Can you recommend something for DD14?

[LongTimeNoNC]

She keeps re-reading Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Skandar, Crookhaven and Rick Riordan's books (Percy Jackson, Magnus Chase and Kane Chronicles), Kay's Anatomy and Inventions.

I promised her a couple of new books, so I need to deliver!

Mortal Instruments (Cassandra Clare)
Infernal Devices (Cassandra Clare)
Hungry Games (Suzanne Collins)
Sophie Mckenzie and the girl missing set (some books are older, others younger)
Divergent Series (Veronica Roth)
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashers)
Twilight Series (Stephanie Meyer)
Maze Runner (James Dashner)
Throne of Glass (Sarah J Maas)
Noughts and Crosses collection (Malorie Blackman)

All of these are series, so could keep her going, Casandra Clare for example has done an additional 2 or 3 series so there are a lot of books here. Only ones I haven't read all of are the Throne of Glass and Noughts and Crosses series, everything else I have read either as a teenager or a young adult. I would read everything and read quickly so I always had quite a collection.

Stephen king, Terry Pratchett, the never ending Story etc

Lonely castle in the mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
Shannon Messenger - Keeper of the Lost Cities (similar vibe I think to Percy Jackson)
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
Has she tried reading manga or Japanese light novels? Also very popular among some teens.

Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines

@JustADayDreamBeliever aren't the Maas ones very heavy on the romantasy? By which I think quite explicit 🤣

LOL, if you are going to rec. Cassandra Clare you may as well suggest AO3.

Okay dokey 👍🙄
Couldn't possibly be I gave the author to make it easier for OP to find the book series 🙄🙈

Thanks. She actually has some of these on her shelf and hasn't read all of them so I'll point those out again. She's not a fan of horror / vampires, prefers adventure and fantasy. Absolutely no romance (yet 😂).

Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss, or any of his short story books
They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera. Thought provoking and brilliantly written
Saki - fabulously funny

if she quite likes fantasy, Anne McCaffrey’s dragon books are good.

Also Ursula Le Guin’s fantastic Earthsea trilogy.

At this age my dd liked Diary of Anne Frank, Diary of Adrian Mole, also Stephen King!

Helen Forrester's autobiographies? I was about her age when I read them. Her novels are good too.

I think you need some really gripping, not too difficult reads with some slightly older themes that will hook her. I would try Hunger Games, Noughts and Crosses or perhaps the Divergent series. I think Dark Materials is actually quite a heavy read (certainly after the first book) and some of the more adult authors people are suggesting might also be more challenging than gripping.

A Series of Unfortunate Events
Skandar

The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, fantastic fantasy books with strong young female protagonists. The first book is 'Sabriel'

Garth Nix - Old Kingdom series
Anything by Darren Shan

Racking my brains….

Darren Shan
Twilight
The Hunger Games
Noughts and Crosses
Discworld
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Mortal Instruments
Trueblood series

Most of what I’ve suggested have been recommended already.

What about the Heartstopper books by Alice Oseman? - there more of a graphic novel, but her book Solitaire is a novel and set in the same universe.

My DM gave me Dorothy Parker to read at 14 but I’m not sure that’s good advice to offer…

Day of the Triffids is very readable and a good story.

Agree with Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Also recommend Dracula and We Were Liars by E Lockhart.

Brandon Sanderson isn't marketed as YA but it's perfectly appropriate for a younger audience. No sex, no real gore or graphic violence (Sanderson is morman). Epic stories and cool magic.

Most people recommend Mistborn as a first novel.

Tress of the emerald sea is excellent too and is fairly recent as a stand alone work.

Also another vote for Terry Pratchet. I recommend starting with Guards guards.

The hobbit

Sorry have just seen that she doesn’t like horror and vampires so ignore my suggestion of Dracula.

Has she tried any of Agatha Christie’s books yet? I really enjoyed those at that age.

If she likes slightly creepy, then Lockwood and co is very good. Teenage protagonists, no sex or real violence beyond some fencing I think.

Oh what about Narnia??

Does she like reading? Those books are more yr 3-6 and not for a 14yr old!

LLMs are pretty good at book recommendations. You could put a list of things she's enjoyed into your favourite large language model (ChatGPT / whatever), add a bit of background on other interests / likes / dislikes and ask for a list of recommendations with a short synopsis for each.