Shift – Jennifer Bradbury
Two friends set out on a cross-country bike trip. Only one arrives in Seattle. What happened?
Project 17 – Laurie Faria-Stolarz
When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occuring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.
Story of a girl – Sara Zarr
After she is caught with her brother’s friend in the back seat of his car, Deanna has to deal with a ruined reputation.
Wait for me – An Na
When Mina falls in love with a young coworker at her parents’ dry cleaners, she struggles between her mother’s dreams for her and true love.
Someone like Summer – M.E. Kerr
When Annabel, daughter of a contractor, and Esteban, a Latino immigrant, begin a relationship, they are at odds with many of the supercilious residents in the resort town of Seaview.
More than friends – Katherine Spencer
After her brother dies, Grace finds herself falling for his best friend Jackson, who has some serious problems of his own.
Enthusiasm – Polly Shulman
Fans of Jane Austen’s novels, Julie and Ashleigh decide to imitate their heroine and try to discover True Love in high school.
Undercover – Beth Kephart
A quiet girl writes love notes for the people in her school, but her feelings for one student may change her.
The Market – J.M. Steele
When Kate finds out that someone is rating all the girls in her class, she is determined to make sure her score rises, no matter what it takes.
The It Chicks – Tia Williams
Tangie and her friends juggle romance, classes, and the arts with their friendship as the “It Chicks”.
Good enough – Paula Yoo
Patti is trying to get into an Ivy League school to please her parents, but this Korean-American teen also wants to have fun.
Divine Confidential – Jacquelin Thomas
After she moves from Hollywood to Georgia, Divine still wants to live her life as a diva and find romance.
A higher geometry – Sharelle Byars Moranville
In the late 1950s, Anna feels she must choose between the traditional role her parents expect of her and her dream of going to college to study mathematics.
Every crooked pot – Renee Rosen
Nina uses makeup and different hairstyles to hide her birthmark over one eye, in hopes of fitting in.
Maggie Bean stays afloat – Tricia Rayburn
Maggie has changed, through Pound Patrollers diet and exercise, but can she attract Peter Applewood and still keep her old friends?
Cures for heartbreak – Margo Rabb
After her mother dies and her father becomes sick, Mia deals with growing up and finding love.
Mistik Lake – Martha Brooks
Odella yearns to know the answers to family secrets that have affected three generations of women in her family.
Off-Color – Janet McDonald
A white girl and her mother are suddenly forced into public housing, where she struggles for acceptance while also discovering she’s biracial.
So not the drama – Paula Chase
Mina is determined that she will be as popular in high school as she was in middle school.
Romantic-supernatural type books;
Beautiful Creatures series, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
The series is about a mortal who falls in love with a witch and the struggles they endure to make the relationship work. It also reveals a lot of secrets about the little town the main character lives in. It is very well written and I love the books. 🙂 It is a four book series, each one at least 500 pages I believe.
The Wolves of Mystic Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater (Aka Shiver, Linger, Forever.) is about a werewolf and a mortal who fall in love and the struggles they endure to make the relationship work. In these novels, the wolves shift due to temperature, so they change in the winter. Other characters are added as well, each book is at least 300 pages I believe.
Fantasy;
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, I absolutely adore this book. In the book, one of the main characters never reads aloud. When he does, the characters from the book come out. Once when he does read aloud, evil characters are cast out. Many years later the villain from the book has come back to hunt Mo (main character) so that Mo can send the villain back. It is a wonderful story of magic and bravery. If memory serves there is very little love. I highly reccomend it. It is at least 500 pages.
Now You See It… By Vivian Vande Velde, this book I love very much. It is a shorter book, about 300 pages but it is also quite small. It is about a girl named Wendy who finds a pair of sunglasses that let her see the dead, see little blue men who enjoy causing havoc, see people for who they really are (ie; The popular cheerleader everybody wants to be is really a 90-year-old crone.) and large stone passageways that lead to an alternate worlds and different places in time. It is more of a Fantasy-Adventure book, because .. Well you’ll have to find out! 😉
The City Of Ember by Jeanne Duprau – It is a dystopian type novel, and it is very good. I don’t know how to summarize without giving too much away, and I don’t own a copy so I can’t write the summary. HOWEVER, if you see it in stores it is a rather small book and has a lightbulb on front. I recommend it. 🙂
*** NOT FANTASY BUT IT IS FICTION***Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy – Another favourite! The main girl, Scarlett, is an angry young girl whose parents got divorced at a young age. Her father re-married and Scarlett feels as though she’s been replaced, and it was kind of a given agreement that she would never have to see him again. Until Scarlett is kicked out of her fifth school, I believe. Her mother has had enough and has sent her to live with him. This doesn’t go well – she repents at first, fights back, but slowly things get better with the help of a mysterious local boy…
Alex and The Ironic Gentlemen by Adrienne Kress – LOVE. It’s a quirky adventure book that will make you laugh or at least smile. I’m not sure how to explain it so I’ll use the book summary;
Alex Morningside attends the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy. But although she loves to learn, Alex just can’t bring herself to enjoy her classes.
Luckily, the new school year brings an exciting new teacher. Mr Underwood makes lessons fun and teaches Alex how to fence. But he has a mysterious family secret – the swashbuckling and buried treasure kind – not everyone is glad he has come to Wigpowder-Steele. When the pirates of a ship called the Ironic Gentleman kidnap him, Alex sets off on a rescue mission, along the way encountering a cast of strange and magical characters, including Captain Magnanimous, Coriander the Conjuror, The Extremely Ginormous Octopus, and the wicked Daughters of the Founding Fathers’ Preservation Society.
🙂
I assume you’ve read the Hunger Games. If not start with that. Here are some others, though it’s hard to say without knowing a specific book you’ve liked. I found these to be enjoyable reads:
Hawksong, by
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.
Here’s a description:
DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began. As heir to the avian throne, she’ll do anything in her power to stop this war—even accept Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind’s greatest enemy, as her pair bond and make the two royal families one.
Trust. It is all Zane asks of Danica—and all they ask of their people—but it may be more than she can give.
………………………………..…
You might like Graceling by Kristen Cashore.
Here’s a description(I hand typed it because I couldn’t find it online, so any typo’s are mine. Without further ado, the description:
His eyes. Kasta had never seen such eyes. One was silver and the other, gold. They glowed in his sun-darkened face, uneven, and strange. She was surprised that they hadn’t shown in the darkness of their first meeting. They didn’t seem human…
Then he raised his eyebrows a hair, and his mouth shifted into the hint of a smirk. He nodded at her, just barely, and it released her from her spell. Cocky, she thought. Cocky and arrogant, this one, and that was all there was to make of him. Whatever game he was playing, if he expected her to join he would be disappointed.
In a world where people born with an extreme skill — called a grace — are feared and exploited, Kasta carries the burden of a grace that even she despises: the grace of killing. She lives under the command of her uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to execute his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him.
When she first meets prince Po, who is graced with combat skills, Kasta has no hint of how her life is about to change.
She never expects to become Po’s friend.
She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.
………………………………..…
Additionally, another fantastic read is Shatterglass, by tamora pierce. It’s like a fantasy murder mystery, it’s fantastic
Here’s a description:
Kethlun Warder was a gifted glassmaker until his world was shattered in a freak accident. Now his remaining glass-magic is mixed with lightning, and Tris (a spunky student weather-mage) must teach him to control it (if she can teach him to control his temper first). But there’s more at stake than Keth’s education. With his strange magic, he creates glass balls which reflect the immediate past and expose the work of a murderer. If he can harness his power properly, he’ll be able to see the crimes as they take place. Keth and Tris race against time and the local authorities to catch a murderer who’s hiding in plain sight.
………………………………..…
I hope I helped, but if you don’t like the sound of any of those then try this:
These links take the guess work out of choosing a book; they will match you and your preferences to a book that covers what you like to read about.
Enter a book you like and the site will analyse its database of real readers’ favourite books (over 32,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/http://www.gnod.net/http://www.allconsuming.net/
Good luck finding a book, and happy reading!
Omg the best series I’ve ever read would have to be either the inheritance series (eragon, eldest, brisingr, and the inheritance) or maximum ride novels 🙂 there’s also thirst. Good books
Try out the Beautiful Creatures series or Vampire Academy. Super good books and easy reading. Not super cheesy and they are pretty cheap. You can find them at walmart.com
Shift – Jennifer Bradbury
Two friends set out on a cross-country bike trip. Only one arrives in Seattle. What happened?
Project 17 – Laurie Faria-Stolarz
When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occuring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.
Story of a girl – Sara Zarr
After she is caught with her brother’s friend in the back seat of his car, Deanna has to deal with a ruined reputation.
Wait for me – An Na
When Mina falls in love with a young coworker at her parents’ dry cleaners, she struggles between her mother’s dreams for her and true love.
Someone like Summer – M.E. Kerr
When Annabel, daughter of a contractor, and Esteban, a Latino immigrant, begin a relationship, they are at odds with many of the supercilious residents in the resort town of Seaview.
More than friends – Katherine Spencer
After her brother dies, Grace finds herself falling for his best friend Jackson, who has some serious problems of his own.
Enthusiasm – Polly Shulman
Fans of Jane Austen’s novels, Julie and Ashleigh decide to imitate their heroine and try to discover True Love in high school.
Undercover – Beth Kephart
A quiet girl writes love notes for the people in her school, but her feelings for one student may change her.
The Market – J.M. Steele
When Kate finds out that someone is rating all the girls in her class, she is determined to make sure her score rises, no matter what it takes.
The It Chicks – Tia Williams
Tangie and her friends juggle romance, classes, and the arts with their friendship as the “It Chicks”.
Good enough – Paula Yoo
Patti is trying to get into an Ivy League school to please her parents, but this Korean-American teen also wants to have fun.
Divine Confidential – Jacquelin Thomas
After she moves from Hollywood to Georgia, Divine still wants to live her life as a diva and find romance.
A higher geometry – Sharelle Byars Moranville
In the late 1950s, Anna feels she must choose between the traditional role her parents expect of her and her dream of going to college to study mathematics.
Every crooked pot – Renee Rosen
Nina uses makeup and different hairstyles to hide her birthmark over one eye, in hopes of fitting in.
Maggie Bean stays afloat – Tricia Rayburn
Maggie has changed, through Pound Patrollers diet and exercise, but can she attract Peter Applewood and still keep her old friends?
Cures for heartbreak – Margo Rabb
After her mother dies and her father becomes sick, Mia deals with growing up and finding love.
Mistik Lake – Martha Brooks
Odella yearns to know the answers to family secrets that have affected three generations of women in her family.
Off-Color – Janet McDonald
A white girl and her mother are suddenly forced into public housing, where she struggles for acceptance while also discovering she’s biracial.
So not the drama – Paula Chase
Mina is determined that she will be as popular in high school as she was in middle school.
Romantic-supernatural type books;
Beautiful Creatures series, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
The series is about a mortal who falls in love with a witch and the struggles they endure to make the relationship work. It also reveals a lot of secrets about the little town the main character lives in. It is very well written and I love the books. 🙂 It is a four book series, each one at least 500 pages I believe.
The Wolves of Mystic Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater (Aka Shiver, Linger, Forever.) is about a werewolf and a mortal who fall in love and the struggles they endure to make the relationship work. In these novels, the wolves shift due to temperature, so they change in the winter. Other characters are added as well, each book is at least 300 pages I believe.
Fantasy;
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, I absolutely adore this book. In the book, one of the main characters never reads aloud. When he does, the characters from the book come out. Once when he does read aloud, evil characters are cast out. Many years later the villain from the book has come back to hunt Mo (main character) so that Mo can send the villain back. It is a wonderful story of magic and bravery. If memory serves there is very little love. I highly reccomend it. It is at least 500 pages.
Now You See It… By Vivian Vande Velde, this book I love very much. It is a shorter book, about 300 pages but it is also quite small. It is about a girl named Wendy who finds a pair of sunglasses that let her see the dead, see little blue men who enjoy causing havoc, see people for who they really are (ie; The popular cheerleader everybody wants to be is really a 90-year-old crone.) and large stone passageways that lead to an alternate worlds and different places in time. It is more of a Fantasy-Adventure book, because .. Well you’ll have to find out! 😉
The City Of Ember by Jeanne Duprau – It is a dystopian type novel, and it is very good. I don’t know how to summarize without giving too much away, and I don’t own a copy so I can’t write the summary. HOWEVER, if you see it in stores it is a rather small book and has a lightbulb on front. I recommend it. 🙂
*** NOT FANTASY BUT IT IS FICTION***Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy – Another favourite! The main girl, Scarlett, is an angry young girl whose parents got divorced at a young age. Her father re-married and Scarlett feels as though she’s been replaced, and it was kind of a given agreement that she would never have to see him again. Until Scarlett is kicked out of her fifth school, I believe. Her mother has had enough and has sent her to live with him. This doesn’t go well – she repents at first, fights back, but slowly things get better with the help of a mysterious local boy…
Alex and The Ironic Gentlemen by Adrienne Kress – LOVE. It’s a quirky adventure book that will make you laugh or at least smile. I’m not sure how to explain it so I’ll use the book summary;
Alex Morningside attends the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy. But although she loves to learn, Alex just can’t bring herself to enjoy her classes.
Luckily, the new school year brings an exciting new teacher. Mr Underwood makes lessons fun and teaches Alex how to fence. But he has a mysterious family secret – the swashbuckling and buried treasure kind – not everyone is glad he has come to Wigpowder-Steele. When the pirates of a ship called the Ironic Gentleman kidnap him, Alex sets off on a rescue mission, along the way encountering a cast of strange and magical characters, including Captain Magnanimous, Coriander the Conjuror, The Extremely Ginormous Octopus, and the wicked Daughters of the Founding Fathers’ Preservation Society.
🙂
I assume you’ve read the Hunger Games. If not start with that. Here are some others, though it’s hard to say without knowing a specific book you’ve liked. I found these to be enjoyable reads:
Hawksong, by
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.
Here’s a description:
DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began. As heir to the avian throne, she’ll do anything in her power to stop this war—even accept Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind’s greatest enemy, as her pair bond and make the two royal families one.
Trust. It is all Zane asks of Danica—and all they ask of their people—but it may be more than she can give.
………………………………..…
You might like Graceling by Kristen Cashore.
Here’s a description(I hand typed it because I couldn’t find it online, so any typo’s are mine. Without further ado, the description:
His eyes. Kasta had never seen such eyes. One was silver and the other, gold. They glowed in his sun-darkened face, uneven, and strange. She was surprised that they hadn’t shown in the darkness of their first meeting. They didn’t seem human…
Then he raised his eyebrows a hair, and his mouth shifted into the hint of a smirk. He nodded at her, just barely, and it released her from her spell. Cocky, she thought. Cocky and arrogant, this one, and that was all there was to make of him. Whatever game he was playing, if he expected her to join he would be disappointed.
In a world where people born with an extreme skill — called a grace — are feared and exploited, Kasta carries the burden of a grace that even she despises: the grace of killing. She lives under the command of her uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to execute his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him.
When she first meets prince Po, who is graced with combat skills, Kasta has no hint of how her life is about to change.
She never expects to become Po’s friend.
She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.
………………………………..…
Additionally, another fantastic read is Shatterglass, by tamora pierce. It’s like a fantasy murder mystery, it’s fantastic
Here’s a description:
Kethlun Warder was a gifted glassmaker until his world was shattered in a freak accident. Now his remaining glass-magic is mixed with lightning, and Tris (a spunky student weather-mage) must teach him to control it (if she can teach him to control his temper first). But there’s more at stake than Keth’s education. With his strange magic, he creates glass balls which reflect the immediate past and expose the work of a murderer. If he can harness his power properly, he’ll be able to see the crimes as they take place. Keth and Tris race against time and the local authorities to catch a murderer who’s hiding in plain sight.
………………………………..…
I hope I helped, but if you don’t like the sound of any of those then try this:
These links take the guess work out of choosing a book; they will match you and your preferences to a book that covers what you like to read about.
Enter a book you like and the site will analyse its database of real readers’ favourite books (over 32,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/http://www.gnod.net/http://www.allconsuming.net/
Good luck finding a book, and happy reading!
Omg the best series I’ve ever read would have to be either the inheritance series (eragon, eldest, brisingr, and the inheritance) or maximum ride novels 🙂 there’s also thirst. Good books
Try out the Beautiful Creatures series or Vampire Academy. Super good books and easy reading. Not super cheesy and they are pretty cheap. You can find them at walmart.com
hunger games & the Wrecker