If you like (this popular teen fiction), try (this adult classic)
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If you like (this popular teen fiction), try (this adult classic)


If you like Hunger Games, Matched, Divergent and Delirium?
? try some of the original, ground-breaking dystopian adventures.
If you like Skulduggery Pleasant, Andy Lane or the Rangers Apprentice series?
? give these classic adventure stories a go!
  • Sherlock Holmes books by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
If you like the Twilight series, Lauren Oliver, Lauren Kate or Cassandra Clare?
?you need to read the classic gothic romances. ALL OF THEM.
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Cheri by Collette
  • I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
  • A Room With a View by E.M Forster
If you like Neil Gaiman, Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Diana Wynne Jones or Philip Pullman?
? you should try some epic fantasy or gothic tales!
  • Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  • The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin
  • The Mistborn Saga by Brandon Sanderson
If you like Robert Muchamore, Anthony Horowitz, Lauren St John or Charlie Higson?
? you need some spy classics in your life.
  • James Bond by Ian Fleming
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  • Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene 
See more suggestions and book descriptions from The Guardian




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