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Rec me YA novels? Anything plot-intensive. I'm still having trouble reading, so my lengthy list of grownup novels to read is not currently a possibility, but if I'm going to try to write a novel I need to fill my brain with them; I think one reason I felt confident enough to get started on my book was that I'd just spent a week reading and rereading the YA novels I had around for like ten hours a day. Long and structured does not come naturally to me.

So yeah, anything you like, I don't care what it's about or how new/old it is or if it's genre or not--if it's good and I can get it from the library I will read it. Heck, it doesn't even have to be YA, as long as--man, I don't know a nicer-sounding way to put this, but let's just say my ADD is getting bad enough that I'm probably going to go back on the drugs that give me anxiety attacks, and my anxiety is also off the scale, and therefore my ability to parse written language and retain information I've read is pretty fucking low right now. So anything that's not too difficult, is what I'm saying. I just need to get myself reading all the novels all the time in the hopes of learning how to plot by sheer brute force. :D? :D?

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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. Not SFF. WWII British spy and her best friend and pilot are shot down in France. The spy is captured and tortured. You are reading her narrative of how she got there. She's writing it for her interrogator. You can try to figure out where and why she's lying, or just let the narrative pull you headlong. It's brilliant and absolutely wonderful either way.

that sounds AMAZING! i will put it on my list.

the abhorsen or old kingdom trilogy by Garth Nix is my go-to YA rec.

_Sabriel_ (book 1) is about a girl who grew up in a non-magic place but goes home to a magic place to find her father who has gone missing. it turns out her family are anti-necromancers. her sidekick looks like a cat but isn't. she finds/wakes up a guy stuck in the figurehead of a ship and doesn't flirt with him because they have shit to do.

the second book (Lirael) is about a girl who is part of the family of seers. the third book (Abhorsen) is about the two young ladies meeting up and taking out a big bad magic thing.

I like Doctor Who books when I'm at a low level of everything.