For the life of me, I couldn’t think of anything to blog about today. Probably because all I can think of is getting off work, going back home, and reading the last 100 pages of hush, hush. I might still be a little bitter at Bubba for making me stop reading to go to bed last night, despite all the sleep I need. Today, there is too much Patch (the intriguing little devil!) in my mind to think about blogging, so I am taking the easy way out.
Hey, that’s allowed sometimes! I am certain of it.
I have seen book memes floating around the interwebs. Normally, I read over the lists to see what I have and haven’t read, but don’t actually mark them (with notable exceptions). But this one is all about young adult literature. And I write young adult literature! It is too good to pass up (and gives me a blog with very little thought).
So here it is, courtesy of the talented Melissa Marr:
Instructions:
Books I have read
Books I’ve read and loved
Books I plan on reading
1. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams
2. Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond
3. Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian / Sherman Alexie
4. Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson
5. Feed / M.T. Anderson
6. Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews
7. 13 Reasons Why / Jay Asher
8. Am I Blue? / Marion Dane Bauer (editor)
9. Audrey Wait! / Robin Benway
10. Weetzie Bat / Francesca Lia Block
11. Tangerine / Edward Bloor
12. Forever / Judy Blume
13. What I Saw and How I Lied / Judy Blundell
14. Tyrell / Coe Booth
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Ann Brashares
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty / Libba Bray
17. The Princess Diaries / Meg Cabot
18. The Stranger / Albert Camus
19. Ender’s Game / Orson Scott Card
20. Postcards from No Man’s Land / Aidan Chambers
21. Perks of Being a Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky
22. And Then There Were None / Agatha Christie
23. Gingerbread / Rachel Cohn
24. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist / Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
25. Artemis Fowl (series) / Eoin Colfer
26. The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins
27. The Midwife’s Apprentice / Karen Cushman
28. The Truth About Forever / Sarah Dessen
29. Little Brother / Cory Doctorow
30. A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly
31. Tears of a Tiger / Sharon Draper
32. The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer
33. Breathing Underwater / Alex Flinn
34. Stardust / Neil Gaiman
35. Annie on My Mind / Nancy Garden
36. What Happened to Cass McBride / Gail Giles
37. Fat Kid Rules the World / K.L. Going
38. Lord of the Flies / William Golding
39. Looking for Alaska / John Green
40. Bronx Masquerade / Nikki Grimes
41. Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
42. Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
43. The Outsiders / S.E. Hinton
44. Crank / Ellen Hopkins
45. The First Part Last / Angela Johnson
46. Blood and Chocolate / Annette Curtis Klause
47. Arrow’s Flight / Mercedes Lackey
48. Hattie Big Sky / Kirby Larson
49. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
50. Boy Meets Boy / David Levithan
51. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks / E. Lockhart
52. The Giver / Lois Lowry
53. Number the Stars / Lois Lowry
54. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie / David Lubar
55. Inexcusable / Chris Lynch
56. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things / Carolyn Mackler
57. Dragonsong / Anne McCaffrey
58. White Darkness / Geraldine McCaughrean
59. Sold / Patricia McCormick
60. Jellicoe Road / Melina Marchetta
61. Wicked Lovely / Melissa Marr
62. Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
63. Dairy Queen / Catherine Murdock
64. Fallen Angels / Walter Dean Myers
65. Monster / Walter Dean Myers
66. Step From Heaven / An Na
67. Mama Day / Gloria Naylor
68. The Keys to the Kingdom (series) / Garth Nix
69. Sabriel / Garth Nix
70. Airborn / Kenneth Oppel
71. Eragon / Christopher Paolini
72. Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
73. Life As We Knew It / Susan Beth Pfeffer
74. The Golden Compass / Phillip Pullman
75. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging / Louise Rennison
76. The Lightning Thief / Rick Riordan
77. Always Running: La Vida Loca / Luis Rodriguez
78. How I Live Now / Meg Rosoff
79. Harry Potter (series) / J.K. Rowling
80. Holes / Louis Sachar
81. Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger
82. Push / Sapphire
83. Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi
84. Unwind / Neil Shusterman
85. Coldest Winter Ever / Sister Souljah
86. Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
87. Chanda’s Secrets / Allan Stratton
88. Tale of One Bad Rat / Brian Talbot
89. Rats Saw God / Rob Thomas
90. Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien
91. Stuck in Neutral / Terry Trueman
92. Gossip Girl / Cecily Von Ziegesar
93. Uglies / Scott Westerfeld
94. Every Time a Rainbow Dies / Rita Williams-Garcia
95. Pedro and Me / Judd Winick
96. Hard Love / Ellen Wittlinger
97. American Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang
98. Elsewhere / Gabrielle Zevin
99. I am the Messenger / Markus Zusak
100. The Book Thief / Markus Zusak
BOOKS MELISSA MARR ADDEED:
101. Wintergirls/ L. H. Anderson
102. The Graveyard Book/ N Gaiman
103. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing/ MT Anderson
104. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone/ S Kuehnert
105. Valiant H Black
106. Reposessed/ AM Jenkins
107. Keeping You a Secret/ Julie Ann Peters
108. War for the Oaks/Emma Bull
109. Story of a Girl/ Sara Zarr
110. Rules of Survival Nancy Werlin
111. The Adoration of Jenna Fox/ Mary Pearson
112. Graceling/ Kristin Cashore
BOOKS I ADDED (hey, if Melissa can do it, so can I):
113. Rampant/ Diana Peterfreund
114. Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse/ Kaleb Nation
115. hush, hush/ Becca Fitzpatrick
Le Sigh. Now I remember why I shouldn’t do these memes. Notice how much more pink there is than blue or orange–those pink lines are all books that live on my to-be-read list. And these only account for the YA titles! There is always so much more reading to be done than there is time to read. Oy. In my ideal world, my eight hour workday goes something like this: four hours of writing, lunch, four hours of reading. Ahhhh. That’ll be the day.
If you are new to the game of young adult literature, check out the titles above. They are great ones to read.
