Young adult/adult romance books???

Question

Hi. I'm 18 and i'm looking for a read with characters that are between the ages of 17 and late 20s...the book has to deal with serious issues such as s*x/drugs/alcohol/rape/abuse/etc...i'm looking for something in the adult area without being ridiculously cheesy or a porno. tastefully done. i've read the TWILIGHTseries and i loved it (especially the 4th book) as well as a few of SARAH DESSEN's books but i'm looking for something a little more romantic relationship focused as opposed to having other storylines tied into it...you know i.e. finding the meaning of friendship or family and stuff like that. i really like most of sara dessen's books but they can be a little too sheltered for my taste especially when it comes to endings... i like happy endings with the couple and something mostly FOCUSED on romance would be best. i really like the guy saves girl or girl saves guy kind of idea as well as the forbidden romance... sorry if i sound picky but i've been reading a lot of books and none of them seem to have what i'm looking for...

so obviously the book doesn't have to have ALL of these requirements in it but if it had a a good amount of them would be preferable.

sorry, i know that is a lot of requirements but anything you can think of would be appreciated. thank you so much!

Answer 1

The Host is by Stephenie Meyer.........its great!!!!!! it's not related to the twilight saga..........it is definetley a forbidden love and the girl tries to save the guy....but it ends up the other way......I love it!!!! You should try it.....its kinda slow in the beginning, but trust me it is REALLY good!!!! once like less than half the way through the book.....and its a long book to its actually as long a breaking dawn!

Answer 2

the book your looking for is Gossip Girl!!!

Answer 3

Try some of these, its a mixed bag!

Children/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

All the Harry Potter books

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children - E Nesbit

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol

Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chronicles of Narnia

Adult

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch

Answer 4

Some Young Adult/ Romance Books are:

- Codename:Baby- Christina Skye

- Forever...- Judy Blume

- A Piece of Cake: A memoir- Cupcake Brown

- Lullabies for Little Criminals- Heather Oneil

- Love the one your with- Emily Griffin

- Baby Proof- Emily Griffin

- The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

- The Silver Kiss- Annette Curtis Klause

- Go Ask Alice- Anonymous

- Uninvited- Amanda Marrone

- Thirteen Reasons Why- Jay Asher

- A Great and Terrible Beauty- Libba Bray

- Rebel Angels- Libba Bray

- The Sweet Far Thing- Libba Bray

- 13 Little Blue Envelopes- Maureen Johnson

- Lucky T- Kate Brian

- Teen Idol- Meg Cabot

- Vampire Diaries:The Struggle & The Awakening- L.J. Smith

- Vampire Diaries:The Fury & The Dark Reunion- L.J. Smith

for summaries visit these following websites:

www.chapters.indigo.ca

www.barnesandnoble.com

www.borders.com

www.amazon.com

etc.

I hope this helped, Enjoy!

Answer 5

I think I may have recommended my book to you before. City of Dreams, it's got a lot of the things you're looking for in it. It's a more mature book, with language that I refuse to let my grandmother read XD It's got alcohol and psychological abuse. The main characters are all in their mid-twenties, and the focus is very much on the romance.

Anyway my appologies if I already replied to you.

You can find City of Dreams here:

http://www.lulu.com/content/3293358

Answer 6

harold robbins books