Your subject line reminded me of _What's the title of this book?_ by Raymond Smullyan. I don't know what her tastes run to, but if you think she'd be at all interested in logic puzzles doubling up (IIRC - it's been 35+ years since I worked through it) as an introduction to Kurt Gödel's work on incompleteness (and if you can get a copy - it was first printed in 1978, I think), that's an option.
How old is she? Although anything by Diana Wynne Jones is hereby recommended. All my daughters (ages: 15, 20 and 22) (re-)read Charmed Life this summer.
I've just foisted Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series on Youngest, who is a similar age. I've lent all of the Murderbot series to one of their school mates. Also lent The Raven Tower (Anne Leckie), This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, We have always been here (memoir) by Samra Habib, Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (horror).
Thinking about what I've recently read that are recently published work:
I quite liked Kalynn Bayron's This Poison Heart, which is book one and ends on quite the cliff hanger. I don't remember if there are necessary content warnings. I'm very fond of the work of Nino Cipri, who has a two novella series very loosely based on IKEA - not recommended if body horror is going to be an issue. Deeplight by Frances Hardinge is another YA with body horror. For transformative works leaning towards horror, Christina Henry's recent works (specifically the Mermaid and the Peter Pan ones) might do
Possibly on the young side Glassheart by Katherine Orton.
I adored The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix, but while I think it was marketed as YA, it isn't really.
In graphic novels You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez is a good reworking of a superhero origin story with some really interesting coming of age details. I like some of Tillie Walden's work, but an anti-rec for Are You Listening which looks like it should be a great coming of age story, but both Youngest and I shrugged at each other about what the story actually was. Kiss Number 8 by Colleen Venable, on the other hand, was a fabulous coming of age and coming out story. And Snapdragon by Kat Leyh might also work, although it might be aimed at slightly younger readers.
Looks like I've not been reading much YA fantasy (or in fact, fantasy at all) to rave about. Katherine Arden's Bear and the Nightingale trilogy maybe? I haven't had the energy to go back and read the last one.
Books acquired recently because I'm reading a lot of good things include Iron Widow(Xiran Jay Zhao), She Who Became the Sun (Shelley Parker-Chan), The Ones We're Meant to Find (Joan He).
Slightly older option is the The Tribe trilogy by Amebellin Kwaymullina (The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf is the first) which is a unusual post-apocalyptic Australia YA story by an Indigenous writer.
... and now I will stop, because I could go a long way down this rabbit hole.
(and then I got Youngest to proof read and add comments, before I hit post) Youngest says that they have more graphic novel suggestions, but in particular the four books of Khaos Komix by Tab Kimpton (previously available from https://www.discordcomics.com/Shop/prestashop/12-khaos-komix, but all listed as out of stock)and Check Please (Ngozi Ukazu) which is in two published volumes.
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Date: 2021-10-18 11:13 am (UTC)I've just foisted Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series on Youngest, who is a similar age. I've lent all of the Murderbot series to one of their school mates. Also lent The Raven Tower (Anne Leckie), This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, We have always been here (memoir) by Samra Habib, Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (horror).
Thinking about what I've recently read that are recently published work:
I quite liked Kalynn Bayron's This Poison Heart, which is book one and ends on quite the cliff hanger. I don't remember if there are necessary content warnings. I'm very fond of the work of Nino Cipri, who has a two novella series very loosely based on IKEA - not recommended if body horror is going to be an issue. Deeplight by Frances Hardinge is another YA with body horror. For transformative works leaning towards horror, Christina Henry's recent works (specifically the Mermaid and the Peter Pan ones) might do
Possibly on the young side Glassheart by Katherine Orton.
I adored The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix, but while I think it was marketed as YA, it isn't really.
In graphic novels You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez is a good reworking of a superhero origin story with some really interesting coming of age details. I like some of Tillie Walden's work, but an anti-rec for Are You Listening which looks like it should be a great coming of age story, but both Youngest and I shrugged at each other about what the story actually was. Kiss Number 8 by Colleen Venable, on the other hand, was a fabulous coming of age and coming out story. And Snapdragon by Kat Leyh might also work, although it might be aimed at slightly younger readers.
Looks like I've not been reading much YA fantasy (or in fact, fantasy at all) to rave about. Katherine Arden's Bear and the Nightingale trilogy maybe? I haven't had the energy to go back and read the last one.
Books acquired recently because I'm reading a lot of good things include Iron Widow(Xiran Jay Zhao), She Who Became the Sun (Shelley Parker-Chan), The Ones We're Meant to Find (Joan He).
Slightly older option is the The Tribe trilogy by Amebellin Kwaymullina (The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf is the first) which is a unusual post-apocalyptic Australia YA story by an Indigenous writer.
... and now I will stop, because I could go a long way down this rabbit hole.
(and then I got Youngest to proof read and add comments, before I hit post) Youngest says that they have more graphic novel suggestions, but in particular the four books of Khaos Komix by Tab Kimpton (previously available from https://www.discordcomics.com/Shop/prestashop/12-khaos-komix, but all listed as out of stock)and Check Please (Ngozi Ukazu) which is in two published volumes.
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