young adult suggestions please

Thanks notcitrus!

White Cat - Red Glove - Black Heart, by Holly Black. Just excellent reads.
Harry Potter meets the Godfather. With romance & slight nookie, too :).

Ruth elwin harris' quantock sisters quartet were favourites of mine about that age. I also read mary stewart, Mary Renault, jean plaidy.

Pratchett - avoid The Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic - TCOM is the first Discworld book, but is a piss-take of lots of other fantasy novels, which is wasted if you haven't read say Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight (don't bother...)

He might most enjoy Johnny and the Bomb and the other two Johnny books (aimed at around 11yo), then there's Truckers-Diggers-Wings and The Carpet People which are suitable for younger kids but still enjoyed by adults. The Discworld series gets good with Equal Rites (especially good for girls), Mort (esp for anyone a bit morbid), and Pyramids (lots of maths and ancient Greece jokes). Then there's a few less good ones after Lords and Ladies, but the satire really picks up after Guards! Guards! and they all improve after that, but possibly you have to be adult to get more of the references.

Pullman - Ruby in the Smoke is good. Northern Lights trilogy is the famous one - the first two are good and the third rather loses its way in a big god analogy IMO, but all worth reading.

My son is 12. Any recomendations on the Terry Pratchett and Pullman front He's not read either of those authors 9neither have i) and he loves the history side of things

Has she tries the Michael Grant books?

Gone, Hunger, Lies and Plague.

If she likes historical fiction, I was reading Robert Graves and Mary Renault about her age.

I like lots of the above suggestions.

Thinking back, I was loving Stephen King at age 14 and also reading my mum's books - stuff like Danielle Steele, Catherine Cookson and The Thornbirds.

I also tried a few literary things like 1984, The Colour Purple, Of Mice and Men and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at that age and really liked them.

Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming and others
SE Hinton, Paul Zindel
My Friend Rebecca - Linda Hoy
Dogsbody - Diana Wynne Jones
The later books in the Anne of Green Gables series
The Kingscote school stories by Antonia Forest (and the non school ones with same characters, but those are expensive besides out of print)
Ursula le Guin for wonderful sociologist science fiction

Asimov and Heinlein and John Wyndham might appeal, too.

John Green or anything on the Mark Reads website, if only because the chapter by chapter reviews are such a fun format.
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials especially but others are good too especially the Victorian London ones if she likes historical stuff.
Malorie Blackman (love her) - writes really hard hitting, real world stuff which makes you think.
Robert Swindells (looking back over these they're a bit meh, but I thought they were great as a teen) - a mix of stuff, there's a post apocalyptic one, but mainly stories about teenagers in extreme situations.
Bali Rai is fab. He writes about Asian youth culture in modern cities and his books are really gritty and pull you right in to the world they're set in.

Try John Green - my 14-yr-old has just enjoyed The Fault in our Stars and gone on to read all his others (Paper Towns and a few others that I can't recall the titles of straight off). She also really liked Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. There is a lot of very good American teen/crossover fiction around at the moment, apart from the dystopian/vampiric stuff. Someone upthread mentioned Jennifer Donnelly, may I heartily recommend Revolution. DD read The Perks of Being a Wallflower recently as well and recommends it.

I think at 14-15 i was really going through a horror phase so was mainly reading Dean Koontz and Stephen King!

I found a void at the age of 14-15. Teen books too kiddy and adult books too boring. I too got I Capture the Castle at that age and loved it. Apart from that I read Tolkein, Pullman (his dark materials/ruby in the smoke series). She might enjoy The Lovely Bones? Did enjoy a bit of Robert Westall/ Robin Jarvis/ Adrian Mole; then and now ;).

My daughter at 14 loved the Erin Hunter books 'Warriors' about different tribes of cats. There are so many in the series that she was into them for weeks!
Also 'Maximum Ride' by James Patterson or 'The Message' by P J McBride, then of course the brilliant Terry Pratchett, especially 'Nation'. My daughter has re-read that many times.

The Book Thief
Highest Tide (Jim Lynch)
Pigtopia
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
another vote for SE Hinton, and Paul Zindel. Robert Westall if military themes ok.

One thing I like about those is they all have ~14yo protagonists. Sister on the Mantelpiece is simply brilliant, and age appropriate, although protagonists are mostly 10-11.

Dragons of Pern, Doon series. Lots of classic SciFi (Asimov). I got in to Dickens at about that age (I know, WEIRDO alert). And Steinbeck, of course.

Remember reading and enjoying "Cider with Rosie" about that age. And how about Gerald Durrell?

Omg, the school promoted"room"?

Op, what about se hinton?

The Tomorrow When the War Began series by John Marsden are unputdownable.

Robert Swindells - I think Stone Cold turns up on the school lists sometimes. Abomination is a good one too, and they aren't sci-fi like a lot of his others.

Dd loves Kate Atkinson too.

What about the Jean M Auel books - The clan of the cave bear? - i think i was about that age when I read those. Adrian Mole books?

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Half Brother - Kenneth Oppal

A Monster Calls was conceived as an idea by Siobhan O'Dowd before she died. Patrick Ness has written the most incredible novel from her ideas. Berlie Doherty also writes wonderful books for older children, such as Dear Nobody (about teenage pregnancy, but done so beautifully and sensitively you wish everyone was as understanding of teenagers as she is).

maybe she would like between shades of gray (not remotely anything like the other shades of grey), which for some reason I was desperately promoting for a 9 yo last night

link

Dd currently reading Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shadow of the wind
Presume she's read Phillip Pullman ?
Found this list: www.teenreads.com/