(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best teen girls fiction books

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If not used copy of this book.

• so far this year my favorite book I've read has been The Restorer by Amanda Stevens. It's about a grave restorer who sees ghosts. So far there are only 3 books in the series and all of them are great.
  
  
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• This ebook is about an Australian FBI profiler! Tis awesome and only $2.99. If you'd rather not gift an eBook, this book is a peeny for a used copy.
  
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I am going to take issue with that Brave New World and Hunger Games are dystopian, but not science fiction" line. The article linked to explain that distinction is based around the idea that dystopia must involve an ideological critique and uses The Matrix as an illustrative example, but doesn't seem to talk about what makes something science fiction rather than just blanket speculative fiction. (e.g. According to the author, The Matrix is not dystopian because the central narrative line is a messiah's human triumph over machines in thriller format, not the prediction/parable about humanity's end that would mark it as dystopian according to the thesis. I disagree.)

As far as I'm concerned, science fiction incorporates technology and/or science that is conceivable, but not currently available. So I'd say Brave New World's Bokanovsky's Process and The Hunger Games' genetic engineering in the form of mockingjays and tracker jackers as well as the flight craft and force fields and massive leaps in other technologies easily qualify them both as sci-fi. And dystopian.

So ha. ^Though ^you ^might ^get ^me ^to ^argue ^that ^Brave ^New ^World ^is ^actually ^utopian.

More Recommended Dystopian Sci-Fi Reads:

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (adult literary sci-fi). Hyper-relevant commentary on social stratification, corporate power, class warfare, and rampant genetic engineering. One of my favorite books ever. Companion volumes (not sequels) are The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam
  
• Feed by M.T. Anderson (YA sci-fi), where everyone has the internet in their heads from birth. The consequences of instantaneous gratification and hypercapitalism. Super depressing and yet another one of my favorite books.
  
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (YA and a free ebook, btw). Maybe not the best ever, but hyper-relevant and you can treat it as a primer on internet security, higher level math, and coding. In near-future California, a teenage hacker is swept up by the Department of Homeland Security following a terrorist attack. Serious social commentary on mass surveillance and privacy.
  
• World War Z by Max Brooks, bearing no resemblance to the movie beyond the name (adult post-apocalyptic, an easy - and favorite - read. The abridged audiobook is good too). Despite the zombie apocalypse, this might not even count as dystopian because the interconnected interview narratives about the triumphs of human ingenuity are pretty uplifting. Themes of social change, the levels we'll sink to for survival, resilience...
  
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (YA sci-fi). At 16, the perfect society will make you pretty... And dumb. Society's obsession with beauty, etc, etc. I thought the series went downhill, but this is worth reading.
  
• Habibi by Craig Thompson (adult graphic novel). Half exegesis, half narrative about a post-apocalyptic Middle East mixed with stories from the Qu'ran and Arabian Nights. Deconstruction of the human spirit in a dying world, mainly.
  
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (adult literary). If you've even seen the movie trailer, half of the slow build to "something is not quite right" in the book is lost.
  
• Incarceron and Sapphique by Catherine Fisher (YA steampunk-ish). This almost broke my favorite books list. Almost. Two worlds: one steampunk, labyrinthine prison, one fake medieval "real" world.
  
  Dystopian and Not Quite Sci-Fi Recommendations:
  
  
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (MG). Forget the movie trailer. The book we read back in elementary school was more about a utopian society going back to a simpler time and a 12-year old discovering the cracks and making his own decisions.
  
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire (adult literary fantasy). Different once again from the Broadway show, this is The Wizard of Oz told from the POV of the Wicked Witch of the West. All about the nature and definition of evil, but even then it might not count as dystopian. The Wizard is a Nazi, btw.
  
• The Selection by Kiera Cass (YA popcorn). This is seriously only making the list because of the popcorn aspect and where it seemed like it was going to go before The One ruined all the political drama and revolution that could have happened. Basically a fun Mary Sue-fest about princess lessons in a future-North American caste society.
  
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (YA spec fic). Anorexic teen during WWIII. Plenty of survival and resilience questions, but no new tech, so not really sci-fi, I'd say.
  
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (adult literary spec fic). Could arguably belong on the list above, but there's not much in the way of technology. At all. With declining birth rates due to pollution, the US becomes a theocracy. Written in response to the rise of evangelical politics in the 80s much like Oryx and Crake was in response to the politics of the early 21st century, but the main takeaway I got from it was that anthropologists are unconscionable.
  
• Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (adult literary spec fic). I didn't like this one at the time because the symbolism was so heavy-handed it bordered on magical realism and I couldn't understand the MC's decisions, but it grew on me in retrospect. After a flu pandemic, two teenage sisters live mostly on their own.
  
  But really, this whole article setup is eerily reminiscent of the "____ Literary Trope is Not Worthy!" followed by "Rebuttal!" linkbait we've been seeing a lot.

Immortal Series by Gillian Shields

Old Magic by Marianne Curley

Half Bad Trilogy by Sally Green

Blue is for Nightmares Series by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Beautiful Creatures Series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan

Once a Witch Series by Carolyn MacCullough

Balefire by Cate Tiernan

Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan

Immortal Beloved Series by Cate Tiernan

Time of the Witches by Anna Myers

The Secret Circle Series by L.J. Smith

Cursed Trilogy by Lynnie Purcell

Maybe under this category: Runes Series by Ednah Walters

Sorry for the format, I'm on the mobile app. I wish I could've gotten better links for some of them but at least the ones I included have a small description. Hope you enjoy!

Edit: Adding books I forgot.

There's a fantastic YA debut coming down the pipeline--it should be in ARC soon. SALVAGE by Alexandra Duncan. I'm reading it, and it is AWESOME.

Here's link to it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Salvage-Alexandra-Duncan/dp/0062220144/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377010760&sr=1-1&keywords=alexandra+duncan

Howdy! First time posting on Reddit -- the husband suggested I get on here to find like-minded people*.

My second novella, Betwixt: The Call of the Void, is now available for $3.46 on Amazon and also available in Kindle Unlimited - you do not have to have read the first novella to get into this one, in fact I'd be interested in hearing your experience if you read this one before book one which is also available.

Description:

After being taken to the world of Betwixt as a child, our protagonist, now an adolescent, finds herself dealing with a dual reality -- on top of the usual difficulties of high school.

Betwixt (Book Two): The Call of the Void, is a dark fantasy novella that follows the life of a teenager dealing with high school as well as an alternate reality that pulls her through the depths of darkness.

*as I mentioned above, I'm new to Reddit, so if anyone has suggestions on how to get the most out of this platform, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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Morthy demands:

Item which would most make you seem like an old posh Englishman: Because it's been used by a posh englishwoman and a very old posh english-seeming 'man' has been known to carry it around (From my 10-20 list)

Most "oh god, I would never be seen with this in public" looking item: More because it has a ridiculous name so people seeing the name might find me strange. (5-10 list)

Most phallic looking item: I mean this really isn't phallic but when you're staring at the stuff on your list for long enough...things begin to look phallic! (under 5 list)

Akeleie demands:

Most geeky item: [Am I allowed to choose this again? (10-20 list)] (http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-River-Songs-TARDIS-Journal/dp/B006FKWH6O/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=PXTUZZSZ21A8&coliid=I1DIM5UZLELZ3F)

Item which would most help you achieve a goal: I'm trying to lose weight and I need good sneakers! The ones I have now hurt my feets and lead to me skipping running most of the time. (30 plus list)

Best item to bring to a deserted island: Gotta stay hydrated!! (10-20 list)

Here are some books I think might give you a taste of what kinds of sexist stuff women have to put up with regularly:

https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Object-Memoir-Jessica-Valenti/dp/0062435094

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0143129201/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316348406/

https://www.amazon.com/What-Girls-Made-Elana-Arnold/dp/1512410241

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Feminist-Essays-Roxane-Gay/dp/0062282719

https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Girl-Gillian-Flynn/dp/0307588378

The last one is perhaps the farthest stretch, but I do think it's a lot about how women are made to comform to roles, as well as all the little ways men might dominate women, and plays with the usual perceptions of that. Maybe read it after you've read a lot of the other works so you're more familiar with the everyday struggles of women, otherwise it might not be as poignant to read as a guy.

Anyways, I'm glad that there are guys like you out there who are more open to learning about this stuff.

Links for the Canadians:

The Book of Deacon, by Joseph Lallo
Call of the Herald, by Brian Rathbone
Gravity, by Abigail Boyd (NOT free on Amazon.ca - 99 cents)
Darkness Falls, by Jessica Sorensen
Everflame, by Dylan Peters
Stained, by Ella James
Faelorehn, by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
Jenny Pox, by J.L.Bryan (NOT free on Amazon.ca - 99 cents)
Reckless Magic, by Rachel Higginson
Thirst, by Claire Farrell
Uprising: The Fall of Haven, by Justin Kemppainen

I started to understand the term when I was around sixth grade because so many of the books I was reading had a gentle push in that general direction - Laurie Halse Anderson, Judy Blume, Meg Cabot and countless others. Even the kind of easy-to-dismiss silly ones had fairly firm feminist underpinnings. It's almost surprising the extent to which a lot of YA covered stuff like a family member coming out and birth control, etc. I definitely wasn't getting that kind of exposure in my conservative Catholic school, and I'm so thankful to them for that.

Yes, I keep winning giveaways on Goodreads so right now I'm reading Keeping The Beat by Marie Powell and Jeff Norton. It's... okay. The best way I can describe it is that it's sort of a mashup of a Disney Channel movie and an episode of Pretty Little Liars. Not terrible, but nothing I'd want to read again.

Going to plug Tiger Lilly by Jodi Lynn Anderson for this genre. Tiger Lilly, if you don't remember, was the Indian girl who Wendy got jealous of in the movie. Really excellent book, and I have to say, I prefer it over the Disney version of how events went down in that love triangle.

I'd just like to point out that Lauren Conrad is a "published author.".

Apparently she enjoys both the appearance of writing books, and the appearance of reading them.

http://www.amazon.com/Forest-Hands-Teeth-Carrie-Ryan/dp/0385736819

It's a little sappy with the teen romance crap but it's a interesting world.

Honorable "already read them so I know they're good" mentions:

• Libba Bray - The Diviners (telepathic teenagers come together to stop a serial killer who's come back from the dead to finish what he started).
  
• Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl (a guy's wife disappears - did he do it? did she do it? who did it!? This one is a mindfuck that comes highly recommended).
  
• Ernest Cline - Ready Player One (in the not-too-distant future, 1980's culture reigns supreme, and one boy goes on a quest to win a 80s-culture scavenger hunt and save himself from his awful circumstances).

It might be The Possibilities of Fireflies by Dominique Paul.

>It's 1987 and fourteen-year-old Ellie Roma doesn't have much of a family. She lives with her mother, who has taken a break from parenting; and her older sister, Gwen, who is on her way to becoming a juvenile delinquent. Her father left them to start a new life.

>So Ellie spends a lot of time alone, especially at night, when all she has to keep her company are the fireflies that flicker in the summer air. Then one day a mysterious stranger enters her dark world. He is Leo, twenty-one, who is on his way to Hollywood to become a rock star. Ellie and Leo connect instantly, and Ellie hopes Leo will be the one to rescue her from her unhappy life. But instead, Leo teaches Ellie that no one can save you