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Kimmy
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Kimmy asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

YA Book Suggestions Please?

I love YA paranormal romance. Shiver, Evernight, Deadly Little Secret, Hush Hush, Need, and Vampire Academy are among my favorite books.

I'm also a fan of anything with a good post-apocalyptic or dystopian setting. I loved The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 (and anything else written by Ray Bradbury), Unwind, Life As We Knew It, Gone, and Candor.

I'd really like it if the books were YA, but they don't necessarily have to be. Please don't suggest Twilight, Percy Jackson, or House of Night--I hate those books. I also don't like regency books, or anything mushy by Nicholas Sparks or Sarah Dessen. I want a little violence to go with my romance and dystopias, plzkthnx. (:

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  • ?
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    1 decade ago
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    The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

    Graceling and Fire by Kristin Cashore

    Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

    The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

    Wings by Aprilynne Pike

    Everlost and Everwild by Neal Shusterman

    The Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr

    The Mediator series by Meg Cabot

    Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

    Hope this helps!

  • 1 decade ago

    City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

    -Clary, Sixteen years old goes clubbing with her best friend, Simon, she sees a good-looking boy just kill another boy and realizes that she in the only person that can see them. She soon is thrown into the shadow hunter world and discovers that her life has been built on lies and is torn between love and family secrets.I honestly absolutely love these series, it’s engaging,the characters are hilarious and the twists are wicked! it's set in new york city.The main character has awesome homour like rose from vampire academy

    dark lover by j.r. ward ( The blackdagger brotherhood Series)

    "i just picked up this book randomly and have fallen for it, it's such an amazing book,and it's different to all the other vampire book, it is a adult romance as it has some descriptive scenes, Best vampire book i've read in a long time, really refreshing.

    "In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood but fate brings beth into his life as he must usher the beautiful female into the world of the undead.."

    uglies by scott westerfeld

    "ugly until age 16 when they'll undergo an operation that will change them into societys pleasure-seeking "pretties." - this is set post-apocalyptic

    succbuss blues by richelle mead

    Midnighters : The Secret Hour by scott westerfeld

    Nobody is safe in the secret hour.

    Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma.

    Time freezes.

    Nobody moves.

    For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour -- only they are free to move about the midnight time.

  • 1 decade ago

    Here are my suggestions:

    Moonlight - Rachel Hawthorne

    Dark Visions - L.J. Smith

    The Immortal Series - Alyson Noel

    Vampire Kisses Series - Ellen Schreiber

    Alanna : The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce(it's a series)

    Paper Towns - John Green

    Night - Elie Wiesel

    To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

  • 1 decade ago

    Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Graceling by Krstin Cashore

    The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Troy by Adele Geras

    City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

    The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson

    Skinned by Robin Wasserman

    Uglies by Scott Westerfield

    Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Neal Shusterman- Everlost, Everwild, and the darkfusion series

    Pete Hautman- Rush

    Darren Shan- The demonata series

    Mary E. Pearson- Adoration of Jenna Fox

    Jennifer Ziegler- How Not To be Popular

    Brian Meehl- Suck it up

    These are really good books i've read

  • 1 decade ago

    I think you're gonna like Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale". It's a beautifully written dystopia.

    Another dystopia would be Kazuo Ishiguro-"Never Let Me Go", which is a book I absolutely fell in love with. I cannot tell you more and I would suggest not reading online reviews, since they seem to give it away. But I can assure you that you will love this one, everyone I know who read it has been impressed by it.

  • 1 decade ago

    vampire academy series

    morganville vampire series

    and then there were none (a.k.a - ten little indians)

    maximum ride series

    the hunger games

    catching fire

    twilight saga

    harry potter series

    the gone series

    vampire diaries

    vampire kisses

    mortal instruments series

    percy jackson series

    my sister's keeper

    the girl with the pearl earring

    the uglies trilogy

    the inheritance trilogy

    graceling

    song of the sparrow

    the night dance

    witch & wizard

    heart at stakes

    elsewhere

    house of night series (in the 6th bk, so far so good)

    just listen

    the midnighters series

    the pigman

    adventures of tom sayer (if you like classics)

    adventures of huckleberry finn (if you like classics)

    moby dick ((if you like classics)

    and then there were none

    the outsiders

    catalyst

    where the red fern grows

    i rode a horse of milk white jade

    so b. it

    when my name was keoko

    jane eyre (if you like classics)

    great expectations (if you like classics)

    pride and prejudice (if you like classics/i never read it but heard it wazs really good))

    dreamhunter

    dreamquake

    {out of the last two books that i have recommended, i don't know which one comes first...but i have not read then and i did find out that there were really good}

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. They're my favorites :] First book is The City of Bones.

  • 1 decade ago

    the mortal instruments by cassandra clare. city of bones, city of ashes, city of glass.

    vamps, werewolves and supernatural with romance. its an older teen book with sex referances and the characters are 16 and 17.

    its a really interesting story with some interesting love interests in it but it keeps to the 'save the world' plotline without killing it off with the romance (aka twilight). i love the books.

    another book i'd recomend is the demons lexicon by sarah rees brennan but it's british and isn't a complete series yet. its alot like the former books but set in exeter rather than brooklyn :D

    i'd also try holly blacks books. i think they start with tithe but i'm not sure because my sisters read them not me. i've only read one and it was ok but not my sort of thing, it was a bit like twilight with more romance than 'bad guy' plot. their more adult than most (the one i read started with the main character moaning how her boyfriend didn't want to sleep with her any more to go home to find him with her mother on the living room floor...yeah).

    ironically i think all three authors are friends (even though brennan's british).

    oh and all are urban fantasy :D

    http://www.mortalinstruments.com/ easy to find the books so just browse the site, it's interesting.

    http://www.sarahreesbrennan.com/demonlexchapter1.h... the demons lexicon link at the top of the website is broke for me but the ones down the side work well and give lots of info. theres even a first chapter of the first book.

    http://www.blackholly.com/youngadult.html the books at the bottom of the page i linked to. i read valiant. i thought they were a trilogy but apparently not, just the same universe i think :D

    i hope i helped

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Can I list some classics first (along with some other great books not always considered classics but written for adults)? You've probably read some of them before, but if not:

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

    A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

    Animal Farm by George Orwell

    The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

    Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

    Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    Anthem by Ayn Rand

    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

    The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Belly Jar by Sylvia Plath

    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

    On the Road by Jack Kerouac

    Siddartha by Hermann Hesse

    Macbeth by Shakespeare

    In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

    Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

    Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

    The Stranger by Albert Camus

    Cat's Cradle by by Kurt Vonnegut

    The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

    The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

    And for YA:

    - a sort of classic book: The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope

    Everlost by Neal Shusterman

    Fallen by Lauren Kate

    The Devouring by Simon Holt

    The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Frostbite by David Wellington

    Wake by Lisa McMann

    Fade by Lisa McMann

    Gone by Lisa McMann

    Hunger: A Gone Novel by Michael Grant

    Memoirs Of A Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

    Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

    The Giver by Lois Lowry

    Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

    Messenger by Lois Lowry

    Gossamer by Lois Lowry

    Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

    Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

    Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr

    Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

    Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld

    Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

    Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

    The Mortal Instruments books by Cassandra Clare (City of Bones, City of Ashes, City Of Glass)

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