Reading Archive

A

Absolutely True Diaries of a Part-Time Indian, The - Sherman Alexie
Afterlife - Claudia Gray

As You Wish - Jackson Pearce

Awakening, The - Kelley Armstrong

B

Bad Girls Don't Die - Katie Alender

Ballads of Suburbia - Stephanie Kuehnert
Beautiful - Amy Reed
Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Because I Am Furniture - Thalia Chatlas 
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver

Betrayed - P.C. & Kristin Cast

Bonechiller - Graham McNamee

Breathe: A Ghost Story - Cliff McNish

Breathe My Name - R.A Nelson
Bright Forever, The - Lee Martin

C

Captivate - Carrie Jones

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Center of Everything - Laura Moriarty

Chasing Brooklyn - Lisa Schroeder

Chosen - P.C. & Kristin Cast
Come Back - Claire and Mia Fontaine

Cracked Up to Be - Courtney Summers
Crank - Ellen Hopkins

Crazy Beautiful - Lauren Boratz-Logstead
Crescendo - Becca Fitzpatrick

D
Dark Divine, The - Bree Despain
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris 
Deadly Little Games - Laurie Faria Stolarz

Deadly Little Secrets - Laurie Faria Stolarz
Deadly Little Lies - Laurie Faria Stolarz

Devouring, The - Simon Holt
Dreaming Anastasia - Joy Preble

E

Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, The - Carolyn Mackler
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert 
End of Days - Max Turner 
Entice - Carrie Jones

Evernight - Claudia Gray

F

Fade - Lisa McMann
Fallen - Lauren Kate 
Fall For Anything - Courtney Summers
Flawless - Sara Shepard
Forest of Hands and Teeth, The - Carrie Ryan

G
Ghost and the Goth, The - Stacey Kade

Ghosts of Kerfol, The - Deborah Noyes
Graceling - Kristin Cashore

Great and Terrible Beauty, A - Libba Bray

H

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Her and Me and You - Lauren Strasnick
Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins
Hold Tight - Harlan Coben
Hollow, The - Jessica Verday
Hourglass - Claudia Gray

Hunger Games, The - Suzanne Collins

Hush Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick

I
If I Stay - Gayle Forman 
I'll Fly Away - Wally Lamb
Immortal: Love Stories with Bite - Various Authors 
Iron Daughter, The - Julie Kagawa
Iron King, The - Julie Kagawa

J
Jane - April Lindner

Jekel Loves Hyde - Beth Fantaskey
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side - Beth Fantaskey

Jumping off Swings - Jo Knowles

Just Listen - Sarah Dessen
Just One Wish - Janette Rallison

K
Kissed By An Angel - Elizabeth Chandler

L

Last Song, The - Nicholas Sparks

Leaving Paradise - Simone Elkeles 
Lessons from a Dead Girl - Jo Knowles

Liar - Justine Larbalestier
Life in the Fat Lane - Cherie Bennett 
Linger - Maggie Stiefvater

Living Dead Girl - Elizabeth Scott
Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen

Looking For Alaska - John Green

Love, Aubrey - Suzanne LaFleur

M

Mark, The - Jen Nadol
Marked - P.C. & Kristin Cast
Match Made in High School, A - Kristin Walker

Maybe - Brent Runyon
Maze Runner, The - James Dashner
Mercy - Jodi Piccoult

Million Little Pieces, A - James Frey 
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

My Life as a Rhombus - Varian Johnson

My Soul to Take - Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Save - Rachel Vincent

N

Need - Carrie Jones
Nevermore - Kelly Creagh 
Nightshade - Andrea Cremer

Night Runner - Max Turner
Night World No. 1 - L.J. Smith
Night World No. 2 - L.J. Smith

Northern Light, A - Jennifer Donnelly
Nothing Like You - Lauren Strasnick

O

P
Perfect - Sara Shepard

Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
Possessions - Nancy Holder
Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard
Project 17 - Laurie Faria Stolarz
Prophecy of the Sisters - Michelle Zink

Q

R

Rebel Angels - Libba Bray

Reckoning, The - Kelley Armstrong
Return to Paradise - Simone Elkeles
Running with Scissors - Augusten Borroughs 
Rules of Attraction - Simone Elkeles

S

Season, The - Sarah Maclean
Send Me Down a Miracle - Han Nolan
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb 
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater

Shock Point - April Henry
Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, The - Stephenie Meyer

Silver Phoenix - Cindy Pon
Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce
Sky Always Hears Me: And the Hills Don't Mind, The - Kristin Cronn-Mills
Sky is Everywhere, The - Jandy Nelson
Slice of Cherry - Dia Reeves

Some Girls Are - Courtney Summers

Soulstice, The - Simon Holt

Stargazer - Claudia Gray
Summer I Turned Pretty, The - Jenny Han

Summoning, The - Kelley Armstrong

Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson

Sweet Far Thing, The - Libba Bray

Swoon - Nina Malkin

T
Tantalize - Cynthia Leitich Smith

Teach Me - R.A. Nelson

This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen
Three Little Words - Ashley Rhodes Courtier

Torn to Pieces - Margot McDonnell
Twenty Boy Summer - Sarah Ockler
Two Way Street - Lauren Barnholt

U

Untamed - P.C. & Kristin Cast
Unbelievable - Sara Shepard

Unwind - Neil Shusterman

V
View from the Top, The - Hillary Frank
Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

Vampire Diaries (books 1&2) - L.J Smith

Vast Fields of Ordinary, The - Nick Burd

W

Wake - Lisa McMann
Where the Truth Lies - Jessica Warman
Wicked - Sara Shephard 
Willow - Julia Hoban

X

Y 
Year I Turned Sixteen, The - Diane Schwemm

Z

Just Listen - Sarah Dessen

Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store. This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen's help,maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends.

I really enjoyed this novel, Sarah Dessen is such a good role-model for teens and tweens. Most of her books are about acceptance and loving what's real, which is exactly what this book is about.

I fell in love with Owen, he was such a sweetheart and I loved that he wasn't the perfect guy, but the perfect one for her. The way he talked her her and healed her heart was just adorable and when she's finally learning the lesson she was supposed to, you just want to jump for joy and be a part in the party.

****

I'll Fly Away - Wally Lamb

With I'll Fly Away, Lamb offers readers a new volume of intimate pieces from the York workshop. Startling, heartbreaking, and inspiring, these stories are as varied as the individuals who wrote them, but each illuminates an important core truth: that a life can  be altered through self-awareness and the power of the written word.

Pretty good read - kind of hard to read at times but it's a short and quick book to get through because it's short stories. Some stories are the prisoners as children, some as teens, and some while in prison. I wanted to get it because I love Wally Lamb. He didn't write the stories but helped in editing the material.

*****

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling

Of course I needed to add this book on the archive ;) I read it the night it first came out and my love affair still isn't over with it. Some might disagree with me and not have liked the ending, but I thought it was good. While I was disappointed Harry didn't get with Luna and Draco didn't get with Hermione (yeah I'm a hopeless shipper!), I thought it ended the way it was destined.

I loved the nonstop action and the never ending 'poor Harry' lines I thought during the book! You can't help but to love Harry and I loved how nonchalant he was and how he always took his abilities in stride. I bouight the audiobook the same night as the book, and I still listen to it every night while I hit the sack! ;)

Now we need to convince Jo to write a series about the Marauder era! (More Snape/Lily please? Thank you!) ;D

*****

Mercy - Jodi Piccoult

 Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy.

Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie -- seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he'd grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. And when an inexplicable attraction leads to a shocking betrayal, Allie faces the hardest questions of the heart: when does love cross the line of moral obligation? And what does it mean to truly love another?

I thought this book was excellent. Cameron MacDonald is a chief in his small town when they discover the body of a dead woman in the truck with her husband. The man loved his wife so much that he was willing to grant her every wish, even if that was to end her life. It really challenges morality and how far someone would truly be willing to go for love.

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