<p>Please recommend any great books that you have read to other teens. State the title (and author) if possible. If you want, add a brief description. </p>
<p>I'll start- just finished reading It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. About a child who studies hard to get into a very competitive high school, but cracks under the pressure and almost commits suicide.</p>
<p>Okay… I saw someone mention The kite runner on another thread. Basically, I am into every book written by Khaled Hosseini, so I recommend: The kite runner, A thousand splendid suns, And the mountains echoed.</p>
<p>The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green</p>
<p>I would also recommend The Fault In Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, they are both great books.</p>
<p>Just to add, I am reading 7 Habits for Highly Effective people by Stephen Covey, and I would recommend it to anyone! It really has some good tips for time management and self fulfillment.</p>
<p>As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner</p>
<p>It’s a classic. It has amazing language usage/construction. It’s really just a work of art. Every English nerd must read it.</p>
<p>The Book Thief. Seriously everybody should read that book.</p>
<p>I felt that The Book Thief was just a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird.
I would recommend Dark Parties by Sara Grant. It’s an interesting novel with the “government controlling everything” theme.</p>
<p>The Book Thief was really great, but it’s been getting so much hype lately, the media buzz is blowing it up. But idk it’s a good book, plain and simple.</p>
<p>My favorite book will always be The Things They Carry by Tim Obrien. asdfkdslk.</p>
<p>Super Sad True Love Story and Peaceful Warrior are also great ones.</p>
<p>Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes.</p>
<p>The Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishiguro
The Glass Castle- Jeannette Walls
Bel Canto- Ann Patchett (fun fact- a passage from this was on the PSAT- remember Gen the translator? 
I read it before and I liked it a lot)</p>
<p>The Book Thief! Haha naturally, it’s really good though
Blink-Malcolm Gladwell
The Omnivore’s Dilemma-Michael Pollan
Animal Farm-George Orwell
The Fault in Our Stars
Divergent
Grapes of Wrath
Freakonomics-Steven Levitt</p>
<p>all I can think of right now but Prentice Hall textbooks are a good read too ;]</p>
<p>A lot of people have already mentioned my favorites, but:</p>
<p>The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Inferno - Dante Alighieri
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dear John - Nicholas Sparks (Let’s be real… I cried)
Fault in Our Stars - John Green (you know, while we’re on the topic of mushy romance novels)
and for fun: Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan </p>
<p>And of course, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. But those are already givens.</p>
<p>Columbine- Dave Cullen…Did any CCer’s read this book?
The Glass Castle- Jeannette Walls
Boy’s Life- Robert McCammon
The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein
Stardust- Neil Gaiman
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien</p>
<p>After much nagging from my friends, I decided to read the Harry Potter series over the summer.</p>
<p>My life is forever changed.</p>
<p>The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The Dollanganger Series <a href=“Flowers%20in%20the%20Attic,%20etc.”>i</a>* by V.C. Andrews—Interesting series, but disturbing nonetheless.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Night, The Night Trilogy #1 by Elie Wiesel
Animal Farm by George Orwell</p>
<p>Rereading Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in my free time!</p>