Suggestions for fiction books for a high school girls bookclub? We’ve read The Hate U Give
Suggestions for fiction books for a high school girls bookclub? We’ve read The Hate U Give, Everything, Everything, and An Abundance of Katherines this year so far.
Fangirl or Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Great suggestions!
Loved Eleanor & Park!
Thanks!
Panic by Lauren Oliver
Thanks!
Please ignore Vera Dietz by A. S. King or any of her books
Ok, thx
It happened to Nancy.
Thanks!
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I forgot all about that book- I need to make sure they don’t read it in English.
Also Before I Fall
Thanks!
Avoid John Green
But…..He wrote An abundance of Katherine’s…which was a book they read! ?
I know he wrote that, so I’m advising them on future picks. His books just really annoy me.
Me too! And I’ve spent a few days reading 5-6 of them, to make sure I didn’t choose the worst of his books. Not my type of stuff at all.
His characters have unique perspectives that he doesn’t understand. And his writing is so emotionless he tried to make an impact with death but even then I don’t feel anything :/
Nancy Cocks it was my least favorite of his books- they wanted to read one of his and that was the only one none of them had read.
The girls love him, he is from Birmingham where we are but I only let them pick one per author.
The Nowhere Girls….I forget the author, but it’s newish and very timely during the #metoo movement.
Thanks!
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Thanks!
When or Forever, Again both are by Victoria Laurie
Thanks!
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Go Ask Alice
Thanks!
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Thanks!
You Know Me So Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour ??
Thanks!
Dumplin’
Thanks!
Piecing me Together by Rene Watson. Or Dreamland Burning.
Thanks!
This is How it Always Is-Laurie Frankel; Dumplin’-Julie Murphy
Thanks!
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and Atonement by Ian McEwan.
I would suggest something that does not psychologically mess w any survivors of abuse like Atonement has the potential to.
Thanks!
@Elizabeth ok
Thanks!
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I forgot all about that book- I need to make sure they don’t read it in English.
Moxy
Thx
Philip Pulman The Dark Materials.
Thx
Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
Thx
Fangirl, Eleanor & Park, A Dog’s Purpose, Mistborn
Thx
I just read Something In Between – great YA story featuring an immigrant family from the Philippines.
It’s by Melissa de la Cruz
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30519159
Thanks!
Female of the species
Thx
Perks of being a wallflower definitely! A monster calls, a curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, Anna and the French kiss
Thx
The unfortunate importance of beauty
Thx
There is Nothing Wrong with You for Teens by Cheri Huber.
Thx
I don’t read a whole lot of YA, but one I read and loved was “My So-Called Ruined Life” by Melanie Bishop. Highly recommended!
Thx
Waterfall by Lisa Tawn Bergen (1st of a series)
Thx
My sister lives on the mantleoiece by Annabel pilcher
Thx
the sisterhood of the traveling pants
I love that!
Boy in the striped pajamas
So good but they saw the movie in middle school-
Everything I never told you
Love that one!
I’ll give you the sun!!! by Jandy Nelson
Yes! This one!!!
Thanks!
This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Thanks!
A tree grows in Brooklyn, Looking for Alaska, The absolutely true story of a part-time Indian, The Kitchen House, Sarah’s Key, The Great Gatsby
I don’t recommend Sarah’s key for that age. The first chapter still haunts me.
Great suggestions?
@Joelle ok, thx
Graceling or Grave Mercy
Thx
Turtles All The Way Down by John Greene
Thx
Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children. It’s a trilogy
Thx
Also the Golden Compass series is classic
Thx
We Were Liars by E Lockhart Would be fun to read with that age group. It‘s got a good twist at the end.
I hated that book! Got rid of it fast so my daughter would never read it.
I loved it
I loved it!
Based on the titles you’ve listed I would highly recommend “Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined” by Danielle Younge-Ullman. It was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for YA fiction this year in Canada. I read it and met the author Danielle. My book club is reading it and Danielle is coming to our meeting to take part in the discussion. One of my friends was reading it on vacation and sent me a text telling me she was sitting by the pool crying as she finished the book and that she loved it. From what I’ve heard, all of our book club members that have read it have loved it. It would be great for a teen book club, especially if you’ve read All the hate u give. A somewhat disturbing event does happen so I wouldn’t recommend it for tweenies. Hope this helps! Let us know what you decide!
Just ordered it – will be delivered Wed?Thx !!
I just finished the book and absolutely loved it. That is going to be our February book. Thanks so much!!!
What about Orphan Number Eight. I recommend prereading to make sure you feel it’s appropriate but it was a great book.
Great idea
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
I second this suggestion!
Thx
Anything Jodi Picoult, The Glass Castle, any Cassandra Clare. Reading level? For higher, try Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale, Jane Austen.
My 9th graders loved the glass castle!
Great ideas!
Both Welcome to Night Vale novels ?
Thx!
Beartown By Frederic Backman. High school guys should read it too.
YES. Totally agree.
Thx!
I am Malala
It is so good. We read it last year ??
The Six Of Crows duology. My girls loved them.
On my TBR for 2018
Second this.
Thx
I will be redundant (again…haha). The Adoration of Jenna Fox. I loved that book
Thx
Thousand Boy Kisses
Thx
We were Liars by E Lockhart
Second this!
Love that book!
Quicksand by Malin Persson Gioloto
Thx
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Wonder
Great suggestions!
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Thx
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier.
Thx
Have you guys read The Power?
No-I need to look into it.
Before I fall
Thx
Mother Daughter Book Club series
Thx
The Curse Worker trilogy by Holly Black.
Coldest Girl In Coldtown by Holly Black
An Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir
Strange The Dreamer by Lani Taylor
The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Anything written by Marie Lu
Thanks for all the suggestions?
Hidden Figures, America’s First Daughter, The Hamilton Affair
Thank you!
StarBridge (StarBridge #1) (Starbridge Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009MSQWK8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0CTsAb9XJ853V
Thx
Thank you all for your great suggestions! I have lots of books to look into and many I had forgotten about. I think this will more than finish out our year. So thankful for each of you taking the time to reply?