Reddit mentions: The best teen girls fiction books

It took me a really long time to really learn how to read/feel comfortable with reading. Writing took me even longer. But my father was an editor and he used to read to me all the time and sit with me while I struggled to read back to him.

My favorite books I remember him reading to me/reading with him were:

• Amelia Bedelia- when I was younger.
  
• I also made him read the Giving Tree to me a lot! Terribly sad book.
  
• the Harry Potter series(we both got bored after the 4th one but I finished them by myself).
  
• The Hobbit
  
• The Land of Oz(the Wizard of Oz was not as exciting to me)
  
  So, this is my list for the kids who have more trouble with keeping up, or who are too shy to read aloud. To ma' homies with the LD's. Or the ones who just like awesome stories, regardless of the age group they're directed towards.
  
  I don't think I really started reading on my own till 5th grade. Which is when I found some awesome book called Anastasia(I never watched the movie before I read this, but I dont think its anything like the Disney film)
  
  I found "The Royal Diaries series - Anastasia" book. It may be the first "real" chapter book I ever started and finished on my own, without anyone forcing it down my throat. I loved it. It changed everything because I remember attempting to read all of the books for the Newberry Award nominations like all the super fast readers were after that. Which led to me finding these AMAZING books. They may be the greatest books ever for little girls with ADHD or "memory retrieval" problems, as I had been diagnosed at the time. "A Mango Shaped Space" and "So B. It"
  
  After those, I came to the conclusion that reading is awesome. I read Eragon, I found the Maximum Ride series - that had a blind character that had super powers and was cool. I found that characters with a disability changed my whole perspective, because my father is blind and I had just found out I had a learning disability as well. I think that having characters to relate to was really key.
  
  
  
  I read Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series long after middle school... I read up to the 4th book. Those were great! Again, Percy Jackson's "Dyslexia" was taken and turned into this wonderful piece of relatable fiction(perhaps causing more kids to flip their desks over and say-"I'm a demi-god so I don't care about books", but they're at least exciting enough to get kids to that point of involvement with the characters)
  
  
  So, what brought me to love books were books with female protagonists. But as I got older it was harder to find awesome books that. Once I discovered YA novels and cheesy romance, I couldn’t stop. It has now lead to my demise and I read fanfiction on my phone. But before I found all of that, Kate Brian’s Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
  really got me to like YA. And then I found spy series and fantasy books with female protagonists
  
  The Squad
  and the Gallagher Girls
  Were for slightly younger girls.
  The Hunger Games and the Uglies series were my favorites at the end of my time with YA novels.
  
  I will try to update this list. I have to go now but I hope this was helpful.
  
  TL;DR link to a goodreads list I put together

No. That one (the goverment-soulmate one) is actually called Matched. The Matched trilogy is a little bland but readable, if not worth the time if you're not dedicating a good portion of free time to reading in general. It's primarily an indictment of the idea of a caste system, actually, rather than about romance or soulmates. It has very little romance, entertainingly enough, relatively speaking. There's still better out there with the same or similar message. I actually had to look it up because however I paraphrase it I wouldn't be able to capture the utter horror of its reality. The Selection.

> For 35 girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth... to be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels... to live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her, leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want, and living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself - and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

And I meant, like, everything from, say, 2010 to mid-2015. All of them. Maybe starting earlier too, for that matter. If you're only counting the first book in the series and account for the fact I'd already read some of them at other times there's not really that many. I also read fast?

But, let's see, I think I read the MR series in... 2012? Maybe early 2013. Before news of the movie being produced was widely out because I distinctly remember finishing book 3 and then a few months later discovering they were making a movie. I started the prequel but the characters didn't capture me the same way the ones did in the main MR series. I do like his new Mortality Doctrine series though, which is future non-dystopian and more like classic cyberpunk than anything. Since you like Maze Runner you might want to try The Eye of Mind, which is the first book in the series.

I liked the books. I thought they were interesting and a nice inversion of what we usually see with male protagonists (male protags in YA dystopia rarely have such a significant romance plot, let alone a love triangle). The characters were interesting enough to be engaging, which can sometimes be a problem with YA books in general and YA SF/F in particular where they want a protag as generic as possible to use as self-insertion (see: Tris in Divergent, Bella in Twilight). I was interested enough to want to find out what happened and so I read through The Death Cure.

I'd like the movies a lot better if they weren't based on books. They're entertaining and more interesting than I think a lot of movie reviewers give them credit for (I think a lot of them are just so done with YA dystopia at this point...). Well-acted and while there's some pacing issues in both movies they aren't nearly as bad as they could be. I really like Dylan O'Brien, who plays Thomas, of Teen Wolf fame (I like him in TW too). But on principle it bugs the fuck out of me they've significantly changed the books in ways that are completely unnecessary (in the first one) or utterly change the story (in the second). Like, the second movie has only minor resemblance to the second book. That's a problem in books based on a series. The third movie will be Maze Runner in name only because it's impossible to match The Death Cure now.

I actually had a major problem with the Ender's Game movie for the same reason. It also way more bland than the source material justified but the primarily problem with Ender's Game is that the fact this indoctrination towards violence and encouragement towards sociopathy occurs in Ender beginning at age 5 is really thematically significant. Having him start and train as a young teen, showing the training only lasting a couple of years instead of nearly a decade, and ignoring the fact that he's been systematically abused to achieve this end since he was in (the equivalent of) kindergarten really undercut the movie. And the book's message that, in theory, the movie should also have.

Anyway, short answer is, yes, read Maze Runner.

Adult Dystopian Recommendations:

• Oryx and Crake – Jimmy/Snowman coasts through life fueled mainly by ennui. His only rebellion is to be mediocre when his advantages in society (white, upper (maybe middle) class, Western male) have him poised for success. Glenn/Crake deliberately turns himself into the Big Bad in order to correct the wrongs he sees in society. Whether his main issue is with human nature, sucking the planet dry, socially stratified capitalist society, willful ignorance, or insatiety and curiosity is unclear. Oryx sees it all and accepts them all, knowing that she’s too unimportant to do anything except pick up the pieces and provide comfort in the meantime.
  
  
• The Year of the Flood – The world and especially capitalist society is stacked against you, but resourcefulness and an open mind will serve you well.
  
  
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Quiet rebellions like memory and record-keeping can be subversive also. But it’s only actions that set the stage for change. And the people you (maybe?) save will interpret everything differently from your intentions anyways.
  
  
• Never Let Me Go – Is it truly a dystopia when only a small group is affected? If you’re thinking of reading this, do not under any circumstances watch the movie trailer. The slow build to “something is not quite right” is part of the charm.
  
  
• Into the Forest – Literary fiction. More about acceptance and regression to a [“natural”](#s "and feminist, which apparently means incestuous but Deep! and Thematically! incestuous") state.
  
  
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Historical fiction about Chinese reeducation camps, but still pretty dystopian. Bourgeois teenage boy questions his educated, upper-class roots and teaches peasant love interest about Western literature. [She](#s "abandons him for a capitalist dream because the lesson she took from it was that love was worthless. Basically, they both take away the worst parts of each other’s starting philosophies and smash them together.")
  
  
• Wild Ginger – If historical fiction is happening, why not another Cultural Revolution one? If you keep your head down, you might just survive long enough to grow up and really see the hypocrisy – stuff even greater than what you saw as a kid.
  
  
• 1984 – Isn’t this more about how the system will break you and leave you a husk of your former self if you trust anyone completely? So you should be smart and skeptical and never assume things are in your best interest just because someone’s telling you so.
  
  
• Brave New World – Have to admit, at 12 this had me thinking that maybe fascism wasn’t such a bad idea after all. The despair and existential crisis aspects weren’t hitting me then: I just noticed how happy almost everyone else was.
  
  
• The Road – All about bleakness and futility and carrying on because the hope of family’s the only good thing left?
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451, where the people in charge are corrupt specifically concerning that thing you're fighting against.
  
  
• World War Z – I’m almost hesitant to call this dystopian, because even though it’s about a freaking zombie apocalypse, it’s uplifting to hear all the stories of human resourcefulness and ingenuity and the mental strength you didn’t think was there. Of course, some of the stories covered are “logical responses” gone bad.
  
  YA-ish Dystopian Recommendations:
  
  
• Feed – It doesn’t work out for the only [person](#s "(Violet)") who truly fought the system (she’s beaten down so horribly that it’s heartbreaking that even the reader wants to look away), but she does technically inspire one other person to at least notice what’s going on in the world, even if it’s probably too late.
  
  
• Hunger Games – Katniss is really only involved because she has nowhere else to go. Side characters have real motivations for being involved, but she really is a figurehead along for the ride and that’s OK. The story is about that and how she copes.
  
  
• The Selection – cough Popcorn cough. America is highly motivated by money (For her struggling family, of course). Ignoring the love triangle stuff, her ideal is to move from serfdom to literally any other [political system.](#s "And this never happens. The political buildup you see in The Selection and The Elite is stomped all over in the vapid cheesecake of the love hexagon finale.")
  
  
• Incarceron & Sapphique – Finn’s rebellion is that he just wants out to someplace that must be better. Claudia lives in artificial luxury and rebels mostly just for personal rebellion, not anyone else’s sake.
  
  
• The Giver – Probably more MG, but how did running away from one collective society automatically become “capitalism is best?” Jonah runs away because he’s learned enough to make his own moral decisions about one of the helpless members of his society (and artificial protection sounds socialist to me). I can’t remember reading the sequels.
  
  
• The Book Thief – Again, MG and historical fiction about a bombed out German town in WWII, but I think a setting like that qualifies it as dystopian. Technically, Liesl fights the system by stealing (possibly forbidden) books from the wealthy and by not reporting the Jew in the basement, but that last one is just showing loyalty to her new family. Her entire upbringing predisposed her to not trust the System, especially a War System, anyways.
  
  Other Dystopias:
  
  
• Matched and Delirium will be considered together because they are the same damn book, right down to the Boy-Who-Could-Have-Been-Chosen-If-Not-For-Rebellion! and the protagonist’s government-approved hobby. Delirium has better writing. Matched is easier to read and has more likable characters. We get it, teenagers should be allowed to date who they like and mommy and daddy non-biological guardians shouldn’t say no. Also, it sucks to have a guidance counselor Make A Schedule for you in order to prepare you for an office job equivalent that’s full of busywork but one of the few respectable positions left. The horror! Seriously, in what world is that rebelling against socialism? You know, that thing that promotes trade schools and equal rights for everyone, even the people you don’t personally like?
  
  
• Divergent – I’m going to let someone else handle that one because urgh. I know a lot of people like it, and it’s YA, so someone else, please support, qualify, or refute.
  
  I’d also be curious to hear what /u/bethrevis has to say about the societies on Godspeed and elsewhere and where they fit into this opinion piece.
  
  Guys, I think I just wrote an English essay. And probably put more work into it than I did in high school. And I won’t even get an A because it’s the internet and we deal solely in lolcats.
  
  But tl;dr: Adult dystopias (that I’ve read) tend to be about the futility of existence or the necessity of self-sacrifice to get a result. The YA dystopias I liked were a little more hopeful (usually) and didn’t support this opinion piece’s thesis. The ones I didn’t like made me understand the hate for dystopias.

Oh, I <3 looking for books for my kids!! They are 14, 13, 12, 11, and 5. Our son is the youngest, and he loves all the books that his older sisters loved when they were younger. :D

Oh my gosh...Get those kids some books!

• This is my favorite children's book.
  
  
• The Story of Ferdinand.
  
  
• This is one of my son's favorites...IronMan!.
  
  
• The Day My Mommy Quit.
  
  
• Dragons Love Tacos.
  
  
• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
  
  
• I'd Know You Anywhere, My Love.
  
  
• The Day The Crayons Quit.
  
  
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
  
  
• Boom Chicka Rock.
  
  
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Mama Hook Knows Best: A Pirate Parent's Favorite Fables with CD.
  
  
• Are You My Mother?.
  
  
• Love You Forever.
  
  
• I Love You, Stinky Face.
  
  
• The Runaway Bunny.
  
  
• Oh, The Places You'll Go. Cool idea I saw on Pinterest with this book: Buy a copy and have each of your kids' teachers write a little note somewhere in it at the end of every year. Give the book to your kid as a graduation gift. I am doing this with our son now, I saw the idea too late to start it for our girls.
  
  
• Ten Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed.
  
  
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
  
  
• The Velveteen Rabbit. -- A HUGE FAVORITE!!
  
  
• Locomotive.
  
  
• Sleep Like A Tiger.
  
  
• The Lion And The Mouse.
  
  
• Blueberries for Sal.
  
  
• David Gets In Trouble.
  
  
• Press Here. This is a very fun book!
  
  
• The One and Only Ivan.
  
  
• The Polar Express.
  
  
• Flotsam.
  
  
• Only One You.
  
  
• Beautiful Oops!.
  
  I would love this book for our oldest daughter if I win, please.
  
  /u/DrUsual...can you think of any?
  
  Thank you for the contest!

I write familiar stories written from unfamiliar points of view, highlighting characters with disabilities. My first novel, By Winged Chair, is a retelling of Robin Hood where Maid Marion kicks butt from a wheelchair. It's normally $4.99 ($14.99 for paperback) but will be on sale for $0.99 starting on Feb 25.


Rolling around in the worst fashion accessory ever…

Seventeen-year-old Merry has mucked up another chance to get into the University of Magecraft, so she doesn’t have time to deal with shape-changing creatures bent on stealing memories from the people of Woodshire. That’s her father’s job. But when an outlaw mage mistakes her for a damsel in distress on a drenched train platform, she’s dragged into a fight with the monsters and a sheriff mad enough to use them.

She’d never admit it out loud but the mage is actually kind of fun to work with – when she doesn’t want to run him over with her chair. And he’s exactly the ally she needs when the monsters go after her father’s memories. But with bad guys who can look like friends and friends who look like outlaws, Merry has to decide who to trust and whether returning the stolen memories of those she cares about most is worth giving up her chance to finally earn respect as a mage.

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Or if you don't want to commit to a whole novel, there's a short story called When Quiet Comes to Call about the quiet magic of falling in love with the boy next door. Only $0.99.


Rogue magic and runaway mice were not what Brynn had in mind for a quiet life running a shop…

Everyone seems to have an opinion about what Brynn should be doing with her life. Her father wants her to go on grand adventures while her best friend believes that a wealthy fiancé will solve all her problems. But all Brynn wants is a quiet life, a well-run shop, and maybe someone to share it all with. Too bad the boy she has a crush on is even more shy than she is. However, when Brynn’s placid routine is disrupted by knick-knacks come to life and some unexplained magic, she enlists the help of the boy next door and finally gets the chance to see what’s under his bashfulness. Now if only they can get the knick-knacks to stop trying to escape.

In her defense, I hated "The Great Gatsby" too, and I consider reading/literature to be my number 1 hobby. Not every book is for every person.

If she likes horror stories/movies, my top suggestion is Stephen King. All very creepy, minimal to no sexuality in most stories, and the best part is that he has numerous short story collections for the attention impaired. I actually prefer his shorts to his novels. I'd start with Night Shift, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, or Skeleton Crew, as these are all classic creepy King. A slightly newer but also excellent collection is Everything's Eventual.

If she doesn't want to try King, maybe something like The Forest Of Hands And Teeth would catch her interest. It's 'The Village' meets '28 Days Later' in a way, a teen novel and the first in a trilogy.

If she likes graphic novels, there are graphic novelizations of many popular fiction books out there. This HuffPo list has classics like Dante's Inferno and Farenheit 451. Campfire Graphic Novels has tons of classics and nonfiction graphic novels. They are usually for a younger set, but that just means she'd read them faster.

These are kid's books but well and humorously written: The quartet of fantasy novels that begins with "Dealing with Dragons" by Patricia C. Wrede.

The protagonist is a smart, strong-willed princess living in a very traditional magic kingdom, who comes to the conclusion that the only way to avoid having her parents, sister & fairy godmother marry her off to a dimwit knight from the next kingdom over is to escape and become a dragon's princess. Whereupon she finds herself in a world of magic, new friendships, political intrigue and housecleaning.

The first book is a kid's fantasy classic, the last book was actually written first and has a different tone and protagonist than the other 3 and the middle 2 feel a little interstitial ... but it's all a fun read for a couple of afternoons, if you can find them stocked at your local library.

EDIT: First chapter of "Dealing with Dragons" is previewable on amazon. Includes a great proto-rational conversation between the princess and a talking frog.

Hi! So I'm not really sure exactly what genre of book you'd be interested in, but here are a couple of FREE Kindle books out right now from the bestseller list and with high reviews:

Highwater

Hope for Garbage

Truth Stained Lies

The Devil's Graveyards (This one has 11 5 star reviews and nothing else!)

The Timekeeper's Son

Reverb

A Family Affair

Pretty Little Liars (I watch the TV show...and so does my 32 year old husband...and we both really like it for being just fluff and teenage drama)

Unenchanted

Land

Hollowland

Nearly Departed in Deadwood

Hope you feel better!

Happy birthday Chica! I hope you have a wonderful time!

The Selection looks like a pretty good book! Hopefully it's not a mix of The Hunger Games and Twilight, though

Several of the ones I would recommend have already been mentioned, but I also enjoyed The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey and The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell. Another good one is The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. It's YA, and it is the first in a series. I haven't read the other books in the series, though. I think it works fine as a stand alone and just haven't had the desire to read the others.

If you're interested in YA, you might also enjoy the Uglies series by Scott Westerfield.

I would love love love this kindle book! if its applicable! Thank you for the contest!

I don't know if it counts as dark per se, but Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly is a good read if you're into historical fiction. Here's the link to amazon :)

Revolution

It's really a great book, I've read it twice.

Books are awesome I was gifted a kindle that came today too! :D So many books to choose from! I picked this one to show, cause its the first part of a series. I love series when it comes to books, more time to let a story pan out. This one seemed like it could be promising.

And that case is sooo pretty! You're one talented person :D

Rad Kindle Case

What sort of fantasy do you think you would like? High fantasy, modern day real world fantasy, steam punk, romance, adventure, coming of age?

If you are looking at staying with a Young Adult fantasy theme, I would suggest Cassandra Clare's series, [The Mortal Instruments] (https://www.amazon.com/Bones-Mortal-Instruments-Cassandra-Clare/dp/1481455923/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1478740289&sr=8-3&keywords=the+mortal+instruments) and it's prequel series, [The Infernal Devices] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1481456024/ref=pd_sim_14_6?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1481456024&pd_rd_r=H6XGB69FAEC3097ZA851&pd_rd_w=lLXM8&pd_rd_wg=MOvOs&psc=1&refRID=H6XGB69FAEC3097ZA851) . The prequel series is actually my favorite of the two. It is steam punk fantasy while the other is not. I also would recommend [The Dresden Files] (https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Front-Dresden-Files-Butcher/dp/0451457811/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478740351&sr=1-1&keywords=dresden+files), by Jim Butcher even though they are not Young Adult. They contain every type of fantasy creature and setting you could imagine. It's a series about a private detective in modern day Chicago who also happens to be a wizard.

If you want to delve into a zombie genre, I have enjoyed [The Forest of Hands and Teeth] (https://www.amazon.com/Forest-Hands-Teeth-Carrie-Ryan/dp/0385736827/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478740244&sr=8-1&keywords=forest+of+hands+and+teeth) series by Carrie Ryan as well as [The Enemy] (https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-new-cover-Novel/dp/1484721462/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478740190&sr=8-1&keywords=the+enemy+charlie+higson) series by Charlie Higson.

One of the women who used to work at my parents' coffeehouse is living in Arizona now and published a novel recently. You should be in good hands.

Arizona is full of CHARACTERS, too!!! I've only driven through, when we were moving from Boston to California, and OMG. And in both states you have excellent Mexican food, with is good for the soul and the creative spirit. And the STARRRRRS!!!

Could it be Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer?

>If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be at home in New Jersey with her sweet British boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She’d be watching old comedy sketches with him. She’d be kissing him in the library stacks.

>She certainly wouldn’t be at The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in rural Vermont, signed up for an exclusive, supposedly life-changing class called Special Topics in English that focuses—only and entirely—on the works of Sylvia Plath.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

In Mary’s world there are simple truths.
The Sisterhood always knows best.
The Guardians will protect and serve.
The Unconsecrated will never relent.
And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth.

But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?

My wife has recently published her first book. (!) It is very exciting and I'm very proud of her!

The book is titled: "Escaping the Fat Girl" and is a fictional story about a teen girl's struggles growing up overweight, somewhat loosely based on her own life experience:

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The book is currently available for $7.99 as eBook, $9.99 as paperback. We're also currently running a free giveaway promotion also on Amazon:

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For anyone interested, Pretty Little Liars (Book 1) on Kindle is FREE right now, it was marked down from almost $8!! I have a guilty please of reading books that are probably way to young for me, lol.


Shout out to /u/playhertwo for noticing that I had a book on my wishlist that was listed as free :)

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - I loved her book Boink about sex which I read a few years ago. Really funny and informative.
  
  
• [Pretty Little Liars](http://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Little-Liars-Box-Set/dp/0061801313/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411518792&sr=1-2&keywords=pretty+little+liars_ =) - I have read 10 of these in the past couple weeks. My little sister got me hooked on them and the show which we binge watched together on Netflix. Yes they are horrible and trashy but my inner 13 year old girl loves them and I must find out who A is!!! Judge away people because I dun curr.

Rival by Sara Bennet Wealer would fit that description. It's about two girls who used to be best friends (still are? I'm not 100% sure as I've not read it) but whose competitiveness drove them apart.

Does The DUFF have toxic friends, or is it just that the main character perceives that they look down on her?

Cool idea!!! $2 on my book list

$3.99 on my five dollar list

$5.99 on book list


$8 on default wish

Thanks for the contest :)

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

The Selection by Kiera Cass

I picked up The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan a year or so ago and it was a pretty good read. I haven't gotten a chance to read any other books in the set, but it was good.

Just off the top of my head these are three amazing YA books (all realistic fiction):

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Tales of the Madmen Underground - John Barnes

Revolution - Jennifer Donnelly

I got a little Raspberry Pi to play with. The idea is to get it take over control of my network and crypto currency operations so that I can sell some older computer hardware (at a profit).

I've spent the day so far compiling libraries and installing software, but I'm making progress.

I'm also reading Fangirl at the moment. I'm only a quarter of the way through it but I plan to have it finished by tomorrow evening. I have a book club to go :)

Today is also the last day of Hermit Mode for this week. I have an electrolysis appointment tomorrow morning which means I'll no longer have to hide in my room.

Lookie here! Amazon's got it for just 4 bucks! Woo!

A Mango Shaped Space is a good book on this subject. YA book but still worth a read.

Sadly, I can't really aid in her math issues, though, as others have said, everybody struggles with something, and it isn't necessarily a result from her synesthesia.

I can, on the other hand, recommend A Mango Shaped Space as reading material, for either you or her. It was a good enough book that I remember it even though I haven't read it since even before it was released.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth. It's a YA novel, but it totally gave me weird dreams while I was reading it. Creepy as hell. I bought the sequel but haven't brought myself to read it yet.

Also, Infected: A Novel. Pretty atmospheric, although not amazing. I think it would work better as a movie than a book, which is a rare thing.

Sounds a lot like The Forest of Hands and Teeth with a few slight differences.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth is a YA zombie novel that is one of the best horror books I’ve read in that genre adult or YA.

It is what I usually hand to my YA/preteen patrons when they ask for horror refs at my library. It’s the first in a trilogy.

Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci (geek girl's senior year of high school in Hollywood) comes to mind.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell is about a girl obsessed with Harry Potter-esque fanfiction and cut off from her twin when college starts. Also by Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park might fit - Eleanor's pretty much a loner.

The Reapers are the Angels

The Rising

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Don't eat Cat

Ex-Heroes

The Selection books

I could only find this:
https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Little-Liars-Box-Set/dp/0061801313

It's a set of four books, from 1 up to 4. You'll need to buy later ones separately.