2016's Reading List

At the beginning of 2016, I posted a list of the books I planned to read. That list is HERE.

Below is a list of what I really did read in 2016. I should put "read" in quotes because in reality I listened to the book on CD in most of these cases. I listened to the whole Harry Potter series and most of the Alex Rider series while driving my kids to school and on errands. A couple of the books I read from my phone while stuck in waiting rooms or lines.

All the Bright Places  review HERE
13 Reasons Why review  HERE
8 Notes to a Nobody Author interview HERE
Hunger Games- Read Bryan Davis' review HERE and HERE
The Fault in Our Stars review HERE
Harry Potter: The Sorcerer's Stone 
City of Ember review HERE
If I Stay
This is How I Find Her review HERE
The Outsiders
Tiger Eyes
The Boy in Striped Pajamas review HERE
The Chosen One
I Was Here review HERE
All Fall Down
Gathering Blue
The Messenger
8 Keys
No Such Person
The Face on the Milk Carton
There You'll Find Me review HERE
The Dare
Four
Divergent (Twice)(while driving from FL to NC to Cincinnati, to IN and back to FL)
The Dark is Rising (Same trip as above)
Counting by 7's (Same trip as above) review HERE
The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days review HERE
How I Became Skinny, Famous and Fell Madly in Love review HERE
10 Steps to Girlfriend Status
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Hate List review HERE
Just Listen
Because of Winn Dixie
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half Blood Prince
Autism,The Invisible Cord, A Sibling's Diary
Fan Girl
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Stormbreaker
Point Blank
Skeleton Key
Rules
Eagle Strike
Scorpia

Books we read in family time:
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Messenger
The Son
The Castle in the Attic
Harry Moon: Halloween Nightmares
The Cay
The Year of the Dog
Honey Moon
The New Kid at School
The Case Time Forgot

Other books I read (non fiction and adult fiction)
It: Nine Secrets of the Rich and Famous That Will Take You to the Top
Dick Van Dyke: My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business
Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family and Ducks Created a Dynasty
Write Your Novel from the Middle
The Gift
One for the Money
Blind Alley
Next Thing on My List
If I Run


I will probably reread a lot of the books on the list for three reasons:1. I have short term memory damage so until I've read a book a few times a lot of it is new to me.
2. I reread my favorites anyway.
3. The library has limited books on CD.

Which books on my list have you read?
What are you reading right now? I am finishing the Alex Rider series in the car. Listening to a James Patterson YA novel in the house.

Loving the Beach

Living in the Florida Panhandle, we have a lot of choices of beautiful white sand beaches. I think the beach is our happy place. Here are some different ones we go to that are between 45 minutes and two hours away.

Near Destin

Behind the lighthouse on St George Island

At a state park

What is this I'm wearing???

Gigi's phone looks a lot more interesting than my rattle. And it's playing music for me.

What's your happy place?

Best Teen Novels

What do teens read and enjoy? You probably have your own ideas. But here is what www.npr.org said are the favorite 100 best-ever teen novels.

How many of these have you read? What have they left off the list that you would add?

I tried posting the actual article with book covers, but the formatting was very hard to read, so I'll post the titles only and also the link to the article so you can read the descriptions and see the book covers. READ HERE

100 Best Teen Novels according to npr.org

1. Harry Potter series 
   
2. Hunger Games series 
   
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
   
4. The Fault in Our Stars
   
5. The Hobbit
6. The Catcher in the Rye
7. Lord of the Rings
8. Fahrenheit 451
9. Looking for Alaska
10. The Book Thief
11. The Giver Series
12. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
13. The Outsiders
14. Anne of Green Gables
15. His Dark Materials Series
16. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
17. The Princess Bride
18. Lord of the Flies
19. Divergent series
20. Paper Town
21. The Mortal Instrument series
22. An Abundance of Katherines
23. Flowers for Algernon
24. Thirteen Reasons Why
25. The Curious Incident of the Dogs in the Night-Time
26. Speak
27. Twilight series
28. Uglies series
29. The Infernal Devices series
30. Tuck Everlasting
31. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
32. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
33. The Call of the Wild
34. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
35. Go Ask Alice
36. Howl’s Moving Castle
37. Star Girl
38. A Separate Peace
39. Vampire Academy series
40. Abhorsen Trilogy
41. Doon
42. Discworld/Tiffany Aching series
43. My Sister’s Keeper
44. The Dark is Rising sequence
45. Graceling series
46. Forever
47. Earthsea series
48. The Inheritance Cycle
49. The Princess Diaries series
50. Song of the Lioness series
51. Treasure Island
52. Delirium series
53. Anna and the French Kiss
54. Hush, Hush, Saga
55. 13 Little Blue Envelopes
56. It’s Kind of a Funny Story
57. The Gemma Doyle trilogy
58. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
59. The House on Mango Street
60. Something Wicked This Way Comes
61. The Chocolate War
62. Just Listen
63. A Ring of Endless Light
64. The Truth About Forever
65. The Bartimaeus trilogy
66. Bloodline series
67. Fallen series
68. House of Night series
69. I Captured the Castle
70. Nick and Norma’s Infinite Playlist
71. Before I Fall
72. Unwind
73. The Last Unicorn
74. The Maze Runner series
75. If I Stay
76. The Blue Sword
77. Crank series
78. Matched series
79. Gallagher Girls series
80. The Goose Girl
81. Daughter of the Lioness/Trickster series
82. I Am the Messenger
83. The Immortals series
84. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
85. Chaos Walking series
86. Circle of Magic series
87. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
88. Feed
89. Weetzie Bat series
90. Along for the Ride
91. Confession of Georgia Nicolson series
92. Leviathan series
93. The House of Scorpion
94. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
95. This Lullaby
96. Gone series
97. Shiver trilogy
98. The Hero and the Crown
99. Wintergirls
100. Betsy-Tacy books

Now that you've read their list, leave a list of your top ten favorite YA or teen novels. 
This giveaway has ended. Look for a new one soon. Also put only your first name and age if you are between 10 and 18 years old. (Also get a parents' permission please) 

I will be putting the names into a drawing. I will draw on December 24. First place will get a $15 Books a Million Gift card, second and third places will get $10 gift cards. 

I will post the winners late the 24th and ask you to send your address to my e-mail address in order to get the card. (That's why you need an okay from your parents)