This page will contain spoilers. One day if my website design skills become more developed, I will make a fancy website which will have the categories and links so as to not show spoilers unless you want to see them. In the meantime, if you want a list without annotations and my opinions, email me.

• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. A teenage girl finds a curiously engraved book in her father's study and thus learns about her father, her dead mother, and a history of vampire hunting. I really enjoyed this book.
  
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I think the book is interesting, not as well-written as it could be, though.
  
• The Ninth Gate, a movie starring Johnny Depp as a bookseller who finds the book of the devil.

• Midnighters trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. Five teenagers in Bixby, Oklahoma know that at midnight, the world freezes in place and dark creatures come out for the secret hour. It is up to the five teenagers to keep the dark creatures from taking over. First book is The Secret Hour, second book is Touching Darkness, and third book is Blue Noon. I'm quite intrigued by this trilogy.
  
• Dark City, a movie starring Rufus Sewell and Jennifer Connelly as people trapped in a world where at midnight, mysterious people in black rearrange the world as they know it.

• So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. Hunter is a cutting-edge teenager who stumbles onto a cutting-edge consumer scam.
• This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danzinger. In the year 2057, 15-year old Aurora has a great life. She has a best friend, a boyfriend, and a reputation as one of the coolest people at her school. Then her parents ruin it all by announcing that they're moving to a new colony on the moon.
  
• Feed by M. T. Anderson. In a society where everyone is connected into the "feed," who is willing to be different?

• Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. The first book is Uglies, in which Tally looks forward to her sixteenth birthday, when she will undergo the operation from ugly to pretty. However, she meets Shay, who doesn't want to have the operation and Tally becomes involved in a world different from the one she expected. The second book is Pretties, continuing Tally and Shay's friendship. Waiting for the third book, Specials.
  
• Wrapt in Crystal by Sharon Shinn.
  
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. Matteo discovers that he is a clone and begins his journey of self-identity.
  
• Eva by Peter Dickinson. A young girl wakes up to discover that her brain has transplanted into the body of a chimpanzee and her life changes.

• Samaria series by Sharon Shinn. Publication order: Archangel, Jovah's Angel, The Alleulia Files, Angelica, and Angel-seeker.
  
• His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. The trilogy consists of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. A classic novel. The residents of Sunset Towers are challenged by Samuel W. Westing to find out who murdered him. Millions of dollars are at stake.

• The Givenchy Code by Julie Kenner. Melanie Prescott isn't entirely your typical blonde - she loves math and codes and ciphers, in addition to shoes and shopping. In a take-off of The Da Vinci Code, she starts on a spin around Manhattan trying to keep her life intact with the help of the very sexy Matthew Stryker.
  
• Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie.
• Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer.

• Freaks: alive on the inside by Annette Curtis Klause. A reverse "Beauty and the Beast" telling set among the curiousity shows of early years.
• Totally Spellbound by Kristine Grayson. Megan is great at understanding the difficulties between children and parents, but has a hard time understanding what magic is. When she bursts into Robin Hood's magic bubble, she bursts into a world filled with Greek supposedly-mythological magical persons and becomes caught up in a Fate-d plan to save true love.
• Avalon High by Meg Cabot.

• Evolution's Darling by Scott Westerfeld. With the help of a precocious captain's daughter, Darling becomes a sentient artificial intelligence unit. 200 years later, Darling finds himself tracking down a dead artist and puzzling over an ongoing question: is the copy ever as good as the original?

• Blind-sighted by Peter Moore.

• The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger.

• Melusine by Sarah Monette.
• Kushiel's Legacy trilogy by Jacqueline Carey. Begins with Kushiel's Dart, in which Phedre begins a life as an anguissette, a prostitute with a flare for pain, and finds her life changed by politics and intrigue. Followed by Kushiel's Chosen and Kushiel's Avatar.

• Fushigi Yuugi by Yuu Watase. Nakago is my love. This website was created because of him, there is no way he wouldn't be in this category. It's only a wonder that it took me this long to develop this segment.
• Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. Hannibal Lector is classic.
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Jerry starts at a new school the year after his mother dies and finds that a simple thing such as selling choclates (or not selling them, in his case) causes power struggles beyond comprehension. This is not a happy-go-lucky book. Archie is not the main antagonist in this book, but he certainly contributes to the conflicts.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Don't get me wrong - I like Ender. However, he exhibits the qualities listed above for this category. As a promising military genius, Ender gets sent off to Battle School for training to become a leader in the war against the alien "buggers". He learns strategy, psychology, and strength.

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

• Annie on my mind by Nancy Garden.
• Seventeenth summer by Maureen Daly.