I love teen fiction and I'm not scared to admit it!

[Mordelain]

So...

I've been trying to write a book since...well, at least the early nineties. :rolleyes:.

It's aimed at the young teen market, so I've been reading some of the current 'trends' for market research. That, and I've not read properly for years, due to university, depression, and losing the drive. Now it's back, I'm reading a book or two a month and enjoying what I'm being dragged in to.

Namely...

Percy Jackson.

I really, really found myself in love with The Lightning Thief, though I saw the film first on a whim. It's written in a brevity heavy and amusing style, has interesting characters, and uses the old myths in a new way (Zeus wears a pinstripe suit, for example. The Underworld has security camera, etc).

Anyone else read anything similar they'd want to recommend? Sea of Monster is waiting for me when I get home, so I'll be starting to read that tonight. The book for the first one was radically different to the film, so I'll wait for the books to all be read before returning to the movies.

[Aurelianus Drak'shal]

Lev Grossman's 'The Magicians', followed by 'The Magician King'.

I got so attached to the character in The Magicians, I actually cried when I finished the book. And, like you, I am not ashamed to admit that.

Also, if you want heavy with amusement takes on old myths; Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', 'Anansi Boys' and 'Neverwhere'.

[Silence Sei]

Hunger Games, Divergent, and anything by John Green.

[Krausus]

Shut up. Sit down. And read the rest of Riordan's books. Kane Chronicles, Heros of Olympus. Also read Peirs Anthony. Xanth novels. Perhaps the Mortal Instruments.

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

I hear the first couple of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl books are pretty good.

Sadly, my YA fiction collection begins and ends with Barry Lyga's Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, which I quite enjoyed.

[Luned]

I looove the Bloody Jack series, not fantasy but you should totally check it out! It's about a girl's adventures in the early 1800s, she starts in London as an orphan and joins the Navy and eventually becomes a pirate. Okay, that probably sounds really silly, but it's genuinely good and the writing is spot on (it's so hard to portray accents/dialects without it getting unwieldy, and this dude's a master). Most adorable historical YA fiction ever. Everything begins when she's a child –– 10, maybe? –– and continues through her teen years.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295649.Bloody_Jack

[hoytti]

"Inheratance Series" by Christopher Paolini
Anything By J. R. R. Tolkien
"Beowolf" By Unknown Author
"Chronicles of Narnia" By C. S. Lewis

[Otto]

Also, if you want heavy with amusement takes on old myths; Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', 'Anansi Boys' and 'Neverwhere'.

You're kidding me. Those are the exact three Gaiman books I own, and I've just started re-reading them.

[Crayth]

I agree with:

Hunger Games
Piers Anthony ('The Blue Adept' series is especially great)


I would add:

'The Name of the Wind'
'The Warded Man'

[Aurelianus Drak'shal]

Otto, I've read American Gods and Neverwhere, so no spoilers about Anansi Boys.

I'm already starting it sad- Mr. Nancy was my favourite character in American Gods.

[Max Dirks]

Yeah, I'll say it.

The last book I read was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, loved it.

[Aurelianus Drak'shal]

I found the books to be.. not to my liking, to be honest.

I couldn't quite get into them. In fact, every single time I try to read Philosopher's Stone, I fall asleep just as I'm reading the words Diagon Alley. It's.. an odd occasion when I don't enjoy reading something.

[Krausus]

I tried Harry potter. I failed. It ended going into the back of my extensive book collection.