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Recommendation from the under 30s

1Helenliz
May 8, 2021, 12:08 pm

For a book challenge, I need to read a book recommended by someone from another generation. So if you are under 30, what's the best book you're read recently? Or if you can ask the under 30 in your life the same question.

Don't worry about if you think it'll suit me, I'll worry about that bit.

2merrystar
Edited: May 25, 2021, 10:31 pm

My pre-teen recommends Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley or Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer.

3lorax
May 24, 2021, 9:21 am

How far under 30? Recommendations from my 8-year-old probably won't be of much interest ;-)

4Helenliz
Edited: May 24, 2021, 9:34 am

>3 lorax: I'd give most things a go. It's about being stretched out of my comfort zone.
And I bet fashion in books has changed a bit since I was 8...

5spiralsheep
May 24, 2021, 10:06 am

>4 Helenliz: I read a rec from an LT member's 12 year old offspring earlier this year and it was very good!

6rosalita
May 24, 2021, 11:41 am

>1 Helenliz: I have a 20-something in my life who keeps recommending The Poppy War to me. I still haven't read it yet, but maybe if you do it will get me off the hook. :-)

>5 spiralsheep: Well, you can't say that and not tell us what the book was!

7spiralsheep
Edited: May 24, 2021, 12:21 pm

>6 rosalita: Ha! It was The Name of This Book is Secret, but I should warn potential readers that it's good and the beginning of a series. :D

ETA: my review is here....

https://www.librarything.com/work/3120835/reviews/194076124

8rosalita
May 24, 2021, 12:38 pm

>7 spiralsheep: Thanks. :-) I need another series like I need another hole in my head, but I'll see if the library has it.

9lorax
May 25, 2021, 11:19 am

8 yo is currently very into graphic novels. (His narrative comprehension is very far ahead of his reading ability). I asked what he thought a grownup might like and he suggested Smile by Raina Telgemeier.

10aspirit
May 25, 2021, 4:08 pm

I asked a kid, too. Here are her answers.

Nonfiction: Turn This Book into a Beehive! by Lynn Brunelle and Anna-Maria Jung
Fiction: The Taken (Foxcraft #1) by Inbali Iserles

11bustellogirl
Dec 8, 2024, 11:37 pm

The teens in my life are loving Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald and Ground Zero by Alan Gratz (boys) and The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han and Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow (girls).