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Top Ten Favorite YA Contemporary Novels
1. The Truth About Forever: My favorite Dessen book! READ IT.
2. The Fault in our Stars: This book. So much more than I expected.
3. Jellicoe Road: Have tissues handy. Trust me.
4. The Book of Broken Hearts: Beautiful story about family and first loves.
5. Everybody Sees the Ants: A stark portrayal of bullying, coming of age, and family.
6. Just One Day: Romantic and plenty of traveling!
7. Wanderlove: Very fun, and the artwork is fabulous.
8. The Sky Is Everywhere: This is a touching story about falling in love and family.
9. Speak: An emotional read.
10. Before I Fall: A bit outside of contemporary, but still amazing.
Bonus!! Two More Excellent Stories
What's your favorite YA contemporary novel?
These all look great! I don't read many contemps next time I'm in the mood for one, I'll be sure to keep this list in mind because sadly the only one I've read is Before I Fall (which I loved)! I have read a few of AS King's other books and really enjoyed them. Some contemps that I really loved were Anna and the French Kiss, Entangled by Cat Clarke, Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith, and Theory of Everything by Kari Luna, and Orchards by Holly Thompson.
ReplyDeleteA&TFK!! LOVE THAT BOOK! :D
DeleteFantastic list! I liked The Fault in Our Stars and Before I Fall and loved Speak. Of course Sarah Dessen's novels are excellent too. I have heard wonderful things about We Were Liars and I am looking forward to picking it up.
ReplyDeleteMy list would include Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
We Were Liars is great, very twisty and fascinating.
DeleteAwesome list! We chose the same topic (great minds think alike) and have some of the same books on our list-- Truth About Forever and Fault in Our Stars. I have been dying to read Book of Broken Hearts, Sky is Everywhere and Speak. I have had Speak on my shelf for a long time and I need to stop putting it off. I also am looking forward to reading We Were Liars next month!
ReplyDelete*high five*
DeleteYou must read BoBH, SiE and Speak! They're all amazing.
Great topic and list! I liked the Truth About Forever, and Just One Day sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT
Just One Day is great! Very bittersweet, though ;)
DeleteGreat list! I loved The Fault In Our Stars, The Truth About Forever & Before I Fall :) Just purchased The Sky Is Everywhere and can't wait to read it! Thanks for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteOoh, I hope you love TSiE!
DeleteBefore I Fall made my list, too... but my list was paranormal! That book can go in either category, really. And it's one of my all-time favourites (in any genre).
ReplyDeleteBefore I Fall really does work for both genres! Such an amazing story, regardless.
DeleteContemporary has slowly become one of my favorite genres to read. It's funny because just a few years ago I would have said I didn't even like contemp. The Fault In Our Stars & Jellicoe Road were both amazing! Two great contemps that I've read recently are Leap of Faith and Better Off Friends =)
ReplyDeleteIt's weird how that happens, right? I used to dislike sci-fi, but now I love it.
DeleteOoh, I keep hearing how wonderful BOF is!
I love Sarah Ockler and haven't read The Book Of Broken Hearts yet!!! Looks good!
ReplyDeleteAngie
My Top Ten
Love SO's books! You must check out Broken Hearts - it's wonderful.
DeleteI loved The Fault In Our Stars and Speak! I haven't read the others though, but most are on my TBR list :) I have Gayle Forman's book, just haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but I really, really need to.
ReplyDeleteKim @ YA Asylum
You should try reading Forman's books soon, the emotions in them is so wonderfully expressed.
DeleteFrom your list I´ve only read and LOVED Jellicoe Road.
ReplyDeleteHere is My Top 10 Tuesday
JR is a fabulous book :D
DeleteAmazing list! :-) I loved 'Just One Day' and have ordered the sequel - can't wait for it to get here...
ReplyDeleteI still need to read the sequel too. Hope you enjoy it!
DeleteI have only read two of these, but my favorites. JELLICOE ROAD! THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! I love them both so much. <3 Amazing list. Will probably check out the other books as well :) Thank you for sharing sweetie. <3
ReplyDeleteLove JR and TFIOS!!
DeleteEeek I haven't read ANY of these!! Man, that's embarrassing. Contemporary just isn't my strong suit. But you definitely seem to know your shiz when it comes to contemps, so I should try to work off this list! Thanks, Lea!
ReplyDeleteGosh darn it, Aylee!! ;)
DeleteYou must check them out at some point. The Truth About Forever, Everybody Sees the Ants, Speak (or even Wintergirls), and Before I Fall are some of my top-top favorites!