Recommend me a book for a (young)16 year old

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Not into fantasy / sci fi nor fluffy teen romance

Any ideas??

We Were Liars by E Lockhart was quite good. Has some romance in it though.

I came on to say that too, 13yr old dd enjoyed it and she's not much of a reader.

Actually I'll piggyback if you don't mind as I could do with similar reccs.

The Universe Versus Alex Woods
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime
Noughts and Crosses (and other Mallory Blackman)
We Were Liars

My teens recently enjoyed "The Art of being normal" by Lisa Williamson.

The Vitals series by Kathy Reich's is an adventure/mystery series for teenagers.

Vitals not Vitals

I hate autocorrect its Virals

How I live now by Meg Rosoff

Another vote for Noughts and Crosses.
I know they're a bit fantasy, but His Dark Materials?
Miss Peregrines School for Extraordinary Children
Never Let Me Go (or is that scifi? It's not like, spaceships or anything).
Journey to the River Sea

The fault in our Stars
Wonderful book- everyone should read it!

Dd did read and loved The Fault in our stars.
Never let me go is one of my favourites, but she's so far ignored my suggestion.
She did read Men, women and children recently, which brought up some interesting discussions since I read it too.

A second vote for Meg Rosoff - How I live now, also After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross. At her age I loved Pride and Prejudice too.

Now is good
Never let me go

It might be a bit young for her but Michelle Magorians Back Home is great. I loved it at 12 but by 16 I was starting to be able to appreciate the points of view of other characters in the book, like Rusty's mum.

'Once' by Morris Gleitzman - moving and absolutely brilliant. There is a whole series of them ('Now', 'Then', 'After'). Set in 2nd world war but they don't presume any prior knowledge and are about people rather than war. Might be a bit young but a 16yo will race through them if they've not already encountered them...

What about the Tillerman cycle by Cynthia Voigt? Starts with Homecoming. Have just reread them for the first time since I was a young teen and they are still brilliant. Also K M Peyton - Pennington's 17th Summer.

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

I was given Pride and Prejudice when I was 15 or 16, which was eventually a game-changer for me.

Lately, though, I'm more and more liking the idea of giving kids non-fiction.

The boy in the striped pyjamas?

The bridge to terabithia - so sad.

What I saw and how I lied?

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell?

Me, Earl and the dying girl

Wonder

Thirteen reasons why

miss peregrine's home for peculiar children

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.