Born in 1977, Ruth Ware is the pseudonym for Ruth Warburton, a British psychological crime thriller author. She grew up in Lewes and studied English at Manchester University. Before becoming a writer, Ruth Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a publicist, and an English teacher in Paris. She published her first books under the…
A young adult fantasy/sci-fi series written by E.E. Holmes, The Gateway Trackers series follows the adventures of a group of teenagers who discover a mysterious gateway to another world. As they explore this new world, they uncover secrets about themselves and their own history, all while facing various adversaries and obstacles. What is the Gateway…
Coming from American author Julie Kagawa, the Iron Fey series is about the adventure of a young woman in a world of fantasy. The story focuses on half Summer faery princess, half-human, Meghan Chase. When she learns the truth about her origins, she finds herself forced into the world of the Fey and becomes a…
The Princess Diaries is a young adult series written by Meg Cabot. It’s about Mia who is the princess and heir to the throne of Genovia, a small country in Europe. Mia lived most of her life in Greenwich Village and uses a talent for writing to chronicle her life in personal diaries. So, this…
Written by Andrew Lane, the Young Sherlock Holmes series tells the adventures of a teenage Sherlock Holmes before he became the renowned detective of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. Set in Victorian England during the 1860s, the series follows a young Sherlock Holmes as he navigates through his adolescence and hones his investigative skills, learning…
A best-seller writer in the Gothic horror and family saga genre, V.C. Andrews died of breast cancer in 1986. Since then, books written under her name are still published, but they are all written by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. At the end of the nineties, the writer released a new family saga, The Orphans consisting of…
Louise Rennison (1951-2016) was an English author and comedian. She found success with her one-woman autobiographical show, “Stevie Wonder Felt My Face,” and began to write for Woman’s Hour on Radio Four, for comedians, and for a London newspaper. This led her to publish in 1999 her first fiction book for teenage girls. The Confessions…
Like the Landry series, The Cutler Series is actually not written by V.C. Andrews but by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate to continue to write novels to be published under her name (Virginia Andrews’s name is considered a valuable commercial asset). V.C. Andrews had started writing the first book in the series,…
Written by prolific American author James Patterson (Alex Cross), Maximum Ride is a series of young adult fantasy novels-inspired by his previous books When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, but definitely not connected to them. The Maximum Ride books are set in the near future and are about the flock, a group of…
Coming from British author Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses is a series of young adult novels. It’s an alternative history in which native African people colonized the European people. It’s speculative fiction about two star-crossed lovers fighting for a more just world. Sephy is a Cross. Callum is a nought. She’s dark-skinned and lives a…
Written by American author Anna Todd, The After series is a young-adult romance series that was originally published on Wattpad before being picked up by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The series started as fan fiction, as it was initially inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction. The singer Harry…
Written (in part) by American author Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl follows the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City’s Upper East Side. The story focused on best friends Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen, their lives being chronicled by the eponymous gossip…
