Book Reviews

A

Across the Universe-- Beth Revis
After Ever After-- Jordan Sonnenblick
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass-- Lewis Carroll
Alive and Well in Prague, New York-- Daphne Grab

All These Things I've Done-- Gabrielle Zevin
Al Capone Does My Shirts-- Gennifer Choldenko
American Born Chinese-- Gene Luen Yang
An Abundance of Katherines-- John Green
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography-- Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon

Annexed-- Sharon Dogar
Annie John-- Jamaica Kincaid
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth-- Grant Morrison/Dave McKean
Art of Racing in the Rain, The-- Garth Stein
As I Lay Dying-- William Faulkner
Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, The-- Barry Lyga
Audrey, Wait!-- Robin Benway
Austenland-- Shannon Hale

Autobiography of a Face-- Lucy Grealy

A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life-- Dana Reinhardt
A Dance of Sisters-- Tracy Porter
A Drowned Maiden's Hair-- Laura Amy Schlitz
A Friend of the Earth-- T.C. Boyle
A Long Long Sleep-- Anna Sheehan

A Map of the Known World-- Lisa Ann Sandell
A Million Little Pieces-- James Frey
A Monster Calls-- Patrick Ness
A Kiss in Time-- Alex Flinn
A Wrinkle in Time-- Madeleine L'Engle
A Year in the Merde-- Steven Clarke

B

Beastly-- Alex Flinn
Beauty Queens-- Libba Bray

Before I Fall-- Lauren Oliver
Beginning of Everything, The-- Robyn Schneider
Bell Jar, The-- Sylvia Plath
Bermudez Triangle, The-- Maureen Johnson

Between Mom and Jo-- Julie Anne Peters
Between Shades of Gray-- Ruta Sepetys
Big Girl-- Danielle Steel

Black Box-- Julie Schumacher
Book Thief, The-- Markus Zusak
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The-- John Boyne

Breaking Dawn-- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Up With God: A Love Story-- Sarah Sentilles

Bridge to Terebithia-- Katherine Paterson
Bridget Jones's Diary-- Helen Fielding
Broken Memory-- Elizabeth Combres
Bud, Not Buddy-- Christopher Paul Curtis

Bumped-- Megan McCafferty
By Night in Chile-- Roberto Bolaño

By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead-- Julie Anne Peters

C

Catalyst-- Laurie Halse Anderson

Catch-22-- Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye, The-- J.D. Salinger
Chronicle of a Death Foretold-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cinder-- Marissa Meyer
Cinderella At My Daughter-- Peggy Orenstein
Clean-- Amy Lynn Reed
Colossus and Other Poems, The-- Sylvia Plath

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Counting by 7s-- Holly Goldberg Sloan
Country Girls, The-- Edna O'Brien
Crossed-- Ally Condie 
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cut-- Patricia McCormick

D

Dark, The-- Lemony Snicket
Dead and the Gone, The-- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant: Ten Real Life Stories-- Anrenee Englander
Delirium-- Lauren Oliver
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?:  Dust to Dust, Book 1-- Chris Roberson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Dust to Dust, Book 2-- Chris Roberson
Dramarama-- E. Lockhart
Dreaming in Chinese-- Deborah Fallows

Dreamland-- Sarah Dessen
Dubliners-- James Joyce

E

Eat, Pray, Love-- Elizabeth Gilbert

Ella Enchanted-- Gail Carson Levine

Elsewhere-- Gabrielle Zevin
Encyclopedia of Early Earth, The-- Isabel Greenberg
End Of Your Life Book Club, The-- Will Schwalbe
Equus-- Peter Schaffer
Eragon-- Christopher Paolini
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-- Jonathan Safran Foer

F

Fahenheit 451-- Ray Bradbury
Fall for Anything-- Courtney Summers
Fault in Our Stars, The-- John Green
Fever 1793-- Laurie Halse Anderson
Fire on the Mountain-- Edward Abbey
Flora & Ulysses-- Kate DiCamillo
Forest of Hands and Teeth, The-- Carrie Ryan

Four Stupid Cupids-- Gregory Maguire
Frankenstein-- Mary Shelley
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate-- Alexander McCall Smith
Frindle-- Andrew Clements

G

Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World-- Louis Fischer
Ginger Pye-- Eleanor Estes
Giovanni's Room-- James Baldwin
Girl, 15, Charming But Insane-- Sue Limb
Girl's Guide to Homelessness, The-- Brianna Karp
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The-- Stieg Larsson

Give a Boy a Gun-- Todd Strasser
Giver, The-- Lois Lowry

Godless-- Pete Hautman
Gossamer-- Lois Lowry

Going Bovine-- Libba Bray
Golden Compass, The-- Philip Pullman
Gone Girl-- Gillian Flynn
Goth Girl Rising-- Barry Lyga

H

Happyface-- Stephen Emond
Hate That Cat-- Sharon Creech

Heart of Darkness-- Joseph Conrad
Help, The-- Kathryn Stockett

Her and Me and You-- Lauren Strasnick

Her Fearful Symmetry-- Audrey Niffenegger
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The-- Douglas Adams

Hold Still-- Nina LaCour
Holes-- Louis Sachar
Hourglass-- Myra McEntire
House on Mango Street, The-- Sandra Cisneros

How I Live Now-- Meg Rosoff
How They Met, and Other Stories-- David Levithan

How To Be A Woman-- Caitlin Moran
How to Cook Your Daughter-- Jessica Hendra
Hunger Games, The-- Suzanne Collins

I

Imaginary Girls-- Nova Ren Suma
Invention of Hugo Cabret, The-- Brian Selznick
Invisible Man-- Ralph Ellison

It's Kind of a Funny Story-- Ned Vizzini
I Am Malala-- Malala Yousafzai

I Am Not a Serial Killer-- Dan Wells

J

Journey-- Aaron Becker

K

Kid Table, The-- Andrea Seigal

L

Laramie Project, The-- Moises Kaufman
Last Night I Sang to the Monster-- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Life As We Knew It-- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Little Prince, The (Le Petit Prince)-- Antoine de Sainte-Exupery 

London Calling-- Edward Bloor
Looking for Alaska-- John Green
Lost Boy, The-- Greg Ruth
Lost in Austen-- Emma Campbell Webster

Love is the Higher Power-- David Levithan
Love's Labour's Lost-- William Shakespeare
Lovely Bones, The-- Alice Sebold
Lover's Dictionary, The-- David Levithan
Luck of the Buttons, The-- Anne Ylvisaker
Lucky-- Alice Sebold

M
Macbeth-- William Shakespeare
Man's Search for Meaning-- Viktor Frankl

Marbury Lens, The-- Andrew Smith
Marley and Me-- John Grogan
Martian Child, The-- David Gerrold

Matched-- Ally Condie
Maus I: My Father Bleeds History-- Art Spiegelman
Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began-- Art Spiegelman

Memoirs of a Geisha-- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac-- Gabrielle Zevin

Mirror, Mirror-- Gregory Maguire
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children-- Ransom Riggs
Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The-- E.L. Konigsburg
Mockingjay-- Suzanne Collins
My Life as a Book-- Janet Tashjian
My Name is Memory-- Ann Brashares

N

Name of the Star, The-- Maureen Johnson
Nausea-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Never Let Me Go-- Kazuo Ishiguro
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist-- David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Night-- Elie Wiesel
Number the Stars-- Lois Lowry

O

Obedience-- Will Lavender
Open Adoption, Open Heart: An Adoptive Father's Inspiring Journey--Russel Elkins
Other Boleyn Girl, The-- Philippa Gregory

P

Panic in a Suitcase-- Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Paris in Love: A Memoir-- Eloisa James
Paris Wedding, The-- Kimberley Petyt
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The-- Aimee Bender
Patron Saint of Butterflies, The-- Cecilia Galante
Picture of Dorian Gray, The-- Oscar Wilde
Pictures of Hollis Woods-- Patricia Reilly Giff
Perks of Being a Wallflower, The-- Stephen Chbosky
Plague, The-- Albert Camus
Please Ignore Vera Dietz-- A.S. King
Pride and Prejudice-- Jane Austen
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The-- Muriel Spark
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Q

Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens-- Kathy Belge and Mark Bieschke

R

Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned In Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth- Lisa Napoli
Revolver-- Marcus Sedgewick
River, The-- Mary Jane Beaufrand
Romeo and Juliet-- William Shakespeare
Running Dream, The-- Wendelin Van Draanen
Running With Scissors-- Augusten Burroughs

S

Saint Maybe-- Anne Tyler
Save as Draft-- Cavanaugh Lee
Scarlet Letter, The-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Second Coming, The-- Walker Percy
Selected Shorts: Family Matters--Symphony Space
Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, The-- Stephenie Meyer
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders-- Jennifer Finney Boylan
Sisterhood Everlasting-- Ann Brashares
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The-- Ann Brashares
Skim-- Mariko Tamaki
Sky is Everywhere, The-- Jandy Nelson
Small Acts of Amazing Courage-- Gloria Whelan
Snail Mail My Email-- Ivan Cash
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk-- David Sedaris

Stargirl-- Jerry Spinelli

Still Alice-- Lisa Genova

Storm of Iron-- Graham McNeill
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sweet and Sour Milk-- Nuruddin Farah

T

Tales of Beedle the Bard, The-- J.K. Rowling
That Summer-- Sarah Dessen

Their Eyes Were Watching God-- Zora Neale Hurston
This Star Won't Go Out-- Esther Earl
Thumped-- Megan McCafferty

Th1rteen R3asons Why-- Jay Asher
Time Traveler's Wife, The-- Audrey Niffenegger
To Kill A Mockingbird-- Harper Lee
Tuesdays With Morrie-- Mitch Albom

Twilight-- Stephenie Meyer

Twisted-- Laurie Halse Anderson

U

Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles, The-- Gregory Bassham
Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls, The-- Julie Schumacher

V

View From the Top, The-- Hillary Frank
Virgin Suicides, The-- Jeffrey Eugenides
V for Vendetta-- Alan Moore and David Lloyd

W

Water Mirror, The-- Kai Meyer
Waiter Rant-- Steve Dublanica
Watch That Ends The Night, The-- Allan Wolf
Watchmen-- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Water for Elephants-- Sara Gruen
Weight of the Sky, The-- Lisa Ann Sandell

What Comes After-- Steve Watkins
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know-- Sonya Sones

Where She Went-- Gayle Forman
White Tiger, The-- Aravind Adiga
Why We Broke Up-- Daniel Handler

Wild Things, The-- Dave Eggers
Will Grayson, Will Grayson-- John Green and David Levithan
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The-- Elizabeth George Speare
Witches, The-- Roald Dahl
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem-- Rosalyn Schanzer
Wither-- Lauren DeStefano

Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical RENT-- Anthony Rapp
Wolves in the Walls, The-- Neil Gaiman
Wonder-- R.J. Palacio
Wonder Singer, The-- George Rabasa

X

Y
Yes, Chef-- Marcus Samuelsson
Yes Please-- Amy Poehler

Your Voice in My Head-- Emma Forrest

Z

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