iN a TrEe
(July 10, 2023 - 1:45 pm)

Ofc, I have lots of suggestions!!!

Fantasy:

~Time at the Top, by Edward Ormondroyd. A completely innovative, fun, wonderful book :)

~Momo, by Michael Ende. Deep, enthralling fantasy mixed with realistic fiction - I HIGHLY recommend it.

~The Search for Delicious, by Natalie Babbitt. Unexpected, interesting, and entirely rooted in fantasy.

~The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, if you haven't already read them. Probably my favorite fantasy series of all time :)

~The Hobbit, by Tolkien, if you haven't read it already too - a mix of adventure and fantasy, with wonderful characters.

 

Romance:

~Love & Gelato, by Jenna Evans Welch - very fun, light, and happy :)

~Julieta and the Romeos, by Maria E. Andreu. Basically the same as Love & Gelato, very fun, light romance.

 

Other:

~The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff. A very exciting, inspiring and beautifully written book, set in ancient Rome.

~Jane Hope, by Elizabeth Gray Vining - fun and completely drawing you into it, and including some romance (historical fiction)

~Wonder, by R.J. Palacio (realistic fiction). Also on my Favorite Books list, touching, inspiring, beautiful.

 

I can give you more suggestions if you want, but these are the first ones that come to mind :) I hope some of them are new to you, and that you enjoy them!

submitted by Amethyst, books&books&books...
(July 10, 2023 - 3:56 pm)

Thank you, Amethyst! I have read the chronicles of narnia (several times, I must add) and Wonder. I tried the Hobbit, but couldn't get into it, but all the others are new. And ofc you could list more, I'm open to all and any!

submitted by Hawkstar
(July 10, 2023 - 7:36 pm)

did I hear that someone needed book recs-- I hath been sUmMoNeD~

okay, here you go! I hope you enjoy! :)

Realistic fiction:

-the Cherry Ames series, by Helen Wells. They're super entertaining and exciting, and they're about a girl who serves as a nurse during World War II and how she travels all over the world, meets fascinating people, navigates her love life, has adventures, discovers important national secrets, and solves mysteries. The first two books, Cherry Ames, Student Nurse and Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse, are about the time she spends studying to be a nurse, but they're just as interesting as the later books, with great characters.

-the Melendy Quartet series, by Elizabeth Enright. Full of fun and humor, also with wonderful characters. As I mentioned somewhere else, they really make you feel as if you're living in the world they portray, and the best of it is that it's a world you really, really enjoy "living" in because it's so warm and happy. The same goes for Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away, also by Enright.

-anything by Louisa May Alcott :) Aside from the classic Little Women, she also wrote Jack and Jill, Little Men, Jo's Boys, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, and a collection of short stories called A Garland for Girls. Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom are my favorites.

-the short stories of O. Henry - vividly written, amusing, and gripping by turns, with the most astounding plot twists.

-My Heart Lies South, by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño. This one's actually the memoirs of a woman who married a Mexican man and went to live with him in Mexico. It's a pretty old book, but it gives a really good picture of what Mexico is really like (or at least, what it used to be like back then) - a fascinating, vibrant country that has so much more than the stereotypical sombreros and tacos. (It still doesn't portray the culture completely correctly, but it's fairly accurate.) It's also written very chattily, sort of like a story, so it's lots of fun to read.

Historical fiction:

Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink - it's about the adventures of a warmhearted, spirited tomboy growing up on a farm in the 1800s.

-The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy. If you like excitement and action in a book, this is the book to read; it's about a daring band of men and women who work to save victims of the Terror during the French Revolution, and once the action starts, it just doesn't stop until the book ends.The characters face difficulty and danger, and the writing is amazing - it's just really good.

Fantasy:

-anything by Edward Eager. His best two novels are Magic or Not and The Well-Wishers, which are absorbing, light-hearted books with a strong message about inclusion.

-Watership Down, by Richard Adams. Much darker and more serious than the others, but not in a bad way. It's about a group of rabbits who set off on a quest for a new home and save other rabbits from the tyrannical rule of Woundwort, a villainous rabbit.

Humor:

-Ordinary Jack, by Helen Cresswell. This one's absolutely hilarious, featuring a cast of eccentric characters - the Bagthrope family - who somehow get themselves into the most unbelievable messes. Jack is the only "ordinary" member of his family, and he and his uncle decide to make him into a Prophet and Phenomenon so that Jack too will appear to be an eccentric genius - but will it work? This book's the first in a series about the Bagthorpes, which keeps being hilarious up to about the seventh book, so it provides lots of reading material.

-The Inimitable Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse - not the funniest thing I've ever read, but still entertaining, with occasional hilarious parts.

Comics:

-the Tintin comic books by Hergé - they're really absorbing and well-drawn, and quite enthralling. They're about Tintin, a boy reporter who travels all over the world - the Middle East, South America, the US, China, etc. - on gripping adventures. The early ones were a little stereotypical, but the later ones were much better and really did a good job of portraying the real world and the way it works, as well as Tintin's escapades. Plus it has a ton of unforgettable characters who are either funny or just plain interesting. I'd especially recommend The Red Sea Sharks, The Calculus Affair, and Land of Black Gold, but almost all of them are really good!

Btw, I saw that Amethyst had recommended Momo - I second this recommendation, but I'd just like to add that if you can, read the translation by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. (It was written in German originally, and Brownjohn's translation is really good :) )

Okay, I think that's all for now! But if you need any more, just tell me and I'll be happy to give you more recommendations :)

submitted by Poinsettia
(July 10, 2023 - 8:20 pm)

AHH SUGGESTIONS PREPARE FOR A THOUSAND PAGES OF BOOKS!!! Though that may be an exaggeration. But here are some right now, I can give more later if needed. Actually, I WILL give more later! These are just off the top of my head rn. I'm not rly sure how to tell genres apart so may be wrong, but... still books! And there'll prob be books you've read before, just including them just in case. In arterisks if haven't read yet but will soon and sounds good. In Dollar signs if haven't read in a while but I think it was good.

 

Fantasy (basically everything with magical/supernatural elements): Land of Stories, Wizards of EarthSea, everything by Rick Riordan, Chronicles of Narnia, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, The Golden Compass, Darkbeast, The Rosemary Spell, $The Familiars$, Half Upon A Time, *The Wide Awake Princess *, $More Than A Princess$, Matilda (actually, all Roald Dahl), Ghostlight and Bloom, Hatch, and Thrive by Kenneth Oppel, Too Bright To See, Where The Mountain Meets The Moon and all Grace Lin, Wings of Fire, The Menagerie, $The Secret Zoo$, *Greenwild*, *Nimona*, *Tidesong*, Argos (The Story of Odysseus as Told by His Loyal Dog), $Cinderella is Dead$, $The Giver Quartet$, Wings of Olympus, Secrets of Valhalla, Fenrir's Wolves, Legendary Ladies, Tristan Strong, Savvy and Scumble and Switch, The Time of Green Magic, Swordbird

 

Adventure: Peter Nible, Sophie Quire, The Green Ember series

 

Romance: $Spin With Me$, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Anne of Green Gables (the whole series), A Taxonomy of Love and Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

 

Fiction: Toaff's Way, $The Adventures of a South Pole Pig$, Bea is for Blended and Just Like Jackie and Right as Rain and Brave Like That and everything by Lindsay Stoddard, Listen, Slowly and Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Morning Sun in WuHan, $Everything Else in the Universe $, Me and Sam Sam Handle the Apocalypse, So Done, Saving Savannha, The Door of No Return, Breakout (and everything by Kate Messner), Out of my Mind and sequel and Blended by Shannon Hale, Controlled Burn, W. Bruce Cameron dog books, The Journey of the Pale Bear, The Simple Art of Flying, everything by Dusti Bowling (Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus and sequel, 24 Hours in Nowhere, The Canyon's Edge, Across The Desert...), A Place at the Table, Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish, Small Spaces, The Girl in the Lake, MAX. Hero. Best Friend. Dog. (Or something like that, I forgot), Foreverland, Wish and Wonderland, Halfway to Harmony, The Jungle Book, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Dr. Dolittle, Ban This Book, everything by Beverly Cleary, From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, The Secret Garden, Bob and Pi in the Sky and Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass (Every Soul is kinda romance too), The Rose Legacy, The Midnight Children, Meanwhile and Leviathan by Jason Shiga (these books are... basically a video game in book form), Epoca: Tree of Ecrof (Kobe Bryant and Ivy Claire!), Welcome to Dog Beach, Hate That Cat and Love That Dog and Heartbeat by Sharon Creech, The Book of Hope, Pity Party, Closer to Nowhere, Lost in the Sun, All Rise For The Honorable Perry T Cook, Love Like Sky, Roll With It and Time It Out, This Is Our Rainbow, Luv Ya Bunches, Genesis Begins Again; The Boy, The Wolf, and the Stars; The Girl Who Drank The Moon, The Girl Who Could Fly and books 2 and 3, Before The Ever After, LuLu the Broadway Mouse, The Unteachables and Notorious and Restart and stuff by Gordon Korman, FunJungle and Spy School and stuff by Stuart Gibbs, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Man and Cat Kid and Captain Underpants and stuff by Dav Pilkey, Strangeville School is Totally Normal, *Tornado Brain* and Paper Heart, Music is My Life, Solutions and Other Problems and Hyperbole and a Half, I love you Michael Collins, Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen, OCDaniel and Sara and the Search for Normal, A Whale of the Wild and &A Wolf Called Wander&, Greenglass House and everything that follows (or comes before, or accompanies) by Kate Milford, *Al Capone Does My Laundry*, The Benefits Of Being An Octopus, Norbu the Robot, Cleo Porter and the Body Electric, $The Loser's Club$, Wink, The Track series, The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Afar Reef, York: The Shadow Cipher, Fish In A Tree and One For The Murphys by Lynda Mullay Hunt, How to Trap a Tiger, Song For A Whale, Morrigan Crow, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, When Stars Are Scattered, *Doodleville*, Tui T Sutherland (WoF and The Menagerie) has a great blog with great recommendations too!

 

Nonfiction: The Door of No Return, The True and Sometimes Awkward, Flying Free, Rad American Women From A-Z, *Cinderella Ate My Daughter*, Orange For The Sunsets, Fever 1793, Spilling Ink

 

Other: all Calvin and Hobbes, I'm Just No Good At Rhyming

 

AND PLEASE IGNORE THE GENRES THEY'RE KINDA ALL MIXED UP BC I JUST STOPPED SORTING STUFF AND PUT ALMOST EVERYTHING IN FICTION I WILL BE BACK VERY RUSHED HOPE THIS HELPS thx!!

submitted by CelineBurning Bright, age As Needed, The FireMist Sea
(July 11, 2023 - 2:03 am)

*jaw drops to the floor once finishes reading all the suggestions Celine made* Okay wow! thanks, Celine and Poinsettia :) 

submitted by Hawkstar
(July 11, 2023 - 2:54 pm)

@Hawkstar, :)  That's basically what everyone always says to me

Well! Don't pick up your jaw yet then! There's MORE (there's always more, and plus I read like a book per day...)

 

Books: Everything by Kate DiCamillo (The Magician's Elephant, Flora and Ulyssees, Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana's Way Home and Beverly Right Here, The Tale of Desperaux, *The Tiger Rising*, Because of Winn-Dixie...), everything by Katherine Applegate (Crenshaw, The One And Only Ivan/Bob/Ruby, The Wishtree...), The Land of Roar, Harriet the Spy, Pax, What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Secret Keepers, How To Find What You're Not Looking For, The Collectors, (and btw on the previous comment I got it wrong, it was MAX Best Friend. Hero. Marine.), The Bridge Home, City Spies, Towers Falling, Winnie the Pooh, Black Beauty, The BookWanderers, Story Thieves, The Bookshop Girl, The Year of the Book, Framed and Vanished and Trapped, The Apothecary trilogy, Float and Hoax for Hire by Laura Martin, Escaping the Giant Wave, Stranded trilogy by Jeff Probst and Chris Tebbetts, Explorer Academy, The Genius Files, The Train to Impossible Places, The Silver Arrow, The Legends of Greg, I eat Poop, Dirty Rotten Bugs: Anthropods Unite to tell their Side of the Story, The Kate in Between, That Thing About Bollywood and Golden Girl by Reem Faruqi, Center of Gravity, Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels who Helped Spark a Revolution, Because of Mr. Terupt, The Princess Who Flew With Dragons, Full Cicada Moon, Encyclopedia Brown, The School for Whatnots, Just A Girl: A True Story of World War II, The War That Saved My Life, Five Things About Ava Andrews, Where The Sky Lives, Recipe For Disaster, The Whole Story of Half a Girl, Just Like This and others by Gary Schmidt, Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers, Lizzy Legend, Shooting Kabul and *Escaping Aleppo* by N. H. Senzai, The Weight of Our Sky, Maybe He Just Likes You and Everything I Know About You and other books by Barbara Dee, How To Be A Girl in the World, Ugly, On The Horizon: World War II Reflections, Kiki Kallira Breaks A Kingdom, The Memory Keeper, Muffled, The Renegade Reporters, It All Comes Down to This, The Line Tender, The Seventh Wish, Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor and sequel, Before The Sword, A twisted tale series, Wings of Olympus, Missy Piggle Wiggle, The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City and sequel, How To Be A Good Creature and everything by Sy Montgomery (check out her website's map of animals for all her books), Seven Day Magic and everything by Edward Eager, How To Steal A Dog, Voyage of the Dogs, Welcome to Dog Beach, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise and The Honest Truth and The Midnight Children (which I've already said) by Dan Gemeinhart, Arcade and the Triple T token, The Sand Warrior; Dream, Annie, Dream; The World Ends in April and Millionaires For A Month and Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty, Beyond The Bright Sea and Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk, A pinch of magic, and Prarie lotus and more gtg brb

Romance: Because of Mr. Terupt maybe (I already put this series on books), Keeping It Real

submitted by CelineBurning Bright, age As Needed, The FireMist Sea
(July 11, 2023 - 6:48 pm)

Ok, back! Also: Been There, Done That; The Creativity Project, Forest World, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, All The Karen Cushman books, The Wanderer, Caddy's World, Maizy Chen's Last Chance, Love Like Sky, The Scorpio Races, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Fighting Words; Love, Love; Count Me In; Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story; Old Yeller, The Yearling (Wolf one, not deer), The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Pests and Pets, Adventure Dogs, Finding Junie Kim, the WNDB collections (We Need Diverse Books), Captain Superlative, SeeSaw Girl, Sideways Stories from WaySide School and Holes by Louis Sachar, Falling Down the Page; technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems; Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year, Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice, Victory. Stand! Raising my fist for Justice, The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice, Hero and A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah MacLean I think??, Listified! And I think I'll stop there (for now), cuz if I don't...

romance: A Pho Love Story, You've Reached Sam  (I put romance separate cuz there's so much less)

 

and I also love reading the ski lodges and stuff bc WOWWOWWOW THEY'RE ALL SOO GOOD!!!

 

Hope your reading crisis is over soon bc that sounds TERRIBLE!!

submitted by CelineBurning Bright, age As Needed, The FireMist Sea
(July 11, 2023 - 7:09 pm)

Muahaha! I have been SUMMONED!

The Wingfeather Saga, Andrew Peterson- A series about a "normal" family who gets roped up in some not-normal fantasy drama! It is definitely a high fantasy series full of loveable characters, massive plot twists, and an epic world! 

The Lunar Chronicals, Marissa Meyers- This one is a series centered around an illegal cyborg fugitave and her eventful life. It's a very good sci-fi/fantasy blend.

The Mistborn Series, Brandon Sanderson- This one is interesting. Basically, the bad guy wins and takes over (don't worry, that happens in the very beggining of the book ;) I would never spoil) Very high fantasy.

The Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini- Think Wings of Fire's older sibling. Lots of dragons, a complex fantasy world. Epic. Fantasy. Yeah.

I am a fantasy geek... 

I tried to give you some good series. Enjoy! 

 

 

submitted by Lord of the shadows
(July 14, 2023 - 6:33 pm)

I totally understand, I'm in a book crisis right now. Sorry, these are all nonfiction soo

The Hawk's Way, by Sy Montgomery. This book is amazing, it is written by people like me who are drawn to raptors, and if you are like that, this is a really good book for you. 

Belle's Journey, by Rob Bierregaard. In my opinion, this book is for people a bit on the younger side, but all ages enjoy it! It tells a true tale about a osprey and her adventures migrating.

Photographing Birds of Prey, by Scott Joshua Dera. This book shows the daily lives of many birds of prey!

submitted by Peregrine Falcon, age Fledgling, At the tree
(July 15, 2023 - 4:58 pm)

ACKK @Peregrine Falcon, I LOVE Sy Montgomery!! Have you been to her website? If so, have you seen the map with all those animals and you click on them and it gives you a book she's written? I've read How To Be A Good Creature only so far, but I've read previews on her other books like The Soul of an Octopus and I rly want to read them too!

submitted by CelineBurning Bright, age As Needed, The FireMist Sea
(July 15, 2023 - 7:58 pm)

@CelineBurning Bright

I acutely haven't been to her website, and I've only read The Hawk's Way, but I am planning to read more books by her. Did you like The Hawk's Way?

submitted by Peregrine Falcon, age Fledgling , At the tree
(July 16, 2023 - 12:29 pm)