(Part 3) Best teen books according to redditors

Apparently, The End Games.
The following is not an affiliate link. I haven't read the book. I know almost nothing about it.
But here's the Amazon link.

There is a book on this exact subject, by the great illustrator David Macaulay...

"Unbuilding" This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.

http://www.amazon.com/Unbuilding-Sandpiper-David-Macaulay/dp/0395454255

House of Stairs

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I read that in 5th grade and was obsessed with it.

1. Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher -- or really, almost anything by him. Good, rich characters, facing adversity. He was a family therapist and his writing feels authentic while touching on real issues.
   
   
2. Though everyone talks (rightfully) about The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (bonus: movie coming out, starring the girl from Divergent), Paper Towns is pretty phenomenal, well developed, current, etc. For new fiction, John Green is doing about as good a job as anyone managing the YA / Adult transition, introducing tough topics with good - not intimidating - writing.
   
   
3. Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen is short but an amazing look at war from a young kid's perspective. A good compliment to all those fluffy (though enjoyable) we will win the war if i find my boyfriend! books that are so popular....
   
   
4. Also,The Book Thief by Zusak. Because.... for just about every reason.
   
   
5. If you think you are going to have a hard time un-sticking from the fantasy thing - The Night Circus is a creative alternative with better writing than the others.
   
   
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime shifted my perspective through shifting the voice -- the main character is autistic. Having this sort of unique narrator was a first & helped teach me about the role of voice (helpful, when your favorite author winds up being Faulkner...)
   
   Of course there are others (non fiction: Krakauer, Hillenbrand, come to mind; deeper: Tim O'Brien, Saramago; more fantastic: Guy Kay, Herbert, etc. ) but, trying to stay within age range / contemporary, and gender neutral... that's where I started! if any of these seem like the right thread, let me know, and i can give you a bucket more.

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents should be great for her: http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Maurice-Educated-Rodents-Discworld/dp/0060012358

The author is awesome. One of my favorite books as a kid was Motel of the Mysteries, an account of a future archeologist stumbling upon a preserved 1980s motel room and misinterpreting every thing inside.

Another favorite was Unbuilding, which was about dismantling the Empire State Building, shipping it to the Middle East and rebuilding it.

He also had a series about how various old, impressive structures (cathedrals, mosques, pyramids) were built.

In short, David Macaulay is a badass.

>in the opinion of modern scholars

In the opinion of some modern scholars. The opinions to which you give voice are hardly universal and they're trending toward a minority among contemporary scholars. Such views were much more widely held at the beginning of the 20th Century, for instance, than they are today.

Among the scholars to which you can refer to good scholarship and a less Modernist point of view are N.T. Wright and Scott Hahn. Both are (as far as I know) well regarded scholars of the Bible. There are others but those are the two that spring to mind.

>the disciples didn't really believe Jesus was God (if he existed)

I think this is false on the face of it, and even Bart Ehrman concludes that it was their belief in the resurrection that convinced Jesus' disciples that Jesus was God in the years immediately following the crucifixion. See here for a radio interview with Ehrman about his book, How Jesus Became God.

Ehrman courted the disfavor of his atheist admirers in one of his other recent books, where he took aim at the Jesus mythicists, arguing that Jesus was definitely an historical character.

Again, I would refer you to N.T. Wright and his works on the historicity of the Bible.

> the Bible is a collage of stolen myths

Once again, this is just flatly false and is only believed by the most extreme "scholars" in the Jesus Mythicist camp (as far as I know).

>My second question: is there a term for someone who studies Biblical topics in general? As in one who studies ancient near-east cultures, comparative mythology, languages, Biblical source documents, Jewish literature, archaeology, and other "Biblical Humanities"? That's what I like.

I don't know about a "term", but check out Scott Hahn, the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, this book (if you can find it), and especially (for this question), I would recommend John Walton and his books, The Lost World of Genesis One and Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible.

>Where and when did you decide to become a novelist?

I have always loved writing. I have pictures of myself in first grade with my first "story" (about three sentences that told the story of the characters on my coloring sheet. For Career Day, I dressed as a secretary and carried around a typewriter because I didn't know you could have a career as author and I just wanted to do something where I typed. Everyone told me I needed a "day job" to be a writer--and they were right, I did need an income that was more regular until I could make it.

>Did you go to school to achieve your current status or did you take a different path?

No schooling. I took one creative writing class in college, and my professor--the head of the CW department--said on the first day that we could write anything for his class except sci fi and fantasy because he didn't want stories where you could wave a magic wand and everything's fine. Which is utterly stupid, because SFF isn't about that at all. I stuck it through that one class, and was so disillusioned by the elitism and snobbery of the literary wannabes that I noped out of there. Instead, I got my degree in English education, and worked as a high school teacher for six years before I could break through in publishing. I wrote ten novels over the course of a decade, submitted them all, and racked up about a thousand rejections from agents and publishers. It was basically like working a second job. My big breakthrough came with my first published novel, Across the Universe, which enabled me to quit my job and turn writing into my career.

>What is your advice for aspiring writers?

When given the choice between staying at home and writing all day or going out and having an adventure, choose the adventure. A life lived well and diversely will give you more and better stories than a life lived holed up. Of course there's a time when you need to put your butt in the chair and work, but don't do it at the expense of living.

Also, find your community. Writing is very solitary, but the writing community isn't. Reach out to other writers on your level, in your genre, etc. If you write YA, /r/YAWriters is a great resource (disclosure, I'm a mod there, but we are pretty awesome).

>And how does one become a writer for Lucasfilm?

Luck. They came to my agent and asked if I'd be interested and I tried not to freak out when she passed the offer to me.

The End Games by T. Michael Martin

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620104997/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_AkhZDbXKJHZKN

Not exactly a self help book but it’s good at explaining things

This is going to seem like a really strange choice, but it's coming from another 16 year old. I recommend Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, as it is one of my absolute favorite books. It may only appeal to him if he likes science or engineering, but it's worth a shot regardless.

In a similar vein to the Chronicles of Narnia, may I recommend The Hobbit/ The Lord of the Rings? Both are great stories that he may like. Although they are not the best written books in terms of writing quality (in my opinion), the Inheritence Cycle by Christopher Paolini might appeal for entertainment value. Perhaps a lesser known author that I greatly enjoy is Megan Whalen Turner, author of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia. I just became aware of this book and have thus never read it, but A Conspiracy of Kings by the same author is bound to be good.

Steering away from fantasy, he may also like science fiction. I recommend any Ray Bradbury. Most of his stories are short, so for someone who doesn't read often they are great. My favorite are the Martian Chronicles, but R is for Rocket is also a good compilation. All of the Artemis Fowl series are recommended as well.

If I think of any more, I will certainly edit this post.

Dude, that book and the Eleventh Hour by Base are freaken incredible. Thanks for reminding me of my childhood. I literally spent months looking/solving these.

I think I found it:

I typed "young adult novel sci fi underground" into Google. Second link was to this page, which led to This Time of Darkness, and I'm 95% sure this is it.

Edit: Now I'm 100% sure. Google books has it online. Here's the page about the rats

I am going to take issue with that Brave New World and Hunger Games are dystopian, but not science fiction" line. The article linked to explain that distinction is based around the idea that dystopia must involve an ideological critique and uses The Matrix as an illustrative example, but doesn't seem to talk about what makes something science fiction rather than just blanket speculative fiction. (e.g. According to the author, The Matrix is not dystopian because the central narrative line is a messiah's human triumph over machines in thriller format, not the prediction/parable about humanity's end that would mark it as dystopian according to the thesis. I disagree.)

As far as I'm concerned, science fiction incorporates technology and/or science that is conceivable, but not currently available. So I'd say Brave New World's Bokanovsky's Process and The Hunger Games' genetic engineering in the form of mockingjays and tracker jackers as well as the flight craft and force fields and massive leaps in other technologies easily qualify them both as sci-fi. And dystopian.

So ha. ^Though ^you ^might ^get ^me ^to ^argue ^that ^Brave ^New ^World ^is ^actually ^utopian.

More Recommended Dystopian Sci-Fi Reads:

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (adult literary sci-fi). Hyper-relevant commentary on social stratification, corporate power, class warfare, and rampant genetic engineering. One of my favorite books ever. Companion volumes (not sequels) are The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam
  
• Feed by M.T. Anderson (YA sci-fi), where everyone has the internet in their heads from birth. The consequences of instantaneous gratification and hypercapitalism. Super depressing and yet another one of my favorite books.
  
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (YA and a free ebook, btw). Maybe not the best ever, but hyper-relevant and you can treat it as a primer on internet security, higher level math, and coding. In near-future California, a teenage hacker is swept up by the Department of Homeland Security following a terrorist attack. Serious social commentary on mass surveillance and privacy.
  
• World War Z by Max Brooks, bearing no resemblance to the movie beyond the name (adult post-apocalyptic, an easy - and favorite - read. The abridged audiobook is good too). Despite the zombie apocalypse, this might not even count as dystopian because the interconnected interview narratives about the triumphs of human ingenuity are pretty uplifting. Themes of social change, the levels we'll sink to for survival, resilience...
  
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (YA sci-fi). At 16, the perfect society will make you pretty... And dumb. Society's obsession with beauty, etc, etc. I thought the series went downhill, but this is worth reading.
  
• Habibi by Craig Thompson (adult graphic novel). Half exegesis, half narrative about a post-apocalyptic Middle East mixed with stories from the Qu'ran and Arabian Nights. Deconstruction of the human spirit in a dying world, mainly.
  
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (adult literary). If you've even seen the movie trailer, half of the slow build to "something is not quite right" in the book is lost.
  
• Incarceron and Sapphique by Catherine Fisher (YA steampunk-ish). This almost broke my favorite books list. Almost. Two worlds: one steampunk, labyrinthine prison, one fake medieval "real" world.
  
  Dystopian and Not Quite Sci-Fi Recommendations:
  
  
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (MG). Forget the movie trailer. The book we read back in elementary school was more about a utopian society going back to a simpler time and a 12-year old discovering the cracks and making his own decisions.
  
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire (adult literary fantasy). Different once again from the Broadway show, this is The Wizard of Oz told from the POV of the Wicked Witch of the West. All about the nature and definition of evil, but even then it might not count as dystopian. The Wizard is a Nazi, btw.
  
• The Selection by Kiera Cass (YA popcorn). This is seriously only making the list because of the popcorn aspect and where it seemed like it was going to go before The One ruined all the political drama and revolution that could have happened. Basically a fun Mary Sue-fest about princess lessons in a future-North American caste society.
  
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (YA spec fic). Anorexic teen during WWIII. Plenty of survival and resilience questions, but no new tech, so not really sci-fi, I'd say.
  
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (adult literary spec fic). Could arguably belong on the list above, but there's not much in the way of technology. At all. With declining birth rates due to pollution, the US becomes a theocracy. Written in response to the rise of evangelical politics in the 80s much like Oryx and Crake was in response to the politics of the early 21st century, but the main takeaway I got from it was that anthropologists are unconscionable.
  
• Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (adult literary spec fic). I didn't like this one at the time because the symbolism was so heavy-handed it bordered on magical realism and I couldn't understand the MC's decisions, but it grew on me in retrospect. After a flu pandemic, two teenage sisters live mostly on their own.
  
  But really, this whole article setup is eerily reminiscent of the "____ Literary Trope is Not Worthy!" followed by "Rebuttal!" linkbait we've been seeing a lot.

The most obvious title that springs to mind would be The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.

Or how about Bill The Galactic Hero? This one seems more relevant now than when it was written.

Is it House of Stairs by William Sleator?

http://www.amazon.com/House-Stairs-William-Sleator/dp/0140345809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278450763&sr=1-1

Coming in June 2018. Preorder yours because it's the current year!

Allegiant

There are no bad or good days. Just days. Did your dog just die? Still another day. Events happen, many outside of our control. Assigning the arbitrary day they happened a meaning is pointless. It's really hard for us not to though.

I remember watching a TV show where they locked a bunch of people in a room and they had to escape. There were all sorts of little things they had to try to escape. The only thing keeping them there was time. But they started to assign meaningless reason to their actions. When they finally escaped they all thought they had done something, but in reality the timer on the clock ran out.

This is what you're doing. A timer on a clock ran out, something happened, you prescribe it happened because you were wearing or doing x.

I also highly recommend reading this book - http://www.amazon.com/House-Stairs-William-Sleator/dp/0140345809
Take the time to consider the wider implications and what it would mean for you.

Something to read $6.99 from his Books list and Hand wrap mesh wash bag from his boxing list. $3.99

Check out Scott Hahn's Reasons to Believe. If you're looking for a guide while you work your way through Scripture, I can recommend his Understanding the Scriptures. People have recommended the Bible Project on Youtube, and while it's a nice thing they did, it's skewed Protestant and thus they don't even cover all the books of the Bible.

Yup, House of Stairs by William Sleator

3. My favorite book to movie adaptation is Harry Potter! While there were a few things different, it was really well done and magical!
   
   
4. My least favorite adaptation was City of Bones... I mean they really screwed up this movie! They left out so much and changed so many things that I really don't know how they're going to make the next movie!
   
   E-books:
   
   Glimmer
   
   Paper Towns
   
   The Giver
   
   Four: The Transfer
   
   Thank you for the contest!

Read Unbuilding by David Macaulay. It is a young adult "fiction" about a Saudi prince who has it dismantled and shipped to Saudi Arabia. This is now how it would be demolished but it gives a very good look on how the building is put together and gives you an idea of the scope of the job.

Yay! First ever contest!

I would gift /u/kickballa because she rocks! (seriously love her). I'd gift her Allegiant because it is a great book and she should have the pleasure of reading it!!

I really hope she wins! Thanks for the contest! :)

• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (free ebook version published under Creative Commons license).
  
  
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, although it is written to hit a nerve with those who remember the 80's I'd still classify it as "Young-Adult" (or maybe Young-Adult for Adults).
  
  
• This Time of Darkness by H.M. Hoover. A dystopian tale of 2 kids trying to escape from an underground city to freedom, although maybe aimed towards readers younger than YA.

Shade's Children
From what I remember, the plot was basically that some sort of apocalyptic 'event' had occured, leaving only those 14 and younger alive. (Four?) dictator types moved in and started harvesting the kids for their body parts to sew into creatures who fought war games for them. The book follows a group of kids that have escaped capture, and have developed unique special abilities from the 'event'.

Found it in the young adult section years ago, and needless to say it was nothing like I had read before at that age.

So, basically a movie on a police-state, with the defenders of free speech fighting for their freedom? Hrm, with themes from the Matrix, Cloverfield, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Little Brother (Haven't read it yet though), and possibly references to Monty Python, this movie would rock!

If it was done properly, I think that it could be propagated solely via word of mouth and the internet as its distributor. I know that I would watch it.


On the other hand, a novel would be better, as one would be able to see what one is thinking.


Whatever the case, this would be an interesting subject to see/read.

Good lord, yes! I love this series so much. I also liked Shade's Children

This is This Time of Darkness

https://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Darkness-H-Hoover/dp/0765345676

Amazon classifies Mistoborn as YA:
https://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Final-Empire-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/0765377136

Stormlight is marketed to adults, but there isn't a paragraph in it that wouldn't be comprehensible or appropriate for a 14 year old.

I like Sanderson's books. I just also think they're childish.

In fact the only book that was recommended here that I didn't like was The Night Circus.

Scott Hahn wrote a book in the Didache Series of textbooks which are used for High School students called Understanding the Scriptures. The entire first chapter of that book goes into what the Bible is and how it is to be interpreted. Depending on the objections, you may be able to find answers there.

Also, there is an article from LifeTeen by Mark Hart about the reliability of scripture which addresses the issue from a teen point of view.

https://www.amazon.com/End-Games-T-Michael-Martin/dp/0062201816

David Macaulay wrote and drew a book about a Middle Eastern billionaire buying the Empire State Building and dismantling it piece by piece.

I always tell people to read The Wanting Seed. Such an amusing yet thought-provoking read.

Edit:

• The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
  
• Matched series by Allie Condie
  
• The Barcode Tattoo series by Suzanne Weyn
  
• Violet Eyes by Nicole Luiken
  
• Shade's Children by Garth Nix
  
• The Game by Monica Hughes
  
• The Uglies series by Scott Westerfield
  
• Proxy series by Alex London
  
• The Maze Runner series by James Dashner
  
• Incarceron series by Catherine Fisher

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow It is hard for me to put this book down once I start. If anyone knows of any books like this, please let me know.

The wand part doesn't quite click, but the rest of it--especially the submarine--might be Shade's Children, though I guess the overall scenario might fit a lot of YA books out there.

Now I'm curious about what you're thinking of!

This is BRILLIANT.

Found mistborn easily:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/sitb-next/0765377136/ref=sbx_txt/002-2018152-0260852?_encoding=UTF8#textstats


I'm going to have to play with this. Do you know when they stopped gathering the metadata?

Well now you can!

Yes it is.

Hmm, this looks similar to The Eleventh Hour, which we had as kids, and spent hours on. There's a few red herrings in it, too, which took hours to solve, then turned out to be nothing. Wholely aggravating. My mom worked on it with us, and we never did figure it out. I ended up cheating by peeking at the answer. But I still have the book, and hope to work through it with my stepdaughter.

I started her slow, by going through Puzzle Island with her. I also got The Red Herring Mystery, but we haven't solved this one yet, and we've gotten away from this. I want to work up to The Eleventh Hour, though. It looks as though Graeme Base has other books as well, which we'll have to check out. My stepdaughter is incredibly smart, and she's eight years old now, and she loves these kind of puzzles. She also REALLY relishes anything that she can do with one of her parents (and yes, I count as one of them - she really digs me these days, which is TOTALLY AWESOME! I get to really be a mom, YAY!).

Anyway, "Masquerade" in Hardback in Good condition is selling for a penny for $3.99 shipping, so I bought a copy. Looks good. :) I'm all for things like this!

I fell your pain. I was destroyed for about a month afterwards...


Hold your mouse over the spoiler tag to see it btw.
[spoiler](#s "But no, it's not another trilogy. It's a four (the number, not Tobias) book collection that is about 270? pages and it depicts the time before Tobias joins Dauntless, some of the experiences he had there, and then a story taking place after the knife throwing scene. And if you haven't read the knife throwing scene from Four/Tobias' prospective I suggest doing so here:")

[Spoiler] Don't click on this link until you've read the spoiler.

http://www.amazon.com/Free-Four-Tobias-Divergent-Knife-Throwing-ebook/dp/B008B11K04

Some YA dystopias that haven't been mentioned:

• Feed, where everyone has the internet in their heads from birth. On a trip to the moon, boy meets girl who didn't get it until age 6.
  
• Uglies series, where the perfect society will give you massive plastic surgery to make you pretty and dumb on your 16th birthday.
  
• Delirium trilogy, in a totalitarian society where love is a disease and everyone is "cured" at 16 and given a partner.
  
• Matched trilogy, in a totalitarian society where there is no love and everyone is given a partner at 17. Yes, it's the same book as Delirium. Delirium has better writing; Matched is easier to read.
  
• The Selection trilogy, where America has become a monarchy filled with castes and there is a televised event to choose the next princess.
  
• Leviathan trilogy, a steampunk retelling of WWI where the Austro-Hungarians use mechas and the British use genetically-engineered whale blimps.
  
• Legend trilogy, which starts off as a cat-and-mouse chase between a 15-year old government super-agent and a 15-year old terrorist in future Los Angeles.
  
• Boneshaker, about steampunk, blimps, and zombies in frontier Oregon. Has incredibly wooden characters.
  
• Across the Universe trilogy, where a girl is being shipped to a space colony with her parents, but is unfrozen early and stuck in the midst of a murder mystery and an unrecognizable spaceship society.
  
  By the way, Little Brother is a free ebook.

I can't seem to find anyone with it - does anyone have this on their WL?

JK guys, I got this.

wow! you're so generous!! i've been wanting a kindle fire for college because i'll be able to use it in class for notes and most of my classes last semester required ebook readers for the textbooks and my mom also wanted one so i'd love to share it with her too

i have books on my wishlist that i wanted in paper back but if i were to win the kindle i wouldn't mind any of them but for a specific one This book City of bones i saw the trailer for the movie and it looked amazing and i like reading the books before watching the movies

you truly are really amazing mister numbers man :P

Fantasy: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. The first book is good, but the second and third are fantastic.


Non-fiction: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human by Richard Wrangham. Flat-out the most fascinating book I've ever read. About evolution and shit.

Literary Fiction: Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin. The writing is so beautiful, moving, exquisite, all that good stuff. Le Guin's best work, imo.

Science Fiction: The High Crusade by Poul Anderson. Sooooo awesome. Has some elements of fantasy in it (the medieval part anyway.) Basically, knights vs. aliens.

1. This book, so I can learn how to knit. Because I really need a hobby.
   
2. Allegiant is my most wanted e-book right now, I've read the first two in the series, and I would really love to finish the series. :D I wanna know what happens! lol.
   
3. If I were a book, I hope that I'd be a great one.

Yes. There are sequels as well, two I think.

My best advice is make them feel welcome in the community. I’m not really sure how youth groups work but I know many of my friends who are both lgbt and Christian, it can be hard because of people who tell them they cannot be both. Let them know that they are loved and welcome.
As for there being a boys and girls side, I do agree that if at all possible you could remove the gendered sides. If there’s adult supervision in the lock-ins while they’re going to sleep it should be fine. If it’s not possible to remove the sides you can ask them where they’d prefer to sleep, and explain to them that there isn’t much you can do about removing the split sides.
A final thing I’d like to suggest is maybe reading the book “a quick and easy guide to they/them pronouns” it’s a short comic book that helps to explain non gendered pronouns to people who don’t know much about the topic but are willing to learn. It’s only about $8 (link to book)

I’d also like to say I’m glad you’re putting in the effort to make them feel welcome and safe. I’m sure they appreciate it

One of my favorite books recently is Gone Girl. I love the multiple perspectives and the twists.

The Selection by Kiera Cass

It sounds a bit like The Eleventh Hour, minus the detective agency:

The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery https://www.amazon.com/dp/0810932652/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.cVnDbYGYHEXM

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. It's classed as Young Adult, but it's awesome for any age. No looking at the summaries for the next ones until you've read each one, though. Spoilers abound.

Thought it was Ready Player One but it turns out it's The End Games by T. Michael Martin

The end games The End Games https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062201816/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0YVRyb3PSZ78M

You could say that you came out two summers ago and you feel like they're trying to ignore you whenever you try to share this part of you. Proper framing helps this sort of stuff so just sort of putting it across as trying to help them understand where you're coming from and not wanting to lose ties to them might help? Alternatively, approaching one before the other and saying that you don't think the other wants to understand you? Might sound a bit manipulative but this sort of thing is basically already gonna be a struggle in trying to get someone to get you.

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Another option is going to be dropping an article on their lap or sticking something on the telly with a nonbinary character in it that'll help them understand it a bit without it seeming "forced" or giving them a chance to argue about it. If you watch films with your parents or anything, "Upgrade" is a 2018 Science Fiction film with a one scene nonbinary hacker formerly named Jamie and that was a life saver for me as far as something silly and dumb to put on that raised the talking point.

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A mate of mine recommended THIS ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quick-Easy-Guide-They-Pronouns/dp/1620104997 ) to me. Life saver and a half. My dad borrowed it for a weekend, started making an effort thereafter. Its not the most complex of books but its got the general gist that someone completely new might need.


And maybe avoid the polycule for a bit unless there's a natural opening for it. For some reason the idea of multiple partners seems to spook people more than "I'm not the gender you think I am."

Not sure but I'm hoping for books :) Particularly have my eye on this beauty

The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery?
https://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Hour-Curious-Mystery/dp/0810932652/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Or anything else by Graeme Base

The Tardis makes me really happy. I also really love fleece blankets. I ain't birthed no babies!

Also. [Happy Birfday.] (http://www.amazon.com/Across-the-Universe-ebook/dp/B00475ARSO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376882087&sr=1-1&keywords=across+the+universe) I'm reading the third in the series right now and they're awesome. The website is also really bad ass.

Congrats on being an Aunt! I like the name, it's pretty. Have a great birthday!

Across the Universe.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00475ARSO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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Hell Yes!

Unbuilding
City
Underground
Castle
Pyramid
Mill
Cathedral
Mosque

David Macaulay is the MAN. I loved these books when I was a kid love these books!

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow http://www.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765319853

Labor Day! I would love a new book to read I have a few books on my list but the number one book I would like to read is City of Bones, & my second choice would be The Witching Hour. You're amazing thank you for a great contest! As for a favorite quote from a book none come to mind right away I usually love the book as a whole.

You like strong female characters and coming-of-age stories? Read The Fault in our Stars, and/or Paper Towns., both by John Green.

Definitely Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.

The stories in the Steal the Network series are fiction wrapped around realistic computer security themes and exploits. They even include screenshots where applicable. I especially enjoyed the last one in the series.

I'm totally Awesome

http://imgur.com/VN41QmI


Here is a book I would really like to read :)

http://www.amazon.com/Free-Four-Divergent-Knife-Throwing-ebook/dp/B008B11K04/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2S13H6VJDXAGZ&coliid=I31R83PAUAIXIK


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just like to start and say name of the wind was one of my favorite books.
that being said here are my suggestions

Inheritance Series

magicians apprentice & series

Maximum Ride Series

Mortal Instruments series

Check this out. I have this, and it's great.

Well, much of the subtle satire might go other their heads.

Sadly I haven't read all the books myself yet :( Of what I have read, general content wise, I would say you could read them to your kids. Whether or not they will like them I can't really say as it's geared to more of an adult audience :p

Pratchett did write 4 young adult novels that they may like better. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents being the first.

Here is kind of a map for how to read the books. Though I'm pretty sure this one is already out-dated :p since there are more books than are listed on here. I am sure there are other better ones.

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A really fascinating book I read when I was 11 was William Sleator's House of Stairs. http://www.amazon.com/House-Stairs-William-Sleator/dp/0140345809

It is considered YA, but I think it tackles some pretty intense concepts. contemporary analogs would probably be The Giver.

Sure would, and it's a good book. I loved the boxcar children but that may be too young.

My friend's 8-10 year old is huge into hunger games, and The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland

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< $5: The Prince & The Guard

< $1.50: Free Four

Frank and Beans!

I want Allegiant so hard!

Thanks for the contest!

Funny. I've been avoiding the classics because they were written when conventions expected a heavier hand.

O.k. Try some stuff written within the last 20 years. I wish I could give you a more diverse list, but I've been playing catch up myself. That said, I've already read 20 books this year. The ones that weren't a waste were:

Equal Rites--Terry Pratchett He's a master at making a 4 level point with one sentence.

Good Omens- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman This one is cool because a lot of people try to figure out who wrote what.

Besieged- Rowena Cory Daniels Kick-ass story. Great characterization. Descriptions snuck into the creases.

Wool-Hugh Howey O.k. I didn't read it this year, but it sucks you straight in. There's so much to learn about how Hugh made a fandom who demanded more material from him.

Another highly recommended book: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own Making This one has a strong, strong voice, but does a breath-taking job of describing imaginary things. Amazing stuff.

It's all about the karma. Mmm baby.

Would it be Shade's Children by Garth Nix?

I vividly remember the part about the kids getting paired off each night. I think the goal was to repopulate the movement or something?

Peaches! After a rat in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett. A must read. :)

Something along the lines of Hatchet might be a good place to start. The main character would be about your brother's age as I recall.

/u/suckinonmytitties Is so lovely. I 'ran' into her on an earlier comment thread and it reminded me of just how awesome of a person she is <3

I love my ability to always give support and encouragement to others. I would do it all day everyday if I could.

[Link] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ANSS5K/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1JZ9YT455ZCAF&coliid=IOITDNYTUXRTT)

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

Thanks for the contest!

I want to suggest The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and its sequels. These are some of my favorite books and I feel they are not popular enough for how good they are.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Thief-Queens-Book/dp/0060824972/

I just started this series and so far I like it :D.

Also if you like are into romance and fantasy at all I would recommend The fever series by Karen Marie Moning. Love that series!

House of Stairs
I doubt it's what you're looking for, although it's an excellent recommendation.

Ah I've seen your comment below. read maybe:

Joe Abercrombie - Best Served Cold

Max Berry - lexicon

Dürrenmatt - Suspicion

Gaiman - Good Omens

Kafka - The Trial

Sillitoe - The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner

Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide ( no way you haven't read that - but who knows )

Branderson - Way Of Kings

Libba Bray - The Diviners

Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( there is a really ugly bible style translation - beware!!! )

Lynn Kurland - Star Of The Morning ( your sex and age is of interest )

Schwab - Vicious

Bakker - The Darkness That Comes Before

Robert Thier - Storm and Silence

Eco - Name Of The Rose ( no way you haven't read it but u know the drill ) + Foucault's Pendulum

Lord Of The Rings ( duh )

Sanderson - Mistborn

Sanderson - Alloy of Law

Harris - Hannibal

Rothfuss - The Name Of The Wind

Bukowski -Ham on Rye

Burroughs - Running With Scissors

Wong - John Dies at the End

Sounds like you're the one in the closet, OP, and that sucks. It must be hard for you to hide who you are. Saying you don't want to look like a homo while you're actively dating someone from the LGBTQ+ community is pretty stupid, yeah. You're dating a trans person. On the positive side, you have a chance to be a hero here. You have a chance to be the ally your partner and everyone like them needs. Stay safe and don't out them, but don't talk about your love like it's shameful when it isn't. That doesn't make you cooler. Misgendering for your own comfort does make you kind of a dick.

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Words you can use to describe them:
"My partner" instead of gf or bf
"They/them/theirs" pronouns if that's what your partner likes best. If they prefer he/him/his and they're public about it, don't stop using those pronouns just to make yourself feel better.

Books for how to explain they/them pronouns to other people:
A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns


Most importantly, DO TALK TO THEM. They deserve to know, and you don't want them finding out later that you misgendered them.

Neverwhere. Nine times.

First and only book I started re-reading immediately after finishing it.

Also Pratchett's 'The Amazing Maurice...', which I sort of love :]

In case anyone is curious, this is from The End Games by T Michael Martin.

https://www.amazon.com/End-Games-T-Michael-Martin/dp/0062201816

You can get it used for like a penny, if you're intrigued.

Does anyone know what book this is?

Edit: Found it.

The main character is younger than what you requested but the themes and writing are tailored to adults. It's not really childish at all but very fantastical, think Alice in Wonderland: Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente.

First book is The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Amazon link

The Selection books

Maybe William Sleator's House of Stairs?

If you're stranded, the first priority is food and shelter- not keeping track of what date it is.

The only reason why people started keeping track of dates and things like solstices was because they started settling down and harvesting crops.

Being stranded from all civilization means that you've devolved past that back into the hunter-gatherer stage of existence. And until you build up a mass of people (ie civilization) enough to plant crops and settle in somewhere, there is no real need to keep track of such things.

And any damn fool can look around and realize which of the 4 seasons it is. You don't need a fancy watch to tell you that.

As far as survival in the wilderness goes, my favorite all time book about such things is The Hatchet. I've always felt that book was far more accurate/realistic than any sort of thing Hollywood could ever come up with.

Yes, it is young adult fiction. Yes, it is 20 years old. But if you've never read it, then you're missing out.

Is it This Time of Darkness

I don't have a recommendation on a game system, but you might want to throw a few hours at Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It's the story of a boy who finds himself alone in the open wasteland of northern Canada with no food or shelter. He suffers a lot as he deals with mosquitoes and other insects, wild animals, poison ivy, and other things. He learns to make fire on his own, how to hunt birds and small animals, and all kinds of things. It's a great story about survival and really gets to the heart of what you'll probably want to bring to your game. With a scenario like the one you want to write, you will probably want your players to react in a visceral way. The best way to do that is to evoke emotions in them like discomfort, hunger, panic, etc.

EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/Hatchet-20th-Anniversary-Gary-Paulsen/dp/1416925082/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343240804&sr=1-1&keywords=hatchet

2: Shade's Children?

http://www.amazon.com/Shades-Children-Garth-Nix/dp/0064471969

Yep. How about this book by the same author? It's an illustrated speculative fiction (for kids) about how one might go about dismantling the Empire State Building and moving it to the middle east.

1. Cake or birthday related - For keeping my birthday suit clean
   
2. Simon Pegg - You've got red on you
   
3. A book you are eager to read - Anxiously awaiting its release
   
4. Eating Utensils - Emergency rations need no utensils!
   
5. Animal - Jacque Moosteau fits this!
   
6. Purple - Flameless Lavendar candle!
   
7. A game - I have a whole Tabletop list, but Catan will suffice
   
8. A guilty pleasure - Thai tea, yum
   
9. A Tool - Weights are a tool for a healthier me!
   
10. Something from your childhood - Darth vader sheet set... that I want... even though I'm 36.
    
11. An organizational item - Stackable pyrex dishes organize my food mess
    
12. Hobby - Yarn, for my crochet habit
    
13. Nerdy/ Geeky - I have a whole list, but this TARDIS Nyan cat shirt should suffice
    
14. Something Natural - Mmmm Good Earth tea
    
15. Green - Green lame for stripes for my Columbia shorts
    
16. Something you wear - Tap shoes! Again, for Columbia
    
17. Funny - This is funny if you've seen LOST
    
18. Beads, Bees or Beans - It's no longer available, but still on my list - this fabric reminds me of Bees!
    
19. Gardening - Mooquet came from the garden
    
20. Your absolute favorite item on your wish list no matter the price. - This is one small piece to a big Columbia puzzle for me, I can't wait until our October show!!
    
    Happy happy cake day!!!!
    
    I hope that this is what you'll be getting for yourself because mason jars are SUPER useful in tons of ways! :D

Oh man, I have so many used books on my wishlists. Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, Flowers for Algernon, A Clockwork Orange, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making are some of my most-wanted from my Under $6 wishlist :D I also have an entire books wishlist! Any of the books except for the children's books are great used! (I don't like used children's books just because they take a beating quickly)

The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base

I got this book for my dad, he said it was really helpful for him to understand how to use pronouns correctly https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Guide-They-Pronouns/dp/1620104997/ref=nodl_

The Thief by Meghan Whalen Turner

I have The War of the Worlds and a collection of six Sherlock Holmes adventures, if either one interests you. I also have Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Witch and Wizard, and The Gift by James Patterson.

Perhaps This Time of Darkness?

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Thanks!

I think you would like the Mistborn Trilogy (Goodreads | Amazon) by Brandon Sanderson. Although the female protagonist is younger than your requirements, all the characters are well developed and three dimensional. Spectacular worldbuilding coupled with a unique magic system, really elevates the plot. Give it a try. I think it is one of those series that not everybody might love, but nobody can hate. Cheers!

You mean the book that was released in the UK in 2011? 3 or 4 years after The Night Angel Trilogy?

[Here is the old Final Empire covers] ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0765377136/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?pc_redir=T1)

This one will last for a long time.