I think this is a really interesting list. There's some obvious ones- The Fault in Our Stars and The Hunger Games for instance- the mega sellers of the past year or so. Probably some interesting omissions too. There are really quite a number that I've never heard of.
As always the books I've read are in red.
1. I Am The Messenger - Markus Zusak (see my review)
2. Miracle's Boys - Jacqueline Woodson
3. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
4. Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
5. (You) Set Me On Fire - Mariko Tamaki
6. The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
7. Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
8. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
9. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz
10. How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff (see my review)
11. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
12. Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
13. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
14. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen - Susin Nielsen
15. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
16. Legend - Marie Lu
17. Adaptation - Malinda Lo
18. Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan
19. Alice, I think - Susan Juby
20. The Summer Prince - Alaya Dawn Johnson
21. Firecracker - David Iserson
22. The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton (see my review)
23. Born Confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier
24. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (see my review)
25. The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
26. Monster - Walter Dean Myers
27. If You Could Be Mine - Sara Farizan
28. Romiette and Julio - Sharon M. Draper
29. Vivian Versus the Apocalypse - Katie Coyle
30. The Hunger Games (trilogy) - Suzanne Collins (read 2/3) (see my reviews #1, #2)
31. Gingerbread - Rachel Cohn
32. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (see my review)
33. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
34. Beauty Queens - Libba Bray
35. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants - Ann Brashares
36. Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
37. Forever - Judy Blume
38. Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
39. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
40. Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie (see my review)
8/42
October 2015 9/42
June 2016 10/42
July 2017 11/42
Interesting list. I recommend Uglies and Code Name Verity. I see a number that I should have read by now and more than I expected that I haven't heard of.
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I wonder which books are on our 1001 Children's Books list.
ReplyDeleteOddly, today is the first time I've heard of Grasshopper Jungle and now I've seen mention of it twice.