<p>Any great books out there that would be great Christmas gifts for a 17 yr old girl? AND DON'T SAY TWILIGHT--she obviously has devoured the whole series twice now...lol. She has liked anything from Harry Potter to Jane Austen to Dan Brown to Jodi Piccoult....any new ideas....</p>
<p>John Green's books are excellent. His website is sparksflyup.com, if you want to check them out.</p>
<p>They're realistic fiction, centering around high school kids, and they're really, really witty.</p>
<p>Check out teenreads.com good reviews, lots of choices!</p>
<p>Jodi Picoult: the Pack and most others</p>
<p>also, Stefenie Meyers wrote an adult novel, "The Host" that she would enjoy if she liked the twilight series....</p>
<p>Ditto the suggestion for <em>The Host</em> by Stephenie Meyer. My hs senior actually liked it better than the Twilight series (and she thoroughly enjoyed <em>Twilight</em> et al). <em>The Host</em> is Meyer's adult book in the sense that it has more depth than her young adult books.</p>
<p>My daughter loved Willa Cather. My Antonia and O Pioneer are two of her books, but I don't know if she wrote more.</p>
<p>If she's like me (a 17 year old girl) and loves history, I'd check out Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl, The Constant Princess or The Queen's Fool (my personal fav)</p>
<p>i would suggest tamora pierce's books. they are in the fantasy genre. probably the best of her books were "trickster's choice" and its sequel "trickster's queen", though her "song of the lioness" quartet was also pretty good.</p>
<p>^Tamora pierce might be a little young for a 17 year old, but there's no harm checking it out, I guess. I used to love her books.</p>
<p>^ I agree with Lima I love Tammora Pierce but I think her books mught be a little young.
I loved A Great and Terible Beauty, Rebbel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Brey(sp?).</p>
<p>I loved 13 Little Blue Envelopes and most teenage girls enjoy the Clique series... I actually don't read to many non-academic books any more so idk..</p>
<p>Oh, yes, I algree with mulberrypie, Maureen Johnson's stuff is great. (she wrote 13 little blue envelopes).</p>
<p>Scott Westerfeld's books(Uglies/Pretties/Specials) are also ok. If she liked Twilight, she'd probably like his.</p>
<p>I'm a hs senior girl, and I loved loved these books: Atonement, Poisonwood Bible, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Road (depressing, but excellent), eat, pray, love,</p>
<p>Gossip Girl. haha they're trashy, but SO addicting.</p>
<p>haha yeah, i wasn't sure if tamora pierce would be too young. i'm a junior in high school and read them a while ago, but i have friends my age that have read them this year and enjoyed them, so i figured i would suggest it anyway.</p>
<p>If your daughter likes vampires she might like some of the books by Ann Rice. My girlfriend read them when she was around your daughter's age and loved them.</p>
<p>I'd probably ask her for a list. Most people don't just like any book off the shelf, they like specific ones.</p>
<p>Anyway, here are some books that I, a teen girl, like:</p>
<p>Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Anything by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Anything by Andrew Sean Greer
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anything by Joe Meno
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
Possession - A. S. Byatt
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Anything by Mark Z. Danielewski
Transgressions and The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne</p>
<p>If she's into vampire books she might like Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' books.</p>
<p>^Millancad, I mildly dislike most of those books. I guess it shows how different people's tastes in reading can be.</p>
<p>To the OP, if she likes Austen, she'd probably like A Room with a View by EM Forster.</p>
<p>Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac</p>
<p>Edit: Did not read the OP where it was mentioned she read twilight twice. Prolly should stick with Gossip Girls -_=</p>