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Books like The Lost Hero

Loved The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from young adult, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Fault in Our Stars

    John Green · 2012 · Young Adult

    Two teenagers with cancer fall in love; funny and heartbreaking without ever being saccharine.

  2. 2

    The Hate U Give

    Angie Thomas · 2017 · Young Adult

    A teenager witnesses a police shooting and finds her voice; urgent, powerful and humane.

  3. 3

    The Hunger Games

    Suzanne Collins · 2008 · Young Adult

    A girl volunteers for a televised fight to the death to save her sister; a propulsive, sharp dystopian thriller.

  4. 4

    Inheritance

    Christopher Paolini · 2010 · Young Adult

    Not so very long ago, Eragon -- Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider -- was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization res

  5. 5

    Divergent

    Veronica Roth · 2011 · Young Adult

    A society sorted into factions and a girl who fits none of them; fast-paced YA dystopia.

  6. 6

    Throne of Glass

    Sarah J. Maas · 2012 · Young Adult

    An assassin competes to win her freedom; the launch of a hugely popular fantasy series.

  7. 7

    Six of Crows

    Leigh Bardugo · 2015 · Young Adult

    A crew of teenage outcasts pull off an impossible heist; slick, dark and endlessly entertaining.

  8. 8

    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

    Holly Jackson · 2019 · Young Adult

    Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an end

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    Paper Towns

    John Green · 2008 · Young Adult

    One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neigh

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    The Graveyard Book

    Neil Gaiman · 2008 · Young Adult

    Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiqu

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