What are your top 10 must read books?

Oooh, I love these questions. Especially since you said no Twilight!

1) Lolita- My all time favorite, by Vladimir Nabokov. About a manipulative, pathetic, charismatic pedophile falling in with his stepdaughter and taking her on a cross country road trip.

2) The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. About an extremely anti-feminist dystopian society where women are literally owned by men. Terrifying and thought-provoking.

3) The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo. Classic! Everyone knows the story- Frollo is obsessed with Esmeralda, Esmeralda is in love with Phoebus, and Quasimodo saves the day with selfless love.

4) The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Another classic! Gatsby loves Daisy, Daisy is married, Gatsy throws lots of parties and does crazy things to win Daisy back.

5) Candide, by Voltaire. Short and sweet, this book is hilarious, even though it was written hundreds of years ago. About a foolishly optimistic young man and his journey across the world as he discovers life isn't so perfect after all.

6) Innocents, by Cathy Coote. This might technically be YA, but it's incredibly disturbing and mature for its intended audience. A conniving, manipulative Lolita seduces her teacher in a bizarre version of Nabokov's story.

7) Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs. Supposedly true events in the life of a young black slave girl, this book seriously changed my life when I read it. It's impossible to imagine the things human beings to to each other, and still, how they keep enduring.

8) Justine, by the Marquis de Sade. This one was tough, but worth it. Banned by Napoleon when it first came out, what was first considered just depraved pornography is actually very lucid philosophical thought.

9) The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant. Basically the story of Jacob and his twelve children through the eyes of his wives and daughters. Very, very interesting, and not at all religious in its message.

10) Othello, by Shakespeare. I had to put in a Shakespeare! I'm normally not a big fan, but I love Othello so much. It's such an easy story to relate to- madly in love with his wife, self conscious about their differences, and finally driven to madness by pointless jealously. What's not to love?

This took me a good fifteen minutes to write. I love my books! I hope you find something you'll enjoy reading, even if it does have to be Twilight! :D

Okay, here are some amazing books that are inspiring and engrossing: 1. The Freedom Writers Diary 2. Flowers for Algernon 3. The Color Purple 4. The Secret Life of Bees 5. Memoirs of a Geisha 6. To Kill A Mockingbird 7. The Catcher in the Rye 8. Redeeming Love 9. Night 10. Love in the time of Cholera Happy reading!! :)

1. Uglies by Scott Westerfield

2. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

5. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

6. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

7. Shanabu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples

8. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

9. The Giver by Lois Lowry

10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

1. Harry Potter by JK Rowling

2. Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

3. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

4. The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray

5. Anything by Jane Austen.

6. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

7. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

8. 1984 by George Orwell

9. White Oleander by Janet Fitch

10. Helen of Troy by Margaret George

Not in order:

Pride and Prejudice

Eyes of War

Wuthering High

Mr. Darcy's Daughter, the series

Dracula!

Private series

Nobody's Princess

The Secret Life of Bees

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Eragon series

1) Harry Potter. In my books, this one's a classic.

2) Narnia. Fantasy, cute knights saving girls, talking/fighting mice... must I say more?

3) The Word For Home. This is just a really cute, heart-warming book.

4) A Great and Terrible Beauty series by Phillipa Gregory

5) The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen

6) Any book by Meg Cabot

7) Killer Cruise by Jennifer Shaw

8) Any Rachel Hawthorne novel

9) Magic in Manhattan series

10) Kira- Kira.

1) Someone Like You: Sarah Dessen

2) Keeping The Moon: Sarah Dessen

3) Perfect You: Elizabeth Scott

4) Bloom: Elizabeth Scott

5) Peaches series: Jodi Lynn Anderson

6) Truth about Forever: Sarah Dessen

7) Stealing Heaven: Elizabeth Scott

8) Uglies series: Scott Westerfeld

9) All American Girl: Meg Cabot

10) The Host: Stephenie Meyer

These are all of my favs! =)

1.) Breaking Dawn (sorry but I like the books that i like)

2.) Kiss - Jacquelene Wilson

3.) Lola Rose - Jacquelene Wilson

4.) All the series of Night World

5.) CandyFloss

6.) Pretty Little Liars

7.) Romeo & Juliet

8.) Girls in Tears

9.) Molly Moon

10.) Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

not in order:

harry potter

magic in manhattan books

meg cabot books

shannon hale books

sarah dessen books

a mango shaped space

artemis fowl books

eva ibbotson books

the westing game

a single shard

not in any particular order

1. a separate peace

2. pride and prejudice

3. atonement

4. lord of the flies

5. angelas ashes

6. the chocolate war

7. wuthering heights

8. flowers for algernon

9. the color purple

10. the boy in the striped pajamas