The Hate U Give: I thought this book was a solid read as an adult, but it's really more targeted towards teenagers, and I think teenage me would have been extremely into it!
The Hunger Games: This book and its sequels (haven't read the new prequel yet) are exactly the type of young adult I would have loved, complete with stereotypical love triangle.
Twilight: I read all these books when I was in college, so not too far removed from my teenage years, and I ate them up (I still find them the perfect kind of brain dessert).
Uglies: I very much liked the first one of these that I read off my little sister's bookshelves, but the second one kind of lost me because I was really out of the "teenage dystopia" headspace by that point.
The Serpent King: I absolutely loved this book even as an adult, but think it would have been even more appealing to me as a small-town nerd in high school.
Shatter Me: Another one I quite liked even as a grown-up, but would have been even more appealing to teen me.
Children of Blood and Bone: This did not do much for me as someone who has come to really enjoy a character-heavy drama instead a plot-driven adventure, but I think I would have appreciated the thrill of it more when I was younger.
Divergent: I read the first two books in this series several years ago, and I think teenage me would have been more tolerant of all the tropes on display there.
The Book Thief: I thought this was moving, enjoyable book when I read it a few years ago and I would have been obsessed with it if I'd first encountered it as a teen.
Delirium: I found this inoffensively fluffy as an adult but I'm pretty sure I would have found it very swoony once upon a time.
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The Hate U Give is a great pick.
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Such a great book for teens!
DeleteFunny, I *did* read both of the first two Uglies books as a teenager, because I really liked the first one, and I still felt meh about the second one and quit.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't just me thinking I was ~so sophisticated now~ because I was in college then!
DeleteOh gosh. I was obsessed with Twilight as an adult. I don't know if it would have been healthy for me to read them as a teen. Ha! Delirium is a great choice! I loved that series as an adult, too. And I forgot about The Book Thief. Such a powerful book. <3
ReplyDeleteI was still pretty young when Twilight came out, so I was close enough to being a teen to know I would have just read them over and over again if I'd been 15 instead of 20!
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