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…
The dystopian genre is nothing new; well-established classics like George Orwell’s “1984” or Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” laid the groundwork for its kind of storytelling. But around 15 years ago, the genre found a new audience within the growing market of young adult readers. Mixing a variety of themes that explore societal, political, and…
Young adult science fiction series written by American-British author Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. More precisely, the series follows the adventures of two adolescents, Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade, as the…
Born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut, Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She began her career in 1991 as a writer for children’s television shows, before she began to write children’s books. Her debut book, Gregor the Overlander is published in 2003. She has been named one of Time magazine’s…
Coming from American author Lauren Oliver, the Delirium series is mainly a trilogy of young adult novels published since 2011. Set in the year 2091, in Portland, Maine, this story is about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. More precisely, it’s a story about a young woman named Lena Haloway who falls in…
The Gone series is a young-adult dystopian science fiction book series written by Michael Grant. The series is centered on the fictional Southern Californian town of Perdido Beach, in which every human aged 15 and older vanishes. The town and surrounding areas become encased within an impenetrable barrier that burns to the touch, with many…
Published between 1985 and 1990, The Casteel book series was the second novel series written by V.C. Andrews, after The Dollanganger series. Andrews wrote the first two books and started the third, but didn’t finish it. The series was completed by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate following her death to continue to…
The 100 is a post-apocalyptic science fiction and young adult book series written by American author Kass Morgan. Almost 100 years ago, a thermonuclear apocalypse happened. Now, the only survivors of the human race live in a space colony. To maintain control of population and resources, all crimes, no matter how small, are punishable by…
Marie Lu (born Xiwei Lu) is an American author who is known for the New York Times bestselling series Legend and The Young Elites. Before becoming a full-time writer, she had a career in the video game industry, working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artist. Now, Lu specializes in Young Adult books beginning…
Written by Irish author Michael Scott, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel is a young adult fantasy series about a French alchemist … and immortal Nicholas Flamel. The story centers around Sophie and Josh Newman, two fifteen-year-old Americans whose life is changed forever when Dr. John Dee engages Josh’s boss and bookstore owner, Nick…
Coming from British author Robert Muchamore, CHERUB is a popular series of teenage spy novels about a fictional division of the British Security Service called… CHERUB. CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. How…
Written by British author Joseph Delaney, The Wardstone Chronicles is a dark fantasy series of books also known as The Last Apprentice series in the U.S. This is the story Thomas “Tom” Ward. He is the seventh son of a seventh son who is apprenticed to John Gregory to become a Spook. He now learned…
