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My Favorite Reads
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items These are just books that I have read and would recommend to anyone to read.
Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance
A young woman bargains to live forever, but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
When a book traps your soul from beginning to end and beyond, keeping hold of a string to your heart even as you leave it ...
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopian, Romance, Fiction
This is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.
Red Queen
Genres: Romance, Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy
America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.
The Selection
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Young Adult
One day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even he...
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augu...
The Fault in Our Stars
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Fiction
Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
Eleanor & Park
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him f...
Paper Towns
Genres: Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary
This is a book about how the smallest gestures can form the biggest pictures, how the smallest actions can change the course of a life. How seeing a girl can change your life. How falling in love with your ...
The Sun Is Also a Star
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
Everything, Everything
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet m...
All The Bright Places
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Coming of Age
This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not k...
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Genres: Young Adult, LGBT, Contemporary
Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother wh...
Aristotle and Dante Discover Secrets
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, LGBT
On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today.
They Both Die at the End
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr ...
The Hate U Give
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an o...
Wonder
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Classics
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
The Giver
Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia
Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grow...
Fahrenheit 451