Question:
What are some interesting books for a 17 year old?
2011-08-11 22:48:42 UTC
i really enjoy memoirs and true stories. i like mysteries too. i would say i LOVE harry potter, but nothing can replace that...:(

i already read hunger games too lol
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2011-08-12 11:06:38 UTC
~The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld (at 16, everyone has plastic surgery to become "Pretties." Shay decides she doesn't want the surgery, and runs away, pushing her best friend Tally into a world of chaos. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find Shay and bring her home, or never turn Pretty at all)

~Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher (before a girl kills herself, she records thirteen tapes sending them to 13 people explaining why they played a part in her suicide)

~The Maze Runner by James Dashner (a boy wakes up to find himself in an elevator. He doesn’t remember anything but his name, he finds out that he’s in a maze, and that every 30 days a new boy is put in the maze, nobody knows how to get out, until a girl comes along and may have some answers)

~Divergent by Veronica Roth (where people choose which group of people to go with at 16, the daredevils, the selfless, the clever)

~Awaken by Katie Kavinsky (Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer. Whether it’s to go to school or on a date. Maddie’s okay with the solitary, digital life until she meets Justin. Justin likes being with people.. People aren’t meant to be alone, he tells her)

~Enclave by Ann Aquirre (In Deuce's world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed 'brat' has trained into one of three groups-Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they have on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember)

~The Long Walk by Stephen King (along with 99 other teen boys, Ray has entered the Long Walk, a march at four miles per hour that continues until only one person is standing. The losers get shot in the head)

~Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (Both Claudia and Finn are trapped, she’s the pampered daughter of a rich man and he’s an amnesiac boy in a gang, but they find a key that couls mean that they can get out, if they can find the door)

~Reckless by Cornelia Funke (Jacob, whose father has been missing for more than a year, is 12 when he discovers how to use the mirror in his dad’s study as a portal to an alternate reality, 12 years later is brother comes along)

~The Adoration Of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Jenna Fox awakens after more than a year in a coma to find herself in a life—and a body—that she doesn't quite recognize. As she watches family videos of her childhood, strange memories begin to surface, and she slowly realizes that a terrible secret is being kept from her)

~Compound by S.A Bodeen (In a burst of panic about a nuclear attack, nine-year-old Eli and his family move into an underground bunker built by Eli's billionaire father. Eli is starting to have doubts about his father's motives, explanations, and sanity.)

~The Hate List by Jennifer Brown(at the end of the school ear, Valerie’s boyfriend pulls a gun in the Commons, leaving six students and a teacher dead and many others wounded. Valerie is hit by a bullet in the leg trying to stop him, just before he kills himself. Until that point, Valerie had no idea that the "hate list" that she and Nick created would be used to target victims in a vengeful shooting spree.)

~Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (On Cupid Day, Sam expects to receive Valentine roses, to party with her friends... The last thing she expects is that she will die. Only, she wakes up to start the same day over again, and again, in fact seven times)

~Before I Die by Jenny Downham (Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list)

~Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo (the true story of a four-year old who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven)

~One Summer by David Baldacci (After the death of his devoted wife, a father struggles to keep his family together, and in the process learns to love again)

~The Help by Kathryn Stockett (A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi)

~Room by Emma Donoghue(The entire world of the 5-year-old boy who narrates this novel is the 11-by-11-foot room in which his mother is being held prisoner.)

~Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank (A widow returns to her childhood home in South Carolina and finds love and a literary puzzle)

~Breath My Name by R. A Nelson (Frances used to live with her mother before she became crazy and killed her sisters, but she went to jail and Frances went with another family but now her mother has broken out of jail and she wants to finish what she started)

~The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (Mary's village is protected by a chain linked fence. On the other side of the fence are zombies,Mary wants to go to the other side to see the ocean, even if it means putting those she loves in danger)
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2011-08-12 06:12:02 UTC
Try reading Jodi Picoult books like My Sister's Keeper and Keeping Faith. You might also like The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Nicholas Sparks books like Message In A Bottle, The Last Song and The Rescue :)

If you LOVE Harry Potter, you will definitely like Rick Riordan books like Percy Jackson and The Olympian series and The Kane Chronicles. You've already read Hunger Games, so you can try reading The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins too ! Very imaginative :D
2011-08-12 05:50:46 UTC
I love reading as well. Here are some books I think you will find interesting if you like Harry Potter:



1. Firekeeper Series by Jane Lindskold.

2. Anything by Tamora Pierce - particularly the Daughter of the Lioness Series and the Beka Cooper Series.

3. Anything by Eoin Colfer - Particularly the Artemis Fowl Series, Airman, and The Supernaturalist.

4. The Young Samurai Series by Chris Bradford.

5. The Knightley Academy Series by Violet Haberdasher.

6. Ranger's Apprentice Series by John Flanagan.

7. The Ring of Five Series by Eoin McNamee.

8. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, The Kane Chronicles, and The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan.

9. Septimus Heap Series by Angie Sage.



If you are 16 years old or older, here are additional books:



10. The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling.

11. Legends of the Guardian-King Series by Karen Hancock.

12. Wolfblade Trilogy and Tide Lords Series by Jennifer Fallon.

13. The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks.

14. Anything by Karen Miller - particularly the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker Series and the Godspeaker Trilogy.

15. The Black Jewels Series by Anne Bishop.

16. A Trial of Blood and Steel Series by Joel Shepherd.



Those are all I can remember from the top of my head and from the books I see strewn around my room. I will write another list if I can come up with more books.

Hope this helps.

Good luck,



Seleena
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2011-08-12 06:09:42 UTC
I'm not sure my taste is the same as yours, but I'll give you some books I have read that seem to fit(:





The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls (memoir)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (not about her explicitly, but based on her life)

Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom (memoir)

Prisoner of Tehran - Marina Nemat (I recommend this above the other memoirs)

A Child Called "It" - Dave Pelzer (sort of a memoir about abuse, part of a series)

Prisoners of Hope - Dayna Curry, Heather Mercer, Stacy Mattingly (Christian)



EDIT: Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger ^ I have to agree
Oliver Pets
2011-08-12 05:52:43 UTC
Well, I think I like a different style than you but here are some of my favourites:

25th Hour (hard book to find, but so far my absolute favourite novel)

A Clockwork Orange (once you get past the annoying language that the author speaks in, it's quite enjoyable)

Catcher in the Rye (I know, most think this book is lame)

Lord of the Flies (the only book in high school that I read)

Oliver Twist
Erik
2011-08-12 05:49:42 UTC
Anything but the Twilight series
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2011-08-12 13:52:02 UTC
ok seriously.... why have a lot of people not read THE MAZE RUNNER!!!!! ahhh its soooo good and a lot of people haven't heard of it! but no really... READ IT!!!!


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