Best teen & young adult survival stories according to redditors

We found 128 Reddit comments discussing the best teen & young adult survival stories. We ranked the 37 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Teen & Young Adult Survival Stories:

u/SleestakJack · 114 pointsr/gaming

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.

u/koc77 · 55 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

I loved that book in grade school. Did you know Gary Paulson wrote other books in the series? I never read them, but I understand they were based off the idea Brian didn't get rescued at the end of Hatchet.

Brian's Winter https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307929582/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_9NBnub176GRNX

u/bethrevis · 44 pointsr/StarWars

Okay, I love this question.

Padme suggests Lips Touch by Laini Tailor--it's a beautiful book of short stories that are strange but gorgeous, much like Naboo. And despite the title, it's not a romance so much as slices of lovely weirdness held together by the relationships people develop, which suits her. But Jyn and Rey vote this one down.

Leia suggests Passenger by Alex Bracken. It's a time travel book, but also about loss and displacement and people who don't have any real home left, so it makes her sad but hopeful.

Jyn and Rey team together to get the book club to read Six of Crows and then Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, a fantasy duology about the dregs of society. In SoC, a team of low-lifes from a hard city take on a con job--think Ocean's Eleven, but in a fantasy world and with a rag-tag misfit crew of criminals. CK is about the revenge they take after a double cross. These books are both brilliantly written but also perfect for the characters as they are dark but hopeful at the same time, and Jyn in particular like Kaz Brekker, who will basically do anything to win but still loves his people.

The next person they invite to the club is Dr. Aphra because she's so badass. She suggests Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. K2SO told him about this one. It's a story told through found documents--there's no straight narration, but instead transcripts of interviews, photographs, documentation from space ships, etc. It's about a small group of ships on the run from a random attack on their home planet, trying to outrun the remaining enemy ship chasing them. But it also features a psychotic AI and a lot of death and chaos, which is right up Dr. Aphra's alley.

u/SmallFruitbat · 9 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Might want to ask /r/YAwriters and/or /r/YAlit also.

While The Fault in Our Stars would be a good example of healthy relationships, I don't think Divergent is a meaningful pick if you want the main topic to be relationships and/or sex.

Some books that focus on context for relationships and sex instead of having it as a minor plot point:

  • Forever by Judy Blume
  • Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
  • Song of the Magdalene by Donna Jo Napoli

    /u/caseyoc's suggestion of Fangirl is another good one. Eleanor & Park, by the same author, is even more relationship-focused and building a relationship and consent is a huge part of the storyline.

    If you want to go off on tangents, Eve (terrible book) and The Jewel (better) are YA dystopias that deal heavily with consent and forced pregnancy. The Handmaid's Tale is a much better examination of the topic and accessible for high-schoolers.

    The Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy by Rae Carson and the Trickster books by Tamora Pierce also win kudos for the protagonists choosing to have sex in a healthy relationship, seeking out birth control, and waiting for it to take effect. Both are in a fantasy setting where this problem is commonly brushed off.
u/Baximus · 7 pointsr/gaming

The End Games by T. Michael Martin

u/Lanthrum · 4 pointsr/thelongdark

Far North was a book I read as a kid that is exactly like this. 15 year old kids plane goes down in the Canadian wilderness. Him and his friend have to survive the bleakness of nature. Reminds me of the Long Dark at times.

u/Bachstar · 3 pointsr/books

Hmmm... paranormal/supernatural tween reads with strong girl characters (not that Twilight had a strong female lead in it, but you may as well steer her in a better direction).

You really can't go wrong with the Hunger Games. Or you could get her the Japanese novel Battle Royale. It's also a dystopian novel about teenagers forced to battle each other to the death.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is worth checking out. It starts to lose some oomph towards the end, but is still a solid read with actual substance to the storyline. I'd get the hardback - the photography in it is just genius. Male lead, but there's a pretty cool chick who throws fireballs.

I enjoyed Anna Dressed in Blood. It's a bit like Supernatural, only with one male ghost hunter as the protaganist. He falls in love with a ghost, but she's a homicidal maniac.

The Rise of Renegade X - a boy raised by his evil supervillain mom discovers that he's the product of her one-night-stand with a superhero. That was pretty enjoyable...

Poison Study is a great book about a girl who's been sentenced to death and is offered a reprieve if she becomes the king's food taster. Her handler ends up subjecting her to a litany of poisons so that she can build up immunity. Didn't read the sequels, but the first book was pretty good.

Graceling is set in a world where certain people are born with random talents - the ability to hold their breath underwater for long periods of time, musical or dancing abilities, cooking the best food imaginable, etc. The main character is born with the talent to kill & becomes her uncle's assassin.

Stardust - Neil Gaiman... really nuff said, eh?

Howl's Moving Castle - A girl is turned into an old woman by an angry witch & takes refuge in the mysteriously moving castle of an "evil" wizard.

Okay. I'll stop now. :)

u/AquaAndMint · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

I've been on a YA Sci Fi kick lately. Some of the ones I've enjoyed:

u/ReisaD · 3 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

I think you may like Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking Trilogy or just the first one to start The knife of Never Letting Go

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Synopsis:


Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee -- whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not -- stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden -- a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.

But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?



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A book I would like is Pushing the limits!

Even if you don't pick mine, I hope you give it a peek! Thank you! :D

u/amazon-converter-bot · 2 pointsr/FreeEBOOKS

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u/Cdresden · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie.

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.

u/natnotnate · 2 pointsr/tipofmytongue

Down River, by Will Hobbs?

>A fast-paced adventure in which "wilderness therapy" becomes a course in teamwork and friendship for a group of troubled youths. Jessie, 15, and her companions have been sent from all over the country to the Colorado Rockies in the hope of finding something in the outdoors to curb their anger and restlessness. Seizing an opportunity, six of them break away from their counselor and, with no map and only a few days' provisions, take two boats down the wild, dangerous Colorado River to the Grand Canyon. All are tested, by the river and by one another; each exhibits hidden strengths and weaknesses, and most are changed for the better by the experience. Hobbs resists the temptation to make this a series of confessions: the teen-agers' pasts remain vague, by and large; but the river's peril and beauty are described in detail, while the characterizations, though simple, are seldom simplistic. (Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 1991)

u/ForLoveOfHumanKind · 2 pointsr/RandomActsOfGifting

Why yes... yes I have!

In the last month I have read the Hunger games books and the Lightbringer series books.

u/SirDaveYognaut · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

This is somewhat like the premise to a book called Gone all the people over 14 vanish and once you turn 14 you can choose to leave but no-one knows what happens. The books are extremely twisted with just crazy shit going down. (Kid kills himself because he is super depressed by driving a car off a cliff and the kids he lived with retrieves cooks and eats him.) Yeah that kind of weird. Also kids have weird powers and shit. I love this series to death though.

u/Ollylolz · 2 pointsr/gaming

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

u/BMWprickIguess · 2 pointsr/preppers

> Sketchy childhood with too many financial close calls? One too many readings of My Side of the Mountain in fourth grade? I've been this way ever since I was a little kid. Always had a Plan B, always interested in security and self-sufficiency.

Add Hatchet and Far North to that list and you've got me exactly.

u/lancehouser · 2 pointsr/books

Try Far North by Will Hobbs, especially if you read Hatchet by Gary Paulson and like it. It's a young adult novel about getting lost way up north in the winter and having to survive. Read it a long time ago so can't remember a ton about it, but I remember I liked it a lot and sounds exactly like what you are looking for.

Also check out Jack London How to Build a Fire short story which you can read for free. Then you might like some of his other stuff too.

u/librariowan · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Rithmatist. There's only one book at the moment, but it's going to be a series.

Ashfall.

Illuminae.

u/Cataner · 1 pointr/books

Link in the blog is a referral link, FYI. Here is a non-referral link:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hunger-Games-Trilogy-Boxed/dp/0545265355/

u/reverendsteveii · 1 pointr/gaming

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.

u/b4ux1t3 · 1 pointr/ProgrammerHumor

Does anyone know what book this is?

Edit: Found it.

u/whowhatwhere11109 · 1 pointr/books

These are fairly popular/obvious choices, so forgive me if you're aware of them, but I thought they deserved a mention since you just recently read Harry Potter. I have personally read all of these books and loved them. They're all currently being made into movies so that is a hint about how engaging/accessible they are for teens.

  • The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

  • Divergent series by Veronica Roth.

    They are both dystopian novels. Divergent is particularly interesting because it's set in a future Chicago and it's interesting to see how the author plays around with that setting. Fair warning about Divergent: the third book in the series has not yet been released (I think it comes out this fall) so you may want to wait on these until next summer when all of the books are out.
u/macneto · 1 pointr/masseffect

Has anyone read Illuminae? It seems like it would be a pretty good book for this sub. I was gonna grab the Kindle version but the physical copy seems the better way to go because of all the pics and charts in the book.

Anyone read it?

u/RoninPrime0829 · 1 pointr/fantasywriters

Perhaps you could write it in an epistolary format.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OEXJARS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Granted, this book is science-fiction, but there are certainly ways to write fantasy in a similar fashion.

u/majle · 1 pointr/teenagers
u/velryn · 1 pointr/whatsthatbook

Also probably not this but sounds pretty similar.


"Gone" by Michael Grant.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061448788/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=


Fits: people disappear except kids, magic/monsters, first book in a series.


Missing: cover art.


Unsure: I haven't read it yet, so I'm not sure if the boy is a god or not.

u/steelchurro · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

These are my 3 fav books I love them and if i do win could you do a pokemon painting? Also how big will it be.