Top Ten Popular Authors I've Never Read

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish

I’m kind of surprised at myself and actually a bit embarrassed of never reading anything about some of these authors.  Others, I haven’t read by choice.

1. Huntley Fitzpatrick – I’ve heard amazing things about My Life Next Door, and I even own the book, but I’ve yet to read it.  I hope to do it soon, before her next book gets released.  

2. Kiera Cass – This is another series that I’ve only heard good things about and the covers is to die for.  I also own The Selection, first book in the series.

3. Stephen King – I’ve never read anything by Stephen King, because honestly, I’m afraid.  I saw the move IT years ago and I was so freaked out that I can’t imagine reading any of this books.

4. Amanda Hocking – I purchased Trylle years ago, when the series was an indie publication, but I never read it.

5. Gena Showalter – What can I say? (there’s no defense, I’m sure.)

6. V.C Andrews – This is one of my cousins favorite authors, but every time I see her books I just can’t make myself pick one up. 

7. Sophie Jordan – I know, I know.  I did purchased Uninvited in audio book and I fully intend to ‘read’ this one… I just haven’t yet.

8. Tahereh Mafi – *hangs head in shame* Shatter Me

9. Michelle Hodkin – This is another very popular series that I haven’t started. I do own a copy of  The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and I fully intend to read it.  Some day.

10. Marie Lu - Again, I own the first book of the series, Legend  and I’ve heard is a really good one. 

I kind of see a pattern here… Anyway, what’s in your Top Ten this week?

Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2013

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish

2013 was definitely one my best ever years for reading. I read so many great books and discovered so many fantastic stories. If 2014 is going to be just half as good,  I say roll on the New Year!

1. Katie McGarry

I finally read Pushing the Limits and loved it!

2. Huntley Fitzpatrick

I'd wanted to read My Life Next Door ever since I'd first heard about it, but I didn't get around to it until late this year - and now it's one of my all-time favourites.

3. Marie Lu

I absolutely ADORE the Legend trilogy. I read all three this year - in fact, I finished Champion just this week, and it was amazing!

4. Sarah Dessen

I don't know how I managed not to read Sarah Dessen for so long. She's the queen of contemporary romantic YA!

5. Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein sets out to rip out her readers' hearts with her fabulous and brutal books, so naturally I read both Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire in the same year!

6. Robyn Schneider

The Beginning of Everything (or Severed Heads, Broken Hearts as it's titled in Europe) is Robyn's debut novel, but she's been a Youtube personality and vlogger for years - I don't know how I missed her!

7. Ruta Sepetys

Another author out to break my heart. Ruta writes incredible moving books, and her second novel, Out of the Easy, became one of my favourite reads of the year.

8. Sarra Manning

Sarra Manning's Adorkable made me laugh out the entire time I was reading it. I had no idea I'd love it so much!

9. Luisa Plaja

 

Luisa is a fabulous UK author who writes fun, girly books for teens, and after some very insistent recommendations, I finally gave in to reading her in 2013.

10. David Levithan

And representing the male authors I should have read way sooner, it's David Levithan! I can't wait to read his recently announced follow-up, Rhiannon - assuming he's started writing it!

What new authors did you discover this year?

Top Ten Books I'd Recommend To Someone Who Wants a Taste of Everything Young Adult!

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by The Broke and the Bookish

Sometimes it can seem like YA is completely ruled by one genre or another. When I'm recommending YA to my friends, though, I try to recommend something that will really mean something to them - and I'm not just talking about books everyone else is reading. We've all heard about John Green and JK Rowling. But for those who maybe don't read as much as we do, and might not have heard about all the great books that are out there? It's our duty as book bloggers to shed light on some of the YA favourites others could be missing out on.

So without further ado, here's my Top Ten Crash Course in All Things YA...

1. The One With The Happiness and the Families and All the Love: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

2. The Off-The-Beaten Track Contemporary: The Beginning ofEverything by Robyn Schneider

3. That One Undefinable Book Nobody Has Read but Really Really Should: Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

4. The Best of the Rebels and the Leaders and the Realism: Legend by Marie Lu

Top Ten Books I'm Excited to Read in 2012

Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish

There are a lot of books in my to-be-read pile (just look in Goodreads!), but I think a lot of the books I want to read next year are sequels to series I already started (and there are too many to count).  Here are some of the books that I excited to read this year:

1.  Wings of the Wicked by Courtney Allison Moulton  - The sequel to Angelfire, one of my favorite books last year.

2.  Stolen Nights by Rebecca Maizel - I have been waiting for this book forever! Infinite Days was published in August of 2010 and the sequel is not due for publication until September, almost two years later!

3.  The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting - This will be book number three of the Body Finder series. Violet and Jay are one of my favorite couples ever!

4.  Insurgent by Veronica Roth - LOVED Divergent, need I say more?

5.  Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey - This is another book that is taking forever to get here!  It is the sequel to Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side which I loved.

6.  The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross - I really enjoy steampunk and specially The Girl in the Steel Corset.  I'm ready for the next American adventure!

7.  Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore - If you'd read Fire or Graceling I don't have to explain, right?

8.  My Life Next Door by Huntley Firtzpatrick - A contemporary YA romance, I love these.

9.  Grave Mercy by R.L. LaFevers - The cover is so cool, I like the image of a kick ass heroine.

10. A Million Suns by Beth Revis - What else can happen on board of the spaceship Godspeed? 

And many, many more! 

How about you?  What books are you most excited about in 2012?

Waiting on Wednesday: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Title: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Publised by:  Dial Books For Young Readers

Release date: 2012

"One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time."

The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen year old Samantha wishes she was one of them… until the day Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything.

Jase can sense that his beautiful neighbor is missing something in her sterile home, and as the two fall fiercely in love, his family makes her one of their own.

But when the bottom drops out of Sam's world, which perfect family will save her–and will her perfect love survive?

Set among the haves and have-nots of a coastal New England town, My LIFE NEXT DOOR captures the angst, the heartache, and the raw-nerve emotions of first time love—and biting loss.

Why I want to read it? - I have a good feeling about this book, just by reading the description.  It sounds like a good contemporary romance / coming of age book. Can't wait to visit with the Garrets!

What are you waiting for this week?