2011 Narrate Reading Lists
Oh, people, it is that time again. You know, the time each year when I drag out the giant reading lists of ginormous doom and I post them and we all flail for a bit and then we read a million books. That time.
For those new around these parts, Narrate currently has two conferences: Sirens, focusing on women in fantasy literature, which we started in 2009, and YA Conference Needs a Name, which is focused on young adult literature, and is actively in development. Each year, we put together reading lists of awesome books, new and old, critically acclaimed, popular, and controversial alike. If people are reading them, well, we should be, too.
With limits, of course. :))
It's worth noting that these are the staff reading lists, though I know attendees and other interested folks like to tackle them (or selected parts of them) as well. Attendees do not have to read these lists -- and if these lists freak you out, but you do want to try some books, we'll have an alternate Sirens list up on the website on November 1.
So here you go. Let the flailing commence! And comment if you want to talk books or lists or recommendations!
Narrate Conferences 2011 Reading Lists
Sirens
Required
Jane Caputi: Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
Kristin Cashore: Fire
Catherine Fisher: Incarceron
N. K. Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Justine Larbalestier: Liar
Kelly Link: Pretty Monsters
Robin McKinley: Deerskin
Nnedi Okorafor: Zahrah the Windseeker OR The Shadow Speaker
Dia Reeves: Bleeding Violet
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Laini Taylor: Lips Touch: Three Times
Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
Catherynne Valente: Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden OR Palimpsest
Wikipedia Pages: Aswang, Baba Yaga, Electra, Erinyes, Gorgons, Harionago, Jone-onna, Jorogumo, Kiyohime, Le Llorona, Lamia (mythology), Medea, Medusa, Melusine, Moirae, Nure-onna, Pontionak (folklore), Rusalka, Sirens and Succubus
Required: five of the following (no more than one by a male author)*
Kelly Armstrong: The Summoning
Stephen T. Asma: On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Holly Black: Tithe
Charlotte Bronte OR Jean Rhys: Jane Eyre OR Wide Sargasso Sea
Gail Carriger: Soulless
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
Sarwat Chadda: Devil’s Kiss
Rosemary Celement-Moore: Prom Dates from Hell
Melissa de la Cruz: Blue Bloods
Nancy Farmer: The House of the Scorpion
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl: Beautiful Creatures
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Mira Grant: Feed
Ann Halam: Dr. Franklin’s Island
Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark
Nalo Hopkinson: Midnight Robber
A. M. Jenkins: Repossessed
Alaya Dawn Johnson: Racing the Dark
Carrie Jones: Need
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
Pat Murphy AND Lewis Padgett: His Vegetable Wife AND Mimsy Were the Borogroves
N/A: Beowulf
Diana Peterfreund: Rampant
Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon’s Lexicon
Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Cynthia Leitich Smith: Eternal
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Joss Whedon and Georges Jeanty: The Long Way Home (Buffy, Season 8, Vol 1, graphic novel)
Required: two of the following*
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses (aka Black and White)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Conch Bearer
Fumiko Enchi: Masks
Nalo Hopkinson: Brown Girl in the Ring
Keri Hulme: The Bone People
Malinda Lo: Ash
Karin Lowachee: The Gaslight Dogs
Cindy Pon: The Silver Phoenix
Michelle Sagara: Cast in Shadow (Chronicles of Elantra Book #1)
Nahoko Uehashi: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Required: two of the following*
Hilari Bell: Fall of a Kingdom
Alexandra Bracken: Brightly Woven
Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Elizabeth Bunce: A Curse as Dark as Gold OR Star Crossed
Cinda Williams Chima: Warrior Heir OR The Demon King
Cassandra Clare: City of Bones
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Leah Cypess: Mistwood
Jacklyn Dolamore: Magic Under Glass
Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush
Lynn Flewelling: Anything
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart OR Reckless
Alison Goodman: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Ginn Hale: Wicked Gentlemen
Shannon Hale: The Book of a Thousand Days, The Goose Girl OR The Princess Academy
Karen Healey: Guardian of the Dead
Diana Wynne Jones: Anything
Jaida Jones and Elizabeth Bennett: Havemercy
Sophie Jordan: Firelight
Elizabeth Knox: Dream Hunter
Ellen Kushner: The Privilege of the Sword
Margo Lanagan: Tender Morsels
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted OR Fairest
Juliet Marillier: Anything
Patricia McKillip: Ombria in Shadow OR The Alphabet of Thorn
Jackson Pearce: Sisters Red
Tamora Pierce: A Tortall book OR The Will of the Empress
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Delia Sherman: Changeling
Sherwood Smith: Anything
Janni Lee Simner: Bones of Faerie OR Thief Eyes
Caroline Stevermer: A College of Magics
Kate Thompson: The New Policeman
Carrie Vaughn: Voices of Dragons
Kiersten White: Paranormalcy
Ysabeau Wilce: Flora Segunda
Jane Yolen: Anything
Required: two of the following*
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
Marion Zimmer Bradley: Any Darkover book OR The Mists of Avalon
Kristen Britain: Anything
Emma Bull: War for the Oaks
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Cecilia Dart-Thornton: The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde Book #1)
C. S. Friedman: Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Book #1)
Greer Gilman: Anything
Laurell Hamilton: Anything
Elizabeth Hand: Anything
Robin Hobb: Anything
Caitlin R. Kiernan: The Red Tree
Mercedes Lackey: Anything
Tanith Lee: Any adult book
Katharine Kerr: Daggerspell (Deverry Book #1) or Darkspell (Deverry Book #2)
Anne McCaffrey: Any Dragonriders of Pern book (recommended: Dragonflight or Dragonsong)
Elizabeth Moon: Anything fantasy
C. L. Moore: Jirel of Joiry
Naomi Novik: His Majesty’s Dragon
Cherie Priest: Boneshaker
Anne Rice: Interview with a Vampire
Ekatarina Sedia: Alchemy of Stone
Ali Shaw: The Girl with Glass Feet
Midori Snyder: Soulstring OR New Moon
Kit Whitfield: In Great Waters
Optional: one of the following*
Suzette Haden Elgin: Native Tongue
Janet Kagan: Hellspark
Lois McMaster Bujold: Curse of Chalion
Octavia Butler Anything (recommended: Kindred)
Samuel R. Delany: The Einstein Intersection
Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
Julian May: Anything
Andre Norton: Anything
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Anything
Joanna Russ: The Female Man
James Tiptree Jr.: Anything
Connie Willis: The Doomsday Book
* Please select books by authors whom you haven’t read yet first; if you have read all of the authors, then please select books that you haven’t read.
YA Conference Needs a Name
Required
M. T. Anderson: Octavian Nothing, Volume 1
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat
Jennifer Bradbury: Shift
Libba Bray: Going Bovine
Sarah Dessen: Anything you haven’t read
Sharon Draper: Out of My Mind
Sonya Hartnett: Butterfly OR Surrender
Pete Hautman: Godless, Rash OR How to Steal a Car
Phillip Hoose: Claudette Colvin
Steve Kluger: My Most Excellent Year
L. K. Madigan: Flash Burnout
Walter Dean Myers: Monster OR Sunrise over Fallujah
Rebecca Stead: When You Reach Me
Francisco X. Stork: Marcelo in the Real World OR The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Rick Yancy: The Monstrumologist
Sara Zarr: Anything you haven’t read
Required: one of the following*
Laurie Halse Anderson: Chains OR Forge
John Barnes: Tales of the Madman Underground
Ying Chang Compestine: Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Jennifer Donnelly: A Northern Light
Rita Garcia-Williams: One Crazy Summer
Stephanie Hemphill: Wicked Girls
Jacqueline Kelly: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Linda Sue Park: When My Name Was Keoko
Gary D. Schmidt: Wednesday Wars
Marcus Sedgwick: Revolver
Kashmira Sheth: Keeping Corner
Sherri L. Smith: Flygirl
Deborah Wiles: Countdown
Lili Wilkinson: Scatterheart
Marcus Zusak: The Book Thief
Required: one of the following*
Jeanine Atkins: Borrowed Names
Sid Fleischman: Sir Charlie
Russell Freedman: Lafayette and the American Revolution OR The War to End All Wars
Deborah Heiligman: Charles and Emma
Stephanie Hemphill: Your Own, Sylvia
Susan Campbell Bartoletti: The Called Themselves the KKK
Sy Montgomery: Kakapo Rescue
Tanya Lee Stone: Almost Astronauts
Required: One of the following*
Lee Bantle: David Inside Out
Francesca Lia Block: Baby Be-Bop
Paula Boock: Dare Truth or Promise
Nick Burd: The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Mayra Lazara Dole: Down to the Bone
Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind
Emily Horner: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
Maureen Johnson: The Bermudez Triangle
David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy
M. E. Kerr: Deliver Us from Evie
Perry Moore: Hero
Julie Ann Peters: Luna
Nina Revoyr: Necessary Hunger
Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys
James St. James: Freak Show
Jacqueline Woodson: The House You Pass on the Way
Required: one of the following*
Randel Abdel-Fattah: Does My Head Look Big in This?
Sherman Alexie: Flight OR The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses (aka Black and White)
Matthew Dembicki: Trickster
Matt de la Pena: Mexican WhiteBoy
Debby Dahl Edwardson: Blessing’s Bead
M. Sindy Felin: Touching Snow
David Macinnis Gill: Soul Enchilada
Anna Levine: Freefall
Christina Gonzalez: The Red Umbrella
Oscar Hijuelos: Dark Dude
Neesha Meminger: Shine, Coconut Moon
Mitali Perkins: Anything
Sofia Quintero: Efrain’s Secret
Cynthia Leitich Smith: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
Allan Stratton: Borderline
Shaun Tan: The Arrival
Jacqueline Woodson: After Tupac and D Foster
Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
Required: one of the following*
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak OR Wintergirls
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why
Patricia McCormick Balzer: Purple Heart
Anne Cassidy: Looking for JJ
Neil Connelly: The Miracle Stealer
Patricia Cummings: Blindsided
Siobhan Dowd: The London Eye Mystery
Gayle Forman: If I Stay
Emily Franklin: The Half-Life of Planets
Rita Garcia-Williams: Jumped
Gail Giles: Right Behind You
Adele Griffin: The Julian Game
David Hernandez: Suckerpunch
Ellen Hopkins: Anything
Patricia McCormick: Sold
Yxta Maya Murray: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Julie Ann Peters: By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
Dana Reinhardt: The Things a Brother Knows
Neal Shusterman: Unwind
Janne Teller: Nothing
Susan Vaught: My Big Fat Manifesto
Laura Wiess: Such a Pretty Girl OR Leftovers
Required: one of the following*
Jill S. Alexander: The Sweetheart of Prosper County
Laura Bowers: Beauty Shop for Rent
Cecil Castelucci: Boy Proof
Ally Carter: Any Gallagher Girls book
Mitch Cochrane: The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
Julie Halpern: Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
Kody Keplinger: The D. U. F. F.
E. Lockhart: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike Book #1
Catherine Gilbert Murdock: Dairy Queen
Lauren Myracle: Peace, Love and Baby Ducks
Louis Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb: Selling Hope
Required: one of the following*
Don Calame: Swim the Fly
John M. Cusick: Girl Parts
John Green: Any book you haven’t read (including Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
Michael Harmon: The Last Exit to Normal
Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider Book #1
Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Gordan Korman: Pop
Robert Muchamore: CHERUB Book #1
Lynn Rae Perkins: As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth
Adam Rapp: Punkzilla
Louis Sachar: The Cardturner
Tim Tharp: Knights of the Hill Country
Watt Key: Alabama Moon
Marcus Zusak: I Am the Messenger
Required: one of the following*
M. T. Anderson: Feed
Paolo Bacigalupi: Ship Breaker
Holly Black: Tithe
Orsen Scott Card: Ender’s Game
Kristin Cashore: Fire OR Graceling
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl Book #1
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
James Dashner: The Maze Runner
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother OR For the Win
Nancy Farmer: The House of the Scorpion
Catherine Fisher: Incarceron
Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book
Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted OR Fairest
C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Pittacus Lore: I Am Number Four
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Melina Marchetta: Finnikin of the Rock
James Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began
Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go
Christopher Paolini: Eragon
Tamora Pierce: A Tortall book OR The Will of the Empress
Terry Pratchett: Nation
Phillip Pullman: The Golden Compass
Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler): The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
Laini Taylor: Lips Touch: Three Times
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
Heather Tomlinson: Toads and Diamonds
Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan OR Uglies
Required: one of the following*
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
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
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
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead
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
Required: two books of your choosing from any of the YA conference lists.
* Please select books by authors whom you haven’t read first; if you have read all of the authors, then please select books that you haven’t read.
For those new around these parts, Narrate currently has two conferences: Sirens, focusing on women in fantasy literature, which we started in 2009, and YA Conference Needs a Name, which is focused on young adult literature, and is actively in development. Each year, we put together reading lists of awesome books, new and old, critically acclaimed, popular, and controversial alike. If people are reading them, well, we should be, too.
With limits, of course. :))
It's worth noting that these are the staff reading lists, though I know attendees and other interested folks like to tackle them (or selected parts of them) as well. Attendees do not have to read these lists -- and if these lists freak you out, but you do want to try some books, we'll have an alternate Sirens list up on the website on November 1.
So here you go. Let the flailing commence! And comment if you want to talk books or lists or recommendations!
Narrate Conferences 2011 Reading Lists
Sirens
Required
Jane Caputi: Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
Kristin Cashore: Fire
Catherine Fisher: Incarceron
N. K. Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Justine Larbalestier: Liar
Kelly Link: Pretty Monsters
Robin McKinley: Deerskin
Nnedi Okorafor: Zahrah the Windseeker OR The Shadow Speaker
Dia Reeves: Bleeding Violet
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Laini Taylor: Lips Touch: Three Times
Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
Catherynne Valente: Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden OR Palimpsest
Wikipedia Pages: Aswang, Baba Yaga, Electra, Erinyes, Gorgons, Harionago, Jone-onna, Jorogumo, Kiyohime, Le Llorona, Lamia (mythology), Medea, Medusa, Melusine, Moirae, Nure-onna, Pontionak (folklore), Rusalka, Sirens and Succubus
Required: five of the following (no more than one by a male author)*
Kelly Armstrong: The Summoning
Stephen T. Asma: On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Holly Black: Tithe
Charlotte Bronte OR Jean Rhys: Jane Eyre OR Wide Sargasso Sea
Gail Carriger: Soulless
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
Sarwat Chadda: Devil’s Kiss
Rosemary Celement-Moore: Prom Dates from Hell
Melissa de la Cruz: Blue Bloods
Nancy Farmer: The House of the Scorpion
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl: Beautiful Creatures
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Mira Grant: Feed
Ann Halam: Dr. Franklin’s Island
Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark
Nalo Hopkinson: Midnight Robber
A. M. Jenkins: Repossessed
Alaya Dawn Johnson: Racing the Dark
Carrie Jones: Need
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
Pat Murphy AND Lewis Padgett: His Vegetable Wife AND Mimsy Were the Borogroves
N/A: Beowulf
Diana Peterfreund: Rampant
Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon’s Lexicon
Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Cynthia Leitich Smith: Eternal
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Joss Whedon and Georges Jeanty: The Long Way Home (Buffy, Season 8, Vol 1, graphic novel)
Required: two of the following*
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses (aka Black and White)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Conch Bearer
Fumiko Enchi: Masks
Nalo Hopkinson: Brown Girl in the Ring
Keri Hulme: The Bone People
Malinda Lo: Ash
Karin Lowachee: The Gaslight Dogs
Cindy Pon: The Silver Phoenix
Michelle Sagara: Cast in Shadow (Chronicles of Elantra Book #1)
Nahoko Uehashi: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Required: two of the following*
Hilari Bell: Fall of a Kingdom
Alexandra Bracken: Brightly Woven
Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Elizabeth Bunce: A Curse as Dark as Gold OR Star Crossed
Cinda Williams Chima: Warrior Heir OR The Demon King
Cassandra Clare: City of Bones
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Leah Cypess: Mistwood
Jacklyn Dolamore: Magic Under Glass
Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush
Lynn Flewelling: Anything
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart OR Reckless
Alison Goodman: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Ginn Hale: Wicked Gentlemen
Shannon Hale: The Book of a Thousand Days, The Goose Girl OR The Princess Academy
Karen Healey: Guardian of the Dead
Diana Wynne Jones: Anything
Jaida Jones and Elizabeth Bennett: Havemercy
Sophie Jordan: Firelight
Elizabeth Knox: Dream Hunter
Ellen Kushner: The Privilege of the Sword
Margo Lanagan: Tender Morsels
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted OR Fairest
Juliet Marillier: Anything
Patricia McKillip: Ombria in Shadow OR The Alphabet of Thorn
Jackson Pearce: Sisters Red
Tamora Pierce: A Tortall book OR The Will of the Empress
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Delia Sherman: Changeling
Sherwood Smith: Anything
Janni Lee Simner: Bones of Faerie OR Thief Eyes
Caroline Stevermer: A College of Magics
Kate Thompson: The New Policeman
Carrie Vaughn: Voices of Dragons
Kiersten White: Paranormalcy
Ysabeau Wilce: Flora Segunda
Jane Yolen: Anything
Required: two of the following*
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
Marion Zimmer Bradley: Any Darkover book OR The Mists of Avalon
Kristen Britain: Anything
Emma Bull: War for the Oaks
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Cecilia Dart-Thornton: The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde Book #1)
C. S. Friedman: Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Book #1)
Greer Gilman: Anything
Laurell Hamilton: Anything
Elizabeth Hand: Anything
Robin Hobb: Anything
Caitlin R. Kiernan: The Red Tree
Mercedes Lackey: Anything
Tanith Lee: Any adult book
Katharine Kerr: Daggerspell (Deverry Book #1) or Darkspell (Deverry Book #2)
Anne McCaffrey: Any Dragonriders of Pern book (recommended: Dragonflight or Dragonsong)
Elizabeth Moon: Anything fantasy
C. L. Moore: Jirel of Joiry
Naomi Novik: His Majesty’s Dragon
Cherie Priest: Boneshaker
Anne Rice: Interview with a Vampire
Ekatarina Sedia: Alchemy of Stone
Ali Shaw: The Girl with Glass Feet
Midori Snyder: Soulstring OR New Moon
Kit Whitfield: In Great Waters
Optional: one of the following*
Suzette Haden Elgin: Native Tongue
Janet Kagan: Hellspark
Lois McMaster Bujold: Curse of Chalion
Octavia Butler Anything (recommended: Kindred)
Samuel R. Delany: The Einstein Intersection
Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
Julian May: Anything
Andre Norton: Anything
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Anything
Joanna Russ: The Female Man
James Tiptree Jr.: Anything
Connie Willis: The Doomsday Book
* Please select books by authors whom you haven’t read yet first; if you have read all of the authors, then please select books that you haven’t read.
YA Conference Needs a Name
Required
M. T. Anderson: Octavian Nothing, Volume 1
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat
Jennifer Bradbury: Shift
Libba Bray: Going Bovine
Sarah Dessen: Anything you haven’t read
Sharon Draper: Out of My Mind
Sonya Hartnett: Butterfly OR Surrender
Pete Hautman: Godless, Rash OR How to Steal a Car
Phillip Hoose: Claudette Colvin
Steve Kluger: My Most Excellent Year
L. K. Madigan: Flash Burnout
Walter Dean Myers: Monster OR Sunrise over Fallujah
Rebecca Stead: When You Reach Me
Francisco X. Stork: Marcelo in the Real World OR The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Rick Yancy: The Monstrumologist
Sara Zarr: Anything you haven’t read
Required: one of the following*
Laurie Halse Anderson: Chains OR Forge
John Barnes: Tales of the Madman Underground
Ying Chang Compestine: Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Jennifer Donnelly: A Northern Light
Rita Garcia-Williams: One Crazy Summer
Stephanie Hemphill: Wicked Girls
Jacqueline Kelly: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Linda Sue Park: When My Name Was Keoko
Gary D. Schmidt: Wednesday Wars
Marcus Sedgwick: Revolver
Kashmira Sheth: Keeping Corner
Sherri L. Smith: Flygirl
Deborah Wiles: Countdown
Lili Wilkinson: Scatterheart
Marcus Zusak: The Book Thief
Required: one of the following*
Jeanine Atkins: Borrowed Names
Sid Fleischman: Sir Charlie
Russell Freedman: Lafayette and the American Revolution OR The War to End All Wars
Deborah Heiligman: Charles and Emma
Stephanie Hemphill: Your Own, Sylvia
Susan Campbell Bartoletti: The Called Themselves the KKK
Sy Montgomery: Kakapo Rescue
Tanya Lee Stone: Almost Astronauts
Required: One of the following*
Lee Bantle: David Inside Out
Francesca Lia Block: Baby Be-Bop
Paula Boock: Dare Truth or Promise
Nick Burd: The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Mayra Lazara Dole: Down to the Bone
Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind
Emily Horner: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
Maureen Johnson: The Bermudez Triangle
David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy
M. E. Kerr: Deliver Us from Evie
Perry Moore: Hero
Julie Ann Peters: Luna
Nina Revoyr: Necessary Hunger
Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys
James St. James: Freak Show
Jacqueline Woodson: The House You Pass on the Way
Required: one of the following*
Randel Abdel-Fattah: Does My Head Look Big in This?
Sherman Alexie: Flight OR The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses (aka Black and White)
Matthew Dembicki: Trickster
Matt de la Pena: Mexican WhiteBoy
Debby Dahl Edwardson: Blessing’s Bead
M. Sindy Felin: Touching Snow
David Macinnis Gill: Soul Enchilada
Anna Levine: Freefall
Christina Gonzalez: The Red Umbrella
Oscar Hijuelos: Dark Dude
Neesha Meminger: Shine, Coconut Moon
Mitali Perkins: Anything
Sofia Quintero: Efrain’s Secret
Cynthia Leitich Smith: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
Allan Stratton: Borderline
Shaun Tan: The Arrival
Jacqueline Woodson: After Tupac and D Foster
Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
Required: one of the following*
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak OR Wintergirls
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why
Patricia McCormick Balzer: Purple Heart
Anne Cassidy: Looking for JJ
Neil Connelly: The Miracle Stealer
Patricia Cummings: Blindsided
Siobhan Dowd: The London Eye Mystery
Gayle Forman: If I Stay
Emily Franklin: The Half-Life of Planets
Rita Garcia-Williams: Jumped
Gail Giles: Right Behind You
Adele Griffin: The Julian Game
David Hernandez: Suckerpunch
Ellen Hopkins: Anything
Patricia McCormick: Sold
Yxta Maya Murray: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Julie Ann Peters: By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
Dana Reinhardt: The Things a Brother Knows
Neal Shusterman: Unwind
Janne Teller: Nothing
Susan Vaught: My Big Fat Manifesto
Laura Wiess: Such a Pretty Girl OR Leftovers
Required: one of the following*
Jill S. Alexander: The Sweetheart of Prosper County
Laura Bowers: Beauty Shop for Rent
Cecil Castelucci: Boy Proof
Ally Carter: Any Gallagher Girls book
Mitch Cochrane: The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
Julie Halpern: Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
Kody Keplinger: The D. U. F. F.
E. Lockhart: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike Book #1
Catherine Gilbert Murdock: Dairy Queen
Lauren Myracle: Peace, Love and Baby Ducks
Louis Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb: Selling Hope
Required: one of the following*
Don Calame: Swim the Fly
John M. Cusick: Girl Parts
John Green: Any book you haven’t read (including Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
Michael Harmon: The Last Exit to Normal
Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider Book #1
Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Gordan Korman: Pop
Robert Muchamore: CHERUB Book #1
Lynn Rae Perkins: As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth
Adam Rapp: Punkzilla
Louis Sachar: The Cardturner
Tim Tharp: Knights of the Hill Country
Watt Key: Alabama Moon
Marcus Zusak: I Am the Messenger
Required: one of the following*
M. T. Anderson: Feed
Paolo Bacigalupi: Ship Breaker
Holly Black: Tithe
Orsen Scott Card: Ender’s Game
Kristin Cashore: Fire OR Graceling
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl Book #1
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
James Dashner: The Maze Runner
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother OR For the Win
Nancy Farmer: The House of the Scorpion
Catherine Fisher: Incarceron
Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book
Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted OR Fairest
C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Pittacus Lore: I Am Number Four
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Melina Marchetta: Finnikin of the Rock
James Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began
Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go
Christopher Paolini: Eragon
Tamora Pierce: A Tortall book OR The Will of the Empress
Terry Pratchett: Nation
Phillip Pullman: The Golden Compass
Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler): The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
Laini Taylor: Lips Touch: Three Times
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
Heather Tomlinson: Toads and Diamonds
Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan OR Uglies
Required: one of the following*
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
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
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
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead
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
Required: two books of your choosing from any of the YA conference lists.
* Please select books by authors whom you haven’t read first; if you have read all of the authors, then please select books that you haven’t read.