What is your favorite teen book?
My favorite teen/young adult book would have to be a tie between the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer (I know what you’re thinking, Twilight is so over-done, but I was actually a fan of the BOOK way before it picked up popularity and eventually turned into a movie. I like the books for the very good writing quality and because AT THE TIME the idea of vampire and human love was original and not written about a lot.) and the other meant-for-teens book I love is City of Ashes written by Cassandra Clare. (I like all the rest of that series as well.) What is your favourite teen book and author?
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It is a FAR better book than the entire Twilight series. I Am The Messenger, another book by Zusak, is also very good. I highly recommend that you read both of them!
Thats great because I literally just bought The Book Thief! I will make sure to read it asap!
dono if it counts but i really like the legend of the five rings books (varying authors) and the book “patriots” by james wesley rawles
I really liked Animorphs, although it might be considered pre-teen.
animorphs were the this. I liked the hork bajar chronicles the best (read that in like 7th grade and i still remember it XD )
I don’t like to judge things I haven’t read; however, it’s worth saying that Twilight’s idea of vampire and human love isn’t remotely original. And from what I hear of the book, it has a pretty warped view of human sexuality.
I think my favorite teen book is The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende. Though that might be a little young. I really like Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, though the second and third books aren’t as good as the first one.
The last Harry Potter books are also really good, regardless of being “overdone.” HP isn’t exactly original, but the tension in the books is very different from most fantasy and kids books. It’s suspenseful in the same way that a mob movie is suspenseful.
The Giver by Lois Lowry, Abarat and The Thief of Always by Clive Barker, Anything by Roald Dahl
The Harry Potter series was fantastic. There is a reason why it was so successful.
The Catcher in the Rye was great.
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@jamielynn2328 I remenber reading that book The Giver in school! Such a good book.
@The_Compassionate_Heretic Lord of the Files is also great.
i remember The Baby-Sitter Club series in middle school of course that could be a preteen book series
Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson.
My kids loved the Animorphs.
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FYI, @CatLover002, writing about vampire-human love is FAR from original. Like here to the moon far from being original. Vampire fiction started in the 1700s and in many places between then and now there have been vampire-human love stories.
I love the So You Want to Be a Wizard series and the Dark is Rising series. I also love Harry Potter, the Inheritance series (Eragon and such), the Enchanted Forrest Chronicles and several others that are in the range of juvenile, teen or young adult.
@CatLover002 I hope you continue to read and move on to books of a greater caliber, so that you can discover for yourself just how bad the quality of the writing in Twilight is. I once had to review the book and the experience was unpleasant. I could sit and write out the many problems with it, but you won’t be convinced until you can compare it to well-written books and come to your own conclusions.
And it was far from the first book to show human-vampire love: Charlaine Harris’s Dead Until Dark (2001) came out several years before Twilight (2005). Heck, Anne Rice had tons of human-vampire love twenty years before Edward and Bella were a twinkle in Stephanie Meyer’s eye.
Like others here, I would highly recommend the Harry Potter books, particular from book 4 and on, when the plots and themes become darker and more mature. I’ve heard good things about Cycler (about a girl who turns into a boy during her period), Little Brother (about kids rebelling against a government that uses excessive surveillance on its citizens) and Jumper (about a boy who learns he can teleport).
@drdoombot Christopher Pike, as well, for recent human-vamp love. Twilight is like crappy, cheap chocolate. If you don’t know any better, you love it because its chocolate. Some people move on to good chocolate and see how crappy the previous chocolate was, some people don’t. Then again, some people who know better like a little cheap, crappy chocolate every once in a while, even though they know how crappy it is. I read, and own (because they were bought for me), the Twilight books. I know how crappy the writing is (after all, who writes an even halfway decent book in 6 months?) because I’ve read a lot, but I still go back to it like those little gold chocolate coins that are so cheap and crappy, but are still good to indulge in sometimes.
I dont see how someone can call reading twilight and indulgence
@kibaxcheza Do you not read? Do you not understand how people can enjoy reading? Do you not think that this is crappy literature that’s analogous to crappy chocolate?
Your statement makes little sense.
@avvooooooo Have you ever read Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles? I can practically guarantee it’s 100x better than Twilight. Better characters, better prose, better mythology, better plot, better… everything. Those are the books you should be going back and indulging in once in a while.
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Mr Cormier didn’t write ‘nice’ books.
@avvooooooo sorry, i dont really find most modern writting to be that great. Thus is why i have the complete collection of Shakespeare, and other classics. but thats not the point here. You said “still good to indulge in sometimes”, I just find it odd that someone who actually reads stuff worth spending the time to read, would call twillight or any kinda of metaphor for it, an indulgence.
seriously dude, take the damn stick out.
@drdoombot I’m not that into Anne Rice I know and spend more time indulging with McCaffrey than Twilight and the like.
@kibaxcheza Ever watch a “mindless” TV show? Reading something like Twilight is like that for me. I have read, and will read, more literature than you will ever, including Shakespeare and other classic lit. I have a minor in English from a major university. There are good things about the classic stuff and there are good things about modern writing. If you chose to dismiss all modern writing as worthless, you’re engaging in ignorant snobbery. I explained, quite clearly, why I consider it to be an indulgence. I really don’t get what you’re not understanding here, but I do get that you’re trying to belittle me in some way that simply isn’t working out for ya. I’m not going to get into a pissing match about what I’ve read and what you’ve read. Suffice it to say, I’m secure in my knowledge that I’ve read a great many things and will continue to expand my knowledge in all directions.
A true reader, a true book lover, isn’t a snob about what they read. They read and have knowledge of everything.
@avvooooooo why do you take everything as a personal attack? chill the hell out dude. As for mindless tv, not really; i watch movies, they have more room for elaboration and tend to show things in an increased light as they have higher budget to run time ratios. Have a seen a crappy movie, yes, yes i have.
You may wanna take my advise on reading what i say more carefully as i didnt dismiss all modern literature. I merely said that i dont find most of it to be worth while. Also, if you read my previous post youll see that i am reading modern stuff.
But youre right, Im not a book lover. But lets go ahead an point the snob needle around to the other side there. Im not the one flashing my degrees…. Lets alone an English minor.
@kibaxcheza You try and denigrate my reading choices, tastes, knowledge of literature. My educational achievement certifies that I have knowledge of classic literature that you imply that I lack. If you had any interest in this question other than trying to pick a fight and attack me, you would have made a comment relevant to the question instead of obsessively posting after me again and again.
One more thing. I am not a “dude.” And the word is “advice.”
If you haven’t read them yet, I would recommend all of Holly Black’s teen books (Tithe, Valiant, Ironside) and Melissa Marr’s series as well (Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity).
Also good: Rosemary Clement-Moore’s Girl vs. Evil series (Prom Dates from Hell, Hell Week, Highway to Hell).
Robin McKinley writes really good ‘fantasy’ type literature. Her Sunshine is possibly the best vampire book I’ve read in a long time. (Her reinvented fairy tales are also very good: Beauty, Rose Daughter, Spindle’s End, Deerskin; The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword are also entertaining.)
That should keep you busy for a while. :)
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@avvooooooo @kibaxcheza Y’all need to chill out. There are masterpieces and duds to be found in writing from all time periods. I brought up Anne Rice because her writing isn’t considered literary, yet her prose is something to be experienced and enjoyed. Typical fodder for indulgences.
And speaking of mindless indulgences, everyone has them. I still devour comic books like a 10-year-old. I still know what’s happening with Spider-man, Batman, Superman, the Fantastic Four and the rest of the gang.
@avvooooooo
not implying a lack, just that is isnt that impressive. Not insulting your knowledge of anything, just stating my preference. Not attacking your preferences, just stating that what you said is odd.
And i had made to responses to the question before you, so clearly i had an interest until you decided to take my every word as an insult, then it became about making you go crazy. Its fun.
youre a dude to me as there are no chicks on the internet (see internet rules 27–30 here) and sorry about my non editing, (speaking of horrible movies) im watching alpha dog.
@drdoombot tell me about it, i hate watching the marvel and such movies because i sit there and point out everything thats wrong with them.
Maximum Ride by James Patterson was a lot of fun to read. The rest of the series isn’t as good though.
Im not so sure about how much of a “teen book” these are, but I read them as a teen and I loved them. Mr. and Mrs. Bojo Jones, Alice, A Memoir, A Child Called It, Catcher in the Rye…did that answer your question?
XD catcher was such a dumb book IMO
child called it wasnt bad tho, did you read the squeal?
@drdoombot
when i said TEEN BOOK that is what i meant, I know very well that the vampire human love was not CREATED by stephenie meyer, and might I add that CHARLAINE HARRIS AND ANNE RICE ARE NOT TEEN NOVEL AUTHORS!
my questions focused on teen novels, I enjoy reading charlaine’s books but since it is not a teen book, I did not mention it in my question!
Now chill.
You’re typing in CAPS and telling me to chill? Yeesh.
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I thought Christopher Pike was the captain of the Enterprise before Kirk.
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dude, i give up XD, i dont even remember what i said =p
Was The Outsiders mentioned? No? The Outsiders.
Gregor the Overlander is an amazing book! It is by the same author as the Hunger Games (which is also an amazing book), Suzanne Collins.
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