Reads

All of the lists are based off books I’ve read, and they are guaranteed to change as I read more books. 

10 books to change your life 

1. Looking for Alaska by John  Green
2. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
3. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. The Giver by Lois Lowry
6. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
7. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
8. A Fault in Our Stars by John Green
9. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

10 fiction books with (somewhat) historical settings that may (or may not) make you cry

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
5. The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
6. Fever 1973 by Laurie Halse Anderson
7. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
8. The Watson’s Go To Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
9. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
10. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Top 10 favorite book series’ 

1. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
2. The Golden Compass Trilogy by Philip Pullman
3. Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
4. Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
5. Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield
6. The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot
7.  Shifters Series by Rachel Vincent
8. Twilight Trilogy by Stephanie Meyer
9.  The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
10. Daughter of the Lioness Duology by Tamora Pierce

5 favorites for mystery/thrillers lovers

1. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
2. Deception Point by Dan Brown
3. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
4. The Rules of Prey by John Sanford
5. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The 12 books I want to read in 2014

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath [x]
2. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
3. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis [x] – BEST SO FAR
4. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Started and couldn’t finish. Need a new suggestion!)
5. MWF seeks BFF by Rachel Bertsche [x]
6. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wells
7. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho [x]
8. Watership Down by Richard Adams
9. A Little Princes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown [x]
11. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
12. The Help by Kathryn Stockett [x]

More lists to come…