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

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