Need Some Ideas for Books to Read? YABC is Here to Help!

Running dry on ideas for that next great book to read? Well have no fear! Here are some recommendations for your next read in genres of all shapes and sizes!

Sci-fi Adventure

If you love the fast-paced action set in a not-too-distant future that sets itself up nicely for a trilogy found in Marie Lu’s LEGEND and PRODIGY

Then you might also like:

Nick James’s SKYSHIP ACADEMY: THE PEARL WARS

or Beth Revis’s ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Fantasy Adventure

If you like the medieval throwbacks full of magic and fantastical beasts as seen in Rachel Hartman’s SERAPHINA

Then you might also like:

Kristin Cashore’s GRACELING

or Laini Taylor’s DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE

Contemporary Trauma/Romance/Family Drama

If you like the tear-jerking, heart-wrenching, clutch your chest with emotion drama found in John Green’s THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Then you might also like:

Jennifer Castle’s THE BEGINNING OF AFTER

or Stephen Chbosky’s THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Dark Contemporary

If you like the slightly twisted and extremely dark characters brooding in Jay Asher’s THIRTEEN REASONS WHY

Then you might also like:

Gayle Forman’s IF I STAY

or Julie Anne Peters’s BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS, I’LL BE DEAD

Middle Grade Contemporary

If you like the quirky antics of hilarious tweens as seen in Jeff Kinney’s DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

Then you might also like:

Stephan Pastis’s TIMMY FAILURE

or Tom Angleberger’s THE STRANGE CASE OF ORIGAMI YODA

Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure

If you like the fantastical hijinks full of mythological history found in Rick Riordan’s PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS Series

Then you might also like:

Peter Lerangis’s SEVEN WONDERS Series

or Shannon Messenger’s KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES Series