Finally got my sis reading - recommendations for 16th birthday please!

Anything by Holly Bourne, she's a British YA writter, great for young feminists. www.goodreads.com/author/list/6561227.Holly_Bourne
More of Me by Katherine Evans www.goodreads.com/book/show/27270184-more-of-me
Slated trilogy by Teri Terry www.goodreads.com/book/show/12743472-slated Absorbing but not too challenging reads, great for someone who's just discovered reading

The Bartamaeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud
Virals series by Kathy Reichs

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman - this is about too be a BBC TV series as well.

Books by Malorie Blackman
Everything Everything and The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon. She may have seen the film of Everything Everything though.

Percy Jackson..my 14 year old niece loved it and she's a reluctant reader.

The Fault in Our Stars is a good suggestion. Absolutely fucking devastating though. I haven't been particularly taken with any of his other books though, although I haven't read his newest.

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman are just amazing. I'm not familiar with what you said she's already read so they might be a bit heavy for her for now, but perhaps one for the future. I'd say it took a few chapters for me to get into it as well.

Harry Potter is obviously excellent. Can be tricky to persuade people to read it when they've already for preconceptions from the films though - took me years to convince my sister to read them, but now she is a girl obsessed.

The Divergent Series would be my other suggestion. Amazing, powerful story but I think probably a bit easier to read than some other YA fantasy.

Billy and Me series by Giovanna Fletcher
Anything by Paige Toon

Another one I loved was PS, I love you. Book was sooooooo much better than the film.

If your sister has only just begun reading books for enjoyment then you don’t want to put her off by something too heavy. I have a sister of a similar age and I know some of the suggestions would have put her off.

Some of the books I (and my sister) have enjoyed are:

Harry Potter books
Twilight series
Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella
Billy & Me series by Giovanni Fletcher
To kill a mocking bird
The Book Thief
Third Pig Detective Agency - this was a surprisingly good story that I thoroughly enjoyed, with humour throughout.
My Sister’s Keeper
Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination.

Good Luck, hope you find something!

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

The Tales of the City series is great. My cousin bought me the first one when I was about 16 and I lent it to all my friends in succession.

When We Were Liars - E Lockhart
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Dark Matter - Michele Paver
His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman

Fault in our stars
Catcher in the rye
To kill a mockingbird
Twilight series

Oh and Lucy Diamond is very similar to Jenny colgan, have a look at her books.

I second fault in our stars , my DD 14 has read it and really loved it.
Also maybe girl on a train??
Lisa Jewel books are really good especially her latest ones.

I asked a friend of mine, who works in a bookshop, and she suggested the following:

One of Us Is Lying (Karen M. McManus)
Trapped (Michael Northrup)
The Potion Diaries (Amy Alward)
Gone (Michael Grant)
The Skulduggery Pleasant series (Derek Landy)
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)

We were the same, cake, at 16 my best friend had been through all her mums jilly Cooper novels . I was plundering my mums shelves for the classics. I did, and still do enjoy a page turner though.

The Marian Keyes books have had the broadest appeal amongst my friends. Trashy but very well written and completely unputdownable.

Has she read Fault In Our Stars/ Paper Towns?

Oh, yes - Meg Rosoff, definitely! Reading them as an adult I adored How I Live Now and thought What I Was one of the books of my life. Though I have to say the family teen felt they’d read an awful lot of similar-ish YA stuff over about five years.

Like you, OP, I’d read all the ‘suitable’ stuff by the time I was 12/13. (Though there wasn’t any official YA stuff back then, before the invention of the printing press ...) And had probably devoured every extant Mills & Boon by the time I was 15. I spent the rest of my mid-teens immersed in Conrad, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. (Much good it did me ... ) + Every Chalet School volume that Armada published.

Biographies are quite popular with that age group ...

Definitely try Emily Barr. As a previous poster has said, YA fiction is way better than it used to be. Another one to try is How We Live Now by Meg Roscoff?

Who is Emily Here??? Emily Barr!!!!

Try Emily Here's YA books: The One Memory of Flora Banks and the The Truth and Lies of Ella Black. Not high art, but gripping books that will hopefully keep on stimulating that love of reading :-)

The thing is, I think YA books have really changed. The Hate U Give, just for example, is about a young black girl who becomes an activist after she's the passenger in a car with a friend who's killed in a police shooting. An awful lot of books marketed as YA these days would have been in the general fiction section a few years back, but tending to appeal to younger readers.

I would have loved the book thief at 16, and also the boy in the striped pyjamas.

When I was 16, pretty much every teenage girl I knew was reading Wild Swans! Maybe that shows my age. Authors I loved at that age were:

Michael Kreighton (who wrote Jurassic park)
Stephen King
Patricia Cornwell
The Adrian mole books

Books I have since read and would have enjoyed as a teen:
Valley of the Dolls by Jaqueline Suzanne (bit racey but my 16 year old self would have loved that!)
The joy luck club by Amy tan
I know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou
Into thin air by Jon krakauer
I capture the castle by dodi smith
Rachel’s holiday by Marian Keyes, or any of her books tbh
The call the midwife series of books
My mad fat diary by Rae earl

Some of these books have quite adult themes, some are sad but I lapped that up in my late teens. I had grown out of young adult books by 16 and wanted a flavour of the real world (that I didn’t experience sat in my suburban bedroom ).

DD is 16. I'm finding some of these suggestions mildly ridiculous
Try GoodReads, too.
Here are some YA books that grab the reader instantly:

One
Panic
They Sky is Everywhere

Plus The Hunger Games, Holes & sequel to Holes, Curse Worker series.

My old favourites are The Highest Tide, Pigtopia, My Darling my Hamburger, The Pigman, The Book Thief, but all those could be a bit heavy to someone not used to reading novels.