#Top10NovelsChallenge

[thetribalmoth]

Covers of the books from my top 10 novels post!

[thetribalmoth]

Top 10 novels

1: the warriors series - Erin Hunter, specially into the wild. Genre: young readers/children, fantasy, cats, dark This series is beyond massive (50+ books) and really is not suitable for children (excessive gore, death and violence). The best summary I could give of this is tons of cats in clans and/or tribes, lots of rules and lore. The series is broken down into instalments (each containing 6 books and with a different over arching plot and usually different main characters), super Edition or mega books, manga books, novella mini books and guild books. Almost every kind of conflict is addressed at some point: forbidden love, miscarriage, economic crash, mental disorders/conditions, physical disabilities (one of the main characters is blind!), vague prophecies, God complexes, starvation, genocide, the after life, war, desease, abandonment, communism, fascism, dictators etc This is also the most confusing book series to read accourding to the correct time line and you basically need to print out the time line map to do it. But if you want to read the series for the first time start with The Prophecys Begin not The Dawn Of The Clans. If you are a small child then just don't read The Dawn Of The Clans at all. If you're looking for both adorable and soul crushing this books is a great choice but very hard on the wallet. - THIS SERIES IS STILL ON GOING - Favourite characters (there's way too many to pick just one) - Rusty (has more than one name but listing them would be a spoiler) and Jayfeather/Jays Wing (blind boy and basically in love with a stick) 2: the house of night series - P.C. Cast Genre: YA, vampire, pagan, gothic, fantasy One of very few fiction books that covers paganism and witch craft accuretly without paganism/witchcraft being the focal point of the series. This series is about 13 books long with a few side books. The story of these books can be hard to follow and it jumps characters very often in the last half of the books, but the variety of characters is great. This series has a queer couple and their main characters! The series focuses on Zoey a new fledgeling vampire who is sent to attend the house of night to learn about vampires and hopefully live to be an adult. A few books in the series gets much darker with ancient awakened Kalona who once protected Nyx but fell. Some warnings for this series, there's a lot of romantic couples (the main characters dates like 3 guys at once and one is a teacher). The series can also get weirdly sexual, even by adult book standards. Kalona is literally a mass rapist. Favourite character: Rephaim (one of Kalona's many children) 3: shadow of the red moon - Walter Dean Myers Genre: fantasy, Classics Ok it's been a while since I read this (like 10 years) but this is what got me into reading and daydreaming. The main character (Jon I think) leaves his home (crystal city) after the Fen break in. He must travel and survive the wilderness that he's heard little to nothing about. Also there's a unicorn at some point. - this book is old, good lucking finding a copy - 4: thirsty - M.T. Anderson Genre: YA, Horror, vampire So this is not your classic vampire tale, but I'm a sucker for all things vampire. The main character has just become a vampire in a world where being a vampire is punishable by public exicution. He must choose to either help the strange man to defeat an ancient vampire god, join the vampire hide always or die. This series has a poetic feel to it at times and encourages questioning your perceived reality and morals. Favourite character: the vampire God guy cause the premise of him and his motives are hilarious and out of the blue. 5: the devouring - Simon Holt Genre: YA, Horror, gothic The main character and her spooky inclined friend discover a journal about body snatching evil spirits. The main characters child brother (of course) gets possessed and they decided to try to get it out of him. This is the heaviest physiological horror I've read from the YA section, if you have an issue with spiders you'll have to skip a few parts. The second book is almost pure repeated psychological torture of the main character. 6: growing wings - Laurel Winter Genre: YA, coming of age, speculative fiction This is a sweet book that addresses self acceptance, oppression minority groups face, parents mutilating their kids to make them normal and how confining what makes us abnormal hurts more than it helps. The main character has started growing her wings, something that runs in her family, and she and her mother must decide what to do. Have the wings removed and become a cut wing? Or hide away with the rest of the winged? 7: vampire taxonomy - Meredith Woerner Genre: Humor, vampire This ain't a novel in the traditional sense and is like a medical book for vampires and how their bodies work. It covers everything from different breeds, how to kill them and even how they pee. It's highly in depth and serious for a Humor book and has quite good illustrations. 8: Ghost eye - Marion Dane Bauer Genre: young readers/children, supernatural, cats Another one I haven't read since childhood but quality ghost and cat stuff is inside (I swear). Basically the main character is a cat who can see ghost cats with one of his eyes and some are real douche bags. Very short, very child friendly but good. 9: tales of deltora - Emily Rodda Genre: young readers, fantasy This is a collection of stories from the world of deltora and easily a better read than the deltora series. The gist is the main charcter seeks out to collect a bunch of special stones and encounters many odd and magical things along the way. 10: field guide to monsters - Darren Zanko Genre: Humor A guide is what this is but it covers both completely unique monsters and monsters from myths. Written from a monster hunter/studier point of view.