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Ages 14+

Best books for ages 14+

Young-adult fiction chosen with care.

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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown

Ages 13–17

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The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, Vol. 1

Nagabe

Ages 13–99

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Boy: Tales of Childhood

Roald Dahl

Ages 10–14

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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II

Darlene Deibler Rose

Ages 14–18

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Ages 16–18

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Ages 10–14

A Court of Thorns and Roses
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A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

Ages 16–25

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Asthma

John Kerschbaum

Ages 17–99

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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Art Spiegelman

Ages 16–18

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A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir

Beverly Cleary

Ages 12–16

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Case Closed, Vol. 1: The Mouri Kogoro Files

Gosho Aoyama

Ages 12–16

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Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal

G. Willow Wilson

Ages 12–18

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

Ages 16–18

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Illuminae

Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Ages 14–18

The Poet X
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The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

Ages 14–18

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance

Ages 16–18

Children of Blood and Bone
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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

Ages 14–18

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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Jim Murphy

Ages 10–14

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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

John Elder Robison

Ages 16–18

Educated
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Educated

Tara Westover

Ages 16–18

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D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944

Rick Atkinson

Ages 12–18

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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Robert Kanigel

Ages 16–18

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The Lunar Chronicles: Scarlet

Marissa Meyer

Ages 12–16

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The Lunar Chronicles: Cress

Marissa Meyer

Ages 12–16

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