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I consider myself a Young Adult/Fantasy/Dystopia reader so I'm a little overwhelmed by book choices lol and I really need recommendations based on books I already read so if you've read and enjoyed any of these books please recommend a few, and please don't give a giant list as I won't read them all and won't know what to pick from it, I'd prefer a couple of recommendations and perhaps a reason.

Just finished Angelfall by Susan Ee and loved it
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld was the first dystopia set I fell in love with years ago before even were popular vampires
loved the The Hunger Games
loved Divergent by Veronica Roth
read Matched by Allie Condie and found it blah, just reading the series to get to the end
loved Genesis by Bernard Becket
and Clockwork Orange was brilliant, that's it for dystopia

As for non-dystopic fantasy I've read all the the Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices so far
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

As for YA
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Duff by Kody Keplinger
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Go Ask Alice 

Also loved To Kill a Mockingbird and Little Women
Hated Wake by Lisa McCann and Maximum Ride by James Patterson so it's unlikely I'll read any of their other books

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All These Things I've Done - Gabrielle Zevin
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
Birthmarked - Caragh O'Brien
Delirium - Lauren Oliver
Feed - Anderson
Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
The Bar Code Tattoo - Suzanne Weyn
Variant - Robison Wells

13 Reasons Why - Jay Asher
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Sarah's Key - Tatiana De Rosnay
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn 
The Snow Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
The Nanny Diaries: a novel – Emma McLaughlin
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb
A Kiss In Time - Alex Finn
A Great and Terrible Beauty Series – Libba Bray
Beastly - Alex Flinn
Blood and Chocolate - Annette Klause
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
Graceling Series by Kristin Cashore
Falling Under - Gwen Hayes
Haven - Kristi Cook
Inkheart Series - Cornelia Funke
Mediator Series – Meg Cabot
Sea Change - Aimee Friedman
Sookie Stackhouse Series - Charlaine Harris
The Alchemyst Series - Michael Scott
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Fetch– Laura Whitcomb
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wings – Aprilynne Pike

Beautiful Disaster - Jamie Mcguire
Chasing Harry Winston - Laura Weisberger 
Confessions Of A Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Darcy's Passion - Regina Jeffers
Educating Carolina – Patricia Cabot
Perfect Chemistry – Simone Elkeles
Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers
Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin
The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson
The Last Mermaid - Shane Abe
The Luxe Series - Anna Godbersen

Mar Mar Ron Ron · Answer

Hey i read mostly fantasy so heres a few i just finished reading.
The mortal instruments and the infernal devices by Cassandra clare. I really enjoyed reading these but there are some bits that some people might say hell no to finishing the books but i have to say if you stick it to the end of the book all the little scary bits people might shy away from really make for an amazing ending.
Artemis Fowl collection. this is a little "kidish" for the start of the first book but as they progress they are amazing they are based in Ireland and contains fairys and dwarfs but all ill say is that they dont go around granting wishes or saving Snow white its quiete the opposite.

Anonymous · Answer

SCIENCE FICTION Everyone ignores sci-fi but the truth is that some books are nearly half philosophy. Read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Prey by Michael Crichton, and 2001: A Space Odyssey or Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Plus, I agree that Agatha Christie is a must-read. After Shakespeare and the Bible, she has sold the most number of books worldwide ever. Her best are And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express

Kelley · Answer

Young Adult Dystopian:
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Enclave by Ann Aguirre

Adult Dystopian: 
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
The Postman by David Brin

Young Adult Fantasy:  
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

Adult Fantasy:  
Epic by Conor Kostick
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Ready Player One by Ernest CLine

Young Adult Realistic Fiction: 
By the Time You Read This I'll Be Dead by Julia Ann Peters
48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls
Split by Swati Asvathi
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

The adult titles don't contain anything that the average 13 year old couldn't handle.  I read from both young adult and adult selections.

Anonymous · Answer

Catch 22- Joseph Heller. It's about the war and everything's paradoxal and the sane are the insane and it's a good read.
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger. A teen boy has what I believe to be PTSD after his brother died and struggles after being kicked out of school.
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury. Books are illegal and people are ignorant of the past. It's a dystopic book.

Agnes Nitt · Answer

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy 
Dragonflight by Ann McCaffrey
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

b97st · Answer

Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Birthmarked by Caragh O'Brien
Inside Out by Maria V Snyder
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Legend by Marie Lu
Gone by Michael Grant
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
The Declaration by Gemma Malley
XVI by Julia Carr
The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
Runner by William Dietz
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Seed by Rob Ziegler
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Variant by Robison Wells
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Anonymous · Answer

daniel x series by jamess patterson i know what you said but thisseries is better and i agree about the maximum rideseries
a teenage guy with the superpower to create things or people and has to protect earth from aliens


witch and wizard series james patterbrother andsister with Gifts destined to overthrow their evil powerful ruler
both series are modern and have humor

No chance without Michu · Answer

The Enemy by Charlie Higson. It's about a disease that turns everyone over the age of 14 into a zombie

Alice · Answer

Try Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole and its sequel Nokosee & Stormy: Love & Bullets. Both are contemporary "pre-dystopian" books where the world is on the tipping point of environmental collapse written from a 17-year-old girl's POV. They come with lots of action and adventure and Stormy Jones, the girl in the stories, is a character that will stick with you for a long time. She's far from perfect but she's real enough to want to love her and pull for her during her life on the run with Nokosee. 

Cherry by Mary Karr. A memoir about teens, sex, drugs and growing up in rural Texas as told through the gritty, beautiful prose of one of America's best writers having taught at Harvard and currently teaching as the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. It's a book every teen girl should read. If the opening paragraph doesn't do it for you, nothing will. On June 5, 2012, she released her first music CD as a co-writer with Rodney Crowel called "Kin."

The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. Another moving memoir recounting her earlier years (you should probably read this one first and then Cherry).

Jennifer Miller’s just released debut novel The Year of the Gadfly is a tale of prep school scandal and secret societies starring a very precocious 15-year-old young lady named Iris Dupont, whose best and only friend is the chain-smoking ghost of famed broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow. If it sounds weirdly wonderful, it is – Iris would kill us for using a cliché here, but we can’t help but call the novel compulsively readable, and it feels a little something like a cross between The Secret History and Gossip Girl, although with significantly more masturbation scenes than the former and more dusty tomes than the latter. As reviewed by Emily Temple, Flavorwire

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. A moving story inspired by true events about the suicides of five teenage sisters as told from the viewpoint (for the most part) of randy teenage boys who try to explain it all.

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg. A critically appraised and touching semi-autobiographical story of a 16-year-old girl battling schizophrenia in a mental hospital. 

Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda. This is Huck Finn with a girl as the protagonist (and a voice as unique as Huck's which is even more remarkable since it's a book that's just been released) set in the 1860's west. The story begins when 12-year-old Harriet is sold by her father to an Indian to settle a gambling debt. When she escapes the strange mound-building obsession of her Pawnee captor, Harriet sets off on a trek to find her father, only to meet with ever-stranger characters and situations along the way. She escapes with a chanteuse, is imprisoned in a stockade and rescued by a Civil War balloonist, and becomes an accidental shopkeeper and the surrogate mother to an abandoned child, while abetting the escape of runaway slaves.

The Adults by Alison Espach is the "defining novel for recovering debutantes from Connecticut. The novel is narrated by Emily, a high school freshman, who grows up in the privileged world of investment bank commuters and desperate housewives. Her padded life suddenly unravels when she wakes early one morning after a sleepover, and looks out her kitchen window to witness her neighbor’s suicide. Meanwhile, her classmates provide anything but comfort (i.e. The fat girl in class gets nicknamed ABOB, which stands for “Annie The Bird or Bear” because nobody can decide if her nose makes her a bird, or if her fat makes her a bear). Satire, obviously. But amidst the byzantine cruelty only privileged high schoolers are capable of, grace is found in the secret, illicit relationship that develops between Emily and her English teacher. Espach never excuses the relationship, but she never indicts it either. Amidst a world of cheese platters and art auctions, their relationship simply surfaces as something real while everything else in Emily’s world just seems sterilized...  (This is) white girl fiction.” by Geoff Max for Flavorwire.

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