Books For Teens?

Question

I'm looking for some really good books that targets teen audiences...I've already read the whole Harry Potter series, and the Darren Shan books as well, as most of the V.C. Andrews books...so I need some books that are suspensful and will keep my attention till the very end. Does anybody have any ideas?

I've also read every R.L. Stine book that I can get my hands on...and don't really care for the Uglies, Preties, trilogy....

Answer 1

Eh, I wasn't a big fan of Darren Shan and I haven't read Andrews so I don't know how well my tastes mesh with yours, but here are some:

House of the Scorpion (by Nancy Farmer)
I Want to Buy a Vowel (John Welter)
Whale Talk (Chris Crutcher)
The Taking of Room 114 (Mel Glenn, a series of poems)
Discworld series (Terry Pratchett. I thought the first book was weak, but it got better after that)
The Thief Lord (Cornelia Funke)
Velocity (Dean Koontz)
Montmorency (Eleanor Updale)
Talking to Dragons, and the rest of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Patricia Wrede)
Howl's Movie Castle (Dianne Wynne Jones. If you want to see the movie, it's better to read the book afterwards tho)

Some books I thought were overrated:
Sea of Trolls (It's not bad as far as fantasy goes, but it wasn't as moving or clever as Nancy Farmer's other stuff imo.)
Eragon (it's only notable because a 17-y.o published it. The writing was choppy and the characters were not particularly interesting. I heard the second book was better, but I really didn't like the first enough to bother)

Answer 2

I liked The Face On The Milk Carton series by Caroline B. Cooney. She's a very prolific YA author, but that's the book of hers that I remember most. If you're into more tragedy/drama, you can check out Lurlene McDaniel, who writes about teens with disabilities or serious illnesses, or who have been through traumatic events. They usually have a semi-happy ending, and if you like VC Andrews you'll probably like this as well.

Answer 3

Lois Duncan is good (she wrote "I Know What You Did Last Summer" & other teen suspense books).

Also the Fear Street series by R.L. Stine (teen horror).

I know a lot of people who are _mad_ for Christopher Paolini's Eragon series.

Answer 4

I'm going to predict right now that you'll get at least one person saying, "TWILIGHT! OMG, it's my FAV!" Well, it is a good book, a great one at that, so don't ride it off just because the world is in love with it. Yes, the first book of the series is called Twilight and its author is Stephenie Meyer It's a modern day setting, though fantasy because of the whole vampire thing. Also, one of my favorite things about it is that it is written in first person, narrated by a girl who moves to the small town and, yes I know this sounds cliche, falls in love with one of the vampires. Again, don't write off the book yet, there's quite a bit too her reasoning.

A great author for teen books is Scott Westerfeld. While the Uglies trilogy (yes it's only a trilogy, I looked it up yesterday) is great, it's more of a preteen book based on the simplicity to read it and the content, though teens would still enjoy it. I found So Yesterday to be more appropriate for the teenage mind, though still quite simple, yet interesting. It's a modern day, realistic story that deals with the series of events that lead to new fashions of New York city.

Another book I like, though I don't know if it's sold in most stores, is Eyes of War by Janna Nickerson. It's a fast paced fantasy novel that is wonderful mainly because of its complexity, variety of characters and settings. It's definitely more of a teenage book because of some of the situations the main characters face, but definitely not a hard one to read, though slightly challenging to follow. The story jumps from place to place, one sequence of eight chapters in a row each taking place at the same time though in eight different settings with different characters. That one is my favorite of them all.

Another series of which I've only read the first and haven't continued solely due to lack of time, is the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Again, it's fantasy, medieval kind, like Eyes of War. While they both have the same, overused plot of battle between light and dark, they both have their own different ways of making it unique. Eyes of War does it with the variety and complexity of characters. The Sword of Truth series does the same thing. This one, however, has a slightly different take on the whole concept of magic. It's quite interesting.

Finally, I love the series called The Books of Pellinor by Allison Croggan. It might be a trilogy and the third book I'm fairly sure is coming out this November. Again, medieval fantasy, but again very complex characters from not the normal backgrounds. It too takes a different perspective on magic, everything being in the more bard-esque fashion. And that's the last one I feel like listing right now.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

What kind of books you like? I really like the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer.

Answer 7

omg you have to read this trilogy:

book #1: Uglies
book #2: Pretties
book #3: Specials
I ADORED this trilogy. (i forgot the authors name)

Ask Alice- A diary of a teenager who died of drug overdose (No one really knows how, but drug overdose is what they think)

thats all i can think of. byeee

Answer 8

The Glass Castle, I don't remember who wrote it, but it really makes you see how well off you are.