What's a good read you would suggest to a 16-year-old?

Question

I've read all of Sarah Dessen's books, and I loved them. I'm now looking for something else to peak my nose into, maybe something YA? No Manga/Anime, please, I'm looking for a novel. Any suggestions would be wonderful! Thanks so much :333

Answer 1

The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Companions of The Night by Vivian Vande Velde
The Cirque Du Freak Series by Darren Shan
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klaus
The Vampire Kisses Series by Ellen Shreiber
The Seer Series by Linda Joy Singleton
The Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Dark Secrets series by Elizabeth Chandler
The Midnighters by Scott Westerfield
The Vampire's Promise by Caroline B. Cooney
A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Daughters of the Moon by Lynne Ewing
Witches' Chillers by Raven Silverwolf
Shadow of A Doubt by SL Rottman
Blue Is For Nightmares series by Laurie Faria Stolarz
The Silent Storm by Sherry Garland
The Mediator series by Meg Cabot
And any mysteries written by Joan Lowery Nixon are good.

Answer 2

Have you tried reading The Wind in the Door, by Madeline L'Engle. She is a Peabody Award-winning author whose books are outstanding. She also has written other books like a sequel to the one I mentioned, and one titled The Arm of the Starfish. All are excellent reads. The heroines are teens around 15 or 16. These are primarily science fiction, but you just have to love Meg. At 50 I still enjoy reading them again.

Answer 3

Lord of The Flies, 1984, Catcher in the Rye, All Quiet on the Western Front

Answer 4

I strongly recommend JAmes Patterson's Maximum Ride series: "The Angel Experiment," "School's Out Forever" and "Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports." It depends what you're into, but if you like adventure, well-written, fast-paced stuff... this is it.

Personal favorite is also Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" (DON'T read the abridged versions!)...

Hope you get LOTS of good answers!

Answer 5

I Heard the Owl Call My Name --about Eskimo culture
Seven Arrows --Native American culture
Time Enough for Love--sci fi
O. Henry Short Stories--funny classic
Candide--funny classic
Books by Dave Barry or Erma Bombeck--funny modern
Lady Chatterley's Lover--romance classic
Illusions--easy philosophy

Answer 6

Definetly the Stephenie Meyer series of books, Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. The are great for YA and older. Great books!

Answer 7

i've got not pay attention of the sequence your speaking approximately, yet i will supply this a shot. A Seperate Peace by John Knowles. it is approximately 2 scholars in an all guy boarding college throughout international war I and their war to determine who they are. (Sounds cheasy, yet is spectacular.) any of the chicken Soup Books, all of them have separate thoughts in them Touching Spirit undergo, by Ben Michelson, it is approximately this guy that gets shipped of to a distant island in Alaska to income a thank you to handle the wild as punishment for heavily injuring yet another extreme college scholar ok, any books by Ben Michleson are reliable. he's an particularly enticing author. any of the classics, I fantastically love Anne of eco-friendly Gables. Caddie Woodlawn...plenty like Anne of eco-friendly Gables, a pair of purple haired woman and her time transforming into up out interior the previous American west throughout the time of the time of the Oregon path

Answer 8

I teach YA Lit, so to keep this answer really short I'll just recommend all of Chris Crutcher's books.

I have an annotated book list that I'd be happy to send to you if you would like.

A very good website to visit for suggestions as it contains 15 or so links to YA lit lists... http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/YoungAdult/index.html

Answer 9

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Answer 10

AHHHH! Muffin, you named all the ones I was going to suggest. Great minds think alike, I suppose! Any of these would be great. I loved Of Mice and Men and To Kill A Mockingbird myself. Really great reading.

Also Flowers For Algernon...