Books 2011

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I find Goodreads to be very user-unfriendly. I don't want to rate the books I've read, don't want to post a review. I just want to add them to my "Read" list. So I'm making my own list here, just like I did for 2010. I'll update this post as I add books.

David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy
Are We There Yet?
John Green and David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green
Paper Towns
Looking For Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
Jennifer Echols
Forget You
Ally Condie
Matched
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Susan Colasanti
Something Like Fate
Jennifer Crusie
Getting Rid of Bradley
Strange Bedpersons
Maybe This Time
Crazy For You
Tell Me Lies
Fast Women
Faking It
Bet Me
The Cinderella Deal
Manhunting
Charlie All Night
Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
Wild Ride
Don't Look Down
Agnes and the Hitman
Daisy Whitney
Mockingbirds
Katie Crouch
Girls In Trucks
Men And Dogs
Blake Nelson
Dream School
Lauren Oliver
Delirium
Melissa Marr
Fragile Eternity
Darkest Mercy
Tabitha Suzuma
Forbidden
Victoria Dahl
Lead Me On
Crazy For Love
One Week As Lovers
A Little Bit Wild
Start Me Up
Talk Me Down
Barry Lyga
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Goth Girl Rising
Hero-Type
Boy Toy
Nancy Werlin
Impossible
Extraordinary
April Lindner
Jane
Carrie Ryan
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
The Dead-Tossed Waves
The Dark and Hollow Places
Jay Asher
Thirteen Reasons Why
Julie Kagawa
The Iron King
The Iron Daughter
The Iron Queen
Lauren DeStefano
Wither (ARC)
Bill Cameron
Day One
County Line
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Emma Donoghue
Room
Christine Johnson
Clair de Lune
Stephanie Perkins
Anna and the French Kiss
Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Lisa & Laura Roecker
The Liar Society
Sara Zarr
Sweethearts
Sarah Ockler
Fixing Delilah
Holly Black
Valiant
Ironside
Tithe
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
Clockwork Angel
Jennifer Egan
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Hannah Moskowitz
Invincible Summer
Maureen Johnson
13 Little Blue Envelopes
Devilish
The Bermudez Triangle
Veronica Roth
Divergent
Jonathan Tropper
This Is Where I Leave You
Rob Bell
Love Wins
Lauren Kate
Fallen
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
Tawna Fenske
Making Waves
Ilsa J. Bick
Ashes
Joe Schreiber
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick
Elana Johnson
Possession
Sophie Littlefield
Banished
Myra McEntire
Hourglass

Books 2010

My fellow Virgo Patrick Alan had a blog post today that spoke to reading, of getting sucked up into a story and devouring it,and it got me thinking. You all know I write. Mostly because it's all I seem to talk about. And maybe that's why no one calls anymore. But anyway. I think more than I am a writer, I am a reader. Hard core. Ask my family. Give me a book and forget about talking to me until it's finished. Lucky for my kids, I can read a book in a couple hours so dinner may be slightly late, but it isn't take-out. I love stories so much, love the transport I feel when I forget there's a "me" and my perspective becomes the main character's, love the emotional roller coaster I ride when I live their adventure.

I thought I'd make a list of the books I've read this year. Because I love making lists. And because I'd like to see how many there are. Here goes:

Blake Nelson:
Girl*
The New Rules Of High School
Rock Star Superstar
Prom Anonymous
Destroy All Cars
Paranoid Park
Laurie Halse Anderson:
Speak
Catalyst
Twisted
Wintergirls
Chains
Prom
Sarah Dessen:
Someone Like You
Keeping The Moon
Dreamland
This Lullaby
The Truth About Forever
Lock and Key
Just Listen
Along For The Ride
Suzanne Collins:
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Libba Bray:
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Rebel Angels
The Sweet Far Thing
Going Bovine
Melissa Marr:
Wicked Lovely
Ink Exchange
Radiant Shadows
Lauren Oliver:
Before I Fall
Gayle Forman:
If I Stay
Hannah Moskowitz:
Break
Shaun David Hutchinson:
The Deathday Letter
Sean Ferrell:
Numb
Ann Brashares:
My Name Is Memory
Jonathan Franzen:
Freedom
Kiersten White:
Paranormalcy
Charlotte Bronte:
Jane Eyre*
Frank Portman:
King Dork
Andromeda Klein
Nick Hornby:
About A Boy
Slam
How To Be Good
A Long Way Down
Juliet, Naked
Nicholas Sparks
The Last Song
The Choice
At First Sight
Kody Keplinger:
The Duff
Siobhan Vivian:
A Little Friendly Advice
Same Difference
Audry Niffenegger:
Her Fearful Symmetry
Terra Elan McAvoy:
Pure
Jennifer Weiner:
Good In Bed
Alice Sebold:
The Lovely Bones
Sarah Ockler:
Twenty Boy Summer
Stephanie Kuehnert:
Ballads Of Suburbia
Andy Greenwald:
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo
Haven Kimmel:
The Solace of Leaving Early
Iodine
The Used World
Jane Green:
Dune Road
Straight Talk
Second Chance
Mr. Maybe
Jemima J
The Other Woman
Babyville
Helen Fielding:
Cause Celeb
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Bill Cameron
Chasing Smoke
Jennifer Crusie
Welcome To Temptation
David Levithan
The Realm of Possibility
Jandy Nelson
The Sky Is Everywhere
Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood
Oryx and Crake




This is preliminary. I'm adding books as I remember them.