I highly recommend these books I'm about to list, some may be aimed at a younger generation, but really anyone who wants a clean book can also read it:
Wings of Fire Book Series by Tui T. Sutherland:
- I really loved this entire series. The only downside is you have to read them in order to understand them. It's in a dragon's world, and the humans are referred to as "scavengers" and they don't really play a huge role other than starting to war between the SandWing sisters. If you like dragons, I'd totally recommend this series because they got tons of them. The plot is set wonderfully, and I know plot twists may be cliche, but the ones in the series are unexpected which gets me hooked even more. They have some romance involved, but not to the point where it's annoying and bleh.
Redwall (the entire series as well) by Brian Jacques:
- THESE ARE AWESOME. You can read them out of order, too. The only one you'd need to read in order is Mossflower: prequel to Redwall and of course Redwall. It's really interesting because none really have a completed storyline, it's a bunch of different ones that are jumbled up together, which makes it unique yet cool. Each book has a different story to tell, and I enjoyed it. May favorite so far is Mossflower: prequel to Redwall. To explain, there are certain species that are good and bad. The good so far that I've read: hares, mice, a wildcat named Gingivere, some owls, bats, moles, hedgehogs, squirrels, otters, badgers, shrews, and voles. Bad vermin or bad guys include: foxes, stoats, sables, ravens, rats, weasels, ferrets, snakes, ermine, magpies, rooks, and crows, along with certain wildcats like Queen Tsarmina. It's action packed, and quick-moving. There's hardly never any boring parts, and if a story's boring to me... I stop reading lol!
Kalahari by Jessica Khory:
I was amazed by this book. I generally don't like reading books with people as the main focus (I'm an animal book nerd), but I actually found pleasure in this one. It's in first person view (congrats to the author, I never see those) about a girl named Sarah. She lives in the Kalahari desert with her father, since her mother died. A group of other teenagers came to the little camp they have for the summer, and one in particular named Sam has a love interest in her that developed over time. I don't want to get to much into it, but things went very wrong when her father went missing. This bad man created this weird substance called metalcium, and if you come in contact with it, then you slowly go crazy, and your entire body turns silver. That's what was happening to all the animals in the desert, a silver lion was the first they saw.The antagonists were actually experimenting with the metal substance. The teens, and Sarah, had to go through a lot of stuff in order to save her father and the rest of the tourist group. Sarah found out how her mother actually died, and was devastated. They had a few very sad moments, and funny ones, and I like how the story came out in the end. I was dying for more, but it isn't a book series :(.
Similar YA novels I'd recommend for anybody who likes the Hunger Games are:
