I grew up loving reading. My favorite series were the Hunger Games, the Red Queen, Mortal Instruments, Percy Jackson, and Divergent. Basically YA fiction and fantasy series. I still love these books, and want to read similar ones, but now that I’m 20 its hard to read about 15 and 16 year olds. Any suggestions?
by Silly-Elderberry-815
22 Comments
{{Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews}} {{Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison}}
These are both classified as urban fantasy, but they both start out as normal world today and apocalyptic thing happens and everything changes.
Red Rising is a good dystopian science fiction. Daughter of the Forest is a phenomenal fantasy, but check content warnings for the first book. Legendborn is very very good.
Maybe Try ‘Ready Player One’ by Ernest Cline? I’m reading it through currently and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. A very dystopian style with a huge fantasy and tech-based focus. It’s much more mature too.
1984 by Orwell
The handmaid’s tale by Atwood
The last policeman trilogy by Ben Winters
The passage trilogy by Justin Cronin
I feel like it’s everywhere right now, but have you read anything by Sarah J Maas? They’re not as romance/smut as people make them out to be. Throne of Glass starts off YA, but becomes more “adult” by book 3. It’s her more fantasy focused series (it’s also complete), where A Court of Thorns & Roses is more romance with a fantasy plot and Crescent City is an urban Romantasy.
Also The Fifth Season series by NK Jemisin is outstanding
Parker Peevyhouse has a few. My favorite is The Echo Room.
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Savage Legion by Matt Wallace. It’s an adult medieval dystopian fantasy
“Bannerless” and “The Wild Dead” by Carrie Vaughn.
The Running Man by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Parable of The Sower by Octavia Butler
I think *Battle Royale* can be enjoyed by everyone as long as you are old enough to stand the violence of this book.
And if you liked *Percy Jackson* maybe you will like the original Greek mythology.
I highly recommend the 5th Wave series. It’s really good.
The Silo series by Hugh Howey was a fun and fast read.
Fantasies…
Richard Adams: Shardik, Maia
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi
Stephen Donaldson: the Mirror of her Dreams/a Horseman Riding through (Mordant’s Need)
Raymond E Feist: Magician, Silverthorn, a Darkness at Sethanon…
Robin Hobb’s Rainwild Chronicles starting the Dragon Keeper
Claire North: the First 15 Lives of Harry August
Dystopian… assuming 1984 and Brave New World under your belt
Naomi Alderman: the Power
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake etc
John Christopher: the Death of Grass
David Eggers: the Circle
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
PD James: the CHildren of Men
Will Self: the Book of Dave
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle
Yevgeny Zamyatin: We
Tender is the Flesh.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
I’d suggest more literary science fiction then. Do android dream of electric sheep by Phillip K Dick is a great place to start. Or Asimovs I robot if you wanna go for some short stories!
Parable of the Sower by Butler is amazing, though she does start out as a middle teen, but is very much an adult for the rest of the book. There’s a sequel as well, but I haven’t read it yet. It was to be a trilogy, but Butler died before finishing the final book.
Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy (first book: Oryx and Crake)
M.R. Carey’s The Ramparts trilogy (first book: The Book of Koli) is very good though most of the characters start out as older teens.
Just released, The Grinding by Reef Hains is fantastic