Article contributed by Suya Chry
The Nerd Daily 2019 Reading Challenge was released the beginning of the year, consisting of 52 prompts to read books about. One of its prompts was START A NEW SERIES so if you’re looking for recs for that particular challenge or looking for books to read in general, here’s a list of eight completed or almost completed young adult book series to start bingeing immediately.
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
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This teen-fiction romance trilogy is a flurry of romance and happiness. Lara Jean Song writes letters for the boys she loves and keeps them in a box, however, those letters are for her only. But one day, the five letters are mailed to the five boys she’s loved. Lara Jean’s love life quickly goes out of control. If you are a fan of teen romances and love letters, you need to start this series immediately. The first book has even been adapted to a film in 2018, and the sequel is set to release in 2020, starring the amazing Lana Condor and the sweetest Noah Centineo.
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
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The year is 2575, and two megacorporations are fighting over a planet at the edge of the universe, but no one warned the residents. Kady and Ezra, who had recently broken up and barely talking to each other, witness their planet getting invaded and are forced together on an evacuating fleet. But to top off their problems, a deadly plague has broken out, the fleet’s AI may be their enemy, and to survive, Kady and Ezra may have to fight together.
Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more, Illuminae Files is an incredible epistolary novel trilogy loved by almost all of its readers!
The Selection by Kiera Cass
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The selection is a five book series with plenty of novellas to enjoy too! 35 girls are given the chance of winning Prince Maxon’s heart and ruling with him the Kingdom of Illea. Girls dream of being in her position but for America, it is leaving her secret love, Aspen, behind. And she will have to face the challenges that come her way. The fourth and fifth books are about Eadlyn and her journey to love.
If you love palace settings, balls and dances, love triangles, and coming-of-age stories, and if you haven’t read it already, you need to pick up this YA dystopian series.
After by Anna Todd
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Tessa is a good girl. She has a good boyfriend. A boyfriend she loves. But barely into her freshmen dorm in university, she runs into Hardin, a gorgeous but very rude boy she immediately feels lured to. Despite his cruel treatment to her and their differences, Tessa can’t help but feel that there’s a goodness to him. Could it be love?
This One Direction fanfiction originally published on Wattpad, After starts like a typical annoying-good-girl and frustrating-bad-boy romance but it quickly takes it pace to much more. As the story goes, both Tessa and Hardin’s hardships are revealed, their backgrounds and families, their struggle with each other. Will they end up together or not, is what you will ask when reading this more so New Adult romance series.
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
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Juliette’s touch is lethal. After she accidentally kills someone, The Reestablishment locks her up in an asylum. She hasn’t seen a soul ever since she came in. Until Adam. The boy she wants to remember her. Some days go by and unexpectedly, she is given an offer by The Reestablishment, namely, by Warner; she could be that monster of a girl, or she could use her power and use herself as a weapon.
Shatter Me is a YA Sci-Fi series by Tahereh Mafi with a unique writing style, and great characters. Juliette is easily lovable, surviving with a uniqueness she did not ask for. The series has five books and many novellas with the sixth instalment coming in 2020.
Stalking Jack The Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
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Against her father’s wishes and society’s expectations, daughter of Lord Wadsworth, seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose attends her uncle’s classes to learn forensic medicine. While working with her uncle, Audrey is sucked into the investigation of the serial killer, Jack the Ripper. She, along with Thomas Cresswell, her arrogant and intelligent classmate, will roam the disease-infested streets to identify the murderer.
Stalking Jack the Ripper is a four book series with the final instalment to come this September. It is a deliciously creepy horror novel, set in 1880s, London with the air of mystery surrounding the question of, who is the Ripper?
The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare
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The sequel series to the internationally acclaimed Mortal Instruments, The Dark Artifices trilogy is the latest addition in the Shadowhunter Chronicles. It focuses on the lives of the Blackthorns and Emma Carstairs, some five years after the events of City of Heavenly Fire. Emma who is now a young woman is hell bent on knowing who murdered her parents and getting her revenge.
The Shadowhunter Chronicles is said to one of the best YA book series and rightly so. It focuses promptly on friendship, family, love, romance, and more than that- Good and Evil.
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
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Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her mother as the soon-to-be dead people walk past but she never sees them. Until she does. Gansey, a boy comes from the dark and talks to her. Blue eventually gets involved with The Raven Boys, a group of four boys -Gansey, Adam, Ronan and Noah- to figure out why she saw Gansey. Is he her true love, or is she his killer?
The tetralogy is a spellbinding series about magic, death, love ,and friendship. It is a character driven story with humorous scenes and lovable people. I highly recommend if you like fantasy paranormal books.
