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  1. The Vampire Diaries - L. J. Smith
    The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels created By L. J. Smith. The story centers on Elena Gilbert, a young high school girl who finds herself eventually torn between two vampire brothers, Stefan and Damon Salvatore. 
  2. The Vampire Academy Series - Richelle Mead   

    Vampire Academy is a best-selling series of six young-adultparanormal romance novels by American author Richelle Mead. It tells the story of Rosemarie "Rose" Hathaway, a seventeen-year-old Dhampir girl, who is training to be a bodyguard for her Moroibest friend, Vasilisa "Lissa" Dragomir. In the process of learning how to defeat Strigoi (the evil undead vampires) in St. Vladimir's Academy, Rose finds herself caught in a forbidden romance with her instructor, Dimitri Belikov, while having an unbreakable bond with Lissa.  The book is narrated from Rose's point of view. Due to her mysterious bond with Lissa, she is able to slip into her mind, which enables her to read her mind and feelings.
  3. The Immortal Series - Alyson Noël   

    The Immortals is a sequence of novels written by Alyson Noël. Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, Ever can see auras, hear people's thoughts, and know a person's entire life story by touch. Going out of her way to avoid human contact and suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen.  Damen Auguste is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He's the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it's as though he can see straight into her soul. He disappears mysteriously- As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets, she's left with more questions than answers. She has no idea just who he really is—or what he may be. The only thing she knows to be true is she's falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.
  4. Fallen Series - Lauren Kate    

    Fallen is a 2009 young adult fantasy novel written by Lauren Kate. The novel revolves around a young girl named Lucinda "Luce" Price who is sent to Sword & Cross Reform School in Savannah, Georgia, after she is accused of murdering a boy by starting a fire. At the reform school, she meets Daniel, a handsome boy whom she feels inexplicably drawn to, and believes she has met before. The book revolves mostly around the love triangle between Luce, Daniel, and Cam, another boy enrolled at Sword and Cross.
  5. House of Night Series - P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast    

    House of Night is a series of vampire-themed fantasy novels by American author P. C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast. It follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a sixteen-year-old girl who has just become a "fledgling vampyre" and is required to attend the House of Night boarding school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The series has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 63 weeks and there are over seven million copies in print in North America alone.
  6. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett   

    A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine.  Sara Crewe is a very intelligent, polite, and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy soldier stationed in India, Captain Crewe, Sara was sent all the way from India (her birthplace) to London for a formal education. Sara soon meets the headmistress of the school Miss Minchin, who dislikes Sara from the start, but tries to flatter her because of her father's money. Sara spends some days with her father, and goes around town to buy clothes. She desperately searches for a doll that suits her. She finally finds one and names her "Emily". Sara's father leaves Sara and goes back to India. She is hated by Lavinia, who is jealous of her and was the former "princess" in the school, prior to Sara's arrival.
    On Sara's eleventh birthday, she receives a doll from her papa, naming it as "Last doll" as she will soon be too grown up for dolls. While Sara's birthday party is taking place, Miss Minchin receives a visit from Captain Crewe's lawyer, informing her that his client has died penniless. The party is stopped, and Sara is told that from now on she will have to work for her keep in the school. She is sent to live in the attic, and is often hungry and ill treated.
    Meanwhile, an ill man from India, Tom Carrisford, has arrived in the house next to the school, in search of his friend's daughter, hoping to find her in Paris or Russia. The story takes a turn as the friend of Mr. Carrisford was Captain Crewe and he is currently searching for his daughter, Sara. He does not guess that she is there in the next building. One day, his assistant, Ram Dass, happens to see Sara after his monkey goes into her room. He climbs the roof to retrieve the monkey, and sees the condition of Sara's room. He tells Mr. Carrisford about it and they make Sara's life better by presenting gifts and surprises. Sara, who is very thankful to the "mysterious friend", cannot figure out who the "friend" is. Then, one day, the monkey goes into her room again in the middle of the night and she decides to return it the next morning. Mr. Carrisford discovers that Sara is the child he has been searching for and the book ends on a happy note as Sara truly proves that she is a "Princess".
  7. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  

    Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.
  8. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
    Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co.with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Writing for the Penguin edition, Stevie Davies describes it as an "influential feminist text" because of its in-depth exploration of a strong female character's feelings.Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of Thornfield Hall. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

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