Ideas for discerning (picky!) 13yo reader?

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I’m looking for books for my 13yo dd who loves to read but is finding it hard to find things she likes. She is currently re-re-reading Terry Pratchett, has tried (and disliked) teen books like Everyone Is Lying and various other dystopian type novels, and has tried but rejected all the fantasy / sci-fi stuff that I read at that age (Asimov, Clarke, McCaffrey).

She doesn’t like scary / gruesome / angsty or anything with adult themes. I think she’d like murder mysteries if they were gentle enough, but definitely no rape / torture / graphic stuff. She’s very academic, so difficult is fine, but she has already read Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre etc. She just won’t read anything badly written.

She likes fact books, too, but is specifically looking for fiction if possible.

I had amazing advice from MNers last time I had this problem, so I’m asking again (a few years later).

Maybe try Silas Marner instead of Middlemarch - it's not so chunky.

Would Murder Most Unladylike be suitable (I haven't read it but DS1 who is the same age enjoys them).

I enjoyed things like the Phillip pulmans at that age.
He did the Victorian setting ones as well as the obvious!

Also if she likes Terry Pratchett, has she tried the Terry Goodkind books, similar(ish)?

She read Murder Most Unladylike a few years ago and liked it. But I didn’t know about Philip Pullman’s other books, I’ll try her with one of those.

The books on feminism for teens thread is also giving me ideas.

How about The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins? Classic detective story. The Woman in White is a great read as well.

She might like the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Howard - some of the earlier books are partially narrated by the teenage characters.

I agree with the recommendation of Dervla Murphy - I discovered her books around this age. Full Tilt is a great place to start, as would be Wheels Within Wheels (her autobiography).

A woman of independent means
North and South
South Riding
Children of the New Forest
Of the teen books has she tried Skullduggery Pleasant? Detective stories at heart.

Don’t know if this has been mentioned yet but Robin Hobb series starting at the Assassin’s Apprentice would be amazing. The most beautiful fantasy books ever.

Has she tried Elizabeth Gaskell? Very much like Austen or Brönte.

Forgot to mention, If she hasn't read it yet she may also want to try Washington Square by Henry James. Catherine is an unconventional herione.

My 14yo has just finished
Cold Comfort Farm
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
To Kill a Mockibgbird
A Kestrel for a Knave

Previously she has really been into
I Capture the Castle
A Room with a View
Wolf Brother series
Call of the Wild and White Fang
Dark is Rising series
Children of Greene Knowe
Owl Service
Quite a bit of Frank Cotrell-Boyce
Little Women etc

At that age I loved Elizabeth Lairds books Kiss the Dust and Red Sky in the Morning. They’re for children but with serious themes - the first about a family escaping war in Kurdistan and becoming refugees, and the second is about a girl whose baby sibling is born severely disabled.