If you've stuck around at my blog you may remember two of my older
posts, one called “13 Books Every Girl Should Read Before She's 25” and the
other called “Summer Reading: My Top 10 Suggestions.” Both offer some great book recommendations If
I do say so myself (and I do). But since it has been a while since I last wrote
on the subject, I thought I would once again regale you all with recommendations
of a few of the books I love.
Beauty by Robin McKinley – This is my all-time favorite retelling of
the story of Beauty and the Beast. I
stumbled across it years ago at my local library and never looked back.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
– This book… What can I even say? This
is one of those books that you probably don’t want to try to read in public
because you will laugh out loud and people will look at you strangely. This woman just lives quite a strange life
and I think we all owe her thanks for sharing her stories with us.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman – The sequel is also very good but this one
was hauntingly so. Basically, it’s the
story of a girl in limbo deciding whether or not to continue living. There is much more to it than that but that
is the main premise.
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini – I saw this book in stores
for years before finally picking it up and I’m so glad that I eventually
did. It’s a basic teen angst slash
coming of age story but the cast of characters make it come to life the way
some books like this might not.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt – I won’t lie,
when I decided to read this in high school it took me a while to get into and
consequently took me longer to read than most books. That said, it’s still a book I think about sometimes.
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