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Stephenie Meyer · 2008 · US · science fiction · romance
★ 3.87 Goodreads · 1,060,170 ratings

Earth has been taken over by Souls, gentle parasites who live in human bodies, but when one called Wanderer is placed in Melanie Stryder, a captured rebel, Melanie refuses to fade and fills Wanderer's mind with the man she loves.

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12 books for readers of The Host

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 2013 · US 95% match ★ 3.70 Hardcover · 554 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The 5th Wave
shares: invasion, survival, romantic, aliens · easy read, earnest

After four waves of alien attack have killed most of humanity, sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan, alone in the woods with a rifle and trusting no one, sets out to keep her promise to find her little brother.

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer · 2005 · US 94% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 7,540,469 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Twilight Saga
shares: romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks, Washington, to live with her father and becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen, a pale, mysterious classmate who seems to loathe her, until she learns what he is.

Rite of Passage

Alexei Panshin · 1968 · US 92% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 3,827 ratings
shares: ethical, survival · easy read, earnest

A girl on a vast generation ship must pass a deadly coming-of-age trial: survive alone on an alien planet for thirty days.

Shatter Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2011 · US 92% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,332,668 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Shatter Me
shares: love triangle, romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Juliette Ferrars has not touched anyone in 264 days, because her touch can kill, and the Reestablishment, which rules a ruined world, has locked her away, until it decides she could be useful as a weapon.

I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore · 2010 · US 92% match ★ 3.60 Hardcover · 484 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in Lorien Legacies
shares: invasion, romantic, aliens · easy read, earnest

John Smith, a teenager from the destroyed planet Lorien, hides on Earth with his guardian, moving whenever danger comes, and in Paradise, Ohio, his powers begin to appear just as the Mogadorians who killed three of his kind close in.

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · 2017 · US 89% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 207,519 ratings
shares: emotional, love triangle, romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Lucy and Gabe meet as students at Columbia on the morning of September 11, 2001, and over the next thirteen years their lives keep pulling them together and apart.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 89% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: love triangle, romantic, romance · earnest, easy read

Aislinn, who has always been able to see faeries and has kept it secret, is chosen by Keenan, the Summer King, as the mortal girl who may become his queen.

The Speed of Dark

Elizabeth Moon · 2003 · US 89% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 12,016 ratings
shares: ethical, identity · earnest, easy read

Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who works in pattern analysis and fences on weekends, is pressured by his company to undergo an experimental treatment that could change who he is.

Shards of Honor

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1986 · US 89% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 41,671 ratings
Book 1 of 16 in Vorkosigan Saga
shares: survival, romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Cordelia Naismith, captain of a Betan survey ship, is taken prisoner on an unexplored planet by Aral Vorkosigan, a Barrayaran commander with a brutal reputation, whose own crew has just mutinied.

The Space Between Worlds

Micaiah Johnson · 2020 · US 88% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 47,742 ratings
shares: identity, romantic · easy read, earnest

Travel between parallel Earths is possible only to worlds where your other self has died, which makes Cara, dead in 372 of 380 worlds, valuable to the Eldridge Institute as a traverser, until one of her few surviving doubles dies.

Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas · 2020 · US 88% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 113,278 ratings
shares: identity, romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Yadriel, a trans boy from a family of brujos in East Los Angeles, performs the ritual to summon a ghost to prove he is a real brujo, and ends up with the wrong one: Julian Diaz, his school's resident bad boy, who will not leave until he finds out how he died.

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham · 1951 · UK 88% match ★ 3.92 Hardcover · 431 ratings
shares: invasion, survival · easy read, earnest

Bill Masen wakes in a London hospital with his eyes bandaged to find that almost everyone who watched the previous night's green meteor shower has gone blind, and that the triffids, tall walking plants with poisonous stings, are loose.