As we go throughout our lives, we tend to reach towards the trending and top selling materials offered in life. It is an inclination developed throughout our lives to want things of great quality, and it is in every part of life, even in books.

First, there are the best and most prestigious authors of all time. They are people like Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Earnest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many more people. Their works go down in history as being some of the best, but there are works from authors today that students find more inspiring and find they have more connection with them.

The obvious ones are Veronica Roth and Suzanne Collins with their world-wide phenomena’s Divergent and The Hunger Games. Even though both authors set their books against a dystopian backdrop, there were still themes and messages throughout the books that students could relate to. Teens these days really connected to Tris and Katniss in these books

“They took this whole new twist on fear and a different world, it was really interesting” said Anna Navarre’18.

Other top selling authors who did not set their books against dystopian worlds are John Green, Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments), and Rainbow Rowell (best known for her novel Eleanor and Park). They set their novels against the backdrop of the everyday world and made their characters face off against strenuous, and at times life-threatening, situations. Those situations may be a far off reach to some, but others found an enjoyable novel with love, heartbreak, and even occasionally suspense.

“It’s unrealistic and realistic at the same time.” Said Navarrete

In these novels there were internal and external conflicts that the main characters had to deal with. There were also themes, messages, and situations that readers could more relate to than some books that were written years and, in some cases, centuries ago.