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I feel like I am repeating myself but I can’t help it. Before you explore this list, check out the previous age categories first because those lists contain a lot of books for this age group but perhaps they could be enjoyed by younger kids already so the books are there and not here.

I am perfectly aware of the fact that kids mature at a different pace and that you might not agree with the recommended age. My kids are only 6 and 8 right now so it is hard for me to take a guess when they could read the following books. I checked other websites and went with their recommendations.

I only listed some books so far. I will work on this category soon. Take a look at the titles first and then you can find more information under the following links:

Best Books for Young Adults (12 – 18)
YALSA’s Alex Awards (The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.)
YALSA’s Best of the Best
Printz Award

Reading List Grade 9 &10
Reading List Grade 11 & 12
Reading List 1 Highschool
Reading List 2 Highschool
Reading List 3 Highschool

I found a nice list of recommendations for websites for young book lovers, click on the link below to read more:

14 Super Cool Websites for Adult and Teen Bookaholics

Books that might be the next Hunger Games

Check also the following websites for tips on what to read next:

Teenreads

Genrefluent – Teen Talk About Books

GuysRead

A local library put together a list of non-fiction titles for young adults.

31 Must-Read Book Series for Teens

100 Must-Read YA Book Series

The 100 Best Young-Adult Book of All Time

Best Book Series for Teens

13 and up

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants For a list of books in the Sisterhood series click here. My daughter read it in 7th grade.

See You at Harry’s

Divergent For a list of books in this series click here.

The Hunger Games For a list of books in this series click here.

The Golden Compass

His Dark Materials Omnibus (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Pride and Prejudice

Insignia For a list of books in this series click here.

Ship Breaker Click here for a sequel.

Fat Cat

The Selection For a list of books in this series click here.

The Reluctant Assassin For a list of books in the WARP series click here.

Inhuman

Maggot Moon

SYLO For a list of books in The SYLO Chronicles series click here.

This Dark Endeavor Click here for the sequel in The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein series.

Crap Kingdom I am not sure about this one, it has mixed reviews but a lot of people find it funny.

Erebos: It’s a game. It watches you

The Scorpio Races

The Lord of the Rings

Partials For a lists of books in the Partials Sequence series click here.

Leviathan For a list of books in this series click here.

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Shadow and Bone For a list of books in The Grisha Trilogy click here.

Six of Crows

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (non-fiction)

The Eye of Minds For a list of books in The Mortality Doctrine series click here.

The Young Elites For a list of books in this series click here.

Speak

Matched For a list of books in this series click here.

Princesses of Myth Series The Princesses of Myth series follows the fictionalized yet historical stories of various heroines throughout history: Helen of Sparta, the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, Princess Maeve of Ireland, etc.

Midnight Thief For a list of books in this series click here.

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Since You’ve Been Gone

The Master Puppeteer Probably not a book for everyone but if you like historical fiction (feudal Japan here) try it.

Boy Meets Boy

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (Nonfiction)

Under the Mesquite

Marcelo In The Real World

Lips Touch: Three Times

Private Peaceful

The First Part Last

Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis

Whale Talk

Crooked

The Summer of Letting Go

The Skin I’m In

Love & Gelato

Scythe For a list of books in the Arc of a Scythe series click here.

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler

The Serpent King

The Passion of Dolssa

Dragons of Autumn Twilight (for an avid reader if they can read Lord of the Rings) For a list of books in the Dragonlance Chronicles series click here.

Steelheart For a list of books in the Reckoners series click here.

Brody’s Ghost For a list of books in this series click here.

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award)

The Last Magician For a list of books in this series click here.

Dreamland Burning

Far from the Tree

Strange the Dreamer For a list of books in this series click here.

Warcross For a list of books in this series click here.

The Hate U Give

Blanca & Roja

Sadie

13 or 14?

Anna and the French Kiss For a list of books in this series click here.

Leah on the Offbeat

Turtles All the Way Down

Dune

Shiver

Pride and Prejudice

Murder on the Orient Express For a list of books in this series click here.

Discussions and recommendations on books by Agatha Christie for 13-year-olds can be found here (Perfect first Christie for a teenager)

Conviction

Daughter of Smoke & Bone (probably closer to 14) For a list of books in this series click here.

The Upside of Unrequited

Endangered

Son of the Mob Click here for a sequel.

Flags of Our Fathers: A Young People’s Edition

Rebecca

A Step From Heaven

Through the Woods

Splintered

The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel For a list of Stoker & Holmes Novels click here.

Let the Sky Fall For a list of books in this series click here.

Maisie Dobbs For a list of books in this series click here.

Hush, Hush As with every book—read a few reviews first if it is for you—there are thousands of great reviews but some people really hated it. For a list of books in The Hush, Hush Saga click here.

If You Come Softly

Revolver

Everybody Sees the Ants

The Raven Boys For a list of books in the Raven Cycle series click here.

Saving Francesca

The Sun Is Also a Star

Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive

The Wrath & the Dawn For a list of books in this series click here.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Salt to the Sea

Ink and Bone For a list of books in The Great Library series click here.

Stung

Wolf by Wolf

The Book of Dust (trilogy)

14 and up (Grade 9 and up)

The Fault in Our Stars

Paper Towns

If I Stay and its sequel Where She Went

The Book Thief

Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog

Where Things Come Back

American Born Chinese

Thirteen Reasons Why

Witch Child Click here for a sequel.

Fat Kid Rules the World

Sabriel For a list of books in the Abhorsen series click here.

Shadowland For a list of books in The Mediator series click here.

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Monster

Someone Like You

The Tragedy Paper

Keeping the Moon (and other books by Sarah Dessen have also good reviews—teenagers seem to enjoy them)

Feed

Hole in My Life

A Northern Light

Breathing Underwater

Catalyst

Lord of the Flies

The Once and Future King For a list of books in this series click here.

Throne of Glass For a list of books in this series click here.

Belzhar

Daughter of Smoke & Bone For a list of books in this series click here.

Wintergirls

Twisted

The Truth About Alice

The Winner’s Curse For a list of books in The Winner’s Trilogy click here.

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (nonfiction)

The Realm of Possibility

Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Girl of Fire and Thorns For a list of books in this series click here.

Midwinterblood (mixed reviews but many people loved it and it was selected as one of the top 0 books for young adults in 2014)

Winger

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

All the Truth That’s In Me

What If It’s Us

Two Can Keep a Secret

One of Us Is Lying

The Belles For a list of books in this series click here.

Lost at Sea (possibly even for older teens)

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

American Street

The Cruel Prince For a list of books in this series click here.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

The Night Circus

Binti For a list of books in this series click here.

Words in Deep Blue

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue For a list of books in this series click here.

They Both Die at the End

Gunslinger Girl

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Graceling For a list of books in this series click here.

Ready Player One

Little Brother

Out of Darkness

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

A Thousand Nights

The Game of Love and Death

Fallout

Starry Eyes

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

More Happy Than Not

Grasshopper Jungle

Finnikin of the Rock For a list of books in the The Lumatere Chronicles click here.

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer For a list of books in the Necromancer Series click here.

Every Day

The Things a Brother Knows

Stitches

Blankets

Twilight For a list of books in the The Twilight Saga click here.

Runaways For a list of books in this comic book series click here.

I Am the Messenger

The Lightkeeper’s Daughter For a list of books in the Mercy Falls Series click here.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (funny)

The Raging Quiet

Daughter of the Forest For a list of books in The Sevenwaters Trilogy click here.

Ask the Passengers

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

Emmy & Oliver

Carry On

The Beginning of Everything

A Court of Thorns and Roses For a list of books in this series click here.

This Savage Song For a list of books in the Monsters of Verity series click here.

If I Was Your Girl

More Happy Than Not

Challenger Deep

X: A Novel

The Great American Whatever

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

The Last Dragonlord (for lovers of fantasy and romance) For a list of books in this series click here.

The Eye of the World (or possibly even older than 14) For a list of books in The Wheel of Time series click here.

Ms. Marvel (graphic novel, not sure what the earliest age suitable for this book is) For a list of books in this series click here.

Dumplin’

Openly Straight

14 or 15?

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Noggin (funny)

100 Sideways Miles

A Great and Terrible Beauty For a list of books in The Gemma Doyle Trilogy click here.

Mrs. Mike

The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die

The 5th Wave For a list of books in this series click here.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Looking for Alaska

Flowers for Algernon I have seen this in theater and loved it.

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Sky Is Everywhere

Imani All Mine

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

The Diviners For a list of books in this series click here.

Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal

American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China (funny)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Red Queen

City of Bones For a list of books in The Mortal Instruments series click here.

A COMPANION SERIES TO THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS (City of Bones)
Lady Midnight For a list of books in The Dark Artifices series click here.

ASSASSINS APPRENTICE For a list of books in this series click here.

The Brilliant Death

A Reaper at the Gates

After the Fire

15 and up

Watership Down

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Out of The Easy

Code Name Verity

Between Shades of Gray

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn A classic I love!

Riddle-Master (age not clear but no need to rush)

The Tyrant’s Daughter

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

A Certain Slant of Light (another book in the Light series)

The Impossible Knife of Memory

Grave Mercy For a list of books in His Fair Assassin Trilogy click here.

An Abundance of Katherines

I’ll Give You the Sun

Skink–No Surrender

The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

We Were Liars (mixed reviews, some people loved it, some hated it—one of the most talked about books of 2014)

A Girl Called Fearless (not many reviews yet but a lot of people liked this book so it is probably worth a try) For a list of books in this
series click here.