Some books to consider…

Monster, Walter Dean Myers
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Some authors to consider…

Horror: Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Yann Martel
Military: Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton
Male: Khaled Hosseini.
Female: Nora Roberts, Sue Monk Kidd, Amy Tan, Helen Fielding, Barbara Kingsolver.
Mystery: John Grisham, Michael Connelly.
Advice: Rachel Simmons.
Sci-Fi: Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, H. G. Wells

If you liked…

1984, then you might like: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley or Animal Farm, by George Orwell

Master Harold and the Boys, then you might like: Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton

Lord of the Flies, then you might like: The Girl Who Owned a City, by O.T. Nelson

Beowulf, then you might like: Sir Gawain and the Green Night, anonymous or The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein or The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein

Grendel, then you might like: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

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