(3) Base Camp
In Delirium, the government has banned a lot of books because they're dripping with love. This isn't the case in the contemporary U.S. of A., but if love stories were to start disappearing from the shelves, never fear—you'd be able to fly through Delirium before anyone got around to burning it. The narrator of the book, Lena, is seventeen, and her vocabulary is right on par for someone of her age group. Plus, it's not like she's very well read—books being banned and all—so she won't be making any literary references you won't get. The complexity of this book comes from its themes, not its language or allusions.