2013 Narrate Reading Lists
It is that time of year...
Each year, Narrate Conferences' staff tackles a reading list for both Sirens, our women-in-fantasy-literature conference that just had it's fourth successful year, and our young-adult conference that is currently in development. These are the staff lists; those of you familiar with the Sirens website will notice that this is not the shorter list that we include on the site. But that doesn't mean you can't read from this list, if you want!
Sirens 2013 Reading List
Required
Johnson, Alaya Dawn: Racing the Dark AND Moonshine
Kushner, Ellen: Thomas the Rhymer AND The Fall of the Kings
LaFevers, Robin: Grave Mercy
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia: Summer of the Mariposas
Two of the following (warriors)*
Bell, Hilar: Fall of a Kingdom
Britain, Kristen: The Green Rider
Carson, Rae: Girl of Fire and Thorns
Cashore, Kristin: Graceling
Chadda, Sarwat: Devil’s Kiss
Chima, Cinda Williams: The Demon King
Clare, Cassandra: City of Bones
Cremer, Andrea: Nightshade
Gaughen, A. C.: Scarlet
Goodman, Alison: Eon
Healey, Karen: Guardian of the Dead
Kushner, Ellen: The Privilege of the Sword
Lackey, Mercedes: Any Valdemar book
Maas, Sarah J. Throne of Glass
Marchetta, Melina: Finnikin of the Rock
Pierce, Tamora: The Song of the Lioness OR Lady Knight OR Terrier
Oliver, Jana G.: The Demon Trapper’s Daughter
Roth, Veronica: Divergent
Smith, Sherwood: Crown Duel OR Coronets and Steel
Vande Velde, Vivian: Heir Apparent
Young, Moira: Blood Red Road
Two of the following (faeries)*
Anderson, R. J.: Knife
Black, Holly: Tithe
Black, Jenna: Glimmerglass
Brennan, Marie: Midnight Never Come
Bull, Emma: War for the Oaks
Dean, Pamela: Tam Lin
Dolamore, Jacklyn: Magic under Glass
Hamilton, Laurell K.: A Kiss of Shadows
Jones, Diana Wynne: Fire and Hemlock
Lindholm, Megan (w/ Brust, Steven): The Gypsy
Livingston, Lesley: Wondrous Strange
Marr, Melissa: Wicked Lovely
Marillier, Juliet: Wildwood Dancing
McGuire, Seanan: Rosemary and Rue
Melling, O. R.: The Hunter’s Moon
Mirrlees, Hope: Lud-in-the-Mist
Pope, Elizabeth: Perilous Gard
Sherman, Delia: Changeling
Simner, Janni Lee: Bones of Faerie
Tomlinson, Heather: Aurelie
Warner, Sylvia Townsend: Kingdoms of Elfin
Windling, Terri (w/ Datlow, Ellen): The Faerie Reel
Two of the following (monsters)*
Billingsley, Franny: Chime
Blake, Kendare: Anna Dressed in Blood
Bronte Charlotte OR Rhys, Jean: Jane Eyre OR Wide Sargasso Sea
Carriger, Gail: Soulless
Clement-Moore, Rosemary: Prom Dates from Hell
Compestine, Ying Chang: A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales
de la Cruz, Melissa: Blue Bloods
Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Creatures
Grant, Mira: Feed
Halam, Anne: Dr. Franklin’s Island
Harris, Charlaine: Dead until Dark
Hodkin, Michelle: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Jenkins, A. M.: Repossessed
Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian
Larbalestier, Justine: Liar
Link, Kelly: Pretty Monsters
Meyer, Stephenie: Twilight
Murphy, Pat AND Padgett, Lewis: His Vegetable Wife AND Mimsy Were the Borogroves
Okorafor, Nnedi: Who Fears Death
Peterfreund, Diana: Rampant
Reeves, Dia: Bleeding Violet OR Slice of Cherry
Ryan, Carrie: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Scheckley, Alisa: The Better to Hold You
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Eternal
Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver
Taylor, Laini: Lips Touch: Three Times
Whedon, Joss and Jeanty, Goerges: The Long Way Home (Buffy, Season 8, Vol. 1)
Yovanoff, Brenna: The Space Between
Two of the following (retold tales)* **
Anderson, Jodi Lynn: Tiger Lily
Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride
Barnhouse, Rebecca: Peaceweaver
Bernheimer, Kate: Any Gold sister book
Black, Holly: White Cat
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Mists of Avalon
Block, Francesca Lia: Roses and Bones
Bunce, Elizabeth C.: A Curse Dark as Gold
Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
Cross, Sarah: Kill Me Softly
Diemer, Sarah: The Dark Wife
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: Palace of Illusions
Donoghue, Emma: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Durst, Sarah Beth: Into the Wild OR Ice
Flinn, Alex: Beastly OR A Kiss in Time OR Cloaked
George, Jessica Day: Princess of Glass OR Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Hale, Shannon: The Goose Girl OR Book of a Thousand Days OR Rapunzel’s Revenge
Hopkinson, Nalo: Midnight Robber OR Brown Girl in the Ring
Johnson, Kij: The Fox Woman
Kerr, Peg: The Wild Swans
Kontis, Alethea: Enchanted
Lanagan, Margo: Tender Morsels
Levine, Gail Carson: Ella Enchanted
Lin, Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon OR Starry River of the Sky
Lo, Malinda: Ash
Lord, Karen: Redemption in Indigo
Mantchev, Lisa: Eyes Like Stars
Marillier, Juliet: Heart’s Blood
McKillip, Patricia: In the Forests of Serre OR The Cygnet and the Firebird
McKinley, Robin: Deerskin OR Rose Daughter OR Spindle’s End OR Beauty
Napoli, Donna Jo: Bound
Nyoka, Gail: Mella and the N’anga: An African Tale
Obrecht, Tea: The Tiger’s Wife
Oyeyemi, Helen: Mr. Fox
Patou, Edith: East
Pearce, Jackson: Sisters Red OR Sweetly
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
Reilly, LeAnn Neal: The Mermaid’s Pendant
Satrapi, Marjane: The Sigh
Sedia, Ekaterina: The Secret History of Moscow
Simner, Janni Lee: Thief Eyes
Springer, Nancy: I Am Morgan le Fay
Tacheuchi, Naoko: Sailor Moon Vol. 1
Tomlinson, Heather: The Swan Maiden OR Toads and Diamonds
Turgeon, Carolyn: Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale
Ursu, Anne (w/ Erin McGuire): Breadcrumbs
Valente, Catherynne: Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden OR Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Vande Velde, Vivian: The Book of Mordred
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything Arthurian
Wrede, Patricia C.: Snow White and Rose Red
Yolen, Jane: Brian Rose OR Snow in Summer
Three of the following*
Beukes, Lauren: Zoo City
Blackman, Malorie: Naughts and Crosses
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: The Conch Bearer
Enchi, Fumiko: Masks
Fagan, Deva: The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle
Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
Goto: Hiromi: Half World
Hairston, Andrea: Redwood and Wildfire
Hamilton, Virginia: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Hopkinson, Nalo: The Chaos
Jemisin, N. K.: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Lowachee, Karin: The Gaslight Dogs
Meminger, Neesha: Into the Wise Dark
Ogiwara, Noriko: Dragon Sword and Wind Child
Okorafor, Nnedi: Akata Witch
Ono, Fuyumi: The Twelve Kingdoms Vol. 1: Sea of Shadow
Parra, Kelly: Invisible Touch
Pon, Cindy: Silver Phoenix
Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Ninth Ward
Suma, Nova Ren: Imaginary Girls
Uehashi, Nahoko: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
West, Michelle: Anything
Four of the following*
Anderson, R. J.: Ultraviolet
Armstrong, Kelly: The Summoning
Berry, Julie: The Amaranth Enchantment
Bow, Erin: Plain Kate
Bracken, Alexandra: Brightly Woven
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens
Briceland, V.: The Glassmaker’s Daughter
Bunce, Elizabeth: Star Crossed
Burgis, Stephanie: Kat, Incorrigible
Cashore, Kristin: Fire OR Bitterblue
Chima, Cinda Williams: Warrior Heir
Cooper, Susan: The Dark Is Rising
Cypess, Leah: Mistwood
Derting, Kimberly: The Body Finder
Duey, Kathleen: Skin Hunger
Durst, Sarah Beth: Vessel
Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron
Flewelling, Lynn: Anything
George, Jessica Day: Tuesdays at the Castle
Hale, Ginn: Wicked Gentlemen
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina
Hoffman, Alice: Green Witch
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: Anything fantasy
Jones, Diana Wynne: Anything
Jones, Jaida and Bennett, Elizabeth: Havemercy
Kittredge, Caitlin: The Iron Thorn
Knox, Elizabeth: Dream Hunter
Lanagan, Margo: The Brides of Rollrock Island
McEntire, Myra: Hourglass
McKillip, Patricia: Ombria in Shadow OR The Alphabet of Thorn
Pierce, Tamora: Trickster’s Choice OR The Will of the Empress
Prineas, Sarah: Winterling
Rees Brennan, Sarah: Unspoken
Reese, Jenn: Above World
Rubino-Bradway, Caitlen: Ordinary Magic
Schwab, Victoria: The Near Witch
Sherman, Delia: The Freedom Maze
Smith, Sherwood: The Spy Princess
Spotswood, Jessica: Born Wicked
Stiefvater, Maggie: The Scorpio Races OR The Raven Boys
Stevermer, Caroline: A College of Magics
Taylor, Laini: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Thompson, Kate: The New Policeman
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Weingarten, Lynn: The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers
Whalen Turner, Megan: The Thief
White, Kiersen: Paranormalcy
Wilce, Ysabeau: Flora Segunda
Yolen, Jane: Anything
Four of the following*
Allen, Sarah Addison: The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Andrews, Ilona: Magic Bites (Kate Daniels Book #1)
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
Bear, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Berg, Carol: The Soul Mirror
Bernobich, Beth: Passion Play
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Any Darkover book
Carey, Jacqueline: Kushiel’s Dart
Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Daniells, Rowena Cory: Anything
Dart-Thornton, Cecilia: The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde Book #1)
de la Cruz, Melissa: Witches of East End
Elliott, Kate: Cold Magic
Freeman, Pamela: Blood Ties (Castings Book #1)
Friedman, C. S., Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Book #1)
Gilman, Greer: Anything
Hamilton, Laurell: Anything
Hand, Elizabeth: Anything
Harris, Joanne: Rusemarks
Hobb, Robin: Anything
Jones, Tamara Siler: Ghosts in the Snow
Katsu, Alma: The Taker
Kerr, Katharine: Daggerspell (Deverry Book #1) OR Darkspell (Deverry Book #2)
Kiernan, Caitlin R.: The Red Tree
Lackey, Mercedes: Anything
Lee, Tanith: Any adult book
Le Guin, Ursula: A Wizard of Earthsea
Marks, Laurie J.: Fire Logic (Elemental Logic Book #1)
McCaffrey, Anne: Any Dragonriders of Pern book
Moon, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Moore, C.L.: Jirel of Joiry
Morganstern, Erin: The Night Circus
Neumeier, Rachel: House of Shadows
Novik, Naomi: His Majesty’s Dragon
Paxson, Diana: Anything
Priest, Cherie: Boneshaker
Rice, Anne: Interview with a Vampire
Riley, Judith Merkle: The Oracle Glass
Sedia, Ekatarina: Alchemy of Stone
Snyder, Maria V.: Poison Study
Snyder, Midori: Soulstring OR New Moon
Valente, Catherynne: Palimpsest
Whitfield, Kit: In Great Waters
Wisoker, Leona: Secrets of the Sands
Optional: One of the following*
Elgin, Suzette Haden: Native Tongue
Kagan, Janet: Hellspark
Bujold, Lois McMcaster: Curse of Chalion
Butler, Octavia: Anything
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: 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.
**Please select books that are retellings of different tales.
YA Conference Needs a Name 2013 Reading List
Required
Abdel-Fattah, Randel: Does My Head Look Big in This?
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens
Gantos, Jack: Dead End in Norvelt
Handler, Daniel and Kalman, Maira: Why We Broke Up
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina
Lai, Thanhha: Inside Out and Back Again
Lanagan, Margo: The Brides of Rollrock Island
Levithan, David: Every Day
Mariz, Rae: The Unidentified
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia: Under the Mesquite
Reinhardt, Dana: The Things a Brother Knows
Rosoff, Meg: There Is No Dog
Wein, Elizabeth: Code Name Verity
Whaley, John Corey: Where Things Come Back
Young, Moira: Blood Red Road
One of the following*
Anderson, Laurie Halse: Chains OR Forge
Anderson, M. T.: Octavian Nothing, Vol. 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
Garcia-Williams, Rita: One Crazy Summer
Flood, Nancy Bo: Warriors in the Crossfire
Hemphill, Stephanie: Wicked Girls
Holt, Kimberly Willis: The Water Seeker
Kelly, Jacqueline: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Larson, Kirby: Hattie Big Sky
Levine: The Lions of Little Rock
McCormack, Patricia: Never Fall Down
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
Vanderpool, Clare: Moon over Manifest
Wiles, Deborah: Countdown
Wilkinson, Lili: Scatterheart
Wright, Barbara: Crow
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: Moonbird
Marrin, Albert: Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
Montgomery, Sy: Kakapo Rescue
Osborne, Linda Barrett: Miles to Go for Freedom
Rappaport, Doreen: Beyond Courage
Rusch, Elizabeth: The Mighty Mars Rovers
Sandler, Martin W.: The Impossible Rescue
Sheinkin, Steve: Bomb
Stone, Tanya Lee: Almost Astronauts
One of the following*
Bantle, Lee: David Inside Out
Beam, Cris: I Am J
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
Danforth, Emily M.: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Dole, Mayra Lazara: Down to the Bone
Garden, Nancy: Annie on My Mind
Horner, Emily: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
King, A. S.: Ask the Passengers
Levithan, David: Boy Meets Boy
Moore, Perry: Hero
Peters, Julie Ann: Luna
Revoyr, 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*
Alexie, Sherman: Flight OR The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Blackman, Malorie: Noughts and Crosses
Booth, Coe: Tyrell
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
Gonzalez, Christina: The Red Umbrella
Hijuelos, Oscar: Dark Dude
Levine, Anna: Freefall
Meminger, Neesha: Shine, Coconut Moon
Perkins, Mitali: Anything
Quintero, Sofia: Efrain’s Secret
Schmidt, Gary D.: Trouble
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
Stratton, Allan: Borderline
Tan, Shaun: The Arrival
Woodson, Jacqueline: After Tupac and D Foster
Yang, Gene Luen: American Born Chinese
Two 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
Bray, Libba: Going Bovine
Christopher, Lucy: Stolen
Connelly, Neil: The Miracle Stealer
Cummings, Patricia: Blindsided
de Vigan, Delphine: No and Me
Dowd, Siobhan: The London Eye Mystery OR A Swift Pure Cry
Draper, Sharon: Out of My Mind
Erskine, Kathryn: Mockingbird
Forman, Gayle: If I Stay
Franklin, Emily: The Half-Life of Planets
Giles, Gail: Right Behind You
Green, John: The Fault in Our Stars
Hartnett, Sonya: Surrender
Hautman, Pete: Godless
Hernandez, David: Suckerpunch
Hopkins, Ellen: Anything
Hunt, Lynda Mullaly: One for the Murphys
John, Antony: Five Flavors of Dumb
Kelly, Tara: Harmonic Feedback
King, A. S.: Please Ignore Vera Dietz OR Everybody Sees the Ants
Leavitt, Martine: My Book of Life by Angel
Madigan, L. K.: Flash Burnout
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
Palacio, R. J.: Wonder
Peters, Julie Ann: By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
Quick, Matthew: Sorta Like a Rockstar
Roy, Jennifer: Mindblind
Shusterman, Neal: Unwind
Stork, Francisco X.: Marcelo in the Real World OR The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Teller, Janne: Nothing
Thompson, Holly: Orchards
Vaught, Susan: My Big Fat Manifesto
Whitney, Daisy: The Mockingbirds
Williams, Carol Lynch: Miles from Ordinary
Wiess, Laura: Such a Pretty Girl OR Leftovers
Wollston, Blythe: The Freak Observer
Zarr, Sara: Story of a Girl OR Lost OR How to Save a Life
One of the following*
Block, Francesca Lia: Weetzie Bat
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
Jackson, Corinne: If I Lie
Johnson, Angela: A Certain October
Keegan, Nicola: Swimming
Keplinger, Kody: The D.U.F.F.
Lockhart, E.: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Martinez, Jessica: Virtuoisty
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert: Dairy Queen
Myracle, Lauren: Shine
Nelson, Jandy: The Sky Is Everywhere
Perkins, Stephanie: Anna and the French Kiss
Ryan, Amy Kathleen: Zen and Xander Undone
Sales, Leila: Past Perfect
Stone, Phoebe: The Boy on Cinnamon Street
Tregay, Sarah: Love and Leftovers
Tubb, Kristin O’Donnell: Selling Hope
Van Draanen, Wendelin: The Running Dream
One of the following*
Bradbury, Jennifer: Shift
Calame, Don: Swim the Fly
Chambers, Aidan: Dying to Know You
Cohen, Joshua C.: Leverage
Cusick, John M.: Girl Parts
Green, John: Anything (incl. Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
Harmon, Michael: The Last Exit to Normal
Herbach, Geoff: Stupid Fast
Horowitz, Anthony: Alex Rider Book #1
Key, Watt: Alabama Moon
Koertge, Ronald: Stoner & Spaz
Korman, Gordan: Pop
Maberry, Jonathan: Rot & Ruin
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
Schmidt, Gary D.: Okay for Now
Sonnenblick, Jordan: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
Tharp, Tim: Knights of the Hill Country
Zusak, Marcus: I Am the Messenger
One of the following*
Anderson, M. T.: Feed
Bacigalupi, Paolo: Shipbreaker
Baggott, Julianna: Pure
Bardugo, Leigh: Shadow and Bone
Billingsley, Franny: Chime
Black, Holly: Tithe
Boyce, Frank: Cosmic
Card, Orsen Scott: Ender’s Game
Cashore, Kristin: Graceling OR Fire OR Bitterblue
Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
Connolly, John: The Book of Lost Things
Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron
Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book
Goto, Hiromi: Half World
L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C. S.: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Mafi, Tahereh: Shatter Me
Martel, Yann: Life of Pi
Marsden, James: Tomorrow, When the War Began
McBride, Lish: Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Ness, Patrick: A Monster Calls
Paolini, Christopher: Eragon
Pierce, Tamora: Any Tortall book or The Will of the Empress
Pratchett, Terry: Nation
Pullman, Phillip: The Golden Compass
Riordan, Rick: The Lightning Thief
Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Ryan, Amy Kathleen: Glow
Slade, Arthur: The Hunchback Assignments
Stead, Rebecca: When You Read Me OR Liar & Spy
Snicket, Lemony (Handler, Daniel): The Bad Begnning (A Series of Unfortunate Events Book #1)
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Hobbit
Turner, Megan Whalen: The Thief
Westerfeld, Scott: Leviathan OR Uglies
Yancy, Rick: The Monstrumologist
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, Williams: 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 Scarlet Letter OR The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest: Anything
Homer: The Iliad OR The Odyssey
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
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.
Each year, Narrate Conferences' staff tackles a reading list for both Sirens, our women-in-fantasy-literature conference that just had it's fourth successful year, and our young-adult conference that is currently in development. These are the staff lists; those of you familiar with the Sirens website will notice that this is not the shorter list that we include on the site. But that doesn't mean you can't read from this list, if you want!
Sirens 2013 Reading List
Required
Johnson, Alaya Dawn: Racing the Dark AND Moonshine
Kushner, Ellen: Thomas the Rhymer AND The Fall of the Kings
LaFevers, Robin: Grave Mercy
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia: Summer of the Mariposas
Two of the following (warriors)*
Bell, Hilar: Fall of a Kingdom
Britain, Kristen: The Green Rider
Carson, Rae: Girl of Fire and Thorns
Cashore, Kristin: Graceling
Chadda, Sarwat: Devil’s Kiss
Chima, Cinda Williams: The Demon King
Clare, Cassandra: City of Bones
Cremer, Andrea: Nightshade
Gaughen, A. C.: Scarlet
Goodman, Alison: Eon
Healey, Karen: Guardian of the Dead
Kushner, Ellen: The Privilege of the Sword
Lackey, Mercedes: Any Valdemar book
Maas, Sarah J. Throne of Glass
Marchetta, Melina: Finnikin of the Rock
Pierce, Tamora: The Song of the Lioness OR Lady Knight OR Terrier
Oliver, Jana G.: The Demon Trapper’s Daughter
Roth, Veronica: Divergent
Smith, Sherwood: Crown Duel OR Coronets and Steel
Vande Velde, Vivian: Heir Apparent
Young, Moira: Blood Red Road
Two of the following (faeries)*
Anderson, R. J.: Knife
Black, Holly: Tithe
Black, Jenna: Glimmerglass
Brennan, Marie: Midnight Never Come
Bull, Emma: War for the Oaks
Dean, Pamela: Tam Lin
Dolamore, Jacklyn: Magic under Glass
Hamilton, Laurell K.: A Kiss of Shadows
Jones, Diana Wynne: Fire and Hemlock
Lindholm, Megan (w/ Brust, Steven): The Gypsy
Livingston, Lesley: Wondrous Strange
Marr, Melissa: Wicked Lovely
Marillier, Juliet: Wildwood Dancing
McGuire, Seanan: Rosemary and Rue
Melling, O. R.: The Hunter’s Moon
Mirrlees, Hope: Lud-in-the-Mist
Pope, Elizabeth: Perilous Gard
Sherman, Delia: Changeling
Simner, Janni Lee: Bones of Faerie
Tomlinson, Heather: Aurelie
Warner, Sylvia Townsend: Kingdoms of Elfin
Windling, Terri (w/ Datlow, Ellen): The Faerie Reel
Two of the following (monsters)*
Billingsley, Franny: Chime
Blake, Kendare: Anna Dressed in Blood
Bronte Charlotte OR Rhys, Jean: Jane Eyre OR Wide Sargasso Sea
Carriger, Gail: Soulless
Clement-Moore, Rosemary: Prom Dates from Hell
Compestine, Ying Chang: A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales
de la Cruz, Melissa: Blue Bloods
Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Creatures
Grant, Mira: Feed
Halam, Anne: Dr. Franklin’s Island
Harris, Charlaine: Dead until Dark
Hodkin, Michelle: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Jenkins, A. M.: Repossessed
Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian
Larbalestier, Justine: Liar
Link, Kelly: Pretty Monsters
Meyer, Stephenie: Twilight
Murphy, Pat AND Padgett, Lewis: His Vegetable Wife AND Mimsy Were the Borogroves
Okorafor, Nnedi: Who Fears Death
Peterfreund, Diana: Rampant
Reeves, Dia: Bleeding Violet OR Slice of Cherry
Ryan, Carrie: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Scheckley, Alisa: The Better to Hold You
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Eternal
Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver
Taylor, Laini: Lips Touch: Three Times
Whedon, Joss and Jeanty, Goerges: The Long Way Home (Buffy, Season 8, Vol. 1)
Yovanoff, Brenna: The Space Between
Two of the following (retold tales)* **
Anderson, Jodi Lynn: Tiger Lily
Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride
Barnhouse, Rebecca: Peaceweaver
Bernheimer, Kate: Any Gold sister book
Black, Holly: White Cat
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Mists of Avalon
Block, Francesca Lia: Roses and Bones
Bunce, Elizabeth C.: A Curse Dark as Gold
Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
Cross, Sarah: Kill Me Softly
Diemer, Sarah: The Dark Wife
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: Palace of Illusions
Donoghue, Emma: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Durst, Sarah Beth: Into the Wild OR Ice
Flinn, Alex: Beastly OR A Kiss in Time OR Cloaked
George, Jessica Day: Princess of Glass OR Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Hale, Shannon: The Goose Girl OR Book of a Thousand Days OR Rapunzel’s Revenge
Hopkinson, Nalo: Midnight Robber OR Brown Girl in the Ring
Johnson, Kij: The Fox Woman
Kerr, Peg: The Wild Swans
Kontis, Alethea: Enchanted
Lanagan, Margo: Tender Morsels
Levine, Gail Carson: Ella Enchanted
Lin, Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon OR Starry River of the Sky
Lo, Malinda: Ash
Lord, Karen: Redemption in Indigo
Mantchev, Lisa: Eyes Like Stars
Marillier, Juliet: Heart’s Blood
McKillip, Patricia: In the Forests of Serre OR The Cygnet and the Firebird
McKinley, Robin: Deerskin OR Rose Daughter OR Spindle’s End OR Beauty
Napoli, Donna Jo: Bound
Nyoka, Gail: Mella and the N’anga: An African Tale
Obrecht, Tea: The Tiger’s Wife
Oyeyemi, Helen: Mr. Fox
Patou, Edith: East
Pearce, Jackson: Sisters Red OR Sweetly
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
Reilly, LeAnn Neal: The Mermaid’s Pendant
Satrapi, Marjane: The Sigh
Sedia, Ekaterina: The Secret History of Moscow
Simner, Janni Lee: Thief Eyes
Springer, Nancy: I Am Morgan le Fay
Tacheuchi, Naoko: Sailor Moon Vol. 1
Tomlinson, Heather: The Swan Maiden OR Toads and Diamonds
Turgeon, Carolyn: Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale
Ursu, Anne (w/ Erin McGuire): Breadcrumbs
Valente, Catherynne: Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden OR Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Vande Velde, Vivian: The Book of Mordred
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything Arthurian
Wrede, Patricia C.: Snow White and Rose Red
Yolen, Jane: Brian Rose OR Snow in Summer
Three of the following*
Beukes, Lauren: Zoo City
Blackman, Malorie: Naughts and Crosses
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: The Conch Bearer
Enchi, Fumiko: Masks
Fagan, Deva: The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle
Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
Goto: Hiromi: Half World
Hairston, Andrea: Redwood and Wildfire
Hamilton, Virginia: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Hopkinson, Nalo: The Chaos
Jemisin, N. K.: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Lowachee, Karin: The Gaslight Dogs
Meminger, Neesha: Into the Wise Dark
Ogiwara, Noriko: Dragon Sword and Wind Child
Okorafor, Nnedi: Akata Witch
Ono, Fuyumi: The Twelve Kingdoms Vol. 1: Sea of Shadow
Parra, Kelly: Invisible Touch
Pon, Cindy: Silver Phoenix
Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Ninth Ward
Suma, Nova Ren: Imaginary Girls
Uehashi, Nahoko: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
West, Michelle: Anything
Four of the following*
Anderson, R. J.: Ultraviolet
Armstrong, Kelly: The Summoning
Berry, Julie: The Amaranth Enchantment
Bow, Erin: Plain Kate
Bracken, Alexandra: Brightly Woven
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens
Briceland, V.: The Glassmaker’s Daughter
Bunce, Elizabeth: Star Crossed
Burgis, Stephanie: Kat, Incorrigible
Cashore, Kristin: Fire OR Bitterblue
Chima, Cinda Williams: Warrior Heir
Cooper, Susan: The Dark Is Rising
Cypess, Leah: Mistwood
Derting, Kimberly: The Body Finder
Duey, Kathleen: Skin Hunger
Durst, Sarah Beth: Vessel
Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron
Flewelling, Lynn: Anything
George, Jessica Day: Tuesdays at the Castle
Hale, Ginn: Wicked Gentlemen
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina
Hoffman, Alice: Green Witch
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: Anything fantasy
Jones, Diana Wynne: Anything
Jones, Jaida and Bennett, Elizabeth: Havemercy
Kittredge, Caitlin: The Iron Thorn
Knox, Elizabeth: Dream Hunter
Lanagan, Margo: The Brides of Rollrock Island
McEntire, Myra: Hourglass
McKillip, Patricia: Ombria in Shadow OR The Alphabet of Thorn
Pierce, Tamora: Trickster’s Choice OR The Will of the Empress
Prineas, Sarah: Winterling
Rees Brennan, Sarah: Unspoken
Reese, Jenn: Above World
Rubino-Bradway, Caitlen: Ordinary Magic
Schwab, Victoria: The Near Witch
Sherman, Delia: The Freedom Maze
Smith, Sherwood: The Spy Princess
Spotswood, Jessica: Born Wicked
Stiefvater, Maggie: The Scorpio Races OR The Raven Boys
Stevermer, Caroline: A College of Magics
Taylor, Laini: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Thompson, Kate: The New Policeman
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Weingarten, Lynn: The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers
Whalen Turner, Megan: The Thief
White, Kiersen: Paranormalcy
Wilce, Ysabeau: Flora Segunda
Yolen, Jane: Anything
Four of the following*
Allen, Sarah Addison: The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Andrews, Ilona: Magic Bites (Kate Daniels Book #1)
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
Bear, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Berg, Carol: The Soul Mirror
Bernobich, Beth: Passion Play
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Any Darkover book
Carey, Jacqueline: Kushiel’s Dart
Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Daniells, Rowena Cory: Anything
Dart-Thornton, Cecilia: The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde Book #1)
de la Cruz, Melissa: Witches of East End
Elliott, Kate: Cold Magic
Freeman, Pamela: Blood Ties (Castings Book #1)
Friedman, C. S., Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Book #1)
Gilman, Greer: Anything
Hamilton, Laurell: Anything
Hand, Elizabeth: Anything
Harris, Joanne: Rusemarks
Hobb, Robin: Anything
Jones, Tamara Siler: Ghosts in the Snow
Katsu, Alma: The Taker
Kerr, Katharine: Daggerspell (Deverry Book #1) OR Darkspell (Deverry Book #2)
Kiernan, Caitlin R.: The Red Tree
Lackey, Mercedes: Anything
Lee, Tanith: Any adult book
Le Guin, Ursula: A Wizard of Earthsea
Marks, Laurie J.: Fire Logic (Elemental Logic Book #1)
McCaffrey, Anne: Any Dragonriders of Pern book
Moon, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Moore, C.L.: Jirel of Joiry
Morganstern, Erin: The Night Circus
Neumeier, Rachel: House of Shadows
Novik, Naomi: His Majesty’s Dragon
Paxson, Diana: Anything
Priest, Cherie: Boneshaker
Rice, Anne: Interview with a Vampire
Riley, Judith Merkle: The Oracle Glass
Sedia, Ekatarina: Alchemy of Stone
Snyder, Maria V.: Poison Study
Snyder, Midori: Soulstring OR New Moon
Valente, Catherynne: Palimpsest
Whitfield, Kit: In Great Waters
Wisoker, Leona: Secrets of the Sands
Optional: One of the following*
Elgin, Suzette Haden: Native Tongue
Kagan, Janet: Hellspark
Bujold, Lois McMcaster: Curse of Chalion
Butler, Octavia: Anything
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: 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.
**Please select books that are retellings of different tales.
YA Conference Needs a Name 2013 Reading List
Required
Abdel-Fattah, Randel: Does My Head Look Big in This?
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens
Gantos, Jack: Dead End in Norvelt
Handler, Daniel and Kalman, Maira: Why We Broke Up
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina
Lai, Thanhha: Inside Out and Back Again
Lanagan, Margo: The Brides of Rollrock Island
Levithan, David: Every Day
Mariz, Rae: The Unidentified
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia: Under the Mesquite
Reinhardt, Dana: The Things a Brother Knows
Rosoff, Meg: There Is No Dog
Wein, Elizabeth: Code Name Verity
Whaley, John Corey: Where Things Come Back
Young, Moira: Blood Red Road
One of the following*
Anderson, Laurie Halse: Chains OR Forge
Anderson, M. T.: Octavian Nothing, Vol. 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
Garcia-Williams, Rita: One Crazy Summer
Flood, Nancy Bo: Warriors in the Crossfire
Hemphill, Stephanie: Wicked Girls
Holt, Kimberly Willis: The Water Seeker
Kelly, Jacqueline: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Larson, Kirby: Hattie Big Sky
Levine: The Lions of Little Rock
McCormack, Patricia: Never Fall Down
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
Vanderpool, Clare: Moon over Manifest
Wiles, Deborah: Countdown
Wilkinson, Lili: Scatterheart
Wright, Barbara: Crow
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: Moonbird
Marrin, Albert: Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
Montgomery, Sy: Kakapo Rescue
Osborne, Linda Barrett: Miles to Go for Freedom
Rappaport, Doreen: Beyond Courage
Rusch, Elizabeth: The Mighty Mars Rovers
Sandler, Martin W.: The Impossible Rescue
Sheinkin, Steve: Bomb
Stone, Tanya Lee: Almost Astronauts
One of the following*
Bantle, Lee: David Inside Out
Beam, Cris: I Am J
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
Danforth, Emily M.: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Dole, Mayra Lazara: Down to the Bone
Garden, Nancy: Annie on My Mind
Horner, Emily: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
King, A. S.: Ask the Passengers
Levithan, David: Boy Meets Boy
Moore, Perry: Hero
Peters, Julie Ann: Luna
Revoyr, 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*
Alexie, Sherman: Flight OR The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Blackman, Malorie: Noughts and Crosses
Booth, Coe: Tyrell
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
Gonzalez, Christina: The Red Umbrella
Hijuelos, Oscar: Dark Dude
Levine, Anna: Freefall
Meminger, Neesha: Shine, Coconut Moon
Perkins, Mitali: Anything
Quintero, Sofia: Efrain’s Secret
Schmidt, Gary D.: Trouble
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
Stratton, Allan: Borderline
Tan, Shaun: The Arrival
Woodson, Jacqueline: After Tupac and D Foster
Yang, Gene Luen: American Born Chinese
Two 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
Bray, Libba: Going Bovine
Christopher, Lucy: Stolen
Connelly, Neil: The Miracle Stealer
Cummings, Patricia: Blindsided
de Vigan, Delphine: No and Me
Dowd, Siobhan: The London Eye Mystery OR A Swift Pure Cry
Draper, Sharon: Out of My Mind
Erskine, Kathryn: Mockingbird
Forman, Gayle: If I Stay
Franklin, Emily: The Half-Life of Planets
Giles, Gail: Right Behind You
Green, John: The Fault in Our Stars
Hartnett, Sonya: Surrender
Hautman, Pete: Godless
Hernandez, David: Suckerpunch
Hopkins, Ellen: Anything
Hunt, Lynda Mullaly: One for the Murphys
John, Antony: Five Flavors of Dumb
Kelly, Tara: Harmonic Feedback
King, A. S.: Please Ignore Vera Dietz OR Everybody Sees the Ants
Leavitt, Martine: My Book of Life by Angel
Madigan, L. K.: Flash Burnout
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
Palacio, R. J.: Wonder
Peters, Julie Ann: By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
Quick, Matthew: Sorta Like a Rockstar
Roy, Jennifer: Mindblind
Shusterman, Neal: Unwind
Stork, Francisco X.: Marcelo in the Real World OR The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Teller, Janne: Nothing
Thompson, Holly: Orchards
Vaught, Susan: My Big Fat Manifesto
Whitney, Daisy: The Mockingbirds
Williams, Carol Lynch: Miles from Ordinary
Wiess, Laura: Such a Pretty Girl OR Leftovers
Wollston, Blythe: The Freak Observer
Zarr, Sara: Story of a Girl OR Lost OR How to Save a Life
One of the following*
Block, Francesca Lia: Weetzie Bat
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
Jackson, Corinne: If I Lie
Johnson, Angela: A Certain October
Keegan, Nicola: Swimming
Keplinger, Kody: The D.U.F.F.
Lockhart, E.: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Martinez, Jessica: Virtuoisty
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert: Dairy Queen
Myracle, Lauren: Shine
Nelson, Jandy: The Sky Is Everywhere
Perkins, Stephanie: Anna and the French Kiss
Ryan, Amy Kathleen: Zen and Xander Undone
Sales, Leila: Past Perfect
Stone, Phoebe: The Boy on Cinnamon Street
Tregay, Sarah: Love and Leftovers
Tubb, Kristin O’Donnell: Selling Hope
Van Draanen, Wendelin: The Running Dream
One of the following*
Bradbury, Jennifer: Shift
Calame, Don: Swim the Fly
Chambers, Aidan: Dying to Know You
Cohen, Joshua C.: Leverage
Cusick, John M.: Girl Parts
Green, John: Anything (incl. Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
Harmon, Michael: The Last Exit to Normal
Herbach, Geoff: Stupid Fast
Horowitz, Anthony: Alex Rider Book #1
Key, Watt: Alabama Moon
Koertge, Ronald: Stoner & Spaz
Korman, Gordan: Pop
Maberry, Jonathan: Rot & Ruin
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
Schmidt, Gary D.: Okay for Now
Sonnenblick, Jordan: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
Tharp, Tim: Knights of the Hill Country
Zusak, Marcus: I Am the Messenger
One of the following*
Anderson, M. T.: Feed
Bacigalupi, Paolo: Shipbreaker
Baggott, Julianna: Pure
Bardugo, Leigh: Shadow and Bone
Billingsley, Franny: Chime
Black, Holly: Tithe
Boyce, Frank: Cosmic
Card, Orsen Scott: Ender’s Game
Cashore, Kristin: Graceling OR Fire OR Bitterblue
Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
Connolly, John: The Book of Lost Things
Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron
Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book
Goto, Hiromi: Half World
L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C. S.: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Mafi, Tahereh: Shatter Me
Martel, Yann: Life of Pi
Marsden, James: Tomorrow, When the War Began
McBride, Lish: Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Ness, Patrick: A Monster Calls
Paolini, Christopher: Eragon
Pierce, Tamora: Any Tortall book or The Will of the Empress
Pratchett, Terry: Nation
Pullman, Phillip: The Golden Compass
Riordan, Rick: The Lightning Thief
Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Ryan, Amy Kathleen: Glow
Slade, Arthur: The Hunchback Assignments
Stead, Rebecca: When You Read Me OR Liar & Spy
Snicket, Lemony (Handler, Daniel): The Bad Begnning (A Series of Unfortunate Events Book #1)
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Hobbit
Turner, Megan Whalen: The Thief
Westerfeld, Scott: Leviathan OR Uglies
Yancy, Rick: The Monstrumologist
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, Williams: 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 Scarlet Letter OR The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest: Anything
Homer: The Iliad OR The Odyssey
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
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.