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NPR Top Young Adult Novels 📖

(mostly) Non-FICTION

Non-Fiction
Kissing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About One of Life's Sweetest Pleasures

by Andréa Demirjian        

Jan Bondeson

Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History

Biography

Killing Lincoln: the shocking assassination that changed America forever / Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

World’s Strongest Librarian (2013) Josh Hanagarne*

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell (Jul 1, 2013)

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson (Aug 29, 2013)

The man From Mars (2013) Fred Nadis

Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing Hardcover (2013)

by Leonard S. Marcus  

John Newbery and the Story of the Newbery Medal (Great Achievement Awards) Library Binding (2003)

by Russell Roberts

Happy, Happy, Happy (2013) Phil Robertson

Superman: the High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero by Larry Tye

I Am Malala (2013) Malala Yousafzai

How to Write

Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder (May 25, 2005)

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee (Nov 25, 1997)

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field

500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader: Writing the Screenplay the Reader Will Recommend by Jennifer Lerch

Breakfast with Sharks: A Screenwriter's Guide to Getting the Meeting, Nailing the Pitch, Signing the Deal, and... by Michael Lent

Hollywood Standard Chris Riley

Notes for Screen writes

The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 3rd Edition by Christopher Vogler and Michele Montez (Nov 1, 2007)’’

The Writer & The Hero's Journey (The Easy Way to Write) by Rob Parnell (Feb 5, 2014)

Power of Myth

Humor

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (2013) Allie Brosh

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps (2013) Kelly Williams Brown

To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure (2013) Ryan North

Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle (2013) Si Robertson

Religious Inspirational
http://goinswriter.com/

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat
Why Catholicism Matters: How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the 21st Century by Dr. William Donohue
How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice by Austen Ivereigh
Meat and Potatoes Catholicism Rev. Joseph F. Classen
From Narnia to a Space Odyssey The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis

by Arthur C Clarke and C S Lewis 2003
Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters by Jon Acuff
Killing Jesus (2013) Bill O'Reilly

(mostly) FICTION
(mostly) Adult Non-Fantasy

Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See (2014)

Dianne Dixon

The language of secrets (2010)

Emma Donoghue

Room (2010)

Hazel Gaynor

The Girl Who Came Home (2012)

Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees (2000)

The Mermaid Chair (2005)

The Invention of Wings (2014)

A.S. Peterson

The Fiddler's Gun (Fin's Revolution, #1) 2009

Fiddler's Green (Fin's Revolution, #2)  2010

Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch (2013)

Anthologies

Stephen L Antczak and James C Bassett (2013)

Clockwork Fairy Tales

Ellen Datlow   (Editor),    Terri Windling (Editor

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy Paperback (2013)

Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (2011) (with Gavin J Grant)

Paula Guran

Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations (2013)

Editors Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo , David Malki

This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

(Machine of Death #2) 

Wings of fire  / edited by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon  c2010

Interesting Links
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/07/157795366/your-favorites-100-best-ever-teen-novels

Magic Realism

MYSTERY

TV SHOWS
Phineas and Ferb

Various Variety
 

Resource Books
Kipling, Masefield and de la Mare -- The Irish succession : James Stephens and Patricia Lynch
-- Through the wardrobe : the magic of C. S. Lewis -- Narnia : C. S. Lewis
-- The tree of fairy-tale : J. R. R. Tolkien and Fairy Stories -- the Northern nobility : Tolkien and Beowulf -- Hobbits and heroes : I. The beginning. II. Apotheosis of a hobbit -- Continuance :

The Casebook of Seekay and Other Prototypes of The Avenger [Paperback]
Paul Ernst (Author), Will Murray (Introduction), Matthew Moring (Designer)

The Phantom Detective Companion by Tom Johnson, Will Murray, Al Tonik and Harold Ward (Apr 10, 2012)

The Way They Were: The Histories of Some of Adventure Fiction's Most Famous Heroes and Villains by Mr Jeff Deischer (May 31, 2011)

Rick Lai's Secret Histories: Daring Adventurers [Paperback] Rick Lai

Authors from Other StoryBlazer LIsts

Kathi Appelt

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (2013)

Paolo Bacigalupi

Zombie Baseball Beatdown (2013)

Stephen Baxter

The H-bomb Girl (2007)

Holly Black

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (2013)

Charles de Lint

Waifs and Strays (2002)

Seven Wild Sisters (2002)

A Circle of Cats (2003) (with Charles Vess)

The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (2013)

Catherine Jinks

City of Orphans trilogy

1. A Very Unusual Pursuit (2013)aka How to Catch a Bogle

2. A Very Peculiar Plague (2013) aka A Plague of Bogles

Diana Wynne Jones

Archer's Goon (1984)

A Tale of Time City (1987)

Enchanted Glass (2009)

John Green

Paper Towns (2008)

John Scalzi

Zoe's Tale (2008)

Jerry Spinelli

Hokey Pokey (2013)

Clare Vanderpool

Navigating Early (2013)

 (mostly) Kids fantasy and Science Fiction

Adventure and Mystery

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (Jun 25, 2013)

 COMICS

Guardians of the Galaxy : The Complete Collection  (2014)

Abnett, Dan/ Lanning, Andy/ Pelletier, Paul (ILT)/ Walker, Brad (ILT)/ Magno, Carlos (ILT)

CREATURES

David Almond

Skellig

My Name is Mina (2011)

1. Skellig (1998)

Michael's world after his family moves house seems lonely and frightening, when his new baby sister is fighting for her life in hospital. Then he discovers something - a creature in the crumbling garage, and nothing is ever the same.

The Fire-Eaters (2003)

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean (2011)

(mostly) Kids non-fantasy

Kid’s General Fiction

Newbury Award Books

Fantasy Autors to Explore Later

Fantasy Authors to Explore Later

Must Reed Middle Grade Books

Reginald Bretnor

Claire Legrand

Shannon Messenger

A.S. Peterson

Laurel Snyder

Picture Books

Aaron Becker

Journey (2013)

Drew Daywalt  

The Day the Crayons Quit (2013)

Deborah Freedman

The Story of Fish & Snail (2013)

THE BOY WHO LOVED MATH: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos.

Bob Shea

Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great (2013)

Kashmira Sheth

Tiger in My Soup (2013) A Picture Book

On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne and Vladimir Radunsky (Apr 23, 2013)

THE DARK. By Lemony Snicket. Illustrated by Jon Klassen. (Little, Brown, $16.99.)

FOG ISLAND. Written and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer. (Phaidon, $16.95.)

MR. WUFFLES! Written and illustrated by David Wiesner. (Clarion, $17.99.)

THIS IS THE ROPE: A Story From the Great Migration. By Jacqueline Woodson.

The Marshmallow Incident  by Judi Barrett  A picture book with a Marshmallow War…  YES

 

Adventure /Mystery/Suspense

Peter Abrahams

Echo Falls
1. Down the Rabbit Hole (2005)
2. Behind the Curtain (2006)
3. Into the Dark (2008)

The Runaway's Gold (2015) by Emilie Christie Burack (Goodreads Author)

Macallister Fogg
1. The Master Mummer's Mummy (2013)
2. Great Great Great (And So Forth) Uncle Dragoslav (2013)
3. The Hetrodythermaline Highwayman (2013)

ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS

E C Myers

Coin

1. Fair Coin (2012)

2. Quantum Coin (2012)

Amy K Nichols

Duplexity
1. Now That You're Here (2014)
2. While You Were Gone (2015)

 

Animal Fantasy

Lisa Fiedler, 

 Mouseheart Trilogy

1. Mouseheart (2014)

2. Hopper's Destiny (2015)

3. Return of the Forgotten (2015)

 

Apocalyptic/ Dystopian

                                                                                   

DRAGONS

Michael Dahl

Dragonblood

The Girl Who Breathed Fire (2010)

Eyes of the Monster  (2010)

Duel of dragons (2013)

Dragonborn

The Dragon With the Girl Tattoo (2012)

Duel of Dragons (2012)

Fangs in the Mirror (2012)

Monster Hunter  (2012)

Bryan Davis

Dragons in Our Midst

1. Raising Dragons (2004)

2. The Candlestone (2004)

3. The Circles of Seven (2005)

4. The Tears of a Dragon (2005)

Handbook for Dragon Slayers (2013) Merrie Haskell

http://thewriteweb.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/buzzworthybooks2014/

 

Fairy Tales

Through The Skylight (2013) by Ian Baucom 

Princess Ben (2008) Catherine Gilbert Murdock

The Princess Curse (2011) by Merrie Haskell   

Historical Non-Fantasy/WW2

Shirley Hughes

Hero on a Bicycle (2012)   

Whistling in the Dark (2015)

Jacopo della Quercia

The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy (2014)
License to Quill (2015)

Mary Ann Shaffer

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  2008)

Horror

M.R. Carey

Girl With All The Gifts
1. The Girl With All The Gifts (2014)
2. The Boy on the Bridge (2017)

Just Fantasy

http://www.realmermaids.net/mermaids-in-fiction/mermaid-books/

Anni Moon & The Elemental Artifact  by Melanie Abed (Goodreads Author) 

Goblin Secrets
1. Goblin Secrets (2012)
2. Ghoulish Song (2013)

Stefan Bachmann 

Peculiar
1. The Peculiar (2012)
2. The Whatnot (2013)

A Drop of Night (2016)

The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief by Stefan Bachmann (Goodreads Author) 

Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)  by Robert Beatty (Goodreads Author) 

Jennifer Bell

Uncommoners Trilogy
1. The Crooked Sixpence (2016)
2. The Smoking Hourglass (2017)
The Frozen Telescope (2018)

Plain Kate by Erin Bow (2010)

Sage Blackwood 

Wizard's Apprentice
1. Jinx (2013)
2. Jinx's Magic (2014)
3. Jinx's Fire (2015)

Miss Ellicott's School for the Magically Minded (2017)

The Remarkable And Very True Story Of Lucy & Snowcap by H.M. Bouwman (Goodreads Author)

Gillian Cross

The Demon Headmaster 1982 – 2002)

A Map of Nowhere (1988) by Gillian Cross

The Brixen Witch by Stacy DeKeyser (Goodreads Author), John Nickle (Illustrations

Brian Farrey 

Vengekeep Prophecies
1. The Vengekeep Prophecies (2012)
2. The Shadowhand Covenant (2013)
3. The Grimjinx Rebellion (2014)

The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse (2016)

E.G. Foley   

The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, #1) 

  Jake & the Giant (The Gryphon Chronicles, #2) 

  The Dark Portal (The Gryphon Chronicles, #3) 

  Jake & The Gingerbread Wars (The Gryphon Chronicles, #3.5) 

  Rise Of Allies (The Gryphon Chronicles, #4) 

  Secrets Of The Deep (The Gryphon Chronicles, #5)  

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy  (2012) by Karen Foxlee 

Gregory Funaro (Goodreads Author)

Odditorium
1. Alistair Grim's Odditorium (2015)
2. Alistair Grim's Odd Aquaticum (2016)

Journey's End (2016) A novel by Rachel Hawkins

Eric Kahn Gale (Goodreads Author) 

The Bully Book (2011)
The Zoo at the Edge of the World (2014)
The Wizard's Dog (2017)
The Wizard's Dog Fetches the Grail (2018)

Sam Gayton

The Snow Merchant (2011)

The Adventures of Lettie Peppercorn (2016)

Kallie George

 Magical Animal Adoption Agency
1. Clover's Luck (2015)
2. The Enchanted Egg (2015)
3. The Missing Magic (2016)

Copper Magic (2014) Julia Mary Gibson 

Adam Gopnik

The King in the Window (2005)
The Steps Across the Water (2010)

Amie Kaufman

Elementals
1. Ice Wolves (2018)

Adam Kline

Escape from the Hat (2012)

The Clockwork War (2018

Amber Lough

Jinni Wars
1. The Fire Wish (2014)
2. The Blind Wish (2015)

Natasha Lowe 
1. The Power of Poppy Pendle (2012)
2. The Courage of Cat Campbell (2015)
3. The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel (2016)

Elizabeth May (Goodreads Author) 

Falconer
1. The Falconer (2013)
2. The Vanishing Throne (2014)
3. The Fallen Kingdom (2017)

Hammer of Witches (2013)  Shana Mlawski (Goodreads Author) 

Donna Jo Napoli

Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale (2007)  Fantasy

Storm (2014)

Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)

Liesl and Po (2011)
The Spindlers (2012)

E.J. Patten (Goodreads Author) 

Hunter Chronicles
1. Return to Exile (2011)
2. The Legend Thief (2013)

Jackson Pearce

Pip Bartlett (with Maggie Stiefvater)
1. Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures (2015)
2. Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training (2017)
3. Pip Bartlett's Guide to Sea Monsters (2018)

Carter Roy

Blood Guard
1. The Blood Guard (2014)
2. The Glass Gauntlet (2015)
3. The Blazing Bridge (2017)
4. The Missing Three (2017)

Kate Saunders

Magicalamity (2011)

The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop (2012)
The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix (2013)
Five Children on the Western Front (2012)

The Land of Neverendings (2017)

Alex Shearer

The Cloud Hunters (2012)
The Sky Run (2013)

Behind the Bookcase  (2012) Mark Steensland 

Piers Torday (Goodreads Author) 

Last Wild
1. The Last Wild (2013)
2. The Dark Wild (2012)
3. The Wild Beyond (2015)

Fiendish (2014) Brenna Yovanoff (Goodreads Author) 

Kiersten White

Paranormalcy

1. Paranormalcy (2010)

2. Supernaturally (2011)

3. Endlessly (2012)

Mermaids

Ari Berk

The secret history of mermaids and creatures of the deep, or, The liber aquaticum   

K.G. Campbell 

The Mermaid and the Shoe (2014)

Helen Dunmore

Ingo Chronicles

1. Ingo (2005)

2. The Tide Knot (2006)

3. The Deep (2007)

4. The Crossing of Ingo (2008)

5. Stormswept (2012)

John L. French

Mermaids 13: Tales from the Sea 

Captive Mermaid by Madeleine de Lannoy (Jan 23, 2012) - Kindle eBook

 

Non-Fantasy

I Kill the Mockingbird (2014) Paul Acampora

The Big-Screen Drive in Theater (1996)  Donald Davis AUDIO

Polly Horvath

My One Hundred Adventures
1. My One Hundred Adventures (2008)
2. Northward to the Moon (2010)

A World Away (2012) Nancy Grossman 

Swim That Rock (2014) by John Rocco, Jay Primiano

The Skeleton Tree (2016) Iain Lawrence (Goodreads Author)

26 Kisses (2016) Anna Michels (Goodreads Author) 

Trash, (2010) by Andy Mulligan NON- FANTASY

Lost in the River of Grass, (2011) Ginny Rorby NON-FANTASY

Retellings And Continuing the Story
Tarzan Andy Briggs
1. The Greystoke Legacy (2011)
2. The Jungle Warrior (2012)
3. The Savage Lands (2013)

Zoe Barton

Always Neverland (2011) A Peter Pan Adventure

Lilliput (2013) Sam Gayton

Sci-Fi

Kevin Emerson

Chronicle of the Dark Star
1. Last Day on Mars (2017)
2. The Oceans between Stars (2018)

Amie Kaufman

Starbound (with Meagan Spooner)
1. These Broken Stars (2013)
2. This Shattered World (2014)
3. Their Fractured Light (2015)

Victoria Schwab (Goodreads Author) 

 Archived
1. The Archived (2013)
2. The Unbound (2014)

STEAMPUNK

Alan Gratz

League of Seven
1. The League of Seven (2014)
3. The Monster War (2016)

Fights and Chimes and Mysterious Times (2014) by Emma Trevayne

Kristin Bailey  STEAMPUNK

Secret Order

1. Legacy of the Clockwork Key (2013)

A orphaned sixteen-year-old servant in Victorian England finds love while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious society of inventors and their most dangerous creation.

2. Rise of the Arcane Fire (2014)

3. Shadow of the War Machine (2015)

Paul Crilley

Tweed & Nightingale Adventure STEAMPUNK

1. The Lazarus Machine (2012)

In an alternate 1899 London, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed searches for his kidnapped father, uncovering both a horrific technological secret and a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire.

2. The Osiris Curse (2013)

Uncrashable Dakota (2013) STEAMPUNK

In 1862, Union army infantryman Samuel Dakota changed history when he spilled a bottle of pilfered moonshine in the Virginia dirt and stumbled upon the biochemical secret of flight. Not only did the Civil War come to a much quicker close, but Dakota Aeronautics was born.

Now, in Andy Marino's Uncrashable Dakota, it is 1912, and the titanic Dakota flagship embarks on its maiden flight. But shortly after the journey begins, the airship is hijacked. Fighting to save the ship, the young heir of the Dakota empire, Hollis, along with his brilliant friend Delia and his stepbrother, Rob, are plunged into the midst of a long-simmering family feud. Maybe Samuel's final secret wasn't just the tinkering of a madman after all. . . .

What sinister betrayals and strange discoveries await Hollis and his friends in the gilded corridors and opulent staterooms? Who can be trusted to keep the most magnificent airship the world has ever known from falling out of the sky?

Tiffany Trent

Unnaturalists

1. The Unnaturalists (2012) STEAMPUNK

In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.

Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father’s museum, but as she gets older, the requirement to become a lady and find a husband is looming large. Syrus Reed’s Tinker family has always served and revered the Unnaturals from afar, but when his family is captured to be refinery slaves, he finds that his fate may be bound up with Vespa’s—and with the Unnaturals.

As the danger grows, Vespa and Syrus find themselves in a tightening web of deception and intrigue. At stake may be the fate of New London—and the world.

2. The Tinker King (2014)

A Stranger in the Garden (2014)

Andrea Cremer

Inventor's Secret

1. The Inventor's Secret (2014)

In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future. 

Superheros

Matthew Phillion

The Indestructibles (2014)

Breakout (the Indestructibles Book 2) 

The Entropy of Everything (the Indestructibles Book 3)

Like a Comet (the Indestructibles Book 4) 

Echo and the Sea - An Indestructibles Spinoff

Victoria Schwab

0.5. Warm Up (2013)
1. Vicious (2013)
2. Vengeful (2018)

Superpowers (2008) David J Schwartz

TIME TRAVEL

Catherine Fisher

 Chronoptika Quartet
1. The Obsidian Mirror (2012)
2. The Box of Red Brocade (2013)
     aka The Slanted Worlds
3. The Door in the Moon (2015)
4. The Speed of Darkness (2016)

Kerstin Gier  

Ruby Red trilogy
1. Ruby Red (2011) aka Girl About Time
2. Sapphire Blue (2012)
3. Emerald Green (2013)

 Dianne K. Salerni

Eighth Day

1. The Eighth Day (2014)
2. The Inquisitor's Mark (2015)
3. The Morrigan's Curse (2016)

Jay Stevens

The Time Inspectors (2014) TIME TRAVEL

Abraham Lincoln Dinosaur Hunter: Land of Legends  (2013)
by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Goodreads Author)

Cristin Terrill

All Our Yesterdays (2013)

ADDED TO LIST but just NO

Bruce Hale

Underwhere

1. Prince of Underwhere (2008)

2. Pirates of Underwhere (2008)

3. Flyboy of Underwhere (2008)

4. Fat Cat of Underwhere (2009)

5. Mole Men of Underwhere (2009)

Nathan Bransford

Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow (Dial, May 2011),

Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe (Dial, April 2012)

Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp (Dial, March 2013)

OUT OF PRINT

Alexander Gordon Smith (1979 - )

Inventors

1. The Inventors (2007) (with Jamie Webb)

2. The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls (2008)

Kenneth Oppel

Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure (1985)