2010 Summer Reading List

Hello everyone -

Yet another summer has passed. Sadly, I didn't read all that many books this year. Two of the books on this list were read for school, and they took me a while, since I wanted to try to understand them really well and get the most out of them that I could. So, here's my 2010 summer reading list!

1. First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria by Eve Waite-Brown
2. Bloom by Elizabeth Scott
3. Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
4. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
5. Long Live the Queen by Ellen Emerson White
6. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
7. My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent
8. Night's Edge by Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne, and Barbara Hambly
9. Long May She Reign by Ellen Emerson White
10. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
11. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
12. Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen
13. The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti
14. Every Time a Rainbow Dies by Rita Williams-Garcia
15. Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger
16. Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
17. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
18. Kiss Me, Kill me by Lauren Henderson
19. 100 Heartbeats by Jeff Corwin
20. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
21. Two Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
22. Gwyneth and the Thief by Margaret Moore
23. Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson
24. Absolutely Not: Anthology of Writing and Artwork by East Bay Teenagers
25. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
26. Meagan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Brian
27. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
28. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
29. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
30. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
31. Better Latte Than Never by Chaterine Clark
32. Love You Two by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
33. When Irish Guys are Smiling by Suzanne Supplee
34. Paper Towns by John Green
35. Whip It by Shauna Cross
36. Witch and Wizard by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
37. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
38. Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan
39. Rules by Cynthia Lord
40. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

So.
For school: 37, 40
Awesome books that everyone should read!: 11, 13, 17 (SO AMAZING - Read BEFORE the movie comes out please!), 19, 24, 34, 35, 38, 39
Comments:
#11 - This is an amazing book (not like the other books Sarah Dessen has also written.) Her books always turn our really amazing, touching, and just plain awesome. This one felt more emotional than her other books to me, and I really love the relationship of the two main characters. This is seriously an amazing book, and probably my favorite Sarah Dessen books. It's up there with The Truth About Forever
#17 - This is a really awesome, amazing, incredible book. This book has its ups and its downs for the characters, but overall this book is amazing, and it takes you right along for the ride. The first time I read this book, I was basically in tears at the end, because it just...so perfect. So SO perfect. I would reccomend this book to anyone and everyone older than 13 or 14 - But PLEASE, for my sake at the very least, read this book BEFORE the movie they're making for it comes out - PLEASE. When you read this book, you'll understand its greatness and its magic - but the movie (with Robert Pattinson?!?!?! What the....?) will never be able to live up to that standard. So please read the book first.
#19 - This book is incredible. It talks about various endangered/extinct species and its really touching and emotional and SAD when you read about all of these different animals that we're driving to extinction, or that we've already driven to extinction. It's a fantastic read.
#24 -An anthology of literature and artwork from teenagers who live in the East Bay near San Francisco, California. It's really good!
#34 - This book was really good - it actually made me laugh out loud, which doesn't exactly happen that often. I was literally laying in my bed reading this book, and I had to actually make an effort in order to stop myself from laughing. This book is a really good read - I liked this book better than I liked his other book, An Abundance of Katherines, so if you liked that one - this one is even BETTER
#38 - This is a book about three teenagers and their lives right before, during, and after September 11, 2001. All 3 of the teenagers lived in/around New York City, so they were all in New York on that day. This book is really touching and amazing - I would recommend this to any teenager or adult.

Hopefully everyone's summer has been good, and more sunny than it was for me :D

Happy Reading!
Kami