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Suggested Reading for Young Adults
This list includes a variety of popular Young Adult titles that can be found in the Tri-Valley Library collection. The list is alphabetical by the author's last name.
The Young Adult section is suggested reading for ages 14 and older.
'*' Denotes books that are first in a series.
Does My Head Look Big In This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You (Gallagher Girls series) by Ally Carter *
Graceling (Graceling Realm) by Kristin Cashore *
The Selection by Kiera Cass *
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements *
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins *
Matched by Ally Condie *
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
The Maze Runner by James Dashner *
The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Michael Vey series) by Richard Paul Evans *
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles) by Kami Garcia *
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern series) by Shannon Hale *
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman *
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider adventures) by Anthony Horowitz*
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore *
The Giver (Giver quartet) by Lois Lowry *
Legend by Marie Lu *
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (Scott Hudson books) by David Lubar*
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Cinder (Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer *
Trash by Andy Mulligan
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Sabriel (Abhorsen trilogy) by Garth Nix *
Eragon (Inheritance cycle) by Christopher Paolini *
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride series) by James Patterson *
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer *
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs *
Divergent by Veronica Roth *
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling *
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Steelheart (Reckoners trilogy) by Brandon Sanderson *
Between Shades Of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Peak by Roland Smith *
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Raven Boys (Raven cycle) by Maggie Stiefvater *
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Amulet Of Samarkand (Bartimaeus trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud *
The Hobbit (Lord of the Rings series) by J.R.R. Tolkien *
The Thief (Queen’s Thief series) by Megan Whalen Turner *
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld *
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld *
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak