What are some good fiction books for teens to read?

Question

I read books really fast, so I need some new suggestions for the summer

Answer 1

I want to second the recommendation for the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. His books are so good! They take an interesting premise and really have a lot of fun with it.

I also recommend Sarah Dessen. She's written many good YA books...her latest is Just Listen...and her next to latest is The Truth About Forever. But any title by Dessen is good :)

Sonya Sones writes verse novels. Some funny. Some serious. Some inbetween. I enjoy What Your Mother Doesn't Know. Her latest book is One of those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies...it is about a young teen girl who goes to live with her Dad in California after her mom dies.

Louise Rennison writes a great series about Georgia Nicolson...the first one is Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson has become somewhat of a classic among modern YA fiction...it is just excellent writing. (There's also a movie).

Looking for Alaska by John Green is about the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who goes to a private boarding school in Alabama...he makes many friends...some enemies...and he begins to explore "the meaning of life" type stuff as he deals with a personal loss. (Hint, "Alaska" is not the state...it's a girl's name.)

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is a great book whether you're looking for romance...or a good vampire story. Even if you think you don't like vampire books....you may be surprised and find yourself loving this particular one. Meyer has an incredible gift!

Answer 2

In my teens, I read VC Andrews books, they are quite addicting, yet very soap opera-sque. I read the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series last summer ( As an adult...), Robin Cook if you like science anddiesase thrillers, Christopher Pike thrillers (there is another guy that is a bit cheesier but decent for young minds), Of Mice and Men, Mary Higgins Clark, Steven King, The Jungle Books (the real classic, not the picture book), There are also the Nicholas Sparks books that inspired the Notebook and Message in a Bottle
I could go on and on

Answer 3

In my early teens, I enjoyed books by Jules Verne (though odds are they were abridged, sigh), simple nonfiction books on a variety of topics, and even simpler books like those by Dahl. Good non-fiction writer is Simon Winchester, he made the Oxford English Dictionary fascinating.

For light reading I've enjoyed Travels with Charley by Steinbeck, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, various books by CS Lewis, and some of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books by Douglas Adams. I'm more of a science fiction person. Also interesting are those by Conan Doyle including Lost World.

More weighty books I've liked are The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas (its long, even in junior year honors we read an abridged and possibly also censored, perhaps for the better of the order of the class) The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, and the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. There are more but I figure you'll have quite the list of recommendations by the end of the week.

My advice: browse a bit at the library or book store, find an author who has a style of writing which you like, also listen to some recommendations, and then just go with the books you choose. You can always change your mind. Enjoy your reading!

Answer 4

It depends on what you are looking for. If you are into the romantic kind of thing I would recommend Jemina J which is about a woman's struggle to find an ideal guy when she is on the chubby side. Its by Jane Green who also wrote Babyville, My Maybe and Bookends all pretty good but Jemina J is her best. There is also the Traveling Pants books which are pretty good. If you like the Traveling Pants books you'll like Peaches. But if you want something more on the murder.thriller I'd recommend The Women's Murder Club books which starts with First to Die. They are written by James Patterson who also wrote Along Came a Spider. There also your classics like the Gossip Girl books. I don't know if you like novellas but The Dirty Girls Social Club is good, and also Playing with Boys. There is also Good in Bed written by Jennifer Weiner who also wrote In Her Shoes. There is also Sophie Kinsella who wrote the Shopaholics books and Can you keep a secret. Its all a little girlie but good luck and hope you go through with your summer reading fast.

Answer 5

The first three books of the Earthsea Saga by Ursula Le Guin are great. All three are about growing, becoming who you really are.
The Witches Of Karres by James Schmitz is a must read. Even if SF isn't your thing, you'll like it. If you enjoy SF, any of his books are well worth reading.
The Bridge of San Louis Rey by Thorton Wilder. It will hold your attention.
The Artemis Fowl books are fun.

Answer 6

Harry Potter, King Fortis the Brave

Answer 7

The Catcher in the Rye
The Princess Diaries-all series (really good books) Actually read all the books by Meg Cabot...she is the best author.
To Kill a Mocking Bird

Well there are tons...but I can't think of all of them.

Answer 8

Scott Westerfield wrote Uglies, Pretties and now Specials. Very good books.

Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay’s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the rider’s skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell

From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 6 Up–Tally Youngblood lives in a futuristic society that acculturates its citizens to believe that they are ugly until age 16 when they'll undergo an operation that will change them into pleasure-seeking "pretties." Anticipating this happy transformation, Tally meets Shay, another female ugly, who shares her enjoyment of hoverboarding and risky pranks. But Shay also disdains the false values and programmed conformity of the society and urges Tally to defect with her to the Smoke, a distant settlement of simple-living conscientious objectors. Tally declines, yet when Shay is found missing by the authorities, Tally is coerced by the cruel Dr. Cable to find her and her compatriots–or remain forever "ugly." Tally's adventuresome spirit helps her locate Shay and the Smoke. It also attracts the eye of David, the aptly named youthful rebel leader to whose attentions Tally warms. However, she knows she is living a lie, for she is a spy who wears an eye-activated locator pendant that threatens to blow the rebels' cover. Ethical concerns will provide a good source of discussion as honesty, justice, and free will are all oppressed in this well-conceived dystopia. Characterization, which flirts so openly with the importance of teen self-concept, is strong, and although lengthy, the novel is highly readable with a convincing plot that incorporates futuristic technologies and a disturbing commentary on our current public policies. Fortunately, the cliff-hanger ending promises a sequel.–Susan W. Hunter, Riverside Middle School, Springfield, VT

Answer 9

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
In fact, anything by Tolkien or Lewis is a good bet for a teen.

Answer 10

{Scarecrow, Temple, The Seven Ancient Wonders, Ice Station by Matthew Reilly}
{Eragon, Eldest by Christopher Paolini}
{ Abhorsen, Sabriel, Lirael by Garth Nix}
{The Tommorrow series by John Marsden}

Lol i read a lot as well