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Sirens 2012 Reading List
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**Please select books that are retellings of different tales.
YA Conference Needs a Name 2012 Reading List
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Sirens 2012 Reading List
Required:
- Bernheimer, Kate: The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold AND My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
- Block, Francesca Lia: Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales and Secrets OR The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
- Lo, Malinda: Ash AND Huntress
- McKinley, Robin: Deerskin OR Beauty OR Spindle’s End OR Rose Daughter
- Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
- Ragan, Kathleen: Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
- Sur La Lune: Spend an hour on www.surlalunefairytales.com (I have spent way too many hours on this site)
- [Be prepared for two books by an additional guest.]
- Carter, Angela: Anything
- Datlow, Ellen and Windling, Terri: Any fairy tale collection (The Faery Reel)
- Tatar, Maria: Anything
- Warner, Marina: Anything
- Zipes, Jack: Any academic book on tales retold (leaning towards Don't Bet on the Prince)
- Andersen, Hans Christian: Collected tales (any version)
- Anonymous: Arabian Nights (ask for version)
- Brothers Grimm: Collected tales (any version)
- Hamilton, Edith: Mythology
- Perrault, Charles: Collected tales (any version)
- Chadda, Sarwat: Dark Goddess
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: Palace of Illusions (already read The Conch Bearer)
- Fletcher, Susan: Shadow Spinner
- Johnson, Kij: The Fox Woman
- Hopkinson, Nalo: Midnight Robber OR Brown Girl in the Ring
- Lin, Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Mah, Adeline Yen: Along the River: A Chinese Cinderella Novel
- Tomlinson, Heather: Toads and Diamonds
- Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride (read The Handmaid's Tale)
- Black, Holly: White Cat
- Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Mists of Avalon
- Bunce, Elizabeth C.: A Curse Dark as Gold
- Cabot, Meg: Avalon High
- Childs, Tera Lynn: Sweet Venom OR Oh. My. Gods.
- Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
- Dean, Pamela: Tam Lin
- Diemer, Sarah: The Dark Wife
- Dixon, Heather: Entwined
- Doman, Regina: Any fairy tale retelling
- Donoghue, Emma: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
- Durst, Sarah Beth: Ice OR Into the Wild
- Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
- Flinn, Alex: Beastly OR A Kiss in Time OR Cloaked
- Funke, Cornelia: Reckless
- George, Jessica Day: Princess of the Midnight Ball OR Princess of Glass OR Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
- Geras, Adele: Any tale retelling
- Hale, Shannon: The Goose Girl OR Book of a Thousand Days or Rapunzel’s Revenge
- Harrison, Mette Ivie: Mira, Mirror OR Tris and Izzie
- Hines, Jim: The Stepsister Scheme
- Kerr, Peg: The Wild Swans
- Kushner, Ellen: Thomas the Rhymer
- Lackey, Mercedes: Any tale retelling
- Lanagan, Margo: Tender Morsels
- Lee, Tanith: Any fairy tale collection
- Levine, Gail Carson: Ella Enchanted OR Fairest
- Mantchev, Lisa: Eyes Like Stars
- Marillier, Juliet: Heart’s Blood OR Wildwood Dancing
- McKillip, Patricia: In the Forests of Serre OR The Cygnet and the Firebird
- Meyer, Marissa: Cinder
- Murphy, Louise: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival
- Napoli, Donna Jo: Any tale retelling (Zel, Crazy Jack, more than I can count)
- Patou, Edith: East
- Pearce, Jackson: Sisters Red OR Sweetly
- Phillips, Marie: Gods Behaving Badly
- Rayburn, Tricia: Siren
- Reilly, LeAnn Neal: The Mermaid’s Pendant
- Sheehan, Anna: A Long, Long Sleep
- Sherman, Delia: Changeling
- Shulman, Polly: The Grimm Legacy
- Tomlinson, Heather: The Swan Maiden
- Turgeon, Carolyn: Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale
- Valente, Catherynne: Orphan’s Tale: In the Night Garden OR Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (read Palimpsest)
- Vande Velde, Vivian: Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
- Wrede, Patricia C.: Snow White and Rose Red (read Dealing with Dragons)
- Yolen, Jane: Boots and the Seven Leaguers OR Briar Rose OR Snow in Summer
- Beukes, Lauren: Zoo City
- Blackman, Malorie: Noughts and Crosses (Black and White in the US)
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: The Conch Bearer
- Enchi, Fumiko: Masks
- Fagan, Deva: The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle
- Hopkinson, Nalo: Brown Girl in the Ring
- Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
- Goto, Hiromi: Half World
- Jemisin, N. K.: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
- Johnson, Alaya Dawn: Racing the Dark (read Moonshine)
- Lowachee, Karin: The Gaslight Dogs
- Okorafor, Nnedi: Who Fears Death (read Zahrah the Windseeker)
- Pon, Cindy: The Silver Phoenix
- Reeves, Dia: Bleeding Violet OR Slice of Cherry
- Sagara, Michelle: Cast in Shadow (Chronicles of Elantra Book #1)
- Uehashi, Nahoko: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
- Armstrong, Kelly: The Summoning
- Bell, Hilari: Fall of a Kingdom
- Billingsley, Franny: Chime
- Black, Holly: Tithe
- Bow, Erin: Plain Kate
- Bracken, Alexandra: Brightly Woven
- Bray, Libba: A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Bunce, Elizabeth: Star Crossed
- Carson, Rae: Girl of Fire and Thorns
- Cashore, Kristin: Graceling OR Fire
- Chima, Cinda Williams: Warrior Heir OR The Demon King
- Clare, Cassandra: City of Bones
- Clement-Moore, Rosemary: Prom Dates from Hell OR Texas Gothic
- Cremer, Andrea: Nightshade
- Cypess, Leah: Mistwood
- de la Cruz, Melissa: Blue Bloods
- Dolamore, Jacklyn: Magic Under Glass
- Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron
- Fitzpatrick, Becca: Hush, Hush
- Flewelling, Lynn: Anything
- Funke, Cornelia: Inkheart (read Reckless)
- Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Creatures
- Goodman, Alison: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
- Hale, Ginn: Wicked Gentlemen
- Healey, Karen: Guardian of the Dead
- Hodkin, Michelle: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (this one is more, "I have it and should read it, so I may as well count it")
- Hoffman, Alice: Green Witch
- Jones, Carrie: Need
- Jones, Diana Wynne: Anything (more than I can count)
- Jones, Jaida and Bennett, Elizabeth: Havemercy
- Jordan, Sophie: Firelight
- Knox, Elizabeth: Dream Hunter
- Kushner, Ellen: The Privilege of the Sword
- Larbalestier, Justine: Liar
- Marchetta, Melina: Finnikin of the Rock
- McEntire, Myra: Hourglass
- McKillip, Patricia: Ombia in Shadow OR The Alphabet of Thorn
- McNeil, Gretchen: Possess
- Meyer, Stephenie: Twilight
- Peterfruend, Diana: Rampant
- Pierce, Tamora: Any Tortall book OR The Will of the Empress
- Rees Brennan, Sarah: The Demon’s Lexicon
- Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Smith, Sherwood: Anything (I think I have read nearly everything)
- Simner, Janni Lee: Bones of Faerie OR Thief Eyes
- Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Eternal
- Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver OR The Scorpio Races (read Lament)
- Stevermer, Caroline: A College of Magics
- Taylor, Laini: Lips Touch: Three Times OR Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Thompson, Kate: The New Policeman
- Vande Velde, Vivian: Heir Apparent
- Vaughn, Carrie: Voices of Dragons
- Whalen Turner, Megan: The Thief
- White, Kiersten: Paranormalcy
- Wilce, Ysabeau: Flora Segunda
- Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
- Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Any Darkover book
- Brennan, Marie: Midnight Never Come
- Britain, Kristen: Anything (Green Rider)
- Bull, Emma: War for the Oaks
- Carriger, Gail: Soulless
- Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- Dart-Thornton, Cecilia: The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde Book #1)
- de la Cruz, Melissa: Witches of East End
- Friedman, C. S.: Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Book #1)
- Gilman, Greer: Anything
- Grant, Mira: Feed
- Hamilton, Laurell: Anything
- Hand, Elizabeth: Anything
- Harris, Charlaine: Dead Until Dark
- Hobb, Robin: Anything
- Kiernan, Caitlin R.: The Red Tree
- Lackey, Mercedes: Anything
- Lee, Tanith: Any adult book
- Kerr, Katharine: Daggerspell (Deverry Book #1) OR Darkspell (Deverry Book #2)
- Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian
- McCaffrey, Anne: Any Dragonriders of Pern book (recommended: Dragonflight or Dragonsong)
- Moon, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
- Moore, C. L.: Jirel of Joiry
- Morgenstern, Erin: The Night Circus
- Novik, Naomi: His Majesty’s Dragon
- Priest, Cherie: Boneshaker
- Rice, Anne: Interview with a Vampire
- Sedia, Ekatarina: Alchemy of Stone
- Snyder, Midori: Soulstring OR New Moon
- Whitfield, Kit: In Great Waters
- Elgin, Suzette Haden: Native Tongue
- Kagan, Janet: Hellspark
- Bujold, Lois McMaster: Curse of Chalion
- Butler, Octavia: Anything
- Delany, Samuel R. The Einstein Intersection
- Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
- May, Julian: Anything
- Norton, Andre: Anything
- Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: Anything
- Russ, Joanna: The Female Man
- Tiptree, Jr., James: Anything
- Willis, Connie: Doomsday Book
**Please select books that are retellings of different tales.
YA Conference Needs a Name 2012 Reading List
Required:
- Bacigalupi, Paolo: Ship Breaker
- Billingsley, Franny: Chime
- Erskine, Kathryn: Mockingbird
- Forman, Gayle: If I Stay
- Garcia-Williams, Rita: Jumped OR One Crazy Summer
- Gonzalez, Christina: The Red Umbrella
- King, A. S.: Please Ignore Vera Dietz OR Everybody Sees the Ants
- Lai, Thanhha: Inside Out and Back Again
- Maberry, Jonathan: Rot & Ruin
- Mafi, Tahereh: Shatter Me
- Perkins, Stephanie: Anna and the French Kiss
- Quick, Matthew: Sorta Like a Rockstar
- Schmidt, Gary D.: Okay for Now OR Trouble
- Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
- Sonnenblick, Jordan: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie OR After Ever After
- Summers, Courtney: Some Girls Are
- Vanderpool, Clare: Moon over Manifest
- Woolston, Blythe: The Freak Observer
- Whitney, Daisy: The Mockingbirds
- Anderson, Laurie Halse: Chains OR Forge (read Fever)
- Anderson, M. T.: Octavian Nothing, Volume 1
- Barnes, John: Tales of the Madman Underground
- Compestine, Ying Chang: Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
- Curtis, Christopher Paul: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
- Donnelly, Jennifer: A Northern Light OR Revolution
- Flood, Nancy Bo: Warriors in the Crossfire
- Hemphill, Stephanie: Wicked Girls
- Holt, Kimberly Willis: The Water Seeker
- Kelly, Jacqueline: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
- Park, Linda Sue: When My Name Was Keoko
- Paulsen, Gary: Woods Runner (read Hatchet)
- Richards, Jame: Three Rivers Rising
- Schmidt, Gary D.: Wednesday Wars
- Sedgwick, Marcus: Revolver
- Sheth, Kashmira: Keeping Corner
- Shimko, Bonnie: The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye
- Smith, Sherri L.: Flygirl
- Stuber, Barbara: Crossing the Tracks
- Wiles, Deborah: Countdown
- Wilkinson, Lili: Scatterheart
- Zusak: Marcus: The Book Thief
- Aronson, Marc and Budhos, Marina: Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
- Atkins, Jeanine: Borrowed Names
- Bartoletti, Susan Campbell: They Called Themselves the KKK
- Chayil, Eishes: Hush
- Fleischman, Sid: Sir Charlie
- Freedman, Russell: Lafayette and the American Revolution
- Freedman, Russell: The War to End All Wars
- Hemphill, Stephanie: Your Own, Sylvia
- Hoose, Phillip: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
- Marrin, Albert: Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
- Montgomery, Sy: Kakapo Rescue
- Stone, Tanya Lee: Almost Astronauts
- Bantle, Lee: David Inside Out
- Block, Francesca Lia: Baby Be-Bop (read Violet & Claire)
- Boock, Paula: Dare Truth or Promise
- Burd, Nick: The Vast Fields of Ordinary
- Cameron, Peter: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
- Dole, Mayra Lazara: Down to the Bone
- Garden, Nancy: Annie on My Mind
- Horner, Emily: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
- Johnson, Maureen: The Bermudez Triangle
- Levithan, David: Boy Meets Boy (read Are We There Yet? and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)
- Kerr, M. E.: Deliver Us from Evie
- Moore, Perry: Hero
- Peters, Julie Ann: Luna
- Revovr, Nina: Necessary Hunger
- Sanchez, Alex: Rainbow Boys
- St. James, James: Freak Show
- Woodson, Jacqueline: The House You Pass on the Way
- Abdel-Fattah, Randel: Does My Head Look Big in This?
- Alexie, Sherman: Flight OR The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Blackman, Malorie: Noughts and Crosses
- Dembicki, Matthew: Trickster
- de la Pena, Matt: Mexican WhiteBoy (read I Will Save You)
- Edwardson, Debby Dahl: Blessing’s Bead OR My Name Is Not Easy
- Felin, M. Sindy: Touching Snow
- Gill, David Macinnis: Soul Enchilada
- Hijeulos, Oscar: Dark Dude
- Levine, Anna: Freefall
- Meminger, Neesha: Shine, Coconut Moon
- Perkins, Mitali: Anything
- Quintero, Sofia: Efrain’s Secret
- Stratton, Allan: Borderline
- Tan, Shaun: The Arrival
- Woodson, Jacqueline: After Tupac and D. Foster
- Yang, Gene Luen: American Born Chinese
- Alonzo, Sandra: Riding Invisible
- Anderson, Laurie Halse: Speak OR Wintergirls
- Asher, Jay: Thirteen Reasons Why
- Avasthi, Swati: Split
- Balzer, Patricia McCormick: Purple Heart
- Brande, Robin: Fat Cat
- Christopher, Lucy: Stolen
- Connelly, Neil: The Miracle Stealer
- Cummings, Patricia: Blindsided
- de Vigan, Delphine: No and Me
- Dowd, Siobhan: The London Eye Mystery
- Draper, Sharon: Out of My Mind
- Franklin, Emily: The Half-Life of Planets
- Giles, Gail: Right Behind You
- Hernandez, David: Suckerpunch
- Hopkins, Ellen: Anything
- John, Antony: Five Flavors of Dumb
- Kelly, Tara: Harmonic Feedback
- Matson, Morgan: Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour
- McCormick, Patricia: Sold
- Murray, Yzta Maya: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped
- Myers, Walter Dean: Monster OR Sunrise over Fallujah
- Peters, Julie Anne: By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead (read Luna, It's Our Prom)
- Reinhardt, Dana: The Things a Brother Knows
- Roy, Jennifer: Mindblind
- Shusterman, Neal: Unwind
- Stork, Francisco X.: Marcelo in the Real World
- Teller, Janne: Nothing
- Vaught, Susan: My Big Fat Manifesto
- Wiess, Laura: Such a Pretty Girl OR Leftovers
- Zarr, Sara: Story of a Girl OR Once Was Lost OR How to Save a Life
- Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens (already read some of her other work)
- Bowers, Laura: Beauty Shop for Rent
- Castelucci, Cecil: Boy Proof
- Carter, Ally: Any Gallagher Girls book
- Dessen, Sarah: Anything
- Ferrar, Caridad: When the Stars Go Blue
- Halpern, Julie: Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
- Keplinger, Kody: The D.U.F.F.
- Lockhart, E.: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
- Murdock, Catherine Gilbert: Dairy Queen
- Myracle, Lauren: Shine
- Nelson, Jandy: The Sky Is Everywhere
- Ryan, Amy Kathleen: Zen and Xander Undone
- Rennison, Louis: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
- Tubb, Kristin O’Donnell: Selling Hope
- Vivian, Siobhan: Not That Kind of Girl
- Calame, Don: Swim the Fly
- Cusick, John M.: Girl Parts
- Green, John: Anything (An Abundance of Katherines)
- Harmon, Michael: The Last Exit to Normal
- Horowitz, Anthony: Alex Rider Book #1
- Koertge, Ronald: Stoner & Spaz
- Korman, Gordan: Pop (read Jake, Reinvented and all of the Macdonald Hall books)
- Muchamore, Robert: CHERUB Book #1
- Oppel, Kenneth: Half Brother (read the Silverwing trilogy)
- Perkins, Lynn Rae: As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth
- Rapp, Adam: Punkzilla
- Sachar, Louis: The Cardturner
- Tharp, Tim: Knights of the Hill Country
- Watt, Key: Alabama Moon
- Wesselhoeft, Conrad: Adios, Nirvana
- Zusak, Marcus: I Am the Messenger (read The Book Thief)
- Anderson, M. T.: Feed (read Octavian Nothing)
- Black, Holly: Tithe
- Boyce, Frank: Cosmic
- Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game
- Cashore, Kristin: Fire OR Graceling
- Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl
- Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
- Dashner, James: The Maze Runner
- Derting, Kimberly: The Body Finder
- Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron
- Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book
- Goto, Hiromi: Half World
- L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
- Levine, Gail Carson: Ella Enchanted OR Fairest
- Lewis, C. S.: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Lu, Marie: Legend
- Martel, Yann: Life of Pi
- Marsden, James: Tomorrow, When the War Began
- McBridge, Lish: Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
- Milford, Kate: The Boneshaker
- Ness, Patrick: The Knife of Never Letting Go
- O’Brien, Caragh M.: Birthmarked
- Ogiwara, Noriko: Dragon Sword and Wind Child
- Paolini, Christopher: Eragon
- Pierce, Tamora: Any Tortall book OR The Will of the Empress
- Pratchett, Terry: Nation
- Pullman, Phillip: The Golden Compass
- Reeves, Dia: Bleeding Violet
- Riggs, Ransom: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Riordan, Rick: The Lightning Thief
- Roth, Veronica: Divergent
- Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Shinn, Sharon: Gateway
- Slade, Arthur: The Hunchback Assignments
- Stead, Rebecca: When You Reach Me
- Snicket, Lemony (Handler, Daniel): The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
- Taylor, Laini: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Hobbit
- Turner, Megan Whalen: The Thief
- Westerfeld, Scott: Leviathan OR Uglies
- Richard Adams: Watership Down
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice OR Emma
- Ray Bradbury: Anything
- Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
- Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
- Willa Cather: Anything
- Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
- Charles Dickens: Anything (MORE DICKENS THAN I EVER WANTED)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
- Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo OR The Three Musketeers
- William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Jean C. George: Julie of the Wolves
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter OR The House of Seven Gables
- Ernest Hemingway: Anything (The Sun Also Rises)
- Homer: The Iliad OR The Odyssey
- Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Jack London: Call of the Wild
- Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman OR The Crucible
- Herman Melville: Moby Dick
- Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
- Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
- George Orwell: 1984 OR Animal Farm
- Edgar Allen Poe: Anything (Tell-Tale Heart)
- Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead (read Anthem)
- Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet OR Julius Caesar
- Elizabeth Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina OR War and Peace
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Kurt Vonnegut: Anything
- Alice Walker: The Color Purple