Hamilton Grange Library Teens

If you like to play The Last of Us, then try Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

If you like to play Beyond: Two Souls, then try The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

If you like to play Call of Duty: Black Ops (Zombies), then try World War Z by Max Brooks

If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

If you like playing Final Fantasy, try playing Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa

If you like playing Mass Effect, then try Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

If you like playing Halo, then try Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein

If you like playing Portal, then try House Of Stairs by William Sleator

If you like playing Mario Kart, then try The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia 

If you like playing Dark Souls, then try Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

If you like playing Life Is Strange, then try We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

If you like playing Stardew Valley, then try How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

If you like playing Fable, then try Young Elites by Marie Lu

If you like playing Borderlands, then try Velocity by Chris Wooding

If you like playing Dishonored, then try Airman by Eoin Colfer

If you like playing The Oregon Trail, then try Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

If you like playing the Elder Scrolls series, then try The Naming by Alison Croggon

If you like playing Red Dead Redemption, then try Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

If you like playing Bioshock, then try  Dark Life by Kat Falls

If you like playing Fallout, then try Razorland by Ann Aguirre 

If you like playing Assasin’s Creed, then try The Way of Shadows Night by Brent Weeks

If you like playing Dragonage, then try Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

If you like playing The Legend of Zelda, then try Graceling by Kristin Cashore

If you like playing Until Dawn, then try Ten by Gretchen McNeil

If you like playing Sonic, then try Maximum Ride by James Patterson

If you like playing Overwatch, then try Bluescreen by Dan Wells

If you like playing Uncharted, then try Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

If you like playing Pokemon, then try Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by JK Rowling, and Newt Scamander

1)This is actually a good way to get people into reading.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Orleans by Sherri L Smith

Iron Cast by Destiny Soria

Is You Okay? by GloZell Green

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela Deprince and Elaine Deprince

The Steep & Thorny Way by Cat Winters

Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

This Side Of Home by Renee Watson

When Morning Comes by Arushi Raina

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Goldie Vance by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams

Shiny Broken Pieces A Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton

Stone Mirrors The Sculpture & Silence of Edmonia Lewis by Jeannine Atkins

Shadowshaper Cypher 02 Shadowhouse Falls by Daniel Jos Older

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

INFINITE LIST OF BOOKS READ [1/?] → The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 [1/?] → The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

I know everyone’s seen Rick Riordan’s books, so here are some others!

Hades & Persephone

The Goddess Test trilogy by Aimee Carter

Persephone by Kaitlin Bevis

Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Falling Under by Gwen Hayes

Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman

Persephone’s Orchard by Molly Ringle

Abandon by Meg Cabot

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

Solstice by P.J. Hoover

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas

Cupid & Pysche

Painted Blind by Michelle A. Hansen

Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block

Destined by Jessie Harrell

Others

Starcrossed trilogy by Josephine Angelini (definitely my favorite)

Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs

Betrayal by Mayandree Michel

King of Ithaka by Tracy Barrett

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney

Aphrodite by Kaitlin Bevis

Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Quiver by Stephanie Spinner

Snakehead by Ann Halam

The Fire of Ares by Michael Ford

Endangered by Dani Hoots

Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl

Quicksilver by Stephanie Spinner

Antigoddess by Kendare Blake

The Scarlet Thread by D.S. Murphy

Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton

The Fire Thief by Terry Deary

The Dig by Audrey Hart

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Pandora Gets Jealous by Carolyn Hennesy

Nobody’s Prize by Esther M. Friesner

Nobody’s Princess by Esther M. Friesner

Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs

Troy High by Shana Norris

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

He is our greatest threat. And you are our greatest hope.

Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell, revolves around the ‘Chosen One’, Simon Snow, who lacks control over his magic, and shares a dorm with his rival, Baz, who he believes is a vampire. In his eighth year at Watford, while trying to organise his happy ending, and fight off the Insidious Humdrum, he finds help, love and courage in places he never dreamed of. A spin off on Rainbow Rowell’s novel, Fangirl, focusing on the novel Cath was such a fan of.

I actually read this before I read Fangirl, and it didn’t make a difference at all. It was a beautiful book, with a quirky mix of humor and angst, it was a great read. I have never been so thankful for my best friend’s book recommendations in my life. It’s almost a semi-AU of Harry Potter, with many similarities to the legendary series, but also enough difference for it to be a completely new novel. 

I made a list of fairy tale retellings, but needed a separate one for classics too:

Alice In Wonderland

Splintered by A.G. Howard (and the sequels)

Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter (and the sequels)

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Heartless by Marissa Meyer 

Insanity by Cameron Jace

Sherlock

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

Every Breath by Ellie Marney

Jackaby by William Ritter

The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason

Lock & Mori by Heather W. Petty

Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock

The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas by Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin

Secret Letters by Leah Scheier

The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Robin Hood

Scarlet by A.C. Vaughn (and the sequels)

A Daring Sacrifice by Jody Hedlund

Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig

The Nutcracker: Winterspell by Claire Legrand

A Tale of Two Cities: Tell the Wind and Fire

Jane Eyre: Jane by April Lindner

Romeo & Juliet

Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay

Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer

Still Star-Crossed by Melinda Taub

Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors

Prince of Shadows by Rachel Caine

When you Were Mine by Rebecca Serle

Street Love by Walter Dean Myers

Rooks and Romanticide by J. I. Radke

Hamlet

Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray

Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston

Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

A Midsummer Tights Dream by Louise Rennison

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Macbeth

Enter Three Witches by Caroline B. Cooney

Exposure by Kim Askew

Lady Macbeth’s Daughter

Twelfth Night

The Fool’s Girl by Celia Rees

Illyria by Elizabeth Hand

The Tempest

Prospero Lost by L. Jagi Lamplighter

Ariel by Grace Tiffany

Much Ado About Nothing: Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman

Wuthering Heights: Catherine by April Lindner

The Scottish ballad of Tam Lin: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Lois Lane (Superman is a classic ok): Fallout by Gwenda Bond

Tarzan: Wild by Alex Mallory

The Fall of the House of Usher: The Fall by Bethany Griffin

Moby Dick: Railsea by China Mieville

Persuasion: For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

The Scarlet Pimpernel: Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund

Pride & Prejudice

Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg

Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh

First & Then by Emma Mills

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Bonus:

We love Dungeons and Dragons, and other tabletop roleplaying games. We love libraries, and want to keep them open. We want safe, free access to clean and friendly community spaces, where groups of people can gather and interact. 

What do these things mean for us? Well, here’s how we can save libraries, and get free access to DnD materials and a place to play. 

Contact your libraries, and request that they get DnD materials. Request them, or if you can, donate them to the library! 

Libraries have funds allocated to acquiring new materials, and they want to get materials that will draw in patrons. Young people, us, are very interested in keeping libraries open, so requesting DnD materials will help. However, there is another important step here that I don’t want to leave out. 

It takes a lot of smarts to achieve your dreams and conquer the world. Slytherins know that better than anybody. And no, not all Slytherins are evil and bent on world domination. I mean, some of them, sure, but being Slytherin is really about being clever, resourceful, cunning, and ambitious. It’s the house of people striving for greatness.

If you’re looking for more proof that Slytherin isn’t just the house of evil, try this: according to the Queen of Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling herself, Merlin was a Slytherin. Yep. Take that Gryffindor! So set all your preconceived notions aside and check out these twenty books for the Slytherins in your life.