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10 Book Series You Need to Read If You Enjoy YA

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Are you looking for another book to dive into? Do you feel like you're ready to make the commitment to a series? We all know that ending a series can leave you a little saddened and even unsatisfied. Lucky for you, here are ten series that you can start reading now if you haven't already!

10.) The Half Bad Trilogy

Nathan's father is the son of the world's most powerful Black witch, and his mother, a white witch, is gone. In a world of Black witches versus White witches, and evil versus good, nothing good will come out of being "half bad." After being kidnapped, tortured, and beaten by the people he is supposed to trust, Nathan must escape before his seventeenth birthday and find his Father to claim his three gifts, and rise to the witch he was meant to be. If Nathan does not claim his gifts, the penalty is death. However, Nathan is being hunted down and is surrounded on all sides now that he has escaped. The clock is ticking down for Nathan, and we all want to know how he will find his Father and avoid capture but an even more important question we are all asking ourselves is.....Which half of his powers will Nathan draw on?

9.) The Selection Series

The Selection is every girl's dream. A chance to become a Princess and live a life of luxury with jewels, tiaras, beautiful dresses, oh! and a chance to fight for the Prince's heart. However, America Singer feels no need to live that lifestyle. She will be the only girl not entering the Selection this time around because she is happy with her life the way it is. One person is determined to get her in the selection though, and that is her Mother. America thought that she would never get picked, but now she's in the battle for the Prince's heart. Is this something America really wants? Or does she want to throw the competition and go back to her simple life with her family and secret lover Aspen?

8.) The Unwind Series


In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.

With breathtaking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents’ tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines complex moral issues that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

(Summary from of Barnes and Noble.com)

7.) A Court of Thorns and Roses

One hunting trip in the woods will change Feyre's life. She's brought to a strange magical land that she can only dream of by a beast who demands retribution for her kill. Feyre discovers that her captor is Tamlin, a lethal immortal faerie who once rulled the world. She needs a way to escape, but she now feels her angry flame turning to passion and love for Tamlin. Will Feyre doom him or be his salvation?

6.) The Lunar Chronicles


Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.

(Summary off Barnes and Noble.)

5.) The Fifth Wave Series

All was fine until the day the Others showed up. Upon their arrival, the power went out. Months later, a giant wave of water wiped out half the planet, and soon to follow a plague killed many of the remaining population. The Others are now living on Earth with the survivors, their mission, to wipe out the rest of the humans that still remain. Cassie was one of the lucky people to have survived all four of the previous waves of attacks, but will she be lucky enough to survive the fifth wave? The Others also kidnap her little brother Sammy, can she get him back or is it too late?

4.) The Maze Runner Series

Thomas wakes up in an elevator shaft with no memory of who he is, or how he got into the shaft in the first place. When the doors finally open, he finds himself in a place called the Glade. For years the shaft has been bringing up boys into the Glade, and none of the boys knows their past identities or why they are there. The only escape from the glade is the Maze. No one who has entered the Maze has ever made it out alive or come back to tell the tale. Thomas wants out of the Glade the moment he's in, can he make it through the Maze? Why were all of these boys placed in the Glade anyway?

3.) Red Queen Series

Mare lives in a world where people are separated by blood. Silver blood is reserved for those who are meant to be elite and royalty. Red blood ensures you are a commoner with no special talent. Mare is a red blooder, making it by as a thief in her village, but she can't hide from fate, and she's brought upon the silver court. They soon discover that Mare has a gift that she is not supposed to poses. The king covers up her secret by claiming her as a king lost silver princess. With her newly held power, Mare begins to help the Scarlet Guard, a reble group who is rising up against the royal family. Will the love she begins to feel for her arranged and forced marriage lead her to betray the Scarlet Guard? Or will she find herself betraying her heart?

2.) The Lorien Legacies

Years ago nine of the planet Lorien's only surviving member came to Earth to escape the Mogadorians. Once they reached Earth, they were given a charm to protect them from being killed unless they are killed in numeric order. One through three are dead.

Nine of us came here.

We look like you.

We talk like you.

We live among you—but

We are not you.

We have powers you dream of having.

We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—

But we are real.

They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya.

They killed them all.

I am Number Four. I am next.

(LOVE THESE BOOKS!)

(Summary from Barnes and Noble.)

1.) The Mortal Instruments

Shadowhunters have protected the Earth and the Mundanes from demons and downworlders for centuries. They have tattoo like things called runes that help them defeat these monsters and escape the mundane eye. Clary Fray, a mundane heads to a club in New York with her best friend Simon. After a bit of dancing, Clary sees something she wishes she hadn't. A group of Shadowhunters killing a demon right in front of her eyes in the middle of the club. What doesn't make sense, is how she was able to see them in the first place. The shadowhunters want to know why a mundane like her has the sight, and that is an interesting question indeed.

(My all time favorite books! Highly recommend!)

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