The second largest "category" that I read would probably be historical fiction, though this list comes nowhere near the length of my fantasy list...heh heh. As you can tell from this list, I LOVE anything Shakespeare! You should read his plays too...
Listed Alphabetically by Author
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Shakespeare's Scribe by Gary L. Blackwood
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary L. Blackwood
Shakespeare's Spy by Gary L. Blackwood
The Year of the Hangman by Gary L. Blackwood
Charlotte's Rose by A.E. Cannon
The True Prince by J.B. Cheaney
The Playmaker by J.B. Cheaney
Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story by Lisa Fiedler
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (this is NOT fiction)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Any books written by Ann Rinaldi
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
My Father had a Daughter: Judith Shakespeare's Tale by Grace Tiffany
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen
Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen
These are some of the books which you may be forced to read at sometime or another for school, but you may end up actually enjoying them. Some of these you probably won't be forced to read, actually (such as Phantom, but are classics nonetheless...
Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
(k, this one has its moments, but sometimes it's a real drag...)
Lord of the Flies by William Goldman
(I was like the only person in the Pre-AP English program this year who actually liked this book. Okay, so maybe there were like three other people. But anyway, I liked it because it had some really cool analytical stuff, such as parallels to the Bible and Greek Mythology. It was still kinda interesting without the cool allusions though, so if you're not into analyzing, you might still like it. I normally don't like analyzing things, but analyzing thus one was fun...k, sorry, rant over)
The Odyessy by Homer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
Shakespeare's Plays (my favorites are Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Hamlet)
