A friend just asked my opinion on this list from mashable of "9 YA Books To Read if You Loved The Fault in our Stars." It's an okay list - Eleanor & Park; Winger; Wintergirls; The Spectacular Now; An Abundance of Katherines. I haven't read every title, but I've read a bunch, and read about a few others.
But because I'm me, I made my own list of 13 YA Books To Read if You Loved The Fault in Our Stars, and it is:
*Jellicoe Road,* by Melina Marchetta
*Going
Bovine* by Libba Bray
*Life As We Knew It* by Susan Beth Pfeffer (first in her Moon trilogy)
*Boy 21* and/or *Sorta Like a
Rock Star* by Matthew Quick *The Reluctant Journal of
Henry K Larsen* by Susin Nielsen.
*Where Things Come
Back* by John Corey Whalen
*Why We Broke Up* by Daniel Handler, with amazing illustrations by Maira Kalman. (Handler, of course, is
Lemony Snicket).
*This is not a
test* by Courtney Summers
*Last Night I Sang to the Monster* or *Sammy & Juliana in
Hollywood.* by Benjamin Alire
Saenz
*The Last Summer of the Death Warriors* by Francisco X. Stork
*The First Part Last* by Angela Johnson
And not technically YA, but about children and teenagers for much of the book - *Never Let Me Go* by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Thank you. My daughter loved that book and I have been trying to find other stuff for her.
(The Artist formerly known as Joe Chip.)
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