Tuesday, January 13, 2009

2009 YA Challenge


The challenge is to read 12 YA novels in 2009.  I'm pretty sure I won't have any trouble with this one.  Here's some books that qualify on my TBR:
  • Uglies
  • Poison Study
  • Hattie Big Sky
  • The Adoration of Jenna Fox
  • The Loser's Guide to Life and Love
  • My Most Excellent Year:  A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
  • Suite Scarlett
  • How I Live Now

8 comments:

Emilia said...

Tricia-I recommend the audio recording of "how I live now". Kim Mai Guest reads it and is Amazing. (Kim Mai Guest does a lot of voice over work and was given the compliment of being "the first girl to make a female character's death not sound orgasmic".)

Chantele Sedgwick said...

I'm doing this one as well! I love YA novels!;)

Irish said...

I'm doing this challenge as well. Like you I think it will be easy since I really enjoy YA lit.

I read Uglies a few months ago and look forward to seeing what you think about it.

Renee said...

Loved the Uglies series.

Can I recommend adding Cory Doctorow's Little Brother to the list? Stayed up all night (on a work night) reading it.

Tricia said...

Irish: Have you read the rest of the series too?

Renee: Leave me recommendations any time. PLEASE!

Ladytink_534 said...

I really liked Uglies and I plan to finish the rest of the series eventually. I've had Magic Study on my shelf for a couple of years now but haven't gotten around to reading it yet :(

Anonymous said...

I'm in the middle of this one, too :) I actually have to invest in more YA, though -- I only have two more titles in my TBR pile that would qualify! I'm usually reading contemporary fiction. I don't think I'll have a hard time buying more books, though. :) Good luck!

Irish said...

I've read the 3 books that make up the core trilogy. I loved them all. But my faves were 1 and 2. I still have yet to read the 4th book Extras - a stand along book in the same universe which is set a few years after Specials ends and takes place in a different city. I hope to get to it this year though.

For the core books I ended up reading them all in just a few days. I took the advice of a friend to get all 3 at once and I didn't regret it...I was so glad to be able to read them all straight through.