7 must-read young adult books like Bloodtide (Blood, #1) by Melvin Burgess

Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

By: Melvin Burgess

3.86

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The time is the not-too-distant future. London is in ruins. A bombed-out shell. A picked-over carca…

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Cover of Lirael (Abhorsen, #2) by Garth Nix

1. Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she shou… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Lirael (Abhorsen, #2) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"It's always better to be doing."

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

"Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?"

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

"It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name."

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

"As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once."

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

Cover of Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

2. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

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3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

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"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Cover of Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1) by Edward St. Aubyn

4. Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

By: Edward St. Aubyn

3.76

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

Never Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melros… read more

Similar categories in Edward St. Aubyn's Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fiction
"But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, "He was very philosophical about it"? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something."

-Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

"The drive rose sharply to the left of the steps to a circle of flat ground where her maroon Buick was parked under an umbrella pine. It looked preposterous, stretched out on its white-walled tyres ag…"

-Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

Cover of One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2) by Ellis Peters

5. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more

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  • fiction
"Perhaps thought really is prayer."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

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6. Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3)

By: Edward St. Aubyn

3.79

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest a… read more

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  • fiction
"Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth."

-Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3)

Cover of Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3) by Garth Nix

7. Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3)

By: Garth Nix

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

The Ninth was strong and fought with might But lone Orannis was put out of the light Broken in two … read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Poison Study (Study, #1) by Maria V. Snyder

8. Poison Study (Study, #1)

By: Maria V. Snyder

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Choose: A quick death...Or slow poison... About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an ext… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Magic Study (Study, #2) by Maria V. Snyder

9. Magic Study (Study, #2)

By: Maria V. Snyder

4.04

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

You know your life is complicated when you miss your days as a poison taster... With her greates… read more

Similar categories in Maria V. Snyder's Magic Study (Study, #2) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Ghost?"

-Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study (Study, #2)

"How did you—"

-Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study (Study, #2)

"Pretty stupid,"

-Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study (Study, #2)

"Living is a risk,"

-Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study (Study, #2)

10. The One Memory of Flora Banks

By: Emily Barr

4.67

Format: 121 pages,

Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Bad News (The Patrick Melrose Novels, #2) by Edward St. Aubyn

11. Bad News (The Patrick Melrose Novels, #2)

By: Edward St. Aubyn

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Set among the vertiginous contrasts of luxury and squalor which characterize New York City, this se… read more

Similar categories in Edward St. Aubyn's Bad News (The Patrick Melrose Novels, #2) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fiction

12. Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

By: Melvin Burgess

3.86

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The time is the not-too-distant future. London is in ruins. A bombed-out shell. A picked-over carca… read more

Similar categories in Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • post apocalyptic
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

13. The Night Diary

By: Veera Hiranandani

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal,… read more

Similar categories in Veera Hiranandani's The Night Diary book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult

14. Embassytown

By: China Miéville

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient … read more

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Cover of Antarctica by Claire Keegan

15. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Antarctica book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

Cover of The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

16. The Ghost Bride

By: Yangsze Choo

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infuse… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Ghost Bride book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better"."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful"."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"I don't keep mistresses; it's far too much trouble. I'm offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was …"

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

Cover of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

17. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

Similar categories in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

18. The Lives of Christopher Chant (Chrestomanci, #2)

By: Diana Wynne Jones

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical ab… read more

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19. Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, #1)

By: David Eddings

3.33

Format: 194 pages,

A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings… read more

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20. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

By: David Eagleman

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sumis a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives--each … read more

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Cover of The Ember Blade (The Darkwater Legacy, #1) by Chris Wooding

21. The Ember Blade (The Darkwater Legacy, #1)

By: Chris Wooding

4.21

Format: 824 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A land under occupation. A legendary sword. A young man’s journey to find his destiny. Aren has … read more

Similar categories in Chris Wooding's The Ember Blade (The Darkwater Legacy, #1) book and Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide (Blood, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"To overcome your enemy, you must first understand him."

-Chris Wooding, The Ember Blade (The Darkwater Legacy, #1)

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3.76

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3.64

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