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Books for Intelligent Teens
From the classics of YA to the new age, minus the formulaic paranormal romance and Twilight spinoffs. A list for teens who really love to read, and who aren't in it just for the sexy talk.
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The Shadow Keepers
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Elite (The Selection, #2)
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Kiera Cass (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 856,084 ratings
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Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal
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3.39 avg rating — 6,052 ratings
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Love Letters to the Dead
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Ava Dellaira (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 91,763 ratings
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Fifteen Days Without a Head
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Dave Cousins (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Diary Of The Heart: An Obsessive Infatuation
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W.R. Watkins (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 172,585 ratings
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sweets for my sweet
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Bernie Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,627,319 ratings
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My Booky Wook
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Into That Forest
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3.82 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
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The Elephant of Surprise (Russel Middlebrook, #4)
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Brent Hartinger (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 1,150 ratings
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You. Are. Not. Alone.
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W.R. Watkins (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 69 ratings
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| 109 |
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Insignia (Insignia, #1)
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S.J. Kincaid (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 16,072 ratings
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| 109 |
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Bobby's Girl
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Bernie Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction
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3.72 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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Kiera Cass (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,727,884 ratings
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That Stranger Next Door
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Goldie Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Weight of Swords
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Lance Conrad (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Getting Over Garrett Delaney
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Abby McDonald (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 6,171 ratings
score: 94,
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Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
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4.03 avg rating — 89,260 ratings
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Veronika Decides to Die
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 238,562 ratings
score: 93,
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.24 avg rating — 768,604 ratings
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Secrets of the White Lake
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Daniel Chong (Goodreads Author)
4.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 93,
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The Spectacular Now
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3.51 avg rating — 43,801 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 974,580 ratings
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Moon at Nine
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3.88 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
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4.22 avg rating — 89,911 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,395,368 ratings
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Thunderlands
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Stewart Bint (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Hexenhaus
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Nikki McWatters (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 53,691 ratings
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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 101,056 ratings
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Everything is Changed
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3.60 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 25,483 ratings
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 410,252 ratings
score: 89,
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Words in Deep Blue
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Cath Crowley (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 40,656 ratings
score: 89,
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So B. It (So B. It, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 35,921 ratings
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My Lady Jane: The Not Entirely True Story (The Lady Janies, #1)
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Cynthia Hand (Goodreads Author)
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 200,735 ratings
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Coyote's Daughter
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3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Jasper Jones
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Craig Silvey (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 42,619 ratings
score: 87,
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Factotum
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3.92 avg rating — 74,795 ratings
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A Thief of Time (Leaphorn & Chee, #8)
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4.13 avg rating — 15,133 ratings
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A Monster Calls
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4.35 avg rating — 285,587 ratings
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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The Thief's Gamble (The Tales of Einarinn, #1)
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Juliet E. McKenna (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,930 ratings
score: 85,
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| 147 |
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Flora's War
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3.79 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 52,211 ratings
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Eventual Poppy Day
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3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Dragon's Kin (Pern, #16)
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3.98 avg rating — 10,868 ratings
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Promising Azra
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Helen Thurloe (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The White Dragon (Pern: Dragonriders of Pern, #3)
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Monsters
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 58,378 ratings
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Romanov
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Nadine Brandes (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 15,725 ratings
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Dragonsinger (Harper Hall, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 48,385 ratings
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Fairytales for Wilde Girls
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Allyse Near (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
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The Dark Is Rising Sequence (The Dark is Rising, #1-5)
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Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 16,539 ratings
score: 79,
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 142,596 ratings
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The Lost Crown
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Sarah Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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Dragonhaven
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3.43 avg rating — 6,372 ratings
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The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic
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Allan Wolf (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 4,027 ratings
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I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
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Dan Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 41,373 ratings
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 109,913 ratings
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The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë
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3.36 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 26,327 ratings
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The Surface Breaks
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3.40 avg rating — 10,733 ratings
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Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 135,799 ratings
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The First Voyage (Pets and Masters in Space #1)
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Elfa Todari (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Blood Countess (Lady Slayers, #1)
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Lana Popović (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 2,923 ratings
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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 83,081 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast
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Once at the Edge of the Sea
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Sue Saliba (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Borrible Trilogy (The Borrible Trilogy, #1-3)
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The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)
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Looking for Alibrandi
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Melina Marchetta (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 25,316 ratings
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