David Baldacci is an American novelist born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. for a few years before publishing his first book, Absolute Power in 1996. Soon after, the book got a feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. Since then, David Baldacci has published…
Written by American fantasy and science fiction author Maria V. Snyder, The Chronicles of Ixia is comprised of three series (Study Series, Glass Series, Soulfinder Series) and five short stories. The story takes place in the territory of Ixia, where the government maintains control through the Code of Behaviour, forbidding the practice of magic. Yelena…
Cassandra Clare is the pen name of Judith Lewis (née Rumelt), an American author of Young adult fantasy fiction. She is best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, which has been adapted into a movie in 2010 and into a television series, between 2016 and 2019. Cassandra Clare is known to have first…
Maggie Stiefvater is an American writer of Young Adult fiction. Born Heidi Hummel in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Maggie Stiefvater wanted to be a fighter pilot and race-car driver as a child. However, it seems those plans didn’t stop her from spending a lot of time reading and writing, as she was already submitting manuscripts to publishers…
Written by American author Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil is described as a young adult fantasy fairytale series. The series is composed of two trilogies, the first being about the adventures of two best friends named Sophie and Agatha. They joined the School for Good and Evil, an enchanted institution where children…
Created by Gail Carriger–the pen name of American archaeologist and author Tofa Borregaard–the Parasol Protectorate series is the heart of a large literary universe composed of multiple series of steampunk paranormal romance stories. The Parasol Protectorate series is first about a young woman with no soul named Alexia Tarabotti who ends up dealing with the…
V.C. Andrews was an American writer best known for her best-selling book Flowers in the Attic. Her novels were popular enough that after she died in 1986, her estate hired a ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, to continue writing novels under her name. Now, Virginia Andrews’s name is considered a valuable commercial asset, and Andrew Neiderman has…
Written by Filipina-American author Melissa de la Cruz, the Blue Bloods series is a Young Adult Fantasy series about Vampires! The series follows Schuyler Van Alen Chase, a half-blood vampire, the first and only one of her kind. When the story begins, Schuyler discovers the world of the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of vampires,…
The Darkest Minds is a dystopian, young adult novel series that was written by American author Alexandra Bracken, and was primarily published between 2012 and 2018 – and is comprised of multiple novels and a collection of novellas and short stories. The story is set in the near future. Teenagers have been decimated by an…
The young Flavia de Luce is the main protagonist of the series set in the English countryside in 1950 and written by Canadian author Alan Bradley. She is a smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. She lives with her father and two sisters, but not her mother, Harriet,…
A young adult series written by Kiera Cass, The Selection takes place in a dystopian world, in the country of Illea, which was once the United States, and focuses on a competition designed to pick a woman to become the future wife of Prince Maxon and take on the role of Queen of Illea. Five…
Written by P.C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast, House of Night is a series of young adult fantasy novels following the adventures of a teenager who must be trained to become a Vampyre. More precisely, the story is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Zoey Redbird who has just become what is called a ‘fledgling…
