2012 Narrate Reading Lists
As you might have come to expect, with a new Sirens, comes a new Narrate reading list. For those of you unfamiliar with the drill, each year, Narrate rolls out a reading list for both Sirens, its current conference about women in fantasy literature, and its in-development conference on young adult literature.
Our staff tackle huge chunks of these lists each year, and a handful of staff members finish both lists each year. We find that, in order to present conferences on books, we need to be relatively well-read in those books. We also find that having a reading list gets us out of our reading patterns, makes us consider books we wouldn’t otherwise have read, and sometimes surprises us. We also have attendees and other interested folks who like to see the lists and use them as reading lists or recommendations or what-have-you.
And remember, these are good books, not-so-good books, popular books, critically acclaimed books, controversial books, all kinds of books. This is a reading list for a conference staff, and we figure, if our attendees are reading them, we should be, too.
So if you’re interested in the lists for 2012, here they are:
Narrate Conferences 2012 Reading Lists
Sirens
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
[Be prepared for two books by an additional guest.]
Two of the following*
Carter, Angela: Anything
Datlow, Ellen and Windling, Terri: Any fairy tale collection
Tatar, Maria: Anything
Warner, Marina: Anything
Zipes, Jack: Any academic book on tales retold
The one of the following with which you’re least familiar
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)
Two of the following*
Chadda, Sarwat: Dark Goddess
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: Palace of Illusions
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
Four of the following* **
Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride
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
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 Tales: In the Night Garden OR Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Vande Velde, Vivian: Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
Wrede, Patricia C.: Snow White and Rose Red
Yolen, Jane: Boots and the Seven Leaguers OR Briar Rose OR Snow in Summer
Two of the following*
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
Lowachee, Karin: The Gaslight Dogs
Okorafor, Nnedi: Who Fears Death
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
Two of the following*
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
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
Hoffman, Alice: Green Witch
Jones, Carrie: Need
Jones, Diana Wynne: Anything
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
Simner, Janni Lee: Bones of Faerie OR Thief Eyes
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Eternal
Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver OR The Scorpio Races
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
Two of the following*
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Any Darkover book
Brennan, Marie: Midnight Never Come
Britain, Kristen: Anything
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
Morganstern, Erin: The Night Circus
Novik, Naoimi: 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
Optional: one of the following*
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 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 yet.
**Please select books that are retellings of different tales.
YA Conference Needs a Name
Required
Bacigalupi, Paolo: Shipbreaker
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
One of the following*
Anderson, Lauri Halse: Chains OR Forge
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
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
One of the following*
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
One of the following*
Bantle, Lee: David Inside Out
Block, Francesca Lia: Baby Be-Bop
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
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
One of the following*
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
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
One of the following*
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, Yxta Maya: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Myers, Walter Dean: Monster OR Sunrise over Fallujah
Peters, Julie Ann: By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
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
One of the following*
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens
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
One of the following*
Calame, Don: Swim the Fly
Cusick, John M.: Girl Parts
Green, John: Anything (incl. Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
Harmon, Michael: The Last Exit to Normal
Horowitz, Anthony: Alex Rider Book #1
Koertge, Ronald: Stoner & Spaz
Korman, Gordan: Pop
Muchamore, Robert: CHERUB Book #1
Oppel, Kenneth: Half Brother
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
One of the following*
Anderson, M. T.: Feed
Black, Holly: Tithe
Boyce, Frank: Cosmic
Card, Orsen 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
One of the following*
Adams, Richard: Watership Down
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice OR Emma
Bradbury, Ray: Anything
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S.: The Good Earth
Cather, Willa: Anything
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Dickens, Charles: Anything
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo OR The Three Musketeers
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
George, Jean C.: Julie of the Wolves
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlett Letter OR The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest: Anything
Homer: The Iliad OR The Odyssey
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack: Call of the Wild
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman OR The Crucible
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
O’Dell, Scott: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Orwell, George: 1984 OR Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allen: Anything
Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet OR Macbeth OR Romeo and Juliet OR Julius Caesar
Speare, Elizabeth: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Steinbeck, John: Anything
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina OR War and Peace
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt: Anything
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
*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.
Our staff tackle huge chunks of these lists each year, and a handful of staff members finish both lists each year. We find that, in order to present conferences on books, we need to be relatively well-read in those books. We also find that having a reading list gets us out of our reading patterns, makes us consider books we wouldn’t otherwise have read, and sometimes surprises us. We also have attendees and other interested folks who like to see the lists and use them as reading lists or recommendations or what-have-you.
And remember, these are good books, not-so-good books, popular books, critically acclaimed books, controversial books, all kinds of books. This is a reading list for a conference staff, and we figure, if our attendees are reading them, we should be, too.
So if you’re interested in the lists for 2012, here they are:
Narrate Conferences 2012 Reading Lists
Sirens
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
[Be prepared for two books by an additional guest.]
Two of the following*
Carter, Angela: Anything
Datlow, Ellen and Windling, Terri: Any fairy tale collection
Tatar, Maria: Anything
Warner, Marina: Anything
Zipes, Jack: Any academic book on tales retold
The one of the following with which you’re least familiar
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)
Two of the following*
Chadda, Sarwat: Dark Goddess
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: Palace of Illusions
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
Four of the following* **
Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride
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
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 Tales: In the Night Garden OR Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Vande Velde, Vivian: Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
Wrede, Patricia C.: Snow White and Rose Red
Yolen, Jane: Boots and the Seven Leaguers OR Briar Rose OR Snow in Summer
Two of the following*
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
Lowachee, Karin: The Gaslight Dogs
Okorafor, Nnedi: Who Fears Death
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
Two of the following*
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
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
Hoffman, Alice: Green Witch
Jones, Carrie: Need
Jones, Diana Wynne: Anything
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
Simner, Janni Lee: Bones of Faerie OR Thief Eyes
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Eternal
Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver OR The Scorpio Races
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
Two of the following*
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Any Darkover book
Brennan, Marie: Midnight Never Come
Britain, Kristen: Anything
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
Morganstern, Erin: The Night Circus
Novik, Naoimi: 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
Optional: one of the following*
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 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 yet.
**Please select books that are retellings of different tales.
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Required
Bacigalupi, Paolo: Shipbreaker
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
One of the following*
Anderson, Lauri Halse: Chains OR Forge
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
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
One of the following*
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
One of the following*
Bantle, Lee: David Inside Out
Block, Francesca Lia: Baby Be-Bop
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
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
One of the following*
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
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
One of the following*
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, Yxta Maya: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Myers, Walter Dean: Monster OR Sunrise over Fallujah
Peters, Julie Ann: By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
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
One of the following*
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens
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
One of the following*
Calame, Don: Swim the Fly
Cusick, John M.: Girl Parts
Green, John: Anything (incl. Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
Harmon, Michael: The Last Exit to Normal
Horowitz, Anthony: Alex Rider Book #1
Koertge, Ronald: Stoner & Spaz
Korman, Gordan: Pop
Muchamore, Robert: CHERUB Book #1
Oppel, Kenneth: Half Brother
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
One of the following*
Anderson, M. T.: Feed
Black, Holly: Tithe
Boyce, Frank: Cosmic
Card, Orsen 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
One of the following*
Adams, Richard: Watership Down
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice OR Emma
Bradbury, Ray: Anything
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S.: The Good Earth
Cather, Willa: Anything
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Dickens, Charles: Anything
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo OR The Three Musketeers
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
George, Jean C.: Julie of the Wolves
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlett Letter OR The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest: Anything
Homer: The Iliad OR The Odyssey
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack: Call of the Wild
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman OR The Crucible
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
O’Dell, Scott: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Orwell, George: 1984 OR Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allen: Anything
Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet OR Macbeth OR Romeo and Juliet OR Julius Caesar
Speare, Elizabeth: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Steinbeck, John: Anything
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina OR War and Peace
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt: Anything
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
*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.