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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Supernaturally Blog Tour: Guest Post by Kiersten White

I'm very excited to have Kiersten White on the blog today. She's here to share with us some of her favorite MG and YA books.

Middle Grade

Utterly charming storytelling, with a delightful narration. Like Lemony Snicket without the sometimes mean-spirited undercurrents.

The youngest skewed book on the list, but with so many gems you must read it when someone is in the room with you so you can say, “OH MY GOSH, listen to this part!”

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
I loved this book when I was little; I didn’t understand it until I was an adult. Funny, thought-provoking, ridiculous, wonderful.

The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
I know, I know, if you’re like me right now you’re humming the cheese-tastic theme from the eighties’ movie. There is a reason Michael Ende asked them not to attach his name to the film. This book is a wonder, one of the few I periodically re-read.

Young Adult

Across the Universe, by Beth Revis
Incredibly well-crafted, breathless, claustrophobic sci-fi. I loved this book.

Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
Nobody does giddy, laugh-out-loud, swoony romantic comedy like Perkins. And the companion novel, Lola and the Boy Next Door (September) is just as good.

If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
One of my all-the-time recommendations. This book blew me away. (The companion novel, Where She Went, is very different but just as emotionally impactful.) A book that drains you and then fills you back up.

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Another perma-recommendation. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Very few books stay with me permanently, but this was one of them.

Chime, by Franny Billingsley
Lush and twisted, dark and delicious, a novel about guilt and sisters and self-destruction. And bog monsters. And witches. So good!

Misfit, by Jon Skovron (August)
Demons. High school. Dead mothers. First kisses. First…levitations? Skovron’s writing is always insightful, and this book’s complexity and attention to mythological detail sets it apart from the usual paranormal fare.

Imaginary Girls, by Nova Ren Suma
Deliciously odd and haunting, another book about sisters and the things we do to and for the people that we love. Vaguely disturbing, darkly magical.

The Curse Workers Series, by Holly Black
One of my absolute favorite new series. I don’t usually envy ideas because I already have too many of my own to write, but I can’t tell you how brilliant the world of magic noir Black has crafted is. I love everything about these books.

The Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor (October)
My favorite read this year. Taylor weaves fantasy and magic into the real world, and then weaves that world into another one entirely. Taylor is unsurpassed in her ability to write wonder into the most ordinary descriptions; this is a book to both devour and savor. And then read again.
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Thank you so much Kiersten for your book recommendations. I've already added a few to my list of must have reads.

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3 comments:

  1. She has some great choices as her favorite YA books. Love Anna and I can't wait to read Misfit and Daughter of Smoke and Bone when I can get around to them. =)

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  2. I LOVE so many of these that I have no choice but to pick up the ones I haven't gotten to yet. Flawless taste!

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  3. I'm reading CHIME right now and LOVE it!!

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