I’ll be 16 in July and I love to read but I’m at a loss of what to read next. I love and worship Stephen king and I like poetry but I want to get more into some popular classics. I just finished reading to kill a mockingbird in my English class today and really enjoyed it. I also have a huge interest in anything about the Second World War, specifically the holocaust.
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The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, is a horror classic.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a classic about a girl growing up.
Octavia Butler’s books are sci-fi classics. The Parable of the Talents is about a girl crossing a dystopian America. Kindred is about an African-American woman in the seventies transporting back in time to slavery.
Have you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak? It’s set in Germany during WWII and the narrator is Death.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is very good and covers a little-known part of WWII history.
Lovely War by Julie Berry is about four people during WWII whose lives intersect. Also, Aphrodite and Ares show up.
Jennifer Donnelly’s historical fiction is all very, very good. A Northern Light, Revolution, and These Shallow Graves.
Lastly, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. Two female pilots during WWII and one of them gets shot down and captured by the Gestapo.
If you read graphic novels there is ‘Maus’ by Art Speilman. It won the Pulitzer Prize and is about WWII.
I had a soft spot for books about WWII resistance efforts – I remember loving Lisa’s War
Neil Gaiman’s short stories are great. Also, his books Stardust and Good Omens were favorites of mine in high school
Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater is lovely
The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
Is really good.