I have been posting a lot of book lists recently, and now it is finally time to share my favorites! These are the books that I have enjoyed reading in the last few years. Be sure to check out my non-fiction reading list here. The books at the top of the list would be classed as juvenile or young adult fiction and would be appropriate for some younger readers as well as adults.
The Penderwicks (series) by Jeanne Birdsall
Wonder by RJ Polacio
Pamela Munoz Ryan (author): Esperanza Rising, Echo.
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mulally Hunt
Beyonders series by Brandon Mull
Shannon Hale: The Books of Bayern series, The Princess Academy series, Austenland, and others.
Jessica Day George (author): Silver in the Blood, Sun and Moon and Ice and Snow, The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy.
Ally Condie (author): Matched trilogy, Summer Lost
Jonathan Stroud: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Lockwood & Co. (series)
The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins (and The Hunger Games!)
The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
Brandon Sanderson (author): Elantris, Mistborn (series)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
Proper romances by Julianne Donaldson (Edenbrooke and Blackmoore) and Josi S. Kilpack (The Lady of the Lakes and A Heart Revealed).
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