classic adult books with brave characters

However, the king of this genre is surely Terry Pratchett. Lesser spotted, but no less brilliant, authors are Chris Wooding and Kristin Cashore, both of whom write swashbuckling tales of fantasy and adventure. Well-known examples of the species include Trudi Canavan's Black Magician and Age of the Five trilogies as well as the fantastic Railsea, by China Mieville. You know those books that you sometimes see in the teenage section of a book shop, while in another shop they're in the adult section? Most often spotted lurking in the sci-fi and fantasy section, these books are awkward customers which, quite simply, defy categorisation because they can be read by virtually any age between 11 and 111. I promise though, that when those books on your parents' shelves and in the adult section of the library suddenly establish themselves as readable entities rather than ominous looking ornaments covered in dust, it is an amazing feeling – suddenly, your source of available reading matter has just quadrupled in size without any extra expense on your part! 1. With hindsight, this isn't really how I would recommend starting your first foray into adult literature, so I have compiled a list of Ten Commandments for starting to read adult fiction, except they're more hints than commandments, and there's only nine of them… I wouldn't pretend to have completely shifted into grown-up literature on the contrary, reading a 'big person's novel' is still accompanied by a sense of occasion, and I happily devour teenage fiction at a rate of knots. However being a couple of years older (and German!) she tended to read very depressing novels, which meant that the first grown up books I read were dystopias like Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. When I was 12 we studied some adult books in English lessons at school but it still took a couple more years before I actually dared to try reading some adult novels in my own time, and then it was simply because I would steal whatever book my friend was reading when I got bored in class.

Classic adult books with brave characters