Book Recommendation for Teen Girl (16)

[Fergie51]

My granddaughter has lost the desire to read for pleasure this year due to the pressure of GCE’s and the mind numbing limited choice of the syllabus.
Can anyone recommend some titles which might be of interest? I am so out of the loop these days and some help would be greatly appreciated. Fiction is a favourite, no fantasy or complicated plots. 🤞

I loved the Georgia Nicholson series at her age - Louise Rennison. Also the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series by Ann Brashare and the Gossip Girl books by Cecily von Zigezar.

John Green also has some good ones for this age - Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska

Asked my 15yo niece and she suggested:

You have a match by Emma Lord
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series by Holly Jackson
The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy and To All the Boys I’ve loved Before trilogy by Jenny Han
My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Nowak
The American Royals series by Katherine McGee
The Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Thank you so much for taking the time to think of so many titles.
I am very grateful. 🌸

My seventeen year old loves the Jenny Han books.

Well obviously I'm going to suggest We Were Liars, I think it might mention me once or twice

My niece was recently raving about a book called Becoming Mzungu - a travel adventure I think? She is 17.

I would say Frida McFadden - got my daughter out of a reading slump

the housemaid is a good first one

I was deep into Russian literature at 16. Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Sholokhov, to the point where I neglected revision for my actual History O’ Level. Sholokhov was spectacularly and graphically violent, but apart from that I now remember nothing at all of what I read.

My dd likes to pick up older classics as comfort reads when school work is all a bit much. Think like Heidi or Black Beauty. Also reading P&P, Jane Eyre etc.

Otherwise she reads a fair bit of fantasy so not what you are after.

Haver you come across Books Up North? They have a panel of young reviewers so you can find YA books read and reviewed by teenagers to give you some ideas. Definitely legitimately done as dd is one of the reviewers.