Summer Reading: The Real Must Reads for Teens
You know those summer reading lists they give you at the end of the school year? Kafka and Orwell and so on? Well, throw it out. Because here’s the real summer must-read list for teens!
- Best Kissing: Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott
- Best Summer Lovin’: Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
- Best Page Turner: Cracked up to Be by Courtney Summers
- Best YA with Grace & Beauty of The Lovely Bones: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- Best Overall Romance: Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen
- Best Romantic Comedy: Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
- Best Everything Changes YA: One Lonely Degree by C.K. Kelly Martin
- Best Escape: The Season by Sara MacLean
- Best Fantastically Tragic Protagonist: The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
- Best Life Lesson: North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
- Best “Boy” Book The Girls Will Like Too: Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
- Best Post-Apocalyptic Thriller That Will Make You Think the Noises Your Cats Make in the Night Come from Zombies: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
- Best Better-Than-Twilight Book: Evermore by Alyson Noel
Now go to the library, the book store, your best friend and read!!!
The list was compiled this list with the help of four writing friends: Trish Doller, Suzanne Young, Courtney Summers and Mandy Morgan. And no, Courtney didn’t pick her own book for the list. I picked it! The list includes books published in 2008 and 2009.
Diane ~ The Book Resort posted: 24 Jun at 4:24 pm
Love the list!
Lara Zielin posted: 25 Jun at 8:19 am
Great list! I can attest the FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH is completely brilliant. And I’m totally psyched to read IF I STAY. Well, all of them really!
Sarah-GreenBeanTeenQueen posted: 25 Jun at 8:53 am
I love this list! Great picks. And I’ll need to read Perfect You now-that’s one I haven’t gotten to read yet, although Something Maybe had some good kissing in it too
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courtney posted: 29 Jun at 7:25 pm
Hee! It never occurred to me that it would look maybe ~suspect~ having my book on there as well as being a contributor to the list! Anyway, I had lots of fun brainstorming titles. And I’m looking forward to checking out the ones everyone else picked out.
Deanna posted: 30 Jun at 6:27 pm
Thanks for list. I like how you catergorized the books. I am going to check these books out from the library for my older girls (and myself).