Monday 20 March 2017

Books, books and more books! Recommendations

Underneath my personal recommendations are the books that EVERY young adult is supposed to read...again, have a look and regard or disregard! ENJOY.


They say never judge a book by its cover - but check out these three beautiful book covers! (above)

MY TOP TEN YOUNG ADULT BOOKS (that I enjoyed when I was your age)

Runaway Summer by Nina Bawden
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt (first in a series of books about the Tillerman family. When their mum leaves them in a car park, Dicey has to find a new life for herself and her siblings)
Fox's Feud (Animals of Farthing Wood series) by Colin Dann
The Silver Sword by Ian Serralier
The Phantom Tollbooth
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume (great teen romances, mainly aimed at girls!)
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Peterson
Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones (she was the original JK Rowling - everything she writes is brilliant)
Anything by Christopher Pike - he writes horror books for young adults and I gobbled up anything by him. His adult sci-fi books are also excellent.
Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews (a bit disturbing! About children whose mum and grandma keeps them locked in an attic to hide them from society)
The Seance  by Joan Lowry Nixon
Brother in the Land - Robert Swindells

Ask me if any of these take your fancy - I have all my old books still :)



MY TOP TEN BOOKS OF ALL TIME

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Stand by Stephen King
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling
The Screen play of Withnail and I by Bruce Robinson
Collected lyrics of Bob Dylan

Ok, ok so I know that's more than 10 but I got carried away and can't stop...



Best books ever - apparently:
100 Novels everyone should read

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