If you're having trouble finding something to read, this blog post is for you! These titles are great for young adults as well as adult readers and include non-fiction, romance, mystery, fantasy, and more. Many of these books were the hits of their time, and each is just as good today. At time of publication, all of these eBook titles were available.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: This 2017 novel by Angie Thomas has earned te Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best, and is a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Now a major motion picutre, the book tells about Starr Carter, who lives in two different worlds everyday. One is the poor neighborhood where she lives, and the other is her fancy prep school. Starr witnesses the shooting of her unarmed childhood best firend, and it changes everything. What can she not do? What must she do?
The Maze Runner by James Dashner:
The Maze Runner is the first in a three-part series about Thomas. Thomas wakes up in a place he doesn't know with people he doesn't know with rules he doesn't know. His first lesson is that there is a maze between them and freedom. But no one has ever made it through alive.
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green: John Green is the much-loved YA fiction author
The Fault in Our Stars and this is his newest book. It tells the story of sixteen-year-old Aza , who is really just trying her best to be good, while managing her own anxieties. The disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett launchers on an adventure with a childhood friend that will undoubtedly change everything.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs: Lovers of mysteries, ghost stories, and the strange will like this story about an abandoned orphanage. This story follows sixteen-year-old Jacob as he uncovers the mysteries beneath and around Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. An adventure in the shadows--this book will be loved by all ages.
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon: A
New York Times bestseller now turned into a major motion picture (2019) about Natasha and Daniel, who fall in love in one day. Is it fate? Is it chance? How long is forever?
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey: Rick Yancey's
The Fifth Wave may sound familiar; it was turned in to a movie released in 2016 with Chloe Moretz. The book came first and tells the story of Cassie's desperate search for her brother after four waves of the apocalypse have happened. Evan Walker, a mysterious stranger, wants to team up to help. Will she be able to rescue her brother? Will she even be able to save herself?
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi: By two influential creators of our time, this remix of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning
Stamped from the Beginning is written for teens but does not lose the deeply insightful narrative about the history of racist ideas in America and how it lingers today.
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys: Adult and young adult fans of historical fiction will be enthralled with this New York Times bestseller from Ruta Sepetys, author of
The Fountains of Silence. Lina is a fifteen-year-old Lithuanaian girl who's family has been torn apart by the Soviets in World War II. The book chronicles her journey from her home to a Siberian work camp. An absolutely haunting novel that will open your eyes to another side of this dark period in human history.
Once and For All by Sarah Dessen: Older and young adult readers will enjoy the familiarity of Sarah Dessen's work. In this story, she tells about Louna and her summer job planning weddings, despite having given up on happy-endings herself. Will Louna get a second chance at love, just when she's given up?
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo: Winner of the
National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a previous year Battle of the Books selection for the Alachua County Library District,
Poet X is a novel-in-verse about Xiomara Batista, an Afro-Latina heroine, who feels unheard in her Harlem neighborhood and how the power of slam poetry empowers her to let go of her silence.
While our phyiscal doors are closed, we have thousands of books in our Overdrive collection. If none of these fit your taste, try limiting your search in Overdrive to "available now" materials. Or, choose this time to test out listening to audiobooks or reading a graphic novel eBook.
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