E. Lockhart
asked
Gayle Forman:
You are going to have a legion of new readers when the If I Stay movie launches in August. After they have read all your books, what should they read next? Meaning -- recommend some read-alikes, or favorite titles.
Gayle Forman
Why, Emily, I'm so glad you asked me this.
Readers kept calling my books, All.The.Feels books, so I stole that handy description. So I'm going to recommend some books that gave me massive feels. Starting with your latest book We Were Liars, which I adored, and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, which remains one of my favorite YA books of all times.
Other books full of the feels!
Melina Marchetta: Jellicoe Road. Saving Francesca. The Piper's Son. Three of my all-time favorites.
Stephanie Perkins: The Anna/Lola/Isla tryptic. Isla comes out in August, and you'll want to have read them all by then. Sawwooon.
Jandy Nelson: The Sky Is Everywhere. Her new book, I'll Give You The Sun, out in the fall, marvelous.
David Levithan: I love everything he does but Two Boys Kissing really stole my heart.
Andrew Smith: Winger.
Jackie Woodson: If You Come Softly. Beneath A Meth Moon.
Libba Bray: Beauty Queens (if you want to cry from laughing) or Going Bovine (if you want to cry from crying).
Maggie Stiefvater: The Scorpio Races.
Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.
Also anything by Rainbow Rowell, Sara Zarr, John Green, Sarah Dessen.
Not YA, but Cheryl Strayed's Wild was one of the most emotionally powerful books I've read in ages.
Also not YA but Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried gutted me like no other book. I bawled.
And a final shoutout to A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith, which I only just read. It is YA before there was YA and is heartbreakingly wonderful.
Readers kept calling my books, All.The.Feels books, so I stole that handy description. So I'm going to recommend some books that gave me massive feels. Starting with your latest book We Were Liars, which I adored, and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, which remains one of my favorite YA books of all times.
Other books full of the feels!
Melina Marchetta: Jellicoe Road. Saving Francesca. The Piper's Son. Three of my all-time favorites.
Stephanie Perkins: The Anna/Lola/Isla tryptic. Isla comes out in August, and you'll want to have read them all by then. Sawwooon.
Jandy Nelson: The Sky Is Everywhere. Her new book, I'll Give You The Sun, out in the fall, marvelous.
David Levithan: I love everything he does but Two Boys Kissing really stole my heart.
Andrew Smith: Winger.
Jackie Woodson: If You Come Softly. Beneath A Meth Moon.
Libba Bray: Beauty Queens (if you want to cry from laughing) or Going Bovine (if you want to cry from crying).
Maggie Stiefvater: The Scorpio Races.
Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.
Also anything by Rainbow Rowell, Sara Zarr, John Green, Sarah Dessen.
Not YA, but Cheryl Strayed's Wild was one of the most emotionally powerful books I've read in ages.
Also not YA but Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried gutted me like no other book. I bawled.
And a final shoutout to A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith, which I only just read. It is YA before there was YA and is heartbreakingly wonderful.
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