Here's my list of YA Fiction*:
1. Meg Cabot. (I swear I have not read one of her books. She just sits on my To Read list.)
2. Gossip Girl, The Clique, The A-List, Drama High, etc.
3. Lloyd Alexander
4. Robert Cormier
5. Karen Cushman (and her books are maybe 200 pages)
6. The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld
7. Eoin Colfer / Artemis Fowl
8. Neal Shusterman
9. T.A. Barron
10. Avi
11. Nancy Farmer
12. S.E. Hinton (Maybe 2 decades ago I read her. It's fuzzy.)
(*perhaps I'll post a juvenile fiction list in the future.)
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I've read something by every author on your list, except the Gossip Girl, A-list and Drama High. I know that I will not read any of those, ever.
The rest of your list contains many worthy authors. I hate to admit that I haven't read anything by Megan Whalen Turner though I mean to. Just recently, I took Terry Pratchett off this list.
Brenda
Meg Cabot is really pretty terrific. I recommend Airhead. (It's much better than I was expecting a book about a geeky girl's brain being transplanted into the body of a supermodel to be.)
Lloyd Alexander's Westmark trilogy, I love.
Authors I haven't read: Richard Peck. Virginia Hamilton (on my mind because I have a plan to read her books this year). Megan Whalen Turner.
Brenda, I read my first Pratchett a couple years ago - the Tiffany Aching books. I listened to them on CD - so fantastic! I will get on Meg Cabot. Part of the problem is/was that her books were always checked out from my branch. Will remedy for 2010. She's very much my style & I love her blog. Just one of those things I can't believe has slipped by. (And I've also met her and she is just as fun as she comes across.)
I had my first Richard Peck with this year's A Season of Gifts (which I did enjoy). I may tackle more of him via audiobook.
Patti and I will probably post more about Megan Whalen Turner once she's read A Conspiracy of Kings. So good!
I just remedied my never reading Richard Peck with "A Season of Gifts." But hoo-boy, there is probably a lot out there I should have read. Of course I'm totally drawing a blank today.
I'm so ashamed that I haven't read many Newbery winners: Criss-Cross, Kira-kira, View from Saturday, The Witch of Blackbird Pond... so many others.
And I just can't bring myself to read any Cristopher Paul Curtis, though I know I should.
But where would I even squeeze them in? My boyfriend is already aggravated by the amount of time I spend reading instead of on him!
With all our Mock Discussions, it's hard to read anything published in a previous year or earlier! Everything's got to be 2010, which makes it really hard to catch up on the back catalog. I want to take KT Horning's Newbery class online one day - that would force me to pick up some Newbery's I haven't read.
I discovered my biggest whoops this weekend: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland!
I've never read Cormier, either.
I finished half of Uglies, but that was it. (I like his Midnighters series and Peeps though! Does that count for something?)
And, um, I've never read Forever. *is ashamed*
Oh, I've never read Forever either. This is so therapeutic!
Trisha, I do really like Westerfeld's Peeps books and I also enjoyed So Yesterday. I started listening to Uglies on CD and also got about 1/2 way. I'm sure I'd love it if I gave it another chance.
No FOREVER?!?!?! :)
I love this post! It does feel like a confession...admitting what I haven't read. OK..here's mine. I only read the first Harry Potter. I haven't read Peter and the Star Catchers (which has made some of my students very upset). I haven't read any Avi or Michael Scott books (yet).
Thanks for the great post!!
I know, I know. Once I get through my committments for April (namely TLA) I am going to work on this list and try and read 1/2 of them before the end of the year. (I think I can I think I can)
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