YA Fantasy Adventures (with a nod to Jane Austen)

Try these books if you're looking for:

• books that read like Brandon Sanderson, J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, Jessica Day George, Brandon Mull, Lewis Sachar, Gail Carson Levine, Susan Fletcher, Shannon Hale, Jane Austen, and Elizabeth George Speare
• fantasy
• adventure
• some historical elements
• maybe some romance

For Darkness Shows the Stars 
By Diane Peterfreund
YA F PETERFRE For Dark #1
Elliot North fights to save her family's land and her own heart in this post-apocalyptic reimaging of Jane Austen's PERSUASION.

Northanger Alibi 
By Jenni James
YA F JAMES
The Russo family and Seattle, Washington, are no match for Claire Hart and her savvy knowledge of all things vampire-related. Thanks to her obsession with the Twilight series, if there is anyone who would know a vampire when she saw one, it's Claire. And she's positive totally hot Tony Russo is a vampire -- she just has to prove it!

The Grimm Legacy 
By Polly Shulman
YA F SHULMAN
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.

The False Prince 
By Jennifer A. Nielsen
YA F NIELSEN Ascendan #1
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

Summers at Castle Auburn 
By Sharon Shinn
SCI-FI SHINN
Coriel Halsing has spent many summers with her half-sister at Castle Auburn chasing and falling in love with a handsome prince who can never be hers, but now that she is grown she begins to understand the dark side of the magical palace.

The Winner's Curse 
By Marie Rutkoski
YA F RUTKOSKI
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.

The Thief 
By Meagan Whelan Turner
YA F TURNER Attolia #1
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.