Amy's List

I am thrilled to finally get organized with my reading. Thanks for the great opportunity. My list is mainly YA books, because that's what I (attempt to) write. I blame my big YA gap on the fact that I've lived in China for the last eight years; there aren't any Barnes & Nobles here, though I've had quite a good selection of classics to choose from. I'm moving back to America this summer, so it's time to buy some great books and get a library card. Yippee!

Besides YA, I also left room for several of my favorite classic authors, like Katherine Mansfield, Charles Dickens, and Eudora Welty. I also want to read more Annie Dillard because she's amazing and inspiring. I never knew someone could write about dragonfly larvae in such an interesting, beautiful way.

I'm planning to review some of these books on my blog, Bits of Beautiful, so if you have time, check it out!

1. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
   
2. Laura Amy Schlitz - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
   
3. Lynn Rae Perkins - Criss Cross
   
4. Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira
   
5. Kate Dicamillo - The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, A Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
6. Avi Crispin - The Cross of Lead
7. Linda Sue Park - A Single Shard
8. Richard Peck - A Year Down Yonder
9. Christopher Paul Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy
10. Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
11. Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why
    
12. Elizabeth C. Bunce - A Curse as Dark as Gold
    
13. R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
    
14. Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
15. Alexandre Dumas - The Man in the Iron Mask
16. Leslie Conner - Waiting For Normal
17. Siobhan Dowd - Bog Child
18. Christine Fletcher - Ten Cents a Dance
19. Matt de la Pena - Mexican White Boy
20. Joseph Monninger - Baby
21. Terry Pratchett - Nation
22. Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki - Skim
23. Coert Voorhees - The Brothers Torres
24. Suzanne Collins - The HungerGames
25. Melina Marchetta - Jellicoe Road
26. Margo Lanagan - Tender Morsels
27. Stephanie Meyer - Twilight
28. Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Whimpy Kid
29. Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy
30. Libba Bray - The Sweet Far Thing
31. Scott Westerfeld - Extras
32. Jenny Downham - Before I Die
33. Laurie Halse Anderson - Twisted
34. Cassandra Cane - City of Bones
35. Eudora Welty - The Robber Bridegroom
36. Eudora Welty - The Ponder Heart
37. Eudora Welty - Losing Battles
38. Annie Dillard - The Maytrees
39. Annie Dillard - Living By Fiction
40. Annie Dillard - For the Time Being
41. Katherine Mansfield - The Aloe
42. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
    
43. C.J. Sansom - Dark Fire
44. C.J. Sansom - Sovereign
45. Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
46. Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
47. Ayelet Waldman - Daughter’s Keeper
48. J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
49. S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
50. Robert Lipsyte - The Contender
51. Chaim Potok - The Chosen
52. Paul Zindel - The Pigman
53. Beatrice Sparks - Go Ask Alice
54. Robb White - Deathwatch
55. Robert Cormier - The Chocolate War
56. Jack Shaefer - Shane
    
57. Lois Duncan - Killing Mr. Griffin
58. Robert Cormier - I Am the Cheese
59. Harry Mazer - The Last Mission
60. Cynthia Voigt - Homecoming
61. Bruce Brooks - The Moves Make the Man
62. Richard Peck - Remembering the Good Times
63. Brock Cole - The Goats
64. Gary Paulson - Hatchet
65. Walter Dean Myers - Fallen Angels
66. Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat
67. Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee
68. Michael Cadnum - Calling Home
69. Virginia Wolff - Make Lemonade
70. Karen Cushman - Catherine Called Birdy
71. Cynthia Voigt - When She Hollers
72. Rita Williams-Garcia - Like Sisters on the Home Front
73. John Marsden - Tomorrow When the War Began
74. Christopher Paul Curtis - The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
75. Victor Martinez - Parrot in the Oven, Mi Vida
76. Edward Bloor - Tangerine
77. Robert Cormier - Tenderness
78. Virginia Wolff - Bat 6
79. Joan Bauer - Rules of the Road
80. Gary Paulsen - Soldier’s Heart
81. Paul Fleischman - Whirligig
82. Sarah Dessen - Dreamland
83. Richard Peck - A Long Way from Chicago
84. Chris Lynch - Gold Dust
85. Gary Paulson - The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
86. Judith Guest - Ordinary People
87. Joseph Bedier - The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
88. David Klass - You Don’t Know Me
89. Carol Plum-Ucci - What Happened to Lani Garver
90. Jerry Spinelli - Star Girl
91. Sonya Sones - One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
92. Ann Brashares - Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
93. Karen Hesse - Out of the Dust
94. Lois Lowry - The Giver
95. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
96. Michael Chabon - Summerland
97. Newbery Winner 2010
98. Newbery Winner 2011
99. Newbery Winner 2012
100. Newbery Winner 2013