#ya book reccomendations

[penguicorns-are-cool]

So a lot of YA books don't reflect actual teenage/young adult lives and issues which I think is a big issue. A LOT of YA books have a heavy focus on romance, which is fine, but that means it can be hard to find books about literally anything else that happens in an adolescent's life like mental illness, friendships, college choices, hardships with school, any of these things but as a marginalized person. The YA books I read when I first started reading YA were not great and led me to develop not so great ideas about what I should be and do and what the world around me would be like and was all over not great for 8th grade me. So I want to start a thread listing good YA books.

If you see this, please please reblog with your recommendations.

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

Born This Way by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (really anything by Alice Oseman)

Not so Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

Fat Angie by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (yes it's good YA, fight me)

any riordanverse book

#ya #ya books #ya book reccomendations #book rec #book rec list #book rec asks #book reccomendation #young adult #books #please reblog

[rrainydaydreams]

NO SPOILER DARK HEIR REVIEW

I don’t even know where to start with this. I swear to god, Pacat has outdone her/himself. THE TWISTS. THE TURNS. THE TRAGEDIES. It’s everything I hoped for and more. The way this book is written is so good, with every chapter leaving you wanting more. I couldn’t put it down and finished it the day I got it.

We learn A LOT more about different characters past, such as Violet, Will and definitely the characters from the old world. The relationships between the characters are so well written, and you can FEEL every emotion the way it’s written.

I don’t even know wha else to say but praise for the book. Can’t wait for the third one to come out, I need to know more!!

“I will always find you, try to run.”

#Dark rise #dark heir #review #no spoilers #spoiler free review #c s pacat #this book is amazing #go read it #highly reccomend #I NEED THE NEXT BOOK #LGBTQ book #ya books

[starswirls-planet]

is there a fandom for "all our hidden gifts" on here? i finished the first book and drew the Housekeeper on monday night

#all our hidden gifts #the gifts that bind us #aohg #ya fiction #urban fantasy #tarot cards #hyperfixation #tw horror #original art #drawing #digital illustration #illustrators on tumblr #illustration #doodle #aesthetic art #book reccomendation #the housekeeper #the housekeeper aohg

[bluesadansey]

Happy Father’s Day to Brimstone from Daughter of Smoke and Bone <33

#daily psa to read dosab I’m serious. So many of you would like Dosab if you read it I am positive #many a time when speaking on something I like there’s a “I would but I wouldn’t reccomend it” element not with this everyone read dosab #daughter of smoke and bone #dosab #s speaks #done rereading the first book… now That is how you do ya urban fantasy (although the series is a cross between the urban/paranormal and hig #fucked up that certain paranormal ya from that era (like Fallen Shiver etc.) are getting a resurgence when they could never be what this #Series is I deserve an (animated! we’ll done!) adaptation (but live action my worst fear) #I swear to you the series is like if Cosmic Love by Florence was a book series if you care about my opinion please tbr #+ it’s about a girl who was raised by a monster family and the monster family is w on derful #and Karou and Zuzana’s friendship is everything and the atmosphere is perfect ugh #(Can especially say it’s perfect now given I’m where it’s set rn) #Anyway happy Father’s Day to the Chimeara who saved his pseudo daughter through the power of love and necromancy

[blorbobutworse]

Does anyone know of any fantasy books (YA or above please) that aren't an excuse for someone to write a romance novel that just HAPPENS to have a fantasy setting? I liked The Hunger Games and The Uglies because they have a well fleshed out universe AND drama, and romance was literally a sideplot/something that meshed. It didn't take away from the important beats of the drama and wasn't the absolute center of plot.

I mean,,,, if it's high fantasy with lesbians I will not complain. But I picked up like three different popular YA series and the main poin in the summary was a romance. New girl, scary/cool guy who she can tame wooaaaww

#please #fiction #fantasy #YA #blorboblurbs #book recs #book reccomendation #also sorry for being bitter i know people enjoy it and i dont think its bad i just like violence and frendship more that straits pretending #not to like each other oh boo hoo

[heathercauthor]

Don't mind me giggling to myself using that gif because The Last Of Us helped inspire Earth Sucks

It's The 100 meets If Humans were Space Orcs in this 'begrudging alliance' upper YA survival novel.

Hopefully this'll be the start of many apocalypse fans journeying past the Walls into nature's horrors, and joining our unconventional heroes' rebellious fight for freedom!

Synopsis: 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐩𝐬𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟. (more below)

Feng’s both the hunter and the hunted, searching for his missing family in a climate change decimated world controlled by the alien intruders. As a human – and maybe a little because of the explosions he leaves in his wake – he’s become public enemy number one.

Diem grew up on stories of the brutal human creatures, but never dreamt she'd meet one. When Feng crosses her path, she gets her chance. Now she wishes she never had. 

His loved ones’ survival depend on their uneasy alliance. The terrifying truths awaiting Diem threaten to destroy everything she’s ever known. They’ve got one shot, and one wrong step could tip the scales of war.

 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 October 26th 2022

Add it to your Goodreads shelf!

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#bisexual #humans are space orcs #grumpy x sunshine #book nerd #ya fiction #apocalypse #post apocalypse #book tumblr #book #scifibooks #scifi #novel #unlikely allies #space australia #alien x human #love triangle #book reccomendation #rec #slow burn #found family #alien #need to read #the 100 #antihero #morally grey hero #book review #kirkus reviews #2022 release

[livrosencaracolados]

Olá, peço desculpa se digo alguma coisa estranha porque estou a usar um tradutor. De qualquer forma, queria perguntar-lhe se já leu "Powerless" quero saber se achas que é um bom livro, porque estou a pensar se o devo ler.

Olá, fico muito feliz por saber que, apesar de não falares português, segues o blog e valorizas a minha opinião. Bem-vindo/a!

Sobre a tua questão, honestamente nunca li nem ouvi falar desse livro, mas pela pesquisa rápida que fiz, aparentemente é bastante popular no booktok...e eu não ando por aí.

Não tomes a minha perspetiva como verdade absoluta, mas pela sinopse e fatores que levaram à popularidade da obra, estou disposta a assumir que é mais uma das que prioriza as ideias em vez da execução...e que está demasiada agarrada a clichês e a um entendimento superficial de " Os Jogos da Fome" (nos quais se inspira).

Do meu ponto de vista, o livro não vale o investimento, mas se o quiseres mesmo ler, tenta arranjar uma cópia na tua biblioteca local para não perderes nada se não o apreciares. Relativamente a sugestões de leituras do mesmo género, não me estou a lembrar de nenhuma, mas não faltam opções maravilhosas no blog se quiseres explorar outras tipologias literárias.

Assɪɴᴀᴅᴏ: Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 𝐿𝓊𝓏 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

#asks #bookblr #livros #ask #leitores #booktok #book blog #anonymous #the hunger games #ya books #ya fantasy #ya fiction #book reccomendations

[fictionalfawning]

Imagine....

Warner and Juliette slow dancing 'round the kitchen light to these songs:

Like real people do - Hozier

Lover (First Dance Remix) - Taylor Swift

Until I found you - Stephen Sanchez

Nothing - Bruno Major

This is how you fall in love -  Chelsea Cutler and Jeremy Zucker

Yellow - Coldplay

* More songs please

#bookish #juliette ferrars #bookworm #booktok #aaron warner #ya books #warnette #slow dancing #taylor swift #song reccomendations

[punki-miltonia]

Ten Word Book Reviews: The Maidens

All the possibility, none taken; inauthentic, vapid; left wanting more

#book reccomendation #book reccs #book recs #book reveiw #ten word book reviews #young adult #ya books #young adult fiction #reads of summer #reads of 2023 #dark acamedia #dark academia books #dark academia reading #dark academia book recommendations #the maidens #alex michaelides #thriller #mystery #intrigue #the had all the potential to examine how a tight knit secretly society of women can become violent #by examining themes of sexuality power intellect and agency #Zoe deserved a better villain arc than a scooby doo monologue at the end #Mariana is a terrible therapist

[thegremlingirl]

Once upon a time, on the coldest night of Midwinter, in the darkest heart of the forest, Death and Fortune came to a crossroads.

-Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

#little thieves #margaret owen #ya fantasy books #book reccomendation #fairy tale retellings #grimm's fairy tales #goose girl #going to champion this series until its at LEAST as popular as soc #edit #moodboard

[dashiellqvverty]

it feels so lame and cringe that the thing that got me back into reading is the avatar book series but theyre literally SO fucking good. like other YA i’ve tried to read recently i’d felt Talked Down To as a reader (like, obviously im an Adult so its not For Me but as proven by books like these you can write for younger audiences without treating them like idiots) and just couldnt get into things i was even nominally interested in but when i finally finished the first kyoshi book i was like... oh yeah.. books are GOOD. and listened to the audiobook of the second one and like i stalled a bit in between bc i read the first one before my senior year of college and didn’t listen to the next until after and then was so exhausted by work i wasn’t reading/listening much BUT it made me WANT to read again and im finally starting to again now

#like i want to read more books like it!!!! #like i truly didnt feel like i was just drawn in by the fact that it was avatar it was like #fantasy adventure and political intrigue and yangchen is like spy shit and its exciting and its BRUTAL #in a way that the cartoons cant be like theyre able to just get into the details and realities and i just. its good. #and it doesnt feel like im Reading YA Fantasy #like its targeted at ya audiences but i dont read it and think 'god im too old for this' #im thinking about reading the author's other series BUT its YA fantasy set at a high school which makes me wary #im much more interested in reading about a 16 year old if it's a character like the avatar in that kind of world #i also just listened to the nevermoor series (middle grade) which my friends have been reccomending for years #and its sooo good and again. no one is being talked down to. #i tried reading nina varela's middle grade debut bc i love her #well i only read criers war and not the sequel. i loved it at the time but i want to revisit it bc i have a shit memory #mostly i love her for tell me about the big bang lmao #anyway the book sucked #like number one im too old for this number too you do not have to write like this to write for children!! #as evidenced by this other children's book im reading at the same time!!! #r.txt

[sarenhale]

I appreciate my local bookshop having a 'book that exploded on popularity on tiktok' section so I know what to never buy in my life

#it's all YA books so i'm not the target audience anyway but... tiktok reccomended books. really

[faithreads1]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Pages: 517

Rating: 5/5

#tbosas #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #hunger games #thg #dystopia #fiction #ya #young adult #book reccomendation #faithreads

[a-gaything]

I’m in a readers block and am in need of book recommendations!! All recommendations welcome as long as it’s a story you love and believe is worth reading!!!

#booklr #book rec request #reading block #reading reccomendations #books #ya books #lgbtq #lgbtq books #reading #i want to read #book recommendations #bookworm #bookish #books and reading

[crymeariveronceagain]

a list of YA books i need to buy because they filled a hole in my chest when i was younger

One Small Thing, by Erin Watt

I hate books that start with one night stands because it's usually about falling apart or being slapped together and loving endlessly. BUT NOT THIS BOOK. THIS BOOK IS AMAZING. 10/10 RECCOMEND TO ANYONE WHO WANTS A GOOD ANGSTY READ.

The Falling Between Us, by Ash Parsons

This book was why Keefe Sencen was the popstar he was in TPaTP, just so you all are aware how much I thought about what this book talked about. Not a perfect book, but it was sad and it was a ride.

Talk Nerdy To Me, by Tiffany Schmidt

oh, ow, wow is that my gifted kid burnout coming back to yell at me silently? it IS?! wow how peculiar!

Once and for All, by Sarah Dessen

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Glitter, by Aprilynne Pike

ah yes. addiction. pain. dystopia. forced marriage. drug cartels. slavery. marinate for three hours. add seven cups of Marie Antoinette's sequined shoes. Stir. Sip carefully. Order Shattered like you need to breathe again.

The Art of Breaking Things, by Laura Sibson

Absolutely freaking destroyed me. I cried over this book. I cry over so little. And this book... Ouch. Just, so much ouch. It deals with VERY heavy topics, so if you find a lot of stuff triggering, I suggest you look up those first, but this book left an imprint on my mind that very, very, very few other YA novels have.

Nemesis, by Brendon Riechs

Epically fricked up my mind!!! Absolute mind boggler!!! Enjoy at your own risk!!! You will never be the same! Sci-Fi Thriller, absolutely horrifying!

Valkyrie, by Kate O’Hearn

awwwww it's death <3 but for kids because it's a girl with wings and if you touch her you die <3 <3 <3 so she wears gloves and it's very complicated because she really do want that hug tho <3

Eliza and Her Monsters, by Francesca Zappia

hi so are you socially anxious. if so, you will find the main character of this book annoying but horribly relateable and there's graphic novel segments and it's about a girl who annonymously is the content creator for an entire fanbase and about her anxiety and it's honestly really great and it's a really good discussion of fame and privacy and yeah it's good

The Conspiracy of Us, the Map Of Fates, and The Ends of the World, all by Maggie Hall

hi these books were just fun to read, highly enjoyable, you will want to read it again.

#book reccomendations #YA #ya books #shush they're all good #i loved them

[duawheat]

girls when they just read all of radio silence by alice oseman in one sitting . hello i hope somebody is listening

#overall very good book aled iss everything frances as well every character very fun interesting #i had soft spot for daniel i don’t have a clue why just love him peace and love #love me a good golden child and the scapegoat moment just kidding hate it it’s so depressing #favorite part writing wise was all the universe city bits they were so well written and fun to imagine in alastor from hazbin hotels voice #yk cause radio. L o L #good book tho reccomend if u enjoy YA shit like that #very much millennial gen z cusp tho like very very obvious #that’s my one pet peeve about it and a lot of alice osemans work the amount of pop culture references and shit like that and the humor #make it hard to be timeless yk #but still very good #radio silence