15 Young Adult Books You Should Read
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15 Young Adult Books You Should Read

Don't underestimate the power of a good book.

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15 Young Adult Books You Should Read
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When I'm not in college, I read all the time. It's something that my parents instilled in me from a young age. I remember staying up after my light had been turned off trying to finish just one more chapter. As my taste in books have changed, I've found one category I'm sure I will be reading when I'm 85 years old, and that is Young Adult Fiction. Here are 15 YA books that I've read (and I think you should too)!

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

My favorite quote: "“If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”

2. The Legend Series

My favorite quote: “Each day means a new 24 hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”


3. The Infernal Devices Series

My favorite quote: "It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone."

4. The Book Thief

My favorite quote: “I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”

5. The Harry Potter Series

I don't think I can pick a favorite quote for this one. I have way too many.

6. It's Kind of a Funny Story

My favorite quote: “I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”

7. The Mortal Instruments Series

My favorite quote: “When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.

8. 13 Reasons Why

My favorite quote: “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”

9. The Lunar Chronicles

My favorite quote: “I am a criminal mastermind, I am here to take down this regime.”

10. Looking for Alaska

My favorite quote: “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

11. Falling Kingdoms Series

My favorite quote: “Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls.”

12. The Uglies Series

My favorite quote: “With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.”

13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

My favorite quote: “I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”

14. Inkheart Trilogy

My favorite quote: “The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”

15. Everything, Everything

My favorite quote: “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”



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