Best teen fantasy books according to redditors
We found 799 Reddit comments discussing the best teen fantasy books. We ranked the 199 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 799 Reddit comments discussing the best teen fantasy books. We ranked the 199 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Sleepers, Wake by Paul Samuel Jacobs
Sleepers, Wake (An Apple Paperback) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0590423983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_wQOTCb37CB06M
This is Virtual War, by Gloria Skurzynski. It's on Kindle nowadays, and used copies are pretty cheap on Amazon
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
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.
Gemini Game?
https://www.amazon.com/Gemini-Game-Michael-Scott/dp/0816742715
Was it A Practical Guide to Dragons or Dragonology?
No, but that did send me on the right track and I found it! The Discovery of Dragons by Graeme Base!
My bad, didn't notice the audiobook part, just the exciting combat part.
Patch 17; locked in game story (or maybe portal into game-world?), lots of great combat and multiple audiobooks. Character gets glitch-stuck in a locked expansion surrounded by demon NPCs, right as everyone who plays the game gets uploaded into it (there are some unexplained non-scientific stuff about that, that make me wonder if it's actually an upload and not really a portal story).
Adventures on Brad; dungeon crawling fantasy story containing no earthlings. Easier/lower level story, a trilogy, but the fights are decent for what I consider a YA level book.
The System Apocalypse; real life apocalypse story. Fighting is good, as is the writing, and there are 4 (5?) audiobooks already (and a few more books already published that haven't gotten an audio treatment).
Codename: Freedom; VRMMORPG, with zero magic to start but lots of fighting. Decent for a VR book, I'm not usually a fan of those but I've listened to the first two books and am looking forward to the third.
Arcane Survivalist; apocalypse caused by a portal-story (scientist semi-accidentally sends the system back though his portal into the real world). Action is great, though writing could have been better. Same writer wrote another story I've read, but I can't remember how much action there is in it.
Forever Fantasy Online; VRMMORPG turned portal-story. I'll admit the whole thing wasn't amazing, but you're just looking for action and I liked the action.
You're Not Allowed to Die; end of life single-player VR sim turned portal-story (the MC doesn't know that, though). This one is hard, as I liked it but the character starts with some insane OP equipment. Still, this and the sequel were both enjoyable.
The Land; I'm not even linking this one, people here have a hate-hardon for it. Still, as long as you look past the bro-ish behavior and tone, great books with lots of action.
I started reading the Codename: Freedom series last night. Only about 10 chapters in so far, but it seems pretty good so far. It did come out in 2017 though, so you may have already read it. The third book only just came out in August though.
Could it be Virtual War?
Available for purchase on Amazon! BUY IT AND READ IT RIGHT NOW.
It's a great dystopian story revolving around dysfunctional teens.
This reminded me of The Dark Side of Nowhere. One of my favorites growing up!
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.
Beowulf! Beowulf is a must for any fantasy lover!
if you've read Beowulf and you want something similar, then check this out: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HBBWHW7/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4
if you want something with mermaids then check out one of these two: https://www.amazon.com/Shearwater-Mermaid-Romance-D-S-Murphy-ebook/dp/B01N45RZCQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541179533&sr=8-2&keywords=shearwater
or
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DZN9DBY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i8
HERE!
Since he likes making his own stories, Wizards of the Coast published a book about dragons and one about monsters from the D&D game that read like a kids' non-fiction catalog. It sounds like he has a love of fantasy and creativity that lend well to roleplaying games when he gets older. For someone who doesn't enjoy reading there is a payoff when you get to play a game if you read the book.
A Practical Guide to Monsters
A Practical Guide to Dragons
After looking this up, I found more Practical Guides from WotC. Keep looking if you are interested.
The Boy Who Reversed Himself?
Sounds like Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316789070?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1
Sorry if that link doesn't work. I'm using my phone.
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?
Gemini Game by Michael Scott
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Nowhere-Neal-Shusterman/dp/076534243X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
The plane who reversed himself.
Mmm, stewardess - bring me another stoned ketchup packet!
Is it The Green Futures of Tycho?
This novel, which is for my Kindle, is just under $3.00. Anyone who has played the game Chrono Trigger will probably recognize a few...certain similarities. But that's part of why I'd like to read it as it's my favorite game of all time.
Favorite horror movie? I'd say Tremors. I mean really. Who'd ever thought Reba and Alex P. Keaton's dad teaming up to fight a giant killer prehistoric worm would be so awesome to watch?
Solved!
YES! THIS WAS IT!
The cover was this variation that I remembered.
Thank you!
https://www.amazon.ca/Dark-Side-Nowhere-Neal-Shusterman/dp/0316789070
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku.
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip Thorne.
A Sound Of Thunder by Ray Bradbury.
The Green Futures of Tycho by William Sleator.
Based on your description of the cover it could be this one: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL82643W/Virtual_War
edit: There's a plot description on the book's Amazon page. Sounds about right?
Happy Humpday!
$2.99 ebook!
maybe this is it
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N1F8ULW/ref=series_rw_dp_sw
I would drink a diet pepsi. http://www.amazon.com/Zoo-The-Enclosure-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00BELOS98/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=3B95R7R3MHRGQ&coliid=I3ETADHHYLFKI2
Aww, someone else read The Boy Who Reversed Himself in elementary school too!
Top of the list as per Rex Grossman: A Pracitcal Guide to Dragons
I know you already said this was solved, but your description really reminds me of this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Discovery-Dragons-Graeme-Base/dp/0810932377
I have that book on my shelf and just checked it, and three of the dragons are exactly as you described. I also found pics online:
http://gistlabs.net/Dragon_Forest/pictures/Graeme_BASE/BASEButterflyDragon.jpg
http://dragoncharm.freehomepage.com/images/welshred.jpg
http://www.oilpaintings-supplier.com/upfile/products/20101017510681688.jpg
Is it The Dark Side of Nowhere?
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
Could it be the Virtual War Chronologs series? It was required reading in 6th grade which I skimmed. It is a trilogy, and your description sounds vaguely familiar.
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I found The Boy Who Reversed Himself lyong around my middle school library. Campy YA sci fi about a kid who can move in the 4th dimension, which adoes a surprisingly good job of making higher dimensional geometry accessible to middle schoolers. I don't think I knew it was math at the time.
Found it
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Hi Everyone,
I stumbled across this subreddit a few days ago. It seems like a great site with a lot of relevant information. Loving it so far :)
So, my name is Sarah Dalton. The username is because there's another sarahdalton somewhere and because I had a thing for JD Salinger. I'm a self-published author and writer of the YA dystopian series 'Blemished', a story about a girl labelled genetically inferior in a world of clones. It's quite a bit more complicated than that, but I'll leave it at that for now!
Links:
Books
I've also had short stories published in Apex Magazine, PANK magazine, Strange Horizons and the Wyvern Anthology Fangtales.
Work in progress YA Fantasy set in a medieval style world. It's about a girl, a Prince, revenge, and magic.
Oh man I love it! It reminds me of this book where they catalog different dragons from around the world. Very cool I would love to see a series of dragons from different biomes :)
Is it This Time of Darkness
http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-War-Gloria-Skurzynski/dp/0689813740 Solved!
Codename: Freedom is free right now for the first time over on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0725PVK63
Is it "A Practical Guide to Dragons?"
Oh shit, I'm nearly positive it's Neal Shusterman's The Dark Side of Nowhere where the protagonist and many of his peers realize they're really aliens just disguised as humans because of "allergy shots". And as they reach puberty, the shots are disrupted and they start turning into scaley alien type things. What do you think? Is this it?
Hey guys. Long time poster here. I just self-published my first novel on Amazon! It's an urban fantasy story about a conflicted teenage necromancer. Available in print and digital on Amazon.
I've taken and given a number of tips on here, and I'm excited to share this with you!
Here's a blurb:
Thana Ayers may seem like any other girl her age, struggling to balance schoolwork, drama club activities, and her religious parents. But at night, she battles unholy monstrosities with her own astonishing abilities to control the dead. Thana’s never lost a battle. That is, until a mysterious creature appears unlike any she has faced before.
This strange presence threatens to unravel Thana’s carefully balanced life and reveal her powers to the world. It also promises to show her the secrets of the lichgate and unlock her true power, but all power comes with a cost.
Sounds like Sleepers, Wake
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0590423983/?tag=stackoverflow17-20
It's got space travel, a boy whose pod malfunctions, and it has spores in it on the planet they end up at.
Hopefully you're not smoking under the age of 25, if you're male....and little younger if your female. No need to lose IQ points just to taste sounds at such a high cost. If you're an adult...no lasting damage.
It reminds me of the book called The Boy Who Reversed Himself because when he went into another dimension ketchup tasted liked chocolate and not just any ketchup...packet ketchup.
Is there a difference between orchestra music and band music when seeing colors?
The time is right, could it be Gemini Game? That's what the cover looked like too.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0816742715?pc_redir=1404711594&robot_redir=1
Exile, part one of The Book of Ever, is a post-apocalyptic adventure novel that begins with a religious community facing annihilation at the hands of a violent tribe.
Some of the Blessed, as the community calls themselves, have supernatural gifts: the power to heal or superhuman strength, for example, which they see as gifts from a benevolent God.
It's the first book of a trilogy, set in the ruins of New England hundreds of years after a nuclear war. The main character, Ever Oaks, is a young woman tasked with finding a new home for her people, who sets out only to discover that she faces an enemy with far grander designs than simply depriving the Blessed of their home.
The novel follows Ever and her companions through a devastated landscape filled with lawless raiders and dangerous mutants, pursued by a insane cult leader increasingly obsessed with Ever herself.
Available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.
Exile: The Book of Ever
Exile is the first book in a post-apocalyptic fantasy trilogy about a group of characters trying to find a new home for their people centuries after the devastating event they know only as the Fall.
The United States is a ruined wasteland, ruled by twisted mutants and violent, lawless human tribes. Amidst this chaos, a small community of insular post-Christian survivalists has managed to survive, and even thrive, but their enemies are increasingly aggressive.
Some of the Blessed, as they call themselves, are Saints: people born with superhuman abilities--which the Blessed see as God-given blessings. A group of young people, led by Ever Oaks, a Saint with the power to heal, sets out into the uncharted north to find a safe haven for their people.
It's sort of The Walking Dead meets The Hunger Games meets The Stand.
You can read the first five chapters for free at my website.
Perhaps This Time of Darkness?
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)