It’s time for our first #MustReadin2016 update! How are you doing with your list? Making progress? Only read a few? Enjoying other titles? Please share!
This is my list of 30 titles and my thinking back in January:
“My goal is to try and get to most of these. Including them here guarantees they remain on my radar because as I made this list, I had very good reason for placing them on it. If the reasons remain, the book will be read. That’s usually how it works.”
I seem to be on a reading roll with this list so the reasons must have been excellent! I have read 12 titles so far, which is 40% of my list 4 months into the year. And . . . I am in the middle of 2 more of these books.
Titles I finished (listed in the order I read them):
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm
Fat Angie by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
Stand Off by Andrew Smith
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
Paper Hearts by Meg Wivott
This is the Story of You by Beth Kephart
I gave each of these titles a 4 or 5 stars and at this point, I can’t really pick a favourite. All of them are well worth reading. If I had to select a few to do a little extra raving about, it would be these titles:
Stand Off by Andrew Smith (YA)
The main character in this novel (sequel to Winger) is a character everyone needs to meet. I will always have such a soft spot in my heart for Ryan Dean West. Start with Winger if you haven’t read it!
Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart (MG)
This really was some kind of courage depicted in this title. Full of adventure and still incredibly character driven. An excellent middle grade novel – wonderful as a read alone or a read aloud.
This is the Story of You by Beth Kephart 9YA)
I adore Beth Kephart‘s writing. I truly get lost in her words and images and begin to view the world differently. More beautifully. If you have yet to read a Kephart novel, this is a lovely read.
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (YA)
I read this aloud to my family (2 thirteen year olds and my husband). We all were hooked very quickly. I wept reading the final pages. A MUST for high school libraries.
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Next update will be on September 1st 2016!
HAPPY READING
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What a great list, Carrie. I have read only two of your twelve and several of them are on my list, or will interrupt me from reading my list, or appear on next year’s list. I have my update located here http://tinyurl.com/hh2kc3m. Thanks for hosting!
Thanks for participating! Happy reading!
If you’re saying they’re good, then I know they’re worthy of my attention!
Really, really worth it!
Carrie, I’ve had All American Boys on my radar for awhile – think it just made a big jump up on the TBR pile. Yeah for 40% – that’s what I’ve accomplished so far too! My update is here: http://thefunlibrarian.blogspot.ca/2016/04/must-read-in-2016-spring-update.html
Wonderful progress Julie! And yes, All American Boys is a MUST read title.
Here’s my link: https://thechroniclesofachildrensbookwriter.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/celebratelu-april-8-2016-reading-resolutions-spring-update/ I have to make a separate post for the great books I’ve read so far this year. Some Kind of Courage was wonderful!
Really great! So excited to see more from this writer.
You are getting through your list! Nice!
Here’s my post! http://mrsknottsbooknook.blogspot.com/2016/01/mustreadin2016.html
So excited you are part of this community Michele!
Please visit our list at Unleashing Readers http://www.unleashingreaders.com/?p=9574
I read All American Boys too! It is a must read! I need to read Stand Off. I feel guilty for not staying up to date in Ryan Dean’s life.
Just realized I didn’t even mention the new Gemeinhart book! I look forward to reading it–I loved Honest Truth.
It is a wonderful read Kellee!
Carrie, I enjoyed All American Boys & Some Kind of Courage so much! You are making great progress. My update link is below:
http://mrssimpsonreading.blogspot.com/2016/04/spring-update-must-read-in-2016.htm
Glad we share some great books in common 🙂
I also loved All American Boys. It looks like I need to make sure that Some Kind of Courage and This is the Story of You are on my to read list either this year or next! I managed to get my list up here. I’m hoping to have a bit of respite and read everyone’s posts. \ http://dickenslibrary.blogspot.ca/2016/04/must-read-in-2016-spring-update.html
It is so interesting to see what is beloved on everyone’s lists!
I have read 5 out of 36 which means I really have my work cut out for me! I just finished Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper tonight and was so moved by it that I wrote a post about it and updated my #MustReadin2016 which I haven’t done in some time. Hoping to find more time to read in the spring, summer, and fall than I did this winter. But I guess 5 books isn’t terrible. 🙂
Not terrible at all!
Hi Carrie, I just posted my update. http://blogs.sd38.bc.ca/schwartzliteracy/wp-admin/post.php?post=138&action=edit&message=1
Lisa, I noticed that your link here isn’t correct. Here is the correct one to your post: http://blogs.sd38.bc.ca/schwartzliteracy/2016/04/11/mustreadin2016-update/
Hi! I finally got my post finished http://readingtl.blogspot.com/2016/04/must-read-in-2016.html Thanks again for hosting. 🙂
Thanks for participating!
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