I don't think anyone's mentioned Hold Me Closer, Necromancer. (Might cross a very very conservative sex line, but sixteen? I'd cheerfully give it to a twelve-year-old - but then I'm not much into forbidding kids to read books.)
Paolo Bacigalupi (because I'm assuming that if the Hunger Games is good, grimdark is fine).
I'm reading Jasper Jones right now, and it's brilliant. Non-genre.
Revolution, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Zombies vs Unicorns, Jellicoe Road, Incarceron, This Dark Endeavour, Will Grayson Will Grayson, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Marcelo in the Real World, Graceling/Fire...
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Date: 2012-01-11 06:09 am (UTC)Paolo Bacigalupi (because I'm assuming that if the Hunger Games is good, grimdark is fine).
I'm reading Jasper Jones right now, and it's brilliant. Non-genre.
Revolution, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Zombies vs Unicorns, Jellicoe Road, Incarceron, This Dark Endeavour, Will Grayson Will Grayson, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Marcelo in the Real World, Graceling/Fire...
I should probably stop now.