Ultimate YA books Tier List Maker

The "Ultimate YA books Tier List Maker" has been going around the internet for a while now, and as a list lover, I just want to jump on the bandwagon.

I changed the tiers around a bit for my liking, and wanted to do this in three steps:

1st round: rank them based on how you feel

2nd round: rank them based on your star ratings

3rd round: compare to the cumulative average rankings

Because the thing is, some of these books I've read ages ago - and even if I loved them then, maybe I don't think so highly of them anymore when compared to others? I guess we shall see

ROUND 1:
>> It looks more like a linear growth than the bell curve I was hoping for

 >> Starting from the bottom:
- In bad tier everything is 1-2 stars except Eleanor and Park, Every Day, All the Bright Places and Looking for Alaska are 3 stars
- In okay tier everything is from 3,5-4 stars with Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Shatter Me and The Book Thief being 3 stars and Three Dark Crowns being 2,5
- In good tier everything is again between 3,5-4
- In great tier everything is between 4-4,5
- In best tier everything is between 4,5-5

ROUND 2:
 >> Actually quite a bit of moving things around with everything staying put or shifting up or down by 1, except ACoTaR by 2

ROUND 3:

  >> Now this is different with Anna and the French Kiss, The Wrath and the Dawn, Percy Jackson moving the most
And then all the other books I haven't read, from which Cruel Prince, Darker Shade of Magic and Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda are the top rated ones

Link to the TierMaker list here: https://tiermaker.com/create/ultimate-ya-books-series-155444

Not sure who the creator is, but here's the first one I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmCUZVRLMA

Read on lovelies,

S

Duologies I've Read

I've noticed somewhat of a pattern and well it turns out, I really like duologies!

You get more than just a story of one book (without being terrified of it being a loooong book),
you can binge it fast and you don't need to wait years and years to complete it!

So I have compiled all the duologies I've read, and what I rated them:


In the order I read them:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 4
Holes 4
Alice in Wonderland 4

Mind Games 3.5

If I Stay 4

Reboot 2
Imposter 4
Assassins Curse 5

The Book of Ivy 5 & 4.5

Anomaly 3.5 & 1

Wrath and the Dawn 4.5

Flame in the Mist 4.5 & 3.75
Spindle Fire 2.5 & 3.5
Daughter of the Pirate King 4.5

I'm surprised by how many I've read! There are definite top ones, and well not so great ones.

Read on lovelies,

S

Kept Books, Maybe Pile and Organization

Last weeks post was about unhauling books with a goal of only owning the books I really like and want to reread.
This followup post will delve into my kept books, my maybe pile and how I've organized everything on my shelves.

When it comes to organizing my books I mainly kept them in color order since it's a fast way for me to find a book.

The top row has white to grey to black.

The second row has "colorful" books in rainbow-ish order.
Since they perfectly fit I left it like that, but when there'll be additions I'll start shifting the darker blue books to the top row.

The third row has three sections.
On the left there are my Harry Potters (and three illustrated ones in Finnish)
In the middle there are my classics (collections on the left and others on the right)
Then on the farmost right there's one book that I'm currently reading (technically this is my TBR pile, but I only have that one)


MAYBE pile:
These are located on the top shelf middle-ish, so still on my shelves with the others but slightly indented further.
    If I Stay 1

    Clockwork Angel 1-3

    Heist Society 1-3
    Snow Like Ashes 1-3
    Impostor 1-2
I'll be reading the first few chapters of each to see if I'm interested anymore after which I'll decided if I'll keep any of them.


Maybe: 12
Keeping: 81 + 7 classics (+1 duplicate), 7 HP (+3 duplicates) = 95 (+4)
^ The duplicates I have are copies in Finnish

Read on lovelies,

S

Book Cover pt2: Dislikes

Book cover likes and dislikes

I think we all have those things we find really off-putting on covers, and things that draw us in so here are the picks for my least favorites:

I really don't like it when the authors name is bigger than the title, but the thing is that's what sells - the name. Another think I usually don't like is people on the cover, especially photos of ones

Case in point:

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Enigma: I've talked about this book before, not in the best light, but I mean that cover. I, yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that.

City of Bones: You know what? I don't think I need to explain myself with any of these...

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Read on lovelies,

S

Also anyone else notice how my favorites had a color scheme of lightness and colors,

and on the other hand these are darker.

Recommendations of the year

2017 first half

(From ones I've read this year)

    Heartache
       Boy in the Striped Pajamas
     
    Funny
       My Lady Jane

    Romance
       PS I Like You

    Fairytale Retelling
       Geekerella
       Heartless
   
    Non-Fiction
        A is for Arsenic
        Girl Code

SEQUELS
     Torch Against the Night
     The Shadow Cadets of Pennyroyal Academy

Read on lovelies,

S

Favorite Opening Lines of Books

Pennyroyal Academy - If I'm still in this forest by nightfall, I'll never leave it again.


The Raven Boys - Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love.


All Fall Down - When I was twelve I broke my leg jumping off the wall between Canada and Germany.


Cinder and Ella - The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy. I understand the reasoning behind it. No one likes a pampered heroine. A great character neeeds trials to overcome - experiences to give them depth, to make them vulnerable, relatable, and likable. Good characters need hardships to make them strong. The idea makes sense, but it still sucks if you're the heroine.


The Shadow Society - knowing what I know now, I'd say my fostermother had her reasons for throwing a kitchen knife at me.


Ella Enchanted - That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.


Assassins Curse - I ain't never been one to trust beautiful people, and Tarrin of the Hariri was the most beautiful man I ever saw.


My Lady Jane (prologue) - You may think you know the story. It goes like this: once upon a time, there was a sixteen-year-old girl named Jane Grey, who was forced to marry a complete stranger (Lord Guildford or Gilford or Gifford-something-or-other), and shortly thereafter found herself ruler of a country. She was queen for nine days. Then she quite literally lost her head.

Yes, it’s a tragedy, if you consider the disengagement of one’s head from one’s body tragic. (We are merely narrators, and would hate to make assumptions as to what the reader would find tragic.)

We have a different tale to tell.

CLASSICS:

Pride &Prejudice - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

1984- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen


Peter Pan - All children, except one, grow up


Metamorphosis - As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed


Catcher in the Rye -
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Read on lovelies,

S

Buying Classics

editions guide

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I have made a decision to only buy a classic after I've read them and if I enjoyed it (see myself reading it again). I have made ecxeptions with volumes and collections!
*For me classics are easily found from the library to read and access quickly.*
So when I do I tend to want a nice copy of it, whereas before I would buy cheap copies before I read it.
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So here are my takes on different editions of classic book and why I gravitate towards some.

>> I'll only be writing about the editions I own & ones I really like (blue) <<

1. Affordable
Collins Classics
   - my favourites because they look really nice with multiple next to each other
Wordsworth Editions
   - the blue ones aren't really to my liking, but they also have other editions like my The Little Prince
Dover Thrift Editions
   - the cheapest and they also have poem collections and other smaller volumes
Tor Classics

   - A basic mass market paperback
Signet Classics (Penguin)
Barnes & Noble paperbacks
Oxford World Classics


2. Paperbacks & 3. Special paperbacks
Penguin Classics
   - they have a good variety of everything and I have a post about some link
Word Cloud Classics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Deluxe edition

2. (L to R) Penguin play, Classic Penguin Books, Penguin Book Editions & Pocket Penguins

2. (L to R) Penguin play, Classic Penguin Books,
Penguin Book Editions & Pocket Penguins

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4. Hardbacks & volumes
Sterling Classics
Fall River
   - Illustrated collections that aren't too expensive. They are very beautiful but the size can be an issue when reading it (like the Shakespeare collection) but my other copies don't have that problem.
   - (Same hight as the Barnes & Noble leather bound books)
Bounty Books
   - Illustrated collections and novel volumes. I love how they go well together, but the thing I love is that the size is not uncomfortable to hold and to read, and the text size is not compromized when doing so

4.1 Fall River classics

4.2 Bounty Books

5. Special
Penguin cloth bound
   - They are more expensive and I don't hink I'll be buying more of them but they are really pretty
Barnes & Noble leatherbound
   - These are also more expensive but they have such gorgeous illustrations and the edges are metallic
Penguin Drop Caps

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On the spines of my volumes the small yellow stars mark novels that are unread and the bigger red stars mean that the volume has unread short stories/poems (the number of them isn't of significance).
The post-its on the top of the books mark unread novels or short stories (and every 50 pages of poems). When I've read one I take the post-it out or if I really liked it I move it to the long side of the book.
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6. Misc./occasional
(I might fall in love with a certain cover and buy it even though it won't match others)
RandomHouseTeen
   - The Boy in the Striped Pajama the 10th anniversary edition
Simon & Schuster

Bloomsbury

   - The Princess Bride the 25th anniversary edition (I always get questions when I feature it in a picture!)

   Penguin Perigee
   - It is quite narrow but tall
   Penguin Puffin Books
   - I really like these, the size is quite small with deckled edges
   - (Same hight as the Collins Classics)
Teos
Tammi

6.3 Teos & Tammi

Read on lovelies,

S

Recommendations

If you liked this, you'll like this

I made a list of popular books in different genres and made a match that I think you'd like if you liked the other.
Or if you like certain genres this could be helpful.

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ACTION:  Wrath and the Dawn - The Book of Ivy
     Kiss of Deception - Assassins Curse

     Darkest Minds - Graceling

     Ruby Red & Gallagher Academy authors' other series: All Fall Down - Dream a Little Dream

SCI-FI:  Across the Universe - Mind Games
FAIRYTALE RETELLING:  Cinder - Alice in Zombieland

FLUFFY ROMANCE:  Anna and the French Kiss - Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

MYSTERY: Sherlock Holmes - Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None, The Orient Express)

SURVIVAL: Soul Surfer - The Raft

HUMOUR: We Should Hang Out Sometime - Hyperbole and a Half

SCIENCE: What If? - Stuff Matters

WHIMSICAL: Alice in Wonderland - Furthermore

    Howl's Moving Castle - Pennyroyal Academy

Read on lovelies,

Sally

Updated lists

Recap

If you didn't read a post of mine from a while back stating that during february and march I will be posting biweekly, then you now know.

That is also true for today (a day without an actual post), so I made a list of lists I've previously made and now updated.

  Also my monthly wrap-ups for January-March will be in one post at the end of March, since I'm in the middle of finals now and therefore won't be writing or reading.

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SERIES I've finished: link

SERIES I'm in the middle of: link

SERIES I won't continue: link

My goodreads shelves explained: link

TBR: link

2017 TBR challenge: link

Read on lovelies,

Sally

A is For Arsenic: Agatha Christie review

Agatha Christie & a Review

Here are some recommendations for reading Christie's works

& a review for A is For Arsenic, by Kathryn Harkup

link to the Goodreads page here

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*Book kindly provided by the publisher Bloomsbury in exchange for an honest review!*

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Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up . . .

"Agatha Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other crime fiction writer. The poison was a central part of the novel, and her choice of deadly substances was far from random... Christie demonstrated her extensive chemical knowledge (much of it gleaned by working in a pharmacy during both world wars)...

Written by former research chemist Kathryn Harkup, each chapter takes a different novel and investigates the poison used by the murderer. Fact- and fun-packed, A is for Arsenic looks at why certain chemicals kill, how they interact with the body, and the feasibility of obtaining, administering, and detecting these poisons, both when Christie was writing and today."

A is for Arsenic is a celebration of the use of science by the undisputed Queen of Crime.

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Review

Stars:✦✦✦✦✧

If you like Agatha Christie, her books, chemistry, backround information or want to learn of real life cases (from which Christie may have gotten ideas) - this book is for you!

         Whether or not you've read any of her books you'll find this extremely fascinating, superbly constructed and jam-packed with information.

         Though it has some spoilers they aren't bothersome, but rather makes me want to read the books. The book is constructed so that if you choose to read about just a certain poison, how they kill, antidotes, real-life cases, historical facts or Agatha's dive into them, you totally can.

     What really fascinated me was to read about real-life cases during Christie's time and how they were potentially solved. As a chemistry student I also found it very entertaining when reading about how the poison actually interacts with your system.

So overall, I really loved this book, and if your interested at all I'd recommend you pick it up.

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Agatha Christie

Both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are detectives that most people recognize to be Agatha Christies works of art. They have been adapted in so many ways and even the Guinness Book of World Records shows that Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, with tnovels having been sold around 2 billion copies.

This "Queen of Crime" is one to thank for the structure of mystery books starting from the:

murder, multiple suspects (all with secrets), a detective gradually cracking them, and shocking twists at the end.

Culprits have been children, policemen, narrators, already dead individuals, and at times no-one or even every suspect.

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If you have no idea where to start from here is a list of four:

The classic choice, and her and the world's best-selling mystery book ever with 100 million sales:

And Then There Were None

My personal favourite so far, and becoming a movie this year:

Murder on the Orient Express

Voted the best crime novel ever in 2013, and close to the winner of "World's Favourite Christie" in 2015:

The Death of Roger Ackroyd

A really good continuation for fans of Hercule Poirot, and one of The Guardian's top 10:

Five Little Pigs

Read on lovelies,

Sally

2017 : anticipated reads and TBR

Most anticipated / books I want to get to / goals / TBR

First of all I completed the Around the World in 52 books challenge (link to the books I chose here).
I'm not sure if I'll participate in the 2017 one - or in another one so we'll see.
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Last year I did well on the list of books I want to get to (link here), but I won't be doing a list for 2017.
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TBR (this will change in soon, because I'm going book shopping for the holiday)
The last few years I've had a goal to read every book that I bought before that year and not yet read.
And I'm happy to say that at the end of the year 2016 my TBR consists of one book (+some classics that I don't count for this list):
Frost Like Night

From the calssics TBR I really want to get to more Jane Austen & Charles Dickens

I will be continuing the "a classics a month" that I've been doing for the past couple o' years

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Then quickly to goals:
This year I'm not doing the goal of 100 books like I have previously, because I'm finnishing school and have finals in the next few months.
Which brings me to some news during Feb-March I will be posting biweekly!
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Top 10 most anticipated new releases of 2017, for me:
(in order of publication)
(the list won't include sequels to books from which I haven't read the first book - even if I'm excited about it!)

Take a Key and Lock Her Up
Carve the Mark
By Your Side
Flame in the Mist
Enigma
Now I Rise
Lucky in Love
Solutions and Other Problems
The Gatlon School for Vigilantes
King's Cage
(Just Dreaming)

And I'm surely missing some important ones...
Lots of you are surely excited for the new DC icons series by multiple YA authors (Leigh Bardugo Wonder Woman, Marie Lu Batman, Matt de La Pena Superman & Sarah J. Maas Catwoman)
But I'm kinda hesitant it'll make it or break it for me... I do like that they are stand-alones though, so I'll probably read some!

Read on lovelies,

Sally

Fairytale Retellings pt. 3

Top 10 Disappointing

From 2 years back I have a part one with a top 5 (link), and from a couple months ago another one of those (link), so for some variety I decided to list ones that I was disappointed with.

1. Eon
Retelling of Mulan that I actually DNF'd...I really hoped that I'd like it and tried multiple times to continue it, but it just wasn't meant to be for me.

2. Sisters Red
I have a weird relationship with this one, but for the gist of why it's on this list check out TheBookSmugglers review!

3. Faery Tales & Nightmares
I don't even remember exactly what it cointained, but I do remember NOT liking it

4. Curse Dark as Gold
As a child my favourite fairytale was Rumplestiltskin, and so when I heard of this award winning retelling I was excited. But alas, I was disappointed, but it wasn't bad per se.

5. Sleeper and the Spindle
And lastly maybe a suprise? I gave it 3 stars, so I liked it, but it was a disappointment and not memorable. The illustrations were gorgeous though!

Read on lovelies,

Sally

Fairytale Retellings pt.2

Top 10

I did a part one 2 years ago, link, and felt the need to do another one, since I really love fairytale retellings!

1. Goose-Girl / Thorn
One of my favourite fairytales is the Grimm brothers' story Goose-Girl, so I'm kinda always looking out for retellings of it.
So far Goose-Girl by Shannon Hale which I love (and it has three companion novels in the series!)
Another one I've read is Thorn, which was an interesting take but could've been more developed.

2. Wrath and the Dawn
This retelling duology has been really popular in the last year, and it tells the story of Shahrzad and retells the story of A Thousand and One Nights.

3. Alice in Zombieland
Loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, it tells the story of Alice Bell and you can gether what it's about from the title.

4. Just Ella
This is a very clever take on Cinderella where Ella tries to deal with her new-found status and a prince who is certainly not charming.

5. Isle of the Lost
This is the book prequel-type-thing to Disney's movie Descendants. The book is about the children of the banished villains who are trying to escape their island.
I liked the book and movie and the premise is really interesting, but I won't be continuing on with the series.

Read on lovelies,

Sally

Top 10 : Non-fiction

Non-fiction

If you've been reading my blog or Goodreads you might now that I don't really read non-fiction... So i decided to make a list of my top ones that I have read, since that makes sense right?
      And in no particular order:

1. We Should Hang Out Sometime, Josh Sunquist
        Comedy, stories about failed dates

2. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy Kaling / Yes Please, Amy Poehler
        Comedy and thoughts (in the same since I remember them being good, but disappointing)

3. Seriously I'm Kidding, Ellen DeGeneres
        Comedy and thoughts

4. Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank Gilberth Jr. & Ernestine Gilberth Carey   link to my review
                 The title might ring a bell, and yes the movie is (losely) based on this book
        Comedy and thoughts to their father (of 12), a efficiency exprt

5. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
        Comedy, thoughts - graphic novel-ish

6. Soul Surfer, Bethany Hamilton
        Surfer + shark attack = adapting

7. Going Solo, Roald Dahl
        Roald Dahl as a pilot and such in the second WW

8. What If?, Randall Munroe
        Serious scientific answers to ridiculous questions

9. Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe
        Explaining hard things with only the most common words used

10. Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik
        Exploring science and materials, in a really interesting way

Read on lovelies,

Sally

Bookish Buzzwords

& Auto-Buy Authors

Bookish buzzwords? >If you hear a book discribed with a particular word you immediately want to read it
Auto-buy authors? >If a certain author publishes a new book you want to read it
                                    (even if you don't know a thing about it)


Bookish buzzwords:
Fairytale retelling (mythology not really)
        e.g. The Lunar Chronicles
Goose-Girl retelling
        e.g. The Books of Bayern book 1: Goose-Girl, Thorn...
Royal in hiding/royal marriage for power
        e.g. Kiss of Deception, Book of Ivy
Agent boarding-school
        e.g. Etiquette & Espioange, Gallagher Girls
Team of genius agents
        e.g. The Naturals
Assassin/thieves (with this, since there are so many books with them, I usually want some other aspect to be in it as well)
        e.g. Assassins Curse, Graceling, Throne of Glass, Poison Study...
Heists
        e.g. Heist Society, Six of Crows

Auto-buy authors (and how many I've read by them):
Katie West (contemp. ones) 3
Ally Carter 10
Veronica Roth 3 (only one series is published so we'll see if it remains as one)
Kerstin Gier 4
Stephanie Perkins 3 (same as Roth so we'll see)

Books I Loved as a Child

Top 11

From 1st to 6th grade we had this thing called Family Reading where we needed to read some amount of pages every week and write a report about it. I recently read through them and found some of my old favorite books. So I went ahead and googled them, after which I decided to list my top 11 (couldn't narrow it to 10) favorites for you guys here:

(Now yes Harry Potter is a fave from a long time ago, but these are from before that.)

Junie B. Jones               Doctor De Soto                    Class Four's Wild Week     

The Worst Witch           Tales of Pixie Hollow     Anything really by Roald Dahl

         

 Half Magic           Nelly the Monster Sitter                       Miss Fannie's Hat

And a Finnish fave: Ella ja Kaverit      Ms. Wiz Spells Trouble

                           

Series I Want to Finish This Year

Top 10
I really need to ge to reading some series I have on my shelves! So I decided to make a list of those I would most like to get to as soon as this year... I don't know, there's so many.

On Jan. 14 The T5W I did do the Top 5 series I want to StArT (link below) but these are ones I want to finally finish (in some cases finish completely and some finish those that are out) (http://bookloveandreviews.blogspot.fi/2015/01/jan-14-top-5-wednesday-you-want-to.html)

1. The Knife of Never Letting Go (was in the earlier one but now I've started it)
2. The Lunar Chronicles (I've read Cinder)
3. The Darkest Minds (I have the last one yet to read)
4. The White Rabbit Chronicles (Last one left)
5. I want to finish The Heir of Fire
6. Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Two still left)
7. The Maze Runner (Only read the first one)
8. The Books of Bayern (Only read one)
9. Geek Girl
10. Etiquette and Espionage

Fairytale Retellings

Retellings pt.1
Top 5

I LoVe fairy tale retellings! I find people who write them to have such a creative mind, even though it has the same characters. It is kind of weird that I haven't had any that has been boring or similar to another so that is great :)
I couldn't decide on a order but I guess that's fine...

1. Snow in Summer
This was such an interesting take on Snow White!
2. Zel
I got it from my brother and oh my!
3. Cinder, Scarlet and Cress
Haven't read all, but I have them, and I'm planning on reading all three before the fourth one, Winter, comes out this year :)
4. Ella Enchanted and Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

5. All the Disney takes on Grimm
 & All the Disney takes on H.C. Anderson
I started thinking, is Snow Queen and the Little Mermaid the only ones?...

Any suggestions for other retellings?

Hugs,

Sally

Books I Haven't Read Yet

Top 10 I am ashamed of not having read...

I did do a Top 10 authors I haven't read anything by, so go check that, and so this list has completely different ones!
So, I am a bit late for some of these but I wanted to gather them all into a list.

1. The Lord of the Rings
I have read the Hobbit and I really want to get to reading the Lord of the Rings!

2. Narnia by C.S. Lewis
I know! I haven't! I'm sure you're all surprised… :) on with the list, after you've calmed down.

3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
I have read Clockwork so I guess that's good...

4. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
I need to get to reading this!

5. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
This might be a bit unbelievable, since i love fairy tale retellings, and I have all the three books that have come out in this series, so of to read then.

6. Legend by Marie Lu
Again, what is wrong with me, I have the whole trilogy and haven't read even the first one!

7. Enclave by Ann Aguirre
I'm so excited, but haven't bought it yet.

8. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
I will be reading this soon, and I'm just so excited. (I've been saying that a lot, writing that is)

9. Half Bad by Sally Green
It is on ym TBR and mostlikely I'll read it in May.

10. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
I have it and will be reading it next month! If you don't konw it's a classic fairy tale of some kind.
>I now realize I didn't post this after I wrote it, so I DiD read this one as my classic for May!

Please comment or e-mail me (stuff931@gmail.com) on what you want me to read next (of these or not I guess) as usual! Keep it coming guys I appreciate it :)

Dear,

Sally

Authors I Haven't Read Anything By

Top 10

Some of these might come as shocks to you guys... And for some I am in shame and am planning to read something by them, but for most I have reasons why I have not come to read them.
Oh, and no particular order in this list!
1. Alexandra Bracken- The Darkest Minds
>I have this and Never Fade, but have not read them yet...

2. Markus Zusak- The Book Thief
>I'll come to it... My brother has it so no excuse either

3. Dan Brown- the Da Vinci Code
>I really want to read this! But I don't have it and my TBR (To Be Read) is so big I won't justify myself for buying it.

4. Christopher Paolini- Eragon
>I have them... But I just, I don't know.... I will eventually...

5. Stephen King- Carrie / Under the Dome
>I am not into horror books or movies so I haven't read any...I was thinking of reading something by Stephen King, so I'll get to it. Some day.

6. Lauren Oliver- Delirium
>This I am not even planning on reading. It's not that I haven't heard good things about it, which I have, I just have heard so many bad things about the lst book. I am sure the first ones were good but I don't want to get into a series and get disapointed. There are too many good books to read anyway.

7. George R. R. Martin- A Game of Thrones
>This one I don't think I'll read either. It is a super long series and it kinda daunts me. Also in every single book my favourite character dies! Not even kidding! Cause I usually have my favourite character as side character... Anyway so I know almost everyone dies in this series so I'd get annoyed.

8. Rainbow Rowell- Eleanor and Park / Fangirl
>I have Fangirl so I shouldn't have any reason to not read it. I haven't since I guess all the hype is making me not want to read it. I have heard so many things constantly about it and so I haven't been in the mood for reading it. But soon I will since the hype is dying and all...

9. Richelle Mead- Vampire Academy
>I will read it before the movie comes. But why I haven't read it so far? That would be because. I don't exactly know... Huh... I guess I'm not into vampires, leading me to the next one:

10. Stephenie Meyer- Twilight
>Now I know you are all suprised! BUT, here me ouT! I have not read them and will not since the movies ruined the books for me. I have seen the first two or three and really hated them! I hated (sorry for the lovers) Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, as an actors and actress. I kept laughing at them and sure the story line was nice but when I started reading Twilight I kept thinking them as the asctors playing them and I didn't enjoy not getting to imagine it for my own.

Love,

Sally