15 best books for teenagers and young people that you shouldn't miss
Adolescence and the beginning of adult life can be quite confusing phases, where we are drowned and drowned in contradictory feelings, while we seek to sign a personality.
At this moment, it is cool to come into contact with stories that have an identification or that question the beliefs and values built up to then.
For this reason, literature became a powerful tool for development and self-awareness. Thinking like this, we selected 15 unmissable books for any teenager and young adult.
1. Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
A work that we see making success among the young public is a series of four volumes heartstopperby Alice Osman
Released in 2021, the books tell the story of Charlie and Nick, two very different boys, but few discover love.
This is a romance that treat sexuality lightly and good humor.
2. To Rainha Vermelha, by Victoria Aveyard
em To Rainha VermelhaVictoria Aveyard creates a fantasy world where the powerful have silver blood and the rest of humanity has red blood.
Mare Barrow, the protagonist, is a common girl of red blood. After a drastic change in her life, Mare sees herself working directly for the silver-tongued, inside the palace. It is from then on that she discovers that she also possesses a mysterious ability.
A quick and dynamic read that talks about power, justice, inequality and intelligence.
3. Clandestine Happiness, by Clarice Lispector
Launched by Clarice Lispector in 1971, the book brings together 25 texts by the author produced between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.
Her writing of it is generally considered “difficult”, but for those young people who would like to start this marvelous “Claricean” universe, this is the starting point!
São crônicas, contos e ensaios that address various topics, such as adolescence, or love, family and existential reflections.
4. Or Sofia's World, by Jostein Gaarder
O World of Sofia It is among the books most read by adolescents for several years. Published by Norwegian Jostein Gaarder in 1991, the narrative accompanies Sofia, a 14-year-old girl, in her uncovered hair universe of western philosophy.
The author brilliantly manages to combine fiction and the most “complex” concepts of thought philosophical, in order to capture the male and female readers, so much so that the work has never been translated for more than 60 languages.
5. Red Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Nigerian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the greatest recent writers of the African continent.
With a forceful writing, the author creates stories capable of captivating people of all ages, including young people.
em red hibiscus We have Kambili, a 15-year-old adolescent in crisis with the religious and family context in which she is inserted. His pai hers, a man of success in the industry, is extremely Christian and ends up disowning part of the family linked to local traditions.
Mixing fiction and autobiographical elements, Chimamanda presents a Current Nigeria, showing its riches and contradictions.
6. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
You will enjoy slightly macabre and terrifying stories, with certainty you will enjoy coraline. The book was written by British Neil Gaiman and was first published in 2002.
Coraline is a girl who is tired of her life and her family. She then discovers a portal and is going to stop in another dimension, where she has other countries and vizinhos and everyone is very strange.
Lá, bizarre things happen to her and she will need Be very courageous and trust your intuition to get out of this world.
This is a book of fiction, fantasy and child-youth terror that won a version in animation in cinemas, which also had a great success.
7. Call Me Hair My Name, by André Aciman
Elio is a teenager who is spending the holidays at the beach house in two of his countries on the Italian coast.
His father, a writer, receives a visit from Oliver, a young literary apprentice, who is in no place to help him as an assistant. At the beginning, Elio and Oliver don't know each other, but soon a connection arises between them and after a couple.
The book deals with important topics such as o discovery of love and loss, apart from homosexuality, in a light and positive way.
It was written by Egyptian André Aciman and in 2018 a film was released based on romance.
8. A Menina que Roubava Livros, by Markus Zusak
A book of success among the adolescent public A menina que roubava livros, Australian do Markus Zusak. The romance arrived in Brazil in 2007, two years after its release.
The narrative happens na Nazi Germany, not the end of the 30s and the beginning of the 40s. We accompany Liesel Meminger, a 10-year-old girl who, after being orphaned, goes to live with another family.
Liesel is passionate about literature and finds a magical world in us books. Likewise, she began to steal books from people's houses.
other essential character is his own death, who visits Garota and narrates the story.
9. No One Turns Adult from Truth, by Sara Andersen
This story in the quadrinhos of the North American Sarah Andersen, her adult life is shown with irony, good humor and a dose of tragedy.
Her work of hers became known on Facebook, where she reached a huge number of people who identified with her character. Likewise, in 2016 the writer launched the book.
Important issues, mainly for young adults, such as acceptance, relationships, self-esteem and motivation They are treated with sincerity.
10. Persepolis, by Marjani Satrapi
The Iranian Marjani Satrapi tells in the form of HQ her complicated childhood of hers, not only will Iran take power by the Xiite fundamentalist regime, which imposed several rules and prohibitions.
Ela, from a modern and politicized family, felt in the fight to move. For this reason, her country sent her to Europe as a teenager.
Marjani still returns to Iran, but later he finally settles in France.
These indas and vindas, or feeling of inadequacy and the Iranian political and social reality They are beautifully recorded in this fun and forceful work.
11. Kindred - Laços de Sangue, by Octavia Butler
Written in the 1970s by the American Octavia Butler, this is not necessarily a book for teenagers, but it can be a very interesting read for young adults.
The author is one of the first women to write scientific fiction and deal with time travel.
With a dynamic and enveloping writing, we are transported to the world of Dana, a black woman living in the 70s in the USA.
Suddenly, she began to suffer with unconsciousness, having risen towards the end of the 19th century in a scavenger farm in the south of her country. Lá, she will have to deal with countless obstacles to stay alive.
An essential book that talks about structural racism and history in an exciting way.
12. Moxie: When the Garotas Vão à Luta, by Jennifer Mathieu
This is a book designed for adolescent girls, addressing or feminism for a perspective of empowerment and fight.
It was launched in 2018 by Jennifer Mathieu and tells about Vivian, a girl tired of going through unpleasant and sexist situations at her school. Likewise, she returns the past of her mother, who has never fought in the feminist cause, and makes a fanzine.
By anonymously distributing the fanzine, the girl does not imagine that it would make such a success and that it would start a true transformation in the school.
The book has been adapted for cinemas and is available on Netflix.
13. Torto Arado, by Itamar Vieira Junior
Considered one of the best romances of current Brazilian literature, Torto Plow, from Bahia Itamar Vieira Junior, is an engaging book also for young people.
The plot takes place in the northeastern sertão and accompanies the drama of the sisters Bibiana and Belonísia, marked by an event in childhood that transforms their lives.
Winner of important awards, the book became a best seller, being an excellent way of reflecting on topics such as contemporary slavery, the oppressed and the fight for survival.
14. Maus by Art Spiegelman
Essa é mais uma história em quadrinhos in the graphic novel style that deserves to be read by every young adult.
Released by Art Spiegelman in two parts in two years 80 and beginning two 90, maus tells the sad story of mourning and persistence of Vladek Spiegelman, or father of the writer, who I survived a concentration camp.
In the plot, the Jews are portrayed as rats, while the Nazi Germans are cats and the Polish are pigs.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, this is a work that has become a true classic.
15. Batalha!, by Tânia Alexandre Martinelli and Valdir Bernardes Jr.
Written by Tânia Alexandre Martinelli and Valdir Bernardes Jr., this is a book that is a daily treatise of the Brazilian peripheries and topics such as racism, police oppression, trafficking and inequality social. Meanwhile, it also shows how young people find in art support for the confrontation you face enormous challenges.
A book that every teenager should read, regardless of their reality, you can show them in a way captivating personal growth of each character, their discoveries in adolescence and relationships as collective.
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