Tell Me What to Read: Round 8
It is, once again, the time of the month where I humiliate myself by admitting how few books I’ve truly read (or, perhaps, the problem is that not enough of you are suggesting fluffy teen romances. Yes, clearly you are the troubling part of this equation).
Anyway, suggest away. Same as usual.
It can be any genre, any age level, and have been published last week or three hundred years ago. You can pick it because it’s a book that everyone should read or because it changed your life or because it is great literature or just because it entertained you. You can DEFINITELY suggest the same book you suggested last month.
Here’s how it goes:
- Comment with the title of one book you think I should read (any book you want). One title only, please, lest my brain explode.
- I’ll select one comment at random and announce it on the blog later next week.
- On the off-chance that I’ve already read the book you select, I’ll contact you and ask for a follow-up suggestion (make sure there is a way to contact you either by blog or email).
- I’ll get a copy of the book and read it by the end of February.
- I’ll write a review of it here. Even if I hate the book, I will not hate you.
And. . .go!
I have to go with 1000 White Women again, you will LOVE it!
Cutting for Stone. When you first look at this book it seems like a tome, but the story was so enthralling that I breezed through it in a handful of days.
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
I've been reading her blog for awhile now and she has a book!
I think I'm going to do a repeat again (unless, did you read it without telling??)…
Regardless: The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carmen.
There's a new one out and I want to read it. Only my local library is lame. Good thing I'm going home in May and my mom always has the latest books (or can be easily enticed to purchase them). I can wait.
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 🙂
Gregor the Overlander, by Suzanne Collins
Since I desperately want to see Janssen read some epic fantasy, I'm going to suggest The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson again(!).
Tell me what to read, already? And round 8, already? Man, this month went by fast!
I'm nominating The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz because I loved it, even after I had to write a paper on it. It's a rare book that's still fun after being subjected to general academic-ness.
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
I haven't read any weird books for school to inflict upon you yet this semester.
So I'll go with Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. You've probably already read it, but if not, you should and prepare to fear for your life.
Ooh, Melinda already recommended The Happiness Project! I will throw in a second vote for that one. I think you'll like it!
I'm currently reading
Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata.
Methinks you may have already read this one.
I remember reading this in middle school and liking it a lot. Dealing with Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede
I'm going to suggest Olive Kitteridge again!
I'll ditto Melanie and request Cutting for Stone, again.
In honor of JD Salinger's passing I'm going to suggest Catcher in the Rye- it's as far from fluffy teen romances probably as you can get but it was a revolutionary book that shaped literature and people forever
you know…
Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey.
There's more Suzanne Collins out there, Bart? Yippee!
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Seriously, it's long, and the beginning is a little hard to get into. But after that, it's a beautiful book. I wish I could read it again for the first time.
I am going to say Fablehaven again. I just think it's magical!