Books of 2011
1. Blue Moon (Midnighters #3) by Scott Westerfeld
2. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
3. Jane by April Linder
4. Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
5. Vixen by Jill Larkin
6. The Monk by Mathew Gregory Lewis
7. Heist Society by Ally Carter
8. Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childes
9. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
10. Matched by Ally Condie
11. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
12. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto edited by Alan Adelson
13. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan Tomasz Gross
14. Psycho by Robert Bloch
15. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter
16. Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
17. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
18. Vespers Rising (39 Clues #11) by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson
19. Navarro's Promise by Lora Leigh
20. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
21. Sweet Valley Confidential: 10 Years Later by Francine Pascal
22. Abandon by Meg Cabot
23. Tall, Dark and Filthy Rich by Jill Monroe
24. The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
25. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
26. You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girls #2) by Cecily von Ziegesar
27. All I Want is Everything (Gossip Girls #3) by Cecily von Ziegesar
28. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
29. Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
30. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarach MacLean
31. Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
32. Bite Club (Morganville Vampires #10) by Rachel Caine
33. Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
34. Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade
35. Sex With Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
36. The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch
37. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
38. Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society #2) by Ally Carter
39. Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse #5) by Charlaine Harris
40. Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #6) by Charlaine Harris
41. Entwined by Heather Dixon
42. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
43. Paranormalcy by Kierstan White
44. Supernaturally by Kierstan White
45. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls #2) by Ally Carter
46. Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover (Gallagher Girls #3) by Ally Carter
47. Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls #4) by Ally Carter
48. The Medusa Plot (Cahills vs. Vespers #1) by Gordon Korman
49. Three Nights With a Scoundrel by Tessa Dare
50. French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
51. The Scorch Trials by James Dasher
52. All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #7) by Charlaine Harris
54. From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse #8) by Charlaine Harris
55. Fateful by Claudia Gray
56. Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
57. Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse #9) by Charlaine Harris
- French Lessons was my, "Look ma, I can read something non-YA and non-paranormal related for once!" book selection of the month. Liked it and would recommend if you're not looking for a traditional romance novel.
- I wasn't all that impressed with The Scorch Trials? I really think my issue was that I just didn't care about the narrator after a certain point and it took forever for things to start happening. James Dashner's good with the nightmare fuel, I'll give him that, but I kind of don't care about his characters any more or to find out more about WICKED. I'll probably read the third book just to finish the series.
- As you can see, I'm on a Sookie Stackhouse reading spree. I might be done for now just because the other books aren't in the format I've been buying them in (I have priorities!) and because there's really only so much Sookie drama I can take after a while. The books are like crack after #4 and I really think I'm just reading for Eric and Pam shenanigans, but dammit, Charlaine, can you not kill off half your characters in every book? Seriously.
- If you're following me on Twitter, Fateful was pretty much all I talked about for a week. Not because it was good, but because it has the most cracky concept ever: werewolves on the Titanic. It was surprisingly engrossing for the first couple hundred pages, then it got eye roll inducing at the end. My review is here if you want to know more.
- And finally, Juliet Immortal. I might have to go back and re-read this at some point because I was sick as a dog when I was reading it last week and my judgement might have been impaired. I really liked the concept of Juliet Immortal (Romeo kills Juliet to become immortal and the two fight over soul mates for a couple centuries), even if some of the world building was pretty lazy and kind of WTF near the end. The writing was excellent and I loved Stacey Jay's characterization of Juliet and how she handled the theme of young love. Romeo was a creep, but sympathetic and never ever romanticized (thank god), and the main love interest, Ben, was a nice, sweet guy, so yes, they do exist in YA novels! I'm side-eyeing the hell out of the ending though, and I'm not sure if Jay intended it be that way or what.
Currently reading: I'll probably start White Cat by Holly Black today, and then move on to Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver.
Up next: THE SON OF NEPTUNE.
Books I need to acquire: I told myself I wouldn't buy any new books (aside from SoN) until I made a considerable dent in my to-read pile, and so now I have a giant list of recently released books I want. Goliath by Scott Westerfeld, Bright Days by Anna Godberson, The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson, Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Wildwood by Colin Meloy.
I'm trying to read 100 books this year, and I've got less than three months to go through 40! Wish me luck.
2. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
3. Jane by April Linder
4. Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
5. Vixen by Jill Larkin
6. The Monk by Mathew Gregory Lewis
7. Heist Society by Ally Carter
8. Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childes
9. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
10. Matched by Ally Condie
11. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
12. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto edited by Alan Adelson
13. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan Tomasz Gross
14. Psycho by Robert Bloch
15. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter
16. Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
17. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
18. Vespers Rising (39 Clues #11) by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson
19. Navarro's Promise by Lora Leigh
20. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
21. Sweet Valley Confidential: 10 Years Later by Francine Pascal
22. Abandon by Meg Cabot
23. Tall, Dark and Filthy Rich by Jill Monroe
24. The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
25. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
26. You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girls #2) by Cecily von Ziegesar
27. All I Want is Everything (Gossip Girls #3) by Cecily von Ziegesar
28. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
29. Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
30. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarach MacLean
31. Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
32. Bite Club (Morganville Vampires #10) by Rachel Caine
33. Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
34. Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade
35. Sex With Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
36. The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch
37. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
38. Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society #2) by Ally Carter
39. Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse #5) by Charlaine Harris
40. Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #6) by Charlaine Harris
41. Entwined by Heather Dixon
42. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
43. Paranormalcy by Kierstan White
44. Supernaturally by Kierstan White
45. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls #2) by Ally Carter
46. Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover (Gallagher Girls #3) by Ally Carter
47. Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls #4) by Ally Carter
48. The Medusa Plot (Cahills vs. Vespers #1) by Gordon Korman
49. Three Nights With a Scoundrel by Tessa Dare
50. French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
51. The Scorch Trials by James Dasher
52. All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #7) by Charlaine Harris
54. From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse #8) by Charlaine Harris
55. Fateful by Claudia Gray
56. Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
57. Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse #9) by Charlaine Harris
- French Lessons was my, "Look ma, I can read something non-YA and non-paranormal related for once!" book selection of the month. Liked it and would recommend if you're not looking for a traditional romance novel.
- I wasn't all that impressed with The Scorch Trials? I really think my issue was that I just didn't care about the narrator after a certain point and it took forever for things to start happening. James Dashner's good with the nightmare fuel, I'll give him that, but I kind of don't care about his characters any more or to find out more about WICKED. I'll probably read the third book just to finish the series.
- As you can see, I'm on a Sookie Stackhouse reading spree. I might be done for now just because the other books aren't in the format I've been buying them in (I have priorities!) and because there's really only so much Sookie drama I can take after a while. The books are like crack after #4 and I really think I'm just reading for Eric and Pam shenanigans, but dammit, Charlaine, can you not kill off half your characters in every book? Seriously.
- If you're following me on Twitter, Fateful was pretty much all I talked about for a week. Not because it was good, but because it has the most cracky concept ever: werewolves on the Titanic. It was surprisingly engrossing for the first couple hundred pages, then it got eye roll inducing at the end. My review is here if you want to know more.
- And finally, Juliet Immortal. I might have to go back and re-read this at some point because I was sick as a dog when I was reading it last week and my judgement might have been impaired. I really liked the concept of Juliet Immortal (Romeo kills Juliet to become immortal and the two fight over soul mates for a couple centuries), even if some of the world building was pretty lazy and kind of WTF near the end. The writing was excellent and I loved Stacey Jay's characterization of Juliet and how she handled the theme of young love. Romeo was a creep, but sympathetic and never ever romanticized (thank god), and the main love interest, Ben, was a nice, sweet guy, so yes, they do exist in YA novels! I'm side-eyeing the hell out of the ending though, and I'm not sure if Jay intended it be that way or what.
Currently reading: I'll probably start White Cat by Holly Black today, and then move on to Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver.
Up next: THE SON OF NEPTUNE.
Books I need to acquire: I told myself I wouldn't buy any new books (aside from SoN) until I made a considerable dent in my to-read pile, and so now I have a giant list of recently released books I want. Goliath by Scott Westerfeld, Bright Days by Anna Godberson, The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson, Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Wildwood by Colin Meloy.
I'm trying to read 100 books this year, and I've got less than three months to go through 40! Wish me luck.