I have an english project where I have to pick any fiction novel that's over 275 pages and is around grade level (senior in hs). Honestly, I haven't read a novel since maybe elementary school and I'm not that good at reading in general. Does anyone know any good novels for me? I tried looking at another thread asking for easy novels but none of them met the page count.
by dunkar00ed
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Dungeon crawler Carl is pretty easy reading and very entertaining. Also seems to work as a good hook into reading for people who’ve fallen out of the habit.
look up ellen hopkins. loved her in high school. her books would meet the page count for sure but her style is almost essentially like poems. she has lots of books but the crank series is most popular.
*America Is Not the Heart* by Elaine Castillo! The most challenging formal element might be the author’s decision to forego quotation marks, which really immerses you in the characters’ interiority since there is less discursive distinction between speech and thought. 400+ pages that just suck you in.
“Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend” by Matthew Dicks is an easy read that’s a lot of fun with an element of suspense.
“Soon I Will Be Invincible” by Austin Grossman is a really funny, easy read.
I’d recommend these books. They meet your page count requirement without being too long, are easy to read, and are truly gripping:
THE UNKNOWN by J.W. Lynne
(Eight kids wake up trapped in a mysterious prison.)
Mystery suspense thriller
UNWIND by Neal Shusterman
(Runaway teens in grave danger run for their lives.)
Dystopian sci-fi horror
The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi is 365 pages. It’s an extremely fluffy romance that’s a retelling of Pride And Prejudice (or possibly another Austen) set at a fictional women’s college. Everything ends happily, and I found the structure pretty simple, with easy language.