<p>I have a D who reads constantly. Our library spends little money on adding new titles in the YA genre. We can order transfer books from other libraries if we know titles. She goes to the bookstore and she has already read much of what is available in genre’s she enjoys. She also reads fast. I get tired of buying a book and having her finish it in a day or two.
I would like to find some adult novels that would be enjoyable for a 16 yr old.
The hard part is she does not like fantasy or science fiction. She liked the Twilight books but for the most part has no interest in vampire books. I also haven’t been able to get her interested in classics.</p>
<p>Does she like spy/thriller type books?</p>
<p>Tom Clancy is pretty good, his first 5 or 6 books anyway. Some violence but very little explicit sex IIRC, haven’t read them in a while though.</p>
<p>Both my 20yr old and my 17 yr old loved most of the Jodi Picoult books; started with “The Pact” a number of years ago; they haven’t enjoyed the recent ones as much…</p>
<p>Also, Emily Griffin books…(don’t know the names)</p>
<p>I would also suggest “Sarah’s Key” for a girl of this age; one of the best I’ve read in a long time…and the girls loved it too…</p>
<p>hope that gets you started…</p>
<p>Sarah’s Key is one I just pulled from my shelf for her to look at. My older D loved the older Jodi Picoult books. She also started with “The Pact”. For some reason I have not been able to get my younger D interested in them. I wish she would read them since we have most of them sitting on our bookshelves.
I don’t think she had tried any spy/thriller books.
She likes realistic fiction. She used to read all the different horse series.
I will look up the Emily Griffin books.</p>
<p>Try Tana French’s novels too. And how about Life of Pi?</p>
<p>I got into Anne Tyler’s novels when I was in my teens. I especially liked The Accidental Tourist and Morgan’s Passing.</p>
<p>Has your daughter read Cynthia Voigt’s novels? My sisters and I were obsessed with them at about that age.</p>
<p>Hanna- “Homecoming” is another that I have put into a pile for her to look through.</p>
<p>She might enjoy Ken Follett’s legnthy “Pillars of the Earth”. That should keep her busy for much of the summer.</p>
<p>The Hunger Games by S.Collins
[Amazon.com:</a> The Hunger Games (9780439023481): Suzanne Collins: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins/dp/0439023483]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins/dp/0439023483)
Graceling by K Cashore
[Amazon.com:</a> Graceling (9780547258300): Kristin Cashore: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Graceling-Kristin-Cashore/dp/0547258305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279748623&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Graceling-Kristin-Cashore/dp/0547258305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279748623&sr=1-1)
The Outlander Series by D. Galbadon
[Amazon.com:</a> Outlander (9780385319959): Diana Gabaldon: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Outlander-Diana-Gabaldon/dp/0385319959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279748675&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Outlander-Diana-Gabaldon/dp/0385319959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279748675&sr=1-1)
It has some sex/violence in it, but it is a gripping series</p>
<p>I am interested in what others suggest, I have a 10yo reading at this level, but find I have to screen a lot of what she reads.</p>
<p>P D James’s mystery novels; Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series; John Mortimer’s Rumpole books.</p>
<p>On another thread several people said they would not give their 16 yr old The Outlander series to read.
She has been against fantasy but I might try bringing one or two home from the library. At least the library is free.
Someone else suggested No 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
MaMom- my older D was reading at college level at age 8. We had a hard time finding books for her to read. She actually read Cynthia Voight’s books in elementary school. We pretty much let her read whatever she wanted. With this D while she had tested into college level English at the local college she has been hesitant to venture into the “adult” side of the library or bookstore.</p>
<p>Haha, this sounds like me, I love reading.
Has she looked into classics? I recommend Mark Twain, Charles Dickens (of course), and the book Count of Monte Cristo. You could also check out the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Played with Fire books, those were very entertaining. You mentioned she didn’t like science fiction, but Stephen King’s books, which are science fiction but not exactly far out science fiction (no crazy aliens or space or scenes set in 2589 or something - they are like psychological thrillers), are really good, and nice and lengthy most of the time.
Umm, I know there are a ton of others but I can’t remember them because I read too much, 
these are some of the ones that I finished this year.</p>
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^Very very good, read this in middle school. :)</p>
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^Just a warning, there are some very, uh, descriptive sex scenes in this book.</p>
<p>Also, why the name is escaping me I don’t know, but there is a female writer who writes detective/mystery novels, VERY famous, she has a very extensive list of works, but for some reason I can’t remember her name!!!
I remember she wrote that very famous book about murder on some train or something.</p>
<p>Anyway, those books are good.</p>
<p>topsasalaqua13,
- but you’re warning the OP about the scenes in Pillars of the Earth? I’d think a lot harder about handing the Stieg Larssons - which are really great books - to a 16-year-old than I would Pillars of the Earth (and I suspect mom60 already gets that).* </p>
<p>mom60, can you tell a couple of things she’s really liked lately? That’ll help generate a lot more suggestions.</p>
<p>*I’m not saying I’d keep a 16-year-old from reading them; we never kept any books from our older two kids. I just mean I wouldn’t blithely recommend them to a 16-year-old I didn’t know.</p>
<p>Both of my Ds (19/17) are readers. Some that they’ve been interested in are:
Elizabeth Peters - Amelia Peabody series (late 19th/early 20th century Egyptologist), Vicky Bliss series (mystery/caper)
Barbara Michaels (nom de plume of Eliz Peters) - some gothic, some mystery, some with woo-woo factor - all standalones
Laurie King - Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series.
Cara Black - Aimee LeDuc mystery series, takes place in France
The usual YA - Sarah Dessen and so forth, The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd), Jennifer Donnelly, The Kite Runner, The Book Thief</p>
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<p>That train would be the Orient Express :). You are thinking of Agatha Christie.</p>
<p>My 2012 daughter is a John Green fan (Abundance of Catherines, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns.) His books have a funny, thoughtful, positive feel.
Nobody ever recommends Tony Hillerman’s Navajo detective novels on College Confidential but I really liked them when I was much younger.
I’m going to go quiz my daughter and come back with more suggestions. I love book recommendation threads.</p>
<p>The HAISN reading lists are updated yearly by the Houston area private school librarians. Scroll down for the 9th/10th and 11th/12th grade lists.</p>
<p>[Houston</a> Area Independent Schools Library Network](<a href=“http://www.haisln.org/recommendedreadinglists.html]Houston”>http://www.haisln.org/recommendedreadinglists.html)</p>
<p>Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman.</p>
<p>I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (“The novel relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in a decaying English castle during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an intelligent teenager who tells the story via her personal journal.”)</p>
<p>Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (" Controversial painter Elaine Risley vividly reflects on her childhood and teenage years. Her strongest memories are of Cordelia, who was the leader of a trio of girls who were both very cruel and very kind to young Elaine, in ways that tint Elaine’s perceptions of relationships and her worldnot to mention her artinto the character’s middle years.")</p>