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Help! I'm running out of things I want to read!
Please comment with book recommendations; I'm mainly looking for, well, a lot of different things. Here are my guidelines (if you simply don't care skip to the end of the post)
What to recommend:
- Sci-fi
- Realistic fiction where the main premise is NOT someone getting seriously injured, dying, getting a disease, being adopted/discovering that they are, moving, or going on a life-changing vacation-adventure.
- Historical fiction about WWII; preferably about Japanese internment camps in USA or the actual concentration camps in Nazi Germany, rather than Jews in hiding/helping Jews in hiding or life on the home front. I feel like both of the first issues I mentioned are sort of glossed over in kids fiction (the former in most history books) and I would like to learn more.
- Magical realism, ie the real world but with someone who has magical powers, or a magical object, etc.
- Fantastic fantasy, either the traditional swords-and-adventures kind or a more surreal variant
What NOT to recommend:
- Books told in "poetry". I'm sure they are lovely and moving, but not my style.
- Anything I should have already heard of. Someone might read the last point on my list and say "Oh, Sho should read the Lord of the Rings!" when the fact is I've read the entire series approx. four times in the past four years... #obsessed
- On the opposite side of the spectrum, anything super obscure. Our library system is very good considering where we are located, but it probably doesn't have all seven hundred point eight volumes of "The Wild Wanderings of the Wibbly-Wobbly Wooden Table of Wendor". Apologies.
All that to say is: I need books to read! Feel free to completely ignore my eyebrow-raisingly detailed guidelines and post whatever lengthy lists at your leisure!
submitted by Shoshannah
(January 23, 2017 - 5:09 pm)
(January 23, 2017 - 5:09 pm)
You have some great books recommended! I'll probably come back to this thread and read some of these books myself.
I'd just like to second Bibliophile's recommendation of Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. It's my favorite book. (And there's a sequel called Love, Stargirl.)
(January 28, 2017 - 1:13 pm)
It's so great, isn't it! And so sad, too.
(January 28, 2017 - 7:21 pm)
Yes! But an inspiring sort of sad, the kind that makes me want to go hug people and play them a song on the ukulele.
(January 29, 2017 - 10:13 pm)
YES! Eragon is AWESOME! I started reading the series a few weeks ago, and have gone through many bloody battles to come to the third book, which in size is about the equivalent of a Harry Potter book.
Now, for recommendations....
- Historical fiction about WWII
Well, this book isn't exactly about WWII, but it's kind of similar...it's called Beautiful Blue World by...now I don't remember the author. But it's set in a made-up world, during a war, and there are bombings and bomb shelters and all that fun stuff. i'm not sure if the author intended to base it on WWII, but it's pretty close to it. It's actually a series, but the next book isn't out yet.
- Magical realism
One Wish by Michelle Harrison. I just read it and it's pretty good.
- Fantastic fantasy
The Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and the other one)
(January 28, 2017 - 2:41 pm)
WWII: "My friend; the Enemy" By: Dan Smith
"My friend; the Enemy" By: J.B. Cheany (My brother read this one; said it was good.)
Fantastic fantasy:
"The Woodcutter" By: Kate Danley (I love this book; It has a lot of fairytale characters wound into it; and it doesn't have any bad words, at least not that I know of, but it does have a couple people killed. This book could also go under the category "Sci-Fi/Fantasy;" I HIGHLY reccomend it. Kate Danley also wrote a really good mystery series, which I also reccomend. Again, no swear words, at least none that I saw, but a couple of killings.)
Have fun reading!
(January 28, 2017 - 3:28 pm)