Young Adult Book Reading Challenges discussion

If you could only recommend one book in 2009, what book would it be?

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (:

One out of ~250 books? I don't think so. How about my five favorite YA novels in reverse chronological order.

1. The Hunger Games The Hunger Games
2. GracelingGraceling
3. Crank Crank
4. After After
5. ImpossibleImpossible

Julia wrote: "One out of ~250 books? I don't think so. How about my five favorite YA novels in reverse chronological order.

1. The Hunger Games The Hunger Games
2. Graceling[book:Graceling|323..."

I'd definitely agree with The Hunger Games. It was impossible to put down!

I read many good books this year that it's too hard to pick just one! :)

In no particular order: The Hunger Games, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Last Olympian, Fire, City of Glass, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Road

Graceling
Redeeming Love
Mortal Instruments by Casandra Clare
Enna Burning

I've just read Fire and it has jumped to the top of my list.

I just started reading again this year after many years of not picking up a single book... so I have to go with the book that got me back into reading... Twilight! I read it in July & haven't been able to stop reading since ;)

City of Glass, The Last Olympian, Shiver, Lament, Ballad, The Ask and the Answer, Graceling, Fire, Leviathan, Going Bovine, Wintergirls, Wings, North of Beautiful, Fragile Eternity, the Darkest Powers books, The Forest of Hands and Teeth … :]

City of Glass
Catching Fire
Going Bovine
... SOO MANY MORE

woot woot! another person who liked Going Bovine. heh heh :D When I tell people about that book they think I'm, like, making it up … lol XD

Good one... is this a book that was published in 2009?

I was actually just going to ask that becuase there were some great books that I read in 2009 but weren't published then.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, and Fire by Kristen Cashore

♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "City of Glass, The Last Olympian, Shiver, Lament, Ballad, The Ask and the Answer, Graceling, Fire, Leviathan, Going Bovine, Wintergirls, Wings, North of Beautiful, Fragile Eternity, the Darkest Pow..."

Great picks. I loved North of Beautiful especially. I am thinking of reading The Ask and the Answer. What is it about?

Favorite Reads of 2009:
Catching Fire (and the Hunger Games since I read it this year)
Beautiful Creatures
Some Girls Are (out next week, read it in Sept., so good)
If I Stay
Twenty-Boy Summer

I'm with Rose, the question doesn't ask published in 2009 but

If you could only recommend one book in 2009, what book would it be?

And, I'd add Shiver and Wintergirls to my list...

Daisy wrote: "♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "City of Glass, The Last Olympian, Shiver, Lament, Ballad, The Ask and the Answer, Graceling, Fire, Leviathan, Going Bovine, Wintergirls, Wings, North of Beautiful, Fragile Eterni..."

Thanks! I loved North of Beautiful, it was a cute story with a great narrator. :)

The Ask and the Answer is the second book in the Chaos Walking series (the first one is The Knife of Never Letting Go). It's basically about this space colony … I don't really know how to explain it without making it sound like a cliché; the plot is kind of complicated. But really, they're great books – very creepy, very original, very thought-provoking. They're really good and I wish more people read them … :D

The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore.
I REALLY want to read Fire. I got the book and everything, and was about to start reading it, when the movers came and now it's lost in on of the dozen unopened boxes dumped in my new house. :'(

I put off Fire, until after Christmas when my boys would have new toys so I would be able to read undisturbed. I think I like it better than Graceling but I might have to go back and read Graceling again to be sure. You really have something to look forward to and to help you speed up your unpacking.

That is what I am doing. I do not want to be interupted. However I am reading Game of Thornes right now and it is really good. Kinda like the Lord of the Rings.

Has anyone read Beautiful Creatures? I'm halfway through it, and I'd love some opinions.

Mimi wrote: "Has anyone read Beautiful Creatures? I'm halfway through it, and I'd love some opinions."

I've heard of it … It sounds interesting. I haven't read it though, sorry. :(

Mimi wrote: "Has anyone read Beautiful Creatures? I'm halfway through it, and I'd love some opinions."

I loved it. I thought it was smart, inventive and romantic. What are you thinking so far?

I've just requested Beautiful Creatures from the library. A local bookseller suggested it along with Hush Hush, Need, Fallen and Bent Objects as very special under marketed and/ or new YA books. I didn't write down the authors, anyone know who wrote Need or Fallen? [image error] Are these the right ones? [image error]

Julia wrote: "I've just requested Beautiful Creatures from the library. A local bookseller suggested it along with Hush Hush, Need, Fallen and Bent Objects as very special under marketed and/ or new YA books. I ..."

Yes, those are the ones (though not sure about Bent Objects)

♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "Daisy wrote: "♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "City of Glass, The Last Olympian, Shiver, Lament, Ballad, The Ask and the Answer, Graceling, Fire, Leviathan, Going Bovine, Wintergirls, Wings, North of Beautiful, ..."

I definitely want to check out The Ask and the Answer now. Sounds intriguing and it has a great title!

It's really great! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :) It has a cliffhanger ending though … be warned. XD

Recommend only one book? That would be difficult...how about a series? That would make it easier, lol. I would recommend the entire series of Percy Jackson and the Olympions. Loved every last one of the books!

Number one: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins
Rampant by Diana Peterfreund
Eyes Like Stars: Theatre Illuminata, Part I by Lisa Mantchev
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia by Cindy Pon
The Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
Daughter of the Flames by Zoë Marriott
Lips Touch by Laini Taylor
The Miles Between by Mary E. Pearson
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd by Holly Black
The Just One Wish by Janette Rallison
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
ABC's of Kissing Boys by Tina Ferraro
A Map Of The Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
Marcelo In The Real World by Francisco Stork
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff
Pop by Gordon Korman

Robyn wrote: "Recommend only one book? That would be difficult...how about a series? That would make it easier, lol. I would recommend the entire series of Percy Jackson and the Olympions. Loved every last o..."
I'm reading Percy Jackson now to my son and we love it so far!

My favorites were:

The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
The Book of Lost Things

City of Glass
Fragile Eternity
If I Stay
Posion Study
Fire
Bitten

Mortal Instruments
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Graceling & Fire
Sea Glass I & II
The Thirteenth Child
Hush Hush
Fallen
Peter & Max
The Graveyard Book
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

My favorite (updated) YA list:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Graceling and Fire by Kristin Cashore
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Shiver by Maggie Stievfater
After by Amy Efaw
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Daisy wrote: "Robyn wrote: "Recommend only one book? That would be difficult...how about a series? That would make it easier, lol. I would recommend the entire series of Percy Jackson and the Olympions. Love..."

I agree with you both! I love that series so much. :)

I read so many books last year.. but my favorites were,
The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by suzanne collins
Impossible by nancy werlin
wake by lisa mcmann
the harry potter series
A great and terrible beauty by libba bray
The forest of hands and teeth by carrie ryan
and.. the Pretty little liars series

Courtney wrote: "City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (:"

I love that book didnt read it until this month tho lol but still love it :).

I have to agree...the "A Great and Terrible Beauty" trilogy is absolutely outstanding, and it's one that I highly recommend!

Chakara wrote: "Courtney wrote: "City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (:"

I love that book didnt read it until this month tho lol but still love it :)."

Ahh those books rock my socks :D

Robyn wrote: "I have to agree...the "A Great and Terrible Beauty" trilogy is absolutely outstanding, and it's one that I highly recommend!"

I love those! Also Libba Bray's other book, Going Bovine – so good. XD

Robyn wrote: "I have to agree...the "A Great and Terrible Beauty" trilogy is absolutely outstanding, and it's one that I highly recommend!"

Can anyone tell me what that's about? It sounds... I don't know. I never really understood what it was about. Then again, I never really tried...

Mimi wrote: "Robyn wrote: "I have to agree...the "A Great and Terrible Beauty" trilogy is absolutely outstanding, and it's one that I highly recommend!"

Can anyone tell me what that's about? It sounds... I d..."


Its about a girl named Gemma Doyle in the 1800's i think. She lives in India with her mother and she has just turned 16 Then something happens to her mother and she has to go to england where her father and brother are located. They send her to one of those preppy 'become a lady' schools and there she discovers that she can see visions. Its really good actually and very suprising. I would list it as a mixture between fantasy and Historical fiction.

i loved hush hush.and the twilight series

That I read in 2009 - Airborn by Kenneth Oppel!!! (okay, technically I *listened* to this one, but still)

Second (and that was actually published in 2009) Twenties Girl: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella. Not YA, but a joy all the same!

Shiver,Catching fire, Graceling,

I am reading Twenties Girl right now and am enjoying it too. I also just finished Alex and the Ironic Gentleman which was pretty well done too. I liked the Lemoney Snicketesque style of storytelling. It would make a good read-aloud. I also just finished His Majesty's Dragon which follows a new dragon and his handler set in Napoleonic era England. It would be a good one for boys interested in naval tactics. .

Kelly,

I too like the Temeraire books (that's the name of the protagonist dragon). I think they are similar to the Horatio Hornblower/ Star Trek/ Sharpe series/ Pern series -- if you know and enjoy any of these disparate series you may like the books that begin with His Majesty's Dragon.

I STILL haven't found Fire!:'(

I thought about Master and Commander meets dragonruders of Pern myself. I will look for book 2 at our library. I listened to the first one and enjoyed the reader's voice. (I am also reading Sink Reflections) See flylady.com. It is a great way to declutter and have my house clean enough for people to visit without using up all of my precious reading time! Audiobooks on my iPhone are great to listen to while I clean too. No guilt either!