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The Testament- Eric Van Lustbader

- A teacher let me borrow this and I loved it. It's very mature at parts, but if you can handle it, read it.

Inheritance Trilogy- Christopher Paolini

Dragon Bones- Patricia Briggs

Dragon Blood- Patricia Briggs

harry potter is the best for fantasy it is very suspenfull and it has some romantic not a whole lot but some and it would take a very long time to read all 7 1st 2 are about 175 pages 3 300 4 700 5 800 6 450 7 750

Fantasy:

Howls Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones

His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman

Book 1: The Golden Compass

Book 2: The Subtle Knife

Book 3: The Amber Spyglass

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

The Blue Bloods and Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz

Poison by Chris Wooding

Beastly by Alex Flinn

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Out of fashion a bit, but have you tried Joan Aitken? The series that starts with 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase', and moves on to the Dido Twite books, obviously not the young children's 'Mortimer' books?

Although you could just go out and read some books that are just written to be read by people, rather than being 'targeted' at some publisher's concept of what is 'age-group' appropriate.

'Treasure Island' is hardly ever read by girls, which is a pity, 'Black Beauty' is hardly ever read by boys, which is a pity. Neither is read much by anyone, which is a tragedy.

If you haven't read Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy - the first is 'Northern Lights' in the UK, 'The Golden Compass' in the US, then do - the film missed out most of the interesting bits.

Maximum Ride series - James Patterson

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson

Gemma Doyle trilogy - Libba Bray

Vampire Diaries - L. J. Smith

I second the suggestions of "Hawksong" (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes) and "Wicked Lovely" (Melissa Marr) as well as WL's sequel, "Ink Exchange," which I liked even better.

Did you know "Ironside" has two other books in the same series? In fact, "Ironside" is the third one. "Tithe" and "Valiant" come first.

I have two urban fantasy series that I really love. The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (first book is "Storm Front") is about a wizard in modern-day Chicago. Lots of action, suspense, and romance, and I love the detailed way he handles magic. His Codex Alera books are very good too (first book is "Furies of Calderon"), about a world where everyone has an elemental spirit bonded to them (air, fire, water, etc.).

My other favorite urban fantasy author is Patricia Briggs. Everything of hers is good but her best is the Mercy Thompson books (first is "Moon Called"). Mercy is a walker, meaning she can change into a coyote. There's also fae, vampires, and lots of werewolves in her life--all in modern-day Washington. Lots of romance (there are at least three guys in love with her, she cares about them all but has to choose one) and Mercy is a great heroine-- independent but not stupid about it, she knows when to back down. The duology "Dragon Bones" and "Dragon Blood" by the same author is also really great. If you don't fall in love with Oreg, there's something wrong with you. :)

Long and romantic: The outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

Parallel worlds: song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay. Also Tigana by the same author

From a different point of view: the Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Any books by mercedes lackey are good.

Anne mccaffrey writes science fiction/fantasy books (although they are not hard science fiction)

robert jordens wheel of time books are extremely good

Terry goodkinds Sword of truth books are very involved, long books that tend to have some violence (read some really gory disgusting parts)

if you want more romantic type books, lynsay sands writes a really good series about modern vampires and maryjanice davidson writes a really funny series about Betsy the vampire queen

These are some really good books that I've read and thoroughly enjoyed:

-the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud*****

-the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer*

-The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen(any book by her)

-Hawksong(series) by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes(any book by her)

-The Shannara series by Terry Brooks*****

-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

-Watership Down by Richard Adams

-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens*

-Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter

-The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*

-The Princess Bride by William Goldman*

-Discworld series by Terry Pratchet*****

-Battle Royale by Roushun Takami*****

*s are the ones I really REALLY recommend for anyone to read, and the ones with five *s are the best books I've ever read in my life!!!!

You would most definately LOVE the Hawksong series!

- The Luxe (Anna Godbersen)

- Rumors (Anna Godbersen)

- The Amulet of Samarkan (Jonathan Stroud)

- The Golem's Eye (Jonathan Stroud)

- Magyk (Angie Sage)

- Flyte (Angie Sage)

- Skeleton Key (Anthony Horowitz)

- Point Blanc (Anthony Horowitz)

- Inkheart (Cornelia Funke)

- Firesong (William Nicholson)

- The Wind Singer (William Nicolson)

- Maximum Ride (James Patterson)

- Silverfin (Charlie Higson)

- Noughts and Crosses (Malorie Blackman)

- Knife Edge (Malorie Blackman)

- Checkmate (Malorie Blackman)

- The truth about forever (Sarah Dessen)

- This Lullaby (Sarah Dessen)

My biggest recommendations are the Luxe series (The Luxe, Rumors and the third one, Envy, is about to be released.) by Anna Godbersen as well as the Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman.