Top Hacker News Book Recommendations in Teen & Young Adult (all time)

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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels Book 1)

F. C. Yee and Michael Dante DiMartino

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi, Bahni Turpin, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Divergent

Veronica Roth, Emma Galvin, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Silence

Becca Fitzpatrick

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell, Jonathan Keeble, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

Jean M. Twenge PhD

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank and David Brin

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold and Hachette Audio

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Mockingjay: The Hunger Games, Book 3

Suzanne Collins, Tatiana Maslany, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Winter

Marissa Meyer, Rebecca Soler, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Color Purple: A Novel

Alice Walker

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Guardian

Nicholas Sparks

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Supernova

Marissa Meyer

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Echo

Pam Muñoz Ryan

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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kctess5onDec 31, 2016

I watched "The Last Kingdom" from BBC (which I recommend) and it made me want to know more about 9th century England. So far the book "Alfred the Great: the man who made England" by Justin Pollard has been fantastic if you're into that kind of thing. It's very well researched and historically accurate but not overly dry, Pollard makes a point of not including too many footnotes in the book as many of the more academically targeted books do.

phaemononFeb 22, 2021

The series "The Last Kingdom" is based on the books by Bernard Cornwell. He also wrote the "Sharpe" books, which were adapted to several TV films (starring Sean Bean). They're set around the Napoleonic Wars, with some of them in India.

jillesvangurponMay 3, 2019

The Last Kingdom on Netflix is a pretty decent series about this time. Sort of a non fantasy version of Game of Thrones. I think there are probably a fair bit of historical inaccuracies in there but nevertheless a fascinating time and decent series. I ended up reading up on wikipedia about several of the characters (at least the non fictional ones).

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