Reading List for YA Lit Course

Starting next week, I will be taking the YA Lit course that my Library Science graduate program offers. I sort of forgot about this course when I went on a massive book buying spree on Saturday. This means that I have a lot of reading goals for the rest of the winter and into spring. For my mini book club that my friend and I do, I have a few books to read through this and next month. Also, she and I both have "catch up" books -- books the other has read that we want to have both read so we can discuss them. So there are our new-to-both-of-us books, and new-to-one-of-us books, and a bunch of books that I have to read for class (about 2 a week). For class, we were given a long list of books, with about 6-8 choices per week, so the list I am including is only of the books I have chosen for those weeks, not the complete options list.

Here are some lists of these books:

Catch-Up Books:

Stolen - Lucy Christopher

The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor

The Replacement - Brenna Yovanoff

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse # 1) - Charlaine Harris

New Books:

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (supposed to finish by the end of this month!)

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (our first sci-fi genre book!)

Brave Story - Miyuki Miyabe

Low Red Moon - Ivy Devlin (aka Elizabeth Scott) (we both want to know if this is bad or not...)

Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris (our first mystery genre book!)

Books for YA Lit Course (with due dates!):

Jan 26:

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

*The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Pigman - Paul Zindel

Feb 2:

*Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block

*Forever - Judy Blume

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack - M.E. Kerr

Feb 9:

Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl - Martha Brooks

Feb 16:

*Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

*What Would Emma Do? - Eileen Cook

*Breathless - Jessica Warman

Feb 23:

Stoner & Spaz - Ron Koertge

Fat Kid Rules the World - K.L. Going

March 2:

*Suite Scarlett - Maureen Johnson

Fighting Ruben Wolf - Marcus Zusak

Derby Girl - Shauna Cross

March 16:

*Love Sick - Jake Coburn

*Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison

Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan

March 23:

Hole in My Life - Jack Gantos

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

Stiff - Mary Roach

9/11 Report: Graphic Adaptation - Sid Jacobson & Ernie Colon

March 30:

Feed - M.T. Anderson

*The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

*Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia

Fables - Bill Willingham

Keturah and Lord Death - Martine Leavitt

April 6:

*Paper Towns - John Green

Killer's Cousin - Nancy Werline

Silver Kiss - Annette Curtis Klause

April 13:

Sunrise Over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers

Elephant Run - Roland Smith

April 20:

*Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes - Chris Crutcher

Vegan Virgin Valentine - Carolyn Mackler

April 27:

Your Own, Sylvia - Stephanie Hemphill

Night is Gone, Day is Still Coming - Annette Pina Ochoa

The Starry Rift - Jonathan Strahan

Thicker Than Water - Gordon Snell

The books with * next to them are books I have already read at some time, though I will be rereading them as a refresher. Some of these dates we are required only 2 readings, while a few of these dates we are required to do 4 readings. I included an extra option for a lot of the dates in case I can't get a hold of some of my choices. I'm really hoping this course goes well, since it is on a topic that I (obviously) love, and it is with a professor whom I really enjoy taking classes with.

So... This will be a very ambitious reading time for me.

*face-palm*

Currently Reading: Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier