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

Books for a teenage/young adult girl?

I'm looking for mystery, suspense, horror novels written for young adults. I love Michael Crichton, Ray Bradbury and James Patterson. If anyone knows of a survival-type novel where zombies take over the earth (something like H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds except with zombies) that would be awesome. Please no Twilight or Vampire Diaries suggestions. Or anything overly romantic and sappy.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Newsflesh Trilogy series by Mira Grant. The first book in the series is Feed:

    The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

    NOW, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.

    ......

    Enemy series by Charlie Higson. The first book in the series is The Enemy:

    They'll chase you. They'll rip you open. They'll feed on you...When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician - every adult - fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there - alive?

    ..........

    Morningstar Strain series by Z A Recht. The first book in the series is Plague of the Dead:

    The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead it escalates into a global pandemic. In one fell swoop, the necessities of life become much more basic. Gone are petty everyday concerns. Gone are the amenities of civilized life. Yet a single law of nature remains: Live, or die. Kill, or be killed. On one side of the world, a battle-hardened General surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash Private, and dozens of refugees, all are his responsibility-all thousands of miles from home. Back in the United States, an Army Colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar virus and begins to collaborate with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public...

  • Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

    Intertwined (#1) and Unraveled (#2) by Gena Showalter

    Shiver (#1) and Linger (#2) by Maggie Stiefvater

    Clockwork Angel (#1) (Prequel series to Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare

    City of Bones (#1), City of Ashes (#2) and City of Glass (#3) (The Mortal Instruments series) by Cassandra Clare

    Hush Hush (#1) and Crescendo (#2) by Becca Fitzpatrick

    The Angel Experiment (#1), School’s Out Forever (#2), Saving The World and Other Extreme Sports (#3), The Final Warning (#4), MAX (#5), FANG (#6), ANGEL (#7) [Maximum Ride series by James Patterson]

    GONE (#1), HUNGER (#2), LIES (#3), PLAGUE (#4) [GONE series] by Michael Grant

    Unwind by Neal Shusterman

    13 Days To Midnight by Patrick Carman

  • 1 decade ago

    The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins sounds great for you. It doesn't have anything to do with zombies, but it's set in a futuristic society, where two members of each district (that's like a city or state in the real world) at random are chosen to fight for the death in an arena on live television. Suspensful stuff.

    If that stuff doesn't float your boat, just google "top ten fantasy YA books for girls" and you'll get some good results.

    Good luck! :)

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

    Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Well, there is the Nancy Drew series,Hardy boys, Heartland, Sabrinaor if u develop a taste 4 detective stories, there is Agatha Christie and Perry Mason

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hunger Games trilogy, for sure. Another good one is Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld, and it's sort-of-sequel, The Last Days. Yes, it's based on vampirism. No, it's not a "vampire novel." ;)

  • 1 decade ago

    Looking for Alaska is my favorite book. It has a slow start. But just read it. It's amazing

  • 1 decade ago

    hush, hush is amazing. suspense with lots of twist and turns. its about fallen angels.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well I love romanceish books. I think you should read blood and chocolate. But idk if you'd like it. I sure did.

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