A while back, a friend with a blazing smart and fast-reading niece complained that she couldn’t think of books to recommend for her to read, since young miss read so fast.<\/p>\n
I made a list of some of my favorite. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
By M.E. Kerr
\nI stay near you<\/p>\nFell Down<\/p>\n
Book of Fell<\/p>\n
Fell Back<\/p>\n
by Francesca Block.
\nWeetzie Bat,
\nWitch Baby,
\nCherokee Bat and the Goat Guys,
\nMissing Angel Juan,
\nThe Hanged Man,
\nBaby Be-Bop,
\nGirl Goddess #9,
\nEcho.<\/p>\nLouise Erdrich ANYTHING by HER<\/p>\n
by Robin McKinley.
\nBeauty,
\nThe Blue Sword, T
\nhe Hero and the Crown,
\nA Knot in the Grain and Other Stories,
\nRose Daughter,
\nDeerskin<\/p>\nHIGHLY RECOMMENDED by Katherine Paterson.
\nJacob Have I Loved,
\nLyddie,
\nThe Same Stuff As Stars,
\nBridge to Trerabinthia<\/p>\nGraphic novels (aka comic books) Art Spiegelman.
\nMaus: A Survivor’s Tale;
\nMaus: A Survivor’s Tale II.<\/p>\n\u00b7 Cynthia Voigt.
\nDicey’s Song,
\nIzzy Willy-nilly,
\nWings of a Falcon,
\nOrfe,
\nWhen She Hollers,
\nBad Girls,
\nBad, Badder, Baddest.<\/p>\nThe Lovely Bones: a Novel Alice Sebold<\/p>\n
Achebe, Chinua.
\nThings Fall Apart<\/p>\nby Austen, Jane.
\nPride and Prejudice,
\nEmma (anything by her, really)<\/p>\nby
\nCharles Dickens
\nBleak House, (if you like him, there are tons more)<\/p>\nby Bronte, Emily.
\nWuthering Heights<\/p>\nby Buck, Pearl.
\nThe Good Earth<\/p>\nby Cather, Willa.
\nMy Antonia,
\nDeath Comes for the Archbishop (anything by her)<\/p>\nby Defoe, Daniel.
\nRobinson Crusoe<\/p>\nBy Dreiser, Theodore.
\nSister Carrie(not an easy read, but good\u2026sad)<\/p>\nby Eliot, George.
\nThe Mill on the Floss,
\nMiddlemarch (also not easy, but very good)<\/p>\nby Ellison, Ralph.
\nThe Invisible Man<\/p>\nby Flaubert, Gustave.
\nMadame Bovary( not an easy read)<\/p>\nby Grahame, Kenneth.
\nWind in the Willows<\/p>\nby Hammett, Dashiell.
\nThe Maltese Falcon,
\nThe Glass Key (these are mysteries, not hard to read and very good)<\/p>\nby Hurston, Zora Neale.
\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God<\/p>\nby Keys, Daniel.
\nFlowers for Algernon (this will blow your mind, and it\u2019s good)<\/p>\nby Lee, Harper.
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird<\/p>\nby Marlow, Christopher.
\nDr. Faustus (if you like Shakespeare)<\/p>\nby Morrison, Toni.
\nThe Song of Solomon (anything by this author, but they are strong stuff\u2026these can be pretty vivid stories about slavery in America)<\/p>\nby Munro, Alice K.
\nSelected Stories( these are the only short stories I know that read like a novel)<\/p>\nby Orwell, George.
\n1984,
\nAnimal Farm(the granddaddy of science fiction\u2026well, except maybe Jules Verne)<\/p>\nby Salinger, J. D.
\nThe Catcher in the Rye (a favorite of serial killers\u2026but why?)<\/p>\nby Shelley, Mary.
\nFrankenstein (the original is way good, and way less scary than I would have thought)<\/p>\nby Sophocles.
\nOedipus the King,
\nAntigone(ancient greek plays that could kick shakespeare\u2019s Butt)<\/p>\nby Steinbeck, John.
\nThe Grapes of Wrath,
\nEast of Eden,
\nCannery Row<\/p>\nby Swift, Jonathan.
\nGulliver’s Travels<\/p>\nby Thurber, James.
\nThe Thurber Carnival (this guy has the quirkiest sense of humor\u2026AWESOME!)<\/p>\nby Wilde, Oscar.
\nThe Importance of Being Ernest (also, anything by this guy)<\/p>\nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by betty smith<\/p>\n
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
\nThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare<\/p>\nAmy Tan (anything by her!) The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God\u2019s Wife, A Hundred Secret Senses<\/p>\n
by Madeleine L\u2019Engle
\nA wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and a Wind at the Door
\nAnd ALSO:
\nThe Arm of the Starfish, House like a Lotus,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A while back, a friend with a blazing smart and fast-reading niece complained that she couldn’t think of books to recommend for her to read, since young miss read so fast. I made a list of some of my favorite. … Continue reading