Editors Reads

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Young Adult

60 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

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Where to Start with Ali Hazelwood: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Ali Hazelwood — whether to begin with The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, or Check and Mate. A complete reading guide to the STEM romance novelist.

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Where to Start with Caroline Peckham: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Caroline Peckham — whether to begin with Zodiac Academy: The Awakening or Ruthless Fae. A complete reading guide to the dark academy fantasy series.

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Where to Start with Christopher Paolini: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Christopher Paolini — whether to begin with Eragon or Eldest. A complete reading guide to the Inheritance Cycle fantasy series author.

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Where to Start with Cornelia Funke: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Cornelia Funke — how to approach Inkheart, her essential fantasy novel about the dangerous magic of books. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Erin Hunter: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Erin Hunter — whether to begin with Warriors Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, or Forest of Secrets. A complete guide to the Warriors cat series.

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Where to Start with J.K. Rowling: A Reading Guide

Where to start with J.K. Rowling — how to approach the Harry Potter series, from the Sorcerer's Stone through the Deathly Hallows, and which book is the series at its best. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with L.M. Montgomery: A Reading Guide

Where to start with L.M. Montgomery — whether to begin with Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, or Anne of Avonlea. A complete reading guide to the Canadian author.

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Where to Start with Lauren Oliver: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Lauren Oliver — whether to begin with Before I Fall, Delirium, or Pandemonium. A complete reading guide to the YA novelist.

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Where to Start with Laurie Halse Anderson: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Laurie Halse Anderson — how to approach Speak, her debut novel and landmark of YA literature about a ninth-grader rendered mute by an assault she cannot yet name, written in a fragmented first-person voice that mirrors trauma with precision. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Madeleine L'Engle: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Madeleine L'Engle — whether to begin with A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, or A Swiftly Tilting Planet. A complete guide to the Time Quintet.

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Where to Start with Philip Reeve: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Philip Reeve — how to approach Mortal Engines, his visionary debut fantasy about a post-apocalyptic world of predatory mobile cities, a junior historian thrown from London, and the ancient weapon that could destroy them all. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with S.E. Hinton: A Reading Guide

Where to start with S.E. Hinton — whether to begin with The Outsiders, That Was Then This Is Now, or Rumble Fish. A complete reading guide to the YA pioneer.

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Where to Start with Sabaa Tahir: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Sabaa Tahir — how to approach An Ember in the Ashes, her dark Roman-inspired fantasy debut following a Scholar girl and a soldier through a world of brutal occupation, impossible choices, and the question of what resistance costs. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Stephen Chbosky: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Stephen Chbosky — how to approach The Perks of Being a Wallflower, his essential coming-of-age novel. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Stephenie Meyer: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Stephenie Meyer — whether to begin with Twilight, Eclipse, or Midnight Sun. A complete reading guide to the vampire romance novelist.

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Where to Start with Tahereh Mafi: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Tahereh Mafi — whether to begin with Shatter Me or jump into the series. A complete reading guide to the Shatter Me series author.

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Where to Start with Tomi Adeyemi: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Tomi Adeyemi — whether to begin with Children of Blood and Bone or Children of Virtue and Vengeance. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Ursula K. Le Guin: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Ursula K. Le Guin — how to approach A Wizard of Earthsea and when to read The Left Hand of Darkness. A complete reading guide to one of fantasy's greatest writers.

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Best Books for High School Students: Essential Reading List

The best books for high school students — classics and contemporary novels that challenge, inspire, and endure. From To Kill a Mockingbird to The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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Best Books for Teens: Essential Reading for Young Adults

The best books for teens — from The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies to The Hunger Games and The Hate U Give. Essential reading for young adults and teenagers.

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