Book Suggestions

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My Go-To Young Adult Suggestions

Contemporary Lit/Realistic Fiction

• Violent Ends by Shaun David Hutchinson and various YA authors*
• 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Send by Patty Blount
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
• If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Between by Jessica Warman
• Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

Other Great Young Adult Reads

Contemporary Lit/Realistic Fiction

• Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson*
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• Every You Every Me by David Levithan
• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
• Hate List by Jennifer Brown
• What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
• The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle
• The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban
• Forgive me Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
• The End of Everything by Meg Abbott
• Dare Me by Meg Abbott
• Dead Girls Don’t Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf
• All the Rage by Courtney Summers

 

Other (fantasy, supernatural, some unrealistic component, etc)

• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
• Every Day by David Levithan (there is a sequel out for this too- Another Day. Haven’t read it yet though)
• The Originals by Cat Patrick
• Forgotten by Cat Patrick
• Revived by Cat Patrick

YA Series

Dystopian Style

• Delirium by Lauren Oliver (Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem)
• The Selection by Kierra Cass (The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir, The Crown, and short stories)
• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (The Testing, Independent Study, Graduation Day)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, Four-scenes from his perspective)
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Unwind, UnWholly, UnSouled, UnDivided)
• Starters by Lissa Price (only 2 books-Starters, Enders)
• Legend by Marie Lu (Legend, Prodigy, Champion)

 

Not dystopian style

• Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Page (Dorothy Must Die, The Wicked Will Rise, The Yellow Brick War, and short stories)
• The Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer Nielsen (The False Prince, The Runaway King, The Shadow Throne)

 Adult Suggestions

Mystery/Suspense

• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
• Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
• Sister by Rosamund Lupton
• The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain
• The Woods by Harlan Coben
• Help for the Haunted by John Searles
• The Passenger by Lisa Lutz*

 

Psychological Thriller

• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
• Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• You by Caroline Kepnes
• The Pocket Wife by Susan Crawford
• The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison
• Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

 

Contemporary/Realistic Fiction

• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• The Pact by Jodi Picoult
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
• These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen
• The Gap Year by Sarah Bird
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
• Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham*
• Me Before You by JoJo Moyes *

 

Love/Romance

• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• The Last Letter from Your Lover JoJo Moyes

 

Historical Fiction

• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana Rosnay

 

Light read/Chick Lit

• I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
• The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
• Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
• The Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella
• Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie

Classics

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Non-Fiction

• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Not Without Hope by Nick Schuyler
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer