Which Young Adult Fantasy or Science Fiction Book Should you Read Next? (Based on Myers Briggs)

What young adult fantasy or science fiction book should you read next? Well, that depends on your Myers Briggs type. For each Myers Briggs type, I have chosen two young adult (and a few children's) books that I think that particular type would enjoy. I tried to make it so that each type has one popular book and one less well-known book.

NOTE: This chart isn't very accurate. You might hate the books suggested for your type, or you might love them. There are no guaranties.

ENFP: Cinder by Marissa Meyer and Mister Monday by Garth Nix
INFP: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling and Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
ENFJ: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken and The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
INFJ: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor and The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
ENTJ: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld and I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
INTJ: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancy and the Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
ENTP: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
INTP: The Giver by Lois Lowry and The Iron Trial by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
ESFP: Divergent by Veronica Roth and The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas
ISFP: Legend by Marie Lu and City of Ember by Jeane Duprau
ESTP: Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin and  Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
ISTP: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

ESFJ: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and Sabriel by Garth Nix
ISFJ: Graceling by Kristin Cashore and Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White
ESTJ: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas and The Young Elites by Marie Lu
ISTJ: Eragon by Christopher Paolini and Eon by Alison Goodman

Alignment Correlation

I have linked alignment to Enneagram in this post. In the current post I am going to link Alignment to the Hogwarts houses, the Divergent factions, Myers Briggs and the Four Temperaments.

Hogwarts Houses:

Lawful Good: Hufflepuff or Gryffindor
Neutral Good: Hufflepuff or Gryffindor
Chaotic Good: Gryffindor
Lawful Neutral: Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin
True Neutral: Ravenclaw, Slytherin
Chaotic Neutral: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw
Lawful Evil: Ravenclaw, Slytherin
Neutral Evil: Ravenclaw, Slytherin
Chaotic Evil: Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Slytherin

OR

Gryffindor: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good
Hufflepuff: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Lawful Neutral
Ravenclaw: Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Neutral Evil
Slytherin: Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Chaotic Evil

Divergent Factions:

Lawful Good: Abnegation
Neutral Good: Amity
Chaotic Good: Dauntless
Lawful Neutral: Erudite
True Neutral: Erudite, Candor, Amity
Chaotic Neutral: Candor, Dauntless
Lawful Evil: Erudite
Neutral Evil: Erudite
Chaotic Evil: Dauntless

OR

Abnegation: Lawful Good
Amity: Neutral Good, True Neutral
Dauntless: Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral, Chaotic Evil
Candor: True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral
Erudite: Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil

Myers Briggs:

ENFP: Neutral Good, Chaotic Good
INFP: Neutral Good, True Neutral
ENFJ: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Lawful Neutral
INFJ: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Lawful Neutral
ENTP: True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil
INTP: True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil
ENTJ: Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil
INTJ: Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil
ESFP: Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral
ISFP: Neutral Good, True Neutral
ESTP: Chaotic Neutral, Chaotic Evil
ISTP: True Neutral, Neutral Evil
ESFJ: Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral
ISFJ: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, True Neutral
ESTJ: Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil
ISTJ: Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Lawful Evil

OR

Lawful Good: FJ types.
Neutral Good: Any F type
Chaotic Good: FP types
Lawful Neutral: Any J type
True Neutral: Pretty much any type
Chaotic Neutral: Any P type
Lawful Evil: TJ types
Neutral Evil: Any T type
Chaotic Evil: TP types

Four Temperaments: 
(this is really inaccurate but it's the best I could do)

Lawful Good: Sanguine, Melancholic
Neutral Good: Sanguine, Melancholic
Chaotic Good: Sanguine
Lawful Neutral: Melancholic, Choleric
True Neutral: Any temperament
Chaotic Neutral: Sanguine, Phlegmatic
Lawful Evil: Choleric
Neutral Evil: Choleric, Phlegmatic
Chaotic Evil: Phlegmatic

The Four Temperaments

This post is not about Myers Briggs. To be clear, this post does not refer to the four temperaments in Myers Briggs (NF, NT, SJ and SP). This post is about a thing that I have known about for some time but have not really looked in to. The four temperaments are Sanguine, Melancholic, Phlegmatic and Choleric. Click here to read about them. No, really, you should click the link. I won't bother explaining any of it myself.

I assumed I was melancholic, but I took an internet quiz and it said I was choleric. Of course, internet quizzes are not always right. Neither melancholic nor choleric fit me, but they each include aspects of my personality. I read that most people are a mixture of two of the four temperaments, and that cleared it up.

I honestly do not like the four temperaments very much. They are way too simple. Only four types? But I decided that I may as well try to link it to Myers Briggs because, hey, why not. This was my thought process:

First: The obvious. How do the four temperaments correlate with the four temperaments?

NF: Obviously not Choleric or Phlegmatic. That leaves Melancholic and Sanguine. Both are pretty NF-ish.
NT: Uh... Could be Choleric. Could be Melancholic (kind of). Could be Phlegmatic. Not likely to be Sanguine, though.
SP: Not Melancholic. Probably not choleric. Maybe Phlegmatic? Possibly Sanguine?
SJ: Could be any of them, really...

Okay, this isn't working very well. The temperaments do seem to directly correlate with introvert/extrovert. Sanguine and Choleric are extroverted and Melancholic and Phlegmatic are introverted. It also kind of seems as if Melancholic and Choleric are judgers and Phlegmatic and Sanguine are percievers. That would mean that:
Melancholic: INFJ, INTJ, ISFJ, ISTJ
Choleric: ENFJ, ENTJ, ESFJ, ESTJ
Phlegmatic: INFP, INTP, ISFP, ISTP
Sanguine: ENFP, ENTP, ESFP, ESTP
But, wait. Shouldn't ENFJ and ESFJ be Sanguine? They aren't Choleric at all. And do INTJ and ISTJ fit Melancholic best? This correlation isn't perfect. At all.

Well, let's keep the introvert/extrovert thing but instead of judging/perceiving, let's use thinking/feeling. Melancholic and Sanguine correlate well with F and Choleric and Phlegmatic correlate well with T.
Melancholic: INFJ, ISFJ, INFP, ISFP
Choleric: ENTJ, ESTJ, ENTP, ESTP
Phlegmatic: INTP, ISTP, INTJ, ISTJ
Sanguine: ENFP, ESFP, ENFJ, ESFJ
No. That doesn't work at all. INTJ and ISTJ as Phlegmatic? Impossible.

Okay, okay. How about forgetting the extrovert/introvert thing and using judging/perceiving and thinking/feeling.
Melancholic: INFJ, ISFJ, ENFJ, ESFJ
Choleric: ENTJ, INTJ, ESTJ, ISTJ
Phlegmatic: INTP, ENTP, ISTP, ESTP
Sanguine: ENFP, INFP, ESFP, ISFP
Not at all. ENFJ and ESFJ can't possibly be Melancholic. INFP and ISFP can't possibly be Sanguine.

What about Intuition/Sensing? Can I use that? Maybe, But I don't see any direct correlation.

I decided at this point that the four temperaments did not correlate directly with Myers Briggs. But of course I still have to find the closest thing to correlation. What if I use I/E, F/T and P/J? That means that:
Melancholic: IxFJ
Choleric: ExTJ
Phlegmatic: IxTP
Sanguine: ExFP
Any types that do not fit directly into one of the four temperaments will be divided between two. Here is a table:

MBTI	Temperament
ENTJ	Choleric
INTJ	Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic
ENTP	Choleric, Phlegmatic, Sanguine
INTP	Phlegmatic
ENFJ	Choleric, Melancholic, Sanguine
INFJ	Melancholic
ENFP	Sanguine
INFP	Phlegmatic, Melancholic, Sanguine
ESTJ	Choleric
ISTJ	Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic
ESFJ	Choleric, Melancholic, Sanguine
ISFJ	Melancholic
ESTP	Choleric, Phlegmatic, Sanguine
ISTP	Phlegmatic
ESFP	Sanguine
ISFP	Phlegmatic, Melancholic, Sanguine

It is not perfect at all. But it was my best guess.

Astrology and Stuff

This post is just me rambling about random stuff. Please ignore me.

Okay, so, I've never understood astrology. I looked into it a few years ago and it just sounds really stupid. How can anyone possibly think that the stars have any effect on people's personalities? It doesn't make any sense. I was talking to this guy a few days ago who liked astrology. He thought I would too, since I am slightly interested in the Enneagram. But I think it's the stupidest thing ever. Even if you ignore the whole stars and planets thing, the type descrpitons are just really random. You might find a type that describes you most, but what's the point? I won't say anything about you that you don't already know. It has no base. It's random. You might think your sign describes you well. Obviously, this will be true for some people. It's impossible that nobody would identify with their astrological sign. But their are many people whose signs don't describe them at all. Also, I have noticed that people tend to see themselves in a type description if they want to, and they don't see themselves in a description if they don't want to. For instance, a person I know has always thought of herself as an Enneagram type 5. We read the description and she thought it sounded a lot like her. I didn't think it did. I thought she was a type 9. So I read her type 9, but she didn't think it described her very well. The thing is, I think she saw herself in the type 5 description because she wanted to be a type 5. Perhaps it's the same with astrology.

I'm a Taurus. A bull. Lovely. According to a random site on the internet, Taurus people are dependable, persistent, loyal, patient, generous, stubborn, lazy, possessive, materialistic and self-indulging. Here is a list of these traits with notes about how much they describe me:

• Dependable: I think this describes me.
• Persistent: Definitely. I don't give up.
• Loyal: Ha ha, no.
• Patent: Depends. Do I get ice cream?
• Generous: Nooooo.
• Stubborn: Yesssssss.
• Lazy: Kind of.
• Possessive: Not at all.
• Materialistic: I am the exact opposite of this.
• Self-indulging: Not really.

 That's 4/10 traits that fit me (counting the traits that kind of fit me as 1/2)

So, as you can see, some things describe me and some things don't. Let me take a description of a random astrology sign. How about Libra.

• Analytical: Totally.
• Observant: Kind of.
• Helpful:  Definitely not.
• Reliable: Mostly.
• Precise: Depends.
• Skeptical: A bit.
• Fussy: Maybe.
• Inflexible: Yes.
• Cold: Sometimes.
• Interfering: Not really?

5 and 1/2

So, Libra describes me a bit better than Taurus does. Here, I'll do another random type. Leo.

• Confident: I act like it but not really.
• Ambitious: Sometimes.
• Generous: Nope.
• Loyal: I'm kind of like a Slytherin in this way.
• Encouraging: Not unless I have to be.
• Pretentious: Not really.
• Domineering: Well, okay, yes.
• Melodramatic: Not unless I'm angry, which really isn't often.
• Stubborn: Yes.
• Vain: Not at all.

3 and 1/2

Again, some things describe me, some things don't. Taurus describes me no more than any of the others. This is why I don't think Astrology is accurate.

Someone said to me "Well, astrology a lot more complicated than that." Sure, whatever, all I know is that it's based on stars, which I think is stupid. And, also, some people seem to think that if you make something more complicated, that somehow makes it more accurate. I have this problem with Myers Briggs, too. In all the experience I have had (which, I admit, is not very much), I have found that complicated things are not better than simple things but it is in fact the other way around. I think Einstein said it well. "If you can't explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough." I apply this principle to everything, science, math, people. Especially people.

If you like astrology, good for you. I just hope you don't think it's the answer to the universe. I also hope you don't think Enneagram is the answer to the universe, or even Myers Briggs. Every personality typing system is inaccurate. That is the beauty of people, they are too complicated to truly explain. Some people would say "so don't try", but I like to imagine that I understand things, though I never forget that I really don't. I like creating order in the universe. It's fun to look at something random and messy (like a human mind), and pretend that it is something infinitely simple. But it still isn't the truth. And so when I tell you that I am an INTJ, what I mean is not that those four letters completely and accurately describe every bit of my personality, what I mean is that those letters are a way I have found of looking at myself. It is not reality, it is a pair of glasses. I am looking at myself through the lens of Myers Briggs.

So, technically I have just argued against my own point (I do that a lot). I have pretty much said that astrology is just as good as Myers Briggs. Both are equally valid ways of looking at people (ignoring the bit about stars, again). It's just that I personally do not like astrology.

And I think  have successfully made my way back to the beginning of this post and probably also successfully confused you. Like I said, ignore me.

MBTI Character Edits

I made one of these for each type. You may notice that for some types I have included all male characters. I didn't want to do this, but some types just simply aren't often female in books. I tried to choose four characters for each type whose personalities I feel I know well enough to be pretty sure of their personality type.

River Song, Isabelle Lightwood, Thorin Oakenshiel, Finnick Odair

Jace Herondale, Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, Legolas

Mary Morstan, Gale Hawthorne, Spock, Alec Lightwood

Rose Hathaway, Ron Weasley, Christina, Amy Pond

John Watson, Cho Chang, Tobias Eaton, Sam Gamgee

Clara Oswald, Greg Lestrade, Lissa Dragomir, Sam

Nymphadora Tonks, Percy Jackson, Rose Tyler, Clary Fray

Martha Jones, Aragorn, Hermione Granger, Hazel Grace Lancaster

Augustus Waters, Frodo Baggins, Charlie, Luna Lovegood

Fred and George Weasley, Gimli, Peregrin Took, Patrick

The Doctor, Haymitch Abernathy, Simon Lewis, Neville Longbottom

Jack Harkness, Magnus Bane, Irene Adler, James Potter

Annabeth Chase, Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes, Severus Snape

Jackie Tyler, Horace Slughorn, Tyson, Effie Trinket

Isaac, Rubeus Hagrid, Grover Underwood, Primrose Everdeen

Donna noble, Peeta Mellark, Molly Weasley, Mrs. Hudson

Your Fictional Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Soulmate

ENFP: The Doctor (Doctor Who)
INFP: Will Herondale (The Mortal Instruments)
ENFJ: Neville Longbottom (Harry Potter)
INFJ: Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)
ENTP: Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)
INTP: Frodo Baggins (Lord of the Rings)
ENTJ: Sherlock Holmes (BBC Sherlock)
INTJ: Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson)
ESFP: Jace Wayland (The Mortal Instruments)
ISFP: Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars)
ESTP: Tobias "Four" Eaton (Divergent)
ISTP: Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
ESFJ: Sam Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
ISFJ: Jem Carstairs (The Mortal Instruments)
ESTJ: Leo Valdez (Percy Jackson)
ISTJ: Peeta Mellark (The Hunger Games)

ENFP: Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson)
INFP: Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter)
ENFJ: Hazel Grace Lancaster (The Fault in Our Stars)
INFJ: Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
ENTP: Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
INTP: Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)
ENTJ: Isabelle Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments)
INTJ: Tessa Gray (The Mortal Instruments)
ESFP: Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
ISFP: Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
ESTP: Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
ISTP: Clary Fray (The Mortal Instruments)
ESFJ: Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)
ISFJ: Tris Prior (Divergent)
ESTJ: Rose Hathaway (Vampire Academy)
ISTJ: Lissa Dragomir (Vampire Academy)

Which Fandom Should You Be In? Myers Briggs Chart #2

Note that I am not in all of these fandoms so the chart isn't really accurate.

ENFP: Harry Potter (Potterheads)
INFP: Perks of being a Wallflower (Wallflower)
ENFJ: The Mortal Instruments (Shadowhunters)
INFJ: John Green (Nerdfighters)
ENTP: Star Wars (Jedi)
INTP: Doctor Who (Whovians)
ENTJ: Star Trek (Trekies)
INTJ: Sherlock Holmes (Sherlockians)
ESFP: Twilight (Twihards)
ISFP: Avengers (Avenger)
ESTP: Divergent (Initiates)
ISTP: Percy Jackson (Demigods)
ESFJ: The Hunger Games (Tributes)
ISFJ: The Lord of the Rings (Ringers)
ESTJ: Supernatural (Hunter)
ISTJ: The Maze Runner (Runners)

Enneagram/ Myers Briggs Correlation

As I have said before, I don't know much about Enneagram. So please ignore this post. This is a chart stating my opinions on which Myers Briggs types each Enneagram type is most likely to be.

The Key:
AAA: The correlation could not be more perfect
A: This combination is very likely.
B This combination is likely.
C: This combination is possible.
D: This combination is almost impossible.
X: This has never, ever existed.
?: I have no idea

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
INTJ	A	X	C	D	AAA	?	D	B	C
ENTJ	B	X	B	X	C	?	C	A	X
INTP	C	X	C	D	AAA	?	D	D	C
ENTP	D	D	A	D	C	?	A	B	D
INFJ	B	B	X	A	A	?	X	D	AAA
ENFJ	C	A	C	B	D	?	C	C	A
INFP	D	B	X	AAA	C	?	C	X	A
ENFP	D	B	C	B	D	?	B	D	A
ISTJ	AAA	D	C	X	A	?	D	B	D
ESTJ	C	D	B	X	C	?	D	AAA	X
ISFJ	B	AAA	X	A	C	?	X	D	A
ESFJ	C	B	C	C	D	?	D	C	C
ISTP	C	D	D	D	A	?	B	C	B
ESTP	D	D	AAA	D	D	?	AAA	B	D
ISFP	D	A	X	AAA	C	?	C	C	A
ESFP	X	C	A	C	X	?	A	C	C