Books intended for adults that your teen has read

[Anonymous]

My 14.5 year old feels like she's exhausted the young adult/teen area of the library.

She's not into torrid romance and sex scenes; though some romance is fine. Are there any interesting fiction novels your teen has read and enjoyed? Mine recently read "Anxious People" and "Have you Seen Luis Velez?"

[Anonymous]

The Help
The Christie Affair
Tons of John Grisham, Robin Cook, Lisa Lutz's Spellman Files

[Anonymous]

The Maid

[Anonymous]

Does she read sci fi? Becky Chamber or Arkady Martine (or a million other people— she could read left hand of darkness if she wanted).

Station 11 if she’s ok with a pandemic book. Overstory. A man called ove if she liked anxious people.

[Anonymous]

If she liked Anxious People, try Remarkably Bright Creatures; it has a similar feel, IMO. I enjoyed both a lot.

[Anonymous]

The Guncle, Lily and the Octopus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does she read sci fi? Becky Chamber or Arkady Martine (or a million other people— she could read left hand of darkness if she wanted).

Station 11 if she’s ok with a pandemic book. Overstory. A man called ove if she liked anxious people.

She's not super into sci-fi :/

I think she read Ove, too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Guncle, Lily and the Octopus.

Guncle is a good one! She liked House on the Cerulean Sea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she liked Anxious People, try Remarkably Bright Creatures; it has a similar feel, IMO. I enjoyed both a lot.

I hadn't heard of that--I may like it too! Putting it on hold now...

[Anonymous]

Guy Gavriel Kay does fictional history with a touch of fantasy. Sailing to Sarantium or Lions of Al Rassan are good examples.

[Anonymous]

Will she read long novels? I know these are dated but when I was 13-15 I read some chunkers, like The Far Pavilions, Sarum, Thornbirds (although I guess that's romance, but it's not sex scenes), First Man in Rome, etc. I look back so fondly on those days when I had time to really sink into long books.

[Anonymous]

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will she read long novels? I know these are dated but when I was 13-15 I read some chunkers, like The Far Pavilions, Sarum, Thornbirds (although I guess that's romance, but it's not sex scenes), First Man in Rome, etc. I look back so fondly on those days when I had time to really sink into long books.

+1 - I read so quickly and so often that I was excited to have a book that actually lasted me a few days. My mom bought me the first Outlander book one summer, which was really not that age appropriate, but I remember being excited to have something so long to read. Thornbirds was another one that I loved. Hawaii by James Michener was a dense read around that age and I really got into it and the history of Hawaii.

Thornbirds didn't age that well with all the Catholic priest abuse headlines later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will she read long novels? I know these are dated but when I was 13-15 I read some chunkers, like The Far Pavilions, Sarum, Thornbirds (although I guess that's romance, but it's not sex scenes), First Man in Rome, etc. I look back so fondly on those days when I had time to really sink into long books.

Yes, she would! Thanks for the recs

[Anonymous]

DD is 14 and reads both YA and adult fiction. Here are some adult books I know she liked:

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Martian
Song of Achilles (DD and my mom BOTH loved this!)
Circe (currently reading)
The Help

She also liked the teen version of Trevor Noah's Born a Crime.

For YA, there really is so much more good stuff out there than when we were teens. DD has loved everything she's read by Nic Stone (started with Dear Martin and then read them all.) Also, she seems to like mysteries that invove teen social drama. (Is that a sub-genre? LOL.) For example, has your DD tried anything by Karen McManus (One of Us Is Lying etc.)? Or the Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes? (I think DD liked some of her other series, too).