Books to read over summer? Literature of a higher level ...

Hello, I'm 16 year's old.
Last week I decided it was time to grow up and actually start reading 'big girl' books. I'm doing higher english this year, and therefore feel the need to increase my vocabulary and never touch a Twilight book again.

So last thursday, i gave 203 books to charity, and kept my only three proper adult books; all of which I enjoyed. These are 'to kill a Mockingbird', 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.

To be honest, I'm open to anything, but most definetly of a higher literatery level. This rules out all Stephanie Myer, JK Rowling and Anthony Horowitz books IMMEDIATELY!

So please, any recommendations would be great. Preferably more realistic stories, no fantasy.

Thankyou,
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Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ? this was an awesome read set in south america during the cholera pandemic.

Wuthering Heights ? I had to read this in English and loved it

The great gatsby ? I have read this YET but it's basically about a guy who falls desperately in love with a girl who refuses to leave her adulterous husband.

The author of the first book won the nobel price, the second is an english literary classic and the last is considered a great american novel.

if you enjoyed fairly classic books like to kill a Mocking Bird I would suggest sticking with the classics to start off with

thing like Jane Eyre, Gone with the wind, Don Quixote, Animal Farm, one Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest etc

also check out Project Gutenberg, it has lots of older classics available (legally) for free

Have you ever read "the Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck? It's very good. It's about the rise and fall of fortunes of a Chinese family sometime before WW2.

How about "Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean M. Auel? It's about the struggles of a Homo Sapien-type woman meeting and joining a tribe of less advanced Neanderthals.

I would recommend starting with something which is considered canonical but has a very readable storyline ? Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca would be good. Jane Austen is my personal favourite ? Lady Susan is her least well known one but quite short and fast moving. Emily Bronte ? Wuthering Heights or Anne Bronte ? the tenant of Wildfell hall. These have all had a lot of academic interest but are also easy to 'get into'.

I'd suggest "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith. I loved that book when I was your age, and it was just a perfect fit. also, Jane Eyre, anything by Jane Austen, actually anything by the Bronte's as well. Try also Shadow of the Wind and Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, they are both simply beautiful.

This website is a collection of "starter classics" from various genres and literary traditions:

squidoo.com/classicsforteens

For classics, I suggest anything by Vladimir Nabokov. his writing is beautiful, clever, and he uses loads of wordplay and allusions. You may want to start with his short stories, particularly "A Matter of Chance" or "Cloud, Castle, Lake."

Some other good classics are "the Hunchback of Notre-Dame", "the Stranger", "Hamlet", and "one Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

I'm sort of confused about why you gave away all of your other books. I'm an English major in University, and though I read a lot of classics and "higher level" novels, I still enjoy my old YA books. Just because you're becoming an adult doesn't mean you should only read adult books.

Also, Harry Potter does have quite a bit of literary merit. JK Rowling used almost every literary device imaginable, including allusions, wordplay, universal themes, and parallels to real life, such as the Second World War. Most of the characters' names have a lot of thought put into them, too. they are fascinating to study from a university-level perspective because there really is a lot more than meets the eye.

By higher level i suppose you mean in terms of Culture (with a big 'C') and not in terms of reading difficulty. I also suppose you like fantasy.

If you want more 'grown up', i would suggest 'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keyes and 'do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick. both are sci-fi but deal with some pretty heavy themes and are amazing books. If you like fantasy you should also read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series.

Then of course there are always the classics: anything by Edgar Allen Poe, H. P Lovecraft ('the Case of Charles Dexter Ward' being one of my favorite of his stories). Classic horror writers. Sherlock Holmes stories, 'the Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Nineteen Eight-Four and Animal Farm by George Orwell and anything by Charles Dickens.

Personally I like books by Neil Gaiman and Robert Rankin both comedic fantasy writers.

hi well it doesn't matter what you read. if you enjoy reading than do it for fun. read what you want. answering your question though depending on how hard and determined your at with reading is what i can recommend.if your looking for classics than anything by jules verne is really good and easy enough. books by h.g wells are good but more complex.it requires deeper Evolution. if your looking for things more modern. anything by stephen king is great. the stand especially but its a also soooo long at 1112 pages with the uncut. and the cut version is really expensive and hard to find. also you should read the passage by justin currin. ok well good luck and whatever you do do it because its what you want and its fun.

1984 by George Orwell is excellent ? the ideas in it are fascinating and it's got a genuinely gripping plot. Plus, Orwell is a master of clarity and economy when it comes to his use of language. definitely read it!

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a modern classic, and it's also darkly funny. It's a satirical novel about American soldiers in World War II.

Someone else recommended 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith ? I would definitely second that recommendation. It's narrated by a girl of about your age, set in the 1920s, and it's a beautiful, quirky, bittersweet love story without a single cliche. It's a lovely book with unforgettable characters and considerable wit and charm.

'Rebecca' or 'Jamaica Inn' by Daphne Du Maurier are also considered modern classics, but they are also incredibly readable with page-turning plots ? highly recommended.

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte is a Victorian Gothic novel. Don't believe the drivel spoken about this book in Twlight. It's not a soppy love story. It's about an obsessive, destructive relationship that almost destroys two generations of two dysfunctional families and is full of ambiguity and darkness.

'the Plague' by Albert Camus is about what happens when bubonic plague hits a French-Algerian city in the 1940s, and how the different characters react to their enforced quarantine. It's not exactly a barrel of laughs, I admit, but it's fascinating to see how the terrible situation brings out the best in some and the worst in others.

'the little Stranger' by Sarah Walters was only published a year or so ago, and it was shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious literary prize. It's a ghost story? or is it? Read and it decide what you think really happened.

'the House of Sleep' by Jonathan Coe is about a group of university students whose lives cross paths in a series of peculiar ways. Sleep, or the lack of it, is a unifying factor for them, and a sleep clinic plays a central role in the plot. It's a very, very clever plot with lots of twists and revelations, and it's also very funny in places.

'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac ? largely autobiographical novel about Kerouac and his friends as they travel across 50s America and discover jazz, drugs, beat poetry and counter-culture. anyone who reads this as sixteen and doesn't, at least secretly, think these people are incredibly cool is probably not normal.

You NEED to read the Hunger Games! It's my favorite book. What it's about might not interest you, but read it anyway! It will amaze you and I don't no a single person that has read it and not liked it! please read it! You will LOVE it. Really, at least look into it.

Read Sarah Dessen books they're all written amazingly!

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