We all know that feeling of pleasant-yet-painful anticipation during the wait between books in our favorite series, but sometimes we want to read series the way we watch seasons of Netflix shows: all in one sitting. That means all the books have to be at our fingertips, because no way are we hitting pause. Here’s our list of completed young adult series you can start reading right now–no waiting required.
20 Completed Young Adult Series You Can Start Right Now!
1. The Last Magician series by Lisa Maxwell
What it’s about: a world where magic is dying and a modern-day thief who is tasked with traveling back in time to 1902 New York City to stop a magician from destroying the future..
What it has: magic, time travel, adventure, mystery, and suspense.
2. The Field Party series by Abbi Glines
What it’s about: a small Southern town filled with cute boys in pickup trucks, Friday night football games, and crazy parties.
What it has: romance, friendship, football games, and MAJOR drama.
3. The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
What it’s about: Clary Fray discovers the world of the Shadowhunters and joins them in their fight to protect the world from demons.
What it has: romance, friendship, adventure, mystery, and paranormal characters.
4. The System Divine series by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell
What it’s about: A sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables that follows three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet of Laterre.
What it has: sci-fi, romance, revolution, and adventure.
5. The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
What it’s about: The prequel trilogy to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. The Infernal Devices is set in Victorian London where Shadowhunters are barely winning against the forces of evil.
What it has: romance, friendship, adventure, mystery, and paranormal characters.
6. The Diabolic series by S.J. Kincaid
What it’s about: Nemesis is a Diabolic, created to protect Sidonia, the daughter of a galactic senator. There’s no one Nemesis wouldn’t kill to keep her safe. So when the power-mad Emperor summons Sidonia to the Galactic court to serve as a hostage, Nemesis takes her place.
What it has: sci-fi, romance, and rebellion.
7. The Skinjacker trilogy by Neal Shusterman
What it’s about: Nick and Allie don’t survive the car accident—and their souls don’t exactly get where they’re supposed to go. Instead, they’re caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist.
What it has: dystopian/thriller elements, adventure, and a fast-paced plot.
8. The Effigies series by Sarah Raughley
What it’s about: When Phantoms—massive beasts made from nightmares and darkness—suddenly appear and begin terrorizing the world, four girls, the Effigies, each gain a unique power to control one of the classical elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Now they must come together in order to save the world.
What it has: Monsters, romances, epic battle scenes.
9. The Program series by Suzanne Young
What it’s about: In this “gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance” (Kirkus Reviews), true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. The Program is both a cure and a curse–it takes away hurtful emotions, but it also strips people of their memories.
What it has: suspense, romance, friendship, and rebellion.
Bonus! The Program is a series with a few different entry points–you can pick up The Program (Book 1), The Remedy (Book 3), and The Adjustment (Book 5) without having read any of the other books in the series (of course, once you do, you’ll want to read all of them).
10. The Mara Dyer trilogy by Michelle Hodkin
What it’s about: Mara Dyer goes searching for answers after she survives an accident that killed all of her friends in the spine-tingling, bone-chilling, New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer trilogy.
What it has: romance, friendship, mystery, action, self-discovery, and powers.
Bonus! Michelle Hodkin has a new series told from the perspective of Noah Shaw, and it. Is. Everything. Start reading it now with The Becoming of Noah Shaw!
11. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series by Jenny Han
What it’s about: What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once?
What it has: romance, friendship, family, and self-discovery.
12. The Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman
What it’s about: Set in the future where all war, sickness, and old age has been eradicated. People, known as Scythes, are therefore trained in the art of killing to maintain population control.
What it has: sci-fi and fantasy elements, action, adventure, and a will-they-won’t-they relationship.
13. This Mortal Coil trilogy by Emily Suvada
What it’s about:Seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.
What it has: sci-fi and fantasy elements, secrets, strong female protagonist, action, and adventure.
14. The Dark Artifices trilogy by Cassandra Clare
What it’s about: A new trilogy set in Los Angeles, taking place after the events of The Mortal Instruments series. New Shadowhunters must work together with their enemies to figure out who has been killing humans.
What it has: romance, friendship, adventure, mystery, and paranormal characters.
15. The Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman
What it’s about: To be a teenager is to risk being unwound—having your body dismantled and all the parts distributed for transplant—and three teens try to change the world in Neal Shusterman’s New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology.
What it has: sci-fi and fantasy elements, mystery, romance, evil corporations, action, and adventure.
16. Let the Sky Fall Trilogy by Shannon Messenger
What it’s about: Whirlwind adventure combines with strong characters and epic fantasy and romance in the “remarkably unpredictable” (BCCB) Let the Sky Fall trilogy about wind sylphs, told in dual points of view!
What it has: fantasy elements, adventure, powers, romance, self-discovery, and mythology.
17. The Hush, Hush Saga by Becca Fitzpatrick
What it’s about: Enter the realm of fallen angels and rising passions with this gripping saga from Becca Fitzpatrick that chronicles the destiny of Nora and Patch from the beginning of their relationship to the dire events—and forces—that threaten to tear them apart.
What it has: paranormal characters, romance, adventure, mystery, and deception.
18. The Heirs of Watson Island trilogy by Martina Boone
What it’s about: Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family’s twisted secrets.
What it has: romance, family, family secrets, mystery, paranormal elements, and powers.
19. Rot & Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry
What it’s about: Benny Imura and his friends try to find their way in a zombie-plagued world in the critically acclaimed Rot & Ruin series.
What it has: zombies, zombie-hunting, action, adventure, and self-discovery.
20. Crown of Feathers series by Nicki Pau Preto
What it’s about: Veronyka is a war orphan who dreams of becoming a Phoenix Rider from the stories of old. After a shocking betrayal from her controlling sister, Veronyka strikes out alone to find the Riders—even if that means disguising herself as a boy to join their ranks.
What it has: phoenixes, war, secrets, lies, fantasy, royalty, adventure