Book recomendations for a 16 year old girl

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i am 16 and love reading though i find it difficult to find books i really enjoy any help would be greatly appreciated
i enjoy reading the likes of harry potter and percy jackson and also the uglies series
thanks

I believe that books are a personal choice and it's not always easy to recommend. But I found that if I go through the store and look under sections such as sci-fi, or romance, etc (there are also subcategories) u can look through and either sample them before u buy or look up the description.

However to start you with some classic books - I believe these are free to download, such as the complete books of Tolstoy, or Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes, etc. Hope this helps.

As you've posted this in the science-fiction forum I'm assuming you're looking for suggestions along those lines. If you like humour you should try Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series. If you want something more serious then try some Anne McCaffrey (who sadly died this week). The Dragonriders of Pern series would keep you going for a while. Have fun.

The Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison.
The first three (and the list of all) here:

The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus

And if you get on with the Stainless Steel Rat do try Deathworld, in fact read everything by Harry Harrison.

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OP, my suggestion would be to look at the "Best Science Fiction Book" thread on hear, its about 7/8 pages long and is compiled by people who use this forum. Have a look what people say are their favourite scifi books, have a look at these books on amazon and see if they take your interest. This is pretty much how ive read (and enjoyed) many of the books I have over the past 24months, from peoples recommendations in that thread.

Mr Cheshire. Just want to know if you were joking when you typed ..."I've wrote a book......". Comedy genius !!

The Wizard Test - Hilari Bell
Singer of All Songs - Kate Constable
School of Wizardry - Debra Doyle & J D Macdonald
Half Magic - Edward Eager
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
Abhorsen Trilogy - Garth Nix
Silverwing - Kenneth Opel
A Plague of Sorcerers - Francis Zambreno
The Wizards Apprentice - Aaron Maguire
The Golden Compass - Rick Riordan
Young Wizards series - Diane Duane
The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare
The Infernal Devices - C Clare
Pellinor series - Alison Croggon (1st is The Naming or The Gift, both titles used)

Bugtown and In the Land of the Demon Masters. If you want to read a funny book about schools, there's TheBlissBook. I've got ten books on kindle, all for 86p! Get a free download for your PC, or phone.

I've got my favourites like everyone else but they tend to be the books that I read in my teens that are a couple of decades in the distant past now. A lot of them are classics and even though some are dated socially (Doc Smith) and technically (Asimov's early stuff) they're still cracking good reads.

I would suggest that you try picking books out of the science fiction section of your local library at random and give each book about fifty pages to catch your interest. It's a bit of a scatter gun technique but I've come across some really good authors and characters using this method that I would otherwise have missed out on. I guarantee that you will find the occasional gem.

To name a few, both recent and older: Diane Duane, Ursula Le Guin - Earthsea series, Anne McCaffrey - Pern, Crystal Singer & Talent books, Douglas Adams, Mira Grant, Terry Pratchett, Susan Cooper - Dark Is Rising series, Piers Anthony - Xanth, Tanith Lee - Silver Metal Lover

If you liked the "uglies", you've got to read Westerfeld's "Midnighter Trilogy. that's what got me hooked on him. A couple of books I've read that feature female main characters your age are "How I live now" by Meg Rossoff (A girl trapped in a future war torn England) - "Thirteen to Life" by Shannon Delany (paranormal) and I strongly recommend John Marsden's "Tomorrow, when the war began" series.

Well, if you are a 16yr old girl, I think you might enjoy the almost-forgotten Tales about another teen-age girl, who discovers she's a "natural telepath", set in the 'Universe of The Hub', - written By James H. Schmitz.
Here's the complete List of the Telzey Amberdon Stories - which you ought to be able to find pre-owned over the Internet for only a few dollars - as they were published quite a while ago now. [James H. Schmitz died suddenly in 1981.] I think Jim Baen of Baen Books has been instrumental in seeing these short stories and novels haven't gone out of print.-
Legacy by James H. Schmitz 1
The Universe Against Her by James H. Schmitz 2
A Nice Day for Screaming by James H. Schmitz book 3
The Demon Breed by James H. Schmitz book 4 [main character another young woman -Nile Etland - takes place on the waterworld of 'Nandy-Kline'.]
The Lion Game by James H. Schmitz - book 5
The Telzey Toy and Other Stories (Telzey Amberdon, book 2) by James H. Schmitz Book 6
Telzey Amberdon by James H. Schmitz omnibus 1
TNT: Telzey & Trigger by James H. Schmitz omnibus 2
Trigger & Friends by James H. Schmitz omnibus 3
The Hub : Dangerous Territory by James H. Schmitz omnibus 4
The Best of James H. Schmitz by James H. Schmitz contains 6 Hub short stories
A Pride of Monsters by James H. Schmitz
I do sincerely hope you'll enjoy them, if you can get hold of one of them to read. I found them stories I just didn't want to put down, when I read the first of them - which was first published years ago in the long-defunct and much-missed-, A5-sized, paperback magazine "Astounding Science Fiction" - edited by John W. Campbell - who gave many of the most famous SciFi writers their starts.
Oh, and I nearly forgot - for more stories about alternative worlds on which magic actually works - try Randall Garrett's "Lord Darcy" Series - three novellas starting with 'Too Many Magicians' [a 'locked-room' mystery] - set in an alternative-European history universe in which the Plantagenet Royal family still hold the English Throne and half of France, - in which steam-power is the main prime-mover, - and magic is a properly-scientific tool, regulated and taught by the English College of Magicians. These novellas are almost "steampunk" before anyone even thought of that idea!
Very best wishes, Julian Wilson, from "old" Jersey

Hi
I started really getting into reading about the same age as you and it got expensive ordering in books to my local library! Agree with previous post - go with Anne McCaffrey as Pern is a fantastic sci-fi fantasy base. Another author you may enjoy for traditional magic style is david eddings belgariad and mallorean series. Easy reads that you can enjoy forever just like Harry Potter.

Have fun

Excellent recommendations.

I liked the Lion Game and Demon Breed the most, and still have them. The other JHS books I bought were 'permanently borrowed ' by my daughters.

The same thing happened between my sons, grandson, and I; and I am now on my fourth copy of "Starship Troopers" because they permanently-borrowed the previous three copies, each in their turn. However, I did manage to protect all of my copies of Heinlein's Series about Lazarus Long - I told them they could buy their own copies of those Tales.
Julian Wilson,
from "old" Jersey.

The Anne McCaffrey "Dragonriders of Pern" Series will be expecially good for our original 16yr-old girl questioner, because - though each book is a complete "stand-alone" Tale, - several of them have teenager girls as the main characters, and Anne wrote particularly-sensitively about her "main character" teenage girls. Her son Tod, who has co-authored the last few "Pern" Novels, has continued to sensitively-handle his young "main characters", too.
It would be nice to see a response from the young lady we have all been trying to help, wouldn't it?
Julian Wilson,
from "old" Jersey.

As enjoyable as the Stainless Steel rat Series might be, -and I really like them, so do both my sons - Harrison doesn't have anyteenage girl characters in those stories with whom our original questioner could empathise. Anne Mccaffery and James H. Schmitz DO have teenage girl characters, very strongly-drawn by both Authors.

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Julian, once upon a time I've been a 16-year old girl, and now I have a 17-year old girl, so I daresay that empathizing with a character is not absolutely necessary, and Stainless Steel Rat is FUN...

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A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber
YA spinoff from the Honor Harrington series, pb in 2012

The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey

One of the best of the Ship Who Sang series

Weaveworld by Clive Barker

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