Best teen & young adult horror books according to redditors

We found 84 Reddit comments discussing the best teen & young adult horror books. We ranked the 30 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Teen & young adult monster books
Teen & young adult zombie books
Teen & young adult ghost story books

Top Reddit comments about Teen & Young Adult Horror:

u/SimonThalmann · 96 pointsr/pics

It's a classic haunted house story. Kid moves to a new house, makes a new friend who may or may not be a ghost, etc. It's on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005PYNRD8?ref_=dbs_s_def_awm_dirs_l_0&storeType=ebooks if you're interested but it's been several years since I uploaded it and I'm not sure what the formatting is like.

u/rswalker · 21 pointsr/magicTCG
u/[deleted] · 10 pointsr/YAlit

Here are a few of the YA series I have enjoyed:

  • The Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman. Link to first book, Everlost. Link to second book, Everwild. Link to third book, Everfound. It is a series following a group of teenagers who find themselves stuck in afterlife-on-earth after dying. These books are FANTASTIC; I'd put them on the same level as The Hunger Games.

  • Also, I'd recommend Unwind, also by Neal Shusterman. "In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.
    With breath-taking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines serious moral issues in a way that will keep readers turning the pages to see if Connor, Risa, and Lev avoid meeting their untimely ends."

  • Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (same guy who wrote Uglies) follows the world as it falls into a unique sort of zombie apocalypse, started by non-fictional a parasite which resides in over half the population's brains.

  • The Chaos Walking Trilogy The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men follows Todd, a boy trapped in a world completely made up of men who can hear each other's thoughts, finds something he has never seen before: a girl.

u/ifweburn · 5 pointsr/YAwriters

Firstly: OMG MY BOOK IS UP FOR PREORDER AND I'M SO EXCITED AAAHHHHH!

http://www.amazon.com/reset-book-one-beginning-end-ebook/dp/B00N3H0GQK/

Secondly: I'm working really hard to get things together to launch my indie cosmetics line. It is so much work. SO MUCH WORK. I'm tired pretty much all the time between this, publishing company launch, and attempting to work on more manuscripts.

Thirdly: Anyone else into horror games? I've been watching playthroughs of Silent Hill PT and Five Nights At Freddy's and both look absolutely terrifying. I'm so excited for them.

u/tightslacks · 4 pointsr/Indiemakeupandmore

Available for purchase on Amazon! BUY IT AND READ IT RIGHT NOW.

It's a great dystopian story revolving around dysfunctional teens.

u/Breaker-of-Chains · 4 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Hi! So I'm not really sure exactly what genre of book you'd be interested in, but here are a couple of FREE Kindle books out right now from the bestseller list and with high reviews:

Highwater

Hope for Garbage

Truth Stained Lies

The Devil's Graveyards (This one has 11 5 star reviews and nothing else!)

The Timekeeper's Son

Reverb

A Family Affair

Pretty Little Liars (I watch the TV show...and so does my 32 year old husband...and we both really like it for being just fluff and teenage drama)

Unenchanted

Land

Hollowland

Nearly Departed in Deadwood

Hope you feel better!

u/worldwidethrowaway · 3 pointsr/Indiemakeupandmore
u/ozymandius5 · 2 pointsr/tipofmytongue
u/hergot · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

Drift. I highly recommend it. In my mind, it's up there with The Blue Sword.

Drift features a cool Aztec-ian world and a unique magic system. It's so integral to the plot that I actually can't describe it without spoilers. The author, MK Hutchins, has had a number of great stories published over at IGMS in the past year.

u/TheRubyRedPirate · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon
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  • I say that my mom drives me batshit crazy but in reality she is an amazing woman. If you are in trouble, you could call my mom with no doubt she would be there for you. She adopts people like children and looks for the best in everyone. She's loud, crazy and backwoods but I love her to death. She once bought a friend of mine a plane ticket to go see his father in the hospital. He hadn't seen his dad in years and didn't have any money. My parents didn't have much and I'd only had this friend a couple months. She dropped everything to help him. Its just the kinda woman she is.
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u/serasuna · 2 pointsr/funny

Almost as intriguing as Killer Pizza.

u/amazon-converter-bot · 1 pointr/FreeEBOOKS

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u/Osunder · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

Well, if science fiction is your thing, I'm two novels into writing a young adult sci-fi series and could always use some readers. My first one came out last September, and my second one early this January. It's available in ebook format and print, whichever one's to your fancy.

u/purplejasmine · 1 pointr/teenagers

Favourite: Oh, so many, but the most recently read favourite/book I waited the whole summer for (School was closed-too lazy and unwilling to sign up for shitty local library) is Code Name Verity. Was worth the whole six week wait, I assure you. A simply stunning tale of friendship, Gestapo, WW2, the French Resistance and flying. Also other things, but I suck at describing books.

Currently reading: A book called Butterfly Summer. Halfway through, current rating: Okay, would maybe read once again if extremely bored. I don't regret starting to read it as such, but wouldn't recommend too heartily to anyone else as the fundemental plot idea is good but the writing itself needs improvement.

Would recommend: White Crow, the aforementioned Code Name Verity.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams and the sequel to that (Both excellent reads).

Finding Cassie Crazy is quite good if you want something more teen-fiction-y, plot can get a bit confusing at times due to about six main characters but it's set out in a novel (excuse the pun) way- in the form of letters/diary entries/other stuff/ noticeboard notices all put together.

Torn is excellent- At first glance, the plot looks like it might rather predictable and done before. I assure you, it's not. The only annoying bit is the ending. The book seems to cut off a good chapter or two before I'd like it to, if you know what I mean, but I'll look past that for now.

u/otterarch · 1 pointr/tipofmytongue

Could it be The Stonewalkers by Vivien Alcock?

u/braveryonions · 1 pointr/AskReddit
u/i_am_a_cyborg · 1 pointr/Indiemakeupandmore
u/kbiering · 1 pointr/harrypotter

I wish she would make an encyclopedia. I hate Pottermore. I want something like what Cassandra Clare did or (sorry!) Stephenie Meyer did. I think if she got a design team behind her it would be amazing. These books are amazing and the designers would kick ass at helping her. 1 2 3

u/Ikasatu · -2 pointsr/programming

First: you are trying to resolve an issue that most computer users won't experience.

Second: this issue wouldn't even exist if you weren't using pictures.

If you stored those treasured moments in word form, instead of picture form, you wouldn't have to hide them. These files could even be stored on the desktop.
She would see the text and either confuse it for a part of the masterworks of Stephanie Meyers, or she would think "Ew. Reading is yucky.".

If she ever asked, you could just simply say "Honey, those are the magical pieces of paper that make your sugarbear's computer box gears turn."

This explanation is even more likely to be accepted if you repeat it to her in a way that makes it sound like you are speaking to a baby. Doing this correctly will cause her current psychological frame of reference to "regress" to an earlier state, in which she will simply trust everything you say, implicitly.