Good fiction books for a 14-17 year old?

Question

I am looking for good books to read this summer. The following books are ones that I have read and enjoyed. If you have any suggestions please answer.

Harry Potter series
Maximum ride series
Warrior series
Twilight series
Among the Hidden series
Uglies series
The Last Apprentice series
Series of Unfortunate Events
The Host
Levin Thumps series
(Basically anything Science Fiction or Fantasy)

Also, if you have read "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer, who do you like better: Jared or Ian?

I prefer Ian...

Thanks
~Kiwi

Answer 1

Try some of these:



Neil Gaiman is an amazing author!



Edgar Allen Poe is a really good author. Check out his poems and short stories.



William Shakespeare is good too.



Any books by Scott Westernfeld or Neal Shusterman are really good too.



Any books by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes are amazing! There is In The Forest of The Night, Demon In My View, Shattered Mirror, Midnight Predator. And then there is the The Kiesha'ra series: Hawksong (the best in the series!), Snakecharm, Falcondance, Wolfcry and Wyverhail.



A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly



Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause



The Princess Bride by William Goldman



13 Little Blue Envelopes and Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson



Abarat by Clive Barker, Make sue you get the hardcover version though!!! If you liked the first one be sure to check out the next book in the series Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War.



Daughters of Destiny series: Keeper of the Winds by Jenna Solitaire, If you enjoyed the first one check out the next three books in the series. Keeper of the Waters, Keeper of the Flames and Keeper of the Earth.



The Abhorsen Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen) by Garth Nix



A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Far Sweet Thing by Libba Bray



The Riddles of Epsilon by Christine Morton-Shaw



The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill, If you liked this one, check out the next two Blade of Fire and The Last Battle of the Icemark.



The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding



Inkheart and Inkspell and Inkdeath (coming soon!) by Cornelia Funke



The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke



Holes by Louis Sanchar



The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares



Dreamland by Sarah Dessen



A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass



The Morganville Vampire series (Glass Houses, Dead Girls Dance, Midnight Alley and Feast of Fools) by Rachel Cain



The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books) by C.S. Lewis



The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien



The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien



Impulse by Ellen Hopkins



The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton



Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan



All-American Girl by Meg Cabot



Uglies series by Scott Westernfeld



The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong by William Nicholson



Define “Normal” by Julie Ann Peters



The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky



Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt



Go Ask Alice by Anonymous



The Sight and Fell by David Clement-Davies

Answer 2

Historical Fiction:

Both Sides of Time series- Caroline B. Cooney (also romance)

Bloody Jack series-L. A. Meyer (also adventure)

If I Should Die Before I Wake- Han Nolan

The Great and Terrible Beauty series- Libba Bray (also fantasyish fiction)

The Other Boleyn Girl- Philippa Gregory

The Queen’s Fool- Philippa Gregory

The Book Thief- Markus Zusak



Fantasyish Fiction

Twilight series- Stephenie Meyer (also romance)

The Mediator series- Meg Cabot (also romance)

Avalon High- Meg Cabot (sorta)

Uglies series-Scott Westerfeld

Midnighters series- Scott Westerfeld



Fiction:

All American Girl- Meg Cabot

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler

Fly on the Wall- E. Lockhart

Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys- Kate Brian

Lucky T- Kate Brian

The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom

My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult

Change of Heart- Jodi Picoult

The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown



Romance:

The Angels Trilogy- Lurlene Mcdaniel

The Pact- Jodi Picoult

The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks



Mystery:

Stranger With My Face- Lois Duncan

Down A Dark Hall- Lois Duncan

Locked in Time-Lois Duncan

Any book by R.L Stine



Non- Fiction

A Child Called It- Dave Pelzer

Who Killed My Daughter- Louis Duncan

Answer 3

Marked; Betrayed; Chosen; (coming soon) Untammed- PC Cast & Kristin Cast

Fledgling- Octavia Butler

Vampire Beach 1,2,3, and 4 - Alex Duval

Lock and Key- Sarah Dessen

Some one like you - Sarah Dessen

I Love you, you haunt me- Lisa Shroeder

Vampire Kisses 1,2,3, and 4 - Ellen Shreiber

Blue Bloods, macarade - Melissa De La Cruz

Uglies, Prettys, Specials- Scott Westerfeld

One of thoe hideous books where the mother dies - Sonya Sones

Cut - Patricia Mccormick

Lily Dale: Awakening - Wendy Corsi Staub

Beautiful City of the dead - Leander Watts

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

City of Ashes - Casandra Clare

Tantalize - Cynthia Leitich Smith

Perfect - Natasha Friend

Oh My Goth - Gena Showalter

Define Normal- Julie Ann Peters

Vampire Academy- Richelle Mead

Frostbite - Richelle Mead

Keeping you a secret - Julie Ann Peters

Got Fangs- Katie Maxwell

Circus of the Darned - Katie Maxwell

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod; 8th grade bites - Heather Brewer

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod; 9th grade slays - Heather Brewer

Waves- Sharon Dogar

Twilight; New Mon; Eclipse and Breaking Dawn(comming soon- Stephenie Meyer (Best bOOKS EVER)

Answer 4

I have answered this question so many times, I decided to dedicate a web site to answer this question. Here it is:



http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com



Included is a list of only the best sorcery fantasy books, grade reading level, a short review of each book along with a brief summary of adult content. There is also a "Readers' Choice" list of favorite books, and a list of heroine sorcery fantasy books, plus a full review of "The Golden Compass".



All of the following are excellent scifi (author, followed by books).



Jules Verne - free online

Journey to the Center of the Earth (my favorite scifi)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Mysterious Island



H G Wells - free online, and roughly half-length novels

War of the Worlds

The Time Machine (downer ending)

The Invisible Man (unlike many IM stories, he's a villain. This is the original)



Isaac Asimov

I, Robot (you *must* read this - the only "must read" scifi)

Elijah Baley books - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Baley excellent both as scifi *and* as murder mysteries - the best of both worlds (warning: adult content in the 3rd book)

Foundation Series - *the* classic scifi trilogy



Andre Norton - *the* classic female scifi author, most of her books involve "coming of age" and pure scifi adventure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Andre_Norton

her best: Star Man's Son (also titled 2250 A.D.)

other excellent:

Judgment on Janus

Forerunner series

Central Control series

Solar Queen series

The Time Traders (Atlantis, magic - very cool!)

The Zero Stone



You may also like Andre Norton's "Moon Called", a woman with psychic and magical powers comes of age in a post-nuclear holocaust world with - well, wait until you meet the *real* villains!



Another excellent: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Though written for younger readers, I read this recently and it is great! Better than the movie (which was also pretty good).



I hope this helps.



Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 5

The Ally's World series - Karen McCombie

The mediator Series - Meg Cabot

The princess diaries - Meg Cabot

Answer 6

It seems you would enjoy...



The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury



The Lord of the Flies by William Golding



Or The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom



I loved these. And I hope you will to.



BlueSue

Answer 7

Harry Potter and Uglies are good series,

so is Series of Unfortunate Events but i read

through a few of those pretty quick.

Answer 8

First-- I love Ian!



Second-- Some books I've ejoyed.... hmmm.... most of them are on your list, actually. Hahaha.



Oooh the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale are very good. They're science fiction, and I really enjoy them.

http://www.thependragonadventure.com/

Their pretty long, too. =) 9 of the 10 books are out currently.



Hope you enjoy!

Answer 9

yeah like the guy said.

read "It's kind of a funny story"

its a really amazing book.

as well as " Be More Chill"

and also

-This Lullaby

- Just Listen

-The Truth About forever

-Dreamland

pretty much all of sarah dessens books are completely awesome..





oh. and i choose ian.

Jarod was a jackass at some parts.

Answer 10

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is an amazing fiction story.

Answer 11

House Of The Scopion!

Answer 12

I've read twilight, new moon, and eclipse, and starting to read the host. Another good vampire series is the morganville vampires.



Book number one is called "glass houses" i reccomend that series, their the best!

Answer 13

if you like sci-fi or fantasy, try garth nix books, they are REALLY good and in fantastical places. try...

old kingdom series (sabriel, lirael and abhorsen)

keys to the kingdom (mister monday,etc.)

shades children (very sci fi)



also try the alex rider books if you havent done so already. and

the power of five books by anthony horowitz:

ravens gate, evil star, and nightrise are out now, still waiting for the other books!



hope that helped and good luck with your reading!

Answer 14

I watch or read everything...I love learning new stuff.

Answer 15

Try the "Mediator" series by Meg Cabot.



and "Blue Blood" series by Melissa De La Cruz (its a vampire series XD)



I have read all the books that you read too!! lol

Answer 16

Try the "His Dark Materials" series

And the Jurasic perk books(even if you've seen the movies these books are totally worth it.)

Ender's game andEnder's shadow series'

and maybe Eragon

Answer 17

try these books:

"When demons walk"

and

"Let Sleeping Rogues LIe"

They are very good books LSRL is a book in The School of Heiresses Series

WDW is a sci-fi and Fantasy it's very good

Answer 18

Here are some of my favorite teen and some adult-ish novels:



Pants On Fire by Meg Cabot. It's about a girl who basically has everything (popular best friend, good grades... and TWO boyfriends.) It's really funny because then her friend from eighth grade come back to town (everyone hates him) and she falls head over heals for him too.

http://www.megcabot.com/



Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. It's about four girls who where born as friends. They go through ups and downs together.



The Last Summer (Of You and Me) by Ann Brashares was amazing. It may be more of an adult book, but it was fairly good.



All-American Girl and All-American Girl Ready Or Not by Meg Cabot. It's about an outcast girl who happens to save the presidents life. Suddenly everyone at school wants to be her friend, but she doesn't really care... What she does care about is the presidents son...



Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot. It's about a girl who goes over seas with her boyfriend after (almost!) finishing college. After a bad break up with him, she goes with her friend and runs into someone.... It's a very good adult book!



How To Be Popular by Meg Cabot. It's about a girl who comes across an old book in her grandma'a attic called how to be popular. So, she follows the rules of the book hoping to become popular.



Jinx by Meg Cabot. If you liked Twilight, then you'll like this book. It's about a girl who has bad luck all the time so she moves in with her aunt and uncle. He sister is into witchcraft and I don't want to spoil the rest, but it fairly good.



Teen Idol by Meg Cabot. This is about a girl who has an advice column in her school newspaper. So, when a famous actor comes to her school and she's the only one who knows about it, chaos occurs!



Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen is also pretty good. It's about two girls that are best friends who are having a few issues in the love department.

http://www.sarahdessen.com/?q=books



Just Listen by Sarah Dessen is one of my favorites! It's about a girl who had something terrible happen to her and she's learning how to cope with it and befriends an outcast boy.



The Mediator series by Meg Cabot. I've only read the first two, but they are VERY good. It's about a girl named Suze who moves to California from New York because her mother just remarried. Oh, and Suze can see ghosts...



13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. It's about a guy named Clay who gets these tapes in the mail about why a girl named Hannah killed herself. It's very good and a great page-turner!

http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/



She Went All The Way by Meg Cabot. This is a book for more mature people, but it's very good. It's about two people who get stranded in the wilderness.



Forever... by Judy Bloom is also pretty good. It's about a girl getting a boyfriend and going through sensual things. It's a little mature.



Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is okay. My friends LOVED it! I don't wanna tell you what it's about because it'll just give it all away.



The Host by Stephenie Meyer. It's about how these things called souls invade Earth, as well as humans. It's based on a soul named Wanda who is placed into Melanie, who refuses to fade away like she's suppose too. It's very interesting and I totally recommend it!

http://stepheniemeyer.com/thehost.html





Good luck with finding a book! I hope these help!

Answer 19

Try E. Nesbit (author). She wrote "The Five Children and It" and "The Book of Dragons"

Answer 20

The clique series, gone with the wind, to kill a mocking bird , moby DICK, stuff like that

Answer 21

2) Vampire Kisses, Kissing Coffins, Vampireville, and Dance with a Vampire by Ellen Schreiber Vampire Kisses #5 comes out June 24 this year.

3) Vampire Beach #1 by Alex Duval

4) Vampire Beach #2 by Alex Duval

5) Vampire Beach #3 by Alex Duval

6) Vampire Beach #4 by Alex Duval

7) Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

8) Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

9) This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

10) That Summer by Sarah Dessen

11) Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

12) The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

13) Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen

14) Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

15) Beautiful City of the Dead by Leander Watts

16) City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

17) City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

18) City of Glass by Cassandra Clare- doesn’t come out until March 29, 2009

19) Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin

20) Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin

21) Voices by Ursula K. LeGuin

22) Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith

27) Perfect by Natasha Friend

28) Oh my Goth by Gena Showalter

29) Define Normal by Julie Ann Peters

30) Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

31) Frostbite( second book to Vampire Academy) by Richelle Mead

32) Marked by P.C. Cast (1st in the house of night series)

33) Betrayed by P.C. Cast(2nd in the house of night series)

34) Chosen by P.C. Cast (3rd in the house of night series)

35) Untamed by P.C. Cast (4th in the house of night series)- comes out on September 30, 2008

36) Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

37) Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz(2nd to blue bloods)

38) Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

39) Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters

40) Uninvited by Amanda Marrone

41) I heart you, You haunt me by Lisa Schroeder

42) I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

43) Crank by Ellen Hopkins

44) Lily Dale: Awakening by Wendi Corsi Staub

45) Lily Dale: Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub (Lily Dale: Connecting comes out ) November 25, 2008)

46) Got Fangs by Katie Maxwell

47) Circus of the Darned by Katie Maxwell (second to Got Fangs)

48) Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude by Rosemary Graham

49) If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s my Prince? By Melissa Kantor

50) Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

51) The Sliver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

52) Waves

some of the numbers skip bc i made this list for my friend and i had to take out the ones you already read

Answer 22

Ellen Hopkins books are great!

Answer 23

Look for any fantasy by... Piers Anthony

Answer 24

1984 by George Orwell

I am 11 and I am reading it. (Not for school, that is part of my school's 11th grade program).

Answer 25

Its kind of a funny story by ned vizzini. my fav book =] it liek super awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Kind_of_a_Funny_Story



the lovely bones havent read it but heard its good i wanna read it

Answer 26

i like jared soo much better and read the alex rider series it is really good!